OCR Text |
Show N.'C'AI Seeks Full Control Of Athletes WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 (I P) The National, Amateur Athletic onion and the National Collegia. Athletic association compromised a dispute of many years today with agreement to equal representation repre-sentation on commit tee of the American Olympics association, WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 (r The National Collegiate Athletic association asso-ciation carried to the quadrennial meeting; of the American Olympic association today a flat demand that It be given control of all track, swimming, crew and wrestling squads which the United States sends to future Olympic games. The college group was led by Major John Griffith, commission-er commission-er of the Big Ten conference, in seeking to wrest control of these squads from the Amateur Athletic I Griffith's colleagues argued that, since colleges have come to furnish fur-nish most of the point-winning athletes in the four sports, a change in control was indicated. There were some prospects of debate, but over all hung an atmosphere at-mosphere of compromise, to be effected ef-fected by a possible rearrangement rearrange-ment of representation on various committees. After the N. C. A. A. petitioned the A. O. A. for adoption of an amendment giving the colleges five of the nine memberships on committees com-mittees governing the four sports, the A. A. U. proposed an amendment amend-ment which1 would increase its membership on the A. O. A. executive ex-ecutive committee from three to eleven. The A. O. A. will elect officers and an executive committee today to guide American plans for participation par-ticipation in the 1940 Tokio games. |