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U. S. to Send
Team of 50
to Maccabiah

Bnai Brith Helps
in Canadian Flood

The Scoreboard

By AARON GOFF

NEW YORK—(WNS)—A team
of about 50 to 60 . men and wo-
men, constituting America's lead-
ing athletes, will compete in the
third world Maccabiah to be held
in Israel Sept. 27 to Oct. 9, it was
announced here by Col. Harry D.
Henshal and Charles L. Orn-
stein, co-chairmen of the National
Committee for U. S. Participa-
tion.
A committee of five has been
'chosen to select outstanding Jew-
ish athletes on the basis of per-
formance, to form the squad
scheduled to leave by plane about
Sept. 24.
So far 27 nations have accepted
invitations, including England,
France, Belgium, Ireland, Aus-
tria, Switzerland and Uruguay.

Israelis to Attend
VNESCO Parley

TEL AVIV — ( ISI) — Zalman
Shazar, minister of education and
'culture, will be chairman of Is-
rael's delegation to the fifth gen-
eral meeting of UNESCO which
will convene at Florence, Italy,
on May 22.
Other members of the Israel
delegation will be Dr. Pinchas
Kohn, political adviser to the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, vice
chairman; Dr. Samuel. Sambur-
ski, director of the Israel Scien-
tific AdvisorrCouncil, and Dr.
Abraham Dushkin of the Hebrew
'University.

T AST APRIL 12, Hank Greenberg, general manager of the Cleve-

land Indians, released . 33-year-old veteran Ken Keltner uncon-
ditionally and definitely assigned the third base position to rookie
Al Rosen.
Loyal Tribe rooters hollered the husky (5'11", 180 lbs,) new-
for the former Detroit Tiger star's comer to justify Greenberg's
scalp. They claimed that the In- faith in him and win over the
dians had eliminated themselves fans and Boudreau.
from the forthcoming pennant
In the season opener, before
race by keeping the 25-year-old 65,744 critical Cleveland follow-
Miami resident and cutting adrift ers, Rosen hit a tremondous home
Keltner, who had been guarding run off Detroit's Fred Hutchinson
the Cleveland hot corner for more with one man on base to give the
than a decade.
Indians a 6-6 tie in the eighth
They argued that Rosen, des- inning.
pite a better than .300 average
The next afternoon, with a run-
for five years of play in the mi- ner on base, he hit his second ma-
nors, had not been able to hit jor league, homer off Ted Gray
major league pitching in his of the Tigers, Rosen has continu-
spring training and late season ed his fine stickwork, hitting over
trials with the Indians. The .300 and ranking high in the cir-
young Jewish lad's fielding, al- cuit in round-trippers and runs
though vastly improved, was still batted in.
very erratic, they bellowed.
Nicknamed "Flip," Rosen was
• • •
born in Spartanburg, South Car-
IN ACCORDANCE with the olina, on March 1, 1925. As a prep
policy he voiced two months pre- youngster he attended Florida
vious, Greenberg replied that Military Academy near St. Pe-
baseball was a young man's game tersburg and admits to skipping
and the Tribe had too many play- a few classes to watch the Yan-
ers who were hoping for one kees Strain.
more good year.
Besides being handy with a bat,
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He added that if these men Rosen is also an adept pugilist.
were kept when the season open- He was the Florida state high
ed he'd be tempted to use them, school middleweight boxing
thus handicapping the younger champ in 1940.
players who would be forced to
Flip entered professional base-
sit on the bench.
ball in 1942 with Thomasville,
Keltner followed pitcher Satch- Georgia, where he compiled a
el Paige and catcher Mike Tresh .306 average. He spent the next
as previous victims of this new three years in the U. S. Navy.
policy.
In 1946 he hit .323 for Pittsfield,
However, both Greenberg and Mass., a class C team.
• • •
Rosen were on the spot, not only
in the eyes of the fans but even
VAULTING INTO class AA
with manager Lou Boudreau, who competition with Oklahoma City
shared the average pilot's belief in 1947, Rosen literally burned
that there is no substitute for ex- up the Texas League, taking the
perience.
batting title with a .349 mark,
Both were also new on the job, leading in five hitting depart-

