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DEFINESSTANDING OF AMATEUR

Xo liinlent nlmll prevent ncollejrc or unlverwlly in any colIoKft prnmc or contest who hasnt Him received either dirert-ly or iudlreedy money orother consideration to play on anyteam or for Jibe athletic servicesn n eollejce trnlzier iithletie orCyjHiinMluni instructor or who Jamcompeted for n money prize orportion oC receipt In anycontest or who hns competed forany prize nyrnlnst n professionalIn applying this rule the consti-tuted authorities shun discriminatebetween the deliherntc use of nthletlc glIH nx n means of n liveli-hood and technical unintentionalor youthful Infractions of therules

Important developments are expectedin tho noar future as amovement inaugurated at Ictat wintermeeting of the Intercollegiate AthleticAssociation to secure a good definitionor an amateur athlete and an enunciation of laws for his government

The question was forced upon thesIxty members of the orgunzatJon

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alone in theirtion Laws on the matter arepromulgated the athletic associacountries The sttitua ha become of importance on account

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Tq correct existing evils is one of theaims sixty colleges and uiilversi019 to Intercollegiate

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inS committee vas appointed and isnow working on tIle questionPalmer E Pierce West PointProf A A Stagg Chicago Universitytr T4 ivnu

Varsity Prof C W JOsouri University Pror Paul C Phillips College Prof F VKlcolson University ProfVV L Dudley LnivrHyProf Louis Bevier jr Rutgers Coi

The committee i studying the definition of an amateur the kttvserning the same recently adopted bythe Wales Danish and Tasmania fedrations which reads Aiimteur shallmean one who has never competed farstaked bet or declared wager or knowingly competed with or agaInst a pro

or taught pursued or assistedns a means of livelihood or forary gain Under this definition arepine separate statements of what con

The laws then are seen to be adHnlte and as unyielding as possibleWhether laws are suited toihr college situation is to be decidedtoiiditipns Krf different The one setof laws deal with men the other withboys and Utoe just entering manhoodThe prevalence of summer bell ptmytngriM over the United States betweenteams to wblch college players duringvacation naturally gravitate makes theamateur question a different one fromthe collegiate standpoint Mot of thepmall towns have their baseball teamslargely made up of boys which playagainst one another These play forreceipts and on the nints are usu-ally two or three paid piayens Thenuention at once comes up Are nilwho take part in such games profes-sionals

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Leading Weather SharpsPredict Sprinkling of

Sunshine For Nationals

IDLENESS TRYINGTO OUR ATHLETESE-

ven Street Has Cold and BadHumor As Result of En-

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By THOMAS S RICEGALVESTON Texas March 15 x

P H Clear and piercing cold weatheris tile card today with warmer tonight

men are so badly in need ofsomething to divert their minds he hasdecided to have a game with Galvestonevery day from now until Friday Be-ginning this afternoon all of the pitch-ers will be worked probably two orthree to a game as they need muchworking out after the week of almosttotal idleness

GALVESTON Tex March liWeather sharks hero predict that thebad weather in Galveston is over andthat the Washington club will haveplenty of sunshine for training purposesfrom now until the team leaves forSan Antonio on Friday night but it ishard to believe

The enforced idleness has been trying-to men but they have gotten the firstsoreness out of their systems and theyhart little need for real hard workThe long string of practice games winserve io round them into physical con-dition and also to develop inside playii r

Charley Street who was the friskiestof the bunch when he first arrived isnot feeling so welL His blood is outof order and he needs plenty of exer-cise to clean out his system Bad coldsand a bad humor arc characteristic cfother of our leading athletes but noneof them is seriously affected and littleunshlne will soon straighten them oat

KEYES WILL MEETMARVEL OF COAST

Winner of Scrap Tonightin Line to Meet Light

weight Cracks2CEW YORK March Keys

the East Side scrapper andFrayne the coast marvel will meettonight for ten rounds

