Weekly Q
Jews in Sports
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
presentation of the quadrennial ment. He was the first New Eng-
Maccabian Award to sportsman Ed- land pro to follow the sun, begin-
ning in 1923 . . . Did you know
American basketball coaches win H. Mosier Jr., chairman of that the recently closed Windmill
never had it so good. All they have the board of the Mosier Safe Corn- Theater in the Soho District of
to satisfy is the alumni. But with pany. Mosler has always been London was operated by Sheila
Alexander Gornelsky, its a govern- closely connected with sports. He Van Damm, the 1954-55 European
ment project. The Soviet govern- has owned interests in the Syra- women's sports car racing cham-
ment, that is! Gomelsky coached cuse Nats and Cincinnati Royals pion? . . . Lucille Kellner, 510
the Russian Olympic hoop squad of the NBA. In addition, he is a di- women's chess champ, passed away
which finished second to the rector of the Touchdown Club of recently in Detroit . . . Bowling is
United States in Tokyo. Even be- America, president of the Sports- a new sport in Israel. There is only
fore the Olympics ended, the So- manship Brotherhood, chairman of one alley in the country and it has
the U.S Committee of the Inter-
viet - press berated its athletes for
12 lanes. The first Israeli cham-
what was considered mediocre per- national Recreation Committee, pionship was held in September
formances. But Gomelsky, a wispy and a long-time and devoted mem- and the title was won by the U.S.
little Latvian, was the only one ber of the U.S. Committee Sports Embassy team. It figures!
who stood up to criticism. And he for Israel. Among those who joined
Oxford and the St. George Boys
did it in the face of a pre-Olym- in honoring him were Nat Holman,
pic prediction that Russia would Adolph Schayes, Allen Rosenberg, Club of London captured the
Mike Herman, Bernie Mayer and World Federation' of YMHA's and
finally .beat the United States.
Brig. General Erwin Doron of Is- Jewish Community Centers' 1964
When Gomelsky returned home rael. who served as the principal international airmail track and
with his squad, he sounded off
field meet. Represented besides
speaker.
against the press and sports bur-
England were Australia, Canada
Former international weigh t-
eaucracy. lie said that two ath-
and the United States (Easton, Pa.,
letes were so upset by the criti- lifter Issy Bloomberg of South Boston, Canton, 0., Philadelphia,
cism that they were unwilling to Africa has gone commercial. He's Lynn, Mass., and Baltimore . . .)
leave the plane at the Moscow opened an American-type health The Hon. S. C. Silkin, one of the
Airport because- they feared club in Capetown. It's called the new Jewish MP's in Britain's
they would be snubbed. The fact California Health Studio. Remem- House of Commons, once played
that Gornelsky's comments made ber Len Hartman? You may, if you cricket for Cambridge . . . Austral-
the wire services is unique. His go back to the 1930's and were in- ian philanthropist Sid Adolf
courage is to be applauded but terested in basketball and tennis. Basser died at the age of 77. He
may cause him to join another Len was an All-Ivy basketball star was a prominent turf owner and
famous Russian into retirement. It and a ranking eastern tennis play- won the famed Melbourne Cup in
will be interesting to follow fur- er. He's still involved in tennis to- 1951 . . . Walter Blum, driving for
day—also commercially. He instal- a second straight national riding
ther developments.
led a single clay court on the sec- title, is equally at home on the
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ond floor of an old chemical ware- golf course as he is in the saddle
And speaking about criticism of house in Long Island City, N.Y.
