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

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UDB QLUUIZI BASKETBALL IT gives us great pleas- ure to announce through this medium that Mr. George Ross, popular mentor of the basketball team has de- serted the realms of bachelorhood and re- cently betook unto him- self a bride. Congratu- lations, Mr. Ross!!! lf WS - l We are also pleased to announce that the New Utrecht Five has rosy prospects for another borough championship. Many of the brighest luminaries of the past two seasons will have been graduated by the time the regular season starts. Ratzan, Esposito, Hoff- man, Bonavita, Pruzick, and Roskin are among those who will not see service this year. The nucleus for New Utrecht's hopes is centered upon the persons of Capt. Lulu Handweiler, Julie Robbins and Whitey Rosenthal. When the whistle blows to start the regular P. S. A. L. season, the first team will probably be made up of Robbins, Hand- weiler, Rosenthal, Cantarella, Krivitsky, and possibly Vinacour. Supplanting these men, one finds Schwartz, Silverstein, Gennis and Krasner wearing the Green and White. As is customarily done, New Utrecht en- gages in several pre-season encounters. So far, the basketeers have met two of the strongest teams in the city, and performed valiantly although they lost. Utrecht dropped a close one to jefferson, 26-22, but it was a grand encounter from the start to finish. Textile, probably the greatest team in the city, beat the Green Five 36-21. These games have no bearing however on the P. S. A. L. basketball race. The managers, Reisner, Pearl and Good- Eighteen stadt, are at work engaging more practice games to get the boys in shape. When interviewed, Coach Ross predicted a championship for Captain Lulu Hand- weiler and his boys. HANDBALL HANDBALL in P. S. A. L. circles has taken remarkable strides in the past few seasons. From a rather meager number of five Brooklyn High Schools equipped with handball squads, a full-fledged P. S. A. L. sport has grown with divisions in each bor- ough of New York City. At present, Brook- lyn alone has eleven teams. Next spring starts the second season during which hand- ball enjoys P. S. A. L. standing. Because of the growth of the sport, the P. S. A. L. authorities have changed the rules so as to allow more competition amongst a greater number of players. To the existing schedule of three singles games and one doubles is to be aded another doubles contest, thus necessitating a seven man team in lieu of the previous teams of f1ve members. New Utrecht's representatives, last spring, compiled a rather fair average, in emerging victors in six contests while tasting defeat in five. From that squad of last spring, Coach Frankel has lost four valuable members, Captain Fine, Fox, Segal and Finestone, by graduation. To replace them and to act as a nucleus for next season's team, are Ray Brick, singles and doubles star of former campaigns and Si Silverstein. Mr. Frank- el who is devoting all his spare time in coaching the newcomers in the intricacies of the wall game, sees embryo stars in Stan Simon, Shepp, Shapiro and Axelrod. Mr. Frankel refused to comment on the team's chances in the approaching campaign although he did paint its opportunities for

