THE AMATEUR STATUS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 6

THE AMATEUR STATUS.

' ;Xo,vS:Zea!nnd? Rowings AsEOcmtion>v-as^ v on "Saturday* thj-v^. adoption-in; Now of thoVsamo rules" governing the amatem -- 5 . ' Status 'iiffNw &al«md « «« "' for ??::.* .'■ 'itotlio; Commonwealth- of Australia. It.-, - ; v : r^r-l'O-villained that in. Australia tho rt;! Bowing. Controls define an ; amateur, some-;';.,;,.; whafistrictly.''.'. To lie eligible as. an ;■; 'tenr'.'-foY the'purposes of rowing, a :. : ; jnusf not-have violated the amateur iiV'aliV-'- other branch of sport. . In Zealand;no. account is taken of a. mans*; :?; hots"in am--sport other than rcwing.;-.Ho^ : -j mav-bo a'profesMonal■runner, or a-casii/;;,. : cyclists or-ho . ; prizes ■ wV.any^othcr^port,-...but !» N;; . as ho-lins'.not:conipet«l. as.<a*proressiom%.;;- ■■ inMhe 1 sport:, "of row ■as.iy, „ ■nnamat«iir:^Whi^thi*difljwn«-aj l to i: !-: rules': exists;* t' s-; : opcn'.'i.os the/ Australian.v. , S^hing'jbodies-to -.csclme! New-:oarsiiivn-fronV,conipetibon^n^nier-btaU>^ ;^ •■™::J:. / .<-' : ■ .- , .' : £f<i ;-eif'.w ? aVtJp ; '(i'uestioii--of making a : ... :^ehwViUlw-.t«-o-. definition.*: which faced- ■ Rowing Association.;, The matter ; ; veirifnl!\vdifcn«ed?:and it was at Iciiflhg. ■*.;-., Sered'inadvisable, to. inntainny *"%#&, aiion;-VThe, delegates made -.ill) lerr 'niiiirlStliat their concern, was chiefly wnli ■ T ;j,; ; «"-&'i!?Xew Zealand.-and Hint so asMiosabusos were' manifest there was 1103115* .riewKtoSTdisfarb. -Oic 1 - misum. -,s n}o (Mrigs'-here.'- A change would entail retirement from the sport 01 a large num-. ■-.§;,-. fho'iWof-mcu.who would be accounted pro- -tftf. finals under the Australian ruie, ai\d : ;jj*;~; tiie io a-?oointinn. thought it would bo wisp to force' anything of tno kind. It r.* I ''■; was -therefore decided., that nothing iw ; ,r* done at present,to,alter the amateur do--''fiiiilioii.'.-. 8 ..-,-':' '■■-■' '""■- : - : ; ! l ~: ','.,'.';■'- w