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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

OUR ATHLETES

Thursday, July 7, 1949

Guard Holly City's" Lifeline

Abrams Set
for Big Time
Next Time

JESTER'

"I MET YOU many years ago,"
the lady told the late Congress-
man Sol Bloom, ''but I dare say
you do not remember my name."
Bloom was an old smoothie arid
tactfully replied: "That is true.
When we last met I was sure your
beauty and many accomplish-
nients would soon compel you to
change it."
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By MITCHELL TENDLER

T 11 E CONSISTENTLY good

play of the Fort Worth Cats
who are presently leading the
way in the Texas League is due
no little to their lead-off hitter
and left fielder, Cal Abrams.
. Abrams, who began the season
with the Brooklyn Dodgers but
was sent to Fort
Worth when he
couldn't hit his
weight in Ebbets
Field, has found
himself with a
vcngence in the
Texas environ-
ment.
At the last
compilation
Abrams was hit-
ting . .336 for fifth
Tendler
in the league.
just 12 percentage points from
the leader. He really blew his
• top in a contest against Shreve-
port when he accounted or two
homers, a triple, double, single
and pass in six trips. The Cats
won that one, 19-0.

s:L4,21t.

In the
vital "Jerusalem Corridor" which links the Holy City to Tel Aviv, the settlement of Tal Scha-
char (Morning
Dew) was named for Henry Morgenthau, United Jewish Appeal chairman. The col-
ony guards Israel's line of communicatians and lays the groundwork fr e n
absor p tion of ew
immigrants. Neiv buildings erected. since Tal Schachar was founded nine months
(loft). At the right is one of the settlements's youthful builders, ag o are shown

Off to London

•

Old Spirit
of Chalutz
Is Ebbing

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Wait 'til '50

IN ANOTHER game against
Beaumont Cal got three singles, a
triple, scored five runs and stole
a base to lead Fort Worth to a
lopsided 22-2 decision.
Abrams is an earnest, hard-
working youngster who just had
a rough go of it on his first trip
to the big time. With this added
year hi the AA Texas League he
stands a great chance of sticking
with the Brooks come next April.
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By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
(Jewish World News Service)

NEW YORK—The highlight of
the National Conference for
Labor Israel was the report of
Chaim Greenberg, leader of the
Zionist Labor movement. It was
a unique report because, instead
of singing the usual "Hallelujas"
to Israel and glorifying every-
thing there, Greenberg painted a
gloomy picture of conditions and
criticized many aspects of Israeli
life.

WHEN THE FLOOD was over
and Noah had freed all the ani-
mals, he returned to the Ark to
make sure all had left. In one
corner he found two snakes
quietly crying to themselves.
He inquired about their sorrows
and they told him: "You said go
forth and multiply upon the earth
and we are adders."
• •
A DP WHO had just arrived
from Europe frequently saw in
store windows a sign which said
"Bargain." He asked what the
word meant and was told "bar-
I gain" means "good buy."
So for days afterwards, when
bidding farewells in English. lie
smiled, bowed and said: "Bar-
gain."
• • •

"SO YOU MET your wife at a
dance," said the old busybody.
"Wasn't that rpmantic!"
"No, it wasn't," said Mefoofsky,
"it was embarrassing. I thought
she was home looking after the
kids."

