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tests, the 10C-meter tace of the Olym-
pic games.
It is difficult for a layman, for
whom the sporting page is unknown
ground, to realize what a sporting
By JOSEPH BRAININ
competition at the Olympic games en-
tails. Every country in the world
from
picks out its best athletes, making
(Copyright, 1924, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
them undergo the most thorough
have given additional strength to this
tests. A place on an Olympic team
She is so typically French!"
conviction. True, we were not rep-
is an acknowledgment of exceptional
I have often heard this characteriz-
talent; to win un Olympic final com-
resented by a Jewish team; but here
ation of Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, the
petition crowns one as a physical
and there among the participants
dashing, invincible tennis champion;
genius,
a Nobel prize winner.
were some Jewish athletes, straining
and it is always uttered in such a
In the final 100-meter race Harold
every muscle to bring honor to their
tone of finality that it necessitates all
Abrahams was opposed by the four
adopted country.
my courage to interject: "This may
speediest American sprinters and his
Few Jewish names appear on the
br true--but she is Jewish." And so
chances looked rather poor. How the
official list of Olympic contestants. In
', he is, even if her associates and rola. some cases—in eastern Europe—it is
Cambridge student on this race is
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tives do not shout it over the house-
now part of the history of sport. If
due to the zeal of the national com-
tops—because Mlle. Lenglen, the
you have the opportunity to see the
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mittees, who did not want to be rep-
greatest woman tennis player of all
race as reproduced by the official
resented by Jewish athletes. Typical
time, prefers to remain the "National
moving pictures, you will understand
and very instructive is the case of
Suzanne of France."
what will power, courage and un-
Hungary. The original Hungarian
I leave it to tennis experts to de-
daunted spirit were put forth by the
football team that was selected for
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termine whether Mlle. Lenglen's back-
Jewish boy who had net his mind on
the Olympic games included the fol-
hand strokes, volleying, or court-cov-
bringing this most coveted trophy to
KOFFMA N'S
wing Jewish boys: Mendel, Gross,
ering denote a Jewish style; psycholo- l o
Great Britain.
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Blum, Gutmann, Braun and Weiss.
gists will tell you whether her nervous
The 100-meter race is a very short
But when the team reached the Paris
temperament is an inherent racial de-
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:me. You realize this when you con-
Olympic headquarters these names
fect. I, for my part, am interested
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sider the time of the Olympic
were
missing,
the
Hungarian
com-
in her only as proof that Jewish phys.
record, which was equalled by the
mittee having seen fit to disguise
winner, is 10.0 seconds. It is in these
Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commis bat vitality, when sufficiently trained, then) under Hungarian pseudonyms.
10 seconds of palpitating, dramatic
sioner of Palestine, returned from hi. can compete with the highest physical
In the case of Dr. Eugen Fuchs,
specimens of other nations, The 1924
struggle that Abrahams emerged the
vacation spent in England to resum
international Olympic games in Paris fencing champion of Ilungary and
winner, and even if you do not know
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the start, which in so Short a race is
all-important, Abrahams was left be-
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iind; instead of starting at the first
sound of the pistol shot, England's
premier sprinter, because of nervous-
ness or for some other reason, jumped
up an instant late--to see the formid-
able American quartet in full action
ahead of him. There was no alterna-
tive. If he did not resign right then,
Abrahams would have to try the im-
possible—to make up these several
yards; in other words, to allow the
greatest sprinters of America II
• handicap. In a supreme effort the
Jewish boy, with an expression like
MLLE. SUZANNE LENGLEN
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that of the "Dying Gladiator" on his
Generally regarded as the world's
face, ran—flew over the track—pass-
greatest woman tennis player.
ing his adversaries one by one, and,
over the final results of the fencing in a supreme spurt, beating the Amer-
competition, I note that Hungary has can champion, Scholz, by a full yard.
This mustering of physical re-
three representatives among the first
four. Their names read: Ponta, Cary sources and reserve strength at the
and Schenker. Is Dr. Fuchs one of moment when they are most needed
them? At the time of writing I have can be accomplished only if there is
no information to confirm my sus- an inner incentive, if the subcon-
picions, but in view of the known scious will to win is just as strong as
anti-Jewish stand of the Hungarian the conscious w ill power. It is sig-
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Great Britain deserved his very best,
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Dr. Fuchs.
and therefore gave all that was- in
In all, Hungary collected eight
him.
points at the Olympic games. I won-
America has only a few Jewish
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ating against them, her final status
Jewish amateur athletes are of Olym-
would not have been better?
pic caliber. Young Lazarus, a Jew-
How can athletes be expected, un-
ish buy from the west, who was
der such unfavorable circumstances,
'ouked upon as being likely to give
to perform to the best of their abil-
very good account of himself in the
ity? Sporting events that assemble
boxing competitions, had the misfor-
the cream of international athletes
tune to be disqualified in one of the
demand of the participants not only
preliminary elimination contests,
unusual physical condition, but a
while Kaufman Geist, another Jew,
state of mind that will spur on the
who was an understudy on the track
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coaches to groom him for the test of ing a prominent part in athletics, but
few ore those who devote themselves
as completely to sport as Is their
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professional boxing, a very lucrative
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lighter weight divisions you will find
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two world's champions, Abie Gold-
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Leonard, the lightweight. Long would
be the list of nationally known Jewish
boxers. Statistics in this field have
proved that today the Irish, Italians
and Jews dominate the American
boxing game.
The Jewish - boxer is not, however,
an American product. At the end of
the eighteenth century Daniel Men-
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Olympic games at Paris. From the
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question, but a Palestinian team is
surely not an impossibility. When
countries like Hungary refuse or hesi-
tate to give full recognition to their
Jewish athletes, it is time to consider
Olympic winner in 1516 and 1920,
the Hungarian Fencing Union refused
to select Fuchs for the Paris Olympic
genies, and only when Dr. Fuchs
threatened to bring this discrimnia-
tory attitude to the attention of the
international Olympic council was he
permitted to join the team. Looking
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