• • • - 22—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 16, 1954 Essential Knowledge Dearth of Jewish Boxers Hits New Low Point on ,parting Scene Sincerest Greetings At Passover Time Knowledge of human nature By LARRY ALTMAN is the beginning and end of This year is significant to the squared circle had been political ed u c a t i o n. — Henry American Jewry, for it marks quite impressive. From 1908, the Tercentennary; 300 years of , when Abe Attel became the first Brooks Adams (1838-1918). Jewish settlement in America. jboxing champion ( feather- This year is also significant to' weight) under Marquis of American Jewry. sportswise. It Queensbury rules, Jewish fight- marks an unfortunate void in ers accounted for no less than Holiday Greetings the history of Jews in boxing. 22 world championships in 27 The year 1954 ends two decades years. of non-Jewish dominance of One such boxer, Barney Ross, professional pugilism. a Marine hero during World The success of Jews within War II, held ' three different titles during his fistic career; lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight champion- Greetings to All ships. on the Holiday One of the most popular lea- ther-experts, Benny Leonard, re- SONNY'S CAFE tired as undefeated lightweight champion in 1924 after seven Steaks - Chops - Frog Legs 12641 Woodrow Wilson years of besting challengers. Choice Liquors and Wines And while some ring histori- Luncheons 11-3 — Dinners 5-11 ans doubt the alleged Jewish TO. 8-2330 ancestry of Max Baer, it must 12802 VAN DYKE be remembered that this man Bernard Milinsky, Prop. WA. 1-2324 who plucked pugilism's richest fruit—the heavweight title wore a Mogen David on his boxing trunks. Holiday Good Wishes Season's Best Wishes The esteem in which Jewish have been held is aptly TRIO DINING ROOM boxers expressed by statements from 'n Chips, Cole Slaw and Fish HIGHLAND PARK two celebrated observers of the Tartar Sauce Hot Rolls & Butter boxing scene. Steak - Chops - Fried Chicken HOT ROD Tex Rickard, the late, legend- Sea Food ary fight promoter, once said Special Feature on Saturdays: Distributors of Automotive ROAST PRIME RIBS OF BEEF "give me a Jewish heavyweight , And HiLSpeed Equipment Home Made Pies with championship possibilities Seat Covers Open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and I'll give you a million-dollar Closed Sundays—Carry-Out Service gate." This was the comment of 32 Manchester TO. 9-6255 19809 W. Seven Mi., of Evergreen a man who introduced the mill lion-dollar gate to boxing. Arthur Brisbane, the late sports columnist, lauded Benny Greetings on PassoVer Leonard when he said. " .. . he Holiday Good Cheer has done more to fight anti- Semitism than a thouSand text- PINEWOOD lbooks." I Why, then, does 1954 mark a RESTAURANT #2 20-year draught of champion- Good Food — Open All Night ship Jewish fighters? Let's listen 13035 W. SEVEN MILE to Nat Fleischer, editor of Ring Magazine, boxing's bible: 9339 LIVERNOIS UN. 1-9726 "The closing down of small WE. 5-9668 boxing clubs throughout the country, where young fighters could get experience and the ; chance for a more lucrative live- Passover Greetings lihood in other businesses has Holiday Good Cheer deprived the sport of most Jew-' ish j fighters, once among the EMBASSY j leading lights of pugilism." The prospects for a resurgence WAFFLE SHOP of Jewish activity on the fight- ing level are admittedly dim. Potent Medicines But, we're a patient people. 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