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strides in pedal-pushing last year,
winning six-day grinds in San
Francisco and Montdeal and fin-
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ishing well up in six other races.
Seven Arts Sports Editor
They were entered in the special
Coronation
six-day race in London,
Iry Kupcinet, former all-American football hero and one of our
finishing out of the money but
greatest authorities on sports, in this article reviews Jewish
account, and with 363 points. Rodman, who
athletic achievements the world over. Read his
hails from Chicago, and Lou Cohen,
you'll find out many things you never knew.
who is a New Yorker, are real
corners among the bike-men. In
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, motorcycle racing Benny Kauff-
man of New York won the Eastern
Even a cursory glance at the strength of Southern League rec- championship and was on his way
record of Jewish athletes during ord, doesn't seem able to do much to national honors when he suf-
thepast year will convince the with American League hurling. He fered a broken leg and internal
most skeptical that few countries has been playing pretty regularly injuries in the Yankee Stadium.
believe in the principle of keeping in the outfield but he's far from a BILLIARDS
sports free of politics. Thus you sensation. Moe Berg, the dean of
The new national amateur Class
will eeek in vain for Jewish ath- Jewish big league players, was B 18.2 balkline billiard champion
letic heroes in Naziland, and you never a star but he's reliable. He's is Jerome Straus, who ousted the
will also have a hard time finding appeared in some 30 games and is defended titleholder, J. R. Johann,
Jewish record-holders in Poland hitting over .300.
200 to 153 in 35 innings. Max
and Rumanian. The bulk of Jew-
Only Greenberg and Arnovich Shimon, of Milwaukee, twice na-
ish athletes in every sport is found lived up to advance notices. Hank tional 'billiard champion, was run-
in the United States, where race is the powerhouse of the Detroit ner-up for the national amateur
and religion take second place to attack. He's giving Joe DiMaggio three-cushion title. Jack Polancky,
speed, skill and brawn,
There was no major sport and
few so-called minor sports which
did not have one o rmore national,
regional or even international Jew-
ish champions. We have even un-
covered some Jewish headliners in
bowling, draughts, automobile rac-
ing and boating,
It is quite possible that we over-
looked a few Jewish athletic top-
notchers. It's becoming tougher
and tougher to identify Jews by
names alone, for a Murphy may
be as Jewish as a Levy is Aryan.
Two important illustrations will
give you an idea of what the Jew-
ish sports scrivener faces. The
late Jack Curley, wrestling im-
presario, and sports promoter par
excellence, was a Jew despite his
name, while Specs Goldman, ace
golfer from Texas, is an Aryan.
The same goes for the sensational
Allan Tolmich of Wayne Univer-
sity, the one-man track team and
track speed demon, who was not
discovered to be a Jew until almost
the end of the year.
In any case, this is our story of
Jewish sports doings for 5697.
Take it or leave it!
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AUTOMOBILE RACING
Manischewits Foundation Trophy to Glenn Cunningham, winner of
There's only one big-time Jew- the mile at the second annual World Labor Athletic Carnival.
ish auto racer, Maurl Rose of Co-
lumbus, Ohio—and how he did burn
up the speedways. After taking
sixth place in the first George
Vanderbilt Cup Race over the 300-
mile Roosevelt Raceway, the first
American to finish, Rose was de-
clared the number-one driver of
the country by being awarded the
nation a I championship of the
American automobile Association.
In the second Vanderbilt Cup Race
Rose had the hard luck to suffer a
broken axle when the long grind
was nearly over. Rose also won
the 100-mile national championship,
but failed to finish in the 500-mile
classic at Indianapolis.
SEASON'S
GREETINGS
5698-1937
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When the 1937 big league base-
ball season got under way every-
thing pointed to a banner year for
the Jewish players. Hank Green:
berg was cured of his arm injury
and set to pick up where he left
off in 1935. Phil Weintraub, sport-
ing the livery of the Reds, looked
as if he were due to make good on
years of promise. Buddy Myer of
the Senators appeared likely to
make a comeback. Harry Banning,
second string backstop of the
Giants, was another veteran who
seemed over-ripe for a big year.
And the four Jewish rookies, Sing-
ton and Cohen of the Senators,
Arnovich of the Phillies and Eisen-
stadt of the Dodgers showed real
promise of holding big league jobs.
