Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — ATHLETES PLAN TO ORGANIZE [ARTICLE]

ATHLETES PLAN TO ORGANIZE

New National Organization of Professionals In Course of Formation la Announced. Announcement Is made In. New York of the formation of a new na* tlonal athletic organization to be called the Cash Prize league. The object of the league will be to revive professional athletics in this country. While reviving that game it is hoped that the movement will at the same time tend to purify the amateur ranks. "It's a good thing, and I welcome ft,” Bald James E. Sullivan, president of the Metropolitan district of the Aiqnteur Athletic union, in an interview. “The A. A. U. has always looked favorably upon honest professional sport, no matter what It might be. There are a great many clean, honest men In this oountry who are professionals. “An out-and-out professional Is a much more respected person than a professional who competes in the disguise of an amateur. I believe that the new league will help to keep the A. A. U. free from so-called professionals.”