Lester Rosner, captain-elect of City College’s 1934 lacrosse team, has been added to the all-American lacrosse squad, which plays the Crescent-Athletic Hamilton Club at Erasmus Field tomorrow.
This is the second time a Jewish athlete from C. C. N. Y. has been named for an all-American post on the national team. Ralph Singer, star goalie for the Lavender ten a few years ago, was selected as the outstanding goalie in the country.
The addition of Lester Rosner to the team will boost the total of the squad to thirty-three and the number of New Yorkers striving for a position on the team to four. Those from New York are Lawrence Robbins of Syracuse, James Humphrey of Rutgers and Charles Wadrell, captain-elect of the Princeton lacrosse team.
SENIOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Stars of the cinder paths and the field events will vie for honors tomorrow afternoon and Sunday morning at the senior track and field championships of the metropolitan association of the A. A. U. The contests will be staged at Travers Island. Many Jewish stars have been entered in all events.
Jules Finklestein, defending title holder in the sixteen-pound shot-put classic, will take on all comers. Jules is also the metropolitan intercollegiate champion, having won this crown in May.
Milton Sandler, national 600-meter indoor and outdoor champion and record holder, will defend his laurels against the best middle distance sprint men New York has to offer. Sandler has been setting records all winter and repeated his successes at the Casey meet, the Milrose specials and the Seton Hall track carnival. He has been pegging along in grand style all through the past indoor season and is in excellent shape to smash his own record tomorrow at the senior championships.
Harry Hoffman, Violet quarter miler who received the Gama Eta Sigma trophy, awarded for high scholasticship to an athlete in the school of commerce, also will defend his title tomorrow.
Emanuel Krosney, another of the Violet entries, is entered in the 800 and 1,500-meter runs. Krosney is the present metropolitan junior champion at 100 meters.
THE BEST ATHLETE AT CITY COLLEGE
Sam Winograd, all-American basketball selection at a forward post by every basketball expert in the country, captain-elect of next year’s Lavender quintet, star on the diamond for the last two years and captain-elect of the nine next spring, has received the prize of the class of 1913 as the student who did most, by his athletic achievements during the year 1933-34, to honor City College.
Winograd received a prize at the end of his sophomore year in 1933 as the outstanding athlete of the 1933 semester. He was the heaviest hitter on the City College baseball team during the past season and played a bang-up game at short-stop. He handled the hot corner post like a veteran major leaguer. The Yankee scout has his eye on him and Winograd is slated for the big time ball parks when he graduates from City next June.
THE OLYMPIC SITUATION
Tom Akers, Sports editor of the San Diego Evening Tribune, also has come to the front against American participation in the German 1936 Olympic games. Mr. Akers agrees heartily with what we said in our columns June 8. Mr. Akers says, “Germany, according to Associated Press dispatches, is all hot and bothered, because the United States has not sent an official notification that the athletes of this country will participate in the Olympic Games in Berlin.
“They admit, however, that they have received word that the United States will reserve its decision until after Avery Brundage, chairman of the American Olympic Committee, has made a visit to Germany and has determined at first hand whether or not the Jewish athletes are to be accorded fair and impartial treatment in the coming games. Just why anyone should be confused about the attitude of the United States in the face of such a clear statement, does not appear. As this writer understands it—and apparently he has grasped the attitude of the American Committee—there is no real assurance from Germany that Jewish athletes who might represent this country in the Berlin games would be given anything like an even break. Certainly it would be a serious matter to permit American athletes to compete if the Germans are going to discriminate against the representatives of any country because of racial, religious or political differences. It is a principle of the Constitution of the United States that “all men are created free and equal” and to say that any athlete shall not receive an opportunity to prove his prowess merely because he is a Jew or Gentile, an Englishman or a Japanese, is in direct violation of the very tenets upon which the American government is founded.”
It is heartening to this department to see that the sporting press of the country is taking the stand assumed by the Jewish Daily Bulletin against participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the face of racial and religious discrimination.
THE SPORTING CALENDAR
A feature bout to a finish, staged because of public demand, will bring together Ernie Dusek, the Omaha roughneck, and Sam Cordovano, the Columbia football coach, in the Velodrome tonight.
The pair wrestled at Stauch’s arena last winter and the bout was one of the season’s most exciting in the seashore resort plant.
Abie Coleman, the Jewish idol, will tackle Al Giecewicz, the Polish champion. Sammy Kosch, Jewish sensation, meets Frank Jones of Texas, in the opening fray.
Next week the first amateur boxing carnival will be staged by the Jewish Philanthropic League in the same arena, with Mrs. Agnes Brantman, former women’s tennis star, as head of the boxing committee, Many of the leading amateurs, including national and golden gloves champions, have promised Mrs. Brantman to be on hand a week from tonight.
Benny Leonard, former world’s lightweight champion, will be a guest star. Efforts are being made to persuade Benny referee several of the bouts.
GOLDEN CITY ARENA
Jackie Page, Long Island flyweight champion, will box in a special bout tonight against Bennie Friedkin of Brownsville. This will be a return match. Page defeated Friedkin the last time they met in the finals of a four-man class after very close fighting all through the scrap.
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