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lifkkigOITJEWISH C RONICLi3
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JEWS IN SPORTS
5696 - 1935
IN THE YEAR 5696 of the Jewish era and 1935
of the common era, we join with all those who
marvel at the qualities of spirit and survival which
have won for the Jewish people the designation
THE ETERNAL PEOPLE
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In our fifthy•third year as a business entity, we strive
to uphold those ideals of service which make for
continual confidence and respect of our select
clientele so that we may retain the designation:
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May the year 5696 • 1935 be a happy and prosper•
ous one for the Jewish community of Detroit.
KERN'S
Rosh
Hashonah
Greetings!
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In the spirit of the season, with
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Ill/ITI/It'S NOTE: The Jen In Sport Is • fuselnatIng subjeet In
the lien or nia-
tenniontry illimitisslas a the effest of Sport on life In sestina. Harry
ratel, on Jewish sport• and Sport of OW 1.1.0 Ansi
surteys She JesIsh Spurt Tear silk must anmaing results.
Looking back over the record of been hitting hard and fielding
of Jewish participation in sports well, and now has a clouting mark
during the last 12 months im- I of .333. The other Jewish Play
'
pels the observer to concede that era in the American League, Fred
the Jewish athlete has at last Sington, highly-touted outfielder
conic of age in virtually every with Washington, and Sidney Co-
field of athletics. There was a hen, Washington's rookie pitcher,
sent back to the minors for
time when the annual review of were
more seasoning.
Jewish sports achievements was
In the National League the
perforce limited to basketball,
boxing, chess and soccer for it Jewish players were total disap-
was only in those games that Jews pointments, Phil Weintraub of
had reached the heights. In re- the Giants was given a chance to
cent years this picture has become a regular outfielder but
changed rapidly. Today we have his erratic fielding and his fail-
Jewish champion, in boxing, ure to maintain last year's slug-
chess, swimming, tennis, golf, ging feats relegated him to the
squash, track and field, handball, role of pinch-hitter. His team-
pingpong and skating and Jew- mate, Harry Denning, appeared
ish stars in baseball, football and all set for the second-string
hockey. By their achievements catcher's job but he bogged down
during 5695 Jewish athletes have badly at bat and he was dropped
wiped out the illusion that the to third-string receiver. Young
Jew is inherently incapable of Harry Eisenstat, rookie pitcher
success in sports or that the Jew- with the Dodgers, was the sensa-
ish people frown on participation tion of the spring training sea-
son, but after a brief taste of
in athletics.
in a regular game he was
The striking success of the sec- work
sent
to Dayton for more exper :
ond triennial Maccabiad in Pal-
estine; the climb of Henry Green- fence. Morris Arnovich, Philadel-
outfielder, never even got
berg to baseball stardom; the un- phia
into a game.
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One A. HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW
YEAR!
tie
Miles L. Wyman
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Other big league baseball de-
velopments of interest to Jews
were the elimination of Judge
Emil Fuchs from the ownership of
the Boston Braves after the fail-
ure of his attempt to revive the
team by engaging Babe Ruth as
an attraction; the appointment of
Al Schacht as coach of the Bos-
ton Red Sox; the selection of
Dolly Stark, National League um-
pire, as the best-liked arbiter in
the majors; the shrewd trading
of Harry Grabiner, business man-
ager of the White Sox, who was
given credit for the amazing
showing of the Chicago Ameri-
can League entry.
Basketball
As in almost every other year,
basketball and Jewish stars were
synonymous. The season's out-
standing teams were N. Y. U.,
Temple and Long Island Univer-
sity and on three of them Jew-
GRATIOT
HANK GREENBERG
sh players predominated. Four
Slugging and Star First Baseman out of five first-string players on
of the Detroit Tigers
he national championship five of
N. Y. U., Willie Rubenstein, Ir-
precedented development of rank- win Klein, Sid Gross and Irving
ing Jewish athletes in swimming, Heldman, were Jews. Ruben-
tennis, track and field and golf; a tein, who made the all-American
the international movement to c ourt team and was elected N.
withdraw the Olympic Games from Y. U. captain for the coming
Berlin; the emergence of Yeshiva e eason, was largely responsible
Moses Maimonides College into the athletic worlds; f or the brilliant record of N. Y.
the opening of a Jewish sports U . Temple's basketeers, who
at the Jewish Scientific g ave the Violeta a tough fight for
Prototype of the Undying archives
Institute at Vilna; and the ever- n ational court honors, included
Spirit of Judaism
increasing number of Jewish R onan, one of the keenest shots in
young men and women to all t he game, Friedberg, Greenberg,
By RABBI GEORGE ZEPIN
forms of athletic endeavor were C sew, Dubin, Smukler and Fox,
among the highlights of a year T he high - scoring aggregation
The civilized world unites fo that will rank as a landmark in f rom Long Island University,
celebrate the 800th anniversary of Jewish sports history.
hick broke into big-time basket-
follows a details review b all with a bang, was led by Jules
a mild, peace-loving Jew, who lived of Below
Jewish athletic achievements 13 ender, the eagle-eyed forward,
in comparative obscurity, who held in every field of sport during a
nil Kramer, the Metropolitan
no earthly power, who controlled 6695.
a rea's leading point scorer.
