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JEWS IN
SPORTS
Bv HASKELL COHEN

Copyright 1945 Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc.)
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Another Rosh Hashonah means
another sports review. It has be-
come the custom on the approach
of new year to give a resume
covering the various fields OF
sports of the year just concluded.
There have been years in the
past where Jewish athletes have
established records, won boxing
titles, and in general have
brought reknown to their people.
This year the records for the most
part are devoid of Semitic names
for very good reason, our boys
are heavy engrossed in winning
the greatest battle of all time.
They are hurting and wrestling
with enemies in a game much
more deadly than sports COMPETE
ton.
Although the Armed Forces
conducted tournaments among the
Allies, one rarely sees or hears
of Jewish winners. Why this con-
diti0n exists is beyond us. When
we served a brief period overseas
as a war correspondent, it was
our good fortune to cover the In
ter-AIIied boxing tournament in
Rome. If memory serves correct
ly, hundreds of fighters from diff
ferent theaterS of operations in
Europe participated and not one
Jewish boy was listed among the
contestant. 1t is more on the
service side that they show ac-
ton. For example a Sgt. Gold
man of Hartford, Connecticut was
in charge of the ring, a Sgt.
Weisberger served as a trainer
for the Tyhrrenhian group.
Perhaps elsewhere Jewish ath-
leteS in the forces were more
prominent. We know, for exam
pie, that the Weiss Twins of the
Bronx continued to mop up all
boxing competition in the South
west Pacific Area. But at the same
time we know that Hank Green
berg, recently returned to the
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baseball wars, didn't touch a bat
and glove during his four years
tenure in the Air Corps.
Our break down reveals that
fewer Jewish athletes participant
ed in professional and amateur
sports during the past twelve
month period. The war has en-
abIed two veterans to stay up
in the majors who ordinarily
would be classified as double A
caIiber. We refer to Phil Vein
traub of the N. Y. Giants and
GOOdy ROSen of the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Weintraub, after SEN
SatiOnal start this season, slough
ed off sharply in the middle Of
the campaign and has fallen in
the esteem of manager Mel OFT.
ROsen was given a last minute
respite by manager Leo DurOcher
of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In deS-
peratiOn. at the end of the train
ing season, LOquaciOuS Leo gave
ROsen an opportunity to play the
Out-field. But this, mind you, on
ly after he had tried all the 9th
er outer gardeners on the squad.
Chuck Dresser worked like a
beaver to Straighten out ROSen'S
batting defects and in the end of
the spring training session had dis
covered the serious flaw in
GOOdy's stance. Once the Jewish
lad corrected this fault he assert
ed himself as one of the leagues
better hitterS, surprising every
one with his long distance cIOut-
ing prOcIivitieS.
Handsome Harry Feldman, re-
cuperated from a lung ailment,
stepped into the breach and fill
ed a very important hurting as
signment for the Ottmen. Harry
knocked off five successive wins
shortly after the season opened.
The club gave Harry atrocious
support and actually blew many
of his games. However, there is
every indication that Harry has
arrived and will stick around the
majors for many years to come as
winning tosSer.
Hank Greenberg, of course, is
Hank Greenberg and despite the
four year lay-Off showed every
indication Of regaining his home
run slugging status. The new year
should definitely see him recOv-
er his old time form. Only the
ravageS of time can hinder him.
He will be thirty-five years old
by the time the next playing sea-
son rolls around.
Baseball being decidedly infer
ior during the war years makes
it possible for a veteran like Jake
Levey to continue hurting win
ming ball for Portsmouth at the
age of A. Jim Levey, former
st. Louis Brown Shortstop, had
the Jamestown nine of the PONY
League in first place as the old
year came to a close. Andy Co
hen, a recent Army discharge,
is handling the reins at Ell Paso
Texas, a Mexican club member.
His brother sgd rolls along as
a pitcher for loop leading Port
land in the Pacific Coast group.
