"PURITY" IN SPORT.
AMERICAS CKITICJSJI OF / BRITISH ATHLETICS. XEW YOIIK, Jan. 10. At a dinner given here yesterday evening by 200 athletes in celebration of his election to the presidency of the I nited States Amateur Athletic Union, ilr James ft. Sullivan said: "The Projectors of the international games to lake place in England in 1!) US have invited us to send a team. Cablegrams teli us that they propose to carefully scrutinize them before we send them. If a single athlete be rejectedin England we will withdraw the whole team. "Outside Oxford, and Cambridge the Knglish amateur athlete is a joke. We make laws and honestly enforce them. We honestly keep our athletes pure. We do not propose to accept the judgment of England or any other country upon the amateur, whose status as a man we guarantee. We believe in international athletics, and are desirous of fostering every international meeting; but we do not propose to be stigmatised by self constituted critics whose government is a far more lax one than ours own." President lloosevelt has sent a letter congratulating Jlr Sullivan on his labors on behalf of purity in athletics.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 13 March 1907, Page 4
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193"PURITY" IN SPORT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 13 March 1907, Page 4
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