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Friday, September 27, 1946
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DETROIT JI3WISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Jewish Champions of America
By LOUIS MILLER
On any given Sunday, consult
the sporting pages of your news-
paper and carefully note the
names of the participants and
headliners. Where once Jewish
performers were as rare as a day
in June, they are now as numer-
ous as the events in which they
participate. It is a common pheno-
menon indeed today to read ac-
counts of outstanding baseball
games, tennis matches, horse-
racing classics and boxing match-
es, among others, and to observe
how representatives of the JeWish
faith have catapulted into top-
flight positions.
Last fall, for example, the blue-
ribbon classic of America — the
World Series — was emblazoned
with the sensational exploits of
Hank Greenberg, the hammering
outfielder of the Detroit Tigers
who came back from the wars to
race his team to victory over the
Chicago Cubs.
This May, when the epic of a
turf—the famed Kentucky Derby
at Churchill Downs was staged
before a frenzied crowd of more
than 100,000 spectators, it was a
thoroughbred, Assault, trained by
the renowned Max Hirsch, that
sped over the historic course to
annex the event. And It was this
same Assault that became the
Triple Crown champion by virtue
of similarly sensational conquests
In the Belmont Stakes and the
Preakness.
In another week or two, the
colorful spectacle of football will
again splash the calendar of ath-
letics, and again the name of an
All-America great will be played
up in the headlines. He is Sid
Luckman, the Brooklyn youth who
went to Columbia and then in-
creased his stature by leading the
formidable Chicago Bears to one
professional league title after an-
other.
Greenberg, Hirsch, Luckman --
they are only three of a throng
that has crowded its way into the
pages of the nation's press by
impressive exploits. In other sports
there are other trail-blazers, in
basketball, track and field, tennis
boxing, golf. Name any popular
pastime today and you will find
it a simple task to identify a
Jewish participant who has scaled
to the heights or close to it.
At one time it was a difficult
matter for Jewish athletes to
crash the "blueblood" sports of
horce-racing, golf and tennis. This
was particularly true of the lat-
ter event. It so happens that ten-
nis is one game where invitations
to compete govern most of the
big meets. Thus it was almost im-
oossible at one time—and not so
long ago, at that for a Jew to
rate an invite. Today that is an-
other matter. So regularly and so
magnificently have Jews per-
—
formed in scholastic and college
events, in which Invitations are
not the password, that they liter-
ally lifted themselves by the boot-
straps from the anonymity to
surpassing fame. •
Chief example of this new school
is Seymour Greenberg, the Chica-
go wizard who has claimed na-
tional clay court honors in two
different campaigns. This scintil-
lating netman came close to
achieving the upset of the 1946
campaign in a match with Don
McNeill, National champion and
ranking player of 1940. He was
barely nosed out by McNeill in
the New York State final, 4-6, 4-6,
7-5, 9-7, 8-6 in a duel that lasted
three and-a-half hours.
There are near-greats in this
sport, youngsters who did fair to
become the first Jews to be con-
sidered for Davis Cup berths. We
have in mind Irwin Dorfman of
Columbia, Eastern Collegiate
champ; Sid Schwartz, the best ju-
nior player in the East, and Leo-
nard Steiner. Much is to be heard
from them in the future.
Golf is another game In the
same category as tennis. Jews,
put on the defense, have had to
organize their own golf clubs in
order to get out on the links.
And in the last dozen years, golf
has produced a ranking ace In
the person of German Barron,
the professional from White
Plains, N. Y, who has annexed
the honors in such events al the
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Western Open and the Philadel-
phia "Inquirer" Charities tourney.
But it was In an event that he
did not win that he made his
standout challenge.
That was the '46 and the place
was Cleveland, scene of the U. S.
Open title event. It was only af-
ter a dramatic finish that Bar-
ron's bid, made with a card of
285, was just repulsed as a three-
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