Bob Katz has had a good mound
success with the Syracuse Inter-
national League nine and will
eventually be back in the big time
with the Cinci Reds. Perhaps
the best prospect to enter base
ball this season is Les Rothman,
L fNn~ks.a..@I - ~. 01N
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~ one-time suffragette who knocked of poicemens
helmets and sandbaggd cabinet ministers in the cause OF
womans emancipation have to admit. as indeed had 10
the height of my crusadng fervor that next to the
dinosaurns probably natures most outstanding
aidre For the life of me- cannot think OF any sphere OF
activity in which she passably successful, except
in The OF surviving, where obviously she has the
dinosaurs licked Her determined admirer would be
hard PIT produce hrstclaSS genius in any OF
he creative arts and than very few toprankng
talents in the interpretive arts In science Madame Cure
has be produced and again like succession
of rabbits Of conjurors hat The Brones and Jane
confront endless chain of masculine story tellers
and writer's Homer SeinbeCk fragmenary and
dubious Sappho. wspy Emily Dickinson, somewhat
over-yrica Elizabeth Browning about all the sex has
10 show for itself in poetry. There have been great
painters composers. Even in fields marked on
peculiarly their own, women. Judged by masculine
standards amenaby second The best Couuriers,
hardresser home designers and cooks men suspect
that. il bioogcay possible, men would make better
mothers
Worst of ALL women are conscious failures and conse-
divine certainly uncomfortable They suffer in way
and their environment always satisfied
suffer In spite of energetic and heavily sponsored
behalf OF wfehood and motherhood and her own
over emphasis the importance OF those roles the wife
and mother when challenged will invariably describe herself
as lust a and mother" The exceptional woman who
reminded DR.. Johnson OF dog walking on its hind legs
spite and snors feels in her deepest con-
sCOu,uess she in fact freak. Now To be either
us, anything freakish is not happy state And 10
fact tta onehaf OF haplesS species, women are the
more unhappy.
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TNHE CAPTURE Of New York City by the Dem
L ocrats in last weeks election has set off
lot Of talk about the chances Of the major parties
In 1913. There is plenty OF fun in political prop
uganda and will be hearing shortly the
choice cracks OF political warfare. Few will equal
the crack OF the late Alexander Woocott who
was defending Roosevelts New Deal when he
said: The Republicans il seems. are going TO
isn't going to cost the taxpayer cent This,
rs far as know, is the first time that major
political party in this country has promised 10
perform the miracle Of the Loaves and Fishes"
A LOT OF name.eslng is going on between
the Negro newspaper publisers and their big
shot Washington correspondents. The Capital
newsmen regard the publishers as wellheeled
dopes and the publishers look upon the news
men as low-brow connivers From where we SIT
there seems to be a lot OF truth on both SIDES.
THIS REMINDS NE OF the heading. story in
the current issue OF 4 very important Chicago
weekly regarding the election OF mayor Of
Bonneville, the fancy name OF Chcsgos Negro
district According 10 the newspaper. the most
bitterly contested election in Bonneville history
was won by r. H. Harris who is the manager
Of the Five Soul Stirrers and proprietor Of the
Five Soul stirrers Cleaning md Pressing estao-
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BY HOWARD WHITMAN
(Cendsnsed from Colliersl

THERE WAS riot in Coney Island on the eve
Of the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, l944.
The newspapers told about 1t in 36-polnt head.
lines: how gang of Italian boys broke up
Yom Kippur service by jeering outside the Syna-
Kosue and mimickng the cantor, how fists and
two.hy-fours flew in the fight that followed,
how an italian boy named Tony wound up IN
jail
Heavy-duy thinkers shook their heads and
said Coney Island was a sick community. It's
blood stream contaminated with virus OF our
time: intolerance They viewed with alarm the
prospect Of q spread Of the disease throughout
the nation That was year ago.
Today Coney Island is dong very nicely: out
Of sckbed temperature normal appetite eood
and prognosis excellent. Tony. the boy who was
locked up is now a delegate 70 Youth Town,
where teen-ag Italians. Jews and Negroes meet
10 resolve their enmities And the police tell OF
on. case in which he threatened to use his fists
against intolerance
Consy islanders alone-ths Italians. the Jews
and the Nsgross-dsservs the credit for this dis
eovsry. But the attending physician was new
somswhAt obscure organization known as me
cCt, the Commission on Community lnierrela
items. II IL bssieallY . Jewish organization
ihsuoh Its staff 10 more than fifty per cent Chris
tian and five per cent Negro.
