TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUE1MtCHIC AN DX111 Track Feud Heads Toward Showdown USTFF To Submit Final Ultimatum at WALTER BYERS WOMEN'S DAY: GyirlFish Sinlk MSU H St Michigan showed what it could do with a gold medal winner last Saturday, as the Michigan woman's swim team outdistanced Michigan State 85-42 in a dual meet. Michigan had three triple win- ners, including Ginny Dunkle, a " gold medalist in Tokyo. Her win came as a shock to MSU, who had planned an upset for Ann Sachs, who had been working out with the men's team. Ginny beat her in the 200-yard freestyle, which wasn't her main event, and took the 100-yard backstroke and 200- yard individual medley besides. The other triple winners were Marilyn Sayre and Alice Sigler. Marilyn's victories are somewhat amazing, considering that this is her first season in competition. She hooked two breaststroke events and the medley relay. Alice took a backstroke, breaststroke and the medley relay. Nancy Peoples won the diving event; Patti Kelly, Lynn Allison, and Kathy Van, Buskirk took other individual firsts. Michigan drubbed State in 9 out of 11 events, but speed was not the object of the last three events. They were stolen by Michifish, the g i r l s synchronized swimming team. They not only outstunted their competition in individual subaquatic maneuvers, but kicked their way past State in the "High- land Fling" (a duet), and recov- ered last spring's lost trio honors. Barb Hebbard won the stunt com- petition; Roz Juve and Sue Ward took the duet with Lynn Boet joining them to win the trio. The Top Ten By The Associated Press The Top Ten, with first place votes in parentheses; season rec- ords and total points on a 10-9-8- L7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis: 1. Notre Dame (32) 7-0 418 2.Michigan State (10) 8-0 393 3. Alabama 7-0 333I 4. Nebraska 8-0 271 5.,Georgia Tech 8-0 230 6. Arkansas (1) 7-1 188 7. Southern Cal 7-1 144 8. UCLA 1-1 142 9. Georgia 7-1 71 10. Tennessee 5-2 68 By HOWARD KOHN (Copyright, 1966: The Michigan Daily) In what promises to be one of the most significant battles ever fought during the five-year-old track war between the NCAA and' AAU, the giants of amateur ath- letics will meet in New York Nov. 15-16 on what has recently been just a hide-and-seek battlefield. On the line at this meeting, however, will be an ultimatum which could trigger a crushing cli- max to the vendetta which has grown stagnant from too much politicking and not enough clear- cut fighting. 4 In a series of recent interviews, The Daily learned that the USTFF (United States Track and Field Federation)-backed up by the NCAA-is prepared to give up arbitration attempts and go its own way in track and field unless the key issue of "freedom of choice" is resolved at the meeting. Arbitrator Kheel Refereeing the meeting will be t h e SAB (Sports Arbitration Board), headed by noted labor arbitrator Ted Kheel, who was ap- pointed last December by Vice President Hubert Humphrey to negotiate a peace pact after the smoldering feud again flared into open warfare during the summer track season. After ten months of arbitrating, the SAB has had less success with ending the hand-to-hand struggle than Leo Durocher had with managing the Cubs.- Despite monthly meetings with the SAB, the two track and field powers-the AAU and the USTFF -have continued to wrestle in the close - door parlaying of Park Avenue and the open-air discus- sions of major college tracks. The AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) is the old and crotchity but not yet senile king which has reigned over amateur athletics, in- cluding track and field, since the turn of the century. 1961 Rebellion of USTFF The USTFF, on the other hand, was established during the 1961 rebellion of NCAA track coaches against the AAU and represents a near-unanimous percentage of the collegiate t r a c k teams. The USTFF, along with such closely- affiliated organizations as the Na- tional High School Association and the National Junior College Asso- ciation, is an autonomous body under the auspices of the NCAA. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), which gov- erns all college sports, has long feuded with the AAU over who has the right to control America's national and international compe- tition. In the face of the AAU's stub- born effrontery on this musical- chair issue, the USTFF has be- come increasingly frustrated at the futile bartering and has be- come sick and tired of the bicker- ing. So, with a mandate from the colleges it represents and the blessing of the NCAA, the USTFF is primed to present its ultimatum to the SAB at the upcoming meet- NCAA and the USTFF want, too. ing. "Let the people in track and field As Wilfred Crowley, S.J.