Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1945 — Page 18

Friday, May 4, 1948

THE JEWISH POS1

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Here and There About Jewish Athletes

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(Copyright, 1»45, i. T. A., I«c,) By HASKELL COHEN

"'KT'OU can officially call the 1944-45 basketball season over now. X The Philadelphia Sphas clinched their seventh league title in twelve years when they beat Baltimore 46-40 in the final playoff game of the American League season. Over 3,000 fans turned out in mid April to watch the windup of a very good season as master was opposed by student when Eddie Gottlieb masterminded his charges to victory over former Spha hero Red Rosan, player-coach of the Maryland Bullets. The Philly Hebrews were awarded playoff mony of $300 in bonds which, added o the $800 they won in bonds for capturing the regular season pennant, gave the players a neat bonus cut. Perhaps it was poetic justice that the sole non Jew on the team, center man Art Hillhouse, should lead the club in scoring with fifteen tallies against the Bullets. Veteran Inky Lautman who started with the Hebrews at the age of seventeen, finished his twelfth campaign with the Gottliebmen. . . . • * • Harry Shuman got a break, if you want to call it that, when l,es Scarsella refused to report to the Phillies for the opening hall game. As a result of Scarsella’s refusal to show up In Philadelphia, pitcher Shuman reverts to the Phils in the deal with Oakland cancelled by the recalcitrant Scarsella. Shuman never did get much of a chance when he was up with the Pittsburgh Pirates, perhaps he will now is* given an opportunity to show what he has with the lowly Phils. . . .

Srenco Goes lo Semis In Handball Tourney

Special

CHICAGO, 111. —Jack Srenco, Rationally known Jewish handball star .went to the semi-finals of the National AAU fourwall handball tournament here last week. He was eliminated by Seaman Joe Platak, Chicago, who went on to win the title for the ninth time in 10 years. Platak downed Srenco, who hails from St. Louis, 21-5 and 21-11. Srenco was slated to play Lt. Paul Turner of St. Paul, for third place but had to default because he was unable to stick around for the

match.

Srenco and his partner, Nick Martinez of St. Louis, staged one of the biggest surprises of the tournament when they defeated Frank Coyle, New York, and Ed Linz, also of New York, in doubles play. Coyle, 1944 singles champion, lost to Platak in the

finale.

There were a number of other Jewish stars in the tournament. They included Louis Schwartz of Detroit; Jack Golstein, Louisville, Ky.; Izzy Wishney, Chicago; Sam Shimkus, Detroit, and Leonard Meldman, Detroit. His Baseball Career Over

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By LOU BERLINER

TOIRST statistics of the Ameri.T can and National baseball leagues show Phil Weintraub of the Giants batting at a .379 clip with 11 for 29 and Ben Steiner of the Red Sox hitting .370 on 10 for 27. The Giants’ Harry Feldman has a 2-0 record.

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Harry Feldman was in rare form against the Philadelphia Phillies on April 26. He scattered five hits in such manner that no Phil reached third as the Giants won, 2-0. He also scored one of the two runs.

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The Newark club of the International League has two Jewish players on its present roster, both outfielders. . . . Arnold Cohen is making his second bid for a berth on the club. A Rochester boy, he started last season with Newark and finished the season with Binghamp ton in the Eastern league, a Yankee farm. Rothman is a

rookie from the Bronx and this is is his first try at pro ball. He’s a graduate of Morris High in New York.

FISTCUFFS —Brooklyn’s Artie Levine decisioned Joe Bennett, New York, in the eight round feature of a Brooklyn card on Tuesday, April 24. It was Levine’s 45th straight victory. . . . The Al (Bummy) Davis and Rocy Gratziano bout, originally scheduled for Madison Square Gardens, June 8, has been moved up to May 25. . . . The winner will clash with Welterweight Fred (Red) Cochrane in a 10 round non-title bout on June 29 in the Gardens. . . . Sol Gold has taken over the managership of Brooklyn’s welterweight, Harold Green. . . . Barney Ross, former Welterweight ana lightweight boxing champion ana of recent months a Marine hero, has sent an offer to Stg. Bob Montgomery to oppose Jimmy Doyle at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, in June. ♦ * *

Where would the New York Giants be without Phil Weintraub? The slugging first baseman slammed out three homers the first week ot the new season. Remember when Mel Ott talked of dumping Phil only a few short months ago. He’ll never be a fielder but when it comes to boffing the pill Phil really has it. Harry Feldman, the former Bronx resident, jumped off on the right foot when he hurled his mates to a win over the hated rival Brooklyn Dodgers his first time out. Harry didn’t have too much on the ball but his mates backed him up admirably so that Feldman chalked up his victory. TlTe Dodgers are duck soup for Harry who turned them back four times against one loss last summer. ... * * * The Bible of the boxing world. King Magazine, carries a piece in the current issue on the famous Joe Bernstein, well known Ghetto fighter at the turn of the century, who fought the likes of Terry McGovern and the great George IHxon. Joe more than held his own against these fistic immortals, having developed a fine defensive style. Bernstein was elusive as a will-o-wisp and rarely took heavy punishment. . . . * * • Maurie Waxman, a denison of Jacobs Beach, has decided to publish a boxing weekly known as Fight Facts. The book, a sixteenpage sheet, sells for fifteen cents, indicating that Waxman hasn't forgotten how to extract terrible prices. Maurie is boxing manager for lightweight Bobby Ruffin and right now is in Mike Jacobs’ bad graces. He got a break early in his new journalistic venture when the picture of President Harry Truman and Tony Janiro, taken after Tony won his last start at the Garden, front covered Waxman’s weekly the day Truman took office. . . . * * * The Brooklyn Dodgers aren’t taking any chances passing up stray talent. later this week they are going to look over fifteen-year-old Arnold Schwartz, infielder with James Madison High School. . . . * 4 * The Giants watched Don Forman, N. Y. U. basketball flash, in action during spring practice and will have a spot for him when he is ready to turn pro. Don has three more years of basketball ahead of him. . . .

