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sionership of boxing in New York
State, but resigned after short
service. He worked hard for the
success of athletics, and he never
looked for reward. He was respon-
sible in large measure for our great
| Olympic teams and it was his good
| judgment and his keen knowledge
that went long way toward our sue
cess in those games. He was the big
gest man in athletics in the world and
he was known throughout Europe as
the father of the sport" He was
ambitious to have the United States
hold one mammoth Olympic meet,
and he would undoubtedly have
brought such thing about if he had
| lived. Others will now have an OPP
portunity to do what he would have
surely done.
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Mr.. Sullivan was the son of Daniel
j. and Julia Sullivan and was born in
New York City on November Is, 1862.
He was educated in the public
schools, and when eighteen years of
age he entered the employment of the
publishing house of Frank Leslie. He
was the editor of The Athletic News,
one of the first papers in this country
devoted exclusively to track and field
athletics. In 1889 he became manager
and editor and later owner of The
New York Sporting Times, and three
years later he became president of the
American Sports Publishing Company
His own career as an athlete began
in 1877 and for seven years he was an
active participant and competitor in
many contests. In 1880. and again in
1881, he won the all-around athletic
championship OF the Pastime Athletic
Club of New York, including a twen-
ty-five mile walk, three-hour and
one-hour run, and all the field events
In 1884 he was second in the contest
for the Canadian championship. He
was elected president of the Pastime
Club in 1885, and for some years was
its delegate to the National Associa-
ton of Amateur Athletics of America,
of which latter body he was vice
president in 1886 and 1887
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Mr. Sullivan's pet hobby was the
Amateur Athletic Union. and he was
one of the founders of that organi-
cation. He was the secretary from
1889 to 1906, president in the latter
year and its secretary and treasurer
in 1909. Beginning in 1877 he attended
every championship meeting in
America. and for twenty-five years
was officially associated in some
way with American amateur cham
pionship track and field games.
In 1900 Mr.. Sullivan was as
sistant American director of the
Olympic games in Paris; in 1901
he was director of the athletic de-
partment of the Pan-American Ex>
position; in 1904 he was chief of the
department of physical culture at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at st.
Louis: in 1906 he was secretary of the
American committee and special COM
missioner of the United States gov
eminent at the Olympic games at
Athens; in 1907 he was honorary
director of athletics at the jamestown
Exposition; in 1908 he was secretary
of the American committee and
special commissioner at the Olympic
games in London. and also In 1918 at
the Olympic games at Stockhold. In
1913 he was appointed director of ath-
letics at the Panama-Pacific Expo
chairman of the rules committee of
the International Amateur Athletic
Federation at Berlin, and secretary of
the American committee for the
Olympic games at Berlin in 1916.
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Mayor Mcclellan, in November,
1908, appointed Mr.. Sullivan a mem
Der of the Board of Education, an Of
flee in which he was active until
July. 1911, when he resigned to be-
come a member of the Municipal Rec
reation Commission. In the latter
year Governor Dix appointed him a
member of the State Boxing Com
mission, but he resigned after a few
weeks service. In May last he went
to France to attend the meeting of
| the International Amateur Athletic
Federation at Lyons, and there to
| help standardize the rules, records
and definitions for the world. He re-
turned home in July, bringing a fine
silver trophy, presented by Baron de
Coubertin on behalf of the Interna-
tional Olympic committee to the
American Olympic committee as a
token of appreciation of Its efforts in
promoting the olympic games.
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Mr.. Sullivan was decorated by the
king of the Hellenes with the golden
cross of the Royal Order of the
! Saviour for his services in the Olym-