Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1958 — Page 8
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By MAX HEIT SPOKANE, Wash. (NJP) — Baseball’s first Jewish brother battery got together in a regular organized baseball league here recently. Pitcher Larry Sherry, sent down from the parent Los . Angeles Dodgers of the National league, joined his brother and catcher, Norman, as teammate on the roster of the Spokane Indians of the Paciific Coast League. "We hadn't played together since we were kids in semipro ball,” said Norman, who is the eldest at 26. During spring training in Vero Beach, Fla., the tub-thumpers were beating out a rondo about the Sherry brothers making the Dodgers 1958 roster and forming the first Jewish brother battery in the history of major league baseball. But before the camp broke up, Norman was sent packing to Spokane. Larry lasted with the Bums for about a month and even got into a couple of games. But his performances were unimpressive and he also was farmed out to Spokane.
Pitcher LARRY SHERRY . . . Blazing Fast-Ball Hxirler
BOTH ARE highly regarded, however, in the future plans of the Los Angeles club. Several major league outfits have made offers to buy either cf the. Sherrys but so far have met |
with a "not for sale” answer. Larry is a big, strong righthander (6-2, 185 pounds). He has fine control and a blazing fast ball that was very much in evidence last season as he led the
Texas League pitchers with 146 strikeouts while toiling for Ft. Worth. Only 22 years old, Larry is now in his sixth season in pro ball. NORMAN is one of the lead-
ing hitters in the Pacific Coast League, batting around .340 and handling the pitchers flawlessly He is also ticketed for a return trip to the Dodgers, who appear to be sorely in need of a catcher of Sherry’s caliber. Actually, the Sherrys are the second Jewish brother battery in baseball, but the o{her randem never had the chance to play together because of the disparity in their ages. The Kling broth ers were the first Jewish brothers listed in the baseball records as pitcher and catcher. Johnny Kling was the more famous as the star catcher on the championship Chicago Cubs during their Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance era. He played in the National League from 1900 to 1913 and became the first Jew to manage a major league club, when he took over the helm of the Boston Braves in 1912. BILLY KLING, who was seven years older, pitched in the National League from 1891 to 1895 and the records fail to show any game in the minors where the brothers might have formed a battery. While only a so-so hurler, Billy Kling does own the distinction of being the first Jewish ball player in the major leagues. If the Sherry brothers ever make the grade, they also will
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Catcher NORMAN SHERRY . . Handles Pitchers Flawlessly
not become the first Jewish battery in the major leagues. That distinction belongs to Pitcher Harry Feldman and Catcher Harry Banning who paired up many times during the seasons of 1941-42 as members of the
former New York Giants Saul Rogovin and Myron (Joe) Ginsberg, pitcher and catcher .respectively, saw action with the Detroit Tigers during the 395051 seasons.
$100 Million Trust Will Not Conflict With Bond Sale JERUSALEM (NJP)—Fears of Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, head of the Israel Bond drive, that the new program for investment in Israel enterprises might hurt the sale of bonds were discounted at the sessions of the Jewish Agency executive now being held. PRESENT plans call for a goal of $100,000,000. Shares in the investment fund will sell for $250. WHETHER the fund will be managed by a new body organized for the purpose or by the Jewish Agency has not yet been determined.
NEW SCHOOL AT HU The Hebrew University in Jerusalem this fall will inaugurate a school of social work. .
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Law Banning Sales on Sunday in New Jersey Signed By Meyner Despite Jewish Opposition
By AL ARONOWITZ TRENTON, N. J. (NJP) — New Jersey Gov. Meyner — a Democratic Presidential contender—this week signed into law a bill banning Sunday sales, despite heavy opposition from Jewish groups. THE BILL outlaws Sunday sales of general merchandise in 18 of the state’s 21 counties. Meyner cited this as probably being unconstitutional. But Meyner said he signed the measure anyyway because he believed most people in the state were for it. "I am satisfied that public sentiment favors a reasonable degree of control over the commercial activities whose rapid growth has drastically changed over the character of Sunday as a day of rest,” the governor explained. The three counties exempted from the law—ail of them oceanfront resort areas which depend on week-end trade for the major part of their incomes—were Atlantic, Ocean and Cape May. Another ocean-front county, Monmouth, was not exempted. THE BILL, which provides for jail sentences for violators, received its primary support from merchants groups in the major city business areas, ironically, these groups included many Jewish leaders. ' But the measure soon gained additional heavy support from" Catholic and Protestant groups. The merchants groups are against Sunday sales because their members normally close on,
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Sundays, leaving the field open to highway discount centers which have been offering stiff competition. OFFICIAL Jewish groups opposed the bill because they charged it was a violation of the principle of separation of church and state. Many Jewish factions called for a provision excluding merchants who observe—by closing their businesses—a day other than Sunday as the Sabbath.
26 YEARS AGO Ten Jews and two Britops were killed in a new outburst of Arab terrorism in Jerusalem, bringing the Jewish death toll in Palestine to 45 in a period of three weeks. . . . Father Charles E. Coughlin, veteran anti-Semite, denied any anti-Semitic intent in quoting from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in bis publication, Social Justice. 10 YEARS AGO The first formal agreements between the new state of Israel and the invading Arabs were reached. . . . The Conservative movement placed its stamp of approval on the Jewish all-day school movement and urged that “every effffort . . be made to eliminate the Sunday school.” FIVE YEARS AGO The cornerstone was laid for Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv.
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These Jewish groups were joined by other religious groups—principally the Seventh Day Adventists—which also do not observe Sunday as the Sabbath. Banned from being placed oft sale on Sundays are clothing and wearing apparel, furniture, home or business and office furnishings, household appliances and building and lumber supply materials. A fourth offense under the law brings a mandatory jail sentence.
. . . Sixty-one 'per cent of Piotestants said they would not vote for a Jewish candidate for President, a Catholic Digest survey revealed. . . . Tisha B’av should remain as a day of fasting and mourning for the purpose of "public self-evaluation” despite the establishment of a new Jewish state, declared Professor 'Dov Goiteig of the Hebrew University. ONE YEAR AGO A “Guide for Reform Judaism” issued by Rabbi David Polish of Chicago and Frederick Doppelt of Ft. Wayne, I n ^> urged return to Jewish divorce, selihot services and abstention from trefa foods at Reform' sponsored functions. . . . Reform Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzchild of Fargo, N. D., was in danger of being expelled by the Central Conference of Am^.ican Rabbis after seeking to challenge a ban against holding dual member_ship in the CCAR (Reform) and the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative). . . . Israel soufth* ^ free an Israeli sailor impounded by Egyptian authorities who 1 a Danish ship through the Suez Canal with cargo for Israel ,
Looking Backward . . . 45 PALESTINE JEWS KILLED IN 3 WEEKS