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WOOD IS SIXTH IN VOTE FOR SULLIVAN MEMORIAL MEDAL

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W. B. Wood, Jr. '32 placed sixth in the vote for the James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal, which is awarded annually to the country's outstanding amateur athletic. The winner of the medal this year was Barney Berlinger, University of Pennsylvania track and field star.

The award, which is made to the competing athlete "who, by his or her performance or by his or her example and influence as an amateur and as a man or woman, has done most during the past year to advance the cause of sportsmanship", is made by a jury composed of 600 leaders in sports. Wood polled 236 votes, compared to 424 for Berlinger, and 111 for Ellsworth Vines, national tennis champion. The vote this year was one of the closest ever recorded for the medal.

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