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By HAROLD U. RIBALOW a half-dozen or so good Jewish
(Copyright, 1959. JTA, Inc.)
ballplayers.
The accomplishments of Jews
Basketball's focus had shift
in sports this past year were ed from the East to the
1 y undistinguished. West and to the Far West, but
singularly
Many recall the days when Jewish hoopsters still stood out,
Barney Ross dominated the even if they no longer domi
boxing scene in the lower divi- nated. Boxing had Jewish con-
sions; when Hank Greenberg, tenders, if not champs. And
Hank Thinning and Sid Gordon now and then a Jewish star was
were honest-to-goodness base of national stature.
ball stars; when every top-
Today, as we scan the sports
ranking basketball team (and
most of them were in the East) scene, we must take note of
had more than a normal share the continuing decline of Jew-
of Jewish heroes. ish participation.
Once, the prize ring was the
If you think back only 10
years. the Jewish sports scene way of the ghetto poverty.
was also far from barren. Al Today, Jewist: boys go to
Rosen came to prominence in college, major in the sciences
baseball and there always were or the arts. Boxing? That's

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Nevertheless. Bobby is no
for the present minority
groups, not Jews. Or so it flash-in-the-pan. and his con-
stant good showing prove his
seems to have worked out.
°
Take, for example, the over- basic solidity as a player.
all boxing picture. A Jew, Gen. few more years of such tourna-
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Melvin Krulewitch, is the New ment play will give to Fischer
York State Boxing Commission- the necessary experience to
er, and Bill Rosensohn, the meet Botvinnik, or whoever
young man tv ho promoted the will be the champion when
Patterson - Johansson h e a v y - Bobby is ready for him.
So, at the year-end survey
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weight championship fight, also
period, we find ourselves with
is Jewish.
But the days of Mike Jacobs a brilliant chess player who
some day should win the world
ar e gone. although
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cher, the editor of "The Ring," championship. Otherwise, there
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mittent performances of a
Lou Stillman, whose gym had Schayes in basketball,' a Halimi
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been a landmark in American in boxing . . and that's it.
boxing, has given up the ghost
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contemporary fighters and said
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that it was just as well he was
getting out. Boxing, he said, is
finished, knocked out by greedy,
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phonse Halimi of Algeria,
comes from a slum area and a
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In baseball, Al Rosen, Sid
Gordon and Saul Rogovin are
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gone from the scene. And whom
have we left? Sandy Koufax of
the Los Angeles Dodgers, who
has developed into an in-and-
out lefthander instead of the
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dazzling, dominating pitcher he
seemed to have the ability to
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become. Joe Ginsberg in the
American League, is a mediocre
catcher and hitter. Norm Lark-
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er of the Dodgers is in and out
of the line-up as a first base-
man and if he is to make his
mark it will be in another year.
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In basketball, once the do-
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Schayes of Syracuse. But even
Dolph cannot go on forever,
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and Lennie Rosenbluth of
Philadelphia has yet to demon-
strate that he can become an g
important figure in the pro
league.
This past year, Schayes had is
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and in the playoffs did he re-
gain the touch that made him
one of the finest. toughest pro-
fessionals in the basketball
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league. But one can now -see
that Schayes, after more than a
decade of rowdy battling in
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coming to the end of his line
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as the number one player on
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his team.
Here and there, in isolated
cases, we still find that Jewish
athletes make the headlines. A
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Mike Herman of New York
University will perform bril-
liantly in the decathlon . . .
And Sidney Franklin, the vet-
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And Herb Flam or Dick Savitt,
will return to the tennis tourna-
ment trail and occasionally win
a big match, or lose spectacu-
larly - to a newcomer on the
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way to the top.
The only real, major star
who has gone forward and
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upward during the past year
has been 16-year-old Bobby
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Fischer, the United States
chess champion. But even
Bobby has had his disappoint-
ments. In his case, consider-
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ing his youth and his gifts,
the setbacks are minor, in-
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deed. Still they indicate that
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Fischer has quite a way to go
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before he becomes as good as
Sammy Reshevsky at his
peak, and Mikhail Botvinnik,
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Fischer retained his Ameri
can championship; qualified for
a major tournament by finish-
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ing fifth in Yugoslavia; and
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came in third in a fine field
in Zurich. In Zurich, he had
not lost any games until the
twelfth round and then he was
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