BANNING

Coast Guardsman Cy Block, former Chicago Subs infielder, has formed a baseball team among the Coast Guard personnel at Ellis Island, N. Y. * * » Orchids to Mayor Bernard Samuel of Philadelphia for relinquishing the honor of tossing out the first ball for the Athletics-Sena-tor game in favor of a wounded veteran, Nick Rodecker. * 4 * Lt. Dave Snidennan, former freshman football star from Michigan State, was injured in action in one of the major campaigns in Belgium. He suffered a leg injury and Is making progress in his recovery. ♦ * * Cathcher Lou Kahn of the Baltimore team of the International League has been accepted for military service. He’ll stay with the club until he’s called. Sid Tanenbaum, one of the stellar performers on the 1940-45 New York University basketball team for the past two seasons, has been accepted for military service and expects to be called within the next week or so. During the 1944-45 campaign, Tanenbaum scored 301 points for the Violets.

Remember Seymour Greenberg, the nation’s champion clay court tennis player. Well it is Lt. Seymour Greenberg now and he is stationed In Alaska. They don’t have clay courts up that way so Greenie is content playing ping pong and basketball. He is still a young fellow and should be heard from after the war Is over. . . . 4 4 4 I,ast week we told the story o^Max Rosner and mentioned that one of his pitchers, Wally Holborrow, had turned down the Dodgers and Senators. Well Wally has finally yielded to the financial blandishments of the Washington nine and is currently playing for the Bluege men. We’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts Holborrow will be back with the Bushwicks if Washington tries to farm him out. In the meantime, Emil Moskowitz has taken over Holly’s duties as leading Bushwick hurler and in the opening double-header against the Philly Stars, Eddie Gottlieb’s Negro nine, Emil came through with a neat three-hit shut out. The Stars captured the other half of the bill. . . . • • • In the mailbag. Answer to Chester Cotton of Brooklyn. Your informant is wrong. The late Al Blosis, great football player and champion shot putter, was not of Jewish extraction. To Bernard Postal of Washington. Sammy Weiss is our friend, too. We already have done two magazine pieces on him with another one coming up this fall in a national monthly. More anent Weiss during the football season. . . . 4 4 4 Tommy Trent is doing a great job as U. S. O. entertainer in Italy. You may have watched Tommy and his puppet act in big time stage shows on these shores. Tommy is best remembered in Brooklyn as Izzy Goldberg, a better than fair amateur boxer. The lure of the stage won over the offers of boxing managers and Tommy isn’t sorry today. We caught him in Naples and he has a great

Hurry Dnnnlng, former New York Giants catcher, won’t return to baseball upon his scheduled discharge from the army. Now a patient in a California service hospital, Banning has written Prexy Horace Stoneham of the Giants that he would retire because of the condition of his knees. Banning, who came to the Giants In 1933, has a 10 year batting record of .288.

Owner of '32 Futurity Now G«*rd Butch

_ _ Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Winner Succumbs London — Former Jewish Special prisoners have been detailed as New York-Lee Rosenberg of guanls for the flrst batch of ^ Great Neck, L. I., stockbroker, Dutch collaborators who have who owned Kerry Patch, winner sent to the W e St erbork conof the 1932 Belmont futurity, centration camp, which was formdied here at 67. er j y a Naz j cam p f 0r Dutch Jews. Kerry Patch, named for a St. Louis district of Irish population, Warm Againat Prejudice had won only three out of fifteen ,* w u h Telegraphic Agency starts when he won the Futurity LONDON—Marshal Tito has at odds of 30 to 1, on a record warned that the future of Yugohigh price against a Futurity slavia depends on the people’s rewinner. Mr. Rosenberg never sistance to efforts to divide them parted with Kerry Patch, now by appeals to religious or racial standing stud at a farm near prejudice, the Belgrade radio re-

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act. His speed of hand shows why he was considered such a fast puncher among the amateurs. . . . • * • You may not believe It but when Billy Conn, probably the next heavyweight champion, parted from boxing writer Sid Feder In Rome after spending a week with him, handsome Billy unashamed kissed burly Sid goodbye. . . . Dayenu.

Miss Leah Thall, Columbus, O., retained her women’s singles championship in the annual Columbus city tournament, but had to be content with the runner-up spot in the mixed doubles. Original ISurenberg Laws Found by Jewish Gl Jewish Telegraphic Agency LON DON—The original document of the Nurenberg racial laws, complete with the signature of Adolph Hitler, has been obtained by a German-born American Jewish soldier and is now in the hands of the U. 8. Third Army, the London press

reports.

Sgt. Frank Peris of San Francisco, who fled the Reich with his father after promulgation of the Nurenberg laws made life intolerable for Jews in Germany, ferreted out the document at the home of an official of the German finance ministry near Nurenberg, where It had been placed for safe-keep-ing. Sgt. Peris Is attached to the Allied Military Government.