Can the Jewish boys take it? Well, everything but the cold. It seems that all our friends from Hillman???s gym over on Eighth avenue have gone south for the winter season. There they will bask in the Florida sun and, incidentally, indulge in a match or two.
BOXING CIRCUIT FLASHES
Maxie Rosenbloom, perennial night club rounder and one who likes the hot spots, is knocking them colder than February 9 down below the Mason-Dixon line. According to dispatches he’s picking them off in non-title bouts at the rate of two a week. His latest victim at Orlando beach, Florida, was Gordon Fortenberg. Maxie says that he’ll train for his next New York fight at the Ha Ha club, one of Manhattan’s dizzier training camps.
SOUTHERN SPECIAL
From New Orleans we learn that Harry Dublinsky, formerly of Chicago and points east, is rated as Public Enemy No. 1 by the Jewish fight fans there. Dublinsky k. o.’d Erwin Berliner, local hope and pride, in the fifth round of a thrilling bout.
BUT PHILADELPHIA!
We couldn’t expect anything better from Philadelphia where nothing ever happens. The Benny Bass-Cleo Locatelli fight was called a draw. Perhaps the scrap should have been fought at the Garden. There would have been a decision–even if it would have been raw.
GOLDEN GLOVES
Bob Pastor, one of the best amateur punch traders we’ve seen at the Garden during the Golden Glovers length barrage, is still keeping in fighting form. This Jewish lad, a sophomore at New York University, is rated as Chicago’s chief difficulty in its obstacle race to the intercity championships. Pastor intends to enter the professional ring after his graduation from N. Y. U.
Though Bob met with success, Gus Lesnevich met with Mark Hough and after a minute or so the next fight began. Yet no matter whether these fights are serious matters, as the amateurs take their bouts, or whether they are held just for fun like some of the Philadelphia tussles, the referees at the Garden Golden Gloves contest take the palm for decisions. The crowds booed the verdicts aplenty and their jeers are still ringing in my ears.
THE ‘MERIT AWARD’
Barney Ross, lightweight champion of the world, was chosen recently as “the man who did most for boxing in 1933.” A gold boxing belt will be awarded him when he fights next month in New York City in the Milk Fund Benefits.
“The Merit Award” is given each year by the publishers of Ring, a boxing magazine, to the boxer who, in the estimation of experts, is the outstanding attraction, fighters, and the one who helps the game most during the year.
In a poll conducted among the boxing men of the country, including United Press and Associated Press experts, referees and judges, Barney received a total of 665 votes. Tony Canzoneri, whom Ross has already defeated twice, tied with him in the number of votes polled. However, Ross won on the grounds that he beat Tony twice in one year.
‘DID BOXING FOR MOST’
Tommy Loughran, in the heavyweight division, which usually scoops all honors, placed third. He received 650 votes. Our guess for this is that Tommy is not nearly as colorful a fighter as our own Barney Ross.
If we were to cast a vote for the “man who did boxing for most” during the year, we’d give one for our good friend, Primo Carnera.
INDOOR SPORTS
Not content with packing them in at the New York Coliseum by offering good boxing and wrestling cards, the management there is trying something new in the form of indoor soccer.
About a year ago this game was first conceived and a trial match held at the Garden. Since then nothing had been done about it until Wednesday night, when the Brookhattan club and the N. Y. American outfit kicked each other in the shins all evening.
The Brookhattan group won by a score of 14-8. There were 5 Jewish players on the winning team: Aronauer, Glover, Gross, Wortman and Aitken.
Before we saw the game we wondered why there should have been a change from the eleven men on an outdoor soccer team to six in an indoor arena. Having seen one exhibition we’re convinced that it was the wish of the promoters to save at least five lives from the slaughter heap. Played on a smaller court, with fewer men, and taking less time out, this game provides thrills and excitement hard to match.
A crowd of 2,000 saw the game. The proceeds will go for the benefit of the ORT Tool fund.
THE 92ND STREET ‘Y’
Cagemen who have played on former teams at this institution are returning this Sunday night to play the “Y” varsity outfit.
Abe Weisbrodt, member of this year’s City College team; Al Greenberg, Temple University freshman star; Joe Davidoff, 1931-32 C. C. N. Y. captain; Manny Bernstein and Lester Trioke of the Union Temple quintet, will form the Alumni basketball team that meets the 92nd street “Y” court team this Sunday night.
The contest, which is expected to draw about 1,200 fans to welcome these former players back to the home court, is scheduled to get under way at nine p. m.
The “Y” basketballers, coached by that veteran court warrior, “Spike” Sounberg, has chalked up many court victories this season.
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