Task Force
TIL. CCI sent q task force" into sns Coney
Island Its jes: Ia hold the patients hand and
administer suggestions while the patient got
himself well
The Coney Island riot broke just as CCl was
being organized 1t hadn't yet moved INTO the
offices il now occupies in the heart OF New
York. within clarinet range OF Tin Pan Alley.
A young social psychologist, Doctor Lillian valid
Tram he
ice Of the Boy Scouts OF America as one Of the
first staff members She became commander OF
the Coney Island task force.
II took Deeisr Kay and her workers long
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calls the interview between Sen. Bilbo Of Mis-
sissippi and white lieutenant from that state
in which the lieutenant told Bilbo that since hi
had seen Negroes fighting in the army he had
changed his opinion of them and he thought
other white boys from Mississippi had changed
also. Bilbo changed the subject.
II would be unscientific and emotional to take
this letter evidence that all white southerners,
side. The probable truth of the matter is that
most of them are merely shocked out of their
old ideas. They have come suddenly to realize
that the things they have been taught are not
true They are willing to acknowledge that they
have been wrong but they are not certain where
they will go from here 1t would be natural for
many of them to still believe in segregation,
but their idea is that Negroes should have the
same facilities as whites. Many of them believe
we should be able TO vote, should have the same
chance to get good jobs and equal pay, and
should have good housing 1t has been my privi-
lege to meet more than few who would wipe
out all segregation of every kind
If colored people smart in the post war
world, they will follow up these trends wher-
ever they find them. II is job in diplomacy
for every community to assume The white peo-
pie who ready for a change should be dis
covered and encouraged. They should have in
telligent cooperation
1t should be pointed out, however that this
requires nterracial action, and mutual trust and
respect. The wholly dangerous racial isolation
doctrine which seems TO be growing among Ne
groes will not do the trick. We cannot build
wall around ourselves and at the same time in
tegrate ourselves as citizens of the nation.
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lishment" You just can't keep good men down,
especially Soul Stirrer.
MOST OF THE big Negro Democrats of the
country attended the induction ceremony of
Judge Irwin c. Molison in New York fort
night ago. Judge Webster Oliver, presiding judge
OF the L s Customs court, officated in the cere-
mony and almost broke il up with his wit and
humor When he introduced Congressman Adam
Powell, he said, I'VE will now hear Discourse
on the Constitution" With the ceremony about
over Judge Oliver, elderly, genial and sparkling
eyes. told the dignitaries "A lady Godva said
toward the end OF her famous ride, am now
coming TO my close"
THE MICHIGAN Citizens Committee is busy
arranging things for Mrs. Roosevelt who VIII
speak al luncheon in Detroit on Saturday, Nov.
II. Few women IN l S. history have been
mallgned as much as Mrs FDR. One Of the
few printable stories told on her was cooked
up by some Southern ladies during the war. Ac-
cording TO the story, General Eisenhower sent
an order TO the War Department requesting ten
white sheep TO be shipped over Immediately.
Somehow Mrs. Roosevelt is supposed 10 have OBJ
tanned a copy Of the order. She thereupon con-
suited with General Marshall, the story goes,
and the General wired back 20 Eisenhower that
he could send only nine white sheep and the
tenth one would have 10 be black
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ANT|-R|OT SQUAD

time 10 convince the ConeY Islanders al that
they didn't want trouble and ID that they didn't
civ. , d.-, who hi, whom. Thew merely wanted
t.. L., :.
- '0'" 'O0o1 i -,
WHAT DO you IKE aooui ConeY Slano' "na' &c
you dislike about il? How do you get along with
YOUR neiohbors? How do the Jews fit in? The
I,,u., c.,holi.,7 TIL. Neeroes7
49,
once ineY haa fe'1s''Aeo 'eN ."e"i
maladlusfmenfs CT their communicative CoheY
Islanders plunged into the fight with vigor
that needed no further proddinq Three more
.-.; ,.l ;;-oa ~. .,o,n ,.h;rh !.
nc" iahins shape aS No"N'
Six Projects Adopted
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valuable people brought to Amer
lea: everything these Jews have
shown themselves able TO accom-
plish is desperately needed here.

Nevada. for instance That's a
desert region with plenty 81 room.
II IS badly in need OF modern
cities and irrigation. Possibly,
also. II needs moral tone, in view
OF It's legaiized gambling. proSt;u-
ton. rs divorce mill. et ceters.
