DETROIT JEWISH CIIROWICLIC Page Sixteen Our .Uhleiets 3 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. • • • 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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 • • • 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 • • • 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 • • • 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. 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