SPORTING JOURNALISTS
A PROTEST LODGED ENGAGEMENT OF PLAYERS LONDON, September 11. The conference of the Institute of Journalists passed a resolution deploring the fact that newspapers engage county and ex-county cricketers, footballers, tennis players and golfers to describe games, as it created an impression that sporting journalists were incompetent. It urged the institute’s council to draw the attention of the M.C.C;, the Rugby Union and other bodies to the abuses of men posing as amateurs and drawing higher pay from sport than would be possible if they were- professionals.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9
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89SPORTING JOURNALISTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9
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