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At Home With Sammy.
Samuel R sssss wski, chess marvel of the world, playing 20 chess expert
at West Point Military Academy. It wax his first red text in this country.
After three hours and five minutes he had defeated 19 of the 20 and the
game with the twentieth, Col. G. A. Siebeger, professor of English and chess
champion of West Point, was called • draw.
Little Samuel R eeeee wski is credited with having defeated the best
players in Europe in simultaneous games In which he played I men at
once in Warsaw, Vienna, Breslau, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels,
Paris and London. The medals he is shown wearing were presented him
by chess clubs for victories in those cities. The chess men on the board
before him are exquisitely carved and were presented him by an European
millionaire who was one of 26 the boy defeated in • simultaneous game.
The boy was photographed ■ t the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, where he
Is stopping, before leaving for a tour.
"The father," says the mother,
"conducted a dyeing business
l'o-
land," and elkh herself is a descendant
of a great Rabbinical family. One of
her aneC-Flors was no less a personage
than Rabbi Jonathan Eibenschulz.
The c'atnily has lived in Ozorkov, not
fax irom Lodz.
Home Is in Ozorkov.
I have once been to Ozorkov, In
the beginning of 1915, as a war cor-
respondent, I made. a trip through
Lodz and its environs, to find out the
conditions of the Jews there and dis-
cover the extent of their losses
through the inroads of Russian Cos-
sacks,
,t11 7 en hla
t
y ot c o c sn i
had
bte o, ac ua slel
Ozork ov
that was the only town in the vicin-
ity which (lid not suffer a pogrom.
1 d,d not know then that Ozorkov
was to bear the distinction of being
the native town of the little genius.
And so it really is a happy coinci-
dence that the town was spared from
a pogrom.• It was the only exception
among its surroundings, and if not
for that happy coincidence, who can
tell but that the little genius would
not have been among us today.
In the meantime, Samuel finished
his killing" game. Ile then lay
down on the sofa and began to play
with his little legs. After that he
turned to Mr. Jaffe and suggested
that they play a 'blind" game; that
is to say, a game where the figures
would not be actually set up, but
memorized by the players themselves.
Jaffe accepted the suggestion and the
game began.
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The more important of the two la the
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organization on the evening of Feb-
ruary 27, 1921 at Orchestra Hull. "The
Chatter Box" is the title given to the
production, of which the story is the
work of Mles Gertdude Saranoff and
the music the efforts of Norman Sni-
der, both active members of the club.
Professor and Mrs. Searl, dramatic di-
rectors are supervising the rehearsals
attendance Is expected. An augment-1
ed orchestra of fifteen pieces will fur-
nish the music. Proceeds of both of
these affairs will be devoted towards
the relief of the needy sick of the
community.
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She served
first in the field and then becam e as-
sistant to Mrs. Robert Meade in l'aris.
Dr. Plotz is a member of the staff
of Mount Sinai Hospital, and returned
in August flout Poland, where he
made a survey of conditions for the
Joint Distribution Conunittee. Ile is
credited with having been the discov.
erer of the tphus germ in 1913. While
in Bulgaria in 1915 he was capture d
by the Germans under General Mad,.
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ices in studying cases among the Ger.
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Mr. Jaffe then asked the child what
he wanted to be when he grew up, to
which the child answered: "I don't
know," and we all started to talk,
Mr. Jaffe, the child's parents and I,
about the child's future, when all of
a sudden we noticed that Samuel gets
up from the sofa and goes over to
the window ledge singing pensively
and quietly a Jewish ditty,
Samuel is little, thin and young.
But his brain and mind are large.
Samuel has already studied a great
deal of the Talmud and many other
Jewish wqrks, and he remembers
them literally by heart. 'lie is above
everything else, a 'person gifted with
an enormous memory and strong
powers of logic. His new creations
of chess combinations and his manner
of playing show it very clearly, and
I have noitced another instance, when
his parents changed an earlier resolu-
tion and little Samuel hearing of it
simply remarked: "I said so yester-
day.' Nothing else did the child say,
and yet one could see very clearly the
great pains of his soul, which under-
stands better, knows better and feels
deeper than his environment. But
being young in years and small in
stature he is considered a child.
the Typhus Germ to
Wed Miss Aloe Sachs.
NEW YORK—Miss Alice Sachs,
On Sunday evening, December 12,
daughter of hfr. and Mrs. Samuel
1920 the organization will give its an-
Sachs and Dr. Harry Plotz will be
nual dance at Hotel Stotler. Both
married on Nov. 24 at the home of
spacious ballrooms of the hotel have the bride's parents.
been engaged and the usual capacity
Miss Sadie was overseas during the
Samuel "Kids" the Veteran.