. . Former NYU All-American
coaches, your correspondents feel The venture proved so successful
* Barry Kramer of the San Fran-
that Allie Sherman of the New , that he's built another one . . . cisco Warriors had a rough debut
York Giants has taken a bum rap Marco F. Hellman. Joseph Blumen- in the NBA. A fierce competitor,
for the showing of the club this feld and William J. Zellerbach, all
Barry reportedly became involved
past season. Supposedly sophisti- of San Francisco, were members of in two donny-brooks with his own
cated New Yorkers acted - bush" in a syndicate which purchased ma- teammates. However, everything
their booing of a Giant home game. jority control of Golden Gate seems to be straightening itself
Allie's Giants were wracked with Fields Race Track. Hellman and out now. Adding to Kramer's early
a record number of injuries this Blumenfeld also are directors at season problems was the 20 excess
year. Besides, any coach in the Na- Tanforan.
pounds he carried to the training
tional Football League is entitled
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camp, the result of inactivity be-
to one off season. We join with
cause of an ankle injury . . . The
Allie in looking forward to better
Mike Epstein, former U. of Cali-
things in 1965. Incidentally. Giant ' fornia star who toured Japan with Baltimore Oriole batboy of the
trainer Sid Moret, who worked a collegiate All-Star baseball team season past was 15-year-old Bobby
Scherr.
overtime. is Jewish.
i during the Olympics, signed a
George Morton Levy. the boss
Baltimore Oriole contract for a re-
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Former Yale All-Ivy basketball ported $50.000 bonus. As first base- of Roosevelt Raceway, owns the
man. he led the All - Stars in hitting Rolling Hill Golf Club in Ft. Laud-
star Rick Kaminsky is now attend- during the tour. He's currently in erdale, Fla. . . . Arnie Heft is a
ing the Baylor Medical School. Ex- the Florida Instructional League member of a syndicate that pur-
tennis ace Pablo Eisenberg has
Maybe Bo Belinskey has found , chased the NBA Baltimore Bullets
quit government service and
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his true niche. He was a member from Chicagoan Dave Trager.
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with
pera ion
Heft. a noted hoop referee, is the
took a basketball team to Africa of the cast of "Damn Yankees," brother of N.Y. Met publicist Herb
this past summer . . . Congratula- which played before audiences in Heft . . . Buckets Goldenberg, the
Lions to line coach Bob Zelinka of Anaheim, Cal. this fall. Historical
Milwaukee bon vivant and one-
Oregon State. He did a fine job note: the oldest basketball league
this season. He's ex-UCLA . . . I in the United States' is the Phila- time star of the Green Bay
Packers, will soon be a father-in-
J. 'Clarence Davies, Jr., head of ; delphia Jewish League, which be-
law. His son, Don, a pre-med stu-
gan
operations
in
1921-22.
Mem-
USLTA officials, is the new presi- it
dent at Wisconsin, plans to wed
dent of the American Jewish Corn- bers of the first championship Patty Ann Konheim. of Woodmere,
mittee's New York chapter. He's team, the Standard Lodge-Judaic N.Y., also a student at Wisconsin.
a real estate executive . . . Steve j Union, which was coached by
I Chickie Passon, a one-time pro
Cohen, the one-time Harvard shot- great, were recently honored at a
putter from East Chicago. Indiana, banquet presided over by Eddie Italy's New President
is currently competing for his Gottlieb. Also honored was Eman- Saved Jewish Lives;
"new" school in England. He's uel "Menchy" Goldblatt, the first
listed as a freshman at Cambridge. Jewish League player to be cited Proves Friend of Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
where he's studying international by the Helms Foundation.
to The Jewish News)
law. In Steve's first effort against
South African Jewish sports
ROME — Italy's new president,
Oxford, he flipped the 16-pound
shot a record 53'6" . . . Fifteen- fans are mighty proud of the Jew- Giuseppe Saragat, fought both
year-old Taffy Pergament, the New ish Guild soccer team which Fascism and Nazism in his native
York City figure-skating w h i z, reached the finals of the national
plans to attend Cornell next fall. soccer championships. The Guild Italy and helped save the lives of
A 90-plus student. she hopes to was the first Jewish club to accom- many intended victims, Jewish and
major in French and math. And plish the feat and gave a good ac- non-Jewish, of the totalitarian
count of itself before bowing 4-1. regimes.
figure-skating!
