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JEWS IN SPORTS

ty JESSE and ROY SILVER

(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)

Schools Start Yearly Planting Project
in Honor of the New Year of Trees

The celebration of Tu b'Shevat
will be marked again this year with
the planting of trees by the pupils
of all Jewish educational institu-
tions, according to Judge Burton S.
Shifman, chairman of the Jewish
National Fund Youth and Educa-
tion Committee.
Tu b'Shevat, the 15th day of the
Hebrew month of Shevat observed
in Israel as the New Year of the
Trees, comes this year on Jan. 18.
The occasion in Israel, and also
in many communities abroad, has
become primarily a children's fes-
tival, devoted to the planting of
trees, signifying the growth of the
biblical land. just as a tree grows.

Although Tu b'Shevat is Jan.
18, the schools initiate their tree
planting programs at the begin-
ning of the month of Shevat
with appropriate decorations of
buildings and classrooms.

doing, the JNF aims to link his
name forever with the land of
Israel. The Reform temple schools
have a special project to be known
as the Bar. Kochba Forest, which
is also located in the hills out-
side Jerusalem.
The John F. Kennedy Peace For-
est of millions of trees will be
dedicated later this year, in the
heart of the American-Israel Free-
dom Forest. There will be an
obelisk encircled by a colonnade
of 50 pillars, each bearing the
name of a state in the Union. The
children's John F. Kennedy Peace
Woodland will be a part of the
over-all project.

Youth Services Set
at Beth Abraham

Cong. Beth Abraham will hold
its annual Sabbath youth service
Display and campaign material Saturday morning, with members
is prepared and, pr o v i d e d for of the Hebrew school Leadership
schools and individual pupils by Training Group. Tefillin Club and
the Jewish National Fund Youth youth congregation conducting.
Participants will be Gary Gut-
and Education Department. Pro-
gram aids include also posters. man. Harry Young, Ronald Kopel-
man. William S c h l a f f, Steven
film strips and films.
Judge Shifman pointed out that Shepard, Bernard Portner, David
Wartell,
Steven Chait. William
this year's -tree planting efforts in
the schools !rill be devoted to the Dinner. Robert Gluklick, Harold
John F.. Kennedy Forest. In so Gach, Andrew Beider, Joseph
Fleish. Alex Wasserman, Steven
Zack. Ronald Sulkin, Risha Ring,
Jenny Young, Rebecca Bortnick
and Peggy Krohngold.
Frank Leiderman, president of
the congregation. also will join in.
An essay contest for children in A luncheon for all participants,
Jewish schools is being sponsored youth commission members and
by Jewish Currents magazine. The club sponsors will follow.
subject is "What I Think About
Integration."
U. of Illinois to Excuse
Children age 10 to 13 are elig-
Jews
From Sabbath Tests
ible, and there will he two sets of
CHICAGO (JTA)—The Chicago
prizes in junior and senior cate-
gories. First prize is S50; second. Board of Rabbis said it had ar-
$25; third. S15: and honorable ranged with officials of the Uni-
versity of Illinois to reschedule
mention, a hook or record.
There is no fee for entering. final examination dates on Satur-
The contest closes May 1. For in- days for Jewish students who can-
formation and entry blanks, write. not attend for religious reasons.
A change in scheduling to include
Children's Essay Contest Editor,
Jewish Currents, 22 E. 17th St., Saturdays by the school's Chicago
Suite 601, New York, N.Y. 10003. branch was caused by plans to
Judges will be Rabbi Robert E. move to a new campus soon. When
Goldburg of Cong. Mis,hkan Israel, university officials were informed
Hamden, Conn.; Hershl Harris,: of the religious conflict, they issued
Parents' Corner, Jewish Currents; a statement that students could
and Morris U. Schappes, Ameri- be excused from Sabbath class
can Jewish historian and editor of and examinations upon presenta-
tion of a letter from a rabbi.
Jewish Currents.