Texas Here. again. dust-bowl-
tanners could be useful Further
more. Texans are constantly point
ng out the smbitiouSneSs ~ their
state. the vacant spaces N l.. and
the general b. -neSs-parucular.y Of
Texan hearts
What about Georgia" Georgian
land desperately needs reclamation
Georgia Is making splendid
struggle 10 emerge from IS Snor-
ance rs brutality. and rs 0lEo.ry.
A hundred thousand new citizens.
say. who we're Vealth-crcatlnG and
MISUNDERSTANDING would swiftly
push Georgia into the list " top.
pro SreSSive states
Gentiles who feel that Segrega-
ton Is necessary are at liberty,
Of course. to continue Segregat-
Ing themselves In their so-called
restricted" clubs. societies. he
tells. apartment houses. and 80 on.
These voluntary gentle ghettos
dot the land and anybody who Is
not a Jew can Get into them. Just
anybody. am gentle, so l
know
d. admit. 81 course tha: Psles-
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Why Not Bring Homeless Jews Here?

tine may be a pawn province n
the Arsb-wooing intrigue and thai
the Arabs may be a pawn people
in the oil we'll schemes of our
great. humanitarian statesmen and
industrialis;s. From this we might
deduce tina; the petroleum business
IS not controlled by Jews. In fact.
We might deduee that the Jews
don't control anything because all
they have been able 70 do for the
last decade is get murdered oy
the millions. Poor evidence Of the
secret power which anti-SemlteS
attribute 20 them Indeed. this
proves once asain that al! anti
Semltes are crazy.
But this is a crazy world. It's
got everything but principles. II
works for every body except peo-
pie. Some of the Americans. for
instance. who like to blame Bri-
tain for not letting the remaining
Jews 20 home. wouldn't live in
the same block with Einstein.
Think Of that. And think of the
pathetic plight of our oil mag
mates. should they hear some day
that in about twenty minutes
they will be on the receiving end
Of test demonstration launched
nv competitors who own uranium
mines.
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(condsnsss frsm The Atlantic MsstsiyI
Five years ago the United States
was an isolationist power. II is true
that the American people never
actually voted for isolationism,
whether in 1920, 1910 or 1914. Yet
the doctrine was always in the
offing. II was a powerful factor in
our national life; II influenced our
policy-maksrs; and Il entered into
the calculations of other nations
in our regard. With the possible
exception of Russia - which had,
however, favored collective seeur-
lily during the thirties-we were
more withdrawn into ourselves
than any other major power.
Today that situation has been
completely reversed: there has
been a bloodless revolution as
dramatic rs any in history. No
longer is America isolationist in
comparison with other nations:
rather, other nations are isolation
list in comparison with US II is
no exsggeration to say that the
American people as . whole are
row the most world-minded on
earth. Even the average Britisher
seems TO be less keenly aware OF
his involvement In the affairs of
the worid--espeeiaily those Of the
Pacihe-than the average resident
Of the Mississippi Valley.
Yet IL we look back with the
historians eye. we can see that in
the process of their change the peo-
pie were represented pre-eminent-
~ by two spokesman, who saw
things very differently, but who
we're in fundamental agreement
concerning the international crisis
OF their time. These two leaders,
who died within six months OF each
other. were franklin Roosevelt and
Wendell Willkie. In tracing the
causes OF our bloodles revolution.
the historian of the future will
have 10 understand both Of those
men.
He will, however. find that they
represent very different historical
problems. The record Of Mr. Roose-
Welt is basically official. and will
certainly be supplemented by
copious memoirs and documents
from the files OF his advisers Mr..
Willkie also made an Official record
as the Republican candidate in
i94o; yet this was in fac; only sup
Elementary 10 his basic contri5u-
ton. Mr.. Willkie played his his
toric role primarily as private
citizen. AS Archibald MacLeish
has so poignant!y pointed out. he
rever succeeded in winning cleo
ton to major public office-never
even held such an office-yet he
achieved worldwide influence. He
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(V{33&R DIGEST
The Ordeal Of Wendell WiIIkie

exercised power, not through VIC
tory, but through defeat.
Republican Isoiationlsm
Go back in your mind TO 1910
that grim and terrible year, with
democracy in full retreat before
Killers armies. This was a crucial
time for the United States, with a
Presidential election in the offing
and Pearl HarboT Just around the
corner. The isolstlonists, growing
stronger by the hour, were plan
ming to seize the Republican Party
as their political vehicle. In this
they had made substantial progress.
