New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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l TJ ing. Another fine bunch of fellows is the 880 relay team made up of Moe Mischen, Sam Springer, Lou Lord and Al Altman, all lower termers and all on the road up. This meet also put forward a new sprint find in Herb Wolfert who took third in the 220. Of the novices who are expected to start scoring points soon, the names of Abe Rosenberg, Stanley Levitan, Mel Mar- golin, Nat Vogel, Pinta and Walfish stand out. And finally we come to four fellows who have been a boon to New Utrecht, namely, Art Schutzman, Cy Marcus, John- ny D'Auria and Perry Rosenberg. This group annexed the Class C Mile Relay Championship at the Penn Relays, and outside of scoring a sure five points ev- erytime they run they are no help at all. X COUNTRY One of the best teams in New Utrecht High School found itself without the aid of a coach, and without the backing of the school at the beginning of the term. The first part of the problem was solved when George L. Weisbard, popular mentor, graciously offered his services as coach of the cross-country team. Mr. Weis- bard himself a former cross-country and lacrosse man while at New Utrecht in- novated spring practice for the first time. The squad gradually grew, and as the gun banged for the start of the novice meet, 30 boys sprinted for the lead. The race was a fight all the way, but in the end De George was victorious with Guil- foyle, Caccese, Steer, Fleischman, Rafici and Sklar Qwho gave the others a 2 min- ute handicapj finished in the order named. The team seems to have great ponten- tialities for a championship this fall with Captain Cy Marcus, Perry Rosenberg, Ira Mendelsohn, Abe Pomerantz and Sklar left over from last year to wear the Green and White. At present Manager Lester Steinhardt with the aid of his assistant the popular Grace A. Levine is busy arranging a ser- ies of meets for the coming season. BASEBALL A good example of what school sup- port can do for a team is brought our by the New Utrecht baseball team. Lack of support has always undermined fine teams but this year the student body sup- ported the team, with the result that at the present writing, the Green and White ball-chasers are playing Madison for the division championship. The pre-season games did not show Utrecht up to great advantage, but as the season progressed the boys under the leadership of Captain Ben Roskin played great games against the P. S. A. L. teams. Some of the outstanding achievements be- ing the conquering of Tilden, 8-5, beat- ing Earsmus Hall, 5-2, after dropping an earlier game, 3-0, and finally hold- ing Manual to a 7-7 tie in a hard- fought battle. A crack infield is composed of the hard- hitting Bernie Pearlman, Captain Ben Ros- kin, Red Siegal, and O'Shats. Cooper shines as catcher, and is a pret- ty good bet for an all-scholastic berth this season. The outfield is made up of 'lPee Wee Smilowitz, Nat Mur and joe Cerevalo. These fellows make up one of the hardest hitting and best fielding scholastic out- fields in the city. Twenty-nine --J

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! Harry Al Przzzick an 1 . fy Edzior p 5 5,0 of Qi ks Sport: TRACK The newspapers were all announcing the downfall of the New Utrecht track team. The fact that New Utrecht had fallen was already established. There was one thing left to do and the tracksters did it-they got their Irish up. Every man on the squad from the lowliest novice to the loftiest regular pulled and gave ev- erything that he had for the sheer joy of again entrenching the Green and White at the top of the ladder. This is the re- sult: a victory in the Columbia meet, 3 out of 3 firsts at the Penn. Relays, and a clean sweep of both the R. P. I. games at Troy and the P. S. A. L. novice meet. One cannot place his finger on any ten men on the team and say, They are responsible for Utrecht's fine showing. Every boy that is in any way connected with the track team can throw out his chest with pride, and feel sure that he has done his bit. To the esteemable Mr. Barney Hyman and to his assistants William Schoenfield and Sol Furth go the plaudits and the whole-hearted thanks of the entire stu- dent body for their untiring efforts throughout the entire season, and for put- ting the New Utrecht track team where it belongs-out in front. The managers Herb Weinberg and Herman Feingold also deserve a word of graditude for their ceaseless work. An event that has always found Utrecht supreme is the shot put. This year has been no exception. Emil Bonavita has sur- Twenty-eight IPO passed all his previous efforts this season, and at this writing he has broken the R. P. I. meet record with a put of 51 feet 8 inches. His running