The winner will be in line to meatTommy Mnnviy and other good bo-

tin the lightweight division

ASCERTAIN CAUSEOF STARS DEATH

Spinal Meningitis Proves Fatal toApollonio Famous Harvard

Varsity FullbackSPRINGFIELD Ohio Mardi 15

Spinal meningitis is given today as tilecause of the death of Carol Apolffaiothe famous Harvard fullback whostricken Saturday afternoon whileworking in the boiler room of the Met

Casket CompanyApolllnio yesterday before tbearrival of his Raymond who

hurried from Boston Immediately uponreceiving new of prostration

JEFFRIES STARTSTRAINING ON ROAD

Does ExChampion Mean Business-

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BusinessNEW YORK March IS The natives

of Westcbester county were astonished-to see two athleticlooking1 persons Jogjeintr along their quiet roads The menwere James J Jeffries undefeatedheavyweight pugilist and Sam Bergerhit sparring partner

It WAS the a series of outdoora view to conditioning himself for apossible bout with Jack Johnson thegigantic Galveston negro who is th

holder of the highest honorknown to pugilism

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VICTIMS OF DAMAGED WINGLITTER BASEBALL GRAVEYARD

Many Players of Many Muscles Is Text of Timely Sermon on Care of ThrowingJennings a Prominent Sufferer From Overwork in-

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Reception to Jack Johnson in Galveston Not Likely to Be Very Fulsome FromWhite Neighbors Fail to Take Champion

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Deer Fanatics men of manyminds is an ancient adage but nannyplayers of many muacles would not bea bad baseball axiom

AVe evolvefl this alliterative aphorismwhile listening to some idle talk by theWashington players on the subject ofthrowing The question they were ru-

ing concerned whether or not a playerwas foolish to exercise his salary wingto the limit There have been numerousinstances of stars of the diamond

forced out of the business while intheir prime because of bad arms Onjf-

tof the most prominent sufferers in thismatter was Ilughey Jennings now man-ager of the etrfit team and formerworldbeater ts sit rtstop of the Balti-more three flme champions

Hugheys wing went bad long beforehe slowed up in other directions Hetried second and first base In order toget the short throws and relieve thestrain but it waa no go and he hadto quit nctive participation in the gameTerry Turner Clevelands brilliantshortstop is another victim of too muchthrowing Terry was out of the gamenearly all last season He was treatedby a Washington osteopath and may bethje goods this sasmn bttt it is doubtfui These are only two of many aimarly blighted careers

Yet catchers who handle the bellmore than any other men on a teamami are constantly mixed up in fastplays requiring more or less snappingof the ball are seldom sufferers fromincapacitated arms The oldest menin tbe business today beginning withJim McOuire Malachl Kittrtxlge JackWarner Wilbert Robinson end such-like have little trouble in hurling theball wherever they please

Catchers not only do a lot of throwingbut hard throwing They bavo to Unetbe ball to the bases in tho game andalways practice t assiduously beforethe bell rings They should fade earlybut you seldom hear of a backstopwho loses his heaviog ability

Not WonieaCharley Street the Washington

catcher believes his arn is gettingstronger Instead of weftkar He said

I am stuck on thro whig a d get animment mOunt of satisfaction out ofkilling oK a runner trying to stealMy arm was batter last year than overbefore and althotfgh I oerfellftlyworked hard all through the seasonand wK nearly down and out at timesI never had iny arm go back on meexcept from general weariness In factI believe I have improved every yeaIn my speed and accuracy and lUlUpate that my 9t season will bebest I have ever mown

People talk about throwing awayyour wing but take Lou Criger forinstance He hi as good rt lining itout to the basemen today ay was ftveyears ago yet there is c t men Inthe business who thro more orharder than Criger In his warmingup he shoots the ball to second so fast-it is hard to handle and he returnsto the pitchers wita so much speedthat they have to tall him down Heviolates all tho cautions against reck-less heaving and to do most other

and stilt they suffer no boAeffects

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do not have a vast amount of throwling to do are always troubleBob the Washington firstbasemen is one Is some kinkhi his arm that show itself at irregular intervals and while It does notstop him from makes throwingan exceedingly painful operation withhim there avt ivtirers whosearms need lots of preparation prelimi-nary to the regular season but afteithey get have little or no troubleuntil the next training trip One ofthese is Bob Groom the new Washington pitcher He is reported to have anunusual amount of Jurance when inshape but there is something the matterthat makes him in toform The same is true of many oldpUchers who can littleuntil the hot weather sets In as a dailyofferingGave Correct Tip-

