POLITICS AND SOCCER
Free Fight When Austria Leads Italy FLAGS TORN UP 1 (Received 22, 1.15 p.m.) VIENNA, March 21A football match between Italy and Austria for the Europe Cup provoked such an ominous anti-ltalian demonstration that the Swedish referee etopped the game in the second half owmg to r.i.merous clashes expanding into a free fight when Austria was leading 2 — 0. The Italians, unlike the Austrians, leLt tbe field, omitting the usual Fa*cist salute to the crowd. This so incensed the anti-Italians that they tore up and insulted flags carried by Italian supporters. The police arrested 12 persons and a riot squad car escorted the Italian team to their hotel.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 5
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