Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1942 Page: 3 of 8
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March 12, 1942
THE JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
3
THE SPORTS
PARADE
straights and his own patHotism.
But stories like these make a
sports column worthwhile during
wartime
Israel
By LIONEL KOFFMAN
NOTE: Because of Increasing
duties as news editor of the Bay.
lor Lariat and secretary of Waco
B’nai B’rith Lodge, Lionel Kopp-
man will be unable to continue
editing this column. Wacoans are
urged to send in their writeups
direct to the Jewish Herald-Voice,
1414 McKinney, Houston, Texas.
Mrs. L. Fred, president of the
Agudath Jacob Ladies Aid So-
ciety, reports the annual charity
game party a big success. The
affair was held last Sunday at the
Institute, but the Purim Ball was
not a feature this year as in the
past.
• • •
Harry Daum says we owe 64c
to the penny-a-plane club this
week, for enemy aircraft shot
down last week.
0 0 0
Hymie Greenspan is Waco’s
latest contribution to Uncle Sam’s
armed forces.
* * * —.
Asher Lowich, secretary of the
FDR birth ball ball, says this
year’s affair netted the largest
sum in history.
• « •
Temple Sisterhood Study group
presented a March of Time pro-
gram Wednesday at the Raleigh
Hotel. Mrs. Lester Levy was
general chairman, and Mrs. Wolfe
Macht program chairman.
Appearing on the program were
Mesdames Carrie Godshaw, Leo
Bruck, Lester Levy, Harry Kest-
ner, Abe Levy, Lester Englander,
Phil Wise, Herbert Scharff, A. M.
Goldstein, Gus Levy and Beulah
Nussbaum.
• * *
CONG. AGUDATH JACOB
PLANS ANNUAL DINNER
Tickets went on sale Monday
for Congregation Agudath Jacob’s
annual dinner, to be held this
year at the Hebrew Institute on
Wednesday, March 18.
Abe Wizig and Abe Rosenberg
have been named co-chairmen of
the event, and Mr. and Mrs. L.
Levy will be honored guests. (Mr.
and Mrs. Levy recently contri-
buted $1,000.00 to the synagogue.)
Rabbi Charles Blumenthal will
be in charge of a portion of the
program.
In a letter to members, the co-
chairmen stressed the dinner will
be a “get together whereby all
good things for the Congregation
will be discussed. We are going
to plan a definite future—a steady
improvement in our daily work
for the Shule.”
Reservations will close March
. 16, and are obtainable now from -
Leon Aronson, 308 Franklin, May-
nard Wizig, 210 Side Square, Mrs.
Herman Levi, 415 Austin, J. A.
Hayman, 506 Austin, Abe Adams,
4th and Franklin, and Abe Wizig,
222 South Side Square.
0 0 0 'mm~
Ben H. Green, president of
Congregation £gudath Jacob an-
nounces that a plaque, honoring
•Jewish boys in service, will be
hung in a select spot in the He-
brew Institute, and every one who
has a loved one serving in the
armed forces is asked to bring or
send his picture to Green or Abe
Rosenberg before March 16.
• * • ,
Miss Frances Snaman of Chi-
cago, is a visitor in the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Snaman.
Mrs. Joe A us lander of Detroit,
is a visitor in the home of her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Englander.
• • •
Junior Hadassah met at the
home of its president. Miss Evelyn
Wizig Wednesday night.
• • •
Lester Levy and A. M. Gold-
stein are members of the business
and industrial committee which
has as its purpose: the develop-
ment, protection and conservation
of the community’s business and
industrial resources.
• * •
Twenty-five cents is the total
cost to the Workmen’s Circle
Ladies’ Auxiliary benefit game
party to be held March 22. He-
brew Institute is the place, and
it starts at 7:30.
# * 0
Council of Jewish Women is
preparing for the annual state
conference which will be held in
Austin, Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday. Delegates from the Waco
chapter are: Mesdames Leo Bruck,
L. H. Roddy and L. Y. Feinstein.
Alternates are Mesdames Gus
Levy, Ike Kestner and Herbert
Scharff.
Mrs. A. M. Goldstein and Mrs.
Harry Wood, state officers, will
also attend.
• • •
Private Mannie Wolf, of Camp
Barkley, and Private Harry Novy
of Camp Bowie, were visitors
here the past week-end, as was
• Joe French of Corsicana.
• • •
Dr. A. L. Goodman will be prin.
cipal speaker when Senior Hadas-
sah meets March 19 at the Hebrew
Institute at 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. W. P. Kochmann will give
the opening prayer, and Mrs. D.
Lebowitz will relate the march
of Hadassah.
• • *
Mrs. Morris Wood has been
visiting relatives in Eagle Lake
and Corpus Christi.
0 0 0
Mr. and * Mrs. Ike Kestner of
3724 Chateau announce the en-
gagement of their daughter Cecile
to Sgt. Julian R. Nathan of Camp
Wolters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Nathan of Mexico City. Date
of the wedding will be announced
later.
• • •
VISITOR HONORED
A party honoring Miss Doris
Wolkoff, student at TSCW, who
visited here the past week end
was given by Miss Ann Solovey
at the Wm. Bell home, 2728 Ho-
man Sunday.