-presi- have free choice as to the people dent of the USTFF-explains it, with whom they want to associ- there are two main points to the ate. . . . Freedom of choice must USTFF's stand: be the minimum ingredient of any 1) Free competition in the lasting solution." country on holding track meets. "This nation was built on free- 2) The right of American ath- dom of choice - the coaches are letes to choose the organization committed to it or the USTFF they wish to represent them would not exist today," argues after graduating from school. Canham. "The AAU has continued to The refusal of the AAU to rec- autocratically oppose this position ognize this inherent right of the (freedom of choice) . . . and has athlete was the original reason categorically rejected the only beneath the 1961 uprising and workable solution offered by the now appears likely to cause a SAB during the past ten months," discontinuation of the arbitration charges Crowley. meetings. Epitome of Exasperation One of the secondary objec- He then levels his question of tions to the SAB by the USTFF exasperation: "What can future was Kheel's failure to include it meetings accomplish if they (the in the October meeting. Only the AAU) will not face the real issue NCAA and AAU were represented, or try to compromise or reject the while the USTFF had to stay at principle of freedom to organize, home. to affiliate and to compete? Voluntary Affiliation "The comprehensive report . . "This was another mistake of on the recent meetings with Kheel the SAB . . assuming that if it serves, in my opinion, to highlight tied down the NCAA, it would also the futility of the proceedings. ... We can hardly be encouraged by indications that after ten months, one member of the board is be- ginning to discern the fallacies in AAU arguments." sn Should the AAU refuse to sub- mit to Crowley's demands at the which would have "emphasized meets in which television receipts the role of the USTFF, maintained and sanction fees are involved. Al- its present jurisdiction, establish- though most of the competitors ed dual sanctioning and promoted are as-a-rule USTFF members, freedom of choice for the athlete." the USTFF receives nothing. The Minor Concessions USTFF consequently argues that But, in what has become a part of the money should go to rhetorical procedure, the AAU the sport and the schools which killed the proposal by presenting sponsor the sport. its own overture which made only 0 NATIONAL CHAMPION- minor and meaningless conces- SHIPS - Using its IAAF mem- sions. bership as a lever. the AAU has And the exasperation continued. maintained that the winners in Before the meeting, Canham its national championship meet pointed out the stumbling-blocks, would represent America in in- "Nothing can be accomplished un- ternational meets. However, since til it is understood where author- the AAU meet is seldom compre- ity begins and ends and that both hensive, the USTFF argues that the USTFF and the AAU must{ an all-embracing meet-including share a voice in sanctioning and the AAU, USTFF and Armed finances." Forces winners-should be held. In a capsule analysis Canham INTERNATIONAL COMPE- has categorized the fight into five TITION - Both the AAU and the basic issues: USTFF agree that the position as 2leetingM able facilities in the AAU-spon- sored meets. Al Oerter, Olympic discus chamd- pion, was one of many athletes who said: 'I don't want any trips where the AAU is concerned. They give you the run-around and the accommodations for the athlete are terrible." The War Begins When the USTFF began setting up its own meets, draining the AAU of its athletes, old AAU foes joyously presumed that the New York gang was dead or was, at DON CANHAM least, dying. But the AAU rose to the chal- The NCAA and USTFF said, in lenge. refused to give up the ghost effect, bosh. or even to roll over and play dead. "The AAU has cried 'wolf' too The battlelines were drawn. many times," said Canham. "We Robert Kennedy, then the At- just told them to go to hell." Four torney General, and Gen. Douglas days after the meet, the AAU re- MacArthur achieved only short- instated Ryun. term impasses in their mediation Then, ten months ago, the gov- efforts. The agreements promptly ernment intervened and appointed collapsed when the AMAU decided the SAB. that what it thought it had agreed Money Is Key upon was the same as what the "Frankly, the USTFF no longer NCAA and USTFF thought it had wants any part of the AAU. The agreed upon and vice versa, big reason that the AAU refuses In the MacArthur pact, ephe- to back down is money. . . money meral though it was, the two fad- that we'd have to pay for mem- ing groups did agree to let a coal- bership cards in the AAU, money tion assortment of athletes repre- from television, etc." says Can- sent America in the 1964 Olympics. ham. AAU Renews Fight "Money is, of course, a factor to Immediately after the Olym- the USTFF also. But the issues of pics, however, the AAU energeti- jurisdiction and sanctioning, in cally brought its artillery back to our opinion, are more important. the front and began taking pot "On two sepaarte polls . . . over shots at the NCAA and the 93 per cent of the nation's track USTFF. coaches