The Washington times., 1935-11-09
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BY FRANK BUCK" o'NEnE


Irving Jaffee, former Olympic
skating champion, today strenu.
ously advocated sending a full
American team to the Olympic
games. Quite as strenuously he
advocated that the contests be
moved from Germany and given
to some other nation with facili.
ties for handling them.
France, Great Britain, Holland,
Sweden or Japan would be &C
ceptable to Jaffee, who now is a
professional and therefore has no
selfish interests to serve.
1T would be unfair to the ath.
leteS to withdraw from the Olym-
pcis," Jaffee said as he sat in
the private office of S. Kann in
Kann's Department Store. when
you come right down to 1t the
Olympic games should belong to
the athletes. I don't care who you
name among the officials, you
can't fill the stadia with crowds
to see any officials think or write
out orders. And no one would
pay to hear them make a speech.
Every athlete looks to the
Olympics as football player looks
to the All America team. They
want to compete, and compete
they will, if the games are held in
Toxic or Kokomo.
TT would not be fair to the
boys who have dedicated their ef-
forts of the past three years to
the coming Olympiad to withdraw
our team. If these games are
called off, they will not be held
until 1910.
Send Team to Olympics
"Just think what that means"
Jaffee said earnestly. I'VE have
boys like Jesse Owens, Peacock,
Cunningham, Venzke, Bonthron
and some others who will be past
their peaks in four years. Some
of them-most of them may be
out of competition.
"A runner like Lovelock and
dozens of others who might be
named will be out of competitor or
past their prime in four years.
No, I repeat, send a team to the
Olmpics, but take the Olympics
out Of Germany.
Lets look at this Olympia oath.
You swear to compete for the
glory of amateur sport without
prejudice to race, color or creed.
Well, if the Germans take their
oath, they will break a German
law. 1t is contrary to Nazi code
to be without prejudice.
''I am a Jew" Jaffee said, "but
I'm not talking of Jews alone. The
Catholics have no standing in
Germany. The right to worship
is guaranteed to all Americans,
and to most of the citizens Of the
world, but not to Germans.
Il am not at all certain that
Miss Jacobs, the German fencer,
acted of her own volition in an
nouncing that she would compete
for Germany. Pressure was
brought to bear on her. Maybe
not directly, but perhaps through
her family. You can bet pressure
was brought to bear on her.
Interested In Trade
There are men in America who
are prominent in amateur athletic
circles who have said much on
this and that" continued Jaffee.
Some of them have business Of
international scope. It is barely
possible that these men are think.
ing of Nazi marks and Nazi trade
when they make certain state
ments about sending teams to
compete there under any condi-
tions.
"The winter Olympics are first.
They could be switched to St.
Moritz, or several other places. I
believe that they should be
switched, but as for withdrawing
from the game, I am absolutely
against that.
IT expect to confer with Senator
Royal S. Copeland and RepreSen-
tative Samuel Dickstein on the
matter of the Olympic games.
What will develop out Of our con-