The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-16
AMATEUR RANK OF SOME STARS
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HOyt, New President De- cIares IndependenCe;
 Peace Ahead
Bx ERNEST RARCELLA

By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Boston, Nov. 16-(UP)-Outward- ly at least, peace reigned today in the National Amateur Athletic Union whose destinies during the next year will be led lby Judge Sam- uel Eugene Hoyt of New Haven, Conn.
 Unanimous election of Hoyt, 8 compromise candidate, was one of two significant peace moves at the ended yesterday. The other was ap- 49th annual AAU convention which pointment of 8 nine-man committee which today is carrying the olive branch to Washington.
 There it will meet with like com- mittees representing the National Collegiate A. A. and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen on the question of control and super vision of Olympic teams made up mostly of college or ex-college atn- letes. The cvowed purpose of the meeting is to diScmuss a compromise agreement on the controversial sub ject.$
 Observers saw in Hoyt's election an important move in healing the rift between the AAU and college authorities over control of certain Olympic sports. Active in AAU af- fairs as track and field and swim ming official for a quarter century, Hoyt graduated from Yale's Shelf field Scientific school in 1897 and two years later received his degree from Yale Law school.
 The 61 year old states attorney for New Haven county received the backing of rival factions after a private caucus called by former Prsident Avery Brundage, head of the American Olympic association which meets in Washington tolnor- row. His election was interpreted as a victory for the Brundage group which strongly supported his can- didacy, and as defeat for the AAU "old guard" which sought to put in Lawrence DiBenedetto of New Orleans.
 In accepting the post to which Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney of New York did not seek reelection, Hoyt asserted he was in mo way encum- bered to anybody or any faction, if there is any" He pledged to serve the best interests of the organiza- tion with conscientious determina- tion."
 The president-election was for five years head of the Connecticut AAU after he reorganized it in 1928. H e was municipal judge and public defender in New Haven prior to be- coming states attorney, position he has held for 10 years.
 Hoyt said the election "came as 8 complete surprise" to him. His can didacy vast sponsored by A. c. Gil- bert of New Haven, fellow Yale alumnus and former world pole vault champion, for whom Hoyt had come here to campaign. Gilbert, however, declined the candidacy, but was named on the special nine man committee that meets in Washington today,
 Besides Hoyt, delegates also unanimously elected Col. Frank E. Lowe of Portland, Me, who had been a leading AAU presidential candi- date, first vice president; James J. Richardson of Portland, Ore, second vice president; Ward Haylett of Kansas State Teachers college, third vice president: and Owen V. Van Camp of Chicago, fourth vice presi- dent.
 The more than 300 delegates to the convention-one of the most harmonious in AAU history
 Approved an executive com- mittee report that said rejection by the AAU of an invitation to compete in Germany the past summer was not to be construed as "perma- nent boycott"
 2.-Referred to the foreign rela- tions committee plans to send an American team abroad next sum- mer.
 3.-.Voted for retention of the metric system.
 4.-Recommended use of starting blocks on condition the Interna- tional Amateur Athletic Federation adopts them at its London meeting next March.
 5.-Approved more than 130 rec ords.
 6.-Awarded national champion ship events.
 7.--Severed relations with the Eastern Hockey association on grounds the amateur status of many of its players was questionable.
 8.-Approved a plan to re-district the country into ight sections-ef- fective in 1939-to facilitate selec- tio nof competitors for the national boxing championships.
 No definite decision was reached as to the site of the 1888 convention. It had been recommended that next years session-the Soluble awarded to Washington where the first con- vention was helo. Delegates, how ever, approved a substitute recom- mendation urging that the matter be left to Hoyt and his committee. Denver and Miami als o had bid for the 1888 convention, while New York and California nlo cnd odvorra hids