Evening star., 1953-11-29
Six Others Selected
Al AAU Convention
In Session Here
By GEORGE Huber


running star, and Gail Peters,
national swimming champion
from the Walter Reed Club of
Washington, were among the
eight nominees for the Sullivan
Award selected at yesterdays
session of the National Amateur
Athletic Union convention at
the Willard Hotel.
The winner of the Sullivan
Award, which goes to the Ma
tion's outstanding amateur ath-
lete, will be selected from among
the AAU nominees through a
poll of sports leaders throughout
the country.
Both Capozzoli and Miss Peters
were members of the 1852 Olym-
pic team. Capozzoli was referred
to as "a true amateur and an
excellent sportsman" in his NOM
ination. while Miss Peters, the
national AAU women'S breast
stroke champion, was called "one
of the most versatile woman
swimmers ever developed in this
country" Only a day earlier
Miss Peters was named for the
breaSt-stroke events on the ALL
America women's swimming team
selected by the AAU.
Other Sullivan Nominees.
The other nominees for the
Sullivan Award were: Maj.
Sammy Lee. diver; Patricia Nc
Cormick. diver; Jimmy McLane,
swimmer; ]. Lewis Pappy) Hall,
jr., high jumper; Nancy Phillips,
women's track, and Norbert
Schemansky, weight litter.
The AAU interrupted it's busi-
ness sessions to- hold it's annual
banquet last night at which
another award was made. Gus
tavus T. Kirby of Bedford, N. Y,
a long time leader in the AAU,
received the Helms Athletic
Foundation Award for outstand-
ing service to amateur athletics.
Howard P. Bailey, president Of
the District of Columbia AAU,
was POSTMASTER at the banquet.
The AAU adopted a long list
of rules changes, mostly minor,
on various sports yesterday, but
passed over to today's final SeS-
sion a proposal to return pro-
fessionalS to amateur status
after five years of retirement
from professional competition.
This measure was soundly de-
feated at last years meeting. but
comes up again with several
changes.
Election Today a FOrmality.
The convention winds up today
with election of officers. The
election is mere formality after
a caucus last night selected
list of nominees for which there
is no opposition. Louis G. Wilke
of :BartleSville, Okla, the cur
rent first vice president, is due
to become president to succeed
Douglas F. Roby of Detroit, re-
tiring after serving two years.
Other nominations were for:
Carl H. Hansen of Oakland,
Calf, first vice president; John
j. Downing of Brooklyn, N. Y,
second vice president; Kellum
Johnson of Dallas, Tex, third
vice president; Nick j. Barack
of Columbus, Ohio, fourth vice.
president, and Dan Ferris of
New York, secretary treasurer.
Dates of Events Announced.
Dates for several National AAU
championship events also were
announced. These included: bob
sled, at Lake Placid, NY, the
senior AAU championship Feb
ruary 1914, and the North
American championship, Febru-
ary 21-22; mems swimming. in
doors, at New Haven, dates to
be J.. announced, outdoors not
assigned; horSeshoes, to Georgia,
exact site and date to be de-
termined; weightlifting, Norfolk
in East and Tucson in West,
dates to be determined; women'S
swimming, indoors. Daytona
Beach, Fla, April 1913, outdoors,
Indianapolis. August "a; basket
bah Denver, March 20-26.
Among the items yet to come
before the convention, N addi-
ton to the PROFESSIONALS ques-
ton are approval of records and
changes in weight lifting rules.
The Records Committee has
been busy for two days going
over close to 200 applications
for records in numerous sports.
Mad Whitfield is up for 20
records alone, and Miss Peters
is next with 13.
Among the reasonably i'm
portant items passed yesterday
was one adding the butterfly
stroke to competitive swimming
eVpnts and to the individual
msdley New gymnastics rules
a Dpage proposition-also were
okayed. These bt.g that sport
in-the United STU into con-
formance with international
practices.