Walter Neusel, German boxer, now fighting in England, has stipulated that twenty percent of the admission fees to contests in which he is taking part must be turned over to the relief fund for German Jews in order to overcome the silent boycott which has been waged against him because he is a German.
Neusel fought before a small audience in Albert Hall last week in a match that should have been well-patronized. The hall was only half filled because Jewish fight fans would not attend a bout in which a German was taking part.
Daniel Prenn, German-Jewish tennis star who was banned from the German Davis Cup team because of his Jewish origin, is entered in the tennis tournament at Wimbledon. He said he was not playing for Germany but was just a “free lance”.
Prenn said he would return to Germany, where he worked as an engineer, if, in the meantime, he had not lost his job.
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