Football, moving near the half season marker, surveys through the smoke clouds of battlefields stretched all over the country the remains of the many giants who have fallen by the sidelines.
The fast moving men in the backfields have already proved their merit. The hard charging linesmen have revealed their iron stamina and ability to take it.
In a few more weeks the grid experts throughout the country will be selecting their all-American choices for the 1934 season. This corner is convinced that at least two Jewish players will be elected to this mythical team.
The Jewish Daily Bulletin will select a Jewish all-American eleven that would rate on a par with the strongest combinations in the land. The players chosen on this team will receive gold footballs, emblematic of their supremacy on the gridiron.
JEWISH ALL-SCHOLASTIC TEAM TO BE SELECTED
Here in New York City, with over thirty-seven high school teams on the field every Saturday, there are weekly clashes which rival some college games. The majority of the boys on these city teams are Jewish. The Jewish Daily Bulletin will select a Jewish all-scholastic football team and the winners will be awarded miniature footballs.
In the past, some experts have attempted to choose these mythical all-Jewish elevens but the selections have been based solely on their being Jewish. On the teams picked by The Bulletin sports staff the players will be judged by past performances only.
SLANTY JOE SELECTS
Benny Friedman’s Beavers will trip Lowell.
Lafayette will pluck the Violets.
Columbia will sink the Navy.
The St. Mary eleven to butt the Ram.
Manhattan to bow to Michigan State.
GRID GOSSIP AROUND TOWN
Benny Friedman is wondering how his C. C. N. Y. eleven is to be expected to find the right path leading to enough touchdowns to beat Lowell tomorrow because his chief scout, Saul Mielziner, missed his scouting date by a few hundred miles last week.
Big Mielziner, former Carnegie Tech star, a Brooklyn pro player and Friedman’s frosh coach, knows his way around football lanes. But somebody slipped up badly last Saturday when Mielziner blithely went to Lowell, Mass., to scout the Beaver’s next opponent, and found that Textile was playing in Maine, far out of bounds. Mielziner came back with a sheepish grin and no report at all except that it was snowing in New England.
Benny was very much disappointed over City’s first setback after such a promising start but by no means discouraged. He realizes now that he expected too much of youngsters who are not used to his big time ways.
Little Charlie Siegal, N. Y. U.’s best running back, is out for two and maybe three weeks with a wrenched knee. This will hurt the Violet’s chances very much. Nat Machlowitz, the big senior who once starred for James Monroe, and more lately Ed Smith’s understudy at fullback, will carry on for Charlie at quarterback. Machlowitz played on the frosh team at City some years ago but scholastic difficulties forced him from the Lewisohn Stadium to Ohio Field. N. Y. U. devoutly hopes that Machlowitz will carry on in a fashion to blast Lafayette out of the ball park.
BARNEY ROOSS MAY FIGHT ‘KID’ BERG
Jack “Kid” Berg, whom the London Jewish Chronicle thought a running mate to Benny Leonard in the poll for the greatest Jewish boxer of all time, is being groomed as the next contender for Barney Ross.
Ross has been offered $30,000 by Madison Square Garden for a lightweight championship battle with Tony Canzoneri. He has not as yet signified what his intentions for this fight will be. In all probabilities he will not fight Tony in a championship scrap for thirty grand when he can make as much in three non-title bouts in Europe.
The offer of Jeff Dickson, one of Europe’s great promoters, calls for a fight against the Italian, Locatelli, at Milan, Italy; another with Humlry at Paris, and the third against “Kid” Berg at Albert Hall, London.
ALONG BOXING ROW
Harry Dublinsky, the Jewish lad from the Midwest who holds victories over Tony Canzoneri and Frankie Klick, will fight at Madison Square Garden November 2. He will be fighting Klick for the second time.
Al Roth, another Jewish boxer who is on the same card, will take on Eddie Cool, an Irishman from Philadelphia.
A new Jewish heavyweight who has started to train for his first fight is Abe Simon, former Brooklyn school boy, who stands six feet four and one-half inches and weighs 248 pounds.
Art Lasky, the Californian fighter who walloped Steve Hamas and lost the decision, seems out in the cold as far as the running for heavyweight honors go. The State boxing commission promised him a return match with Hamas or a bout with Maxie Schmeling. Now it seems as if all the boys along Boxing Row have forgotten about the Jewish lad and are priming Hamas for the slaughter.
We figure the entire matter this way. . . . Joe Jacobs is the manager of Maxie Schmeling, who, because of his decisive victory over Walter Neusel, is making a strong return bid for heavyweight honors. Jacobs naturally feels that an overwhelming triumph over the foremost American contender would insure him of a speedy engagement with Max Adelbert Baer, the gooseman from California.
After the Hamas-Lasky robbery the boxing commission awarded the next Schmeling fight to Lasky. But Jacobs, realizing that Lasky was a thousand per cent. better than Hamas, signed the weaker man for a mid-Winter fight and the winner to meet the champ. “We wuz robbed” Jacobs is nobody’s fool.
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