participation.
Without the certification of A.A.U. athletes the American Olympic Committee cannot send any track and field men, gymnasts, wrestlers, boxers and swimmers to the Berlin games. This fact was pointed out to the committee by Sheriff William C. Haddock of Pittsburgh at the executive meeting of the A.O.C.
BRUNDAGE STATEMENT
At the same time Sheriff Haddock declared that the A.A.U. will take up the matter of American acceptance of the Reich bid at this convention despite a statement by Avery Brundage that the action of the American Olympic Committee was binding upon all sports organizations.
“When this A.A.U. convention takes place,” said Haddock, “the members will act upon this question once again. Where would that body be if the national A.A.U. decided not to participate in the 1936 Olympics?
WENT AGAINST SPORT CODE
“The A.A.U. last year adopted a resolution against participation of American teams in Germany until the German government in fact as well as in theory encouraged Jewish athletes to prepare for the athletic events. Germany violated one of the fundamentals of the democracy of sport by discriminating against Jews in sports.”
Westbrook Pegler, columnist for the Scripps-Howard papers, speaking of the assurances given the A.O.C. by the Nazi sport officials, declared:
TRAINING IN DUNGEON?
“Of course captious individuals among the athletic coaches and trainers will be sure to doubt that a Jewish track man can do himself justice training in a dungeon, and it does seem barely possible that in the final competitions the German selection committee might use an extra fast watch to time the Jews and a lazy one to clock the Aryans….
“But there is only a limited amount of fair play in Germany at this writing, and, on the basis of the census figures, the Jews ought to complain if the Aryans give themselves ninety-five per cent of the available supply and the other five per cent to the Jews.”
Bikkurim was the name of a Hebrew annual which appeared in Vienna in 1864 and 1865. It was edited and published by Naphtali Keller
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
