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BROOKLYN EAGLE, OCT. 8, 1951 17 row mm ill JIMMY MURPHY'S COLUMN It B'klyn Prep Romps-d, Baseball Games Washed Out by Rain Ostro Silent On Lafayette's Great Showing Withholds Praise Urttil Boro Rivals Are Encountered Over Jesuit Foe Crown Heights Eleven in Easy Victory Over Fordham Prep CELEBRATES SILVER JUBILEE Old Highpockets himself, Joe Kottman, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his assuming the post as coach of the cross-country and track teams at St. Michael's Diocesan High School in Bay Ridge. The Alumni Association is planning to observe the occasion with fitting exercises. They feted Joe on his 20th year, at the helm and that memorable affair will be completely eclipsed when the grads get around to rewarding Joe, the human skyscraper, for being on the same job for a quarter of a century.

During all that time he has turned out too many fine Rthletes to mention who are now topnotehers in all walks i. St. John's, St. Francis Seek New Date The pouring rain stopped many an activity yesterday but it couldn't halt Adam Cirillo's Brooklyn Prep football machine Cirillo seems to have found the winning combination he enjoyed so well in his many years of coaching at Brooklyn Tech. The! -( As, For Football Battle Rain played havoc with the i Bv SAM GOLDAPKK little trouble overwhelming Fordham i I What has Lafayette High got Heighten, had St.

John's Prep and St. JPrep, their Jesuit rivals. 32 of life. In addition to his St. Michael's duties, Joe doubles to have trounced Peddie School Prep football game and washed' so solidly? at Fordham Held.

It was Brooklyn Prep's first win in two starts and the season open- 1 out the complete sancllot base- ball championship schedule yesterday. The grid clash be-i er me nam. Wen the Little Redmen and n0tfV fW Throughout the contest, Cinl-tne Tei riers got underway at NfV Kf lo used his first stringers in Hi Kieid hut aftpr Bay 8th Street Gridders Start Season Sunday One coach said, ''Even if La-; fayette was. playing against i girls, it must have had some- thing to roll up 72 points and! gain 422 I Harry Ostro, Lafayette grid coach, hasn't the answer yet. i mgly, saving his youngsters for, it Was halted bv the 1 it their big game against XavierstPadv downpour.

at hbbeis Hem hrulay night. At fwxt it was thmnht the'v Brooklyn Prop scored twice tlnn me of thebetl th. quarter and "ruled out t.i i itti ruuuiun' nv ri an imnortant fT ill InnPs nut on the limb. I League will open Us fifth Ule onl" coach, who ha ImiM ciifP i. i i i i I i V'SiB'J KIM1 Hill.

I IfU J.HIJ.V: i explained thai he sched-: Sunday ircnu-. iiiaixr uled Ped.lie as a season openerllhe aru. an r.Kn... IK K.m.lle No new date ha eihth after Kvander Childs dropped i If anyone is interested. i.

nwiiniii. I niirilur. w.n-a II UlOOdOII 11 1L Mill Ur its. game with his team and he! he can contact Joe Crifasi. the in the wiped oil Dotn scnooi scnecr touchdown-bound earlv ilirpi-tnr at tha Ibv lh SI naitta ihpn thpv li'liiVPl'Pil Ules.

A tonilHl ill llie two i fumble on the losers 47. With Park. Of the Gene Venier and Dave Costello seven competing couldn't get anyone else. ''1 had no idea what type of club they were," said Ostro. '1 did know they won eight in a row over a two-year span and triumphed in their season opener against Admiral Farragut Prep, 110.

I also knew that two of their doing the heavy plunging, the schools' commitments makes rescheduling difficult. St. Francis has a lull from Nov. 11, after its Iona Prep fray, until Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day, when it meets John Adams.

St. John's rlr Snort Plctur BIG GUNS Billy Murphy, who is 6 foot, 4 inches and weighs 240 pounds and Lenny Florentino, who is but. 5 foot, 6 inches and weighs only 145 pounds, were two of Brooklyn Prep's stars against Fordham Prep yesterday. Murphy blocked a kick which led to a touchdown and Florentino scored a touchdown and an extra point. Brooklyn Prep conquered Fordham, 32 2, at Fordham Field yesterday.

teams, the South Brooklyn Rams, Kay Ridge Rams and Oolden Hears are the only holdovers from last season. The newcomers are the Adanacs, boro gridders moved to the six where Gene Venier bulled his way through for a six pointer mf Drlflpd tl-io nnint nflpr thp has the same opening as they stars from last year's, team are same wav. Venier started as left'play New Dorp on Nov. 10 and at Notre Dame, and two more at Quakers, Omahas and Raiders. guard but Cirillo pulled him to lirooklyn 1'rep lurney way.

