Slants on Sports

Three Jewish gentlemen are taking care of the sporting events at Coney Island this summer. They are Abe Yager, Joe Fogler and Otto Bass.

Yager, who is handling the boxing and wrestling cards at Stauch’s Arena, seems to us to have the best bet. He is supplying the wrestling fans with horses from Jack Curley’s stable and as a result there is a packed house when the curtain rises.

Abe evidently believes in giving the public what it likes and even in the summer heat he plans to keep the sportsers cool with some heavy antics on the mat. Realizing that the Brooklyn fans are Jewish to a large extent he has a Hebrew ‘rassler on the card every week. Thus far all three cards that he has presented have been sell outs. Evidently the cash customers like what Yager has to offer.

Tomorrow night the young impressario is putting on his first boxing show of the summer season with a program of all-star events. Midget Wolgast, world’s flyweight champion, will do his stuff in the resin ring and will oppose Lou Sallica of Coney Island in the feature eight-rounder.

The semi-final six-round bout will show Danny Levine, undefeated East Side welter, in the opposite corner to Jack Lowry of Bensonhurst.

AT THE VELODROME

Joe Fogler opened his cycling stadium yesterday with a crash. Although Joe wasn’t in the bangup program he presented the riders on the steep turns of the Coney Island Velodrome certainly gave the fans plenty of thrills. The most decided innovation on the program was the “Omnium”. At least that is what “Jersey” Jones calls this new hair-raiser in bike antics.

SIX-DAY RIDERS ON CARD

Louis Cohen, the Jewish bicycle rider from Brooklyn who couldn’t stand the terriffic gaff at the Garden six-day bike races two months ago, showed a marked improvement yesterday.

Cohen is only twenty-two years old but already he has competed in six-day specialties in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Toronto and Montreal. He has yet to chalk up his first six-day victory, but is fast and strong and still young, and we believe he should soon realize his ambition.

NOT MANY JEWS IN BIKE GAME

Yesterday afternoon at the Island saucer arena Lou was hailed by a large following attracted to this fancy pedal pusher last season. Cohen gave a good account of himself and it’s our guess he’ll be in the big money class at the next Garden grind.

In the last New York six-day event some time ago Cohen was paired with Bob Silver, another Jewish lad from Newark, New Jersey. These two boys were the only Hebrew cyclists on the saucer, but they dropped out on the third day. Bob returned to peddling fish in his New Jersey market and Lou pedaled his way through the hinterland. From latest reports the rustics west of Philadelphia didn’t go for this sport to any great degree, and Lou had to use his bike to get from town to town.

These youngsters are two of the ## few Jewish bike riders in the six-day grinds today. However, according to Joe Fogler, the Island will see plenty of new Jewish talent before the outdoor season closes.

BASKETBALL DRIBBLES

Although the Phillies were shut out and the Brooklyn Dodgers pulled seven boners in four games, the basketball league still manages to keep in the spotlight. Just the other night in Flatbush, Lou Spindell, former ace C.C.N.Y. courtman, was presented with a trophy by the big moguls of the American basketball league.

Lou was captain of the St. Nicholas quintet while in college and turned “pro” as soon as he graduated. He was selected on every all-American basketball five that was chosen by any expert in the country in 1931. He played basketball with the Trenton Moose ball club this past season. It was Lou’s fine dribbling. his excellent defense work and his splendid shooting from the floor that accounted for his team’s victory in the American League finals over the Jewish basketball team from Philadelphia, the Philly Sphas. Spindell was voted as the most valuable man in the league and the trophy was given to him in recognition of his services to the league and to his team. He coaches the junior varsity at City College and more often than not gets onto the court and shows Nat Holman’s varsity squad a thing or two.

TABLE TENNIS

Ever since Sidney Heitner, the Jewish lad from the Bronnex, put table tennis on a stabilized basis and retained his crown for another year, we’ve been getting reports on every ping pong game in the city.

Only the other day the Dorian club of Brooklyn put on an exciting tournament with Miss Beatrice Cohen (no relation to the bike rider) providing the high lights of the evening. Her whirlwind strokes and her slashing attack accounted for her sweeping the table tennis contests at the club’s headquarters, 47 Mater court, Brooklyn.

Pearl Ginsburg was paired with Miss Cohen in the mixed doubles against Cy Alexander and Sol Flam. Once again the Dorian champion came through in flying form, ably abetted by her partner, and won the match twenty-one to nineteen.