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TRACK TRACK has been for the last eight years the traditional sport at New Utrecht High School. Track will con- tinue to be New Ut- recht's tradition so long as Barney Hyman can continue to put out teams of such excellent calibre as he has done hitherto. 'S S fa: I K wt, gm f At this writing the P. S. A. L. indoor championship meet is' fast approaching. Green and White team has been seen on only one occasion this season, in full strength. In the Stuyvesant games, they amassed twenty-six points to easily annex tirst place. Herewith is the team on which Utrecht's hopes are placed. First and foremost is shot put, an event which has always found New Utrecht supreme. There is not much dang- er of that supremacy passing into other hands for the next two years. Willie Wohle is the standard bearer in this department and the job could not be placed in more capable hands. Wohle has heaved the iron ball past the fifty foot mark, and is capable of doing better. He is followed by Icove, Uchitel and Simon, all capable of placing in any meet. In the sprint events, a new find has come to the fore in the person of Virgil Guglielmelli. He has been literally burning up the boards in practice, and bears consid- erable watching. Harry Walfish and Whitey Rosenthal are the other entries in the hun- dred. The 220 and sprint relay teams will be :omposed of five veteran trackmen, namely: Max Kerner, Max Streisand, Foster Cnzew- ski, Max Lipshitz and Dave Altman. The 300 yard event is also well supplied with talent. Joe Greenspan is due for some fine performances here, if the results of the practice sessions are any criterion. Sam Si- mon, Herb Wolfert, Carmine Pinta and Ronin, also lend their valuable services to this race. Jack Wolfe, the former Bay Ridge Evening star, is at last eligible for P. S. A. L. competition in the quarter mile, and will do his best to prove his worth. Radin, Bloom and Marcus are invaluable to the Green and White team in this phase of track competition. A flock of cross-country men will garner New Utrecht's points in the 880 and the mile run. Foremost among this group may be found Capt. Perry Rosenberg, George de George, Ira Mendelsohn and Sam Sklar. New Utrecht has two line entries in the high jump, in the persons of Sam Simon and Legs Rosenberg, who bid fair to reach marks over six feet in their event. Incidentally, the recent K of C track meet at the Garden found New Utrecht well rep- resented in the persons of some of the fore- most alumni of the Bensonhurst school. Phil Merriam competed in and won the thous- and yard run. Sol Furth, Ira Singer and Bernie Krosney gave a good account of themselves in the sprint series. Seventeen

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arm, atnmer the championship in rather sombrous colors, due to the fact that our opponents have retained their stars of former years. As formal practice has not been com- menced and is starting about the seventeenth of February, Coach Frankel stated that can- didates are yet permitted to report. He ap- peals to the students to come out for hand- ball, if they wish to see it maintained in New Utrecht High School. F OOTB ALL X f . WITH the University I i of Southern Cali- fornia's victory over Tu- lane, New Year's Day, the curtain was rung down ,on the 1931 football season. From the viewpoint of a Ut- recht student, the season was not altogether successful. True, the eleven won five out of seven games played, but the two that were lost were bitter pills to take indeed, for the simple reason that they were admin- istered at the hands of the Green and White's staunchest rivals, james Madison and Boys High. New Utrecht opened her season with a most successful onslaught against Thomas jefferson, Ben Roskin leading the boys so a 14-0 triumph. The next game was what is known in the vernacular of sport as a breather. The Bensonhurst eleven took an easy one to the tune of 20-0 from a scrappy Lincoln High School eleven. The next two games will long be remem- bered in the history of Utrecht sport. The Green and White team had the eyes of the scholastic sporting world focused upon them, as they upset the odds two weeks in suc- cession, beating Manual Training and Brook- lyn Tech, 12-6, 6-0, respectively. On November 14, Utrecht traveled to Boys High stadium to meet the team rep- resenting Samuel Tilden High. The team was greatly hampered by playing on a strange Held and also by weather conditions. The result being that Utrecht managed to eke out a 6-0 win over the Silver and Blue team. THE following Saturday found the boys still dog tired from the pounding of the much heavier teams of Manuel, Tech and Tilden. Nevertheless, the Utrecht eleven had to face its rival, james Madison. The stands were jammed to capacity and were a pag- eant of gorgeous colors. In the field, the Black and Gold band and cheer-leaders were vieing with the music and cheering of the Green and White stands. From the opening whistle, it was apparent that Utrecht was in no condition to play a team as strong as Madison on that particular day, but Ut- recht fought gamely until the end. Time and time again, the line held desperately as if their lives were at stake, on the 1 or 2 yard lines. But no human body can as- similate punishment forever. Twice the Black and Gold managed to wiggle through the lines for touchdowns. When the final whistle had blown, the Green team lay in the dust, with a 13-0 defeat chalked up against them. Coach Warchaizer then set himself to the task of preparing his team for the final Thanksgiving Day clash with Boys High. Carl Dosic, captain of the cheer squad sug- gested a pep rally as a means of strength- ening the boys' morale. This plan was agreed upon, and arrangements were made to hold the rally in the school auditorium. When the day of the rally dawned, out of the 8000 students in the Bensonhurst school, not more than 100 students attended the gathering which showed the eleven that they no longer Nineteen