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

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Sport Highlights . . . By HENRY GOLDSTEIN Observations Made At Random: fFor location of RANDOM, we suggest you use the nearest Atlasj Basketball referees in the P.S.A.L. cir- cuit next year ought to lead Utopian lives, for after many years of hard work, trustee Suey Feit is getting out on good behavior. Charley Grohsberger is certainly mak- ing those critics who chided him unfairly about his indoor track performances sit up and take notice . . . Charley's brilliant outdoor work thus far has more than olf- set his disappointing work on the pine boards . . . However, not many people know that Grohsberger was suffering se- verely from stomach trouble during the entire indoor season. We've also had a decided predilection for a lithe young chappie named Wenger. Juicy,', as his teammates have affection- ately dubbed him, has, it seems, shattered a few important records lately. We even hear that civic leaders are thinking of erecting a monument to the Corley Island Tornado, right in the middle of Mermaid Avenue. Bernie Kupferschrnidt seems set for the captaincy of the basketball team next term, and that reminds us-We under- stand that Coop and Johnny De Mare have been a-feudin ' a bit, and had a little seance in the gym after school, one day, beating their respective brains out. Come, come, lads! That's not the kind of spirit that will Win ball games! We hear Joe Labate, the Dodger scout, has been giving Big Joe Foppiani the old Slobodka. Lenny Mormando is already on the Dodgers' payroll down at the Bums' farm in Johnstown, Pa., after his sparkling coverage of the hot corner last year. Since Coach Abe Warchaiser's sparsity of cranial vegetation has never yet been accurately accounted for, we thought we'd try to disseminate light on the subject. Mr. W.,s energies were so depleted and his patience at such a low ebb because of the futility of his football charges, that the grey hairs that graced his cere- brum, started to do nip-ups and departed from their roots. Well, that's about all for now, chillun! We trust we have not tickled your risibil- ities to any great extent with this idle banter, so like the altruistic little souls that we are, we'll take it on the lammy. TRACK lt is a foregone conclusion that this term's track team is the greatest to grace the cinders and the pine boards since the lush days of Barney Hyman. Concrete evidence of this is the fine performance of Coach Browne's mercury-gaited contin- gent throughout the indoor season. After the Dickinson meet, scheduled for the Jersey City Armory, was postponed, fthe Army had priorities on the use of the Armoryl, the Green and White spiked shoe brigade fought into a fourth place tie with Bryant, Morris, and Boys, at the City P. S. A. L. Indoor Championships at the Garden. In this meet, Utrecht's modern proto- type of Buck Rogers, Justin Juicy Wen- ger Hew down the runway in the record- eclipsing time of 6:4 seconds, with team- mate Eddie Friedman close on his heels. It took a P. S. A. L. Games Committee a number of weeks to ascertain the true Twenty-jive

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Sandy cursed softly as he bounded for the yards. The West Bound Express was backing up for a start when he sighted it. Sandy stood panting on the tracks. He scanned the yards and made for a grain car. Hey, off the tracksl' a voice came to him from behind. A burly brakeman was standing a couple of cars down. Sandy moved down a ways. There was a lurch in the cars beside him, and the train started to roll. Sandy sped up as he headed for the grain car. The brakeman ran up behind him: I said get off the tracks. Sandy smacked the brakeman again the moving car and let him bounce off on the ground. Two others started after him as he raced down the tracks. He was breathing hard. A policeman joined the other two. Sandy jumped for the railing. His hands gripped the bars. He pulled himself up and toppled into the car. The West Bound Express was moving fast now. Sandy rolled over in the corner on his stomach, breathing convulsively. Pk Pls Dk In the dingy foyer of the Mason-Arms Apts. a big man in an overcoat and hat walked up to the managerls door and rang the bell. The door open- edg Yes? I guess no one is in, he said. When Mr. McKay comes in, will you give him this wallet. I found it in the telephone booth at the corner drug- store. He must have misplaced it. Good day. I Am Young I am very young My life is very unimportant now. Everybody is talking about grave matters, important things- I am too young to be included in the conversation. My life has been made of small things- Recl shoes and ballet tlancers and small white flowers are all mixerl up in my life. Organtly curtains are important to me. I sway to music that no one hears. Let them discuss their grave matters. I will make a wish on the first star Anil smile at the first white flower. Twenty-four