I observed both players carefully.
I noticed at once that while Jaffe took
the game seriously, little Samuel
played "playfully." Each move of
Jaffe's required some two or three
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woman, but modest, open-hearted and minutes, while Samuel would answer
sincere in her talk. I asked her why each inure almost without delibera-
"kill" him. The child, with a body the child was coughing and whether tion. Occasionally Samuel would re-
of even less than eight years in out- lie was sick, and she said: "No, the sent Jaffe's hesitancy in making a
ward appearance, did not make the child is not sick, he has only con- move and would then call out: "Say,
impression of one who could kill tracted a little cold about two days be a man and make a move," and he
anyone. Ile looked pale, was cough- ago." Another question as to why would look down ironically at the
ing after a fashion, but his eyes were the child was wearing a hat in the
veteran chess player.
bright and clear. An attempt on my house was answered with the state-
Samuel played the game while con-
part to interrupt hint in his "mur- ment that Samuel was very religious. tinuing lying on the sofa and playing
derous" des.re was without success. lie would not go bareheaded. He with his legs all the time. Suddenly
prays every day, performs all bene- he jumped up, sat down and ex-
Disturbs the "Murderer."
"Please," said the child, "don't dis- dictions with meals, and prays after claimed very energetically: "The
turb me." And it was said in such a his meals. In short, his mode of life party lasts too long." lie set his
kind and yet energetic tone of voice is that of an orthodox Jewish boy.
little fiat on tight, nervously turned
I then turned my conversation to it around his head and turned a but-
that I had to obey.
I turned to the parents. The father I the parents themselves. They have ton of his little coat. The childish
is a man of middle age, dressed like six children, of whom little Samuel face assumed a serious expression as
a Polish "chasid" and of an appear- is the youngest. The oldest son is a he made a move and then he screamed
ance suggesting the well-to-do Jewish very able young man, according to out triumphantly: "Mate in seven
father of a type not infrequent in his mother, but he is at present a moves." But he added ironically:
"But be sure, Mr. Jaffe, to play well,
Poland. The mother is a very wise soldier in the l'olish army.
else you will be checkmated sooner."
And so it really happened. Jaffe was
checkmated in seven moves, even
though he seriously considered every
move before he made it.
Mr. Jaffee then put the question to
the child whether he played well,
but the child was quick in his answer:
'Yes, Mr. Jaffe, you play well, but
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which have already begun, and the
thous Is now being selected. Taking
prominent parts in the cast are the
Misses Besaye Barnett, Dorothy Dray-
kin, Dolores Weise and Clara Krause
and Metiers. Morrie Steingold, Si
Feinberg, Nathaniel Scholnick, Mil-
ton Gordon and Harry Stone. Harry
Satovsky hats been appointed execu-
tive manager, with Munuel Rosenthal
an business manager. The play, from
every standpoint promlaes to be a sea.
tuition in local amateur theatrical cir-
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Such is our little Samuel. He loves
his parents, he obeys them. But with
strangers he is nervous and impatient.
Ile answers questions promptly and
politely, but not fully. To obtain a
clear statement from hint is at times
even harder than from the most in-
veterate diplomat.
Little Samuel's life is a tragedy,
almost the tragedy of his own race
and people. And it is a teal tragedy,
for both the little genius and the race
to which he belongs that so much
ability and real inspiration which this
world's wonder possesses be wasted
in a game.
Is there really no danger that our
little Samuel will play out his genius?
We have so many philanthropists
in America who support with an open
hand every musical wonder child, al-
beit it is not always so that musical
wonder children become great musi-
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thropists who should take a kindly
interest in this great wonder?
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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Five subscription concerts for young
people will be given by the Detroit
Symphony orchestra, In Orchestra
ball, under the direction of Victor
Kolar on the following Saturday morn.
Inge at 10:30 o'clock: Dec. 18, Jan.
22, Feb. 19, Mar. 19 and April 16.
The concerts have been arranged
primarily. as an educational factor in
the life of the younger folk of the
city and In the hope that a firm foun-
dation may be blinded looking toward
a greater Interest in the city's sym-
phony orchestra.
The program. will present centre's'
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the preaent time. They will present
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auditors will have a comprehensive
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make the whole. At the first concert
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the brasses; at the fourth, the per-
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at the fifth modern composers. The
concluding number on each program
will require the entire orchestra to
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told by Herman Boexter.
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