New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-17
Succumbs Suddenly at
Mount Sinai Hospital
After Operation.
WON FAME BY WORK
IN ATHLETIC CIRCLES
Foremost Figure in Perpetua-
ton of Olympic Games
Tribute by M'Aneny.


final trouble which was performed on
Monday night. lie had returned from
Baltimore on Sunday evening.
Mr.. Sullivan was the foremost figure
IN the perpetuatiOn of the international
OLYMPIC games, which decided the
worlds track and field championships,
and was an ardent advocate OF inter
scholastic, intercollegiate and play
ground athletics. As mark OF re-
spect TO Mr.. Sullivan the senior eham-
nioaship games Of the Metropolitan AS
location of the Amateur Athletic
Union, of which ne was president. have
been postponed from September ~ TO
October 8.
Mr. Sullivan was ifty-two years old;
He leaves a wife and young son ana
Acting Mayor George McAneny last
night paid warm tribute TO the "oiN
done BY Mr.. Sullivan IN fostering anna
teur sport in this country.
"The death of Mr.. sullivan he salo'
"vill prove a serious loss not only 10
The government but to the people o.!
The city of New York. As chairman OF
the Public Recreation Commission, as
merlber Of the Board of Education
and as the organizer and most active
worker in the Public Schools Athletic
Ieaoue. Mr.. sullivan had been literally
at the head Of the movement Tor the
better development Of amateur attn
letes."
Born in New York.
James Edward Sullivan, son Of Dan
;el ] and Julia Sullivan, was born IN
New York City on November Is, 1857
and was educated in the public schools.
when eighteen he entered the employ
ment of the publishing house OF RANK
Leslie. where he remained eleven years
A part of this time was spent III the pusi.
ness office, but he founded ana Ior SOM s,I,,
Years conducted an athletic department,
in Leslie's "Boys and Girls weekly:
Wr Sullivan started THE AthlCuc
News . one OF the first papers IN TINS
conntrv devoted exclusively to track
End field athletics. He also contributes
articles on sporting topics to seVerSl
daily newspapers
In 1889 he left Lcslie's to become
manager and editor and later owner OF
'The New York Sporting Times. ihree
wears later he became president OF the
sn,erican Sports Publishing Company,
which has since been publishing many
of the principal ANIMALS, hsndbooEs ana
other works pertaining to atnleuc
sports. .n,,.+o hogan
IN 1877. and for seven years he was an
sctive participant and competitor ~
nsnv contests. In 1880 and again III
1881 he won the all-round alhlelI'
ohampionship of the old Pastlme Avn
letic Club of this city, mciudlng .
twenty-five mile walk, three-hour anu
T., 1884 he was second in the contest
for the Canadian championship ne
VAS elected president Of the Pastlme
Clnh in 1885. and for some years was
Sts delegate to the National Assocla-
ton of Amateur Athletes of America
of which latter body ne was Nlce-P'es'
dent in 1885 and 1881 x.,.s
Mr. Sullivan was one OF the IOunu-
o,s If the Amateur Athletic Union
of the limited States, and was its Secre-
tsrv from 1889 to 1906, president IN the
latter wear and its secretary and treas
urer in 1909. Beginning in 1877 ne at
tended every championship meeting III
America. and for twenty-five years was
oficially associated in some way WIN
American amateur championship TRACK
and field games.
In 1900 Mr.. Sullivan was assistant
American director of the Olympic
e,anoes in paris; in 1901 he was
director Of the athletic depart
vert Of the Pan-American EXPO
sition: in 1904 he was chief OF the
department Of physical culture az inc
1onisiana Purchase Exposition at 81,
Louis: in 1906 he was secretary OF the
American committee and speciai com
missioner Of the United States govern
r,ent at the Olympic games at Atnehs ;
in 1907 nc was honorary director OF
atblctics at the jamestown Exposition;
IL, 1908 he was secretary OF the Amerl-
can Committee and special commits
sioner at the Olympic games IN London
aud also in 1918 at the Olympic games
AZ Stockholm; in 1918 he was appointed
director of athletics at the Panama
Pacific Exposition Of 1915, member oil
council and chairman of the rules com
mittee of the international Amateur
Athletic Federation at Berlin, ana sec
rotary Of the American Committee ioi
the Olympic games at Berlin in 1916
Aided Sane Fourth.
Mayor Mcclellan in November, 1908
appointed him a member OF the Boart
Of Education of the City Of New YORK
an Office in which nc was active uhu
July. 1911, when he resigned TO become
member OF the Municipal Recreation
Commission. In the latter year Gov
ernor Dix appointed him member o.
the State Boxing Commi ion.
In May last he went to France TO at
tend the meeting Of the lnternationa
Amateur Athletic Federation at Lyons
and there to help standardize the rules
records and definitions for the world
lie returned home in July, bringing 1
fine silver trophy, presented by Barol
de Coubertin, on behalf Of the lnterna
ticnal Olympic Committee to the Amer
icsn Olympic Committee as token O
appreciation OF its efforts IN promot
ing the Olympic games.
Mr. Sullivan WAS decorated by tn
King OF the Hcllenes with the colder
cross Of the Royal Order Of the Saviour
for his services in the Olympic game
~ Athens; by the King Of Sweden will
the ROYAL Order Of Nasa, and by The
immortal German Olympic Commission
BY command of the Emperor, with The
German Olympic Decoration of the Col
den Eagle, the highest athletic decora
tjon of Germany In recognition of hn
services at ST. Louis the lnternauona
Olvmpic Committee presented TO hin
its Olympic Medal, the late PreSiden
Mckinley being the only other Amer
can who ever received it.
Boston, Sept. l6 Albert ILL, presi
dent OF the Amateur Athletic Union
to-day appointed Justice Barlow )
Weeks, Of the New York Supreme
Court, as secretary and treasurer OF
tnc Union, TO ill the vacancy caused
BY the death of James +. Sullivan.
Am. Locomotive Changes
S. L. Sehoonmaker. an associate o.
II. g. Prick, was yesterday made chair
man Of the board of the American Lo
.-...,.a C,n,Uapv fo1lnuinU his cleo,