mate Willie Wohle has been improving steadily, un- til now in his fifth term he has already reached 50 feet. Also in a scoring posi- tion we find Sam Simon who performed so extra-ordanarily in the novice meet and also Willie Uchitel and Guilfoyle have stepped out of the ranks of novices. Now Levine, and Mangiamelli will have to decide between them who's next to break his novice. joey Abrahams and Sol Mandelblatt are probably the busiest fellows on this squad. While joe was taking a second in the hundred and a first in the 220, at Troy, Mandy was taking a first in the high hurdles and a second in the low. At the Penn. Relays Abrahams and Mandelblatt were both on the championship sprint and mile relay teams, along with Steve Chia- rello and Pete Merriam, who took the 880 at Troy and Captain Eddie Friedman. Eddie evidentally, is getting his share of the bad breaks, being spiked at the Colum- bia meet and disqualified at Troy. The novice meet uncovered some ex- cellent men. Foremost is the 1200 yard relay team that took a second place. It was composed of joseph Greenspan, Nat Mur, William Suffren and Hugo Capella. All of those boys with the exception of Greenspan are graduating this term. The novice games also brought forth Sam Si- mon as a high jumper of merit, and Si- mon who is nearing six feet bears watch-

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Elibe Qlumet Danny Del Vechio of football fame, is an ideal all-around man, starring in the infield and outfield, along with Red Sie- gal who pitches an excellent game be- sides playing second base. Antonio Balucci, the mainstay of the pitching staff, had pitched a no-hit, no- run game against Roosevelt, last year's P. S. A. L. champions. LACROSSE Day in and day out the lacrosse team has been practicing diligently in the school yard waiting for a chance to redeem it- self. Getting off to a slow start the In- dians dropped their first game to Manual at the score of 6-1. The first half of the game was played in a slovenly fash- ion by our team. The Park Slopers took advantage of our greeness and scored five goals in quick succession. Between the halves Coach Fitzpatrick spoke to our boys and it was a new team that came on the field. For that second half, the boys fought the championship aggreggation giv- ing them blow for blow and at most times showed marked superiority over the champs. Both teams scored once in the second half but neither team deserved a goal, ours being scored by a Manual de- fense man and their goal coming on a break that was just as undeserved. The high spots of the game were the playing of jerry Gold and Abby Sundell who ex- celled for the Green and White. With Erasmus, Hamilton, Boys and Madison still to be encountered the boys still have a great deal to do. The defense of the team is composed of Captain Pe- corella Christiasen, Firtenberg, Simnowitz and Lissendrella with Iverson, Reznitzky, Selivan, Graff, Cohen and Forman being held in reserve. Our attack is being held upg by Abby Sundell, whose spectacular Thirty and bull-like method of playing brought him very near an all-scholastic position last year. Mutzie Silowitz, who was kept out of the Manual game because of in- eligibility, is not expected to play again this term. It is a hard fighting, fast playing out- fit containing, fast shifty men like Lis- sendrella and Formosa, excellent stick handlers, like Gold and Christenson, and stocky hard fighting players whose methods of playing is to put their heads down and force their way through the entire team, such as Pecorella and Sundell Manager Nat Shapiro states that the chief burden in the remaining games will be upon the hands of Pecorella and Sun- dell. Because of their superior experience and ability the rest of the team look up to them for directions and instructions during the game. Graduation will hit the team hard this year because when the roll is called for initial practice in 1952 such stars as Pecorella, Sundell, Simnowitz, Formosa, Caliman, Moore, Gold, Levinson, For- man, Lefkowitz, Strafaci, Iverson will have graduated and left their positions open to be filled from the ranks of sub- stitutes who are diligently striving to make the varsity. Murray Elman who will manage the team in '52 claims that '32 will be the best year Lacrosse will ever know in New Utrecht. The game is steadily increasing in popularity and it will be necessary to cut the squad down to a definite number as was done this term for the first time in the history of Lacrosse. With 45 an- xious fellows and only one little field to play on we were faced with the possibility of getting another field or cutting the squad. Fifteen boys were dropped from the squad in order to give the better players more of a chance to show their ability.