The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 (extracts)

APPE IX E . DEFINITIONS OF AN AMATEUR. INTERNATIONAL DEFINITIONS. OLYMPIC GAMES, ST. LOUIS, I904. No person shall be eligible to compete in any athletic meeting, game, or entertainment given or sanctioned by thi Union [Amateur thletic Union of the United States] who has : 1. Received or competed for compensation or reward in any form, for the display, exercise, or example of his skill in or knowledge of any athletic exercise, or for renderin<Y personal service of any kind to any athletic organisation, or for becoming or continuing a member of any athletic organi ation ; or 2. Has entered any competition under a name other than his own, or from a club of which he was not at that time a member in good standing; or 3. Has knowingly entered any competition open to any profes ional or professionals, or has knowingly competed with any profe sional for any prize or token; or 4. Has issued or allowed to be issued in his behalf any challenge to compete against any professional, or for money; or 5. Has pawned, bartered, or sold any prize \VOU in athletic competition; or, 6. Is not a registered athlete. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC CONGRESS, BRUSSELS. June I905. 1. An amateur is any person who has never taken part in a race or meeting or competition open to all comers, for a prize in money or for gate money, or with professionals, and who has not been during his lif time a profes ional or hired teacher of phy ical exerci es. 2. The Congress think that a professor or hired teacher of phy ical exncise should be considered an amateur for the sports that he does not teach, on con– dition that in the practice of these ports he has never committed an act of professionalism, and under the control of the federation to which the association belongs where he wishes to practise them a an amateur. 3. The acceptance of actually incurred travelling expenses is not con idered as professionalism.