An international Maccabee sports meet has been arranged by the Makkabi Weltverband for Antwerp, Belgium this coming July 4th to 7th, in connection with the International Exposition that will be held in Antwerp at that time. All Maccabee affiliations have been asked to enter teams for the meet. There will be contests in gymnastics, light athletics, swimming, waterball, chess, basketball, soccer-football and tennis.
The Maccabee Sport Club of Brooklyn has been asked to send teams from America, but it is unlikely that the Brooklyn club will be able to be represented. Officials of the club believe, however, that a movement may be started shortly to send Jewish teams to the meet from America under the American Maccabee banner. If such a movement is contemplated, it will probably be the first time that America will have been represented in European Maccabee meets.
According to an annonucement from Makkabi headquarters in Berlin, the Belgian government has undertaken to actively cooperate with the Jewish organization by making a reduction of fifty percent in railroad fares to those attending the meets and offering other privileges to the organization. The Berlin headquarters of the movement will also attempt to obtain reduced railroad fares from other European governments. It is also asking followers of the various Makkabi branches and those otherwise interested in the movement to visit Antwerp during their vacation next summer and attend the meet.
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