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• i mj^ HI SPORTS SPORTS PHILATELISTS INTERNATIONAL PHILATEC Volume 28 November - December 1989 Number 2 UNIVERSIADE DUISBURG ' 89 by GEORGE E. KILL IAN Universiade '89, originally scheduled for San Paulo, Brazil, was cancelled when the Brazilian University author ities were unable to secure the needed financial support to host the games. The FISU Steering Committee met in Rome, Italy, in late January and formally voted that the games would not be held in Brazil and that interest had been shown by Korea, Morocco and West Germany to step in and host the games. After a short period of turmoil, the games were finally awarded to Duisburg, West Germany. Due to the short time for preparation, it was agreed to host only four sports: athletics (m & f), rowing (m & f), fencing (m & f) and men's basketball. Josef Krings, Lord Mayor of the City of Duisburg, and Dr. Richard R. Klein, Chief Executive of the City of Duisburg, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee, were the two individuals who were charged with the respon sibility of organizing the Universiade at such a late date. The Games opened on August 2, 1989, at 5:30 p.m. at Wedan Stadium in Duisburg before a capacity crowd of 35,000. Seventy nine countries appeared in the opening ceremony parade. Over 3,000 athletes and officials were registered to participate in the games. The philatelic items usually associated with games of this stature were meager. A special postmark shown belo'w was the only philatelic item available to the public during the nice day event. A small portable post office set up outside Wedan Stadium where the participants could deposit their mail used the special Universiade postmark. 41 SONDERPOSTKARTE r.V The Organizing Committee of Duisburg used a meter (red) cancel (shown below) in general correspondence before and during the games. UNIVERSIADE Wcltspoittrcfl in Duisbuig DUISBURG '89 UNIVERSIADE £ 100 u TZ U 1 ^4100. The Winter Universiade '91 is scheduled for Sapporo, Japan, while the Summer Universiade '91 will be held in Sheffield, England. I believe those of us who have a philatelic interest in the World University Games movement can look forward to a full philatelic program. ********************************** BECOME A LIFE MEMBER <********************************** 42 "THE 194 0 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE GAMES THAT NEVER WERE" George E. Killian In answer to an inquiry that was sent to me regarding the 194 0 American Olympic, Stamps^> I asked C. Robert Paul, Archivist of the)' r * V United States Olympic Committee, if he could research his files to see if there was any information to enlighten our readership on this subject. Bob sent along the following which I found to be quite fascinating: AMERICAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE REPORT 1940 GAMES OF THE Xllth OLYMPIAD HELSINKI, FINLAND AND Veh OLYMPIE WINTER GAMES ' GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GERMANY THE CELEBRATION DF WHICH WAS PREVENTED BY WAR 43 SPORTS PHILATELISTS INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT: Mark C. Maestione. 2824 Curie Place. San Diego. CA 92122 VICE-PRESIDENT: Edward B. Epstein. Bd. of Education. 33 Church St.. Rete/sorT-.-NJ 07505 SEC-TREASURER: C A. Reiss. 322 Riverside Dr.. Huron. OH 44*39 * *"JE< * J DIRECTORS: Glenn A Estus. Bos 451. Westport NY 12993 John La Porta. PO Box 2286. La Grange. IL 60525 Sherwin D. Podolsky. 16035 Tupper St.. Sepulveda. CA 91343 Dorothy E. Weihrauch. Nine Island Ave.. Apt. 906. Miami Beach. FL 33139 Robert E. Wilcock. 24 Hamilton Cresent. Brentwood. CM14 5ES-. England Lester M. Yerkes. PO Box 424. Albuqucirtae. NW87103 AUCTIONS: Glenn A. Estus. Box 451. Westport NY 12993 MEMBERSHIP: Margaret A. Jones, 3715 Ashford-Dunwoody Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30319 SALES DEPT: Jack W. Ryan, 140 W. Lafayette Road, Apt. 3, Medina, OH 44256 Sports Philatelists International is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the study and collecting of postage stamps and related collateral material dealing with sports (including Olympics) and recreation and to the promotion of international understanding and goodwill through mutual interest in philately and sports. Its activities are planned and carried on entirely by the unpaid, volunteer services of its members. All members in good standing receive the bi-monthly issue of Journal of Sports Philately. The dues for regular U.S. membership are S6.00, foreign $8.00 (airmail is additional) per year plus a one time admission fee of $1.00. Membership applications may be obtained from Margaret A. Jones, 3715 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd., N.E., Atlanta, GA 30319 USA. iMMW SPORTS PHILHTELH EDITOR. John La Porta, P.O. Box 2286, La Grange, IL 60525-8386 ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Edward B. Epstein, Bd Of Education, 33 Church St., Paterson, NJ 07505 Glenn A. Estus, Box 451, Westport, NY 12993 Margaret A. Jones, 3715 Ashford-Dunwoody Road N.E., Atlanta. GA 30319 Joseph M. Lacko, 1031 W. Chestnut St., Union, NJ 07083 Sherwin D. Podolsky, 16035 Tupper St., Sepulveda, CA 91343 George A. ScheHel. 