The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 (extracts)

COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL GAMES AT ATHENS, 1906. An amateur is any person who has never taken part in a contest or match for either money prize or remuneration from any source whatever, who has never competed with professionals, and never received remuneration, whether exercising by himself or teaching or training others ; who has never procured money or pecuniary arlvantage by means of prizes won; who has never used machines or material for sports with a view to advertisement. The amateur i , however, autho1ised to accept expenses for travelling to and staying in a strange town, such subsidy not being considered as remuneration. OLYMPIC GAMES, LONDON, 1908. The Genrral Regulations for these Games, pas ed at The Hague Conference of the International Olympic Committee in r907, contained the following references to the amntenr status of competitors :- A rt. 3 : The Olympic Gamf!s ar exclusively confined to amateurs. Art. 4: The definition of an amateur qualified to compete in any sport will be found in the detailed regulations under the heading of that sport. A rt. 7 : The amateur status of every competitor mu t be guaranteed by th association which, in his own country, (Yoverns the port in which he desires to enter a a competitor, or, where no such governing association or governing club xists, by a special committee of expert appointed by the Olympic Com– mittee of that country. Art. 8 : All entries will he made through the governing associations, or where governing associations do not exist, by amateur clubs, through the Olympic Committee of each country, v,iho will be r sponsible to the British Olympic Association for the comp tence of such amateur clubs to guarantee that the competitors entered by them arc amateur' within the conditions laid down in the British Olympic A sociation's Regulations for the several sport , as set forth in the programme of the Olympiad. INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION. mat ur definition from Regulations for International ompetitions settl cl hy the ongresses of Copenhagen, r895 ; Stockholm, r897; London, r899; Berlin, 1901; Budapest, 1903 ; Copenhagen, 1905 ; , tocl·holm, 1907. The regulations go,·ern the national organi ations of ustria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hunaary, Norway, Russia, ,,veden, and, witzerland. A skater is not recognised as an amateur, if he has since Jan. 1, 1893: (a) Practised in his own person any porting bodily exercise as a means of gain (gymnastic ancl fencing instructors excepted) ; (b) Practised or taught skating for money (excepted are the bare repayment of hotel and travelling expenses by his own club or as ociation or by the club or association holdin(Y the competition ; in the latter ea e, they may not be n'paicl directly to the skater, hut only through the club or a ·sociation which nominated him) ; (c) , old or pledged prizes won in sporting competitions ; (d) I nowingly and without protest started in an op n skating competition . gain. t a competitor who is not an amateur according to th se regulation . Tl1e rehabilitation of a profe sional skater as amateur can only be pro– nouncrd by the ouncil of the I.S.U. at the request of a member of the I.S. . The sk::tter thus rehabilitated may take part in no open skating competition ,.,.-j H1in a year of his rehabilitation.