Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — LET PROFESSIONALS COME IN [ARTICLE]

LET PROFESSIONALS COME IN

Question of Or®Rnized Amateur Associations Letting Down Bars Agitates Coast Sports. ' * y The question of organized amateur associations letting down the bars to professionals doling the war period is agitating sporting circles at San Francisco. Phil M. Ward, chairman of the Olympic club commission that put on the successful international boxing exhibition there, says that the move will be a good one, not only for boxing, but for every other line of sport. Wand says there is plenty of sentiment in favor of amateur rules.