“Athletic nationalism” was vigorously attacked today by Jeremiah T. Mahoney, newly-elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union. He declared himself opposed “to having the Olympic games taken over by any country which surrenders its athletic functions and prerogatives to its government, as did the German Olympic Committee.”
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