EXECUTIVE FOR 1936-38

PRESIDENT:
W. H. W. HARDWICK,
7983 HEATHER STREET,
VANCOUVER, B.C.

PAST PRESIDENT:
DR. S. H. KESHEN,
GREEN LANTERN BLDG.,
HALIFAX, N.S.

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT:

T. DOUGLAS ROBERTSON,

MONTREAL CURB MARKET,
P.O. BOX 1676, MONTREAL

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT:
MRS. E. W. SKELTON,
82 MAIN STREET,
WALLACEBURG, ONT.

SECRETARY-TREASURER:
Cc. W. MCLACHLAN,
286 WEST 18TH.,
VANCOUVER, B.C.

EASTERN SECRETARY:
ROY E. MACKENZIE,
P.O. BOX 1676, MONTREAL

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS:
EASTERN CANADA:
Cc. G. HARRIS,

8 SUMMER STREET,

HALIFAX, N.S.

WESTERN CANADA:

GEORGE WILSON,
352 MAIN STREET,
WINNIPEG, MAN.

R. F. LARCOMBE,
BANK OF TORONTO,
CALGARY, ALTA.

REPRESENTATIVE
A. ROY MACKENZIE
717 BEDFORD ROAD,
SASKATOON, SASK.

REPRESENTATIVE TO THE INTERNATI
JOINT RULES COMMITTEE OF U,

AND CANADA.

SAMUEL ROGERS,

210 CONFEDERATION LIFE BLDG.

TORONTO, ONT.

Canadian Amateur Baskethall Assuciation

AFFILIATIONS
AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION OF CANADA
WOMEN’S ATHLETIC FEDERATION

September 30, 19 57.43 oe

 

Br. "Fog" Allen,
University of Kansas,
Laurence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Alleni-~

In this letter, along with a request for certain in-
formation regarding the organization of amateur basketball in
the United States, I send greetings from the Canadian Amateur
Basketball Association.

I have been advised that you are the source of information
regarding amateur basketball in the United States, or else know
who knows most on the subject. The purpose of this letter is to
seek an alliance with the chief amateur basketball organization
in your country in order to facilitate international games between
teams of our respective organizations, especially along the inter-
national border, but also between our champion teams,

It is extremely important that I secure information on the
subject as soon as possible. During the past summer, after long
attempts on our part to get the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada
to redress certain grievances and to rectify certain handicaps
under which we were attempting to operate, our Canadian Amateur
Basketball Association gave the required month's notice and formally
withdrew from our Articles of Alliance with the AAU of C, Let me
assure you that the causes of our withdrawal were absolutely admin-
istrative, regarding excessive cost of operating the Amateur organ-
ization to our loss, unnecessary interference in our game,-contrary
to our Articles of Alliance with the AAU of C.- and failure of the
AAU of Ce to make any attempt whatsoever to remedy abuses which have
rept into its administration, You must kmow that the Canadian
Amateur Basketball Association HAS NOT CHANGED at all the definition
of am amateur. Its officers have laid down a strict definition to
pe followed and have set up rigid arrangements for registration to
prevent any encroachment of professionalism, ~- and all this at a
minimum of cost as compared to the top-heavy overhead necessary
under the AAU of C.

In April, 1957, I applied to Mr. Jones, secretary - _
treasurer of the Federation Internationale de Sasketball at Rome
for a direct alliance. His reply indicated two important things:

le that during the term of our a liance to the AAU of C. (1951
to 1937), the AAU of C, had used the fact of our #1liance to them
to secure under their own name,- the AAU of C. - our international
alliance with the World Federation of Basketball, In our Articles
of Alliance to the AAU of C. we did not agree to that , and it was
done without our knowledge. ( Whe CABA, was organized as a nationally
independent sports organization ih 1922, and operated as such until
1931). He advised that the CABA, could regain its own alliance.