With the final tryouts and eliminations for the second Maccabi team scheduled for next month and with arrangements already made to sail on the Conte di Savoia on March 16, many reports are circulating around town on the composition of the aggregation.
There are six or seven athletes who at the present writing have the best chance of winning berths on the Maccabi team to compete at Tel Aviv. They are Syd Koff, Gus Heyman, Jules Finklestein, Ernie Koslan, Murray Adelman, Lil Copland and Hal Kramer.
ALL CRACK PERFORMERS
Syd Koff and Gus Heyman are veterans of the first Maccabiad. Syd’s performance at the Maccabi games in 1932 was outstanding. She won the 100-metre, high jump and broadjump events, and the all-round competition for women. Her four first places were considered the best individual exhibition of form and achievement at the international sports carnival at Tel Aviv. Syd has been training vigorously in the past few months and has been directing several Maccabi units in the metropolitan area.
Gus Heyman, baby of the first U. S. team, suffered a leg injury about fifteen months ago. The leg has responded to careful treatment and should Gus reveal the form by which he won, the 100-metre dash in Tel Aviv three years ago, his berth on the sprint team is assured.
OTHER CANDIDATES
Jules Finklestein, junior at N. Y. U. and present metropolitan senior shot-putting champion, is seeking a post as weight man on the track and field contingent. With Dave Adelman and Harry Schneider, behemoths of the first team, on the shelf due to inactivity, Finklestein’s present performances should win him the place easily.
Koslan, also an N. Y. U. man, is the best candidate for the tennis team. His record during the past year has been an exceptional one and his form reveals great promise. Adelman, captain of the Ninety-second street “Y” wrestling team, is metropolitan senior champ at 126 pounds. In our estimation there is no other Jewish wrestler in the country who could compete with Adelman in his weight class.
DRAW DECISION RAW
Irving Elridge, Jewish lad from the East Side, owes it to a break, and a lucky one at that, that his winning streak is still intact. Abe Wasserman, Bronx fighter, gave him a severe trouncing in a six-round feature the other night. The latter had a clear edge in three of the rounds, held his man even in two sessions, and dropped the last three-minute set by a slight margin. The judges disagreed and the verdict was left to Referee Kid McPartland. The Kid said draw.
Wasserman, strong as a little bull and full of fight, swarmed all over his opponent who, since turning pro, has rung up twenty-two straight victories. Abe carried the fight to his taller foe with a rush and bombarded him heavily.
The terrific pace started to tell on Abe and he was held even in the fifth and dropped the sixth by a hair. Elridge, nevertheless, weathered the storm.
The clash between these two Jewish lads packed the house and drew a gate of $4,000. Another fight between these two lads should be held in the near future to bear out Abe’s statement that the draw decision was raw.
LEVINSKY AND BLACK HAWKS
Alex Levinsky, the Jewish lad who was sold to the Chicago Black Hawks by the Rangers, sent us a note yesterday which stated that the paper barrage let down by the irate gallery gods of the Garden is nothing compared to the pop-bottle tossing indulged in by indignant Chicago cash customers.
“You know for a fact,” Alex wrote, “that the Black Hawks are not a bunch of sissies. And, if anybody wants to dish it out, we can take it. But we prefer to have any and all arguments settled on the ice. We can’t play a good game and keep ducking bottles all night.”
The pop bottles which Alex refers to are particularly distasteful, and for that matter so are the other objects hurled at players by anonymous customers seated high in the stands where the Hawks can’t retaliate.
AL THUMBED NOSE AT PATRICK
Al made his debut here in a Chicago uniform Tuesday night in that hectic Ranger-Black Hawk clash. Branded a failure as a Ranger, Levinsky was determined to show that Les Patrick made a mistake in letting him go. Patrick’s complaint was that Levinsky would not body check. Alex had ample ground to prove his own worth and he did. No team in the league, with the possible exception of the Montreal Maroons, is more willing than the Hawks to crash into opposing defensemen. Levinsky took advantage of that golden opportunity to reveal his ability as a hoister and time and again sent Ranger men to the ice.
At one point during the game, as he set a man on the ice with a resounding thump, Levinsky skated past the Ranger box where Les Patrick was sitting and thumbed his nose at his former manager—taking away all insolence with a huge grin. Les waved back a cheery hello.
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