As this is written the season is
half-way over and what do we find.
Eisenstadt started off big, winning
three straight games but then re-
vealed that he needed more season-
ing. So he was released to Louis-
ville. Weintraub failed to hit tip
to expectations and was given a
one-way ticket to Jersey City.
Cohen, bull-pen twirler of the
Senators, has yet to win a game.
Denning, who requires lots of work,
is hitting hardly more than his
weight. His backstopping is good
enough and when he gets a chance
to put on the mask he whacks the
ball hard, but unless Bus Mancuso's
injury is more serious than now
appears, Harry is doomed to be a
second-stringer. Buddy Myer made
a great try at a comeback. His
defensive play still sparkles but
he's weak with the stick. His bat-
ting is down around .260 and it
looks as if this is his last year
with the Senators. Sington, touted
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battle for home run aid runs
batted-in honors and pounding the
ball at a .340 clip. At this writing
he owns 23 circuit smashes and Is
likely to hit over 40. Arnovich
started off like a house on fire,
hitting over .400 for a couple o f
weeks. Then his hitting fell off
and he was pulled out of the out-
field. But since his slump he hasn't
been playing regularly althoug h
his average is still over .300. Of
interest too was the return of
Dolly Stark to the N a tion al
League's umpiring staff after a
year's layoff owing to money dif-
ferences.
a billiards bug who doesn't play
the game but loves to watch it,
underwrote the national pocket bil-
liards championship when its pre-
vious sponsor abandoned it, and
then organisled the Professional
Pocket Billiards Association of
America of which he was elected
treasurer.
BOATING
S. Mortimer Auerbach of At-
lantic City retained his title of
BOWLING
Bowling produced a national
Jewish champion for the first time
In a generatioh when lanky Max
Stein came out of Belleville,
to crash his way into the top flight
of lumber fellers by winning the
all-events at the American Bowl-
ing Congress with the record-
breaking score of 2,070. The first
Jew to get a top berth in A. B. C.
play since 1919, when Mort Lindsey
copped the all-events, Stein also
finished 10th in the doubles and
led for fifth in the singles. Louis
Levine of Chicago, who took sixth
place in the singles in 1930, was
12th in the doubled this year.
BOXING
Although the past year was pro-
ductive of lots of excitement in the
fistic world, boxing yielded no new
Jewish champion. Two potential
titleholders, however, neared. the
top rung and the only reigning
Jewish champion held on to his
laurels. The most interesting Jew-
ish newcomer to the topflight of
fighters was Bob Pastor, who cli-
maxed a series of successive knock-
outs by holding Joe Louis almost
even in a 10-round bout, although
he lost the decision. The fact that
the Brown Bomber went on to un-
seat Jim Braddock as heavyweight
chmapion heightened the impor-
tance of Pastor's achievement and
made him a likely contender for
Louis' title. Pastor also eliminated
Bob Nestell from the ranks of
heavyweight hopefuls by decisively
beating him in 10 rounds. Pedor
Montanez, the dusky Jewish light-
want from Porto Rico, clinched
the right to meet Lou Ambers for
the title by beating the champion
in a no-decision fight, koyoeing
Phil Baker and knocking off En-
rico Venturi, European champion,
to bring his string of consecutive
victories to 26 Barney Rose, boss
of the welterweight division, won
several unimportant fights but en-
gaged in no title bout. In the mid-
dle of the year he was suspended
in New York for failing to sign
for a title match with Ceferino
Garcia, Filipino challenger.
