Besides a couple of Annie Oakley’s the baseball fans are taking water wings along with them to the ball games. A little over a week ago, while the Ciants were on the last legs of their northern junket, they were snowed under Saturday afternoon the Yanks and the Dodgers were rained out. Luckily for the Ruppertmen, who were far behind the Brooklyn boys, the game was called.
The metropolitan colleges haven’t played a game on their home diamonds as this is written. Every scheduled collegiate ball game has been a complete washout in the city. New York University, L. I. U., City College and Columbia have yet to start their intercity warfare. However, City and L. I. U. have played out of town and have been successful in their premiere efforts. City trimmed Rutgers University and Clair Bee’s baseball lads. from L. I. U. handsomely took the measure of the Princeton boys at the Old Nassau ball park.
WEALTH OF GOOD MATERIAL IN MET AREA
We have watched the practice sessions of all the college teams from Spuyten Duyvil to the Red Hook section. The shortstop position, the hot corner of the infield, is being held down at practically every school but Manhattan and Fordham by a Jewish baseballer.
Emil Friedman, of the New York University team, seems to stand out like a beacon light on a clear night over the other infield men in New York. Emil has been playing ball with the N. Y. U. varsity club for over two seasons and possesses that speed, dash, and pep so essential to the hot-corner post. He is a senior up at the Heights and graduates this June. Coach McCarthy is depending on him to lessen the influence of the jinx that he expects to trail his team. It is the N. Y. U.’s men ‘or’s thirteenth season.
THE WOMEN’S TRACK MEET
New track records were made Saturday night at the Second Naval Battalion Armory in Brooklyn. The women athletes were superb in their championship performances. However, the young lady in whom we were particularly interested did not run.
Sybil C. Koff, Maccabi woman sprint champion, had been listed for the fifty metre hurdle race but failed to show up on time and was not permitted to enter the trial heats.
The men, who were special entrants at this meet, ran fine races but failed to come through with record breaking performances. Milton Sandler, national champion, who ran the two-thirds of a mile distance, was four seconds behind the world’s record. Joe McCluskey was in fine fettle but fizzled out near the finish after a superb run.
MACCABI MOVES
The Maccabi organization in New York City is moving along with tremendous strides. Work is being done in all branches of this movement and the results are really heartening.
Dave White, executive secretary of the association, announced that two track and field meets have been scheduled for May 6 and June 17 respectively. The Maccabi athletes will also participate in the Lag B’omer celebration to be held next month at the P. S. A. L. field in Brooklyn. Crack runners and Jewish Olympic champions will present and exhibition and other Maccabi members will supervise the meet as judges and referees.
The organization is putting out a bulletin through which it intends to acquaint all members, present and prospective, with the aims, principles, and activities of this movement in America and abroad. Besides the sporting aspects of the organization, the cultural, ethical, and historical sides will also be discussed in this Maccabi newspaper which will be published every two weeks. Miss Jessie Poust, of New York City. will be the editor of this bi-weekly bulletin.
THE CALIFORNIA BAER
Max Baer who has been cutting capers across the country on his journey from Lake Tahoe on the coast to Atlantic City, is as promising as a Tammany pre-election candidate. Besides a bit of sparring; bag-punching; and spaghetti gobbling, the California Baer takes time off each day to tell the press just what he is going to do to Da Preem on June 14.
Here is a dated report of Maxie’s press statements since he left his western training camp.
April 12.– “I’ll lick Carnera easy.”
April 13.–“I’ll have Carnera groggy by the end of the tenth.”
April 14.–“If I should accidentally reach Carnera’s chin in the first, it will be all over for the Italian champion.”
We’re wondering if the Garden has taken out accident insurance for this fight and whether Baer’s right will be considered a terrific punch or merely an “act of God.” (Page Miss Helen Hayes.)
THE SPORTING CALENDAR
Eli Fischer, the cauliflower boy, comes to grips with Sandor Szabo, Hungarian Adonis, in the semifinals at the New York Coliseum tomorrow night. Jumping Joe Savoldi meets Casey Columbo in the finals.
Wednesday night, Eli Fischer will take on Casey Columbo at the Ridgewood Grove, and Abe Coleman, Jewish champion, will grapple with Tony Colesano.
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