Jews in Various Fields of Sports
Teddy Kaplan, a middleweight
weightlifter selected for the South
African Olympic team, had to un-
pack his bags for Tokyo. The
Springbok Olympic Squad was ban-
ned from the games because of
the apartheid policies of the South
African government.
Gail Werbin of Kansas City,
daughter of former steeplechaser
Harry Werbin, broke the junior
women's National AAU 100-meter
breaststroke mark in finishing sec-!
and with a 1:26.8 clocking. Sh e
clipped the old record by three-
tenths of a second. -
Don Spero of the New York AC
will row in the Olympic single
sculls rather than the doubles.
Circle and file for future ref-
erence: Michael Jacobs, a West
coast schoolboy, ran 880 yards in
1:54.2 in the recent California In-
terscholastic Federation Champion-
ships.
Congratulations are in order for
Mrs. Melvin Gelfand of New York
City, who's a bride. She's the form-
er Evelyn Betti Muller, and you
may remember her as the Middle
Atlantic and Eastern States figure
skating champion.
games with a 60 per cent average.
Leonard Fruchtman, one - time
owner of the famed racehorse
Belly Ache, is a vice-president of
Louisville's Miles Park.
Amateur Dick Siderowf of Con-
necticut finished fifth in the recent
,Iike Golf Tournament in New
York. He had a 72-hole total of 304.
Pro Andrea Cohen continues to
pick up prize money on the Ladies
PGA circuit. She won $50 with a
54-hole score of 232 in the Water-
loo, Iowa Women's Open.
Harry Boykoff, the old St.
John's All-America hoopster, is liv-
ing in Memphis and is manager of
an office of Gift-Pax, Inc., an ad-
vertising firm which handles con-
trolled advertising . . . One of
boxing's staunchest supporters is
64-year-old San Francisco attorney
'California Committee for Safe-
guards in Sports. A former boxer
and ring instructor at the U. of
California, Silverman is pushing
for a Federal Commissioner for
boxing. He sees an increase in
juvenile delinquency if the sport
is eliminated in the nation's
schools.
Fifty-three-year-old Joe Fein-
berg of brooklyn was a member
of the winning team that captured
the National Blind Bowlers
Doubles Championship in Cin-
cinnati. Feinberg had the highest
series of the '700 keglers in com-
petition. He put together a 580
with games of 184, 202 and 194. A
former electrician who was blind-
ed in an accident seven years ago,
Feinberg represented the Brook-
lyn Industrial Home for the Blind.
His game is unusual in that he
uses no handrail to guide him in
his approach to the pins. "I have
an advantage over other blind
bowlers," he admits. "They have to
work and have little time to bowl,
while all I do is spend my time at
different lanes practicing, practic-
ing, practicing." Feinberg has a
standing invitation to bowl at 20
or more different lanes in Brook-
lyn, where he is a great attraction.
He already has won more than 50
trophies.
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Former NYU All-American Barry
Kramer signed to play professional
basketball with the San Francisco
Warriors. He was their first draft
choice. Kramer broke eight NYU
scoring records in his junior year.
But he was slowed last season by
an ankle injury both he and the
Warriors say has healed complete-
ly. Incidentally, the Warriors have
sedn to it that all the "Welcome, '
Barry" signs that were displayed
for the Republican National Con-
vention have been taken down.'
They don't want Kramer to get a
swelled head when he checks in.
Jewish wrestling fans in South
Africa are heartbroken. A Johan-
nesburg favorite, who was billed
as "The Star of David" and wrestles
in a hood that completely covers
his race, was beaten for the first
time in his career.
Guess who has turned up again
in a New York Jets uniform? Sid
Yougelman, the 6'5". 260-pound
pride of Brooklyn, who was obtain-
ed from the Buffalo. Bisons of
the American Football League.
Frankly, we've lost track of the
number of clubs the veteran de-
fensive tackle has played with.
Buffalo also cut Georgia Tech
halfback Ray Mendheim . . . May-
be Sid Gillman has forgotten about
the National Football League. His
San Diego Chargers are champions
of the AFL. But according to rings
presented to his team, they are
world champions. Sid had the en-
graving done himself and it makes
you wonder whatever became of
Phil Handler and the Chicago
Bears?
Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers
has added a new pitch to his re-
pertoire:- a forkball.
Dr. Saul Berman of Elizabeth,
N. J., successfully defended his
title in the New Jersey Senior
AAU Class A horseshoe pitching
championship. He won -all nine
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
to go big time, but we'd like to
attract the student-athletic type
who'd improve our team. We have
a lot to offer if we can only let
some of the players know that we
exist and just get them to come up
and look at our place. They've done
wonders at Brandeis in the 15
years of its existence. Everything
is ultra-modern.
"It's a shame about Newmark.
He would be perfect for Brandeis.
I'm not thinking only in terms of
basketball. He could do a lot help-
ing sell our school around the
country. He could have made a
great contribution in that respect
but I got to him too late."
Olin says most of his players
are so dedicated to their studies
that they even requested that the
bus carrying them to games have
sufficient overhead lighting for I
reading. "I guess," says Olin, "that
I'm the only coach who takes care
of the bags because my players I
are always carrying their books."
Olin, who is not under the gun
to win at Brandeis, adds: "Of
course, I like to win and so do my
players. However, it is not all con-
suming and we have a lot of fun."
Iry Olin, basketball coach and
"What you have learned and
athletic director at Brandeis U., is
bemoaning the fact that he mis- done is safe and fruitful. Work
sed landing 6'10" Dave Newmark and learn in evil days, in insulted
of Abraham Lincoln H.S. in N.Y. days, in days of debt and depres-
Newmark, has enrolled at Colum- sion and calamity."—Ralph Waldo
bia. Says Olin: "We don't want Emerson.
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ATHENS (JTA)—Steps needed gates representing
16 Jewish
to maintain the small Jewish groups throughout the country.
The most important items on
community in Greece, now numb-
ering only 5,000, were discussed the agenda dealt with religious
here at a conference of 40 dele- and cultural affairs, as the leaders
of the community tried to plan the
Dublin Jews Help Plant
Forest in Memory of Late
Chief Rabbi Herzog
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—A forest in mem-
ory of the late Israeli Chief Rabbi
Isaac Herzog was planted Tuesday
by the Jewish National Fund and
members of the Jewish community
of Dublin. where Dr. Herzog was
chief rabbi before settling in Pal-
estine.
The forest was planted in the
Elah Valley, .where David con-
quered Goliath. The ceremony - was
attended by JNF World Chairman
Yaacov Tsur; Interior Minister
Moshe Shapiro, Religious Affairs
Minister Zorah Warhaftig; Louis
Sher, head of the Dublin Jewish
community; and Eliyah Sampson,
president of the Dublin JNF.
maintenance of Jewish religous
life in Greece and ways to perpet-
uate Jewish tradition here.
Figures presented to the con-
ference showed that 70,000 Jews,
of this country's Jewish population
totaling 90,000 before World War
II, had been killed by the Nazis.
Of those who survived, 15,000 emi-
grated to Israel. The remainder of
5,000 now live almost entirely
either in Athens or in Salonika.
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