October 4, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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A JEWISH WHO'S WHO
OF SPORTS FOR 5700
By IRV KUPCINET
Seven Arts Sports Editor
SEPTEMBER (Tishri)
tamed by a Jewish boy, Harry
Newman, twice honored on Seven
Arts Features All-American team.
Again Newman proves himself
one of America's outstanding
guards. Other colleges have their
own Jewish stars—Mendelsohn
at Pennslyvania, Kaplan at Tu-
lane, Monsky at Nebraska, Levy
at Minnesota, Greenbaum at the
now "retired" University of Chi-
cago, Cantor at U. C. L. A.,
Goldberg at Buffalo, Miller at
New York University, Roth of
Cornell and Stern of Bucknell.
Benneh Friedman, probably the
All-Time Jewish football star, is
just starting another campaign
with his City College of New
York footballers, and as usual,
is molding a neat team out of a
minimum of material.
club of the New York Rangers.
. . . Levinsky, a hard-working de-
fense man, promptly is elected
captain of the Ramblers and may
be headed back to the big time
before work on another "re-
view" is started . . . Lou Ponn-
ner is leading DePaul to one of
its finest seasons in years, and
little Mickey Rottner, a red-head-
ed scoring demon, adds fire to the
Loyola (of Chicago) team . . .
Garfinkle of St. Johns' (New
York) is still scoring points by
the bucketloads . . . Ruffy Sil-
verstein keeps rolling along, add-
ing victim after victim in what
he hopes will be a climb to the
world championship . . . C. C.
N. Y. defeats the highly-touted
New York U. team and Coach
Nat Holman heaves a sigh of
relief . . . The "Wolves" have
ceased camping on his front
door . . . Levinsky scores an
important goal that gives the
Ramblers a 2-1 victory over
Springfield.
against mighty Princeton. It was
JANUARY (Shebat)
The leaves have begun to turn Gottlieb who ran and passed Rut-
It's 1940 • . . but still 5700
and it is Tishri of the Jewish gers to its first victory over
to us . . . Joey Fischbach proves
year 5700. Throughout the land, Princeton in almost 70 years. An-
he is still king of the collegiate
husky youngsters are starting other sensational season in his
indoor tennis world, ready to en-
serious training, not for war but senior year, and Gottlieb is hail-
ter the more important amateur
for football, and among them is ed as another Goldberg of Luck-
circles . . . Hank Leiberman
a goodly portion of Jewish boys. man . . . and as fate would have
bowls a perfect, game in the
Fine, usptanding courageous it, he later is signed by the Chi-
youth, building themselves into cage Cardinals of the proles-
See SPORTS—Page 13
manhood. At dear old Rutgers sional league, there becoming a
there's Art Gottlieb, a stocky 200- team mate of the far-famed
pounder, who the year previous Marshall Goldberg. At Alabama,
had reached nation-wide heights long a power in southern foot-
Seasons Greetings from Wyandotte, Michigan
for his brilliant, one-man stand ball, the Crimson Tide is cap- OCTOBER (Heshvan)
It's getting chillier and blank-
ets are now in style for Sunday
afternoons at the professional
Season ' s Greetings from Lansing, Michigan football games. The pros are
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
stealing the collegian's thunder.
I
lappy
New
Year
to
All
!
More people are getting inter-
ested. More than 1,500,000 are
going to see the play-for-play
Happy New Year to All 1
boys ere the season ends in De-
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
cember. Two reasons for the
Phoenix Hosiery for the
"up" in attendance are a couple
Lansing's Finest Restaurant
Entire Family
of Jewish boys—Sid Luckman
Quick Service - No Waiting
and Marshall Goldberg. Luckman,
3030 BIDDLE
Reasonable Prices
GROCERIES - MEATS
the former All-American half-
Wyandotte, Mich.
back
from
Columbia,
signs
adim
AVE.
113 W. MICHIGAN
134 W. GRAND RIVER
great fanfare with the Bears,
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Member of
PHONE 2-1288
while Goldberg. , three-time All-
"Just East of Hotel Olds"
American from Pittsburgh, signs ' THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT
Lansing, Mich .
