“A Hamilton man has been telling the Times that if there is a professional lacrosse league next season, Hamilton will have a team in it. And why should not the senior C. L. A. be professional in name as well as in fact? It hung to its amateur name last spring in order to let Brantford play for the Minto Cup, and to satisfy the hypocritical yearnings of a few of the old-timers.”

“Next year the senior C. L. A. should be out-and-out professional. Why even in Hamilton they know that to handle a lacrosse team to advantage you must have some control over the players. You can’t have that control so long as they are nominally amateur. It has been contended on various occasions that the public would lose interest in lacrosse were it to become openly professional. Last summer showed the foolishness of this statement. The Tecumsehs did not even pose as amateurs, yet they drew the biggest crowds that ever attended lacrosse matches in Toronto. The public want good lacrosse and they don’t care whether it is amateur or professional so long as it is good.”

“The future of senior lacrosse seems to be: Get a compact league made up of two Toronto teams, Hamilton, Brantford and St. Kitts; make the gate receipts 60 per cent to the home teams and 40 per cent to the visitors, and get under a system of workable rules whereby the players can be made to deliver the lacrosse they are paid for. That’s all.”