Baseball
no offices of state, whose compul-
Sid Rosenthal, ace forward of
sion was purely of the intellect.
When the 1935 baseball season th e University of Iowa five, and
Even in the field in which he was opened there were 10 Jews on E ddie Stelzer and Mickie Kupfer-
supreme he humbly apprenticed big league teams, more than at be rg of the University of Minne-
great genius to two master minds any other time in the history of a 0 ta team, were the leading Jew-
—Mons and Arjstotle.
the national pastime. As the sea- Is h players in the Middle West.
What was the quality of his son drew to a close only seven 0 there in that section of the
genius that has defied the centu- of these were still wearing major c ountry who deserve special men-
ries? He was not an historian, he league uniforms, and only five ti on are Grossberg and Rosen-
wrote no verses, he was never were regulars. Overshadowing fe Id of Northwestern, Freimuth
popular reading. And yet, Chris- all other Jewish ball players was 0 f Minnesota, Michelson of Min-
tian and Jew delight to remember Hank Greenberg whose 1936 rec. 0 i s, Pritikin and Kaplan of ,Chi-
ord is only a continuation of his " go and Teitelbaum of Michi-
him.
Primarily he was a religious sensational doings In 1934. The g an. In the South the Jewish
slugging
first barman of the De- co
. Oct stars were Mintz of Tulane,
philosopher, a great forerunner of
a line of theologians who sought troit Tigers had no small part M andelkorn of Navy and Kaplan
of Western Maryland. In the Far
in
the
astonishing
rise
of
the
Ti-
to answer the riddle of the uni-
verse to make revelation also rea- gen frbm an also-ran to Ameri- W est the Jewish boys don't seem
sonable. To this monumental task can League pennant winners in to take to basketball.
he brought a profound knowledge 1934. He completed last season S Reference must also be made to
of Greek philosophy. But what en- with a .340 batting average, put- am Winegrad, captain of the
deared him to his fellow-Jews was ting him among the five leading CI ty College team, whose scintil-
ting play was the only redeem-
the fact that he plumbed all the hitters of the league. During la
in g feature of one of the worst
depths of the Jewish heart. He 1934 he slammed out 26 homers, CA
ge seasons in City College his-
gazed upon the vast sea of Jewish led his league in two-base hits
literature, shoreless and full of with 62, smacked 201 hits, scored to ry; Rip Kaplansky of St. Johns;
beauty, and told of it in words 118 runs and batted in 130 more E ddie Kweller, star of the near
dipped in its shining glory. and compiled a fielding average ch ampionship Duquesne five;
The lucidity of his diction. the of .990. Although Detroit lost Gr eenberg and Miller of Geneva;
d Patt and Felser of Carnegie
aristocracy of his speech, were the World Series, Greenberg bate an
torches that kept the Jewish mind led .321, getting 9 hits, includ- Te ch. There were • few Jewish
alight in the darkness of the ghet- ing two doubles, one triple and Ayers in the Eastern Collegiate
Le ague but none compared with
to, like stars shining into abyss. two homers, batted in seven runs Le
more than any other player in the at an of yesterday as Lu Bender
In the long period of the medie- series, compiled a fielding aver- or Lou Farrar.
val nightmare, the Jew might well ave of .985 and equalled a series
Boxing
have said, as Padriac Cob= said record with four hits in one game.
The upset which cost playboy
of his own people:
In the pole for the most valuable M ex Baer his heavyweight crown
"Horses we may not ride nor player in the American League ov ershadowed everything else in
swords carry,"
during 1934 he received 29 votes. bo xing during the past year.
but when Maimonides spe,aks,
Besides showing himself to be a Ea er , who became the first Jew
"We have horses, swords, gold, diamond star of the first-star to hold the heavyweight title in
wine, and victory."
