Tuesday, July 17, 1973.a
THESUMMER DAILY
Page Eleven
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Sen. Tunney boosts
Amateur Athletic Bill
By JACK SIMMS
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK - A U.S. senator labeled as clap trap yesterday the
arguments of opponents to the Amateur Athletic Act and termed the
proposed bill the "most important piece of sports legislation in the
history of Congress."
SEN. JOHN TUNNEY, (D.-CALIF.,) said those in charge of the
U.S. Olympics operations in 1972 "lived in a cocoon" and said it is
time for Americans to ask "if we are going to allow some international
association to dictate how we are going to manage U. S. athletes."
"It is a sad day if we are going to do so.
"They - the members of the International Olympic Committee-
are completely out of touch with reality."
TUNNEY WAS in New York to push enactment of the bill, which
would create a U.S. Sports Board as in independent agency of the fed-
eral government to license sports organizations.
To the argument against federal control of sports, he pointed out
that the U. S. Olympic Committee was created by an act of the
Congress.
"OUR PROPOSAL IS merely a modification of currently effective
federal legislation," the senator said.
The. Sports Board actually would control only organizations in-
volved in international sports participation. All charters issued by
the board "would expire every four years after the Olympic games,
summer or winter," the act states.
AMATEUR ATHLETES would represent at least one-fifth of the
board's voting membership.
The senator said participating athletes finally would have a
voice in selection of coaches and trainers, which they don't now have
in international competition. °
Tunney said the bill, actually proposals by four members of the
Congress incorporated into one measure, would revitalize the U. S.
Olympic Committee and its method of operation as well as end the
long power struggle between the National Collegiate Athletic ssAo-
ciation and the Amateur Athletic Union.
He also maintained that enactment would create a development
program so that a greater number of persons could become involved
in amateur sports.
AND, THE SENATOR said, federal government involvement
would be only to the extent of protecting athletes from overbearing
sports organizations.
"AN INTENSIVE lobbying effort is being conducted to defeat the
measure," the statement said.
"The efforts consist primarily of extraordinary statements which
are based on misinformation, misinterpretation and conjecture.
"Many sports groups have been led to believe that the bill would
result in regulation of amateur sports at every level . . . This simply
is not true. The legislation explicitly refers only to 'unrestricted' or
'open' competition."
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