I am glad to see that the excitedand frothy writers for the yellow jour-nals who were wikHy telegraphingover the country that Jeft js hadpromised to fight Johnson hre retiredto their cages for the present TheIntel view J had in with the championin Chicago was exactly the right dope

readers were notmisled by fatte stories rom the Windy

JT U can put it down as a safebet that is not going to giveout a definite answer one way or theother SM long as public curiously abouthis condition is wort4t per weekto him When the interest in his apmanagers begin to get the fidgets asthey count the receipts for the dayshe is in their then we may expect something positive is sur

wherever he toes by a lot offlatterers and chatterers who spendevery minute they can with himtelling him what a wonder he is anda cinch he would have with JohnsonHe is shrewd enough to take theirfulsome talk a grain of salt butIt requires a man of much stronger intellectual force than I Jeffriespossesses to withstand the wearing ofsuch a current and I not be

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Heres looking to Pop Myershoping that the veteran pin

spiller may live long and forget hisintention to abandon the alleys

Whether this anjiout cement made atPittsburg after the election in whichMyers was beaten for the presidency-of the American Bowliug Congress wasdictated at his defeat or bya predetermined resolution to quit thegame tbn fact remains that Washing-ton can not well dispense with himeven if the national organisation feelsthat it can worry along without him

Myers record in Washington bowlinghas been one of sportsmanlikedevotion to the game hold themaples have on younger gen-eration of this is due toMyers enthusiastic espionage of thesport

An ambition to enlarge his field ofactivity was only natural But nowthat his supporting proved to be in theminority it is not Like him at an todesert the alley on such slim grounds

New York has turr over PitcherHogg to Louisville Will this circum-stance g t a rise out of COlOSSI Henry

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words on the crueltoward the colored friend and brotherHas Served Term

Johnson has served one term In a Gal-veston Jail It was for lighting ToeChoynski some years ago when Johnson first started as a boxer IncidentalI

eyed groundkeeper ofJohnson three or tour

and losing once or twice wasnot near as largo then as heis now buthe was touch larger than McNeilwas never more han a lightweightAside from any radical thewhite of Galveston do not takeJohnson very seriously Most of themand are amazed at his present positionnot hesitate to back him Ifhim the real thing but they not

waking up withan awful headache are A lYours as everTHOMAS S RICE

seeJohnson ttnd withsuits titswrile Johnson Is the chantplon the shown precIouslittle championship ablllt In hrscareer a deteriorated Jeffriesbe tiun an ascendent JohnsonJohnson 18 duenext according to the rEportsThe negroespara e for him as this Is hometowfl and he has ninny relativesbut parade is not to be ahowling success

loving from the whiteauthorities it brings with him thewhite P woman who Is saidto be him company Suchalliances do not a hIt in TexJexcept on the rock pll and If titfOrne to Texas tO other thelift Brothers on thePost and the are likelyto have material for a Ibis 110 ofattltsde of the South

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SPORTORIAL COMMENTtejurs from professionals That collegesare part in the is asubject for congratulation since it isContinental view with some

nee with sports of Americast Institutions are well known to forour athletes or lesssuspicion

It is fortunate that the haveformed an association which has becomethis matter of the amateur law But theof a satisfactory law from theeducational will prove difficult on account of the prevalence ofequivalent by studentsMany institutions permit ther stuto join baserall leaguesduring the summer months and insist

publicly frown on this making ofprowess a means of gain whileown players There are In add

striving to nrexent their students fromviolating one of the considered fundamental of the amateur lawNew York critic says Demmitt is aRecord if he refersto hi appetite or ki kins ability

known that England and othersuspicion the amateurism of the collegeathlete of tJnlted States Theabuses existing In collegiatethe commercialism 3p rampant in con

