'Grave Injustice'
AAU Charges NCAA With Impairing U.S. Sports
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The president of the Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U.) charged today that the rival National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.C.A.A.), is doing "grave injustice" to campus athletes and seriously impairing the U.S. chances in world sports competition.
Clifford Buck told delegates to the 78th annual A.A.U. convention in a prepared speech that unless N.C.A.A. "rejoins the team," the A.A.U. must revise its system of selecting U.S. stars for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City
BUCK'S REMARKS were made against the backdrop of a bitter quarrel between the two separate organizations over dominance of American track and field participation in international events.
Black said there is no question but that A.A.U. is the sole organization authorized to control and accredit U.S. teams in international events such as the Pan American Games and the Olympics.
A Senate Commerce Committee hearing into the feud resulted in a resolution authorizing Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to name a blue-ribbon arbitration panel to settle the controversy.
He noted that the International Olympic Committee sent a sharply worded message to the U.S. Olympic Committee cautioning that a permanent arbitration panel such as that to be named by Humphrey could be considered a "governmental interference."
Buck accused the N.C.A. of setting up a "puppet" track and
"After a number of face to face meetings, it doesn't seem that the N.C.A.A. executive leadership has indicated any real desire to resolve the differences other than on their own terms."
field operation as a power grab and commented:
The A.A.U. head said he has been in contact with aides of Humphrey and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash), about the actions of the five member arbitration board and the N.C.A.A.-A.A.U. truce which is now in effect.
Deer Season Opens Dec.11 With Bang
PRATT, Kan. —(UPI)— The firearms deer season in Kansas opens Dec. 11 and nearly 4,000 hunting permits have been issued, according to the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game commission.
Thirty per cent of the permits went to land owners and the other 70 were to general residents
Bill Peabody, deer project leader, said about 300 requests for permits were rejected.
This will be the state's first firearms deer season in 60 years. The commission authorized a total of 4,575 permits, limiting the number of permits for various management areas so that hunter density will be relatively low and safety factors higher.
Both groups agreed not to take punitive action against any individual who participated in an event sponsored by the other.
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Buck commented that in several cases he thought NCAA coaches were continuing boycott policy for their athletes against A.A.U. sponsored events. He said he is seeking clarification in the moratorium ground rules from either Humphrey or Magnuson.
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