ATHLETICS.
JESSE OWENS’ COMPLAINT. NO TIME FOR SIGHT-SEEING. LONDON, August 17. “These boys are being bought and sold like cattle to Continental promoters,” Larry Snider (Jesse Owens’ trainer) said to a representative of the “Daily Mail.” “Because Jesse refuses to go to Sweden, the United States Athletic Union will lose a percentage of the gate money, consequently it is angrily talking of contract-breaking and threatening to make an example of him. But Owens did not sign a contract when invited to the Olympic Games. They would run the lad off his legs if they could. He gets nothing for’ it.” Owens says he was promised that lie would see as much of Europe as possible, but had seen it only from his bedroom window. He got no money to spend. He had only flown from one track to another.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 263, 19 August 1936, Page 2
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