Sullivan Medalist

"Rounded out his career this year by winning the most arduous, difficult and heartbreaking test in all athletic competition when he won the Olympic decathlon championship and established a new world's record. . . .

"Was a stellar football player and a star in basketball [at the University of Kansas]. He combines with great ability a fine personality. . . .

"Turned down professional offers for two years to stay in training for the Olympics. Overcame the handicap of poverty represents the unconquerable spirit of the first generation of Americans of which he is one. . . ."

Subject of this description last week was a solid young man with a pudgy serious face--James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, who received the Sullivan Medal which the Amateur Athletic Union annually awards to that athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." The voting, on a panel of ten U. S. athletes, was closer this year than when Bobby Jones won in 1930, not so close as when Barney Berlinger won by two votes over Helene Madison year ago. Second on the list, with 648 votes to Bausch's 687, was Pennsylvania's crack quarter-miler Bill Carr, of whom the Sullivan Committee said: "Outstanding in his character and leadership ... a member of Phi Beta Kappa . . . winner of Olympic 400 metre championship in new world's record time. . . ."

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