FOOTBALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14916, 19 August 1910, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

DEFINITION OF AMATEURISM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 18. At a meeting of the Metropolitan Rugby Union a motion to adopt the new amateur definition, cabled on July 28, was carried, with only three dissentients. TARANAKI v. WELLINGTON. (Per United Press Association-.' NEW PLYMOUTH, Auiust 18. . Tho Taranaki team to meet Wellington wext Thursday consists of M'Leod, Roberts, Stohr, Cameron, Dive, Mynott, Brown, Taylor, Cain, Osborne, Tamil, Smith, J. Martin, Pini, Whittington. This is a .much faster pack than has represented the province in this season's matches, and possibly the back division has been unsurpassed in recent years.

One of the main features is that dealing with professionalism in. athletics after March 1, 1911. This clause does not mean that all those who have committed acts of professionalism according to Rugby Union laws previous to that date will be whiteWashed. It means that the man who is a professional boxer, runner, etc., will, if lie continue his professional career in other sport after March 1, 1911, be debarred from Rugby Union football. These laws will not alloiv an athlete to .practise professionalism in one sport and amateurism in another. The following is the proposed definition:—!. On and after tho Ist April,

■U, every member of a Metropolitan Rugby Union club shall be an amateur according to the following definition:—An "amateur" shall mean one who shall riot have committed an offence under the rules as to professionalism, and who, not being a member of a constituent club of a branch union, affiliated to the New South Wales Rugby Union, shall not have, since tho Ist March, 1911, competed for money, whether in the form of a prize, staked bet, or declared wager, or knowingly competed with or against a .professional, or taught, pursued, or assisted in the practice of any athletic exercise as a means of livelihood or (or pecuniary gain.