Slants on Sports

As we announced last Friday, Sam Winograd, six-foot forward on the City College crack quintet has been elected captain of the 1934-35 basketball team, succeeding Moe Goldman, center. Winograd was one of the mainstays of the Lavender five during the past season, playing guard and forward with equal success. When Coach Holman foresaw a dangerous opponent and a good shot on a visiting team, ‘Winnie’ was chosen to be his constant shadow all during the game. However, when there was no problem of perfect and continual guarding, Sam was sent in to roll up a score. He always came through. During the past court campaign he was one of the high scorers in the eastern league. He has an uncanny eye when it comes to foul shooting, too, and in a contest conducted among the colleges along the Atlantic seaboard last year, he placed first with ninety-seven consecutive baskets.

Besides being named in a consensus of referees as a member of the all-Metropolitan team, he was chosen by Coach Dolly Stark of Dartmouth for the latter’s All-American.

The rank of captain should rest easy on this lad’s shoulders. He led both the St. Claire McKelway’s quintet and nine; captained the Thomas Jefferson baseball team the year that school won the city championship; and in his freshman year at college he was the mainstay and leader of an unforgettable jayvee basketball squad that played havoc with most of the frosh outfits in this part of the country.

A GREAT PLAYER

His magnificent ball handling is not confined solely to the basketball floor but is displayed equally as well, if not better, on the baseball diamond. He has been short stop on the Lavender nine for the past two years and is also slated for captain in that division. Indeed he is such a wizard at infield play that Paul Kritchel, chief scout for the Yankees, has already interviewed him about joining up with the Ruppert outfit after graduation.

Winograd is known as the biggest eater on any team at the college. Usually when a coach wishes to locate him a junior assistant manager is dispatched to Sam’s favorite haunt–the training table. Notwithstanding his voracious appetite, he is a fast, husky, 180 pounder, who can dish it out as well as take it. Coach Holman, peer of basketball men, says of him, “Winograd has basketball brains, is very deceptive, handles the ball splendidly and can take coaching. This is the highest praise that I can give to anyone on my teams.”

BASKETBALL DRIBBLES

The five devout “Catholic” basketballers, Posnack, Begovich, Shuckman, Kinsbrunner, and Gerson, better known as the Brownsville Jewels have once again won the “pro” title in their league. This former all-Jewish combination from St. John’s College took the Trenton Bears into camp over the weekend and thereby retained the title which they have held in professional court circles for the past two years. This outfit has been playing ball together as a combination for the last seven years.

Moe Goldman has just signed with the Philadelphia “SPHS” (pronounced “spas”). This club is another all-Jewish professional basketball team and was runnerup in the league this year. Besides Goldman, who will play center, “Red” Wolf, Gotthoffen, Litwack and Lautman are on the team.

“Philly SPHS” appears on their uniforms in Jewish letters. They will play at Arcadia Hall this weekend.

THE “KING” VS. HITLER

What a whale of a difference just a few nights make! Remember last Wednesday night when the Garden was jammed with ardent anti-Hitlerites who applauded whenever the man with the small black mustache was indicted? Well, it seemed to this writer that most of the 12.000 paid admissions Friday night had come to answer Wednesday’s meeting by booing “King” Levinsky and cheering his German opponent, Walter Neusel.

The “Kingfish” tried hard to convince the audience that it was mistaken in its choice of favorite, but his eagerness, we believe, proved his undoing. By the end of the seventh round he had burned himself out. In the first few rounds he showed a fine disdain for the best punches of his oppenent. He kept sailing in, trying to land his famous “haymaker”. As the fight progressed, however, the blows which he had received slowed him up. He was unable to carry the fight to Neusel as he had in the beginning. Evidently “Leaping Lena’s” secret diet was good for just so many rounds and no more. This, coupled with the fact that he never heard the bell at the end of each round, and roughed it up in general, led Donovan, the referee, to award the fight to Neusel.

However, Levinsky demonstrated for the first time in his ring career that he could use his left hand effectively. And, speaking of lefts, we recall what trouble the “Chicago Assassin” has had as a southpaw. In his fight with Sharkey in the Windy City last September 22, he complained to his seconds that his feet were bothering him. His handlers tried every conceivable remedy in the one minute rest periods, but they were not able to help him. His feet annoyed him more than Sharkey’s punches all through the fight. In the dressing room later, Levinsky discovered that he had worn two “left” shoes all night.

“Leaping Lena” Levy, his sister manager, was a sketch Friday night. Again she earned her title with her jack-in-the-box antics. All evening she bellowed from her corner: “Hit him in de zeiten, King.”

A return engagement between Neusel and Levinsky should not be far off. If these two boys meet again, we anticipate another rough and tunable fight.