Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-09-16

misleading, and as the Jewish univer-
sity athletes don't all register as Jews,
we will content ourselves with men,
tioning only the foremost Jewish stars.
Harvard has the most impressive
/ galaxy of stars. First honors go to AL
Miller. football player extraordinary
and most brilliant sprinter of the
/ Eastern universities. His greatest
triumphs during the past year were
the 100 and 200 yard dash in the Har-
/ vard Yale meet. Harvard also boasts
lzzy Iarakov, three-letter man
whose achievements in football, base
ball and hockey are inscribed in golden
letters in the book of Harvard ath-
letics. lZzy has been elected captain Of
Harvard's baseball team for next
year. Hi Cans, soccer player, John
/ Davidson, fencing champion, Benny
Goldberg, wrestling star, must also be
mentioned. The appointment of Ar
mold Horween, former Jewish ALL
American football player, as Har-
wards football coach is another mile
stone in the success of Jewish ath-
/ letes.
Benny Friedman, quarterback Of
Michigan University, has been ac-
f., claimed the greatest football player in
America. second only to Red Grage.
rornells left halfback, Gassback
Gassner, fullback Charlie Levy of
Washington University, Rosenberg of
Cornell, are other Jewish football
stars who have made their mark in
collegiate athletics during the past
year.
In collegiate wrestling, C. Miller of
Yale and Mike Sosit OF Columbia (thc
latter is also remarkable football
player) have done so splendidly that
they have been elected captains of
their respective varsity teams.
Pinkie Sober, junior half-mile cham
pion, is looked upon as the future
American senior champion Of that dis
tance. Sober has established new
junior American record for the half
mile. We can also mention ]. Yank
Sachs, captain of the basketball team
of Clark University, and its outstand-
ing soccer player; Shan Klein, football
player of Ohio State University; Dave
Lipsky, 440 yard freshman champion
of Penn State; Bennie Boris, Toronto
University, Canada, collegiate hockey
star; Tubby Raskin, three-letter man
of New York City College; Abe Sill
verstein, middle-distance swimming
champion of America.
The names mentioned this heading
should undoubtedly also include Lovin-
son, Colgate, Goldstein, Florida, Levy,
Tulane, Skudine, New York Univer-
sity; and Parker, Dartmouth, all of
gridiron fame.
WOMEN ATHLETES
achievements of Gertrude Ederle in
swimming across the Channel to focus
attention on the amazing headway
which women athletes have made in
the immediate past. We shall limit
ourselves to the mere listing of the
most prominent woman athletes: Mae
Zittman, Pittsburgh, an outstanding
sprinter, basketball thrower and shot
putter; Rosa NJ. Crosse, Toronto, 100
yard runner, and most probably the
fastest woman on this continent, hold
ing the world-record for this distance
for her sex; Fanny Rosenfeldt, Toron-
to, another great sprinter; Rose Boo
zeck, fancy diver. Among the golfers
we must mention Mrs. Harry Gross
man, Mrs. Ed. Goldberger and Mrs.
Elaine Rosenthal. We know that these
three do not exhaust the list of woman
golfers in this country; but they are
the only ones ON whom we have data.
The greatest event in the world of
feminine athletics most probably is
the retirement of Suzanne Lenglen,
the Jewish tennis queen, from amateur
competition. While speaking of Europe
we should also record the names of the
three Jewish swimming champions,
Fri. Heidi Bienenfeld, Fri. Loewi of
the Vienna Hakaoh. and Mile. Sion of
Paris.
GOLF
Jews are coming to the fore quickly
| in golf. Louis Levinson, the eighteen
year old wizard of San Antonio, is a
good Illustration. Among the veterans
we can note only Joe and Ben E. Stein
among the recognized tournament
golfers.
BILLIARDS, BICYCLE, AUTOMO-
BILE WRESTLING
The only Jewish top-notcher in the
billiard game is Henry Solomon, three
cushion billiard champion of the West