Johann Garai has won the fencing championship in a week’s tournament with many contestants. Garai’s victory is resented by the anti-Semitic Magyars, who are disgruntled because the World Championship during the last Olympiad at Athens and Stockholm was also won by Dr. Eugen Fuchs, a Hungarian Jew.
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