The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 (extracts)

No professional can make an amateur handicap or represent or hold any office in the A.S.A. or in any district thereof, and no amateur is allowed to take a fee or expen e for attending and acting as an official at any competition held under A.S.A. Laws beyond third-class railway, boat, and tram fares, or cab fares when no trams or trains are available, and reasonable out of pocket expenses or hotel expenses when necessary and away from home (limited to 7s. 6d. per man), handicappers only excepted. E ../ EPTIO S. NoTE.-The following exceptions shall be made to the foregoing laws, but the A.S. . reserves full powers to prevent any abuse of the e :- (a) Amateur swimmers shall not lose their amateur status by competing with or against professional football players in ordinary club matches, for which no prizes are given, or in cup competitions permitted by the ational Football Asso– ciations or I ugby Unions of England, Ireland, Scotland, or \Vales. (b) School masters or school teachers giving instruction in swimming to their school pupils, or at evening schools organised by the Education Authority, shall not thereby endanger their amateur status. (c) The fact of any payment being made to an instructor of life-saving shall not endanger the instructor's status as an amateur, but no such instructor can receive any fee or expenses for any meeting at which he competes for a prize of any description. (d) A bath manager who is not a personal attendant on swimmers in a swim– ming bath (or otherwise ineligible to compete as an amateur under A.S.A. Laws) does not, as such, endanger his amateur status. (e) Jone of the standing laws of amateurism laid down by the .S.A., A.A.A., N.C.U., and N.A.vV.A. apply to life-saving, either in the matter of learning, teaching, or exhibiting, the A.S.A. being of opinion that the life-saving land and water drills (including resuscitation) form a higher and combined development of gymnastk exercise, swimming, ability, and medical knowledge for the benefit of the race, and as such cannot be classified as ' Sport,' or be considered to come within the term 'Athletic Exercises,' specified in Laws 49 and 50 of the .S.A. (/) An amateur swimmer may accept his or her third-class railway, boat, or tram fare (or cab fare when no trains or trams are available), but not exceeding the actual cost of the journey; and when return on the same day is impossible hotel expenses (limited to 7s. 6d. in any period of twenty-four hours), under the following conditions :-(1) When competing in any International (controlled by the A.S.A.), National, District, or County Championship. (2) When taking part in the King's Cup or ... ational Diving Competition. (3) When engaged as a member of a team of swimmers in any water polo, life-saving, <living, or squadron competition or exhibition, provided no prizes are offered to individual members of the team, except in any bona fide unlimited open handicap in which no fast time or other special prize is offered. (4) ·when attending an entertainment to give an exhibition, provided that no prize is offered for such attendance or exhibition, and that he or she does nol compete for a prize at the same gala. In no case may any expenses be paid to any individual to secure his or her attend– ance at any gala (except to give an unremunerated exhibition as provided for in clause 4) or to any members of a team who take part in any events at the gala at which they attend under the provisions of this exception (other than as provided for in clause 3 above), other than those in which the team competes as a whole, and for which no prizes are offered. No amateur swimmer may ask for or receive his or her railway fare or expenses, for the whole or part of any journey from more than one individual or promoting body, and railway fares can only