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THE ONLY ANGLO-JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930

The Year In Sports-

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to our
Many Jewish Friends

The past year in sport was an
unusually active one for Jews. In
every field of sport, performers of
the faith have been active and in
competing with their non-Jewish
brothers have proved again that
the Jew equals other races in phys-
ical promises.

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sured. Moe Berg is still behind the' sented the Irene Kaufmann Settle-
bat for the Chicago White Sox and ment House of l'ittsburgh again
is already a veteran.
showed their superiority. Year af-
The sensation of the early spring ter year these youngsters get out
training season was Henry Green- on the court and demonstrate how
berg, a boy of nineteen front New the game should be played. This
York City. Ile was seen at the Ile- year the teams coached by Joseph
troit ('amp and all of the base ball Kahn won no less than five state
writers thought he was going to championships.

taio. is another player of promise.
Minor Sports.
In the minor sports Irving Jaffee
member of the U. S. Olympic Ice
Skating Team leads the rest of the
Jewish sportsmen. Jaffee is still
the one and only champion skater
of our race. Turning a moment
to unfrozen water it must be re-
ported that Gene Goodman, be-
came captain and rowed in the var-
sity shell of the University of Wis-
consin. The fastest moving Jew
of the year was Bernie Katz, an
automobile racer who made a new
dirt track record while driving his
machine on Long Island.

lish ladies distinguished themselves
I failed to hear of their exploits.
Ticking the whole field in a
glance the impression is created
than the past year in sport was
very little different from the pre-
ceding year. Jews are playing all
! outdoor games and playing them
I with the same intensity, sports-
! manship and skill as anyone else.
And why not? The facilities and
'time are there.
a. T. A.)
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TO AN OLD MIRROR

By PHILIP M. RASKIN

1.1tthe brass-framed mirror
I bought for • trifle on• day,
To my soul you •re n r•rrr and deem
With the sight of the end of my Inf.

You feel with youth•live illusions
My spirit Harm!:
Y.show me the faces I cherished
Before they were carved.

But one face you are holding
Is far beyond earth'. confines:
Alone your heart of crystal
M•y clasp hi. lines.

The Nock of granite which was
an obstacle in thepathway of the De was so young when he left tie,
weak becomes a stepping stone in
We loved him most
the pathway of the strong.—Car- Oh, treasure his lovely featur•s-
The best we hare had and hare lost.
lyie.
—The V•nruard.

