Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-12-24
Our Sporting Column
IlANE WE ERRED?
BY HARRY CONZEL

HAVE WE ERRED?
Sam o. Smith, physical director of
the Boston Young Mems Hebrew Asso-
citation. writes us:
II note that In your column you say
that you don't know Of there being Il
Jewish wrestling champion, For your
information, IL you will allow me Max
Sudberg. of Rochester, n. Y, middle
weight champ OF the world, 1oOO-1006.
4 wrestler who was recognized ns one
Of the toughest, toughest fastest, cley-
crest men that ever stepped on mat.
Met and defeated all comers and gave
over 80 pounds In weight many times
In order to get matches. lie is now
retired and living somewhere In Penn
sylvnnia.
1--WE also have many champs, and
near champs. mt the present time, fore
most among them. Max and William
Bauman, better known as Max and
William Sandow. managers of six of
the foremost heavyweight wrestlers In
the world. and the brains of the So
called wrestling trust
"Wiliam Bauman, or Sandow, was
formerly welterwcight champion of
America"
We are indeed thankful to Mr.. Smith
for this Information 1t is new and
interesting to us. But we admit that
we are not quite convinced that Lud-
berg. whose fame does not belong to
this generation, or the Bauman broth
crs, whose chief claim to glory seems to
lie in their business ability disprovcs
our statement. II Mr.. Smith would vol
unteer to name the many champs and
near champs we have at the present
time we would acknowledge our error.
BY THE WAY
Lester L. (Frenchyl Hanf, the
| Brooklyn Jewish lad, who made foot
ball history for the Rutgers team this
past season as their star end, has been
awarded the EIwood Waller trophy.
4 The award means that IIanf has been
adjudged the most valuable player Of
| the team. Besides Frenchy has been
elected captain for next season. Hani
must have felt as proud as Grange,
when the red headed iceman got his
x30O,0 for movie contract.
Miss Helen Wills. the American ten
mis- wizard. is going to Europe thi,
winter in an attempt to dethrone ouI
Suzanne Lenglen. Will the Jewish cir
with stand the Californian blizzard?
Joseph Chick Folk, sporting edltol
of the Baltimore. Jewish Times, list
Oosterbaan, the Michigan football stal
among the Jewish players. We neve
knew that Oosterbaan was Jew an'
don't know 1t yet. 1t would make II
feel good II -Chick" could confirm thi
statement. .I
Nc. gentle readers, who have in
quired if Young Jake Schaefer, tn
; worId-fainous billiard player, is Jew
/ SNiltttltI Is ~ WI W
not even one-half Of 1 per cent lewis
blood Yes, he is very fine fellow.
: Johnny Brown, the little Jewish fight
ing machine from England is arOusin
lot of attention here. The expert
predict that he will make good be
cause he has real fighting hear
Brown lost his first professional figh
: about ten years ago. In all he is .
: years old Figure it out for yourselve
The head of the 81. Louis Y NJ. I
A. football coaching staff Is none othe
than Frank Click. Click was the cal
= tain of the Princeton team is 19l.
! No wonder the st. Louis boys wo
seven games out of nine this season.
Alta BOY!
. Some time ago we put the followin
. blunt question to our readers: AR
: you satisfied with our sporting colum
! as 1t is conducted?r We received man
answers and the consensus of opinio
= was that we should not change on
= policy. The letter from Mr.. Schwart
is typical one:
AT first n Jewish sporting colum
struck me ms anything but n seriou
: undertaking Why should there he
Jewish sporting column. Sport is il
ternational. and surely never lewis
it seemed to me. But after rcadin
your column week after week. and n
ways finding fresh information and 81
'crtnlnlna comment. | reversed nj
opinion. My younger brother. who
IN expert render cf the daily sportin
Ihgc of the American. waits for You
column with sill more interest.
mikes him feel proud of his JewiSl
ness. II is only now TINT have recol
nized the educational value of you
column. Keep II as it is, and don't tr
10 compete with the regular sporiin
page lingo II Is your irlinrnte uncoi
ventionnl way That makes yonr colum