Brooklyn College, full of knowledge, has a baseball team. It’s a honey, too. The boys on the team are coming along in grand style and it’s our guess that they’ll wind up with an average better than 700.
Only the other day this outfit took the Fordham nine for the proverbial ride by a pert little score. Although these lads may beat N. Y. U. and Columbia, the athletes from the other side of the river won’t consider it a successful season unless they trim the City College team the same way they shellacked the Lavender bunch last year. 5–0.
PINKY MATCH GOOD COACH
Coached by an athlete who earned an enviable record for himself while a student at college, Pinky Match, wonders are being worked at Brooklyn City. While at the St. Nick institution in 1925 Pinky led both the basketball and baseball teams.
Thus far his boys have won four and lost two of their games. The contests in which the Brooklyn baseballers were beaten were very close. The St. John’s game was handed over to the Indians as the result of an error and the Matchmen went down to the tune of 1–0. Likewise in the Rhode Island State game. The pitcher, Sam Nahem, had the ball game sewed up with a comfortable lead when a couple of boners in the outfield and a few bloomers in the hot corner caused Brooklyn City to give up the ghost, 6–5.
However, they have led Manhattan, Fordham, St. Peters, and Webb College a merry chase. They still have N. Y. U., City, Columbia and the N. Y. A. C. to play and they get another crack at St. John’s and Manhattan before the season winds up.
MAJORITY OF PLAYERS JEWISH
The Nahem family has a monopoly on the pitching service at the college. When Sam, the older member of the tribe, is resting, Joe steps into the gap and does a mighty fine job. The latter hasn’t lost a game to date. The two losses that this team has incurred have been chalked up against Sam through no fault of his. We would rather place the blame on the remote control of the outfielders.
The outstanding man on the team this year is Ike Cheroff. He didn’t get many hits on his trips to the plate last season but this year he’s going like a house afire and has been hitting the ball on nearly every occasion. Talk on the campus rates Ike the sparkplug and pepperpot of the team because he’s continually on the alert and handles the hot corner post like a big league band.
With the exception of Rup, the veteran catcher, and Russo, stellar first baseman, the entire Brooklyn outfit is decidedly of the “non-Aryan” type. The majority of the boys are Jewish. The batting order of the first team follows: Jaffe, Cheroff, Russo, Nahem, Kranz, Kaufman, Longbaum, Rup and Litwin.
NAZI NIBBLES
Today’s laugh is due to another Nazi special. The Hitler government has suppressed the film in which Max Baer appears, “The Prizefighter and the Lady,” because “Baer is a Jew of the Negroid type…” Nazi sentiment does not tolerate the glorification of a Jew with the exterior marks of a Negro.”
“Hotcha Maxie,” the new Harlem sensation. (page June Knight).
BOXING BITS
At a recent prizefight in England when Norman Snow, the southern area lightweight champion met Eduard Jamsin of France the appearance of Jack (Kid) Berg, the London East End lightweight, brought the house down with thunderous applause.
Jack tried for the world’s title in the United States a few years ago but was unsuccessful in his attempts. He is under the management of Harry Leven at present and he is slated to pair off with Harry Mizzler, lightweight champ of the British Isles. This tentative bout between these two great Jewish boxers is being Ballyhooed aplenty.
THE SPORTING CALENDER, N. Y. COLISEUM
Abe Coleman seems to be doing as much flitting about as Jumping Joe Savoldi ever did in his prime. Abie is scheduled to pop up on another wrestling card around town. This time Coleman grapples with Jim McMillen, the Illinois football star, in a special thirty minute attraction. This bout comes as a support to the Gus Sonnenberg-George Hagen affair at the Coliseum tomorrow night.
RIDGEWOOD GROVE
With a probable time out for a shower and a rubdown, Able will take the train over to Brooklyn and meet Rowdy Rudy Dusek of Omaha Wednesday night at the Ridgewood Grove.
Coleman took over Hans Kampfen because the latter was counted out after he had fallen out of the ring. This flying adagio leap on the part of Hans gave the judge’s nod to Abie, “the Jewish Apeman,” and as a result he meets the Omaha rowdy.
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