Two spectators of the National League hockey game here in which Larry Zeidel, only Jewish player in the league, charged he was subject to anti-Semitic abuse from the Boston Bruins players’ bench, gave affidavits to Clarence Campbell, president of the league, he said today, the affidavits were said to identify by name the Boston players who hurled anti-Jewish obscenities and taunts at the Jewish veteran. Mr. Campbell said that the documents were “the first evidence I have received to work on.”
Zeidel was involved in a fight with a Boston player for which both were penalized by suspensions. Zeidel complained that he had been subject to a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse which he had tried to ignore but said he could not ignore references to the gas chambers. His grandparents, he said, had lost their lives in the Holocaust. The Canadian Jewish Congress commended the league president today for undertaking the investigation and urged that “the investigation be an exhaustive one so that all facts may be available before the public and every step taken to see to it that such occurrences will never again happen.”
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