ANew York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, September 28, 1960
Chess Office Picketed
Fischer's Mother Wants U.S. Team in World Olympics
Mrs. Regina Fischer continued yesterday to picket the headquarters of the American Chess Foundation at 1372 Broadway to get it to send a team to the World Chess Olympics opening at Leipzig, East Germany, on Oct. 14. She is mother of Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old national champion from Brooklyn.
Mrs. Fischer carried a sign saying that President Eisenhower favored having an American team at the Olympics and the foundation had the money to send one.
A spokesman for the foundation said yesterday that the responsibility for sending a team abroad rested with the United States Chess Federation. He said the federation had not acted to send a team because the State Department was not in favor of it.
A spokesman for the federation said it was awaiting word from the State Department whether a team should be sent.
