The annual All-Austrian Champion Swimming Contest cannot take place this year because of the sports organisation of the City of Lintz refusing to participate in a contest in which Jewish swimmers will also take part. The swimming contest was supposed to take place in the City of Lintz on the River Danube, The Viennese Swimming Section of the All-Austrian Sports Association has appointed two members of the Hakoah Jewish Sports Club among the team which was to represent the City of Vienna in the contest. The sports association of Lintz, which is a member of the All-Austrian Sports Association has, however, refused to take part in the championship contest, saying that it will not participate in a contest with Jews.
This is the first antisemitic case in the history of the All-Austrian Sports Association. The attitude of the Lintz Sports Organisation has caused a great many protests in the Liberal and Socialist Austrian press. The Jewish sports organisations in Austria are determined to protect their rights and to fight against such a state of affairs in which Jews are excluded from championship contests on antisemitic grounds only.
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