rrinceton. The opening weeks schedule Get Test Friday will pit Hie Adanacs and Raid- A real test for Lafayette will.ers; South Brooklyn Rams and LONG ISLAND SPORTS come Fridav when the French- fullback 1 ne lne nvo scnoois are Alex Lazzerino and P.illv talking about is Nov. 18 but it Murphy blocked a Fordham doubtful that either would: kick and Frank Nardiello re-lrisk Pluying and then go int0i covered it on the loser's 10 to their lN'HV- 22 8anips wlth a four'i set the stage for the second Blue (la-v rest-. and White score. Anthonv Mug- Reschedule (iame nolo raced 10 yards around end 0n tne sandlot baseball for the tally itlle York baseball cham- rii i nplpionship games between the By PARKKR LOW.N Howie Hanson of West Hempstead was the big gun as Omahas and the Quakers and the Ridge Rams.

The Golden Hears draw a bye unless an eighth team is taken into the loop. All games are at 11 a.m. The Rockets, last year's winners, will not be around to defend their laurels. The draft rifled their ranks and the team disbanded. Columbia romped over Harvard, 135 0, Saturday.

Hanson, the ies are paired against a highly rated St. John's Prep eleven at Roys High Field at 2 p.m. If Lafayette can do anything similar against Herb Hess' gridders they will be the team to beat in the Brooklyn P. S. A.

L. Division II Football League. Lafayette opens its loop sched- Light Blue captain, roared 84 yards for the first touchdown and was leading ground gainer of the game Baldwin High School, with a gruelling 13 6 triumph over Glen Cove Saturday, assumed the Class AAA leadership in the Nassau Conference. The Golden Wave has a 20 mark while second place Hempstead Cadets of the Bay Ridge League and Our Lady of Good Counsel, Senior Diocesan C. Y.

O. ruler, scheduled for Dexter Park, has been put off for the same site until next Sunday. ule against Lincoln at Lincoln Rams, Team to Beat Field on Oct. 20. featured the victor's second period touchdown.

Brooklyn Prep moved 70 yards and two long runs by llaggerty ate up of them. Lenny Florentino, on three straight plunges, registered the touchdown and added the extra point the same in brass as track mentor of Fort Hamilton Hign bcnooi, which stands on the plot that was once the Summer home of the now defunct Crescent A. C. EX-COMMERCIAL STAR Joe was quite the McCoy as an athlete in his younger days. He made his mark in interscttolastic sports in lacrosse, soccer and track at the famous Commercial High School, which has since been redesignated Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School.

He attended Savage School of Physical Education and got additional degrees at X. Y. V. and St. John's University.

To Kottmann fell the honor of giving James Monroe High School of the Bronx its first track team the year the school opened in He with Jack Toomey guided Monroe to the runner-up spot to New Utrecht, in those days coached by Barney Hyman, for the P. S. A. L. city indoor track diadem.

He next mentored in track at James Madison High School for four years and gave many more noted track stars to the athletic world. SON IN COLLEGE The Kottmanns' son, Bob. also made his mark in sports at St. Michael's and is now doing likewise in college. Many well-known sports celebrities will see athletes who competed with the various athletic teams of the 63d or Brooklyn Ave.

Precinct honored with trophies and other prizes under the auspices of the Co-ordinating Council at a Father and Son night at Floyd Bennett Post, American Legion, Avenue and E. "6th Thursday night at 8 o'clock. E. D. GETS JUMP Coach Nat Rubin of the Eastern District High School track team has already started to get his protege ready for the incloor season.

The mainstays are such veterans as Leo Scicere, captain and manager, a Ftellar quarter-miler; Jerry Miller, Dick Jones and Jimmy Dove. Larry Moore and Gene Averrette are newcomers who chow great promise in the mile, and Dick Tannenbaum and Dave Lichtenbaum. another pair of "greenhorns," shape up as fine two-furlong steppers. Othar newcomers of promise include George Meyerson, Jack Paris, Jack Hellner, Salva-tore Scotti, Jimmy Callender, Phil Decker and Harris Berlofsky. GOOD SOCCER CLUB Coach Joe Singer has come up with another powerful soccer team at Graver Cleveland High School that has been constructed around two holdover veterans.

