BY-LAWS.—ARTICLE III.
Meetings.
The annual meeting of the Executive Committee shall be held at the close of the annual meeting of the association. Special meetings of the Executive Committee shall be called by the secretary either at the written request of three members of the committee or by order of the president, and one week’s notice of said meeting shall be sent to every member of the committee. At all meetings of the committee five members shall constitute a quorum.
“By the first it is proven that the Intercollegiate Association was but a single organization in the so-called National Association. The second shows that it was necessary to have seven members of the Executive Committee present in order to elect a new club to membership, and the third that there should have been five members present to hold a meeting. As the so-called N. A. A. A. A. had not been able to hold a meeting or transact business under its own constitution and by-laws, the organization in the Union refused to recognize the existence of the so-called National Association of Amateur Athletes of America, and in so doing stated that the respective clubs comprising the Union positively denied having in any way boycotted the Irish Gaelic Team, owing to the fact that the latter simply joined with the Manhattan and Missouri Athletic clubs in preference to the Amateur Athletic Union which was composed of twenty-seven leading associations.
“The M. A. C. Chronicle of October, 1888, published the following clubs as having had delegates present at the so-called National’s annual meeting held about October 13: Missouri A. A. A., St. Louis; Manhattan A. C., New York City; Star A. C., Long Island City; West Side A. C., New York City; Allerton A. C., New York City; and Intercollegiate A. A.
“The Allerton A. C. was organized in September, 1888, by members of the Manhattan A. C. Mr. G. M. L. Sacks is treasurer, and Mr. G. M. L. Sacks of the Manhattan A. C. represents the club on the so-called National Association’s Executive Committee. Of late the Manhattan A. C. men have organized several so-called athletic clubs in order to swell the list of clubs belonging to the so-called National Association, and in the M. A. C. Chronicle of November, 1888, we find Walton Storm, G. M. L. Sacks and Fred A. Ware, three well-known M. A. C. men on the Executive Committee of the so-called National Association, and probably two or three others of which it is not positive.
“None of the so-called National clubs own any property, except the land which Mr. Walton Storm of the M. A. C. lately purchased for about $160,000, on which it is proposed to build a club-house. We, therefore, arrive at the following totals:
| National Clubs. | Membership. | Property. |
| Manhattan A. C. | 400 | None. |
| Missouri A. A. A. | 200 | “ |
| Star A. C. | 60 | “ |
| West Side A. C. | 40 | “ |
| Allerton A. C. | 50 | “ |
| Entire National | 750 | Nothing. |
“The so-called National during the past year has given the St. Louis championship meeting, New York championship meeting, and a ten-mile championship run. (The New York meeting was twice postponed and the ten-mile run was also postponed.)
| Union Clubs. | Membership. | Property. |
| New York A. C. | 2,500 | $410,000 |
| New York Turn Verein | 2,500 | 150,000 |
| A. C. of Schuylkill Navy | 680 | 85,000 |
| Staten Island A. C. | 900 | 85,000 |
| Columbia A. C. (Wash.) | 400 | 65,000 |
| Orange A. C. | 650 | 60,000 |
| Detroit A. C. | 500 | 35,000 |
| New Jersey A. C. | 500 | 35,000 |
| Flushing A. C. | 200 | 25,000 |
| Jersey City A. C. | 500 | 35,000 |
| Berkeley A. C. | 250 | 225,000 |
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Eleven Union Clubs out of membership of 29 | 9,580 | $1,210,000 |