Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-11-19


News reaches US that Moe Berg
one of the few living professional
Jewish baseball players, will open the
season at Shreveport, Louisiana
March !, 1895. 1t is reported, how
ever, that Manager Eddie Collins Of
the White Sox, will give Moe thor
ough 0scs over during sprinS train
ing, and II Mos shows his stuff, he
might be promoted to the first-string
berth ss the White Sox shortstop.
That's the 0tuG
The St. Louis Y. u. H. A. football
team has been the independent foot
ball team in st. Louis for the past
Ave years. During that time, it has
met and defeated teams from tbs
neighboring sections of Illinois and
Missouri. The "Y" has bowed to de.
feat bsfors non-St. Louis teams in
this period, but has never been de.
feated by local aggregation. Such
teams as Jefferson Barracks, Scott
Field Aviators, Knights of Columbus
I of st. Charles have been played with
in recent times. A few weeks ago the
7. NJ. n. A. encountered the profess
sionsa team Of Benid, Illinois, which
has played and defeated the strong
est professional teams in the country.
A group of determined young anna
teur football players routed the min
ers to the tune of 90 and left no
question as to which team was the
better. This was the first time Bend
has even been defeated on her home
grounds.
4 Jewish CsAock
Chicago reports that Freddy Mey-
srs, the Jewish heavyweight, is con.
sidered by wrestlers and sport critics
as the coming heavyweight wrestling
champion VI the world. Fred is a
product Of the Jewish Peoples Insti-
tute and was taught the rudiments
of the game by Ben Reuben, who also
taught Earl Cadock, the former
worlds heavyweight champion wrest-
Ter. Reuben prophesies that Meyers
will be much better than Cadock ever
was.
W. o. Mcclellan reports that 'The
three Attel boys, all boxfighters once,
are doing well. Monte and Caesar
have a pawnbroking business. Able,
| the eldest and the best fighter of the
family, is q man-about-town and
seems to be succeeding in that line
| 'sThese young men left the prize
ring before they reached the state
| which is commonly known as goofy,'
adds the inimitable McGeehan.
Exit Ted kid" Lewis
They are getting up a big benefit
show for Kid Lewis in England. The
show is arranged to bring in n neat
sum to the one-time greatest boxing
1 figure In Great Britain. Only a few
years ago, glorious Kid was the wei
terweight champion of the world. and
held the English championship OF three
divisions. namely the welterweight
middleweight and lishtheavyweight.
A. product of Whitechapel, London,
reared in good, Jewish orthodox
home, the Kid astounded English box
ing fans by his cleverness and ability
| to take IT," He was one of the few
| English boxers who made good in
| America. His fights with Briton the
American weltcrweight champion are
recorded as classics Of fistic history.
Lewis was a spender who never
thought Of the morrow-and today IA
comparatively young man. but ply
sically a has been; he is the helpless.
pitiful attraction of benefit per
formance. 1t is Il tough ending of u
4 glorious chapter.
Sublime Courage
I Three years ago the st. Louis Y. NJ.
/ II. a. baseball team was the laughing
/ stock of the city. In municipal
league they engaged In ninteen games,
losing cach one by top heavy scores Of
2:i-3. 1872, and the like Most teams
| under such circumstances drop out be-
| fore the season is over. The St Louis
''N' did not. After the first few games
| of that season when 1t was so obvious
| that the Y. NJ. II. A. couldn't compete
with the stronger clubs, the crowd be
| gan 10 razz the players fcarfully, often
getting personal. The players said
nothing, played their full nine innings
as hard as they knew how. and came
back the next Sunday, every last man
on .ihe team, for nineteen consecutive
weeks. and cot fearfuliy walloped each
time, That's either dnmfoolisllness or
sublime courage and sportsnanship,
mud we're inclined to think The latter
is the truth.
This year, however. in Muny baseball
Al Al ,.t