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Olympic Chiefs to Confer Monday Debate Questions About 1 956 Games GamesWill Will Also Lay Groundwork For Annual IOC Congress In Athens on May 8 to 14 14By By PETER UEBERSAX UEBERSAXUnited United Press Sports Writer WriterLAUSANNE LAUSANNE Switzerland May 1 UP Members of the International Olympic Committee and other amateur sports offi ¬ cials will meet next week to debate ques ¬ tions ranging from the site of the 1956 Olympic equestrian events to one of its basic problems the definition of amateur ¬ ism ismThe The important meeting of the IOC ex ¬ ecutive committee with representatives of all international equestrian organizations will lay the groundwork for the annual IOC congress in Athens May 814 814The The Greek capital will be the place where any decisions concerning the 1956 games in Melbourne will be made espe ¬ cially in regard to tfasite of the riding events The Australian government has re ¬ fused to lift its stringent quarantine regu ¬ lations on the import of horses for the Olympics v vAn An Olympic official indicated recently in London that certain delegates to the Athens meeting planned to make a final attempt to have the 1956 games shifted from Mel ¬ bourne to Rome or some other city cityThe The meeting at IOC headquarters here will provide the top officials of the Olympic world organization with a last chance to agree on such controversial problems as the proposed reduction of the number of athletes admitted to the evergrowing Olympics and whether broken time pay ¬ ments to an athlete constitutes a violation of amateur rules rulesBroken Broken time payments are those sums paid to amateur athletes for time lost from their regular jobs while competing in sports events eventsBrundage Brundage to Preside PresideIOC IOC president Avery Brundage of Chi ¬ cago who will preside over the meeting is one of the leading opponents of the legali ¬ zation of broken time refunds refundsThe The meeting will be divided into three parts partsOn On May 3 the IOC executive committee will meet to exchange views on a number of questions most of which are connected with the 1956 games E J Holt of the Australian Olympic body will report to it on behalf of the organizers on the progress of preparations for the 1956 games gamesOn On May 45 the executive committee members will meet with the representatives tif the World Sports Associations to discuss proposals aimed at cutting down the size of the Olympics OlympicsThey They will also according to IOC chan ¬ cellor Otto Mayer exchange views on the question of who will have the last word in deciding whether an Olympic athlete is an amateur the IOC or the international sports organization of which the athlete is a member memberOn On May 6 Brundage will deliver a state ¬ ment on problems of amateurism to mem ¬ bers of the Swiss and foreign press associa ¬ tions Afterwards Brundage and Mayer will be at the disposal of the press to an ¬ swer any questions put to them in connec ¬ tions with the Olympics the Athens or the Lausanne meetings
