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Our Athletes

By FRANK BECKMAN

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The Jewish
Jester

By ELYEII NATIIANS
THE CRY "play ball," has al-
ready sent thousands of fans pil- THE LEGEND goes that the
ing into baseball parks.
great Jewish philosopher and
If they are residents of Boston, scientist, Moses Maimonides, was
Detroit or St. Louis, they have once asked by his monarch for
hopes of seeing their hometown ways and means of increasing the
teams in t h e
national revenue.
World Series.
"I propose," said Maimonides,
The rest are
just as hopeful "that a tax be levied on female
but, as in the beauty."
"But how could we make the
case of Phila-
delphia or Cin- woman Ray enough to make it
cinnati, have no worth while?" the king inquired.
illusions about "Let each woman assess her own
a pennant. charms," the philosopher replied.
They either "She'll be generous enough."
reminisce or
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Beckman
look ahead.
FOR ALL HIS piety and deep
Ten years ago, Jewish players learning, Maimonides was not
were sprinkled much more pro- above the gentle, but stinging,
fusely throughout the big leagues answer should the occasion re-
than today. A quick glance at quire it. The story goes that he
the various rosters in 1937 would once conversed with an unduly
have shown the following names boastful Moor who declared, "We
on hand for opening day:
are the politest people in the
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world. Everyone acknowledges it.
Hank Greenberg, Tigers, 1st You Jews are remarkable people.
base.
but we excell you in politeness.
Buddy Myer, Senators, 2nd You admit it, don't you."
' base.
Maimonides smiled.
Harry Banning, Giants, catch.
"Yes," he said, "that is our po-
Moo Berg, Red Sox, catch.
liteness."
Fred Sington, Senators, out-
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field.
TO ILLUSTRATE the evils of
Morris Arnovich, Phillies, out-
indolence, Maimonides related the
field.
Phil Weintraub, Reds, outfield. story of a man whose wife went
Sidney Cohen, Senators, pitch. to the town well for water and
Harry Eisenstadt, Dodgers, came back bearing it in a heavy-
hard-to-carry pail.
pitch.
The man snapped out of his
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THEN FOR entertainment there laziness.
Holding his hand up dramati-
was Al Schacht, the coach-come-
dian, who had no peer in mixing cally, he proclaimed: 'This has
laughs with sound baseball sense. got tc a top! Day after day, I
Although there are far less Jews have watched you carry that big
performing in the majors this pail of water from the well. It
season, 1947 promises to be one shall not happen henceforth. From
of the most interesting for Jew- now on, get a small pail and make
two trips."
ish fans.
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All eyes will be turned to Pitts-
burgh, where the heralded Hank
THE GREAT JEWISH teacher
Greenberg will be playing in a was an inveterate tea drinker.
new environment after more than He consumed it in great quanti-
a decade with the Tigers. Few ties. Indeed, as he composed his
have any doubts about Hank's phenominal interpretations of the
succeSs.
Bible, great pots of tea were by
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his side.
HE HAS SPARKED the Bucs
"Do you always have tea when
in their spring training campaign you write?" he was asked.
and has given them new confi-
"Oh yes," he said.
"And how quickly do you
dence.
A Pirate, Jim Russell, said, write?"
"Hank Greenberg is the best team
"Oh, about a thousand words
man I ever played with."
to the gallon," he estimated.
It may be a far-fetched to hope
—a—
that Detroit and Pittsburgh will
meet in the World Series. But
SEEING OFF a companion,
Hank is praying for just that Maimonides wished him well with
miracle and so are a host of the following terse message, "May
you live all the days of your life."
others.
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IF A HIGH IQ is needed to
Here are some of his aphorisms
coach football, Mervin Pregulman,
former All-American lineman and quotations that have come
from the University of Michigan, down over the last several cen-
turies:
doesn't have to worry.
A man who poses as a fountain
Mery has been named an as-
sistant on the staff of Head of knowledge is often just a tric-
Coach Biggie Munn at Michi- kle of water.
A person's dreams will come
gan State College. Ile will con-
fine his duties to the Spartans' true only if he wakes up.
Man is a social being. Perhaps
spring training drills and will re-
but he
join the professional Green Bay he likes to walk alone
dislikes to be alone s in his opinion.
Packers this fall.
We pray into God's ears, not
Don Wattrick, director of WJR's
sports department, was Pregul- into his eyes.
man's prep coach in Lansing.
Wattrick describes big Mery is "a
dumbbell, who only got all 'A's'
in high school."
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LEAH THALL of Columbus, 0.,
captured the national women's
singles table tennis crown by de-
throning defending champion
Bernice Charney Chotros of New
York City.

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Peerce in Recital

Home Relief Society
to Hear Dr. Goldberg

Dr. W. A. Goldberg, Jewish
Chronicle columnist, will be guest
speaker at a meeting of the Home
Relief Scciety April 28 at the
home of Mrs. Louis Frank, 3213
Lawrence avenue. His subject will
be "A Fcrmula for Today's Chil-
dren."

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ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
Detroit. Jewry will soon be so-
licited for contributions to the
1947 Joint Defense Appeal cam-
paign for $6,000,000. The Anti
Defamation League receives funds JAN PEERCE, Jewish tenor with
the Metropolitan, will be presented
from JDA.
in a recital Sunday at Music
Hall. In his fifth year with the
CORNFIELD FAMILY CLUB
The monthly meeting of the Metropolitan, Peerce was recently
Cornfield Family Club will be held voted the favorite radio tenor.
Sunday evening in the home of Tickets are on sale 'at Grinnell's.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mintz of 14th Metro Music Store and Music Hall
box office.
Venue.

