AMATEUR RULE

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 3

AMATEUR RULE

STRTCT FN F O RCEMEN T TN ROWING. "Wo must keep the ga,me clean. We don't want any pothunters in the rowing sport." Such was the expressed opinion of the president (Mr M. TI. Prfest) at a moeting oi' ihe Otago Rowing Associntion. The subjoct arose for discussion wlion a lettcr was read from the New Zealand Council directing at tention to Riilo 2, whieh insists that any member of a elub under Ihe New Zealand Amateur Rowing A.ssooiation niust sign a decia.rat.ion that he lin.s at no timo competed in other branches of sport for cnsh prizes. Mr Priest said tlie mntter hacl corrie up at a confereoce lield wlien the New Zealand championship rogatta was lield here. Sbme of ihe delogates held that if the rule wero strictly insisted on somo 50 or 100 men would be lost- to the sport. Ho thought there was onl'y oue way in ■ whicb the Associ ation could niove, , inrid they could afford tio- lose "cnsh J amateurs." Mr E. V. Fairbaifh moved that | they support the clause in Rule 2. § 11 is reoolleotion was that Chri,st- 8 chiirch did not like it hecause sever- I al cyelists would he lost to the rdw- B ing sport there. "Whai with the way § the.se people hehave at their sports 1 meetings, they are no lac-quisition to 1 any sport at all," he declared. Tiro chairman: I think that is tho | t]X)sition , Tlxe moiion was carried.