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Award Stockholm Equestrian Events Delegates Gird for Battle On Red Chinas Admission To Olympic Games in 1956 By GEORGE ANDROULIDAKES United Press Sports Writer ATHENS, Greece, May 13. The International Olympic Committee Congress voted today to stage the 1956 Olympic equestrian events at Stockholm and then girded for the next battle on the agenda the admission of Communist China. Twenty-five of the 47 members voted for the Swedish capital as the site for the equestrian events. Paris received. 10 votes, Rio de Janeiro eight, and Los Angeles and Berlin two each. The unprecedented shift became necessary because Australian quarantine laws made it practically impossible to hold the compeition in Melbourne, the site for the 1956 Olympiad. Under Australian rules, imported horses must remain in quarantine for six months prior to entering the country. IOC delegates voted 30 to 13 yesterday to shift the equestrian events from Melbourne. In other subjects discussed today, the IOC voted to ask the International Soccer-Football Federation to set up safeguards against professionals playing in the Olympic tournament, and decided to retain present rules governing broken-time payments to amateur athletes. The committee failed to reach an agreement on broken-time payments after a long debate. Meanwhile, a stormy debate shaped up for next Mondays meeting, when the topic of the admission of Communist China is scheduled to come up. Leading IOC members predicted that Red China will be admitted to Olympic membership despite a last-ditch fight by Nationalist China. Hoh Battling for Nationalist China The battle to keep Nationalist Chinas representation on the IOC as the only one for Chinese athletes is being waged by Gunsun Hoh, president of Nationalist Chinas Olympic committee. The Congress agenda next Monday includes action on membership applications from Red China, East Germany, Northern Rhodesia, Ethiopia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Malaya. "You cant ignore a country of 400 million people in determining Olympic representation," one member said, "especially since theres such a comparatively small number of Chinese on Formosa. "The question is quite different from that of admitting Red China to the United Nations." Gunsun Hoh, who flew to the Athens meeting from Manila where 250 Chinese, athletes under his direction were competing in the Asian games, did not agree with the predictions of IOC members. To point up his case, he announced he would launch an attack on the "amateur" status of athletes from China, Soviet Russia and her satellites when the Congress considers a resolution on the state subsidization of athletes. "The Communists are destroying the spirit of the Olympic games by making a propaganda battle out of compettion," he said, "and to win this battle they make state-paid professionals of their athletes." At todays meeting, the delegates also voted 25 to 21 to hold their 1955 Congress at Paris, instead of Barcelona. It also was voted to meet in Corina, Italy, next February; at Melbourne in 1956 and Brussels in 1957. Other decisions taken by the committee: 1. Team sports require six entries, instead of the previous six actual competitors. 2. Individual events require 12 entries. 3. A single company will be allowed to take the official Olympic film this does not apply to television. However, international federations can take their own films for training schools provided the film is not shown publicly until one year later. 4. In view of the fact that most record books are in error, the Hungarian delegate, Dr. Ferenc Mezoe, was directed to publish at the end of the year the complete Olympic games results since 1896. 5. Regional games under the patronage of the IOC will be limited to Olympic sports, plus three optional events.
