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out one will have to be held before May 1950, at which time the
tinioseg as tee thbemnetionsl @ipewto Committes will te held
to decide uvon the program for the 1932 Olympic Games. In
compliance with your request, I am enclosing herewith the. list
OL crgani zations holding membership in the American Olympic
Association together with their addresses. I duly received the
ocpies of the Athletic Journal which contained the highly in-
teresting article on the international growth of basket ball.
Please accept my thanks for same."

Among the sixty-six organizations holding member-
ship in the American Olympic Association are

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We circularized these many members seeking their support for
basket ball, fully realizing that some of these organizations
holding membership were desirous of seeing their sport listed
among the Olympic Games competition.

On September 9, 1929, Mr. Brundage wrote as follows:
"This will acknowledge your lctter of September 6th relative to
adding basket ball to the Olympic program. As it happens, Mr.
J. Sigfrid Edstrom, president of the International Amateur
Athletic Federation, which is the body controlling track and
field sports throughout the world, and also a member of the
International Olympic Committee, is in America at the present
time, and I had a talk with him just last week when he was in
Chicago. In the discussion, I brought up the matter of adding
basket ball to the Olympic program. The general feeling is, as
I thin I stated before, to cut down the program rather than

XXXX Sec rostor of members in amcrican Olympic -«ssociation at
close of report.