EXPENSES OF ATHLETES

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 3

EXPENSES OF ATHLETES

ANOMALIES IN SITUATION There are people sternly disposed toward amateurism as it applies to athletics in this country who view with some concern an increasing volume of opinion that vital cliages will come as regards what an amateur may do under the laws of the Amateur Athletic Association in connection with the acceptance of expenses for competing a way from home, says an English writer. That there are anomalies as between the situation when an athlete goes abroad and when he stays in his own country cannot b e denied, and it is a fact that a amateur may go from Liverpool to Sweden and back at less cost to his pocket titan if he \jent from Liverpool to, say, Lincoln.