Ashe calls for boycott of S. African sports
By IVAN ZVERINA UNITED NATIONS (UPI) American Negro tennis ace Arthur Ashe has proposed a "complete athletic isolation" of South Africa in international sports.
The General Assembly's Special Committee on Apartheid—South Africa's official policy of separate development of races—before which Ashe testified Tuesday, endorsed his proposal by calling on all nations to "boycott all South African racist sport organizations."
Mile lures seventeen
A field of 17 runners 35 and over have entered the Masters Mile to be run for the first time at the KU Relays. The race is scheduled at 2:20 p.m. Saturday just ahead of the famed Glenn Cunningham Mile.
Bob Timmons, relays director, said two awards will be made—one for the winner and one to the runner who comes closest to his predicted time.
Prominent among the entries is Jim Hershberger, Wichita oil man who donated the $125,000 last summer for the installation of KU's new Tartan track which will be used in competition for the first time this week.
Another former Kansas Relays winner in the field is Jan Howell, who led off KU's winning four-mile team in the 1956 carnival.
Also in the field is Hal Higdon, long-time cross-country competitor with the Chicago Track Club and a free lance magazine writer. The last time he was in Lawrence was to write a magazine feature about Jim Ryan three years ago.
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The committee, in a communique, "calls for strict implementation" of a General Assembly resolution passed in December 1968, "requesting all states and organizations to suspend sporting exchanges with the racist regime and with organizations or institutions in South Africa which practice apartheid."
The committee particularly criticized Great Britain and New Zealand because, in spite of the 1968 resolution, sports teams from South Africa have still been able to visit those countries.
Ashe said, specifically, the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) at its meeting in the near future, should expel South Africa's Lawn Tennis Union—which he described as representing only the white minority—from its membership.
But Ashe also said "the only course left is complete isolation of South Africa politically, athletically, diplomatically."
The apartheid committee endorsed Ashe's proposal on the ILTF action. It said it "strongly feels that the International Lawn Tennis Federation should sever all ties with the South African Lawn Tennis Union, as long as South Africa refuses to agree to multiracial sport in the country and to allow white and non-white South African sportsmen to compete against each other in local South African games."
South Africa was kicked out of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico and last month the Davis Cup International Committee meeting in London voted to exclude South African tennis players from cup competition.
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