The I. C. A. A. A. A. indoor intercollegiate track and field meet has been moved from the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx back to the Garden where it first toed the mark in 1922. Two Jewish lads are entered tonight who, we think, are sure to be in on the pay-off. These athletes are as different in appearance as the events they are entered in . . . Gus Heyman, nineteen-year-old junior from City College, is one of the fastest sprinters on intercollegiate track boards today. Only one hundred and twenty-eight pounds, his spindly steel legs whipped him along so fast in the outdoor meet last year that Harry Weinstein of New York University, defending champion, beat him out in the “100” and “220” yard events by the smallest of margins–one tenth of a second. Gus, while a freshman, went along with the Maccabean athletes when they invaded Palestine for the Jewish Olympiad. He came back with the Olympic titles in the spring events. Last week in the N. Y. A. C. meet he pulled a tendon but on last reports from Coach Mackenzie he’ll run tonight.
“Babe” Scheuer (ne Itzkowitz), behemoth from the realms of N. Y. U.’s great athletes, is entered in the sixteen-pound shot put event. He stands six feet three inches and weighs — confidentially — two hundred and thirty-eight pounds. Babe has been heaving the weights ever since he was a kid in running pants at James Madison High School when he weighed only a mere one hundred and ninety pounds. He has been improving steadily and while watching him practice yesterday at the 102nd Regiment Armory we remarked that we had never seen him in better form. Coach Von Elling grunted approval of our sagacious words and said that the two men who beat Scheuer in this event last year have graduated. There-fore, we feel that the Babe’s opponents don’t stand a Communist’s chance at a Socialist rally of beating him. His rivals in this event who are strongest are Niblock of Bowdoin and Finkelstein of N.Y.U.
JEWISH ALL METROPOLITAN
1st Team 2nd Team Try and pick another club that could outplay, outsmart and outfight, let alone beat the combination we have selected on our all-metropolitan five.
BASKETBALL DRIBBLES
Lou Cohen, former ace basketball guard and star tackle up Manhattan College way told us this one. Manhattan College, if you don’t know it, is a Christian Brother school, housing a bunch of genial Irishmen and where a Jewish student is seldom seen. Well, some time ago the Manhattan outfit was playing the City College five at the latter’s gymnasium. There was a howling multitude shoving and pushing in a vain endeavor to get into the small building. Cohen did not come down with the team because he had been delayed in traffic. When he did arrive, he elbowed his way through the mob, approached Mack, the doorkeeper, and said, “I’m on the Manhattan team, can I get in?” Mack replied in the negative saying that the team had already entered and he’d be jigsawed if he would allow any crashers. But Lou was adamant and insisted, “I’m on the Manhattan team. My name is Louis Cohen, ask anyone.” To which the white-haired Irish doorkeeper replied, “I’ve been letting Manhattan teams in for the past twenty years and no Cohen has ever been on any of them.”
It was only when Neil Cohalan, coach of the Kelly Greens spoke up for Cohen, that he finally was admitted.
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