Search JTA's historical archive dating back to 1923

Hakoah Soccer Players Defeat French Team

April 11, 1926
See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date
Advertisement

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The soccer team of the Hakoah Sport Club defeated a selected team of the best French football clubs with a score of 10–4, in a game at the Buffalo Velodrome here last night.

The game played at night under powerful are lights, was the last before their departure on the steamer Berengaria Saturday, for a tour of the United States, the first game being scheduled for the Polo Grounds, New York, on April 25.

A large throng crowded into the auditorium of Temple Beth Elohim. Brooklyn, on Thursday, as Dr. Alexander Lyons, minister of the temple, read the last service at the bier of the Rose Brenner, late President of the National Council of Jewish Women.

The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America, the Hadassah, the National League of Women Voters, the National Council of Jewish Juniors, and the Grand Lodge of the Brith Abraham Order were among the organizations that sent messages and offerings of tribute to the life of the Council’s departed leader, National officers of the National Council of Jewish Women attended the last rites in a body, and were joined by representatives of State Conferences of Council Sections and by officers of many local Council Sections.

Recommended from JTA

Advertisement