AUSTRALIAN VISIT
OLYMPIC ATHLETES
JESSE OWENS WANTED
(Received August 5, noon.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The American negro athlete Jesse Owens will be invited to visit Australia. Mr. R. Heathwood, secretary of the Amateur Athletic Association of New South Wales, has cabled J. Metcalfe, a member of the Australian Olympic team, asking him to ascertain if Owens is prepared to visit Australia this summer. If Owens is not available Metcalfe has been asked to negotiate with other Americans.
As the New Zealand association has not replied to the New South Wales association's invitation to co-operate in bringing a team of Japanese athletes to Australia and New Zealand, and as the Japanese track athletes have not so far been conspicuous at the Olympic Games, the proposal for a Japanese visit may be abandoned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 11
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