'Integration' Topic
in Essay Contest

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What a combination! The Fight-.
ing Irish of Notre Dame and the
president of Sinai Synagogue of
South Bend, Indiana! Together,
they chalked up a 9-1 football sea-
son and the nation's number one
ranking.
The president is Julius Tucker,
59, who is affectionately known t o
Notre Dame players as "Coach
Tucker." The president of an of-
fice equipment firm, the execu-
tive vice-president of a freight
line, and the director of -a bank,
he has served as "father confes-
sor" of the Irish since 1947.
Tucker is the confidante of
Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian
and Frank Leahy" before him. He
recruits players for the Irish and
has helped more than 100 of them
to obtain equitable pro football
contracts. He is so highly regarded
under the Golden Dome that when
he was honored with a banquet
on the occasion of his decade as
president of Sinai Synagogue, the
Notre Dame squad and Coach
Parseghian turned up at the testi-
monial wearing yarmulkes.
Besides his football - involvement
at Notre Dame, Tucker has contri-
buted to the school's building fund
and is a member of St. Mary's
Catholic Girls College National
Advisory Board. He is also co-
chairman of St. Mary's Academy
(South Bend) Fund Drive. With
Tucker carrying the ball. it looks
as if Notre Dame will stay on top
for a long time.
* * *
Howard Eichhorn is the new
president of the NYU Varsity
Club. One of his veeps is ex-Violet
hoopster Boris Nachamkin. Eich-
horn ran track in the 1920s . .
Britain's Ted "Kid" Lewis, the
former champ, has been elected
to the Ring Hall of Fame . . 260-
pound Abe Cohe n, one-time
American Football League guard,
spent the past season playing for
the Boston Sweepers of the At-
lantic Coast Football League . . .
It's official, Dave Newmark, frosh
hoopster at Columbia, is the first
Jewish seven-footer. According to
his coach: "I measured him in his
bare feet and he goes over seven.
He's a real good player."
Richie Hornreich, promising 18-
year-old kegler from Brooklyn, fin-
ished 15th in the recent World's
Invitational Tournament in Chi-
cago. He was the youngest fellow
in the finals . . . Former Penn
track star Harry Hochman looks
like he's serious about making the
1965 U.S. Maccabiah T e a m. He
ran cross-country for the Central
Jersey Track Club. Harry's a half-
miler . . . Svetlana Grinberg of
Kiev represented Russia in the re-
cent European Table Tennis
Championships . . . Jerry Fishman
of Maryland, a guard, was named , I
to the All-Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence first team football squad by ,
AP . . . That old pro, Herman Bar- 1
ron of Fenway CC. N.Y., scored his
11th ace. It came on the 148-yard
special hole at the Wykagyl CC
in New York.
* * *
Vic Niederhoffer of Harvard, by
way of Brooklyn; shares with two
others the top ranking in the
recently released national squash
racquets list . . . Noted with in-
terest: N.Y. Times sports colum-
nist Arthur Daley nominates Moe
Berg, the old time catcher, as
CommisOoner of Baseball. An-
other 'name prominently men-
tioned around the country is that
of ABC sports announcer Howard
Costell . . . Recently returned
from Tokyo where he garnered
some more gold medals in the
Para-Olympics is Richard Rosen-
baum of Roslyn, L.I. . . . King
David, the undefeated Israeli wel-
terweight, did it again. He won
another Madison Square Garden
bout on a decision . . . Roger
Werksman of Los Angeles pulled
one of the big upsets of the 1964
tennis season when he ousted Ra-
fael Osuna of Mexico 6-3, 6-2 in

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26—Friday, January 8, 1965

the Tucson Raquet Club's Invita-
tional Tournament . . . •William
and Mary coach Mary Levy has
been named Football Coach of the
Year by the Southern Conference
sportswriters.
* *
*

One of the awards annually
presented for long distance run-
ning achievement in the New
York Metropolitan area is the
Max J. Silver Trophy. Silver was
a long-time track coach of the
German-America A.C. . . . Bob
Grossman of Nyack, N.Y. drove a
Ferrari 250-LM to a third place
finish in the Nassau Tourist
Trophy Race, one of the features
of the island's annual "Speed
Week" . . . Sculler Don Sperc and
wrestler Andy Fitch were among
those honored at a banquet given
by the New York Athletic Club to
members who represented the
United States in the Tokyo Olym-
pics .. . The horse ridden by Neal
Shapiro and owned by his par-
ents, Uncle Max, has been named
Horse of the Year in the opener
jumper division in the annual
American Horse Shows Associa-
tion race . . . Kansas distance run-
ning star Bill Silverberg finished
second in the 10,000-meter cross
country championships staged by
the United States Track and Field
Federation.
* *
*

Ed Krause of Western Reserve,
winner of the ZBT national frater-
nity athletic award in 1940, has
been named a member of the
Sports Illustrated Mag Silver An-
niversary Football Team.
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*
*
Jack Byer, America's oldest ac-
tive horse trainer, has stepped
down as the head of Jack Silver-
man's stable . . Milton Ritzen-
berg is owner and breeder of Meil-
dor, winner of the hurdle division
of the United Hunts . . . Golf pro
Roger Ginsberg picked up $700 in
the Fresno Open. He lost a chance
to win some more at the Sunset
Camellia Open at Sunset City.
Calif. when he disqualified him- ,

self after inadvertently signing an
incorrect scorecard . . . Norm
Meyers of Los Angeles has con-
sistently p l a c e d in the top on
bowling's tournament trail. He
took a second in the Las Vegas
Open and picked up $2,000 .

94 Per Cent of Students
Continue at Yeshiva U.

NEW YORK (JTA) — Ninety
four per cent of Yeshiva Univer-
sity's graduates of June 1965, are
continuing their studies in grad-
uate schools, it was disclosed in a
report by Prof. David Mirsky, dean
of admissions of Yeshiva Univer-
sity.
Liberal art and sciences is the
most popular area of graduate
study, drawing 45 per cent of the
graduates, the report indicates.
Law, rabbinics, and medicine fol-
low, with 15-, 13- and 8 per cent
of the graduates, respectively.
Six per cent entered graduate
study in education, four are pur-
suing higher education in Israel,
and one each have entered bus-
iness administration, dentistry, and
social work.

Max Schrut

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