A Happy Holiday
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Their Friends & Patrons
A Joyous Passover
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By HAROLD U. RIBALOW
(Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.)
Passover, the Jewish Festival
of Freedom, comes close to the
opening of the baseball season,
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past the basketball period and
with the spring boxing season,
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so that this is a good time to
think about the status of Jews
in sports. Unhappily, the picture
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is not a glowing one.
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In one of the sports which
used to boast great J e wish
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names, boxing, the paucity of
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Jewish personalities has become
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appalling. There have been
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defense. Benny Leonard, Max
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Baer, Barney Ross, Jackie "Kid"
Berg, J 0 e Shoynski, Jackie
"Kid" Fields, Maxie Rosen-
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bloom, Bob Olin, Ben Jeby are
only a handful that come to
immediate mind.
In recent weeks, correspond-
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ents have been asking questions
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about Ruby Goldstein and Lew
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men of great fighting qualities
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nonetheless. What have we to-
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day?
Larry Boardman, listed tem-
porarily as Jewish in the sports
pages, has excluded himself
with an explanatory letter to
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this columnist. That leaves ex-
actly nobody. at all.
And a couple of Jewish
sports figures in boxing, like
Babe McCoy and Dick Gold-
stein, a promoter and fighter,
have won unsavory headlines
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in fix stories. It is a morbid
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conclusion to Jewish boxing,
yet at the same time it should
be pointed out that boxing
generally has fallen upon evil
days.
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In baseball, too, the scene is
bleak. Sid Gordon is finished as
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a major leaguer. Al Rosen has
announced his retirement, and
even should he return for a
whirl, his best days are behind
him.
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Jake Pitler, who coaches for
Brooklyn and whose years have
no meaning on the baselines, is
still with us, and so is young
Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers,
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but so far Sandy has not capi-
talized on his fast ball. He is
a comer who has yet to arrive.
Saul Rogovin of the Phillies has
made a modest comeback. He,
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too, however, will never be as
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good as he used to be.
Basketball was once the "Jew-
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ish game." Today, however, the
top stars are not Jewish.
In the recent East-West All-
Star game of the professional
league, only Dolph Schayes of
Syracuse represented the Amer-
ican Jewish basketball star. All
the others were huge boys from
the towns and villages of Amer-
ica, where the game of basket-
ball has taken enormous hold.
Still, Brandeis University and
Yeshiva University have come
a long way forward as hoop
powers. And Lenny Rosenbluth
of North Carolina was an All-
America player by any collegi-
ate standards. .
Obviously, the best American
player in amateur tennis ranks
remains Dick Savitt, who in a
recent exhibition, tore apart the
delicate game of Budget Patty
and won kudos from the court
writers for a job well done. But
Dick refused to return this
year.
Meanwhile, some kids might
come up with the big service
and win headlines. Herb Flam,
the other top Jewish net star,
has had his chance and has
shown that he cannot whip
the Roads of Australia, and
so long as this will hold true,
the tennis fathers will look
elsewhere. Sammy G i a m-
malva did well in Australia
and the talk veered to him
and away from Herb when
next year's prospects were
discussed.
Baseball experts used to see
the game developing in cycles.
Later, there were only one ar
two fine catchers, while earlier
the game was loaded with them.
It was said that these things
happen this way. Maybe it is
the same with Jewish athletes.
ews in sports
It is unlikely that Jewish
prize fighters will emerge in
the numbers they boasted in the
1920's, when immigrant boys
fought their way out of poverty
through the ring. But more and
more Jews attend colleges, and
so basketball, football, tennis
and golf should open up even
more than in the past.
It may be that then we'll have
a new group of outstanding
Jewish athletes. Meanwhile, we
must warm ourselves with past
memories. Often, memories are
best.
Best Wishes for a Most
Happy Passover Season
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Out of Passover has grown the tradition for
Freedom and humanity's craving for Liberty
and Justice. On this Festival of Freedom, we
rededicate anew to the ideals of justice and
liberty — to causes like our Allied Jewish
Campaign which makes it possible for the
hungry to be fed, the naked to be clothed, the
oppressed to be freed, the homeless to have
permanent havens.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Kasle
and Family
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BLESSED art thou, Lord, our God, King of the Uni-
verse who hast redeemed us and hast redeemed our
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fathers from Egypt, and bast permitted us to live
unto this night, to partake on it of Matzoh and bit-
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May We Extend
Our Best Wishes
to Our Many Friends
and Customers
at This
Joyous Holiday
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ters. So may the Lord, our God and the God of our
fathers, let us live unto Festive Seasons and Holi-
days, which are destined to meet us in peace.
—From the Passover Hagadah.
On this Festival of Freedom we rejoice—and
we pray for Israel's peace and well-being.
Once again we dedicate ourselves to the
cause of peace and justice, not for ourselves
alone, but.for all our kinsmen, and for those
in
Israel who .seek security for Torah and
People, for their spiritual values and
the
safety of their families. May Shalom become
a reality speedily and without bloodshed.
We extend heartiest greetings, to relatives and
friends, to• all Mizrachi constituents and to the
entire community for a
Very Happy Passover
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