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...discovered that he had sold out his amateur standing for the pottage ($25 a week) of two summers of bush league baseball, amateur athletes have worked at padding their expense accounts as assiduously as they have worked at their chosen sports. But the subterfuge never appealed to Kansas Runner Wes Santee. Fastest miler in U.S. history (4:00.5), Wes was out to make his way from his speed on the track-and he cared not who knew what he was doing. Rarely did his expense accounts contain the creative writing and fantastic arithmetic of the standard swindle sheet. When Wes...
...fall it did: the Missouri Valley A.A.U. suspended him for accepting excess expenses. It took the enthusiastic support of Kansas Senator Frank Carlson to get him reinstated. Then, at its national convention, the A.A.U. ordered a special committee to reinvestigate Santee. The committee dug up new evidence, decided that Wes Santee had illegally pocketed $1,500 for participating in eight track meets. Last week the A.A.U. set Santee down for life...
...Wes Santee may not be allowed to run in the Columbian mile tonight in New York as the AAU filed to have the injunction reinstating him suspended...
...Misconduct in government." G.O.P. National Chairman Wes Roberts, Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott and Public Buildings Service Commissioner Peter Strobel were allowed to resign voluntarily, with honor, after they were involved in "three notable instances of misconduct...
...Suspended from amateur competition for accepting expense money in excess of A.A.U.-approved limits. America's best miler, Wes Santee, copped a plea by admitting his guilt and arguing that dozens of other track stars do the same thing. The Missouri Valley Association of the A.A.U. revoked the suspension, and the National A.A.U. opened its annual convention by solemnly searching for means of cracking down on promoters whose pay-offs corrupt otherwise pure amateurs...