New Utrecht’s colors were returned to the team supremacy by a well-balanced track and field squad in the nineteenth annual Manual Training High School inter-scholastic track meet Saturday night at the Fourteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn.
The Green and White, coached by Barney Hyman, placed in seven events to tally thirty points, thereby regaining for New Utrecht the honors that were relinquished to De Witt Clinton last year.
THE CITY’S BEST
“A good teacher makes a good coach.” This is the reason why Barney Hyman, a good-looking, genial and intelligent young man, is peer of high school track mentors in New York City.
Barney is the kind of man you see but once and yet make fast friends with him. He has been among the youngsters ever since he was in charge of the Greenwich House in New York. He began teaching in the City High schools in 1921 and started coaching track and field enthusiasts one year later.
Since that time he has turned out one championship team after another. His charges have won nine straight indoor track and field titles and ten successive outdoor championships, thereby gaining for Barney the distinction of being ranked with the best athletic coaches in the country.
GOOD PSYCHOLOGIST
His handling of boys, however, is not limited to the indoor boards or to the cinder paths. He is also an adept in adolescent psychology. It was because of this keen insight that Coach Hyman received the difficult administrative task of running the New Utrecht High School Annex in Bensonhurst. This school has many discipline cases and Hyman’s experience with smart-aleck youngsters for the past sixteen years {SPAN}st###{/SPAN} him in good stead at this institution.
ENTIRE SCHOOL TRACK MINDED
City College is noted for its grinds and basketball teams. N. U. H. S. is noted for its track enthusiasm from the rock bound shores of Inwood to the bleak stretches of the Brooklyn Flatlands.
It is one thing for a coach to put out a winning track team and thereby attract the attention of the students. However, the boys at Utrecht not only follow and support the team but strive to be on it. The number of candidates who answer Coach Hyman’s call for new members each term is a tribute to his personality. It explains why every incoming member of the frosh class is looked upon as a prospective national champion.
HAS MADE GREAT ATHLETES
We have watched this coach handle his boys in practice sessions and during track meets with a skill, interest, and enthusiasm that youngsters appreciate. He knows just when to criticize and yet is not stinting in praise. If a youngster has it in him to become an ace track man, Barney’s supervision and tutelage will bring out this talent.
These lads whom Hyman coaches in their early teens can be seen later participating in national championships, Olympics, and Maccabiads. Among a few of the great Jewish athletes whom Barney started on the road to fame and athletic recognition are Sol (Happy) Furth, Dave Adelman, Otto Rosner, Ira Singer and, more recently, Danny Taylor.
ALL CHAMPS
Happy Furth, as well as the other lads just mentioned, learned his track rudiments under Barney Hyman’s care. Furth was a great broad jumper and hurdler in high school and later, while at college, was captain of the New York University track team. When Sol participated in the 1932 Olympics as a member of the American track and field contingent another laurel wreath was laid at Coach Hyman’s door.
Dave Adelman, former intercollegiate shot put champion started heaving the iron ball in 1923 and before his coach had finished developing him he had smashed the then existing world’s record for school boys. Dave went abroad with the U. S. Maccabi team in 1932 and competed in the first Maccabiad. He won the shot put title in Tel Aviv three years ago.
Otto Rosner and Ira Singer learned what poise, balance and synchronized running action mean through the skilful teachings of this young track wizard. They were two of the early reasons which set N. U. H. S. on its way to successive track championships.
Danny Taylor, who is now competing for the third straight year under the Green and White colors, is breaking his own world’s records with every heave he makes with the twelve-pound shot put. He took another first place at the Manual games Saturday night. Taylor, a Jewish lad, has been tossing the iron ball fifty-six feet, nine and one-quarter inches for record smashing performances. He now not only holds the P. S. A. L. title for this event but is the world’s schoolboy title holder as well. His coach is counting on him for an added few feet before the boy is graduated this June.
His present track squad looks like a good bet—especially after its sterling exhibition at the Armory meet over the weekend. Barney expects to add the indoor and outdoor championships to Utrecht’s long list of track laurels this year.
Lou Keller and Ed Price are looked upon as coming champs in the track events. Both are Jewish and both scored points at the meet Saturday night.
Nehamias de Castro Benedict, for some time president of the Portuguese-Jewish congregation at Hamburg, served as physician-in-ordinary to Queen Christina of Sweden.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