Eric Seelig, former German mid-
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BASKETBALL
Basketball continued to yield its
usual crop of Jewish sharpsh
era. Probably the greatest Je
player of the year was Jules Ben-
der of Long Island U., who paced
his team to 28 victories out of 31
games, and led the metropolitan
players in scoring with 265 mark-
ers. Dave Silver, six-foot-four
center of the U. of Oregon five,
was the leading scorer on the Pa-
cific Coast. Saul Nechtem of Bos-
ton U. was generally acknowledged
to be the best player in New Eng-
land. Ben Kramer of Long Island,
Herman Fishman of Michigan,
Milt Schoenfeld of George Wash-
ington, Harry Bassin of George-
town, Micky Kobrosky of Trinity,
Marvin Colene of Loyola, Eddi
Kweller and Herb Bonn of Du-
quesne, Maurice Patt and Eugene
Rosenthal of Carnegie Tech, Mor-
ris Fabricant of Rhode Island
State, Ben Collier of Tufts and Ted
Rosenthal of M. I. T. were other
Jewish boys who scintillated on
the coert. Among Jewish college
basketball captains last year were
Morton Rice of Northeastern, Milt
Schulman of N. Y. U., Barney
Marcus of Carnegie Tech. Outside
of collegiate circles the important
basketball news was the playing
of Salmonovich of Chile, who
helped his team win the South
American championship; the shoot-
ing of C. Yarhi, M, Hared, L. Miz-
rahl and R. Cattaui, who repre-
sented Egypt in the international
championships; and the winning of
the Canadian junior championship
by the Montreal Y. M. H. A.
BICYCLE RIDING
The all-Jewish duo of Jerry Rod-
man and Lou Cohen made rapid
1937
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boating speed king when he sent
his Emancipator VI to a new world
record for 135-cubic-inch hydro-
planes over the Miami Beach
course. Three days after setting
this mark he smashed it with •
new record of 63.403 miles per
hour. Auerbach also established
the $5,000 Judge Auerbach Mem- !
oriel Trophy for the Atlantic City
motorboat regatta. Alphonse Abra-
hams, commodore of the Alexandra
Yacht Club in Englund won the
Burnham Tow ncup for the third
consecutive time in the Southeast
coast yachting races,
annual crop of minor disturb-
ances in previous years paled
into insignificance in comparison
in comparison with last year's
major pogroms. tudent riots in
the universities increased in fre-
quency and violence under the
impetus of ■ demand for the es-
tablishment of ghetto classes.
For a time the government gave
evidence of a desire to hold the
violence in check, but when gov-
ernment spokesmen tok the lead
in advocating the mass emigra-
tion of the Jews as a solution
for the Jewish problem anti-Sem-
itic violence, incitation and dis-
crimination assumed new and un.
precedent inteinsity. The organi-
zation of the new pro-government
Party of the Camp of National
Unity, which adopted an open
policy of anti-Semitism. ended all
pretense that the government
was opposed to anti-Semitism.
In 5697 the situation of Polish
Jewry became so critical as to
overshadow the tragedy of Ger-
man Jewry. The economic anti-
years.
Semitism of previous
which had beggered the Jewish
population and forced half of
them to be dependent on charity,
became worse. Organized boy-
cotts of Jewish merchants spread
throughout the country and led
to the liquidation of thousands
of Jewish establishments. with
the consequent further impover-
ishment of the Jewish muses.
Anti-Semitism in the professions
reached a new high with the adop-
tion of Arran rules by the en-
gineers, teachers, lawrers. den-
tists and nurses. The Physicians'
Union rescinded a similar rule
after brief consideration. Ex-
clusion of Jewish merchants from
market places by administrative
regulations or force became a
common occurence. The enforce-
ment of the new anti-shechita
law beggared thousands of Jews
dependent for a livelihood on the
kosher meat trade. The press
and government officials- outdid
themselves in inciting articles
and speeches against the harassed
Jewish population. In rare in-
stances a few brave Christian
leaders came to the defense of
the Jews. but by and large Polish
Jewry was regarded and treated
as an enemy people that must be
exterminated by legal or illegal
measures, or forced to leave the
country.
Huge protest meetings abroad,
general strikes and days of
prayer in Poland. pleas for pro-
tection from Jewish members of
parliament, all failed to stem the
rising tide of Jew-hatred which
swept over Poland with ever in-
creasing force. Apart from the
violence and intensified boycott
the most serious problem that
confronted the Jews was the gov-
ernment's ofliflicially proclaimed
determination to rid itself of
"superfluous Jews," which in ef-
fect meant all but a tiny minor-
ity of the Jewish population. In
pursuance of this police the gov-
ernment sought to obtain a col-
ony, sent emissaries to all parts
of the world in search of an un-
tenanted area where It could set-
tle Jews and finally prevailed
upon France to consider Mada-
gascar as • potential homeland
for large number of Polish Jews.
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new year will bring you health,
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May your achievements be great
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