Larking back at the year the out-
Women Athletes.
standing event was the crowning of be a second Hal Chase, but alas, Nat Holman Retired As A Player. )
Al Singer, king of the lightweights. after the season got under way it
The three teutstanding, Jewish
Nat Holman, for 13 years the
Not since the days of Benny Leon- was found that the big fellow could peer of all basketball players, women athletes of the year were
Happiness consists in activity;
ard has a Jew held this title. Sin- nut hit and he was sent from one announced his retirement from the Mrs. Burt %Veil of Cincinnati who, it is a running stream and not a
"The good mind is known by the
ger is the youngest fighter of mod- minor league team to another. game as a player. lie, more than is not only a tennis but a golf stagnant pool—Good.
choice of what is affirmative, of
ern times to hold the crown and his Greenberg learned his baseball at any other person brought the game champion, Mrs. Caroline Swartz
what is advancing . . . Goodwill
rise from obscurity to fame in N. Y. University.
Wholesale Distributors for
to the attention of the Jews both Hirsch of California, a tennis play-
Onloaked: "Surely, Mose, you makes insight ... The measure of
three years is an achievement in
The quest for Jewish players in New York City and at City Col- er of national ranking and Lena don't expect to catch fish in that mental health is the disposition to
itself. Although we Jews gained went on and mid-season the New as a coach in the settlement houses Bernstein, a French girl who net a stream?'
find good everywhere"—Emerson.
a tight title we lost one when Jackie York Giants announced the sign- lege. Ile will not play any more new feminine World's endurance
Mose: "Na, soh, I don't expect
Fields, who last year won the wel- ing of flurry Rosenberg, outfielder but will continue his coaching dut- recant for staying up in the air in- to. l's just shown my old woman
A discreet man will always be
terweight championship lost it in a with the San Francisco Club of ies and will be athletic director of side of an airplane. If other Jew- I had no time to turn de wringer." ignorant of more than he knows.
surprising contest against Jack the Coast League. A big leaguer the new Y. M. II. A. center in N.
Thompson. It was believed that that made good in a slight measure Y. City.
Fields would go far in pugilistic was Jiinmy Reese, utility infielder Al Schw•rts Swimming Champion
circles but this defeat has set him with the Yankees. Reese, whose
Al Schwartz, captain of the
back a few paces. Another Jewish real name is Goldschmidt, has been
Northwestern University swimming
prize fighting champion that won around the Yankee bench for the
team accomplished what no other
his crown during the past twelve pest few years but this season he
college swimmer before him was
months was Maxie Rosenbloom, a finally got a chance to play and is a
able to do when he won three
peculiar slap artist who had been regular—more or less. • events in the National Collegiate
bouncing around the ring for the
Fred Sington, football player at Athlete Association Swimming
past six or seven years. Suddenly. Alamaba was the big college star nu-et. lie is the star of all college
Rosenbloom took the art of cuffing of the baseball season. Ile is head- swimming and hotels three records.
seriously and in a short tine has ed for the big leagues when he com- Ile dominates the pool to such a
become a champion. To even up the pletes his college course and al- • degree that there is no point in
score Izzy Schwartz, first Jew to ready has had three offers to sign, writing about any other Jewish
hold the flyweight crown, retired contracts. lie is a pitcher. Art • swimmers. A number of Jewish
and left the division without a Jew- Sommerfield of Wisconsin is an- boys swam for their respective
ish contender of note. Izzy won the other college pitcher of note. An- colleges but they did little more
title in 1927 when he beat News- other Jew became the owner of a than splash writer.
DAVID WHITNEY BUILDING
boy Brown.
big league team when Sidney Weil,
Sol Furth Track Star.
Jackie Berg Great Scrapper-Other thirty-eight year old president of
FISHER BUILDING
Track and field sports saw a
Prominent Fighters.
the Reading Road Temple in Cincin-
The best non-champion of the nati bought controlling interest in number of Jewish performers with
year was unquestionably Jackie the Cincinnati Reds baseball club. honors going to Sol Furth of New
Berg, the London lightweight. Berg The-re are now three Jewish own-j York University. Furth, captain
has become one of the most popular ors in major league baseball—Bar- of his college track team won the
lighters in this country due to his ney Dreyfus of Pittsburg, Judge intercollegiate 70 yard hurdle title
find in three years competition ac-
willingness to fight anybody his Fuchs of Boston and Sidney Weil.
counted for 25 points. Sol is also
weight. Ile is a scrappy lad who
Bad Year For Jewish Tennis
a broadjuroper. He holds the Mid-
loves the game and gives the fans a
Players.
dle Atlantic hurdle title.
run for their money. Ile has been
Tennis was fine sport during the-
Other Jewish trackmen: Law-
promised a chance at Singer's year that suffered from the lack
crown and it's a pretty good bet of first rate Jewish material. Jul- rence Levy of Cornell did rather
that he will be the next lightweight ius Seligson, who for the- last three well with a sixteen pound shut in
champion. Jackie hasn't lust a de- years has been head and racquets, the several meets he entered. Phil
cision since he hit those shores.
above his Jewish brothers suffered Silverman, Brooklyn boy was busy
Other prominent tights of the a de-finite relapse. Although he won during the outdoor season winning
year that made a dent in the fans' the eastern intercollegiates he lost cross country events. Ile was once
minds were Armand Emanuel, the the national intercollegiate—it was Metropolitan cross country chem.!
San Francisco heavyeveight, Ted his first loss in college tennis in four pion.
Sandwina, an equally hefty person, years. I'laying the major tourna-
Jewish Bull Fighter.
and Al Friedman from Massachu- ments he was unable to win a title,
The most discussed performer of
setts. These heavyweights were act- It is the first season since he ar- the year was Sidney Franklin or
ive in the ring but their success as rived that he has been unable to Frunkin, Jewish bull fighter. His
fighters wsa nominal. The Perlick make the grade. Eddie Jacobs, on exploits in the bull rings of Spain
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weights who got sonic attention. provement. He has been starring months. Franklin, a Williamsburg
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year's favorites were completely tenni and has been a consistent win. al Spanish idols and is the first
out of things but summing up the rum in southern tournaments. Will- Jewish bullfighter of record. Due-'
whole field it is safe to say that the iam Jacobs, brother of Eddie, who ing the past year he was seriously
Jew is as active as ever in the the junior national indoor singles injured when a bull caught up with
prize ring.
title and shows even more promise him, but aftek a few months in a
New Baseball Players Came To than Eddie. Friedman of Philadel- hospital he returned to the bull
The Fore.
phia and Jay Cohn of California' ring and found his popularity un-
Professional baseball, never a are two other youngsters who seem dimmed. It is his intention to in-
sport that attracted Jewish players, to have that magic touch with a troduce, successfully, bull fighting
had its usual quota of Jewish per- racquet that brings victories, but in America.
formers. Andy Cohen dropped out only time will be able to prove
Again No Jewish Golfer..
of the big leagues and was sold by their real worth. As for the 'vat
This is the fifth yearly resume
the N. Y. Giants to the Newark of the field there simply wasn't of sport that I have written and
Club in the International League any.
for the fifth time I must report
To take his place Jonah Goldman Soccer Again Attracts Many Jew.; that things still look black for a
was drafted from the minors by
Jewish golf champion. The only
ish Players.
Cleveland and has played through
Ever since the arrival of llakoah player of our extraction that show-
the season as shortstop. Jonah, : in this country Jewish boys have ed an thing this last year was
who was famous as a fmetball play- taken to the game in increasing Rudy ltothenburg of Philadelphia
Retouching and Restoring
er while at Syracuse, has gained nuenleers. last year saw a host of who in the Sweetser Victory Cup
a reputation as one of the best in- ; new players on the fields and many gold tournament gave the big boys
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fielders in the league, if he was a new clubs composed solely of Jews a run for their money before he
good hitter his success would be as- have been formed. The Chicago and folded up. Lew Levinson of (hi
Brooklyn group were particularly
active in the sport. In the profess-
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last year the llakoah boys finished
fourth in the league standings.
Theme was much dissension due to
internal troubles between the club )
owners. At the end of the season
liakoah undertook a South Ameri-
can tour which did not add to their
prestige as they won few games.
College Football Brings Out Host
Of Stars.
Football, the most popular col-
lege sport in America, was respon-
sible for the bringing out of an en-
tirely new group of Jewish players.
So many of our bays from every i
section of the country played the'
game that it is impossible to even
attempt to net down their names.'
CERTIFIED BY
Among the outstanding football
players of the year were Benny'!
I,om, University of California. one
of the best quarterbacks in the
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Lowell. Mass., Bob Schneider of
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exception of the sectarian institu-
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lineup. Twenty-five colleges elect-
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ball teams.
The National Game—Basketball.
Here is another sport in which it
is impossible to attempt to name
the Jewish players. This is the
sport that Jews dominate. The
best known of last year's college
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