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facts about Mount Saint Michaels' phoney win in the Stuyvesant-Manual Meet. The Mikes had used an ineligible chap by the name of Kleist in the novice high jump event, which provided the Bronx School with the winning margin of vic- tory over Utrecht and Loughlin, dead- locked at twenty-two points apiece. At the P. S. A. L. Committee's hearing, these facts were unearthed and Utrecht was awarded first place over Loughlin on the basis of more first places. The big story in this meet was the one two three finish in the 60 yard dash with Wenger, Katzman and Friedman running in that order. This, if we remember cor- rectly our track history, marks a prece- dent. In the IC4A Metropolitan Champion- ships staged at the Coliseum, the lk mile medley relay of Wenger, Katzman, Grohs- berger and Badenhop, speeded to victory, but, unfortunately, in the IC4A's at the Garden in a special afternoon event for public schools, the usually reliable Grohs- berger dropped the baton, and this relay was beaten. In the Catholic Invitation meet, the identical thing happened to Wenger, and as a result, the Green and pt S3551 H ,:-. - 1 ,A V 'V , 'F ' - - , I -sl , . - E I N Xa : J! , E, L p , E. I 4 1 t I W - is .3 , ,,, I T I ljlili ,V,, . I ,i'i f White's 880 quartet was also trimmed. Following the pattern they set during the indoor season, the Utrecht trackmen swept their first three outdoor engage- ments, dual meets with Newtown, Lincoln, and Brooklyn Tech, by one-sided margins. In the outdoor curtain raiser on April 21, Coach Browne's cinder-ellas wrote a major accomplishment into the books Twenty-Jix when they trounced a highly-touted New- town foe, 65-48, at Elmhurst. The Newtown boys had been undefeated in a period of ten years in their own back yard, and their ego was considerably de- flated, when the Green and White Mercury- men started to get hot. Utrecht captured nine out of fourteen events, sparked by Justin Wenger, Charley Grohsberger and Captain Normy Katzman among others. Wenger ran away with the 220, clocked in 2228, and as evidence of his versatility, the lean Utrecht ace com- peted for the first time in actual compe- tion in the running broad jump. He fin- ished second, too, with a leap of 19 feet l01f2 inches. Charley Grohsberger, in the best shape he'd been in all year, won the 440 hands down in the time of 5125. Charley beat Modesto Sarno, Newtown's quarter mile ace in this event. Sarno, incidentally, finished third in the P. S. A. L. meet at the Garden during the in- door season. The other two meets were complete romps, Lincoln being tripped 53-41, and the Technical school flattened 69-21. At this writing, the Brooklyn, City and Novice Champs and the Brooklyn Auto- motive, Schenectady and Boys High meets are still to be held. Whatever the outcome of these meets fand they augur well to be hotly contestedi it should be reiterated that this has been a gala year for Ut- recht track partisans. This year, Captain Normy Katzman, Charley Grohsberger, Billy Williams, and Al Mancusi, to mention a few, will exit from these portals. Katzman has been a consistent performer all year, and a fine leader. We've already extolled Grohsberg- er's ability, and his fine comeback after a slow start in the indoor season. Wil- liams, perhaps the most under-rated man on the squad, has long merited verbal bouquets. The quiet self-effacing blonde sprinter has run brilliantly, and if not for the publicity that teammate, Justin Wenger has received Cand deservedly soj, Billy would be up there in the limelight. Mancusi has capably filled the shot put post which has long been traditional at Utrecht. Next year, Coach Browne will have Jus- tin Wenger, Eddie Friedman, Joe McClel- lan, Jack Badenhop and others back in