THE JEWISH NEWS

A pril 5, 1942

Sports and Passover:
Jewish Walking Champs

Page Thirteen

Dictor Medals Won

Heard...

By Jewish Center

Basketball Players

IN THE LOBBIES

(Copyright 1942 by Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

Announcement has been made of
the awarding of the coveted Dictor
medals for outstanding achieve-
ment in the Jewish Center basket-
Sports Editor of Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.
ball league. The winners, chosen by
a special committee, and designated
Passover has more miracles to same year he took the 65-meter as the most valuable players in their
its credits than most Jewish holi- high hurdles.
respective divisions and teams, are:
But is that all that Passover and Joe Friedman of the Outlaws, most
days. But one of the greatest mir-
acles is one which is overlooked sports have in common? I doubt it. valuable in the senior division;
by rabbis and historians alike. What about the manna from heav- Lloyd Averbach of the Maccabees,
That's natural, because the won- en? When it fell who do you think
most valuable in the sub-senior
derful item to which I refer has got it all, the guys who were slow loop; Abe Parness of the Bengals,
a sports tinge to it. But deny it if afoot and clumsy of hand? Oh, no. most valuable to his team.
you can I submit that one of the The men who got that manna from
An Annual Feature
greatest feats accomplished by the heaven were the sprinters and the
Sam Dictor, who will donate these
Jews of Moses' day was the fact boys clever with their mitts. How
that for 40 years they walked — can that bring to mind Jewish ath- awards each year, was formerly one
and then they found the Holy Land. letes? Well, runners and boxers are of the most prominent athletes and
Even sports scribblers stand in fast afoot and speedy with their sports figures in Michigan, and was
awe of such a walking record, al- hands, aren't they? Just take a lauded many times for his work
though walking is not one of the matzoh peep at these names: Abel in the sports world.
most fascinating of track and field Kiviat, Alvah Meyers, Milton Green,
After starring in football and bas-
events. Still, the heel-and-toers of Sam Klopstock. These are a few ketball at Northern High and Mich-
this day and age had better keep of the great names in fbot-racing. igan State, Dictor entered Detroit
their egos deflated when they break Kiviat was the Leslie MacMitchell Tech, where he captained the foot-
a walking record. They have a of his day; Meyers, the finest ball and basketball squauds and
long way to go before they crash sprinter of his era; the others, the organized, coached and captained
the mark set by the Moses sprint- best runners on the field when they a golf team which gained state-
competed.
ers.
wide fame. It was while at Tech
Incidentally, one of the outstand-
that he astounded the golf world
ing walkers in the world was a Jew.
by :making a hole in one twice in
New
Handball
Champs
He was Sam Liebgold, who in his
a single season, to set a record
palmy days garnered 16 champion-
The Michigan State Amateur which still stands. He soon became
ships in walking; nine outdoor and Union (AA.U.) doubles handball one of the best amateur golfers in
seven indoor. He won the three- championship tournament, conduct- Detroit, winning city-wide tourneys
mile race outdoors in the years 1892 ed under Jewish Community Cen- and capturing the title at the Jew-
through 1896—long ago, but way ter auspices last week, produced a ish Center three years in a row.
after the days of the children of new pair of champions, Al Zerbo
Popular Referee
Israel who really put on the walk- and Paul Merlo, of the Downtown
Dictor held the post of assistant
ing pressure. He also won the race YMCA. They received the Joe
from 1907 to 1910. The indoor marks Holtzman trophy. Runners-up were athletic director at the Jewish Cen-
came to him in 1907 through 1909. Ben Waterstone and, Ted Lemmer, ter and was the organizer of boys'
There have been other walking also of the Downtown YMCA, who athletic clubs in Detroit. He spent
six years with the Department of
champs, and that's natural, .too, for received the Bass-Luckoff trophy.
City Recreation, coached various
the Jewish walking tradition is
The Center' gold medals were basketball, baseball and golf teams.
strong. Here are a few of others:
awarded to Joe Winkler and Gene and was considered one of the most
Mack Weiss, who won the 50,000-
Epstein, representing the Down- popular referees in high school and
meter walk in 1929; Max Beutel, town "Y."
amateur basketball leagues.
winner_ of the 3,000-meter walk in
The awards were presented at a
The medals will be presented at
1937: Morris Fleischer, who took
the 30,000-meter walk in the same social gathering in which all con- the conclusion of the current play-
testants
and
officials
participated,
off series.
year; Otto K.atroba, winner of the
immediately following the Satur-
10,000-meter walk in 1937 (that's a
day,
March
28
finals.
good year for walkers) ; Irving Hor-
owitz, 15,000-meter walk winner in
1937. All these lads competed in Colonial Sec'y. Promises
A. A. U. championships.
NEW YORK (JPS)—On the eve
to Study Palestine Situation
To keep going on the subject of
of Passover Jacob U. Manischewitz.
Passover, there come to mind high
LONDON (WNS)—A delegation president since 1915 of the B. Man-
hurdles. Somebody did skipping and of members of Parliament headed ischewitz Baking company, one of
jumping and leaping when the by Lord Wedgwood demanding an the world's largest makers of
Angel of Death passed over the investigation of the policies of the matzoth, died here at the age of 56.
Jewish homes on that Egyptian Palestine administration, met with
night when Pharoah really found Colonial Secretary Lofd Cranborne — BUY DEFENSE BONDS —
out that the might of the Lord was who promised that he would study
no legend.
the aspects of British policy. Since
The best of the Jewish hurdlers he entered office just recently, Lord
was Allan Tolmich, Southern Jew, Cranborne explained that he had
who must have had a relative back not yet been able to thoroughly in-
in Pharoah's days. In 1937 he won vestigate and study the Palestine
the 100- and 200-meter hurdles. The situation.

By AL LURIE

By David Deutsch

fammmom•••••••

WHISPERS OF THE PAST

There were columnists among the

Jews many millenia ago . . . In
fact, the columnists saved the

Jews . . . How else describe the

fellows who put a sign on the

columns of the houses so that the
Angel of Death would pass over
the establishment Of the Israelite?

. . . And so, in tribute to the first

columnists, this poor scion recalls
in never-knew-till-now fashion

some of the highlights of the festi-
val of freedom which Jews will
celebrate with extraordinary exu-

berance this year, in thanksgiving
for the past, in hope for the future.

DID YOU KNOW THAT

Tradition requires you to ex-

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amine carefully every pocket in
every suit of clothes you own in
order to eliminate crumbs
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bread or cake'
And that tradition also demand)!
that you must take every book ire
the house, shake it carefully. thumb
through the pages to catch the
crumbs you left the last time you
were eating that piece of cake
while you were leisurely reading?,
Wonder what the fellow does who
has one of those huge libraries?
The original Paschal celebration
involved smearing of doorposts and
the lintels of the house with blood
to keep the inhabitants immune
from harrn;,,but since in the early
days houses were largely tents, the
same effect was achieved 1D3 smear..
ing a tent-rope?
(Copyright 1942 by Independent
Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

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Manischewitz Dies

Maras 20. 1942

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