6 THE SENTINEL

DINE AND DANCE Jewish Sport Notes By GEORGE JOEL at the

Andy Cohen Stars in Opener-In one way to stop this unsportsmanlike one of the coldest openings that the conduct taking the "boys' dough" is BEACH VIEW GARDEN National League ever experienced, the cure. Andy Cohen, the long looked for Jew- WILSON AT CLARENDON1 ish baseball star made it hot for the Some of the sport writers work Braves. It was Cohen's first themselves up over this business of On the Lake1 New York appearance since he sat on fouling but after observing some of "The Coziest Place in Town''1 the bench in 1926. The fans had been the men who make boxing a profession properly primed for Andy's debut and I think that such a mild thing as swing- gave the Jewish boy a big hand. ing low blows is merely an incidental. The joke of it is the sermons that are DELICIOUS TABLE D'HOTE DINNER, $1.00 His performance was watched with delivered by the boxing commissions From 5 to 9 p. m. Week-days unusual interest because of the sur- who afterhatfighterhas been found prising trade that sent guilty of hitting below the belt,, call to Boston. Rogers was present and the culprit and orate on the ethics of BEACH VIEW NOVELTY ORCHESTRA 1 before the game said to Andy, "Don't sportsmanship. In the meantime the let the fans bother you, Andy, play just boys have collected the "swag" listen, Phone Sunnyside 4962-75151 the way you did in Buffalo." Andy laugh and go out and do it again. did. He accepted five chances in the It must be admitted field without an error, made three hits that hitting be- NO COVER CHARGE AT ANY TIME out of four times and scored low the belt is rarely an accident. The three runs. All of which was mighty fact that few champions lose a fight in this manner is the proof. Joe Wil- - A A a"I111 good for a green player. I don't think that he will outdo Hornsby but he is liams of the New York Telegram dis- going to be a great help to the Giants. cussing this phase of the game says, Three years ago John McGraw made "The only language they know is that famous crack about giving so money. That's what they are in the many hundred thousand dollars for a game for. Start taking that away Jewish baseball star. It looks as from them and fouling will cease." though he got what he wanted. Ted Sandwina is not the first Jewish Talk about your melting pot? The fighter guilty of this practice but as a double play combination now goes, young heavyweight trying to get along Jackson to Cohen to Terry. he should know better. Yale Okun was Jack Levy, the other Jew who was no intellectual giant but he did have with the Giants seems to have passed enough sense to realize that in the long out of the picture. Jake is a good run it paid to fight fairly. fiddler, anyway. Baseball-It was erroneously stated The only other Jew to play in a big by this column that Horowitz would league game on opening day was Moe catch for the Syracuse University base- Berg of the Chicago White Sox. Moe ball team. Horowitz is a first baseman was behind the bat. and incidentally, a good one. Boxer Rubin's Death-Julius Rubin, Steinberg is again playing a young man of nineteen years met his for the Colgate University nine. It is death in the prize ring when he was the boy's second year as the only Jew knocked down in the third round of an on the Colgate team. amateur bout. His death was caused C. C. N. Y. has a baseball team that when his head hit the floor, and a consists of nine Jews, which makes it cerebral hemorrhage resulted. Julius the only non-sectarian college in these had recently won the Golden Glove United Tournament and gave promise of States that can boast of a foot- developing ball, baseball and basketball team each into an excellent boxer. of which is entirely Jewish. If I Corporal, Izzy Schwartz Defends haven't mentioned it beforenyou should Title Corporal Izzy Schwartz, the fly- know that weight champion of the world, had no the registration of C. C. trouble in hurdling the first obstacle in N. Y. is about 90% Jewish. his race to retain his new crown. He Track-For a while I hoped that all took on as his opponent Routier Parra, of the Jews running in C. C. Pyle's a small gentlehan from Peru and gave cross country marathon from Los that young man a lesson in boxing. It Angeles to New York had regained was a fifteen round go and went the their sense and quit. It seems as entire route. At no time was Izzy in though I was hoping in vain because danger. He landed at will, .hitting his I have just learned that Harry Abra- opponent with everything but the mowitz of New York City is still in water bucket and I think if they had the race. In fact the boy is twelfth given him that, he would have scored in the scoring and has run 1,303.4 heavily. miles which is some distance to even The fight was held in the St. walk. If Harry insists on running I Nicholas Risk with a three dollar top. hope he gets elected. Thq first prize All Izzy got for his share was fifteen is $25,000 and every morning before hundred dollars. In this day of big the day's running starts and the boys money it is miraculous for a fighter to look wan and hopeless, C. C. Pyle risk a title for this mere pittance. The walks through the camp with a certi- crowd certainly got a bargain as the fied check for that amount made out fight was replete with action. On the in blank. So far it's worked wonders. same card Izzy Lainoff was presented The leader of the British Olympic with a decision over Harry Gorkin. Team will be Harold Abrahams. The latter had Izzy on the ropes and Abrahams was a member of the 1924 nearly out but I suppose the judges team and won the 100 meter dash in got the habit of writing Izzy on the that Olympic. I think he also won slips and hence Lainoff "copped." The the sixty meter event. If I'm wrong, fans disapproved in their customary don't bother to let me know. manner and it had its usual effect. Norman Cohn Wins Fencing Titles Ted Sandwina-Foulist-Ted Sand- -Norman Cohn, captain of the Co- wina, the Jewish strong boy got what lumbia University Fencing Team, was he deserved. You remember that this the big star of the intercollegiate fenc- column reported his disqualification ing tournament. After a season in for fouling Mr. Roberto Roberti in which he never once met defeat he their last meeting. It seemed that Ted went into thg Intercollegiates and won SIDNEY WANZER & SONS was getting the worst of it and like a fourteen matches. In winning the in- smart boy decided it was easier to foul dividual Garfield Blvd. at honors he s'upplanted Nuss- LaSalle St. his opponent than take any more pun- baum of Yale, last year's champion. ishment. Such a procedure has been There is some talk about Cohn getting popular of late with the second and the call for the United States Fencing WE CLEAN EVERYTHING third raters. They knew that all they Team for the Olympics but the more would get was a suspension and after, conservative followers of the sport say HAY'S all what was that? Fights were that Cohn has not yet enough finish. STEAM DYE WORKS, Inc. scarce. This time Ted got fooled. He It looked as though the boy had too was not only suspended but his purse much-to the fourteen lads he beat 615 Phone University 1219 gggG was forfeited, and given to 190 615 DEMPSTER ST. EVANSTON, ILL. RED thehWound- in the intercollegiates. ed Veterans of Boston. That hurt (Copy ight, 1928, Jewish Telegraphic Imore than anything else. If there is Agency, Inc.)