British Prime Minister Wilson Slams Anti-Semitism
Israeli, U.S. and Soviet Sports Oddities
BY JESSE AND ROY SILVER
Copyright, 1964, JTA Inc.
The English - language "Soviet
Weekly," printed in England, car-
tied an article by Aaron Vergelis,
editor of the Moscow-based Yid-
dish "Soviet Homeland," which ex-
pounds on the achievements of So-
viet Jews. As usual, no mention
was made of Soviet Jewish sports-
men . . . Former USSR national
800-meter champion Abraham Kri-
vosheyev, who ran against the
United States in Los Angeles in
July, was a member of a 3,200-
meter relay team which established
a Russian national record of 7:17.2.
Krivosheyev handled the leadoff
leg.
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Another striking illustration of
the growing popularity of the
World Maccabiah Games is the an-
nouncement that the West Coast
chapter of the United States Com-
mittee Sports for Israel. tradition-
al sponsor of United States partici-
pation, is determined to send 50
athletes to Tel Aviv in 1965. The
West Coast was represented by 20
in 1961.
Jane Katz recently completed a
synchronized swimming tour of
Tokyo.
Bob Katz, a 1957 Maccabian, is
coaching the Westbrooke Swim-
ming Association in Miami. Fla.
Swimmers Janis Lewis. 13, and
Joe Sanders. 17, both of Miami, are
receiving rave notices. Watch em.
Tova Epstein is Israel's national
women's tennis champion.
David's manager, George Sheppard,
has been asked to promote a box-
ing show in Tel Aviv for the bene-
fit of the Israel Polio Fund.
What's in a name? Melvin Him-
melfarb, manager of a leading fly-
weight boxing contender, has legal-
ly changed his name to Harry Ka-
vahoff!!!
Just as England has lost its Em-
pire, so, too, may it lose its last
Jewish professional boxer. His
name is Bernard Sutton and he's
lost only once in 10 outings. Pres-
sure from hii mother and fiance
are expected to be the decisive
factor in his decision to continue
or quit.
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Reuven Dafni, director of sports
and physical education for the
Israel Ministry of Education, told
sportswriter Arthur Daley of the
New York Times that a law is now
before the Knesset requiring re-
serve grounds to be set aside in
each new Israeli school for the
constriction some day of swimming
pools. gymnasia and athletic facili-
ties. He said that not a single
Israeli school has a swimming pro-
gram. Yet when Yale coach emeri-
tus Bob Kiphuth was in Israel, he
discovered 28 swimmers whom he
felt had the potential to become
champions.
Dafni said the Israeli Army is
not sports conscious—that it is in-
terested only in those exercises
which toughen. He said the Air
Force is first awakening to the
value of sports competition to de-
velop quick reflexes. "We are still
in the pioneer stages in sports,"
said Dafni. "Up to now we have
had more important things to do."
Dafni further noted that sports
is helping to cut down juvenile
delinquency. He pointed out that
when the country was young the
youth had much to occupy it. Now,
sports is filling the void.
Dafni also mentioned that Beer-
sheba has a Little League—in soc-
cer. Actually, Dafni is opposed to
that sport. "You have 22 men chas-
ing a ball and thousands watch-
ing," he said. "I would rather have
500,000 doing something in sports
rather than one Olympic cham-
pion."
prej udice and anti-Semitism
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
whether they be found in the ac-
LONDON—Prime Minister Har- tivities of squalid relics of prewar
old Wilson Monday night con- fascism in the behavior of politi-
demned anti-Semitism and facial cians of any party" or elsewhere.
discrimination in an address at the
Lord Mayors Banquet at Guild
Hall here.
"If we are going to speak with
authority abroad," the prime min-
ister declared, "we have a deep
for strengthening
duty at home to show our deep
of Torah
loathing and to condemn by our
deeds r a c i a l intolerance, color
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The basketball-playing son of Max Nussbaum, of Los Angeles,
former LIL hoop star Leo Merson commemorating the victims of
hopes to spend a year studying at Nazism on the 26th anniversary of
the Weizmann Institute in Israel. "Crystal Night." He spoke at a
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