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inningthe EndA.A.U. States P. J. MulqueenConvention Adopts Resolution That National Track and Field Association Be Formed—Abbie Coo, Opposed to Whole Business, Is Forced to Sponsor Motion.(Canadian Press Despatch.)Torontor Nov. 17. — The Amateur! Athletic Union of Canada decided j last night to give up its chief hobby —track and field—to direct control of a rational track and field association that will work in close harmony with the A.A.U. The British Columbia. southwestern Ontario ana central Ontario branches sponsored the proposal.Personally opposed to the whole business. A. E. H. Coo of Winnipeg, a noted all-round track performer himself two decades ago. presented a favorable resolution by his track and field committee. The convention quickly adopted the resolution and recommended that the track and field association be formed.The A.A.U.’s action leaves the amateur body virtually without firsthand control of any branch of sport. Like hockey, baseball. lacrosse, football and other sports, track and field will be regulated by its own leaders. The A.A.U.. which also has a resolution before it to place boxing under separate control, is on the point oi becoming just a registration organization.Slender ChanceA proposal to form a boxing association has yet to be dealt with bv the convention. Observers believed it has onlv a slender chance of success this year.Dr. A. S. Lamb of Montreal, was named provisional chairman of theSASKATCHEWAN REFUSES TO PLAY MANITOBA FOR HARDY TROPHY- 'Varsity’s hopes to annex the Hardy trophy received a severe jolt Thursday when in a telephoneconversation with Jack Conklin, chairman of the U.M.S.U. Athletic commission, Professor K. W. Gordon, of, of Saskatchewan, declared that Faculty permission had been refused the Saskatchewan team to travel to Winnipeg. An offer from the University of Manitoba to go to Saskatchewan was also revised on the grounds that they could not make a financial guarantee to Manitoba to cover the expenses of the trip. Arrangements for the same had been completed here with the Osborne stadium, and the encounter was scheduled to take place this afternoon. Manitoba had agreed to pay for all the travelling expenses of the .Saskatchewan team, which Included sleeping berths, hotel accommodation, and all other incidental expenses.The ILM.S.U. Athletic commission feit that, while the situation was unfortunate. Saskatchewan’s •xeuses were not very satisfactory.Boil and field body for one year. .r,emal » voluntary organic-committee's resolution stipulated that one representative from each A.A.U. J branch will form a committee r.oj carry on the work of the new as-j sociation until a set of officers arej elecd-ed a year from now. jMr. Coo found his own committee I firmly behind the proposal, he to!d| the convention, and he was forced! to sponsor a resolution he personally objected to. He thought the A.A.U. of C. should hesitate to permit track and field, always a primary interest of the body, to be placed under separate control.At the end of one year the provisional committee will report back to the. A.A.U., presenting a drafted constitution. This was the only amendment to- the original resolution and was made by M. M. (Bobby) Robinson, chairman of the Canadian Olympic and British Empire games committee.Plays Lone Hand P. J. Mulqueen, veteran chairman of the Olympic and British Empire games committee, played almost a lone hand in opposing the resolution from the floor of the. convention. He saw the possibility of the A.A.U. “going by the boards” if it gave tip control of track and field and predicted “it is the beginning of the end for the A.A.U.”tion rather than a body that “can sue and be sued.”The convention heard some more about President J. H. Crocker's open-ing-day remarks that “parties interested in boxing and wrestling from the commercial point of view have tried to secure from the parliament at Ottawa an act to take from the A.A.U. of C. the control of these sports.” It was that remark that resulted In a motion that the A.A.U. should incorporate.James Merrick, Toronto, also a former president, who sponsored the move for the act. at Ottawa, declared no commercial interests were behind the application.At Loose EndsFred Nobert of Toronto, member of the A.A.U.'s boxing committee, also a sponsoi* of the separate-entifcy move, said the committee foiznd itself at a loose end and without authority when Ontario was broken . up into three branches.“Boxing should be controlled by men who understand it,” he asserted. When the British Empire trials were being held he was given no consideration by the games committee, though he was a member of the committee.Mr, Merrick, said he had told W. A. Fry of Dunnville, A.A.U. vice-president, at Ottawa that if incorporationJames 1. Morkin, KlC.. a formerf was granted to a boxing- associationpresident, reported unfavorably on a! no action would be taken by the as-motlon that the A.A.U. should become a corporate body. “I don't think the union has sufficient money at present to incorporate. If we incorporate ail we are doing is guarding the name.”He said if any other body takes the A.A.U.’s name “what good will it do them?” He thought the unionsociation until the annual meeting of the A.A.U. He had proposed at thattime to give the charter to theA.A.U, of C. to handle as it saw' fit. Mr. Fry agreed that Merrick had said that.The convention voted, as suggested by Mr. Morkin. not to Incorporate and left the boxing situation to be discussed further.ElT1M
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Nov 17, 1934
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