DEFEATED WEIGHT-LIFTERS
LONDON, November , 4
Russian weight-lifters who were defeated by 20 points to 10 in the championship by an American team, are accused by the American team manager, Bob Hoffman, of.buying a silver cup from a Paris silversmith and engraving it to show a Russian victory, says the British United Press correspondent. Hoffman ' said : “ Apparently the Russians did not like returning to Russia and admitting .an American victory.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 6
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69DEFEATED WEIGHT-LIFTERS Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 6
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