The Senate jumped into the boiling controversies surrounding the state of amateur athletics yesterday by first passing, then voting to reconsider, a bill to establish a federal agency to control amateur athletics in the United States.
Sen. J. Glenn Beall Jr. (R-Maryland) asked for reconsideration. Beall told the Senate he would like to see some form of mediation between amateur athletic groups but that he did not like the idea of federal government management of amateur athletics.
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