In a rebuke to the forces which led the Amateur Athletic Union into the Berlin Olympics, Jeremiah T. Mahoney was yesterday returned to the presidency after a bitter convention-floor fight in which Patrick J. Walsh, candidate of the Brundage pro-Nazi-Olympic faction, lost by a considerable majority.
Judge Mahoney, who lost the presidency at the 1935 New York convention after marshalling the anti-Nazis in a valiant but unsuccessful fight for boycotting the Olympics, immediately after his election included Commodore Ernest L. Jahncke among the delegates at large to the A.A.U. for 1937. Jahncke had been dropped from the American Olympic Committee for opposing the Olympics in Germany.
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