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Le trophée de golf \"Hitler Cup\" retrouvé en Ecosse
LONDRES La ´Hitler Cup´, trophée commandé spécialement par le dictateur nazi pour les vainqueurs d´un tournoi de golf disputé après les Jeux Olympiques de Berlin et dont on avait perdu toute trace a été retrouvé à Glasgow, en Ecosse, chez un particulier, selon le journal Daily Telegraph.
C´est un certain Leonard Sculthorp, 73 ans, qui a révélé au quotidien britannique qu´il en était le propriétaire et que la coupe, depuis dix ans, reposait en bon état dans sa boîte de présentation.
Plusieurs hypothèses quant à la localisation de cette coupe avaient été avancées. Ce trophée, un plateau de cuivre incrusté d´ambre, avait été gagné contre toute attente par des golfeurs britanniques ce qui avait mis le Fuehrer dans une rage folle. Refusant de remettre la coupe aux vainqueurs, il avait aussitôt quitté Baden-Baden et ordonné à son chauffeur de le conduire à Berlin.
Tournoi de golf amateur, la ´Hitler Cup´ s´était déroulée dans la ville d´eaux de Baden-Baden juste après les JO de 1936. Le tournoi était censé laver l´affront qu´avait subi ´la fierté aryenne´ après les célébres victoires de l´athlète d´exception noir américain Jesse Owens, qui avait dominé les Jeux en remportant quatre titres olympiques.
Leonard Sculthorp a raconté au Daily Telegraph, que lors de l´acquisition d´un club de golf à Londres il avait trouvé le trophée et l´avait pris avec lui quand il avait déménagé dans sa maison en Ecosse. ,,Les histoires qu´on racontait sur la disparition de la + Hitler Cup + m´ont toujours amusé´´, a-t-il déclaré au journal. (AFP)
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Golfers\' trophy that upset Hitler turns up in Glasgow
By Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent
12:01AM GMT 26 Mar 2004
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The Hitler Cup, one of sport\'s most unusual trophies, has turned up in a businessman\'s display case in Glasgow, solving one of golf\'s strangest mysteries.
Competing theories have been aired in newspapers and golfing journals about the whereabouts of the amber-encrusted brass salver, which provoked a temper tantrum from Adolf Hitler when it was won by English golfers.
Some reports suggested it had been \"stolen to order\", others that it was gathering dust in an attic somewhere. In fact, for the past 10 years the trophy has been owned by Leonard Sculthorp, 73.
The Hitler Cup was commissioned by the Fuhrer and was to be presented to the winners of an amateur international tournament in the spa town of Baden-Baden immediately after the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
Jesse Owens, the black American athlete, had dominated the Games and Hitler hoped that the foursomes tournament would restore some Aryan pride.
After the first two rounds the German pair Leonard von Beckerath and C A Helmers were - to everyone\'s surprise and Hitler\'s delight - well in the lead. He was so sure of their victory that he set out from Berlin to present the trophy himself.
But when the English pairing of Tommy Thirsk and Arnold Bentley rallied with two brilliant final rounds of 65, Hitler suffered a severe loss of humour, refused to make the presentation and ordered his driver to take him straight back to Berlin.
The cup became the property of the English Golf Union, which held it until the 1950s, when it was presented to the Golfers\' Club in return for the use of rooms in the club\'s premises in London.
Newspapers in Britain, Australia and Canada later speculated about the disappearance of the trophy after the club closed, and the mystery featured recently in a book on golf and the Olympics by George Jeanneau, of the French Golf Federation - the French came second in Baden-Baden.
However, Mr Sculthorp has now confirmed that the cup is in his home in Glasgow.
A property company owned by the businessman took over the golf club in London, and when it was closed he moved the trophy to his house in Scotland.
Speaking from the poolside of his second home in Florida, Mr Sculthorp said it was now the property of a limited company of which he and other members of his family were the sole shareholders.
He added: \"I have always been amused by stories about the Hitler Cup going missing. It has been safe in my house in Pollokshields since the mid-1990s.\"
Last September, he showed the trophy to Mr Thirsk\'s son Peter, 70, of Driffield, Yorkshire, who said yesterday he was delighted to touch the Hitler Cup for the first time.
He added: \"It was a proud moment to hold the trophy my father won. Seeing the Hitler Cup for the first time meant a great deal to me.
\"Father also received two silver vases for being the overall winner, which are still in the family. He triumphed over Hitler\'s team, which made international headlines in 1936, and has been talked about ever since.\"
Tommy Thirsk, of Bridlington, was Yorkshire champion in 1932, captained England 30 times and recorded 13 holes in one during his career.
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