72 1—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The Year in Jewish Sports

Friday, September 11, 1953

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New Year Greetings to
Our Many Friends
and Patrons

Best Wishes For
A Happy New Year

baseball news of this year's sea-
son was the tremendous per-
By BILL WOLF
HELEN *FITZGERALD
formance of Al Rosen. Al, play-
(Copyright, 1953, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
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for fans interested in Jews in
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sports takes place Sept. 20-29, tion in 19 sports. The eyes of sight. He showed promise of
when 1,000 athletes from all athletic enthusiasts from all being the American League
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parts of the world will gather over the world will be on Israel leader in both the home run
in Israel to compete in the Mac-, during the period of the Mac- division and the runs batted in
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cabiah Games, held every three cabiah, which has all the trap- competition, as well as finishing
pings of a "little Olympics."
Greetings on New Year's
years.
Season's Greetings
It is expected that the Ameri- high in the batting average
A team of 100 athletes from
the United States will partici- can team, sponsored by the U.S. column.
pate, including a number of Committee for Sports in Israel,
Other baseball notes: Cal
leading non-Jewish Olympic will return with plenty Of mo- Abrams did better after being
tion
pictures
in
color
so
that
champions who are going along
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There will be large teams from can be recaptured for audiences form in a trade from the Cin-
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this
country.
England, South Africa, and as
cinnati Reds . . . Joe Ginsberg
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traded from the Detroit Tigers
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. . . Sid Gordon continued a
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valuable player for the Boston
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Braves . . Sol Rogovin failed
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EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING
story
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the
year
was
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deal suffered by Nat Holman,
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one of the leading figures in
basketball. Holman, who piloted
the City College of New York
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cage squad, was suspended fol-
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lowing the basketball scandals.
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College authorities accused Hol-
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basketball team, kept going at
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its history making pace, playing
throughout the world and set-
ting many new attendance rec-
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ords. Saperstein was portrayed
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Happy New Year
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From
in a Hollywood film about the
Globetrotters .. .
There were many Jewish stars,
too numerous to mention, on
college and university basket-
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try. One of the outstanding
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Brooklyn College to pilot the Is-
rael basketball team at the 1952
Olympics in Finland . . .
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Israel's basketball team did
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itself proud by making a power-
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ful showing in the European
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try. A lot of credit goes to Nat
Holman and Tubby Raskin for
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point that it is one of the top =
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games in Israel at the moment.
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Jewish sports fans. The rea
son: A match was scheduled be-
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tween the U.S. chess team and
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the Russian chess team, with
Jewish players as the chief con-
For the U.S. team there
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was Samuel Reshevsky, backed
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tional sports relations and see
some Jewish sportsmen from
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Russia in action.
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However, the match never
For a Good New Year
came off. For some reason the
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