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The attack upon the Jewish followers of the Hakoah All-Star soccer team made in a recent issue of the “Daily News” by C. A. Lovett, is sharply rebuked in the current issue of the “Soccer Star.” Mr. Lovett had characterized the Hakoah supporters as “the unforgivable excitable partisans… who have marred almost every close game in which their able favorites have participated in the last season or two hereabouts… the fans trailing it (Hakoah) have gone far beyond the bounds of sportsmanship and reason to assault visiting players whenever a mix-up occurs on the field and as a result, police reserves more often than not have had to wield night sticks, carried in the day-time only for Communist strike mobs and Hakoah team followers…”
Declaring that Mr. Lovett has “sorely lacerated the feelings of thousands of Jewish fans,” the “Soccer Star” lambastes him and terms his language “a positive outrage.” The magazine also points out that two weeks ago the same writer described those who invaded the playing field as a “swarm of foreigners.”
Mr. Lovett has something of a reputation for his ill-will to the Hakoahs. A year ago, when the Jewish team had won the United States soccer championship, he came out with an article in the “Daily News” protesting against the title going to a “foreign team,” and declaring that the United States Football Association Challenge Trophy, emblematic of the national championship should be won only by an American team.
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