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OUR ATHLETES

Thursday, June 30, 1949

DETROIT JEWISH CIIRONICLE

Merchants Alit Negro Fund

Fight Script
Provided by
Artie, Jake

By MITCHELL TENDLER
UST A SHORT while after
J Jacob LaMotta reached the
heights of his chosen profession
by defeating Marcel Cerdan and
becoming the middleweight cham-
pion of the world, an obscure
notice appeared in the boxing
results.
It said simply
that Dick Wag-
ner, 169 , •.!, Port-
land,Ore., knock-
ed out Artie Le-
vine, 170, Brook-
lyn, in the eighth
round at the
Cleveland Are-
na.
• So now Jake is
on the top of the
Tendler
world, king of
the 160 pounders, and Artie is just
a husky, good-looking blonde
kid who will bounce off canvasses
in back-road clubs until, if he's
lucky, he hangs up the mitts
while he is still able to see
straight, or if he is unlucky, until
his brain gets as foggy as the
smoke-filled rings he fights in.
• • •

Just a 'Break'

AND YET, with a slight "break"
their poSitions could have been
easily reversed, Artie could have
been the "fair-haired" boy and
Jake the Bronx bum.
The parallel begins in 1946. The
war had slowed up the fight game
considerably. Artie was in the
Marines from 1943-45 during
which he won 70 bouts, dropped
seven and drew twice.
The "breaks" took over then.
Jake began his famous series of
brawls with "Sugar Ray" Robin-
son. those fights which were to
gain for him national recognition.
• • . •

Morton Silverman Auxiliary
added $250 to the building fund
of the Memorial., Home. Mes-
dames Sylvia Koss and Freda
Goosen were appointed chairmen
for the annual donor luncheon.
• • • •

Gen. Maurice Rose Auxiliary
has installed Jenny Fox as presi-
dent. Other officers are Florence
Leider, Estelle Trubow, Evelyn
Skupsky, Lillian Epstein, Sylvia
Salzman and Selma Goodman.
The group will meet July 14 at
the home of Florence Leider,
2959 Tuxedo avenue, for informa.
tion call Estelle Trubow, UN. 1-

THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
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1024.

Total Quota

The East Side Merchants Association presents a check for $240 to the United Negro College Fund.
This businessmen's association Was organized to promote better understanding between Negroes and
Jews. The president is Meyer Silverman. Left to right, Samuel Lieberman, Louis Abramowitz, Al-
bert Boesky, LaMarr Webb, Dr. A. W. Curtis, John Haney, Silverman, Sam Lipson and Henry S.
Dunbar. This project is one of the many activities of the association on behalf of the Negro com-
munity in which they do business. The East Side Merchants Association is a constituent of the
Jewish Community Council.

Heads Young Israel

Songbird

• • •
• 2 Fox Fights
WHILE LA morrA

was mak-
ing a career out of fighting Robin-
son, Levine was matched with
Billy Fox at a time when the
Philadelphian was still known as
"Blackjack Billy." Artie was as-
sisted from the ring after absorb-
ing a fearful beating for three
rounds.
Just to keep the parallel
straight, La Motta was also put in
the ring with Fox. Jake lost on a
TKO in four, but, unlike Artie,
for some reason his beating didn't
evoke sympathy. As a matter of
fact, it was discovered later that
Jake had entered the ring with a
ruptured spleen; and possibly
wasn't in a condition to take too
much punishment.

• • •

IIIUMSKA, outstand-
ing interpreter of Lsraeli songs
in the United States, is off to
Tel Aviv, where she will make
recordings for the Lsrael Music
Foundation.

Showman

Honor Martyrs

JACK DICKSTEIN has been
named director of entertain-
ment for the Centennial State
Fair Sept. 2-11. Thus a man
with a record of 40 years in the
show business will help make
this year's fair the biggest and
best yet. Dickstein has been
manager of Edgewater amuse-
ment park and producer of the
police field day.

green on the traffic lights.

On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Jews of War-
saw meet in a solemn service with Polish army officers at the
Martyrs' Memorial.

Betty Spinner, hospital chair.
man of the Yetz-Cohen Auxiliary,
was presented with a hospital pin
for meritorius work in assisting
with hospital parties at the Mar-
ine and Dearborn Veterans hos-
pitals. A joint social of the post
and auxiliary is slated for Thurs-
day. The auxiliary will meet July
18. The post and auxiliary will
hold their first annual moonlight
to Bob-Lo Island, Sunday, July
24. All proceeds will go for re-
habilitation. For tickets call Sam
Alpert, post commander, TY. 6-
9904.