Friday, April 18, 1947

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O lituarie3

LOUIS BERSHAS, 50, died April
9. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
JOSEPH SMITH. 63, died April
9. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
HYMAN ROSENBLUM, 52, died
April 10. Hebrew Benevolent So-
ciety.
BERNARD SCHWARTZ, 60, died
April 10. Hebrew Benevolent So-
ciety.
NATHAN DORFMAN, 68, died
April 11. Hebrew Benevolent So-
ciety.
MAX BRUCK, 16, died April 11.
Hebrew Benevolent Society.
2IOLLIE GOLD, 75, died April
12. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
LILLIAN HARRIS, 65, died Ap-
ril 12. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
JOSEPH COHEN, 70, died April
14. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
ROSE SIDORSKY, 60, died April
11. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
SAUL WINKELMAN, 75, of Los
Angeles, died April 6. Lewis Bro3.
Chapel.
YETTA RAISKIN, 64, of 3351
Webb avenue, died April 14. Lewis
Bros. Chapel.
LENA WOLF, G6, of Rochester
N. Y., and formerly of Detroit,
died April 9.
SARAH POI:LACK, 3253 Pasa-
dena avenue, died April 7. Ira
Kaufman Chapel.
SAMUEL KLEIN, 14957 Steel
avenue, died April 10. Ira Kauf-
man • Chapel.
HERMAN MARCUS, 1410 Glynn
court, died April 13. Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
WILLIAM STALLER, 46, of
3353 Fullerton avenue, died April

1. Lewis Bros. Chapel.
PHILIP BARASH, 61, of 2511
Pingrce avenue, died April 3.
Hebrew Benevolent Society.
ANNETTE SOLMON, 38, died
April 5. Hebrew Benevolent So-
ciety.
ZALMON KARABELNICK, Si,
died April 1. Hebrew Benevolent
Society.
NADIE KING, 53, died March
31. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
JOSEPH MOORE, 85, of 1653
Lee Place, died April 1. Hebrew
Benevolent Society.
SAM COHEN, 59, died April 1.
Hebrew Benefolent Society.
EVA MOSS, 59, of 2210 Pingree
avenue, died April 1. Hebrew
Benevolent Society.
SAM SCHWARTZ, 51, died April
2. Hebrew Benevolent Society.
SARAH WASSERMAN, Holly-
wood, Fla., died March 31. Hebrew
Benevolent Society.
HARRY NITCHUN, 54, of 3319
Grand avenue. Hebrew Benevolent
Society.
LOUIS ABRAMS, 1641 Euclid
avenue, died March 30. Ira Kauf-
man Chapel.
CELIA MEYERS, 16141 Linwood
avenue, died April 2. Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
WILLIAM GREENHUT, Chica-
go and formerly of Detroit, died
April 1. Ira Kaufman Chapel.
MOLLY SUMMERS, 16137 Bay-
lis avenue, died April 2. Ira Kauf-
man Chapel.
JACOB RASSNER, 3310 Tuxedo
avenue, died April 3. Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
MARY SPEYER, 2210 Phila-
delphia avenue, died April 4. Ira
Kaufman Chapel.

JULIUS SHRAGER, 2280 Euclid
avenue, died April 4. Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
LOUIS PORTNOY, 3315 Webb
avenue, died April 6. Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
ISADORE SKOLNICK, 68, of
11842 LaSalle boulevard, died
March 30. Lewis Bros. Chapel.
SHIRLEY SCHNEIDER, three
months, of 17380 Santa Rosa drive,
died March 29. Lewis Bros. Chapel.
MAX WIESENBACHER, 61, of
Ypsilanti, Mich., died March 28.
Lewis Bros. Chapel.
HARRIET SADOW, 50, of 1695
Chicago boulevard, died April 5.
Lewis Bros. Chapel.
ABRAHAM WEISMAN, 76, of
2453 Atkinson avenue, died April
1. Lewis Bros. Chapel.

i n Memoriam

In loving memory of our dear
son and brother, Pvt. Melvin
Sapperstein, who died in the serv-
ice of his country April 17, 1945.
Sadly missed by his parents, Mr
and Mrs. Sol Sapperstein, and
sister, Beene.

In loving memory of, our
loved father and grandfath. ,
Abraham Lott, who passed away
on Nisan 29, 1928.
Tho absent, still within our
hearts.
Thy memory holds its place,
Too firmly fixed for time or
change,
To ever it efface.
Sadly missed by his daughter,
Mrs. R. Shapiro of Glendale, Calif
and her children.

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When yOu check the list below, perhaps you'll find that yot,'ve under-
estimated the electrical equipment that keeps your home pleasant and
comfortable.

Our records show that customers are using more and more current in
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far greater even than when war plants worked round the clock. But
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Motors: Sewing machine, refrigerator,

washing machine, clock, razor, record
player, furnace fan, electric tools, venti-
lating fan, ironer, vacuum cleaner, kitchen
mixer, dishwasher, vibrator, stoker or
oil burner, electrical toys, home freezer.

heating Appliances: Toaster, heating pad,

electric blanket, range, water heater,
roaster, space heater, bottle warmer,
hand iron, mangle, coffet maker, waffle
iron, bun warmer, curling iron, grill, sea
kettle, heat lamp.

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