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Central High
Tops Western
for first Win
By FRANK BECKMAN
BOUNDING BACK after two
early defeats, Central High
School spanked a stubborn
Western High eleven, 19 to 13,
last Friday.
The victory
helped to elim-
inate, in part,
the stigma of
.setbacks at the
hands of Mac-
kenzie and
Chadscy.
The Trail-
blazers' attack
was led by
Beckman
Sam Taub, all-
city basketball ace, who drove
over for two touchdowns from
his quarterback slot,
Standouts for the Blue and
White besides Taub were Har-
vey Miller, guard; Ellsworth
Levine, end; Saul Levin, tackle;
Herb Handlesman, guard; Stan-
ley Knapp, tackle; Captain Vic-
tor Hecker, fullback; Eugene
Mondry, halfback; and Hal
Stein, center.
Backing them up as reserves
were Marvin Dubrinsky, Al
Rosenfeld, Alvin Mifelow, Pete
Schwab, Louis Warshaw, Sam
Turnow, Herb Gelfand Art
Schiff, Norbert Goldberg, Herb
Sherbin and Fred Kellman.
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Gordon Does Well
SIDNEY GORDON didn't do
too badly for the New York
Giants this year. In fact, for a
man who was slated to ride the
bench most of the season, he
did very, very well.
Sid's record reads like this:
G AB R H HR Pct.
13 • .273
56 119
130 437
Born in Brooklyn, Gordon is
29 years old and bats and
throws right-handed.
He broke into professional
baseball with Milford in the
Eastern Shore League in 1938.
Playing third base, Sid bailed
.352, including 25 home runs.
After a year at Clinton, Gor-
don was elevated to Jersey City
In 1939 and remained there
through 1942. His first complete
season in the major leagues was
1943 when he played in 131
games for the Giants, swinging
at a .251 clip.
His career was interrupted by
the war, during which time he
served two years in the Coast
Guard. Last year he batted
.293.
brotherhood that the Jew Jesus
preached wasn't being generally
accepted. I thought it note-
worthy to publish that a Jewish
institution was behaving in ac-
cordance with the teaching that
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HE'LL PLAY AT FROM 215 ers in the Hebrew Union Col- came from him and the other
Jewish prophets.
to 220 pounds and at six-foot-
offices accepting the Negro
three has the range desired in
three
• • •
typist with the friendliest gra-
that all-important line backing
ciousness.
IT'S A NEW WORLD
'
They judged her only as the
N*-
fine lady she is. She was not 441 AM HAPPY, sir, to have
been allowed to live these
4 apart by them. (It has been said
- social policy makes it im- 100 years to see these new and
that
possible
possible to employ Negro work- better times, this full dawn of a
ers in offices, since they will be justice that gives a man a break,
resented by the whites, preju- and what, if his skin isn't the
same color as mine and what if
dice being what it is.)
he was extracted from another
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race and what if he kneels at
QUAINT ITEM IN 2047
another altar?
WELL, I GUESS that, say,
WELL
"To see this makes it worth
, 100 years from now while to have lived to the year
some historian, rooting in the 2047. Otherwise it would ha
dust of some library, may find been an awful waste of my ti.
this piece in the yellow files of to have lasted that long.
this newspaper. He will regard
"Think of living 100 years
it as a quaint item reflecting
just to look at the same old
some of the social morals of the skullduggery of man, to wit-
time in which it was written.
ness the timeworn social in-
"In the year 1947," he might
justice by contrast with which,
say, "a certain writer consid-
in the year 1947, the mere fact
ered it noteworthy enough to
of a Negro being able to get a
mention that an institution of
decent job among whites looked
education had given a job in
MERVIN PREGULMAN
like a jewel of justice."
its office to a Negro typist and
• • •
that the white employes willing-
position on defense. Pregulman ly worked with her."
will be 25 on Oct. 10. In the
If I'm around 100 years from Kindergarten Classes
off-season he works with his now, I shall reply to the his-
Open at Bnai David
father in the operation of a torian: • "Sir—Thanks for dig-
Lansing furniture company.
ging me out of the dust but you . Children beginning at the age
Last spring Pregulman also missed a point. What I was try- of five can be enrolled in the
helped Clarence Munn, his line ing mainly to say was that these kindergarten of the Bnai David
coach at Michigan , and now Jews so excellently expressed Religious School it was an-
Michigan State's head coach, in their ethical teaching even to nounced.