EDITOR PRAISES ISRAEL
JERUSALEM—(ISI) — "Noth-
ing in the world since the end of
the war has been so thoroughly
creative and constructive as the
State of Israel," Kingsley Martin,
editor of the London newspaper,
"New Statesman ...'anelz.,..Nation,"!, with the former Saying moved
said here at a Vocal Newspaper up from his 1949 position as vice-
held in connection with the 25th president and farm club director.
• • •
anniversary of the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
IT DIDN'T TAKE very long for

AWNINGS

ment.• and being voted the loop's

most valuable player award.
He had another fine year in
1948, with Kansas City of the
American Association (class
AAA).
The handsome bachelor swat-
ted .327 that season to earn the
league's outstanding freshman ti-

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Within a few hours after re-
ceiving desperate calls for help
from Bnai Brith leaders in Win-
nipeg, Manitoba, where river
floods have made thousands of
persons homeless in the past few
days. the Supreme Lodge of Bnai
Brith in Washington wired relief
funds to its branch in the Cana-
dian city.
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shipment by the U.S. Air Force
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urgentl; requested by the Cana-
dian Army Flood Control.
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2,800 DOCTORS IN ISRAEL
JERUSALEM — (ISI) — There
are now 2800 registered .physi-
cians in Israel, a census conduct-
ed by the Ministry of Health re-
veals. But there is a shortage of
doctors up to the age of 40 to
work in villages and settlements,
and Israel also needs children's
specialists, pathologists, bacteri-
ologists and psychiatrists, the
Ministry reported.

tle. Last year was divided be-
t :teen San Diego, of the Pacific
Coast League, and the Cleveland
bench. Flip managed to play 83
games for tae Padres and hit .319.
Due to the excellent play of
Keltner in 1947-1949, Rosen saw
action in only 35 games with the
Tribe during those three seasons.
Father Time, however, caught
up with the aging third-sacker
this spring. Keltner had a dismal
year at bat in 1949 and suffered
throughout the campaign with a
leg injury.
At the training camp last

Zionist Council
Slates Election

The annual election of officers
of the Zionist Council of Detroit
will take place at its meeting at
8:30 p.m., Thursday, June 1 at
the Labor Zionist Institute.
A report of the past year's ac-
tivities will be included in the
program together with a report
of the April 30 celebration at the
Coliseum in honor of the second
anniversary of the establishment
of the State of Israel.
A social period honoring the
new officers will conclude the
evening's program.

Jerusalem
Expanding

JERUSALEM — (ISI) — The
Jewish population of Jerusalem
has increased from 80,000 in April
1949 to 110,000 in March 1950,
according to a Ministry of Fi-
nance survey of the capital's
development.
In the same period, 10,00Q more
workers were absorbed into in-
dustry, workshops, building and
public works, and 200 light in-
dustrial plants and buildings
erected.
In Romena, 430 dunams have
been set aside for the erection
of an industrial center. At Me-
kor Baruch, a center for light
industries is being developed.
Among new projects were 28
carpentry enterprises, 37 metal
and electricity industries and 43
textile plants.
The government invested 300,-
000 Israeli 'pounds in Jerusalem's
water pipeline and with the help
of government loans, many dam-
aged buildings have been repair-
ed. Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, which
suffered heavy damages in the
siege of Jerusalem, is also being
rebuilt.

March, he was caught flat-footed
A network of roads to Jerusa-
several times on bunts down the lem was repaired and a new short-

third base line.
cut to Hulda is being completed.
Not in his predecessor's shadow
Nearly 2,000 rooms have been
anymore, Flip some days hopes completed in public and private
to prove that he belongs along- houses.
side Kellner, instead of behind
him., So far, he's going in the
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HAIFA—(ISI) — A delegation
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