Captain Tom Fox, halfback, and Bob Lueft, outside left. The best of the newcomers are Pete Wiggins, goal; Bob Aylmer and Fred Krug, fullbacks; Tom Aird and John Kalmback. halfbacks, and Dick Guanste, Bob Mcintosh, Bob Hathaway, Harry Kraus, Ed Rogus and Bill Meyer, forwards. The chief reserves of the team are Felix Gasparro, John Citaiella, Bill Bossems, Norbert Wolfe, Pete Bender, Hal Breun, Bernie Mancuso, George King, Steve Weiss, Kassie Simanavirus, Bob Grundler, Dan Reuter, Wolf Kripfgans, Dan Lovell, Werner Lackner, Joe Petschaur and Al Jonka. Dan Abruazo is manager of the tam.

POINTS FOR TITLE MEETS Coach Murtha Lawrence of the Brooklyn Prep cross-country team has his charges rarin' to go in the C. H. S. A. A.

and A. A. P. S. city championships at Van Cortlandt Park.

Nov. 10 and 14. and the Jesuit schools championship on Nov. 17. The top performers of the team are Captain Frank Caton, Joe Leahy, Eddie McGuirk, Phil Trotman, Joe La Itocco and Jerry Nutting.

Also these advancing Jayvees: Paul Maloney, Don King. Jimmy Stanton. Claude Christian, Denny Ring, brother of Warren, now at Ford ham University; Gene Conners, Dick Downey, Pat Morgan and Tony The South Brooklyn Rams should be the team to beat in As for the feat of Felix Giam-pietro, who rolled up seven is 1 0 In the Class AA Division Oceanside with a 2 0 record tops the pack- South Side, Port Washington and Mal-verne are knotted for second place, all with one win and no the loop. Coached by Hank Tu- The Unlimited Division in the AH Brooklyn Ama-i toucmiowns in i. a a 1 1 sirowski, the South Brooklyn defects.

la victory, is one of tne Rams win nave sucn stalwarts teur Baseball tourney scheduled wav. most sensational marKs in scno-: in thPjr hackfie Ul Sonnv Robert DeVerna. who is also oeiween tne ty-Lonos ot me the Hmoklvn Pren swimmini? Parade Grounds League and the Thompson. Buster Ruguso and Don Cresci rantnin. fpaun-pd his tpam's at.

I Brooklyn Royals of the Kiwanis The South Brooklyn Ramsjtack by racking up both second Io0P- sated for the Parade were also hard hit, when imiw iieVemn hpavpd Grounds, was also washed out. lost Ted Turowski, brother to Jim Kelly who was Tne Ro.vals the first game Ultra cuctcn. leu, WIIU IS III. Dna tf (ha onmp CailtainS 311(1 1 A trio of independents, Chaminade, Oyster Bay and Great Neck, have all registered three wins without a loss La Salle Military Academy in Oakdale is seeking soccer games or scrimmages with Nassau, Suffolk or Queens high schools. Brother Basiiian is handling arrangements Bill Sibbers of Baldwin is one of the first line varsity performers with the strong R.

I.P.I, soccer team Clayton Snedeker, the all-scholastic catcher from Baldwin High School, has been signed to a Yankee contract. Snedeker will probably report to the McAlester, team in the Sooner Suite League in the Spring of '52 Rudy Rufer, the Malverne resident who played with the Giants In 1050, stole 53 bases while shortstopping for the idinneapolin lastic grid competition. Little is known about Giampietro. He is five feet, six inches, and weighs 1(15 pounds. He is a seventh termer and playing his first year of schoolboy football.

His 42 points gives him quite a lead in the Brooklyn and Queens individual football scoring race. The other backs with designs on those laurels will have to go some to catch him. Other Results ries a week ago. Weather permitting, the tourney will be the Air Force in England, was jerrv Cashman to bring the ball the loop's top pointmakcr with t0 the Fordham IS and then 54 points last season. Also miss- raced over lor the six pointer completed Sunday at the Parade Grounds when the two teams mg irom uie oouin r.rooKiyn,cn a wide end sweep, ti, fm tha clash at 10 a.m.

A third fray, if lineup win ne tnree gridders who are now starring for Man fm.rth iierinii whpn ibooUl vn I necessary, will be played im-j mediately after. ual Training, Arnold Venditto, Prep halted a Fordham drive In C. V. O. com Tift it on.

the on its own four and moved OH i 1 a- i i in the American Association the past season to lead the league. Rufer only played in 137 games because of a bad ankle and two broken ribs late in the season King's Point to t.Mv dirt A linrapr. championships were put Other scholastic grid com-Joe Casale and Nick Sterace. petition over the weekend went according to Hovle. k.

r. swamped New Utrecht. Robinsons Stars Joe Caputo and Arnie VendittoJn Newark Contest tv featured the march. De- iil Paradejand the Long Island Aggies dropped soccer engagements ovr Verna tallied for the 15 Grounds. St.

