OLYMPIAD DISPUTE
QUESTION OF PAY AMATEURS WARNED B% Cable .—-Press Association.—Copyright AMSTERDAM, Monday. The International Amateur Athletic Federation passed a resolution regretting the Olympic Committee’s payments decision, and warned athletes all over the world that anybody receiving payment for broken time in any sport is debarred from participating under the federation’s jurisdiction. —A. and N.Z. “The International Olympic Committee’s decision that players are entitled to indemnity for lost earnings, without forfeiting their amateur status, jeopardises the whole basis of the Olympic Games,” said the London “Observer,” according to a cable received yesterday, “as it implies a conception of amateurism which is frequently repudiated in Britain, and will debar the Football Association and possibly other British authorities from recognising the Amsterdam meeting.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 13
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121OLYMPIAD DISPUTE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 13
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