Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 54 | Swivel Chair Athletes Are Active Associations Exert Much Power

I Swivel Chair Athletes Athlete's Are Active 00 o o I Squabbles Give Officials Work I Associations Exert Much Power It was a gr great t year rear for tor the swivel chair athletes Ih Jh nearly every v variety of sport they y provided about as a much action and entertainment as the athletes s they sought to govern Amateur athletics with varying views as ag to what constitutes an ah fi amateur causing more trouble than ev ever r before produced the biggest sensations sUch as those l involving BUI Bill Tildon n and Ch Charley Charley- Paddock but the professional l sport world also had its ups and downs Open warfare raged f fOi l' l example in the soccer and cycling ranks In both cases the big national govern tn governing ing bodies finally appeared to be prevailing pre but not without a struggle In s er the difficulty Involved d the tile United States Football association association tion which h controls th the amateur and amid professional g ganie nie l in lit this country coun cohn- try and th the American Amerlean Soccer l league ague an ate eastern n pro org organization The league defied the U U. S. S P. P As A.'s authority au authority au- au u- u and was promptly outlawed tho the national body winning limIng the majority ma ma- of of ot the court moves s which followed fo CHA CHAPMAN MAN ABSOLUTE Tile The autocratic power of John MCh Mi M I Ch Chapman Chapma 1 as head hOOd of the National Cycling association was challenged by an outlaw group of six six-d six day y riders who put pItt on a sleepless w week ek of or f their own in Chicago with itH some success but unable t to togo togo go through with a race in New York in opposition t to Ch Chapman's Chapmans mans man's yearly six-day six show at Madison Square Garden although they threatened to try again early in the new year Th Tile The NatiOnal Boxing association was torn apart rt an ancl rebuilt at the convention In ih Toronto where Thomas E E. Donohue failed in his campaign for reelection With the elevation of Paul head of th the Illinois c commission tp tO the N. N B. B A. A pr presidency th the balance o of power shifted from east to middle west S Not even ven the Olympic l games Were cont contested Sted without co contro tro- tro versy A personal quarrel between Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray Hulbert president of ot the Amateur Amateur Ama Ama- tour Athletic Uc Union and Frederick W. W RUbien its Ith former secretary lar ta who had hind been friends for or years caused trouble in th the stadium at Amsterdam while the track and field events ts w were tc lit iii full swing Echoes were heard ag again lri when tile the combatants returned to the United States OLYMPIC CHOICES S TROUBLE Th The Tho picking of f the tM American t team stirred SUrrell up dissatisfaction ss ort oil the part of those thoM whose friends and cl w were rc left b behind and hind th the A C. C sent seM a delegation n Now V York ork A. A of bf its Hs u unsuccessful catl candidates l t s to Amsterdam o ori on its own wn hook It lt was at tills tula tithe time th that t Ch Charley ChanCy ll y Paddocks Paddock's ur standing wIts was questioned because of a personal app appearance ar nce movie tour Jut hOt the tue veteran vetera t sprinter 1 was M a andall and all allowed w t te to go cr ss Franco France and Holland ad some a ti kg at t th the thO Olympics s when declared d toh to Dutch butch gatekeeper was French official l 1 Inthe in inthe h have ve punched a to latter attempted the noso nos as the timIt enter th time the stadium FI France h at first threatened to tg withdraw w. w Pr Probably JabIr the tIle biggest of the years noncombatant sensations o of the tho variety waS WaA tile the b barrIng barfing b of Ilden son sOil on foreign which also occurred TILDEN'S CASE S SENSATIONAL Tho resultant furore brought about Bills Bill's reinstatement for lor Dr play against th thiC French in ill the Davis Davs cu cUll culi trimmed challenge round and he lIe his old rival rInd Lacoste although los los los- Ing In doubles doubles' and in singles s against 1 Coch Cochet t. t S The United States G Golf lr association association tion lion which in 1927 produced a stir by declaring Mary Marr Mar K BroWne ineligible in ineligible In in- eligible for amateur golf gol competition tion because she w wEts was s a tennis professional professional professional pro pro- had Its ts troubles this year with George Georg V Washington linksman th the amateur r standing of f the tile former typewriter repairman had been questioned ned in some quarters Voigt was left off ort the American Walker Valker cup named to invade invade- England in 1929 In polo an embarrassing situation situa sitha- tion ar arose se with J J. J h CheeVer Cowdin first on and then finally y off oft the United States team for for- forth th the match with Argentina it r resulted in hard feeling the eventual resignation of or Cowdin din from th the executive committee committee com corn of the l United States Polo association