The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 (extracts)

768 GOLF. An amateur golfer sball be a golfer who has never made for sale golf clubs, halls, or any other article connected with the game; who has never carried clubs for hire after attaining the age of fifteen years, and who has not carried clubs for hire at any time ·within six years of the date on which the competition begins; who has never received any con ideration for playing in a match, or for giving les ons in the game, and who for a period of five years prior to Sept. r, I 886, has never received a money prize in any competition. AMATEUR GYMNASTIC ASSOCIATION AND AMATEUR GYMNASTIC FEDERATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. An amateur is one who has never competed for a money prize, or monetary consideration, or for any declared wager or staked bet ; who has never engaged in, as isted in, or taught any athletic exercise as a mean of pecuniary gain, and who has never taken part in any competition with anyone who is not an amateur, save and except as modified and added to by the rules of the A.G. ., 1902. HOCKEY ASSOCIATION. 1embersh.ip of the association is entirely confined to amateurs. There is no definition of an amateur, but the following rules apply:- No affiliated club, and no club belonging to an affiliated association, and no player or member of such club shall institute, or take part in any hockey chal– lenge cup or prize competition, and any affiliated as ociation, club, player, or member so offending shall be dealt with by the Council under Rule 16. In the event of any affiliated assodation, club, player, official, or member being proved to the satisfaction of the Council to have been guilty of any mis– conduct or breach of rules, the Council shall have power to order the name of the offending affiliated association, club, player, official, or member to be removed from this Association, suspended for a stated period, or dealt with in such manner as the Council may think fit. LACROSSE. n amateur is one who has never competed for a money prize or monetary con~ sideration, or for any declared wager or staked bet, who has never engaged in, assisted in, or taught any athletic exercise as means of pecuniary gain. (Olympic Games amateur definition borrowed from the A.A.A., to which some of the lacrosse clubs arc affiliated. The Engfo,h Lacrosse Union has no amateur definition in its rules.) MOTOR BOAT RACING. t , n amateur is one who has never been employed a a paid hand in the handling of a motor-boat or any other vessel, or in the running or construction of an internal combustion engine. [In the Olympic Games, 1908, the helmsman and every member of the crew had further to qualify under os. 7 and 8 of the General Regulations of the Olympic Games (1908), and his entry was also subject to No. 12 of those Regulations.]