MODEST NEGRO
JESSE OWENS PRAISED
LONDON, August 10. Mr. R. A. Hewins, special correspondent for the "Observer" at Berlin, summing up the Olympic Games, says: "First and foremost this is Owens's Olympiad. This delightful, modest, and extremely intelligent 21-year-old negro has in a single week completely revolutionised "speed events.' He has done in his sphere what Nurmi did for longdistance running—namely,- opened up entirely new possibilities for the human race.
"One of the big surprises has been the failure of the Japanese, which is probably due to overtraining, but they have suffered from the chilly and wet weather."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 9
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