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Show ATHLETIC UNION Will BE0R0PPED NEW YORK. Dec. 2s. After a resolution reso-lution adopted by the Athletic Research Re-search Mm iety today at Its annual meeting h.re Is concurred in by the nthleilc bodies repref-oDUd in the society, so-ciety, fr.Yndly relations with the Amateur Ama-teur Athletic union will be broken and Immediate stops taken toward the or-e;mu.ition or-e;mu.ition of an independent fe'eru-tirn fe'eru-tirn to exercise the control tormerly c.-ted in i ho union. The society was organize, 1 three uts hxii ir the purpose, more particularly par-ticularly of developing school athletics and investigating the administrative centrol of the sport. A committee appointed at the last meeting reported today throuuh its chairman, Dr. George L. Meyian of Columbia university, recommcudlng tb.it local groups be formed in various sections of the country which should joint district associations of the Amateur Ama-teur Athletic union, thus making It possible to control their competitions. Objections were made to this atfill.v tlon with tho Amateur Athletic union. The recommendation was voted down and a committeo beaded by Professor Pro-fessor .Meyian was appointed to draft a plan for the organization' of an Independent In-dependent federation. The following were then elected officers of-ficers for the next year: I lark W. Hetherlngton. Chicago (reelected), (re-elected), president; W. C. Orr, Hoston, Uo president; J. E. Raj croft, University Univer-sity of Chicago, secretary and treas-ui treas-ui or Tho meeting waS addressed by Dr. D. A. Sargent, director of phslcal training at Harvard university on "ProfesiMoniilism In Amateur Athletics." Ath-letics." He said over-specialization at the expense of the development of alV-mound alV-mound athletics made the whole tenth ten-th ncy of the largo colleges and unl-ci-fiUos wrong. |