Jewish Diamond Aces:

22—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 20, 1951

Gordon, Rosen Shine as Jewish Ball
Stars; Sid Sends Kids to Yeshiva

By HAROLD U. RIBALOW

(Copyright 1951, American Jewish Press. All Rights Reserved.)

With all other sports on the
American scene now shunted to
the dugouts, to use a diamond
phrase, baseball has taken over
the major spot in the hearts of
sporting America.
Jewish Fport fans, particularly
baseball fans, are now becoming
increasingly interested in the
Jewish diamond stars of the
1951 season.
While there are a compara-
tively large number of Jewish
athletes with the various clubs,
only two Jewish players are at

pression made was a poor one
and this year he may sit it
out those days.

Al Rosen, a boy from Florida,
is as good a boxer as he is a
ballplayer. Always a star in the
minor leagues, Al kept coming
up to the Indians in the hope
he would win the third base job
away from Ken Keltner. For
three years he failed. The story
started that he was a minor,
and not a major, leaguer. He
could always hit, but could he
field? The answer was that last
year he finally won the Kelt-
ner job— he hit more than 30
homers, was named second to
George Kell as the all-star third
baseman in the American
Teague. Al learned how to field
and his hitting, while it trailed
off toward the end of the year,
was remarkable for a rookie.
No rookie ever hit as many
homers in his first full year as
Rosen did. That includes Wil-
liams, DiMaggio and other
superstars.
Rosen was not named to the
All-Star team by Yankee man-
ager Casey Stengel, in spite of

the fact he polled more than
half a million votes. There was
the present writing 'outstanding a great outcry and, of course,
stars—real major league top- talk started that there was anti-
notchers.
Jewish bias somewhere in the
Some are very promising, story. This was, of course,
like Saul Rogovin and Joe denied, until recently, when
Ginsberg of the Tigers and Birdie Tebbets, a loud-spoken
Mary Rotblatt of the Chicago catcher, said that he heard
White Sox. Others, like Cal Stengel cry out in an exhibition
Abrams, a Dodger hopeful, are game with the Indians that he
spring -perennials.
had kept Rosen off last year's
But the two authentic ball- team and, if possible, would do
players are Sid Gordon, now the same this year.
of the Boston Braves, and Al
Gordon and Rosen are among
Rosen of the Cleveland In-
the best players in their leagues.
dians.
Except for the period when
Sid Gordon, a Brooklyn boy Hank Greenberg and Buddy

Al Rosen and Sid Gordon

who became a high salaried star
only two years ago, is one of
the sluggers of the game. He
has hit 25 or more home runs in
two separate seasons and is one
of the holders of the record for
hitting homers with the bases
full in a single season. The rec-
ord is four, and Sid tied it last
year. Gordon is a fine outfielder
with a rifle arm. He is an
equally good third baseman.
Last year he received more than
half a million votes as a third
baseman on t he National
League All-Star team. He has
always driven in a lot of runs,
regardless of his batting aver-
age which never really reflected
his value or his true power.
Gordon made the grade with
the N.Y. Giants after having
been shunted around the club
in various positions. When Leo
Durocher came to the Giants,
Gordon was ticketed to go. Not
because Leo didn't like him, but
because Gordon was too slow on
the bases for Leo, who likes
speed and is willing to pass up
on the power, Sid was part of
the famous trade which brought
Al Dark and Ed Stanky to the
Polo Grounds. Sid and t w o
other Giant regulars moved to
Boston: It is typical of the suc-
cess Sid has made in the game
that he was the only one of
the trio to be a regular. He
was the only one of the old
Giants who New York regretted
to see leave the Polo Grounds. .

Gordon is the kind of Jew-
ish player, who, rather than
overlook his Jewish heritage,
takes a great deal of pride in
it. He sends his children to
a yeshiva and he himself
spends a good.part of the win-
ter season addressing Jewish
groups. Sid received some bad
notices when he played dur-
ing the High Holidays last
season but perhaps he has by
this time learned that the im-

Korea Cites

BB Women For Relief Contributions

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Washington ADL directo r,
first secretary of the Korean Herman Edelsberg told the
embassy awarded a citation- to women that "while bigotry has
a Washington Bnai Brith chap- always been losing politics in
ter in recognition of relief con- America and will remain losing
tributions in the form of cloth- politics so long as Americans re-
Dr. Oscar I. Janowsky, profes- ing which were sent to .aid the main true to the democratic
sor of history at the City Col- women and children of Korea. faith, it is unfortunate that
lege of New York, has accepted The citation was presented at Congress has not yet f ull
t h e chairman-
the annual meeting of the wom- caught up with public opinion"
ship of a corn-
en's Council.
in this respect.
m i s sion which
Mrs. Harry Truman, who
will conduct a
The most recently opened
spoke at the luncheon received
nationwide
enthusiastic applause, as did Is- project of Mizrachi Women is
study of Jewish
rael Ambassador Abba Eban, the Bar-Dan Memorial School
education in the •
who paid high tribute to the and Vocational Center in Raan-
United States, it
President for his aid to Israel. ana, Israel.
was announced
at the meeting
of the board of < ..
the American Dr. Janowsky
Association for Jewish Educa-
On the first Passover, the cornerstone was
tion, in New York, by Michael A.
Stavitsky, president of the as-
laid for Freedom and Justice . . . Our Festival
sociation.
of Freedom has established principles which re-
The survey will study the his-
tory, development, present con-
main the guides for all fighters for liberty and
ditions, effectiveness and status
of educational institutions main-
equality and against human slavery . . . In
tained by Jewish communities
and organizations, as a supple-
the spirit of the Hebraic ideals which have es-
ment to the public school sys-
tem, for the instruction of
stablised . the foundation for the American prin-
American Jewish youth in the
religion, culture, and traditions
ciples of Justice, Equality and Liberty, we extend
of the Jewish people.
A permanent national advisory
to all our friends and to the entire Jewish corn-
council on Jewish education,
whose formation was called for
munity our best wishes for
by a unanimous vote of the dele-
gates at the First National Con-
ference on Jewish Education in
January, has been constituted
A HAPPY PASSOVER
and held its first meeting on
April 9, it was announced by
Judah Pilch, executive director
of the American Association for
Jewish Education.

Janowsky to Head
Education Survey

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