Finbar's, thehe weekend. Brooklyn College stopped the Mariners, 20. Jackie Robinson will lead the! The lineup: V'u'-'r VuW, iwhil(? College whipped the Aggies. 7-1. Both were Met leading the attack.

Lincoln bested Tech. IS 1U. Harvev Pi Pr, (2. m. .1 pren Sil IViili I ht it -it 11 mi tta lur-iiiif Negro Kiih'ii Seligman sparking the collection of iiirels.

At the same time, St.i uun i.m ruiiiouins are fxpecira in cmi'r me Caiiffiftlo.il! ami si. Msiung lournameiu slated next weekend. The 'nKiThonias Aquinas Li I 1 Iji ,.0 1 L.c venier Nardteilo T. M'jrphy Cajhman q. j.

Culfllo lt3rirrrv Doininivcis Xavier lied will clash fori contest wiucn runs irom i p.m. Friday to noon Sunday Is for Donnelly Madison blanked Tilden, 12 0. jbaseball players ever assembled Neil Hyland ran and passed 'on one team when a star-Far Rockaway to a victory jsUl(klp(J () of major over Hushing. Adelphi suffered 'meets all eqiialv team its second Ivy League defeat nf i. oWilthe Central Tyro laurels and stripers and blues with team entries set at and Individual Lady of Angels will take'uitrv costing $1.

The area of the comoei itinn is the Mumiuiio connoiir on Regina Pacis for the second- 7ZVZ-l I Szi, half Southern Tyro honors. the hands of Trinity. 7-0. Poly Idianapolis Clowns, Negro Amer Prep won tts season opener atIran League champion's, at Run- at the east end of Long Island from Mecox Inlet to Moriches Inlet. Top grade tackle will be awarded the winner.

Sonnv TcuchdO'Aiu DeVcrua 2 Vrr.icr. Mukdo: Brook, lo. riorfnttlio. poir.w ittpr toiiclidown jpert Stadium, Newark, Thurs expense of Stony 0, and John Adam? bested day night. Venier ipUmffe).

e.orer.tmo (plunaeL Safety Fordham Prep. Suostitutiors l.olei:o. Johr.aon, MrLan, Momnv. Gullon. Healy.

Curtis, 2. Along with Robinson will be Home, former middleweight contender from Valley Stream, has given tip on his second c.mehnck attempt. Home is now working with a local construction concern George i aherty. new basketball coach at Adelphi, formerly tutond(jrfip NewYork Athletic Club cage squads. Tho Rrnnblvn 3 A Vrutl.l.

Kttum. Merne. O. Kelly, v. luiestes I Ol tne FalriwRlo.

FlrtnUiu. Dlmeji, Kemp. ball League, first in the history Irhic iiro Whitp Sov I hm iinhv1'' Fnuim prep .1... i VI lllie MOX, l.al 1 U(in Roarh. Oorchoraiu Pruiklln, of the boro, will get underway and Luke Faster of the Cleve- stn.on.

nee nd croe. Refeiee Wilklni. empire Rc lev Head land Indians and Sam Jethroei unebmni Mtuermott. Time oi perion of the Rostort Braves. Oiiposing Iu Sfepinac Gridders Open With Victory Mount Vernon, N.

Oct. Larry Travel's of Archbishop Stepinac scored both touchdowns as his team conquered Xavier, 120, at Rahe Ruth Aav l'r. ac them will be a strong team Williamsburg Set Sailing Races Off Kings Point. L. Oct, 8 The Greater New York inter- Thursday night at Ebbets Field with Boys High taking on Erasmus Hall and Manual playing Jefferson in Division 1 games.

The other fray of the division is Tilden vs. Tech at Tilden Field on Saturday. In Division II, Lincoln meets New Utrecht at Lincoln Field Friday morning and Madison made up of members of the Indianapolis Clowns including Nat Peeples, lirooklyn Dodger farmhand who starred at El-mira this past season. Unseeded Netman on Top Mexico City, Oct. 8 Unseeded Grant Golden, Chicago, won the Pan-American tennis tourna collegiate a 1 1 i champion-l Lm knr4- shipsset for yesterday on Long! stadium, here yesterday.