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THEN THERE IS the story of
the little boy, a real wartime
product, who returned from
school and told his mother he'd
heard all about the Ten Com-
mandos.
• •
Workhorse Ernie
A SHADCHAN took a customer
AARON (ERNIE) SILVER-
to v isit a rich family that was
MAN, bespectacled pitcher for
offer ing a pretty daughter.
the Buffalo Bisons of the Inter-
His chief criticism was of the as th u," he exclaimed boastfully
national League has been one of
new immigrants who are arriving wond ey left, "Didn't I tell you how
the hardest working hurlers in
the circuit thus far this season.
literally by the thousands every thing erful they were! Every-
just right! And what was
day. These people are violently h
The 27-year-old righthander Mrs. Louis A. Rosett (left), of New Rochelle,
n was even more than was
N. Y,, president of opposed to every kind of collec-
has worked in 16 of the Bisons' the National Federation of Temple
on vi ew. Just what you need!"
first 39 games to date. As is
Sisterhoods; and Mrs. Harold tive effort, cooperation and so-
Th e prospective , bridegroom
often M. Baum, of Milwaukee,
the case with a workhorse tee, will represent the Wis., a member of its executive commit- cialistic experiment, he said. They said n othing.
75,000
members
of
the
organization
at
the
chucker, Silverman's 7-5 record International Conference of
are fierce individualists; they
''Nu
the Shadchan insisted,
the World Union for Progressive strongly object to working on the "Wha
belie.: his effectiveness on the
t do you think?"
Judaism in London, July 14-19,
mound.
4.W
land, in "Kvutzas" (cooperatives),
hat do I think, what do
• . .
or even on individual farms.
; think! the young man burst out
They
prefer
the
light
occ
upa- I impat iently, "Nu, and how do I
Saul's in Form
tions of the big cities and th e
know they didn't borrow the
"BIG SAUL" ROGOVIN, Sil-
easy gain of the street ma rl- et china
and the silverware"
verman's colleague at Buffalo
They are clever enough and even Yo u
should live so long," the
who was cut from the Tiger
intelligent, but they are entirely ' Shade
han responded with irrita-
roster earlier this year, has been
devoid of the idealism and noble tion. "Who'd loan anything
a mainstay of the Bison mound
to
aspirations of the first chalutzim those crooks?"
staff since his arrival.
(pioneers) who came to Palestine
• • •
Rogovin, who has won six and
from Russia and Poland.
riSeAa
na l MIE WAS GIVEN an air-
. lost two, to kelp Paul Richard's
SOCIALISM DOOMED?
outfit top the league, has also
nd a diary for birthday
The unprecedented influx of present s. In his diary lie wrote:
been used in pinch-hitting roles.
immigrants and the character day,
In a recent game against
y, wet and sloppy." ''Tues-
and background of the new ar-
Rochester both Silverman and
w
„, et and sloppy." "Wednes-
rivals are, jeopardizing the earlier; day,- et and sloppy. Just shot
Rogovin pitched and infielder Cy
socialistic and collective economy j grandp a."
Block was used as a pinch-hitter,
• • •
of the country, Greenberg said.
making three Jewish boys in the
THER E ARE TWO periods in a
Socialism is almost doomed in
line-up for Buffalo. Rochester
won, 3-0.
Israel, especially if the present I man's 1 ife when he never under-
• •.
rate and type of immigrant is stands a woman said a Rabbi in
kept up. Israel must now be rap- Berdich ev. They are when he is
Watching Saltzman
idly transformed into a capital- i married , and ever afterwards.
OUT ON THE west coast it was
istic, so-called "free enterprise"
• • •
reported that Pittsburgh Scout
economy if it is to meet the prob-
EVER YBODY IN Israel is doing
Ted McGraw has been eying
lems of its huge immigration sue- his best to help the new State get
Hal Saltzman. The former Uni-
cessfully,
along. Recently Hershel spent
versity of Oregon hurler has a ; Presentation of colors by Jewish War Veterans Naval Post 219
He compared Israel now with all his spare time developing
6-5 record with the second divis - in New York at the first celebration in the U. S. of Yom IIaYam,
Soviet Russia in the early 20's new ex plosive that he hoped a
ion Portland club.
Israel Maritime Day, The Israel Maritime League,
a beneficiary when Lenin introduced the would It elp bring victory sooner.
Another promising pitcher,
of the American Fund for Israel Institutions, is sponsored by all "N.E.P." (New Economic Policy).
Mary Rotblatt, late of the Uni-
One day there was a terrific ex-
Zionist bodies in the U. S.
The "Kvutzas," the various ex- plosion a nd Hershel and his wife
versity of Illinois, was voted the
periments in social reform which
outstanding pla;er with Memphis
were se en blown through the
amazed the world because they window by the blast. They were
of the Southern Association.
were
performed
on
• • •
a voluntary never se en again.
basis, are now being submerged
My g oddness," a neighbor le-
Ruiner Connects
W— (WNS)—Polish au
by the new rush of immigrants marked,
"That's the first time in
-,30
of
the
rescued
children
are
i
n
the
need
to
provide
them
years I'v e seen Hershel and his
MICKEY RUTNER, the third thorities have dissolved the fed ; now in Israel.
baseman who was sent from eration of Zionist groups at, Lodz
with business enterprises and city. Mrs. go out together.
Meanwhile it was disclosed that 1 employment
• • •
Louisville to Tulsa in the Texas on the alleged ground that the or-
os • men t . he assel ted.
the
ministry
of
public
adminis-
League, smashed out game-win-
GROW OR PERISH
A NEW YORK Yiddish theatre
ganization was existing illegally tration h as on its files a l' t
ning hits for the Oilers in two of
an old-time Socialist, Green- manager was looking over a letter
because it failed to register with 13,000 Jews who applied for per- ;
berg is very sorry for what is of introduction just presented to
the first three games he played
the proper governmental agency. mission to leave to Israel. The now happening
following the switch.
in Israel, but as a him by a prospective actor. "Mr.
Organized shortly after Po- Central Jewish Committee was good Jewish nationalist he sees no
It's hard to conceive how play-
Hirshbein," the letter read, "plays
ing with such an inferior ball land's liberation from the Nazis, reported to have issued 6,500 cer- way out of the dilemma.
Sholom Aleichem, Sholom Asch
tificates,
a
prerequisite
to
the
club as is the present Toledo the federation preoccupied itself
The political need of rapidly and baseball. He plays baseball
filing of applications for pass- filling up the country is greater best."
aggregation will do anything with finding Jewish children that ports
to
Israel.
• •
beneficial for "Little Joe" Gins- had been placed for shelter in
than Socialism and all the other
Christian homes and sending
berg's catching ability.
MANY
AFTER-DINNER
speak-
great
humanitarian
values
creat-
SPEED RAIL LINE
them to Israel. The federation;
ers," remarked a New York sage,
TEL AVIV — (Z0A)—The new ed by two generations of social
was
reported
to
have
rescued
r
The Chronicle's new address is
experiment and idealism. No gov- "are men who eat a lot of food
more than 500 children through; a ailway line connecting Hadera
2827 Barium Tower.
they don't want, then talk about
payment of huge ransoms. All but p nd Tel Aviv through the Sharon ernment of Israel could last a day
if it limited the rush of i mmi things they don't understand to
lain, is under construction,
grants now, he said.
ow of people who don't want
I to listen."

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