View source for Clipping:The new amateur association won't count play with professionals

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=3/19/1871
|Title=the new amateur association won't count play with professionals
|Text=<p>The [amateur] Convention afterward adopted the new rules for play which were passed at the November Convention, with the addition of a clause dividing the fraternity into two classes, and prohibiting the amateur clubs from playing professionals.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>...the Convention expressly prohibited any club in the Association from devoting one cent of any gate-money receipts in compensating players in any form or shape, a penalty for violation of the rules being expulsion from the Association.  Consequently no cooperative nine can enter the Association.  At the same time there is nothing in the constitution of the Association in the rules which they adopted which either prohibits them from sharing in gate-money receipts, for the purposes of paying for ground expenses, or for outlays incurred on tours; nor is there anything which prevents their playing with professional clubs.  But all such games are, by the above rule, rendered irregular, and such as cannot be counted either in the Association record or averages of the season’s play, as all such games are outside affairs, the only regular Association games being those played by members of the Association, one with the other.</p>
|Source=New York Sunday Mercury
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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