Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-03-11
Copyright 1920 by Seven Arts Feature
syndicate.
WE'RE COMINGl

A course of instruction in golf will
be offered the students Of the College
Of the City Of New York, as part Of
the curriculum. Several hundred stu
dents have registered, and the course
will meet with great success once II
gets under way which means some
time this semester.
This news, harmless and colorless
though it may sound, appears to us
to be of tremendous Importance. It
! is a well-known fact that fully eighty
per cent, If not more, of the City Col
lege boys are Jewish. Can you ina
gine what all these scientifically
trained Jewish golfers will do We
have notion that some fine links
champions will graduate from that
course and that we will soon welcome
number of important golfers in our
column.
GREATEST JEWISH RUNNER
Ed Sullivan, our old friend of the
New York Evening Graphic, writes
about Pinky Sobers birthday in glow
ing terms, as follows;
"Pinky Sober of City College, great
est Jewish runner developed since
Abel Kiviat's long reign on the cinder
pathes, will be twenty-onc years old
on March 2.
March has produced some very
/ famous sporting figures, and if Sober
continues to fash the form which has
characterized his early running he
will not discredit the month that
evolved Terry McGovern, Jack John,
son, Frank Moran, Harry Ricondo,
Peter Maher, Jack McAuliffe, unde-
feated lightweight champion; Sam
Langford, and host of other famous
champions.
"Sober, whose rise to the track and
field heights has been one of the out
standing features of the year, has
taken his newly won laurels modestly.
"'I am glad that have been run
ming WE'LL said Pinkey, but no one
realizes better than myself the fact
that | have a long way to go yet. My
chief difficulty is the matter of weight.
weigh about 1870 pounds, and that is
not sufficient for man who is run
ming the quarter mile and half mile
steadily. If | can put on some weight
fn, ,nt,pIe I ,tsf1l hn,y, Z, "a.
physical reserve | need to go through
hard campaign"
CREDITS HANK SHULMAN
"Sober was born in Brooklyn, but
his family moved to The Bronx when
he was youngster. He attended
Public School No. A, in The Bronx,
and later went to Evander Childs
High School
He says 1t was at Evander that he
first took to running Hank Shulman,
Evander coach, and a former Morris
! High School runner, who had run on
a record-breaking Morris team at the
Penn Relays, started Sober on his
career.
Sober first won his spurs in the
junior metropolitan championships at
Travers Island, on August Is, 1925,
turning in 1.59 AS for half mile.
"Seven days later he went to East
Orange, n. j., for the senior metro
politan championships. He says that
when he took his position on the track
between George Marsters and John
ME Holden he was absolutely stage
struck. I had read so much about
them that | figured they were run
ming giants, Pinkey confessed
He was last in field of nine for
the greater part of the race. Harry
Hinkle, who had accompanied him to
the seniors, yelled at him to start his
sprint as the field started through the
home stretch. Sober responded with
a wild squirt that carried him past
the entire pack. He beat Holden to
the tape by half foot. That was his
greatest thrill. He had satisfied him
self that he was able to run with the
topnotchers.
RESEMBLES JOHNNY MAIBEN