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

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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

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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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harness, plus Pete Caldora, and that should be a sufiicient nucleus for another fine track team. FOOTBALL By KEN KRONMAN Along about the middle of this term, came the announcement that football was being suspended at New Utrecht. Natural- ly, this move was to cause a few irate individuals to beef vehemently, and clamor for its immediate return. However, the Health Education Depart- ment released a number of reasons for the shelving of football. The first and obviously the most important was the lack of G. O. funds needed to carry on the sport. The previous season showed a S350 deficit on the money returned by football. Secondly, the lack of aihome field, forc- ing the school to play its games at Brook- lyn College or Lincoln Field necessitated the payment of a sizable amount of cash for the use of these fields. Third, the mediocre caliber of recent teams forced a decline in attendance at the gate, and students began to assume an extremely indifferent attitude toward the sport. Coach Vifarchaiser has kindly offered his services to an intramural football program, but the success or failure of that program will rest on one thing: student support of other varsity sports. Track, basketball, and baseball may suf- fer the same fate as football unless this support is achieved. iVe repeat, intramural programs are de- pendent upon the success of the varsity sports, for it is only when the latter are successful, that intramurals can be prop- erly financed. DIAMOND DUST By BOB SPIRO Lenny Bernstein looked like a sure thing for the right field picket post, but, unfor- tunately, a pulled tendon in his right leg sidetracked him for the season. Bernstein managed to play in the final game of the season . . . Dodger scout Joe LaBate had a look-see at the Utrecht nine. LaBate had his good eye trained on hurler Joe Foppiani . . . Abe Bilder was an energetic bullpen catcher and should develop into Coach Felcher's number one backstop next sea- son . . . Itis quite unusual for a third baseman to bean a player but Captain Sol Fried- man accidentally beaned Larry Ciaffone sliding into the plate . . . A word of thanks to baseball managers Lombardi, Gulino, Varrone, and Bonne- quero . . . Joe Trotta, Utrecht's former all-scholas- tic shortstop, practiced with the team be- fore leaving for Quebec to start the sea- son there . . . Lou Trotta CJoe's brotherj and Joe Brancatelli shared duty around the key- stone sack. BASKETBALL By Mon ROKEACH Erasmus eliminated New Utrecht from a berth in the Divisional Championship playoffs for the second consecutive year, as Al Badain's scrappy Buff and Blue quintet came from behind to triumph in the closing minute of play, 45-43. The Green and White disregarding 3-1 odds, copped a thrilling 31-29 upset-Win in Madison Square Garden, December 20, thus avenging last year's triumph by Erasmus which also eliminated Utrecht as a championship contender. Spearheading the Green's attack was Captain Larry Jacobson whose 112 points enabled him to capture runner-up laurels in the scoring department in Brooklyn Division 2. i Utrecht suffered two crushing defeats at the hands of Madison. The initial con- test set a precedent in that it was the first sporting event in the history of the United States to be postponed because of an air raid alert. The alarm was a phoney but Madison's bombardment of the basket proved to be quite a reality. The Black and Gold tri- Twenty-Jevefz