More than 5,000 spectators witnessed the jubilee sport festival of the Berlin Bar Kochba Hakoah, a section of the German Maccabee, on the sports ground of the Jewish community of Berlin. It was the largest Jewish sport festival ever held in Germany, according to Maccabee officials.
Representatives came from Jewish sport clubs abroad, notably the Hagibor of Prague, and there was a football team of the Czecho-Slovakian Maccabee, which defeated the Berlin Hakoah and won the Juedische Rundschau cup-Sternlieb of the Breslau Bar Kochba won the 100 metres in 11 seconds, with Schattmann and Aufrichtig of the Berlin Bar Kochba-Hakoah following in 11.1 and 11.2 seconds. In the 20 metres Aufrichtig came first in 23.2 seconds and in the 800 metres Orgler won in 2.04 minutes.
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