Friday, January 19,1940 Daytona Beach IS NAT HOLMAN THROUGH? Is the great Nat Holman slip ping? Has the “Miracle man of the Court Game” lost his magic coaching touch? These are but two of the many questions the fans are asking and some of the skeptics on Basketball Boulevard would have it that Nat Holman is headed for the exits on a pair of streamlined skids. Furthermore, the kibitzers claim that no longer can the Holman genius breathe its personality into a handful of scrawny, scraggly, short-statured youngsters and come up with a championship basketball quintet the way he used to do it five, ten fifteen and even twenty years ago. What does this all boil down to then, or is it merely a tempest in a teapot ? Holman has been the recognized crown prince of the court game for twenty years and more, and his has been a royal road both as player and coach. His bril liance as a player from 1915 to 1935 was not furnished a whit by his amazing success as a coach from 1920 to the same date. 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JEWS IN SPORTS hy Morris Weiner „ ball—Lou Spindell, Moe Goldman, Moe Spahn, the Raskin boys— Julie and Morris—have been Hol man-coached products. For a score of years the press, the coaches, the fans and the players all attested to the fact that Hol man knew more about the game than any ten coaches you might mention —including Clair Bee of L. I. U., Joe Lapchick of St. Louis, and Howard Cann of N. Y. U. (We’re not shooting our mouth off in making so broad a state ment—this entire last paragraph is almost a direct steal from the testimonial dinner to Holman ten dered by the New York Basket ball Writers’ Association in 1938 and the coaches just mentioned took special pains to make their points.) Again, then, what does all the fuming and fretting about Nat Holman’s prestige boil down to? In our estimation City College is merely in the doldrums. We’re no apologist and even if we were Holman’s genius wouldn’t need our alibis, but the “breaks” have been piling up against the quin tets produced by Holman during the last two years. Thus, the fans who have come to expect perenial successes and eternal brilliance from a Holman coached team were stunned last season when C. C. N. Y. flopped dismally and are absolutely flabbergasted that the performance has been duplicated again this year. The fans are unaccustomed to anything but a razzle-dazzle gang from City and because they haven’t seen Holman come across for two successive years are yelling blue murder. But don’t sell Holman short! He’s still tops and will still be leading ’em down the home stretch when the kibitzers are gone. Nat Holman through ? Forget it and don’t make us laugh! THE BASKETBALL SITUATION IN GENERAL According to an Associated Press wire dispatch little Old New York may not boast the smartest, the smoothest, the slick est-shooting and the speediest basketball quintets in the country but it does possess the best. For the past five years—ever since basketball went boom in the Garden and has been jamming the fans of seventeen and eighteen thousand up to the Garden raf i ters —a New York City team has i been the national champion. A quartet of quintets each have held the title once and one of them has come through on two successive | occasions. The sou C. N. Y., Long Island University, St. John’s and i New York University—are rated among the top-notchers year in I and year out, but what is more ! interesting is the fact that there are more Jewish basketeers on i thase four outfits than on any thirty other court combines in the THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY The American Way If it is the unusual that makes news, then the remark of President Karl Nordgren at the Kiwanis Club recently de serves widespread publicity. “For in no other country in the world,” said President Nordgren, “could a club have for its president a ‘heathen Swede, as its secretary a Catholic Irishman, and as its vice president a German Jew.” And that is exactly what the Sanford Kiwanis Club has as its principal officers, except that we doubt if President Nordgren is really a “heathen.” But he is a Swede. And the Kiwanis secretary is the Rev. Father J. J. Kelleghan of Catholic faith and more Irish than De Valera. While its vice president Julius Dingfelder, is a German Jew who fought in the Kaiser’s armies during the World War. Now this is the sort of thing which could happen in any other city in the United States. But it is not the sort of thing likely to be found in any other country in the world. In many countries it would be impossible to have any kind of organization at all even remotely resembling the Kiwanis Club, much less with a roster of officers such as the local one has. And in some countries it would be utterly un thinkable that a Swede, an Irish Catholic, and a German Jew could sit down at the same table for the sake of a good sociable companionship. And yet isn’t that just the way we want it in .this country ? That is just the way it has been since long be fore the Constitution of the United States guaranteed us the freedom of religious worship and the Declaration of Inde pendence held that all men are created free and equal. Isn’t that one of the significant differences between this country and other nations and one of the main things which has made this country the greatest of them all? Let’s keep it that way. (The Sanford Herald) land. There are four at City and four more on L. I. U. The same number on the Vincentian Red men at St. John’s and a like amount at N. Y. U. Which all adds up to Neil Coholan’s state ment when the coach of the Jesuit school at Manhattan College told the assembled sportwriters that he would trade his “right arm for a couple of smart Hebrew sharp shooters up at my school. There’s no getting away from that old axiom that Jewish boys make the best basketball players ...” BASKETBALL BANTER The only absolutely all Jewish court team this year that we know of —is the Yeshiva five in N. Y. C.—(Matter of fact this school is only five minutes by subway from Manhattan College and Neil Coholan) . . . James Madison High School of Brooklyn, New York, has already rolled up the impressive figure of thirty two unbeaten games—a national record for scholastic quintets . . . The “Jewels,” with Captain Mac Posnac, are still going strong in the pro basketball leagues . . . This team graduated directly from the college gyms into the pro ranks and has remained in tact for the past eleven years. All of them played together on the freshmen team at St. John’s and on the Varsity quintet as well . . . thereby making a total of fifteen years for the same group . . . and in the cases of Posnak, Allie Shuckman, and Rip Gerson —the total is even more, Daytona Beach’s Oldest and Only Exclusive Cash and Carry Cleaners DIXIE CLEANERS and DYERS Telephone 1546 438 No. Beach St. Near Fairview Ave. DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. Fix-All Refrigeration Service Co. TOM L. KENDRICK, Mgr. 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