Status Wrangle Over. When Eleanor Holm Jarrett turned professional, she ended her wrangle with the United States Amateur Athletic Union over her amateur standing. She signed a 30,000 dollar contract to appear in the Great Lakes Exposition show next summer. Mrs. Jarrett, who rocketed to fame last year during the trip to the Olympic Games at Berlin, eliminated all possibility of reinstatement bv her move into the professional ranks. “I’d have given up this offer in a minute if the union had voluntarily reinstated me,” she said, “but I know they won’t. If I’d apply for reinstatement, it would just mean slinging that Olympic mud all over again. I don’t want to do. that. Life’s too short. ’ ’
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1937, Page 3
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