A merican Yewish Periodical Center CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Friday, September 27, 1946 ----- DETROIT JI3WISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Seven • 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. 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