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Show Amateur Sports Chieftain Dies NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (INS) Amateur sports enthusiasU today mourned one of their most distinguished dis-tinguished leaders, Samuel E. Hoyt, 64, president of the Amateur Athletic Ath-letic union, who died last night of a skull fracture received in an automobile crash Sunday. Mrs. Hoyt suffered minor Injuries In-juries in the crash. Also surviving are three sons, Spencer, with whom the elder Hoyt was associated In the practice of law; Alvord and Samuel E. Jr. Hoyt In 1937 became a compromise compro-mise candidate to succeed Jeremiah Jere-miah T. Mahoney as president of the A. A. U. without becoming involved in-volved in the prolonged dispute between Mahoney and Avery Brundage over sending an American Ameri-can Olympic team to Germany, Hoyt was elected unanimously and healed the internal breach in the organization. In 1938 he was reelected. re-elected. L. Dibenedetto of New Orleans succeeds Hoyt as president of the amateur group, the first southerner southern-er to hold the position In the organization's or-ganization's 52-year history. Dibenedetto has been secreUry of the southern A. A. U. for more than 20 years and has long been prominent in national affairs of the union. He has served as national na-tional chairman of the track and field and basketball committees. |