The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-11-14
JEWS IN
SPORTS
b. MoRR1s WIENER

and That both can usually be
found among the top winners at
the track. Hirsch Jacobs usually
races many horses in his wife's
Stable-MrS. Eva JacObs-WhiIe
Max Hirsch takes on saddles for
all corners. At the recently con-
cluded fourteen day meeting of
the Empire City Track, Hirsch
Jacobs netted $4,000 while Max
Hirsch tailed measly ten grand
on two winners. Mrs. Eva Jacobs
entered six winners to the tune of
$S,125 and so the legend of
the Hirsch tribe at the track still
continues almost thirty-five
thousand smackerS for a fourteen
day meeting Brother, that
amt hay!
Nat Fleischer, editor and pub
Usher of the boxing bible, better
known as the Boxing News, is
now busy compiling a boxing rec
ord that will cover the last $50
years And, as any fan will
tell you, $50 years ago the great
Daniel Mendoza was the worlds
heavyweight champion who took
on all Corners with bare knuckles.
Mendoza was known as the "Star
of Zion" :. And, it Is also inter-
esting to note that Mendoza sport
ed a Mogin Dovid 14O years be-
fore Make Baer, the former
Clown Prince of Boxing ever
thought of the same stunt :.
The last world series between
the Yankees and the Brooklyn
Dodgers was the first series ever
missed by Al Schacht, the Clown
Prince of Baseball. Al-WhOSe
funny antics have entertained mill
lions at every series since 1924
had his heart set on making his
performances tickle the fans at
EbbetS Field but was detained by
a labor of love on a Hollywood
moving picture lot >. al had been
screen tested and found to be the
perfect player to play the part of
basebalPs funny man-tO wit, Al
Schacht The screen test was
being made in preparation for the
filming of the story by Paul Gal
IicO: 'The Life of Lou Gehrig".
Schacht was one of Gehrig's clos
est friends and a life story about
Gehrig without Al would be akin
to Damon without Pythias :. ..
Abe Simon lis one of the pride
and joys of this column. Ergo, we
were quite chagrinned when Abe
was belted for a terrific FASTING
in his last fight out in Chicago ;.
We wondered. Three days after
the fight Abe was rushed to the
hospital for an emergency appen-
dectomy with the full story re-
leased by his doctor: Il told the
big lug not to fight. He was in
no condition. His appendix could
have burst right in the ring but
| the big guy wouldn't hear of it.
Naturally he was in no condition
to fight" Coming from Simon's
manager this would have made an
ordinary publicity wheeze. How
ever, emanating as it does from
the family physician, well, Abe
Simon is still our pride and JOY =.
FidIer of Brown and Cohen OF
the University of Pennsylvania
are two of the sweetest tackles
this corner has laid eyes on in
wears. Both lads stand well over
six feet and weigh 40 between
them. Both are fast. Both can
convert for points after touch
down and both have played prac-
ticalIy every minute of every
game on their respective teams
schedules The grandstand
0uarterbacks are saying that Sid
hickman should have called for a
field goal instead of trying first
down in the closing minutes OF the
Green Bay Packer Chicago Bear
game out the Windy City Way.
Sold owner George HalaS: "Luck-