Babe Rubenstein, a colorful racing
Congrats to Mickey Herskowitz,
On an official visit to Egypt last
figure in New England for the past
the new sports-editor of the Hou- three decades, outdid himself in April he told Egyptian Deputy
ston Post . . . Jerry Holtzman of his TV call of the New Hampshire Premier Mahmoud Fawzi that he
the Chicago Sun Times is the 1965 sweepstakes . . . Sammy Renick, has visited Israel and that on that
president of the Chicago chapter the former jockey, has bought the visit he "had the honor to light
of the Baseball Writers of Ameri- rights to the life story of the great a flame in the memorial temple"
ca . . . The Washington Senators • thoroughbred Kelso. It'll show up j for the 6,000,000 European Jewish
have sent pitcher Alan Koch to on TV or in the movies . . . Baron 1 victims of the Nazi holocaust.
the miinors . . . Houston hurler Guy de Rothschild of France did
He bluntly told his Egyptian
Larry Yellen is working this win- it again. His Fujiyama captured
ter in Venezuela for the LaGuaira the Prix de Europe and beat a hosts that "Israel cannot be identi-
club . .From the what-might- Russian horse in the process. fied with alleged aggressive Zion-
ism but is a symbol of the persecu-
have-been-dept.: Last spring, fen- Chalk up one for capitalism!
tion suffered by Jews." He said
cer Herbie Cohen, the national
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also that while it was true the
foil champion, beat Egon Francke
Arabs
had not committed the
of Poland in an international tour-
Steve Shapiro of New Trier High
nament in New York. Francke is School, who made a name for him- genocide against European Jews
the same fellow who won the self in swimming circles, should and did not have to pay for it,
Olympic foil gold medal. It's all make the headlines now that he's "They should not impede the
in your timing, Herbie. See ya in attending Yale ... Gary Rosenthal necessary reparation." He also said
that "Israel is a reality which it
Mexico City!
coached the LIU soccer team this
would be absurd to deny."
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past season . . . After 20 years as
The 1965 U.S. Maccabian Games golf pro at Ledgemont Country
campaign was kicked off in New Club in Skeekonk, R.I., Lew THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
York City on Nov. 19, with the Meyers has gone into semi-retire- 14—Friday, January 1, 1965
By JESSE and ROY SILVER
(Copyright.
(Copyright, 1965, JTA Inc.)
Is there a Jewish tradition
that considers it customary for
children to kiss the Torah?
Rabbi Moses Isserles, in his
glossary to the Shulcsan Aruch
(Orach Chayyim 149) quotes an
earlier source (Or Zarua) which
brings forth an earlier tradition
which advises Jews to bring the
children to the synagogue in order
to kiss the Torah. The purpose of
this practice was supposed to be
a training and an educational pro-
cedure' so as to bring them close
to the Torah. The basic idea was
to provide some type of activity for
everyone in the synagogue—both
young and "old. The young, who
are unable to pray or to take any
direct part in the service, are
made to be active participants by
bringing them in contact with the
Torah—a• least in a physical pro-
cedure, so that they would grow
up to love and obey the Torah
when they reach the adult level
of their existance.
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Why do some people raise
themselves on their toes during
the recital of the "Kedushah"'
This practice is mentioned by
Rabbi Jacob, the author of the
Turim (Tur Orach Chayyim, 125)
and is traced by some authorities
back to the famous biblical and
talmudic commentator, Rash i.
WhenAhe words of Kedushah are
described as being recited by the
Angels, the Bible writes: "And the
posts of the door were moved at
the voice of them that called . . .
1965, JTA, Inc.)
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Why does the worshiper strike
his heart with his fist during'
the benediction in which he asks
forgiveness for his sins?
This practice is mentioned by the
Magen Avraham commentary to
the Shulchan Aruch (Orach
Chayim, 607) and the source is
traced to the Midrash (Koheleth)
where it is stated that this is done
as if to say that it was the heart
that misled the individual into sin
and thus one seeks out the orgin
of his sin. All sins are thus traced
back to one's heart's desires Or
emotional drives over which one
sometimes loses control and is then
carried away on his path to evil.
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