When the Madison juggernaut clashes against the Roosevelt grid machine tomorrow afternoon at Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn for the city football championship, two Jewish young men, very close friends, will be sitting on the coaches’ benches hoping that their team comes through.
Irving Resnick, former all-American end at Rutgers and at present head line coach at Madison, has been the reason behind the Golden Tornado’s clean sweep of the Brooklyn high schools in a steady march to the borough title. Head coach Mike Torgan, of Madison, gave Resnick full charge of the line two seasons ago and he has worked wonders. He has rounded out a forward wall of seven youngsters who average 210 pounds from end to end. It has been Resnick’s coaching ability that has made this unwieldy line charge low, tackle hard, and fight every minute of the game. He hasn’t received much credit for this work because officially he is not a member of the Board of Education’s staff.
Resnick played ball with Babe Scheuer at Madison some six years ago. Scheuer went on to play for N. Y. U. and Irv went to Rutgers where he starred for four years. Scheuer and Resnick both played against each other twice. Both have played professional football. And, what is more, Scheuer is now nominal head coach of the Roosevelt forces.
BOTH COACHES CONFIDENT
Scheuer, who has taken over Frank Tubridy’s place at the request of Tom Elliffe, regular Roosevelt mentor, is confident that his team will win. Resnick is also sure of the fact that his team will be triumphant.
“Our line at Madison is the heaviest line in the city. This includes high schools and colleges as well. Two hundred and ten pounds of fast-charging lineman is not to be bowled over so very easily. As long as Babe doesn’t get in there,” concluded Irv, “we’ve got nothing to worry about.”
“I realize,” said the mighty Babe in his slow drawl, “that Madison has some mighty fine men in Glickmen, Lynn, Stein and Singer, but my ends are nearly as fast as this kid Glickman. My line is lighter but will, no doubt, be able to crack the Madison wall open. However, tomorrow will tell the tale.”
TAKE YOUR CHOICE
Madison is going into the battle tomorrow a great favorite. We like them very much and hope they come through. At the same time we wish the Babe’s team all the luck in the world.
We have to be diplomatic in a situation of this sort. The Babe and Resnick and your sports scribe have played with and against each other in the last ten years on collegiate and professional football fields. And, in order not to cheer for either team we shall mosey out to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy tussle.
SOME MORE BAER BERRIES
Max Baer was on hand the other night to watch Art Lasky in his fight against Kingfish Levinsky. He was there with a proposal which Jumping Joe Jacobs passed on to us.
“Why not,” asked Baer, “have me meet Art Lasky and Steve Hamas in one night?”
“That would pack them in. Each fight would be for ten rounds and after I knocked out the first one, I’d be given a five minute rest. But if Lasky should beat me, oh well—”.
Jacobs added the finishing touch to modest Maxie’s proposal. “My fighter Schmeling could take all three on in one evening if they’d only give us the chance.”
THE SPORTING CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK-END MADISON SQUARE GARDEN—BOXING TONIGHT
Patrons of the flying fists or the cash customers at Madison Square Garden will remember Steve Dudas who is paired in a ten-rounder against Abie Feldman.
The other headliners will be Sammy Fuller of Boston and the Philadelphian Johnny Jadick. A special eight-rounder brings together Indian Quintana and Jo Tei Ken, the pint-sized Korean.
SIX DAY BIKE RACES
Only one Jewish team of bike riders has been paired to get under way when the starter’s gun will send fifteen international bike teams on their way in the fifty-sixth six-day bike grind.
This team is composed of Harry Ruth, of Freeport, Long Island, and Jerry Rodman, of Chicago.
The Jewish pair of pedal pushers who were scheduled for this race and who weathered three days of the last races have changed their mind. Silver will stick to the herring business and Cohen try his wares elsewhere.
Paul Brocardo, of Italy, and Marcel Guimbeterre, of France, who won the last six-day race in the Garden, will ride together again in the coming grind and are the favorites at this writing.
RIDGEWOOD GROVE—BOXING
Jackie Davis, Cleveland Hebrew boxing sensation, will fight Ray Napolitano at the Ridgewood Grove tomorrow night in the feature eight-round bout. Davis, who recently beat Napolitano in a vicious bout, replaces Joe Rossi, who was originally billed to meet the Italian.
The rest of the card remains intact, with Eddie Marks, another Jewish youngster, tackling Jack Lowery in the second eight-round feature bout.
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