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A.a.u. Resolution on Olympics Still is Binding, Ferris Says

September 30, 1934
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The American Amateur Athletic Union will not certify its members for participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, unless the organization reverses its present stand at Miami in December.

“The resolution adopted by the A. A. U. at its national convention in Pittsburgh on November 20, 1933, against American participation still stands,” Daniel J. Ferris, secretary-treasurer of the A. A. U. pointed out to the Jewish Daily Bulletin Friday.

Without the certification of A. A. U. athletes, the American Olympic Committee cannot send any track and field men, gymnasts, wrestlers, boxers and swimmers to the Berlin games. This fact was pointed out by Sheriff William C. Haddock, of Pittsburgh, at the committee’s meeting Wednesday night. At the same time Sheriff Haddock declared that the A. A. U., will take up the matter of American acceptance of the Reich bid at the December meeting despite the statement by

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