magnitude, Greenberg revealed m odern times, winning it from
He carries wholesome lesson for that he was also a good Jew when Pe Imo Canners, was a heavy fav-
our day. He prayed for the re- he stayed out of the line-up on or Re against Jim Braddock but
storation of Zion, no that from it Yom Kippur. th e former truckman outfought
might go forth the law. He re-
This year his record is even an d outsmarted Max to relieve the
garded every Jew as his blood more brilliant. As the Tigers lot ter of his title a little more
brother, because the love of God continue their march to a second th an • year after he won it from
was incarnate in the love of his pennant, Greenberg leads the ma- th a Italian giant. Before this
fellowmen. He wrote in Arabic for jor leagues in home runs, doubles, se es print Baer will have met the
Jews who frankly did not know runs scored and runs batted in co bored sensation, Joe Louis, in
Hebrew and were unashamed of and is showing himself to be a a match which will determine not
the fact. For him the criterion of I much improved player afield. It on by whether the brown bomber
Jewish fellowship was expressed in I will surprise no one . if he gets fr om Detroit is to slug his way
the words of R
th h
h award as the year s most cal- to the championship but also
Ruth,
the Moahitess: the
FINANCIAL SECURITY I "Thy Ged shall
be my God and liable player in the American wh ether Baer is all washed up as
FOR THE SYNAGOGUE' thy people shall be my people." League and then climaxes his
fighter. In the course of his
He was • theologian, the quali- third year in the majors by being Be nsatlonal climb to the top rung
ty
of
his
Jewishness
was
relig-
the hero of the World Series. of the fistic ladder, Louis elimin-
A planned system of synagogue
ious, and he
not forgotten for
Grenberg's closest rival for the ate d Kingfish Levinsky by knock-
financing, in order to "insure ■ 800 years. He WAS
will be remembered honor of being the outstanding M g him out in one round. Another
greater stability in membership for 800 more by the Gentile world Jewish ball player was Buddy pr oinking Jewish heavyweight
,
and income and at the same time and by the Jews, too, as long as I Meer, peppery little second base- A rt Lasky, found the road to the
furnish • bulwark in some meas- Judaism is not forgotten as a relig- man of the Washington Senators. titl e too tough, losing to Braddock
As this is written Myer is In • an d then to • couple of lesser
ure against the onslaught of peri- ion.
(Prom Praia. Ronk* Bulletin I
tight three-cornered race for the lig hie.
ods of depression and financial
batting leadership of the Ameri-
Barney Ross, who was both
crisie," has been outlined by Rabbi
can League, owning a slugging l i g htweight a n d welterweight
Jacob D. Schwarz in a booklet, t
heir
personal
needs.
This
Is
a
ampion
when the year began,
average
of
.343.
He
has
been
ch
"Financial Security for the Syne- d efinite aid to security.
!fielding like • demon and is being 1 , 0a t the welterweight title to
gogue." The booklet is published
Defining
the
three
inseparable
mmy
McLarnin
last September,
mentioned
as
next
year's
manager
, ai
by the Commission of Synagogue f
Activities, of the Union of Amer- actors of financial security as of the Senators. Myers ■ team-. bu t won it back again in a return
embership,
budget,
and
program.
mate, Heinie Manush, slumped ma tch with Jimmy in May. Before
lean Hebrew Congregations.
abbi Schwarz says "Theayes- this season and is still below the th at Ross had given up the light-
Discussing such problems as gogue which has • strong, active, 1.300
mark. Milt Galatzer, Cleve-, we
title because he could no
membership, its cost, how to in- and responsible membership, which 'land utility fielder, began the sea- , Ion ight
ger make the weight He still
crease it, how to avoid membership has planned its financing system- son as a
Ida
two
titles, however, because
bench
warmer,
but
when
ho
losses; methods of budgeting that
and wisely, which has a injuries crippled the Indian's out- .` e successfully defended the jun-
provide for emergencies, expan- well-conceived, adequate, and for- j field, he stepped into the breach I nc
t
weight championship
sion and periods of decreased in- ward-looking program in which the land is not only doing
a credit- •,C ainst Frrnkie Klick. A new
come and supplementary sources members can and do participate of I able job on the picket line
but is ", wish world's champion appear-
of support. Rabbi Schwarz, who is their own will and desire,
will not 'smacking the ball for .316. Moe ea on the scene when Bob Olin
Director of Synagogue Activities fail of the financial support
it Berg, who finished last season as of New York's East Side out-
for the Union, gives practical and needs and should have. Such a
ught Maxie Rosenbloom to ra-
applicable suegeetions for use in synagogue has insured itself utility catcher for the Indians, " ve him
of the light-heavyweight
was released before the 1935 see- be
synagogue administration. He pro- against ineecurity."
le,
son
opened
but
was
quickly
sign-
tit
poses an activity program whkh
The
past
year in boxing was
ed by the Red Sox. And the B4.1
strengthens the value of the syna-
Hard work is the yeast that ton team has had no regrets be-
rked by the emergence of a
gogue to its members, and satisfies raises the dough-
cause the scholarly backstop hu h
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