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

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The longest relay in history was run by runners carrying CI f01'Ch' symbol of Olympic Games, from Greece to Berlin in 1936, Arthur Nehf beat the Yanks in a World Series game by pitching opposite to Iohn McGraw's instuctions from the bench. Track-Although, at the time of this writing, the Bensonhurst speedsters had only battled in two meets, it certainly looks as though they're on their way to a successful season. ln the opening Stuyvesant meet the pine-boardmen collected a total of lil points to finish in third place behind DeWitt Clinton and Bishop Loughlin. Iimmy Lombardo was New Utrecht's fair-haired boy in this meet, actu- ally walking away with the 880 yard novice event, finishing 25 yards in front of his nearest rival. The Knights of Columbus meet was the next chance the tracksters had and in the only high school event held at the meet took second place behind Bryant High. This was the 220 yard relay in which Cohen, Goldwein, Wise, and Caridi represented the Big Green fa deadline on this story prevented news of the Dickinson meet, held on lanuary l3, from being published hereinb. Ioe Louis knocked -down Stanley Poseda 3 times for a total count of 38 seconds. First count, Poseda was up at nine--second count lasted 19 seconds due to fact that Illinois boxing rules allow fighters 20 seconds to get back into the ring. Final count of ten came a few moments later. The first forward pass ever tried by Yale beat Harvard in 1906. Kansas City beat the Rainbow A. C. 234-2 in a basketball game in 1924. Soccer-Winding up second only to an undefeated Manual team, the booters led by Captain Al Schraeter and aided by coaches Boss and Kaye had a moderately successful season. They opened up in high gear when they drubbed Boys High 4-0, but their next opponents were a little tougher and so they were held to a l-l tie with Erasmus. They then dropped a 2-0 decision to the Manual champs but came back to take the important Lafayette game by l-0. They closed the season with an unimportant 3-l defeat at the hands of Eastern District. 2 - The game between Philadelphia and Chicago played in 1922 was a pitcher's nightmare. Score-Chicago 26, Philadelphia 23, and no errors on either side. Iackson Haines, a Chicago lad, originated and taught the style of figure skating which the Europeans are now teaching back to the Americans. He showed them how in 1864. Hockey-The puckmen started off with a 3-0 triumph over lackson that barely showed the calibre of the squad Coach Feely turned out, but their next encounter was with lamaica, former champs, and it was really a corker. The Bucs led by Captain Bud Crutchley let loose with a scoring attack that netted them four goals to the lamaicans one. lt was in this tussle that the Greenies first gave the world a glimpse of their puck prowess. The blademen tackled Brooklyn Tech next and lost on a heartbreaker. Twenty-four

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The hlSlOFY, the sudden death ofthe chairman of the Boys' P. T. department, Mr. George I. Zinovoy. '39 season brought to New Utrecht the saddest sports news in its Mr. Zinovoy was a well-known figure in high school sports, his position of chairman of the P.S.A.L. Games Committee attesting to this statement. lt was also Mr. Zinovoy, if we recall correctly, who put up a terrific struggle to bring baseball back to New Utrecht and finally succeeded in the Spring of '39, lt was really a blow to Q f Green and White sports when Q ww he passed away. Football-Since this was the Fall term, the gridiron again assumes its position as the leading sport in New Utrecht. A potentially powerful football team, captained by George Chieffo and coached by the able Mr. lerry Shaw, was too erratic to really get any place and finally finished the season with the unimpressive record of one victory, one deadlock, and five defeats. By ERYVIN SIZVIENSKY The gridders started off with a defeat at the hands of Manual, to the tune of l9-U. They followed this up with a l3-6 victory over Brooklyn Tech, the only triumph of the season. The thriller with Erasmus was next on the schedule and although the Greenies lost to the tune of 20-9, the efforts of Toe Biondo made it a moral victory, lt was ul-landsome Toe who kicked the spectacular field goal that put the Buccos ahead by 9-7. CEditor's Note: Although Biondo kicked from the Buff and Blue 28 yard line, the lU yard end zone made it a 38 yard kickl. The Curtis squad took the pigskinner's by 7-U, and Madison followed the Staten lslanders example and put the Greenies on the short end of the l8-6 score. A terrific battle with Iefferson followed, with the Buccos holding the highly-favored, all-powerful Orange and Black eleven to a 6-6 deadlock. lt was in this game that the Bensonhursters were robbed of their second triumph. The Kelly-Greens were on the Ieff one and a half yard line when the final whistle blew. Lincoln administered the final defeat of the season when they took the boys over the hurdles by a 12-U count. lt was also in this season that lrv Kintisch, the big right tackle made the World-Telegram All-Scholastic, but didn't get the chance to play in Miami, when the trip got involved in official red-tape.. In the Penn Relays of 1928, Charlie Padock dodged tons of bricks and hurdled fallen spectators as the stands collapsed and yet ran 175 yards in the world record time of 17:2f5 seconds. i The ball left the bat of the great Babe Ruth at a speed of 120 miles per hour when he smashed out his homers. ' q T ' ' f Twenty-'three

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A scuffle in front of the Utrecht cage resulted in a score for Tech when one of their forwards Cstill unidentifiedj happened to kick it in. The Utrechtites avenged themselves, however, with a 2-O trouncing of Manual, They then went down to a l-U defeat before a Textile onslaught, but rose up and smashed Iackson 3-O. The following battle was a scoreless deadlock with lamaica, and at the time of this writing we were waiting for a return match with Brooklyn Tech. Hollanders argue that they played KOWF before the Scots- KOWF is Dutch for club-P. S. we're talking about GOLF. While at Texas Christian, Sling'ing Sam Baugh, threw the pigskin a distance of over two miles. Iames I. Braddock was the first heavy-weight champ in the history of the ring to go into a title bout on the short end of the betting-in his fight with Ioe Louis. First sacker Harry Davis wore two uniforms in one day. He played a double header and was at first base for the Giants in the first game. He was traded to Pittsburgh between games and played with the Pirates in the second game. Basketball-Coach G-oldberg's boys may not have the ability possessed by their predecessors of the '38-'39 season, but they certainly have the fight. The two season-openers, both non-P.S.A.L. resulted in a 33-31 triumph over Boys High and a 28-20 victory over Seward Park. Madison was next on the list and we certainly must give the Black and Gold the credit they deserve, for in their 44-23 victory over the Big Green, they showed us CI brand of ball-handling far superior to anything we've ever seen before on a high school floor. The next P.S.A.L. battle was more of a rout, for the hoopsters squelched Manual Training by a 47-35 count. Lincoln and Erasmus, two traditional enemies of ours, followed soon after. The Coney lslanders halted the basketeers to the tune of 28-23. The winning goal in the Erasmus game was scored in the last twenty seconds by Captain Nino Presti, on a one-handed western shot. The final score was 25-23, in the Greenies' favor. Although the Erasmus tilt was the closing of the terms' schedule there are still four more games left on the P.S.A.L. calendar, which come during next term. 1, -. L-f fl ,.f1 I if I 49 Ia V ix S .gn , Qaida- I' s I 'Zz TI-1 AT ELUSIVEL GIHK Twenty-five