COMMUNISM IN SPORT.
SCANDINAVIAN SCANDALS.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright
Helsingfors, Sept. 8.
The police are investigating an amazing story wliich alleges that Eino Borg, the noted runner, who is a member of the Communist Workers’ Sports Federation, has transferred his allegiance to a bourgeois club in order to enter a race in which Nurmi ie competing.
Borg failed to appear, and it is alleged Dial he had been threatened with death if he participated in bourgeois matches.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1926, Page 8
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