2020 Grant St Concord. CA 94520 Dorothy E. Weihrauch, Nine Island Ave., Apt. 906, Miami, FL 33139 Brian G. Vincent, P.O. Box 1321, Wellington, New Zealand CIRCULATION: C A Reiss. 322 Riverside Dr . Huron. OH 44139 PUBLISHER: Custom Impressions, P.O. Box 2286, La Grange, IL 60525-8386 PUBLICITY: Glenn A Estus. Bos 45i. westport. NY 12993 ADVERTISING RATES: FULL PAGE $14.00; HALF PAGE $8.00. Advance payment for all advertising must accompany copy. Camera ready copy must be supplied by the advertiser. Publishing deadline is Nov. 15, Feb. 15, Apr. 15, Jun. 15, Oct. 15 for each preceeding issue. APS Affiliate Number 39 < 1SSN 0 4 4 7 953X NOTE: The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the individual authors and they do not necessarily represent those of the editor, the officers of SPI or the position of SPI itself. All catalogue numbers quoted in this publication are from Scott's Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue unless specifically stated otherwise. SPI and JSP do not guarantee advertisements, but accept copy in good faith, reserving the right to rejiKt objectionable material. 44 REPORT of OLYMPIC STAMP COMMITTEE s FRANK E. NLLSON, Chairmah . \^ k~ v { \ • The following is a brief resume of the activities cating that this was a successful and important of the recent American Olympic Stamp Commit method. tee. If this simple, convenient and inexpensive As a new fund-raising implement for the use method of fund-raising could have been carried of the American Olympic Association, Mr. Avery out on the thousands of large corporations in this Brundage suggested an Olympic poster stamp of country, unquestionably a large sum of money the same type that had already proved exceed would have been raised for the American ingly successful for other similar organisations. Olympic team. Mr. Brundage himself selected the very appro Had the campaign been earned out, many addi priate design, and the stamp when made up from tional promotion ideas had been planned—such a steel-engraving of the finest type was promptly as newsreel publicity of President Roosevelt pre recognized as one of the most attractive of its senting autographed sheets of stamps to the Hon kind ever produced. This in itself served to aug orable H Hjalmar Procope, Minister of Finland. ment and amplify prevailing Olympic prestige. but, unfortunately, all such plans never pro In the same vein of seeking quality to elevate gressed beyond the embryo stage because the en the standards of the fund-raising campaign to a tire program was affected by the war just at the status of dignity, a number of special unper- very moment when it was beginning to show forated sheets were prepared. These very hand signs r>{ gathering momentum. some sheets were autographed by leading Ameri cans—among them being Alfred P. Sloan, Paul Whiteman, John Kieran, Edgar A. Guest, Lily Pons, Lowell Thomas, and Grantland Rice The Be an Olppic BOOSTER! plan was to sell these sheets at a premium but on the advice of Mr. Brundage this sale was held back tor the heat of the campaign. Consequently these valuable sheets were never sold, although considerable valuable publicity of the highest type accrued to the Association from the publication of the Big-Name signers, who thus legitimately endorsed the entire Olympic idea. Early in the campaign, Mr. Brundage appoint ed a special Olympic Stamp Committee comprised of the following: Carter Glass, Jr., President of the American Philatelic Society, Tug Wilson, J. LASH! . Make the FIRST EDI Lyman Bingham, Owen Van Camp, Fred L. FTION! Be the first to use the beau Steers, Paul E Nordstrom, and Frank E. Nelson, tiful new steel-engraved Olympic Chairman. This committee functioned faithfully Stamps. F.mbellish your letterheads and sincerely from the day of its formation. Ex and support the American team in cellent results were anticipated from the coopera the Olympic Games at Helsinki. Fin tion of the College Committee under the direc land, next ve.ir. Sheets of forty, $1.00. tion ot Mr Frank McCormick, who laid promis Printed in four different colors: pur ing plans tor stamp activities in the schools and ple, green, blue and red. colleges—a fertile field for such a promotion. A sampling test in August, 1939, just before USE THE COUPON BELOW: the war abruptly terminated the whole program, AMI mew Oi VMPIC COMMITI LL revealed that the stamps were an effective me II S. LA IA14-* ST., CHICAGO, ILL. dium for tapping the resources of the numerous Please srn<! me sheets of Olympic large corporations. In their hands, the distribu tion of the stamps on envelopes and letterheads Sumps fur which I enclose S served further to advertise the Olympics. A hun XOMf I dred letters sent to the heads of such firms Street _ _ .