Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-23
OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION MEETING
 CALLED FOR NOV. END

New York, Oct. 22-A call for the quadrennial meeting of the American Olympic association to be held at Washington. November 9, was issued tocya by it's president, Colonel Rob- ert M. Thompson.
 Four proposed amendments to the constitution, three of which have been approved by tho legislative committee of the association and the fourth sub mitted without recommendation, will be passed on at the meeting,
 Such amendments provide for bring ing into the organization nearly 70 national sport governing bodies All forms of amateur sport recreation and semi-recreation welfare work are in cluded and are distribution of the vot- ing power arranged in such way as to meet the desire of the amateur athletic union for closer CO operation in preparing for the Olympics of 1924.
 Under the original plan of formation the Amateur Athletic Union was awarded three votes for each of the five Olympic program competitions ov- CT which the A. A. U., wielded juris- diction in the United States, and, in addition, one vote was accorded to each district sub division of the A. A. N, giving a total of 35 votes. In or der to meet the objections raised to this vote, one amendment provides that the A. A. U., major organization shall have three votes, and an addi- tional vote for each of it's sub divi- sions.
 The president of the U. S.. also will be empowered to appoint one repre- sentative from each of the twelve fed eral reserve districts with one vote each. The United States army and the United States navy also will have three votes each as service sport rep rssentatives in the A. o. A. Other three vote organizations would be: Ameri- can Remount association, Intercollegi- ate Association of Amateur Athletics, Amateur Fencers league, American Trapshooting Association, Information al Skating Onion National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, National Rifle Association, Amateur Hockey Associa- ton, and the United States Golf, Ten- his and Revolver Association.
 In the long list of organizations credited with one vote are: Boy Scouts Gdrl Scouts, Catholic Young Mems Union. Jewish Welfare Board, K. of C.. Amateur Athletic federation. Play ground and Recreation Association, Y. w. c. A, physical education asso- citation and various intercollegiate bodies.
 The r. M. c. A. and the National Collegiate A. A.. do not appear in the list of organizations entitled to vote under the proposed amendment, due, it is said. to preious resignation or withdrawal from the A. O. A. Addi- tions to the membership will be in or der upon proper application and they may be elected to membership at the Washington meeting.
 The second amendment calls for in l creasing the executive committee to ! Ii members and the third provides for a minor change in the honorary of ficers. The fourth, which is submitted without recommendation, will if ! adopted, eliminate from the present article which relates to the system of voting, the clause which permits the ! delegate present at any meeting to ] cast all of the votes his organization 1 Is entitled to.
 ] At the coming conference the per ] sonnel of the American Olympic com mittee will be announced. It will take ! over all matters pertaining to the participation of the U. S. in the eighth renewal of the Olympic games to be held in Paris in 1924
 Colonel Thompson in his call for
 the meeting says:
 ] Please say to the American people that the committee that will be chos-
 en at that meeting to control the rep
 resentation of the United States at the i Olympic games to be held at Paris
 in 1924 will be national in spirit anG
 representative of every branch ot
 sports, organized and unorganized | The team will be selected from the Amateur Athletes of America by per
 formance, and it will be the aim ot
 the committee to so inspire the meE
 with patriotism, that it will be the
 aspiration of every man to win honol
 for his country, rather than credit
 for himself, and that, to use Halpf
 Roses great phrase: He will win o, lose like a gentleman.
 We ask the cooperation of al good Americans to insure the selec tion of the best possible team: a team that will represent not only the ath.
 lete, but the good citizen of the Unit. ed States, and a team that will so con
 duee itself as to keep all our old anC
 make new friends for America.