approved and supported When Kansan miler Jim Ryun the USTFF. Until we have an act ran in an USTFF-sanctioned meet of Congress against it, the coaches without an AAU card, the AAU are going to continue to run yelled "Foul." thousands of track meets across "Ryun is now ineligible for all this land and continue to give the international competition," it vi- athlete the freedom of choice in tuperated. his affiliation," he concludes. /I meeting the USTFF will walk out and set up its own nationwide track and field program-on the college and graduate level-com- pletely independent of the AAU. International Franchise "Unless a fair settlement is drawn, the course the USTFF will take is clear. It will simply con- tinue to run its meets and then petition the IAAF (the interna- tional governing body) for an in- ternational franchise," predicts Michigan track coach Don Can- ham. "We feel that this may be the only real possibility for settling this dispute." Canham was one of the leading generals in the revolution five yearsaago andhhas been a high. ranking ruler in the USTFF ever since. From the beginning, "freedom of choice for the athlete" has been the battlecry .of both the USTFF and the NCAA.I Walter Byers, president of the NCAA, seized upon it after the haughty remark of AAU president Clifford Buck ("We have a right to choose with whom we do busi- ness."). Minimum Ingredient Byers, in a quick retort, pointed out that that's exactly what the " JURISDICTION - Although head coach of America's interna- the AAU has always been the only tional teams is a political award. American track and field organi- The AAU claims that it is an zation with a membership in the award to the best "politician and IAAF, it offers only a crippled coach," while the USTFF claims program of competition to gradu- that it is a "reward" expected to ated thinclads and none at all to align that coach with the AAU. student athletes. At the same time, The SAB, now confronted with it has stoutly maintained that it apparent failure, has suggested has sole domestic jurisdiction over that the two warring parties first any and all thinclads who want decide specific questions as a to compete on an international path to ultimate agreement. level. Canham, along with the However, Crowley has voiced his USTFF, disagrees: "For us to run utter disillusionment at such a meets by the thousands in colleges plan. --where the AAU doesn't put on "The suggestion of anyone to any-and then to tell a boy who attempt to work out specific prob- has just graduated that he is no lems through a committee seems longer welcome in our competition like trying to cure a broken leg is beyond the comprehension of with aspirin," says a disheartened the coaches and the boys." Crowley. * SANCTIONING - Since the Instead, the USTFF intends to AAU is largely a business group stick to its guns and demand that with little or no direct contact the SAB consider the "freedom of with the sport and the athletes, choice" issue. track coaches have been reluctant Canham points to the fact that to enter their teams in a meet the AAU displayed a flagrant dis- that has a sanction only from the regard of the athlete for a long AAU. As Canham explains, "There time. can be no peace until the USTFF Autocratic AAU has the right to sanction the type In the fierce indictment of 1961, of competition in which its ath- the coaches charged that the AAU letes appear. This is done in every was no more than a group of New sport except track and field and York and New Jersey autocrats there is no logical argument that "who seemed more concerned with can be put forth by anyone why perpetuating their own power it shouldn't be done in track and than with developing track or, field." The USTFF argues that if field or any other sport," it doesn't o b t a i n sanctioning They called upon all track rights, it will not enter its athletes coaches, athletes in track and field in AAU meets. The AAU, while and friends of track and field to it admits that it couldn't run its stand up against the AAU. And, in meets without USTFF athletes, an overwhelming response, the refuses to budge. athletes and coaches flocked to 0 FINANCING - U n d e r the join the USTFF. present system, the AAU pockets Both the coaches and the ath- two-thirds of the money (the letes had been disenchanted with other one-third goes to the meet the political maneuvering, the promoter) from all big-income egregious scheduling, the miser- TED KHEEL tie down the USTFF," explains Canham. "The USTFF's affiliation with the NCAA is completely voluntary. I think Kheel has been confusing the NCAA and the USTFF with labor unions where a Hoffa or Quill tells everyone what to do and they do it." Canham's complaint, however, has been heeded by the SAB; and the USTFF-along with the close- ly-affiliated high school and jun- ior college associations-will at- tend the upcoming meeting. The ultimatum will be presented at the meeting. 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