It was TOl DUSTIIrlQ jGdSOM Islaivl Sn.mf'i under th ac! the season opener for Stepmac; ZJ Wings Win Last Tuneup Detroit, Oct. 8 The Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League won the final game of their exhibition series last night, 72 from Indian-epolis of the American Hockey League. inces of the United States Mer-anfi s(H'on1 't defeat Always one of the picesetlers' the gymnasium's facilities an1 ment, overwhelming Gerald De Witts, Berkeley, the only College Football Results clashes with Mid wood at Brook- chant Marine Academy were OI me 'Plan the larger voutn rgani-''o Participate in activities, which r.incp pd heraiwp nrair up.i.! c. 1 1. A.

eitnt o.s in me ill canceled because of poor wea include clubs. 13 m. rrmoeu coiieie t2 manv survlvor of the seeded players, lyn College Field Saturday at (i3, 6, 62, here, yesterday. 1 2 p.m. nations in lirooklyn, the Wil- 26 Nn Kr.nrlw-o Cam Pendleton 0 'tPCr Condition stages an i idlers scoreu in ine secunu .15 i.

ji. it. a. on lieu- Mere9s Your Team: ....1 st tor(1 Avc n.S lts doors'celebrities appear At this time. score was on a two-van unge which was set up by a had mother intensive ers ami sweaters are given from Xavier's center.

His second! ac tivity. to the members. Also hou- T- .1 "red are hose who are not on tally was on a fw-yard run. I nder the veteran lung of, jt bul who hvp In the other scholastic grid Sol Levy, well-known game in the city, Iona Prep coach and official who has been! 1 fi at the conquered All Hallows, 0, at New Rochelle. Williamsburg prominent: Intproeto.l nr.t nnl in tho headline-makers but in the new- Polo Final Postponed Weslhury, L.

Oct. Heavy rains forced a postponement of its proudest boasts is that I pv inl( heaithy is non-sectarian in nature anions us memoei are manv 4U 1 csin 11.1 in ti.tr iiiut. 1, 1 .1 non-Jew sh and Xpl? vontns I matcn netween tne Blind r.AlJ.. a 1 tiit I'liiuui ittts jijv peii. wwiwcn vwiiia run miiciiufi Hurricanes and the Oak Iirook Triple C.

of Chicago in the Monty Waterbury Memorial national handicap at" the Meadow Brook Club. The final will be played today, If the field is found unplavable then it will held tomorrow. 01 me 1.. 1. uaKetlia team.

uUt. The has alwavs Net Title Over De Witts famed for its basketball teams; Mexico City, Oct. 8 (U.R) and has won a number of A. A 1' Crant Gulden of Chic ago, a self-and Jewish Welfare Hoard ti- confessed tennis second-rater ties. In addition lo the varsity who had a real "golden touch." there are junior varsity and in- won the Pan American singles termediate teams, which stood 'championship by routing fa-out in the annual foul-shooting vored Gerry De Witts of Rerke-contest last year, winning first; ley.

yesterday. Golden in the senior division and the former C. S. Junior ing second among the juniors. Ichampion ail over the cvurt In handball, gymnast ics.and forced him into repeated wrestling and swimming, other.errors for a surprisingly easy athletes have proved iiromi-N' 1.

ti 1, ii 1 triumph, nent. A list of the "alumni" of Hut De Witts came back to the institution would run a mlle'share in the doubles title, team-long and it i Levy's proudest; ing with ex V. S. champ Art boast that long after athletes: to nip Golden and for-have moved awav from the com-iiner British Davis Cupper List Bowl Tilt Phoenix. Oct.

8 U.R The Kiwanis Club announced yesterday that it intends to sponsor a Salad Bowl football game here again this year, with proceeds going to the Kiwanis Club Foundation for Handi-eaped children. The club said it will begin selection soon of teams to meet in the fifth an BENSONHURST GRIDDERSThe New Utrecht High football team, which meets Lincoln Friday in its season's loop opener, is made up of, front row, left to right, Jack Kushner, Vinny Martire, Jerry Haberman, Artie Minrz, Mike Marolda, Irv Kosik, Chuck Vasale, Gary Schwartzbach and Eddie Romeo; second row, Joe Niel, Joe Arule, Frank Federico, Jack Kompf, Al Schaffer, Tony DeLorenzo, Vinny Palmeri, John Asciola, Charles Kalaizes and Ray Riggio; third row, Coach Sam Klein, Paul Moss, Tony Ponzini, Lenny Stogel, Sonny Sussman, Ronnie Merrians, Zeke Nabusky, John Cangelosi, Norman Paley, Jerry Koller, Pat DeBello, Rosario Ingullinera, Sy Schuss, Joe Armenio and Assistant Coach Irv Tobin. nual howl game at Montgomery mtinily many to distant parts Charles Hare, 57, ft 4, Stadium. 1 --they relurii regularly to enjoy i2-6, i I. THE Established 1892 IntvE'vsi From Ihty of Deposit Brooklyn's Mont Modern Safe Drpoult Vault idnA III BICHABD A.

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