Lansing. Mich
Happy New Year to All'.
with another Chicago team, the
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Cardinals. Luckman, playing
with a great team, becomes one
Wyandotte. Mich.
of the rookie sensations of the
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
National Football league. Gold-
berg, playing with a mediocre
team, fails to attain his colle-
giate heights but is recognized
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Phone 9706
3117 Biddle
as a star performer despite lack
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819 E. KALAMAZOO
\Vyandotte. slick.
of team cooperation. Phil Hand- Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All!
LANSING, MICH .
ler, veteran line coach, again
molds a rugged forward wall for
the Cardinals. Other Jewish play-
ers in the league fare well —
SINCEREST GREETINGS
"Buckets" Goldenberg, squat and
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All'
shaped like a bulldog, is outstand-
ing guard with Green Bay Pack-
ers, who won the league cham-
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Established 1871
pionship by defeating New York;
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1026 ALLEGAN
Leo Disend, tackle for Brook-
JEWELER
LANSING MICH.
lyn Dodgers; Babe Patt, former
WYANDOTTE, MICHIGAN
Carnegie star and later sold by
Phone 1820
120 Maple
FULL TRUST POWERS
Detroit to Cleveland; Al Katz,
Wyandotte,
Mich.
center for Philadelphia; Dave
Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year'
Smukler, Philadelphia fullback,
Branch—OAK and 10TH
and rated as one of the best in
Branch—BIDDLE and DAVIS
the game, who, a few months
later, startles the sports world
by announcing, after Philadel-
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phia traded him to Detroit, that
he was quitting the gridiron to
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Best Wishes (or a Happy and Prosperous New Year !
234 S. CAPITOL
join the Army!
LANSING. MICH
National Bank of
Wyandotte
The Boston Cafe
Adams Grocery Co.
Cecilia Melody
Hosiery Shop
.
Wyandotte
Cab Service
Woodward Sanitary Milk Co.
Wyandotte
Savings Bank
R. W. CREGO
GUS EMMERT
Gregory, Mayer 4 Thom Co.
NOVEMBER (Kislev)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALI.
GORSLINE - RUNCIMAN CO.
FUNERAL HOME — AMBULANCE SERVICE
Day or Night Phone. 2-1531
900 EAST MICHIGAN AVE.
LANSING, MICH.
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
William G. Roost
Certified Public Accountant
AUDITS, SYSTEMS, INCOME TAX SERVICE
312 HOLLISTER BLDG.
PHONE 2-0886
LANSING MICH .
SINCEREST GREETINGS
Lansing Storage Company
Storage - Packing - Crating
"WE KNOW HOW"
440 NORTH WASHINGTON AVE.
LANSING micui
PHONE 2-2672
The first flurries of snow are
seen and basketballs are being
tossed with reckless abandon . . .
Luckman and Goldberg and Gol-
denberg are still starring for
their respective teams, with
Luchman sparking the Bears to a
30-27 victory over Green Bay in
one of the greatest football
games ever played . . . Nat Hol-
man, No. 1 basketball player of
all-time, orders his City College
of New York cage squad out
and the wolves are on Holman's
neck . . . They want a winner,
something C. C. N. Y. hasn't
had in two previous seasons
New York U., with Auerback
and Kaplowitz leading the way,
is recognized as "the team to
beat" along the eastern seaboard
. . . Rey Silverstein, former
Big Ten wrestling champion, adds
the state of Illinois title to his
string and is still undefeated in
two years of prefessional cam-
paigning . . . Jewish cagers from
coast to coast are ringing 'em
in regularly . . . There's Cantor
of St. Mary's, Shulman of Colo-
rado, Possner of DePaul in Chi-
cago, and Snyder, Kahn and
Bechtoff of Temple . . . Garfinkle
of St. Johns' in New York—all
heading the list.
DECEMBER (Tebet)
The wintry blasts send
the
sportsmen and athletics indoors,
for the most part . .. Hockey is
taking over the limelight, with
one Jewish manager, Cecil Hart,
directing the activities of hock-
ey's most colorful: Les Canad-
iens of Montreal . . . Alex "Mien
Boy" Levinsky of the Black
Hawks has been traded to the
Philadelphia Ramblers, a farm
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
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QUALITY DAIRY PRODUCTS
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Rabbi and Mrs. Abraham Danzig
and Children
wish all their friends and members of Congregation Beth El
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356 VINEWOOD AVE.
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BEST WISHES "10 ALL'
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