Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-17
SEVERE BRUMAGE
MEASURE DOWNED
President Goes to Floor on
Plan to Curb Loading
~ aE
of Basket Teams.
BY TED vOsBURGH,


NOMMERCIAILSM in anna
teur sport and the ques-
~ ton Of how far to 60 in
curbing 1t stood out today
as the principal issue before the
first general session Of the forty
second annual convention of the
National Amateur Athletic Union,
at the Hamilton Hotel
Already beaten in committee on
one of his proposals calculated to
enforce strict amateurism. Presi-
. dent Avery Brundage OF Chicago
prepared to carry the Tight to the
door OF the convention.
The constitutional amendment pro-
posed by the president. which met with
the Legislative Committees rejection
yesterday was aimed at the practice of
loading up" or recruiting amateur
athletss by commercial organizations on
the eve Of championship events.
Under its terms an A. A. u. athlete
would be barred from representing such
concern unless he had been q bona
ffde employee" of the organization for q
4Cco
the date Of competition"
Basket BAN Singled Out.
The amendment was understood to
be aimed primarily at conditions exist
ing in basket bah. Somewhat to the
surprise Of its proponents, definite OBJ
lection materiali1ed In the Legislative
Committee. One element held the A. A.
U. should not attempt to dictate to this
extent. while other members advanced
counter proposals advocating q so or q
SO DAY period, the discussion ending in
outright rejection
Another amendment proposed by
President Brundage found the Legisla-
tive Committee divided and promised
today to come up for general debate.
Calling upon the A. A. U. TO bar from
all its high ofilces persons who accept
remuneration for serving as referees.
timers or similar officials, this provision
closely approaches the English amateur
Comparatively little opposition was
eneountered IN the passage BY the For
e1gn Relations COMMITTEES Of q rule
witch calls upon American athletes
competing abroad to take an oath that
they Rave not received and viii not ac-
cept suities or anything more than
their b. expenses.
-st Affected.
The first delegation of American
athletes to visit foreign lands under
TINS provision VIII consist Of Harlow
Rothert, Stanford University weight star
and all-around athlete; George Simp-
son, great Ohio State spFinteF, and
Rufus Kiser, former mile running ace
Of the University Of Washington. These
three were given permission TO sail
December a from San Francisco for
New Zealand. TO be gone nearly three
months,
Final award Of the various A. A. U.
Championship meets for the coming
year was % be made today, but all
indications pointed to New York and
Lincoln, Nebr., as the scenes Of the
senior boxing and track and Aeld
events. respectively. New York won
the boxing event in committee by a
1919 vote, but representatives of Boston,
which has staged the fisticuffs for the
last % years, still retained some hope
of reversing the verdict on the conven-
-Scn 4@c-
-~uavrr D. EMVw-0.
Denver stood out as a leading con-
tender for the national mems basket
nan tourney. although definite action
on tnis, as Wen as several other sports.
F1~rkSsAtssA etf..A No1AJs &Ntu1A ives
recommended for the girls tournament.
neid Tor the two years Of its existence
at Wichita.
The immense slate of 172 applications
Tor records in various sports went
through the hands Of the Records Com
mittee without a single major change
and the formal adoption Of all the im-
portant cnes was forecast for today.
Outstanding on the list was the
phenomenal mark of 92s for the 100
yard dash made by Frank WykoH of
the University of Southern California
last Spring at Los Angeles.