Classes are also offered to stu-
the handling of the Spartan line dealing justly in the matter of a
dents of elementary and high
material. He does not, however, humble clerk.
"It was a time, sir, when in school age. For information call
contemplate a career in coach-
the Christian places the ethical the Synagogue office, TO. 8-8776.
ing.
Prophets Teach
Racial Goodwill
Mery Pregulman Visions
Best Season with '47 Lions
CENTER MERVIN PREGUL-
MAN of the Detroit Lions
thinks 1947 will see him "three
times the football player• I was
in 1943," and that season he was
good enough to win All-Amer-
ican honors at tackle for the
University of Michigan.
(Detroit opens its home sea-
son Sunday afternoon against
the Los Angeles Rams at Briggs
Stadinm.)
"I'm a different kind of player
now, however," Pregulman re-
ported. "I know more of what to
expect from the opposition, and
don't try to be all over the field
at once. I honestly feel that this
fall I'll have the best year of
football I have ever known."
If he does, he'll be Detroit';
No. 1 candidate among the line-
men for a berth on the all-Na-
tional-League team.
• • •
HIS FAVORITE SPOT
T CENTER, PREGULMAN
is playing the position he
likes the most. He started as a
pivot man at Lansing Central
high school, and for three years
that team was unbeaten. In
1941- he played first-string center
for Michigan, then guard in 1942
and finally at tackle in 1943. In
that final seasons he was a cinch
for All-American whatever he
played. -
Mery is an SAM and led his
chapter while at Michigan.
Mery was out of football in
1944 and 1945 but in 1946 he re-
ported to the Green Bay Packers
who had named him their top
draft choice after the 1943 col-
legiate season.
After two years ,away from
the game, Pregulman, was slow
in rounding into form. The
Packers had him at a guard
spot and it was mid-season be-
fore he hit even a semblance
of the stride that had made him
a Big Ten great.
A
Friday, October 10, 1947
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NAVY LIEUTENANT
IN THE GAP BETWEEN his
playing days at Michigan and
the time he reported to the
Packers, Pregulman served in
the navy and held a lieutenant's
rating when discharged.
He participated in the engage-
ments at Luzon, Iwo Jima,
Okinawa and the Battle of
Japan, winning four battle stars.
When the Lions started train-
ing Aug. 9, Pregulman was
already in near-perfect condi-
tion. Despite that, he has been
one of the hardest workers on
the club right from the start.
Within two weeks he had won
the starting center assignment
away from veteran Frank Szy-
manski from Notre Dame and
was out in front of linemen at
other positions in all-around
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performance. As a line-backer
Hank Given Release
he has been making brutal
HANK GREENBERG, who tackles and his speed and
was given his unconditional re- aggressiveness have made him a
lease from the Pittsburgh Pi- similar offensive standout.
rates last week, is reported in
•the market for buying an in-
terest in some minor league Czech General Lands
team. Hank, highest 'paid play-
er in the history of baseball, Jewish War Record
compiled a .251 batting average
PRAGUE, (JTA)—Gen. Ludvik
this season, clouting 25 home Svoboda, minister of war, praised
runs.
as "excellent" the record of the
Jews who served in the Czecho-
• • •
slovak Army of Liberation. The
Abrams to Brooklyn
sacrifices of the Jews are "in-
CAL ABRAMS, Mobile out- disputable," he said, addressing
fielder in the Southern Asso- a congress of Jewish veterans of
both World Wars.
ciation, has been sold to Brook-
The opening of the all-Euro-
lyn• He is one of • two Jewish
pean Zionist convention has been
players in that league who have postponed until Aug. 12, it has
jumped to the majors. The been announced. The Czech For-
other is Marvin ,Itutner of Bir- eign Ministry has stated that it
mingham, who finished the sea- will grant visas to all delegates
desiring to attend the parley.
son with the Philadelphia Ath-
The Post Office is issuing a
letics,
special stamp with a Hebrew text
Another. Cy Block; •third-base- on its face in honor of the con-
man for Nashville, will probably ference. The national radio has
be in the big time, come next made arrangements to broadcast
the more important addresses on
spring. He is property of the
its short wave transmitter.
Chicago Cubs.
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