The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 (extracts)

773 5. A bath master, who is not a personal attendant on swimmers in a swimming bath (or otherwise ineligible to compete as an amateur under the S.A.S.A. Laws), does not, as such, endanger his amateur status. A swimmer ceases to be an amateur and becomes a professional by- (a) Engaging in swimming or any other athletic exercise, or personally teaching, training, or coaching any other person therein, for pecuniary gain. (b) Selling, realising upon, or otherwise turning into cash, or altering or defacing so that its original form is unrecognisable any prize won by him. (c) Any amateur taking part in an unregistered entertainment, gala, or competition, or other swimming event is thereby liable to lose his amateur status. IRISH DEFINITIONS. IRISH AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. An amateur is one who has never competed for a money prize or monetary consideration, or for any declarecl wager or staked bet; who has never engaged in, assisted in, or taught any athletic exercise as a means of pecuniary gain ; and who has never taken part in any competition with anyone who is not an amateur. EXCEPTIONS. (a) Amateur athletes hall not lose their amateur status by competing with or against professionals in cricket matches, or in ordinary club football matches for which no prizes are given, or in cup competitions permitted by the National Football Associations or National Rugby nions of England, Ireland, cotland, and Wales, providing that such competitions or matches form no part of, nor have any connection with, any athletic meeting, except by permission. (b) ompetitions at arms between Volunteers and Regulars shall not be considered as coming within the scope of the I.A.A.A. Laws. (c) Competitions in officers' races at Naval and lilitary athletic meetings (such meetings being for officers only, anct for which money prizes are not given) shall be exempt from the laws of the I.A.A.A. disqualifying runners for competing at mixed meetings. (d) The champion hip of the Army race at the Curragh shall be exemp from the effect of this rule. (e) A paid handicapper is not a professional. GAELIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (IRELAND). An amateur is one who never competed for a money prize or monetary consideration, or for any declared wager or bet; who has never engaged in, assisted in, or taught any athletic exercise as am ans of p cuniary gain, and who has never taken part in any competition with anyone ~ho is not an amateur. EXCEPTIONS. (a) mateur athletes shall not lose their amateur status by competing with or again t professionals in cricket matches, or by ordinary football club matches for which no prizes are given, or cup competitions p rmitted by the National Football Associations or National Rugby nions of England, Ireland, Scotland, and"\ ales, providing such competitions form no part of, nor have any connection with any athletic meeting. (b) ompetitions at arms between Volunteers and egular shall not be considered as coming within the scope of the G.A.A. Laws.