Miz•aehi Asks
U. S. Softening

SAMUEL W. PLATT will be installed as president of Young
Israel ?July 13. He is shown above, right, being congratulated on
his election by Abbe A. Levi whom he succeeds. Other officers
are Harry L. Blitz and Meyer Weisenfeld, vice-presidents; Mrs.
Hillel L. Abrams, secretary; and Solomon N. Cohen, treasurer. The
following were elected to the board: David Berris, Morris H.
Berris, Ruth Bodzin, Henry Dworkin, Mayer Eisenberg, Joseph
Grossman, Louis Harris, Jerome Kalman, Dr. Hugo Mandelbaum,
Leon Mutchnik, Abbe A. Levi, Louis Penfil, Dr. Harry Portnoy,
Irving W. Schlussel, Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter, Rabbi Abraham
Zentman, Isadore Cohen, Solomon Cohen and Charles T. Gellman.
Mrs. Morris Subar and Mrs. Jack H. Isbee represent the Women's
League and Harold Platt, the Young Adults,

• • •
•
Champ and Chump

FOLLOWING THE Fox fight,
Jake lost to one Cecil Hudson in
Chicago and to Robert Villemain
in the Garden. That qualified him
for a title go with Cerdan.
Meantime, Artie was making
the rounds with nondescripts like
Wagner, and getting kayoed, at
that.
Jake is king nowt, and Artie?
Well, if Artie gets a break, for a
change, he will get a job driving
a cab someplace while he can still
distinguish between red and

• • •

The Jewish-American partion
of the WDET Cosmopolitan Hour,
broadcast each Sunday at 11 a.m.,
and sponsored by the Jewish
Community Council, will be ded-
icated this week to the JWV.
Harold Moran, past state com-
mander, will represent JWV on
the program.

Lawrence H. Jones Post has
selected Susan Popkin of 18019
Santa Barbara drive as the win-
ner of its "Americanism" essay
contest held for Central High
School students. Miss Popkin and
her parents will be honored by
the post at a future date, Robert
Keller, commander, announced.

2 Minutes to Go •

IN '46, ARTIE, who was a com-
parative unknown at the time,
also had a shot at "Sugar Ray."
It was in November at the Cleve-
land Arena. For nine rounds and
one minute that night, Artie's
possibilities were unlimited.
, Going into the 10th and final
round, he was on his way to
o achieving the fistic upset of the
year. Artie had floored Robinson
twice in the earlier rounds and
was clearly ahead on points,
when, with two minutes of the
tight to go, the "Sugar" blasted
Artie's hopes with a right cross,
and the dream was all over.

• • •

Charles and Aaron Kogan Aux-
iliary, Detroit Auxiliary and the
Yetz-Cohen Auxiliary jointly
presented the Detroit Marine
hospital with 10 deck chairs for
the new tuberculosis wing. Helen
Kogan, president, and Martha
Friedman of the Charles and
Aaron Kogan Auxiliary delivered
the chairs along with white socks,
books and refreshments.

'SAND' AT THE FOX
Acclaimed as bet ter than
"Smoky," the great outdoor dram-
atization of Will James' "Sand"
is scheduled to open Friday at
the Fox theater. The technicolor
film stars Mark Stevens, Coleen
Gray and Rory Calhoun.

ATLANTIC CITY—(WNS)—A
resolution urging the U. S. gov-
ernment to reconsider its recent
policy toward Israel and to use
its influence toward inducing the
Arab states to accept Israel's offer
of direct peace negotiations was
adopted at the 29th annual con•
vention of the Mizrachi Organi-
zation of America.
The convention voiced "con-
cern" at "recent developments
indicating that the United States
government is exercising pressure
upon the State of Israel to make
concessions of a kind which
would unjustifiably deprive her
of territory and which threaten
her internal security."
A warning that Israel might be
compelled to close its gates to
immigration unless "the whole of
the Jewish people helps bolster
the state's economy until final
liberation is assured," was sound-
ed by Judge Morris Rothenberg,
president of the Jewish National
Fund.
Addressing the 1,200 delegates,
Judge Rothenberg cautioned that
if Israel were compelled to close
its gates the move "would defeat
the very purpose for which the
State was created." Such a threat
exists, he declared, adding that
the political threat still hovers
over Israel."