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Official Declares There IsJo Question About Central Athletes

INSPECTORS AGREEIN MAKING REPORT

Cummings Declares Runner Could

Not Have Pushed ThroughSave By Cut

By J M CUMMINGS

BALTIMORE March liRe ter ofUte Central High team of Washingtonwas disqualified hi the 22yard dash atthe Fifth Regiment Indoor athleticgames on Saturday night because he cutthe cifrvc at the west end of the track

feet at the northwest corner andabout one foot front there to the southwest corner

The two inspectors stationed theremade practically the same report toReferee Thompson without couterringwith each other and on that retort No1U1 which happened to be Router wasdisqualified-

I was one the Inspectors whomade the report and there ques-tion Had ho not cut the track hewould not have been able to get throughthe bunch

ATHLETES BARREDFOR GOOD QAUS

By J H HILDEBRANDThe protest registered by Central

High School track athletes against thedisqualification of Reuter in the FifthRegiment games is probably made mgood faith

That Router did not receive a rawdeal seems the correct verdict sitetestimony from two inspeetors whomade independent reports One of these-is M Cummings a veteran trackofficial wbe ranks with Mike Thompsonhimself as a capable and efltdent ex-pert in track affairs

Whatever may be the answer tothus misunderstanding is not likely tobe clear to th minds of all concernedOne feature of the meet howeverwhich Washington athletes take occa-sion to appeals to us as apronounced step in the Tight direction

In of the fact that a time limitIs always set for accepting entries tbolimit is generally for the bene-fit of out of town athletes who forvarious reasons are unable to enter ontime

Alas too trueAnd just because Mike Thorn neon in-

sisted on holding liard and fast to thisrule he was onabied to win the unanii-xtoiui approbation of spectators andathletes alike by starting the FifthRegiment games on bringingthem to a close exactly on the scheduleThis achievement is none the less

University sad CentralSchool athletes happened to be debarred-in the process

Such an end Washington athleticmanagers have to attain forthe past live years This elastic inter-pretation of the time limit rule hasbeen responsible for starting meets atConvention Hall 9 andstretching out events until the weesmall hours by which time the publicwas heartily disgusted with vthe whole

The pleadings of Coach Le Mat andwisely refused point blank Whenour eminent track athletes are impressedwith the fact that they must be ontime they will see the wisdom of takingan earlier train if they are out of townentrants-

It is safe to say that the sufferersfrom this example wilt be on hand intime for the doings next tripIn Glancing over the Rational Com-

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Perm Captain For SecondYear Heads Basketball

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COLUMBIA CRACK-

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Red and Blue Star Ohalfcs Up

Eightjfour Points in Col

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HOW FIRST TEN RANKIN TALLY OF POINTS

Kclnntli Pcnii-Klendl ColumbiaVan Tlcck YaleMcIltzcrT ColumbiaUlcXIchoI PennVcedcr PrincetonCrosby CornetRyan Coliimbin-CcrrusHl Coltrmbln-Uciiion Columbia

For the second consecutive seasonK3d Keinath Pennsylvanias sturdycaptain leads the Big Five collegetem in pointscoring with a total o-

eightyfewr points Jn the veft gamesH3s record is not qoite as high

last reason when be tallied IK pointLike last season the first two positionsfall to the same men KleiMll of Colum-bia again second With a total ot-

serencyelght pointsIn geld goals MeUtzer f Columbia

lea s with a total of twentyeight McNichol of Pennsylvania Klen ofColumbia are second with atotal of twenty-

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bia Columbia and Pennsylvania outclassed the other colleges sc much thatit would be bard to take a man froaany of those teams

The next best five would be Hoighhis forwards Van Vleck of Yale center Veeder of Princeton and CrosbyCornell guards

6OUSA IS WINNERPiDTBHURST N c March li

Philip Sousa the march king waswinner of todays trap shooting tournament shooting from scratch raid scoringS3 out of a possible 100

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