CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW
The Jewish Athlete
Continued from page 9 Clark 'University, and its outstanding soccer player; Shan Klein, football player of Ohio State University; Dave Lipsky, 440-yard freshman champion of Penn State; Bennie Borris, Toronto University, Canada, collegiate hockey star; Tubby Raskin, three-letter man of New York City College; Abe Silver-stein, middle-distance swimming champion of America.
The names mentioned under this heading should undoubtedly also include Levinson, Colgate, Goldstein, Florida; Levy, Tulane, Skudin, New York University; and Parker, Dartmouth; all of gridiron fame.
WOMEN ATHLETES It did not require the phenomenal achievement of Gertrude Ederle in swimming across the Channel to focus attention on the amazing headway which women athletes have made in the immediate past. We shall limit ourselves to the mere listing of the most prominent women athletes: Mae Zittman, Pittsburgh, outstanding sprinter, basketball thrower and shot-putter; Rosa M. Grosse, Toronto, 100-yard runner, and most probably the fastest woman on this continent, holding the world-record for this distance for her sex; Fanny Rosenfeldt, Toronto, another great sprinter; Rose Boczeck, fancy diver. Among the golfers we must mention Mrs. Harry Grossman, Mrs. Ed. Goldberger and Mrs. Elaine Rosenthal. We know that these three do not exhaust the list of women golfers in this country, but they are the only ones on whom we have data. The greatest event in the world of feminine athletics most probably is the retirement of Suzanne Lenglen, the Jewish tennis queen, from amateur competition. While speaking of Europe we should also record the names of the three Jewish swimming champions, Fraulein Heddi Bienenfeld, Frau-lein Loewi, of the Vienna Hakoah, and Mile. Sion of Paris.
GOLF
Jews are coming to the fore quickly in golf. Louis Levinson, the eighteen-year-old wizard of San Antonio is a good illustration. Among the veterans we can note only Joe and Ben E. Stein among recognized tournament golfers.
BILLIARDS, BICYCLE, AUTOMOBILE, WRESTLING
The only Jewish top-notcher in the billiard game is Henry Solomon, three-cushion billiard champion of the West. In professional bicycle sport Sammy Gastman U our lone representative of any consequence. Looii Fink, outstanding in the auto-
mobile racing field, killed on.the track only recently, leaves Dave Lewis practically the only Jewish automobile racer of note. Ave Kaplan and Fred Meyers, wrestlers, did not fare any too well last season, and are not considered strong enough for first-class competition.
BASKETBALL, CHESS, PRO-' FESSIONAL FOOTBALL It would be useless to list Jewish basketball players. Collegiate and professional basketball teams all over the country contain almost a majority of Jews. Nat Holman, of New York, is considered the outstanding Jewish basketball player of this country. The Jewish predominance in the chess world is gradually weakening. Emanuel Lasker, still on the top of his game, is our only chess master who can be relied upon to finish among the first three in any tournament. Reti, Rubinstein and other international Jewish masters have been consistently beaten during the last year. In America, however, Kuptchick proved his calibre by beating Marshall several times, and therefore looms as the next chess champion of America.
No sport review would be complete if it failed to include Joe and John Alexander (not related to each other), former collegiate football stars. Taking advantage of the great boom which professional football now enjoys in America, they will henceforth devote all their time to it as members of the strong professional football team, the New York Giants.
The death of Sigmund Breit-bart, the world's strongest Jew, made a deep impression on all those who saw this modern Samson perform and who knew his life and character. A sixteen-year-old New York boy, Harry Luft, has amazed medical authorities with his feats of strength, very similar to Breitbart's, as whose successor he is now being hailed.
It is, of course, impossible within the limits of a magazine article, to give a complete survey of Jewish achievements in the professional and amateur athletic field. This review merely attempts to indicate in a necessarily sketchy manner the continually growing share of the Jews in the field of sports. At the last moment, even, it occurs to us that we have left out the pole vault champion of Hungary, Kar-lowitz, and the distance-runner of Finland,' Katz. Doubtless there are others of distinction who will be missed. It is, however, a great tribute to Jewish sportdom that a reviewer must plead indulgence due to the immensity of thefeki.
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