Informal dancing provided the
main diversion, and the following
guests shared the courtesy: Kop-
ple Bauer, Naman Lipinsky, Jay
Bahme, Calvin Corman, Leon Le-
bowitz, Archie Hoppenstein, I. A.
Goldstein, Alvin Adelman, Justin
Rosenfeld, Jake Gandler, of Tex-
as U., Sonny Wizig, A. & M.,
Lionel Koppman, Leo Udashen,
Martin Adams, Stephen Goldstein,
Lloyd Kronick, Sioux City, Rich,
ard Kleiman, Texas U., Lilly Hop-
penstein, Idelle Levin, Flora Jar-
nitzky, Hilda Rubel, Claudia Hol-
man, Nell Bauer, Ruth Jean Levy,
Martha Miller, Cissie Stupak,
TSCW, Estelle Levin, Leona Far-
bstein.
• • •
The portrait of Governor Coke
R. Stevenson has been commis-
By AL LURIE
SPORTS AND WAR
Once upon a time, when wars
were fought by gentlemen, it was
said that the playing fields of
Eton turned out great soldiers.
Although wars are not fought by
Eton-bred warriors these crucial
days, the principle that sports and
warfare are closely connected is
as valid as ever.
The fact that the same elements
of conflict enter both the fray
which is a life-and-death struggle
and the contest which is being
played only for cheers and ap-
plause makes a column on sports
no less timely during a period of
war than when there is a peace-
time lull.
This column will at times seem
trivial as the sweep and scope of
the world conflict make their
brilliant deeds shine across the
pages of America’s newspapers.
On the other hand, there will,
every now and again, be empha-
sized on the sports field the same
gameness, stamina and sacrifice
which make of war a sometimes
heroic thing.
That the first great sports hero
to join up with the armed forces
of the United States was a Jerw
—Hank Greenberg—mdses the
matter of a Jewish sports feature
a trifle more appropriate. That
the Jews of this country will do
all within their power to support
the war effort is of course under-
stood. And with the curtailment
of sports activities, with the finer
athletics joining up in the greater
adventure, it is to be expected
that Jewish lads will make prom,
inent names on the field of bat-
tle as they have doile in the
realm of sports.
WILLIE GILZENBERG
Although he is much too old
to join the army, and despite the
fact that he is one of a clan con-
sidered mercenary—the boxing
manager—Willie Gilzenberg has
shown that he is a real patriot.
The manager of Freddie Cochran,
welterweight champion, Willie
suffered for many long years be-
fore he turned up with a king in
boxing. Since 1918 he has dream-
ed of piloting a winner. Now he
has one—Freddie Cochrane, once
thought of as a “cheese” champ,
but who has since developed into
a real battler. But Willie, alas,
can hardly make any money out
of his carefully buildup of Fred-
die. For the king has joined the
Navy.
Willie has been suffering from
a cyst on his spine. And his boy
is probably far away from the
fight game. ‘Tough, isn’t it,
Willie.” a friend asked.
The Jewish manager’s eyes
glistened. ‘Tough—hell!" he bel-
lowed from his sickbed. “That
kid’s a real patriot. Dough don’t
mean nothing to him, in days like
these when his country’s got a
fight on its hands.”
He forgot to mention his own
sioced to be painted by Mrs. Ida
Simon, daughter of Mrs. L. Fred
of Waco.
Mrs. Simon, who recently did a
portrait of Senator W. Lee O’Dan-
iel. while he was governor of
Texas, will be remembered for
having painted the late Rev. H.
J. Hurwitz and Sam Cohen and
others, while she resided in Hous-
ton prior to coming to Waco.
BARNEY ROSS
To make this column a com-
pletely military one, the story
of Barney Ross and why he join-
ed the United States Marines can
now be told.
It is a tale of poverty, oppor-
tunity and success—which has so
often been told in America. It 0
a story of courage, patriotism
and duty. It is the story of Bar-
ney Ross.
Barney was brought up in the
tough section of Chicago. One of
the most horrible events in his
life occurred one day when he
found his father, a poor shop-
keeper, dead in his store because
he had resisted a hold-up-yegg.
Barney leaped the hurdle of his
environment He entered the
Golden Gloves and won a title.
When he turned professional and
began to beat all comers. Every,
body knows that he was one of
the finest titleholders in boxing.
Square, friendly, courageous,
Barney beat Tony Canzoneri, a
highly popular champion, and
took the lightweight crown. From
that moment on, Ross was a big-
timer.
For years he more than held
his own in boxing circles. He
licked Jimmy McLarnin, who for
years spent his time knocking off
promising Jewish boxers. He
couldn’t take Ross. The end
came for Barney as it comes to
all champions. He was old and
gone — pugilistically — when he
fought Henry Armstrong, Negro
fighter. “Before the third round
was over, I knew I was through,”
Barney recalls. “But I decided to
go out on my feet” This eras a
winner speaking—a vain, cock-
sure battler, a tough Jewish lad
who gave and took no quarter.
Well, Barney lasted. He took a
fifteen-round licking which was
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