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 * * * 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 * * * 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- * * * 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 is • - - • his true niche. He was a member from Chicagoan Dave Trager. - • • working 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 * * * 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." * * * 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. * 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.) * * * Why does the worshiper strike his heart with his fist during' the benediction in which he asks forgiveness for his sins? 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