HONEST WORKERS BARRED.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4592, 18 May 1922, Page 4

HONEST WORKERS BARRED.

ROWING ASSOCIATION’S RULE. By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.-) fAust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) . London, May 17. Apropos of the application of the Melbourne champion eight to compete at Henley Regatta, it i.-i pointed out that the rules of the Amateur Rowing Association bar membership of mechanics, artisans, labourers, and all persons employed in medial duties. One Henley steward explains that the regatta committee is not bound by the rules of the Association, and the Australians’ application will receive most just consideration. The Association’s rules were framed only because those who earn their livelihood by iiniscullar effort have an unfair advantage over the ordinary amateur.

The Evening Standard, referring to tlie application, points out that the Amateur Rowing Association’s rule is quite specific, and unless it it waived, the application cannot bo accepted