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PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED GERMAN-HUNGARIANS OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY
VOLUME SEVENTY
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NUMBER 6
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OAKFORD, PENNSYLVANIA
2015 Mid-Atlantic
KINDERFEST
On June 6, the Mid Atlantic Kinderfest was held at our clubhouse in Oakford. Many clubs with young involved children attended. Some of these clubs were GTV Almrausch Philadelphia, Enzian Volkstanzgruppe from Delaware, Auerhahn Schuhplattler Verein of Oley, and many more. The event started with group registration in the morning. Once everyone was settled, a group picture of the kinder was taken and the parade started. Each club marched behind the other, with two children from each club proudly holding their wooden sign that bears their verein’s name. In all the hustle and bustle of putting on an event such as this one, we do not realize how great a significance this has. The children that were marching in the parade this past weekend are the ones that will continue on the traditions of each of their clubs. If you were to look back at the pictures of the previous Kinderfest that the German Hungarians hosted, right there on the wooden stage are the children that have grown to become prize-winning dancers, leaders of their children’s groups, and judges of the Jugend Einzel competition. It is such a special thing to see an event such as this come full circle. The children who attended, danced, and ran around all day are the future of our organizations. Each club children’s group performed, and the Gauplattler was performed as well. The event was successful all around and we cannot wait for the Kinderfest next year in Lancaster! Karina Fricker
—NAT. DONAUSCHWABEN— Tournament | Mansfield, OH Your German Hungarians that competed in the US National Donauschwaben Tournament over Memorial Day weekend finished in second place in the group, just behind Cleveland Concordia. Cleveland would go on to lose to Detroit Carpathia Kickers in the final championship match. On Saturday, our team tied Cleveland 2:2 with goals from our own Elsion Pajolarri and Pat Raykovitz. In the second match, we won 2:0 over Chicago Green White. Pajolarri scored both goals. On Sunday, our team lost 3:0 against Akron G.F.S and won 1:0 over Milwaukee Sport Club with Pajolarri once again scoring the game winner. Congratulations to what has been deemed our “Sister Club,” the Carpathia Kickers. It was discovered in 2013 that our club and the Carpathia share a common ancestor in Peter Schock. The man was the founder and first president of both of our organizations and the bond between the clubs has been strengthened by this fact. Thanks are in order to the Mansfield Liederkranz for hosting the tournament! Even on short notice, they did a great job! Thanks also to the players and members who attended the trip!
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JUNE 2015
—1965 US AMATEUR CUP— On June 27, 1965, our club captured the first of our national titles. The US Amateur Cup Championship took place on field 1 in Oakford. What follows appeared in 1965 in a special issue of the Monthly Progress.
Sunday, June 27, 1965 saw a dream come true – and in truly resounding fashion. Our lads gave Philadelphia its first United States Amateur Soccer Championship in more than thirty years when they completely demoralized Saint Ambrose S.C. of St. Louis, Missouri, the western finalists, and shellacked them 6:0 in the grand final of the National Amateur Soccer Cup matches. Although the Mound City boys were totally outclassed, and the issue was never in doubt after the first few minutes, the “Saints” —SCHEDULE OF EVENTS— refused to give up and they played hard and clean soccer, right down to the wire. The amazFriday, June 19—CLUB NIGHT-PATIO NIGHT ingly clean play on the part of both teams made WITH THE PHILADELPHIA MODIFIERS | DETAILS ON PAGE 4 it a comparatively easy assignment for referee Buck Davidson, of Washington, D.C., and linesSaturday, June 27—GERMAN DAY man, Al Heery and Bill Rose of Philadelphia, AT THE CANNSTATTER VOLKSFEST VEREIN three of the best soccer arbiters in these parts. In this respect, we can’t help mentioning Buck Wednesday, July 1—SCHNITZEL NIGHT INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION WITH THE SCHNITZEL-BOY Davidson’s remark, prior to the game, to the effect that a match between two good, fair Saturday, July 25—GAUFEST WARM-UP playing teams always makes the officials look DETAILS ON PAGE 3 good. In his own, inimitable fashion Ted KerecJul. 30 - Aug. 2—25. GAUFEST MILWAUKEE zmann, our perennial master of ceremonies, opened the proceedings with a brief but hardy Aug. 7 - 9—LANDESTREFFEN LOS ANGELES welcome to the overflow crowd, and then proceeded to introduce the individual members of Friday, August 14—GOLF OUTING both teams as they trotted onto the field beDETAILS ON PAGE 4 tween two welcoming columns, comprised of our junior dancers and soccer players. September 26 & 27—137th OKTOBERFEST Miss Marlene Fricker, escorted by Masters Billy Galgon and Richard Heck, presented a bouSunday, October 4—STEUBEN PARADE ROCKLEDGE—FOX CHASE, PA quet on behalf of our club, to the visiting captain, Jim Murphy, a member of the United Saturday, October 21—SCHOCKTOBERFEST States Pan-American team in 1957, and the two captains – Jim Murphy of St. Ambrose and WerSaturday, November 7—KIRCHWEIHFEST ner Fricker of our team – exchanged club pennants. Ted Kereczmann then introduced a numWednesday, November 18—PENNY PARTY ber of dignitaries who were present, including: Bob Goulker, a soccer coach at St. Louis Sunday, December 20—CHRISTMAS PARTY (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)