Many Republicans. of course,
were fighting lsolstionism. But
most OF the psr'y's Official leader
ship was following the iSolationist
line on the iife-snd-death issues of
foreign policy. Mr.. Wilkes rivals
for the Republican nomination at
Philadelphia were isloationIsts.
And the Roosevelt administration.
which also had its practical polit-
ieisns," was moving with a caution
that al times seemed like sppease-
ment of that dangerous doctrine.
In casting up the account for that
period, the future historian should
ask himself what would have hap
pened had Senator Taft or the then
almost frankly isolationist Thomas
4. Dewey been nominated at Phila-
delphis. What would have hap
psned on such issues as Selective
Service. the destroyer deal, or
Lend-Lease had the titulsr Repub-
llcan leader followed his advisers"
in manufacturing negative criticism
Of all administration policies? The
answer is not 10 be found in the
size Of the Republican vote. The
realistic answer is that the Roose-
welt administration Itself would
have been afraid 10 push those
measures or even Gin some cases.
TO propose them.
Wendell WILKES leadership was
different. On November II. 1910,
less than week after his defeat,
ne went on the air with what has
already become historic speech.
A vigorous. loyal and public
spirited opposition, he said, is
vital to balanced operation. Of de-
mocracy. But such opposition must
be constructive and responsible; it
must be loyal opposition" work.
ing primarily in the interests of the
PARTY. II must be free to agree
with the administration as well as
TO disagree.
Loyal Opposition"
In my perhaps prejudlced opin-
ion. the loyal opposition" theory
saved this country BY breaking
Up partisan opposition 10 a series OF
absolutely critical measures, il
gave the administration its oppor-
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the Jewish people have a spiritual
claim on Palestine established by
a book IN good repute in America
called. The Holy Bible" and that
Il the remnant Jewish people arc
not allowed 10 30 somewhere they
Will suffer from the residual in
sanlties left by Hitler.
The motive Of these Americans
Is decency: a promise should be
kept; condemninc the Jews 10 live
where they have been hunted like
animals IS vicious: IL man does
not Immediately cease his in
humanity to man. the human race
viii not last out the century. More
over. those Jewish people who
Ne-e permitted 10 settle in Pal
eStine turned in an astonishing
record They were tolerant They
made friends with the Arabs in
he area They brought prosperity
10 those Arabs They also brought
education 10 them. The Jews built
beautiful, modern cities They set
~ hydroelectric plants and irri-
cation systems which supplied
A'wer 10 thr region and which re-
claimed vast areas Of land that
rad been barren for a thousand
years They proved themselves
S"e farmers. teachers. governors
superb citizens, in short.
Obviously. IL all the nobly mo-
tivated Americans find that the
British continue to refuse to let
the Jews 70 home, II will be in
cumhent upon them TO do some
thing. Otherwise, their idealism
will have been pure blubber-
mouth. What they logically
ought 10 do 10 70 try to get these
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told me that today would have a complete
new outlook on the racial question of Mississippi,
would have laughed at him. That was before
joined the Navy. was born in Mississippi and
grew to understand that there were only two
kinds Of people, white and black and that the
Negro was not my equal. In the Navy there
were 4 great many Negroes and it was not easy
ut first to eat sleep and wash by them =. 1t
was not too long before I realized that they
wanted the same out OF life as did, had the
same dreams IS !, The Negro In this war has
proved himself entitled to the benefits of de-
mocraey above and beyond the call OF expec-
tation. II this Do denied, then we are frauds"
This moving and evidently sincere letter re-
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FREE AND EQUAL


Tom Jones. twenty-four- year -old
Negro. was fatally wounded on Sat
urday evening by the Town Mar
shall Of Woodville. Miss.
The Negro was aboard a Grey
hound bus from New Orleans, la.
Upon arrival at Woodyille the Ne
gre started an argument with the
bus driver over the whereabouts
Of his baggage. The argument be-
came heated and the bus driver
went and secured the Town Mar
shall who. according 10 Mayor
stockett. upon arriving at the scene
found the condition such as made
u necessary In shoot the Negro -
From the Matches Democrat In The
New Republin