No Funds Could Mean No Detroiters
Money Woes Weigh on Maccabiah Athletes
By CHARLOTTE HYAMS
Dick Giller's heart hangs about
as heavy as one of those 200-pound
weights he picks up for recreation
after work.
If the funds don't come through,
the Detroiter won't be competing
in the Seventh World Maccabiah
Games in Tel Aviv next month.
And that's about as heavy a loss
as any man can take.
For Giller — at 5'7" and 165
pounds a compact hunk of man—
winning competitions is nothing
new. He just would like to add a
third gold medal to his Maccabiah
record as first-place middleweight
winner in 1953 and light-heavy-
weight in 1961.
on the other hand, losing out
wouldn't be a new experience
either. Residing in Florida in 1957,
she wasn't able to participate in the
Games because the local Macca-
biah committee couldn't raise
enough funds.
He fears a repeat this year.
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Lou Handler, Detroit chairman
of the campaign, has issued an
appeal for contributions to send
three athletes to Israel. It costs
roughly S1,500 each, and only a
fraction has been raised to date.
Thus, Giller, Robert Tarnow of
the volleyball team and Harvey
Rubenstein, captain of the U.S.
rowing team, face an uncertain
Maccabiah future.
Rubenstein is a little more opti-
mistic. The 1961 Maccabiah gold
medalist is already in Philadelphia
training for the Games under the
supervision of Allen P. Rosenberg.
the 1964 U.S. Olympic coach, who
will direct the 12-man crew in
Israel.
With Rubenstein in Philadelphia
is his bride of a year, the former
Sharon Young,
also a native of
the Detroit area.
A physical edu-
cation instructor
in the Farming-
ton Schools Sys-
tem, the Oak Park
athlete is the son
of the Nathan
1Rubensteins of
•
Santa Barbara
Rubenstein Ave., Southfield.
The rowing teams at the
Games will no doubt regard the
U.S. captain with some appre-
hension: Rubenstein is the only
member of his 1961 team to earn
J.N.F.
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Maccabiah gold medalist Dick Giller lifts a weight at the last
Games in Israel held in 1961. Competing in the light-heavyweight
competition, the Detroiter is shown in the middle of a "clean and
jerk": lifting the weights from floor to shoulders, then jerking it over
the head, using his back, arms and legs.
a repeat trip to Israel. In those
games, the U.S. won three gold
medals in three rowing events.
A year later, Rubenstein cap-
tained the Wayne State Univer-
sity crew and was a participant
in the Olympics.
If the fund-raising fortunes of
Detroit's athletes shift for the bet-
ter, the Macca-
biah will have a
special meaning
for Bob Tarnow:
The volleyball
team alternate is ' k:;
getting marrie&i'"'
Aug. 19. His bride
of a few days,
now Kathryn
Marton, will ac-
company him to
Tarnow
to Israel.
Tarnow, son of the Nathan Tar-
nows of Franklin Fairway, Farm-
ington, is a favorite son of the
Jewish Center, having played in
its volleyball league and seen his
team place first in a YMCA league
this year. A Mumford and Wayne
State graduate in accounting, Tar-
now will be a reliefer for the Mac-
cabiah players, all of Los Angeles.
* * *
The Maccabiah is billed as the
"Jewish Olympics," and the ath-
letes it draws prove that a minor-
ity can flex its muscles with pride.
Detroiter Bob Morrison has seen it
happen time and again—as a team
member in the first Maccabiah
Games and as American manager
of track and field in 1950 and 1953.
Now he's helping Handler, another
one-time athletic great, run the
fund-raising campaign here.
There are supposed to be 200
members on the U. S. squad in
Tel Aviv Aug. 21-30. Jewish ath-
letes from 35 nations will par-
ticipate in the 20-sport program.
This year there may be no De-
troiters among them—at least no
Detroiter named Dick Giller.
At 34, Giller has an impressive
list of sports victories. Besides his
Maccabiah medals, the Ohio native
holds records as National Colle-
giate champ in 1950 (he majored
in commerce, speech and drama
at Kent State), a junior national
championship in '53, National AAU
championship two years later,
Florida State championship and
record in '62 and Michigan State
championship and record in '63-'64.
For seven years he was Ohio
state champion, and he held the
Great Lakes title "oh, four or five
years." There is a longer list, but
they're just little ones."
Although he holds the Michigan
State Press Record for lifting
2871/2 pounds, Giller's heaviest
weight was a recent 337.
His idea of keeping in shape is
a two-hour workout daily at the
Northeastern Branch YMCA,
where he is president of the
Weight Lifting Club. Although
he does a lot of running and
swimming, Giller spends most
of his free time with the weights.
The salesman-importer admits
there's little time for a sport he
learned during the Korean War:
sky diving as a paratrooper. In-
stead (he blushed at the admis-
sion) he's a sedentary informa-
tion officer — captain — with the
Air Force Reserves.
Calorie-counting is no concern of
Giller's, but he does follow a Rus-
sian custom of fasting once a
Contributors who wish to
help send Detroit's Jewish
athletes to the Maccabiah
Games may make out checks
to the U.S. Committee Sports
for Israel, 9141 Monica, De-
troit 4. Checks can be ear-
marked for a specific athlete
or just for "Detroit Ath-
letes." Contributions are tax
deductible.
month. "It's good for the system."
He alters his high-protein diet be-
fore a competition, turning to car-
bohydrate foods for energy.
Speaking of the Russians, "If the
Jewish athletes of the Soviet Union
were allowed to compete in the
11Iaccabiah," he said, "their weight
lifters would walk away with the
prizes. They're the tops."
As for the U.S., "we'll probably
do well in swimming, track and
wrestling.
"Much of Israel's strength," he
went on, "lies in soccer. But in Is-
rael anything can happen."
Giller speaks from experience.
In 1953, "our team slept on straw
in tents, and we all had dysen-
tery. In '61, the change was the
difference between night and day.
An entire Maccabiah village was
waiting for us, with rooms and
beds and much better food."
Giller, who is a bachelor, also
observed "the girls were slimmer
in 1961, too. Israel's economy had
improved, and there was less
starch in their diet."
Giller seemed to like the subject
of the conservation and stuck with
it a minute longer. "The women
on the U.S. team can't really com-
pare with the Israeli girls. It could
be the Israelis' army training .. .
or maybe American girls are just
lazy." He added, "Don't quote me
on that."
The reporter smiled. "Of course
not."
"You know," Giller mused, "it
would be nice to go back and see
them ... I hope I get the chance."
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