It Was Big Year for Jews in Sports
BY JESSE SILVER
Adolph Schayes, the former grea t Miami, reached the finals of the
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
player. Schayes' team, the Philade 1- NCAA championship which he
A review of the Jewish year in phia 76ers, gave the Celtics thei r lost.
sports must begin with the year's most trouble in the championshi p
Overseas Israel's Eleazar David-
greatest sporting event, the Tok- play-offs.
man created a sensation when he
yo Olympic Games. Many Jewish
Three players were active i n took a singles match from the
athletes from a variety of nations major league professional baske t_ British in Davis Cup competition.
took part. Thirteen of them won ball. Rudy LaRusso of the Lo 5 Veterans Pierre Damon of France
a total of 16 medals.
Angeles Lakers helped lead hi 5 and Abe Segal of South Africa con-
The United States team included team to the western division titl e tinued to give anyone a difficult
16 Jewish athletes and coaches, of and into the finals of the champ time on a tennis court.
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whom five captured medals. Ger- onship play-offs. Art Heyman an
k
No
change
in
the golfing picture
ry Ashworth won a gold medal in Barry Kramer of the New Yor
track and field as a member of a Knickerbockers, both college All _ with only two touring professional
world record-setting 400-meter re- Americans, experienced great dif players, Alan Ginsberg among the
lay team. Larry Brown was a ficulties adjusting to the pro game. men and Andrea Cohn with the
member of the all-winning U.S.
In the college ranks the outstand- women. There are many fine Jew-
basketball team. He was instru- ing performers were Tal Brody of ish golfers but most remain ama-
mental in a number of the team's Illinois and Steve Nisenson of Hof- teurs.
With Gary Gubner sidelined with
wins with his fine play-making stra. Brody, a backcourt man,
a bad elbow and unable to put the
and aggressiveness.
made a number of All-America shot, the outstanding figure in
Silver medals went to Marilyn teams as did Nisenson in the small
Ramenofsky in swimming and to college division. Both were picked track and field is Irena Kirszen-
the veteran Isaac Berger in in the professional draft. Some of stein of Poland. Miss Kirszenstein
weight-lifting. Miss Ramenofsky the other fine college players were is close to the top of the list in
had set a world record for her Ron Watts of Wake Forest, Mark almost every event. Another fine
event—the 400-meter free-style- Rein of Navy, Jeff Neuman of woman performer was Canada's
prior to the Games, while Berger Penn, Bob Trupin of Yale and Neil Abby Hoffman.
The most prominent Americans
won his third Olympic medal? He Farver and Stan Felsinger of Co- were
Bill Morgan and Bill Sha-
had previously taken a gold in lumbia.
piro. Morgan was a fine distance
1950 and a silver in 1960. The
On the international scene Israe 1 runner from San Francisco. He
-.Nther U.S. medal was garnered by finished
sixth in the European finished second at the national
James Bregman in judo.
championships that were cross-country championship. Sha-
Mention should also be made of basketball
won by the Russians. The Rus _ Piro of Tulane was among the bet-
Alan Rosenberg, who while he won sians, who beat everybody in bask _ ter quartermilers in the country;
no medals personally, coached the etball except the United States he recorded the fastest 440-yard
Vesper Boat Club eight-oared crew are coached by Alexandr Gomelsky time ever by a Jewish runner.
to a surprise victory.
Although Gary Gubner was un-
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The other United States repre-
able to throw the shot he kept
In
football
it
was
difficult
find
sentative included: Albert Axel-
busy with his second sport, weight-
rod, Herb Cohen, Gene Glazer, ing the players for all the coaches lifting. He took second place in the
and
executives,
especially
in
the
Dave Micahnik and Robert Blum,
heavyweight division at the na-
all in fencing; Ron Barak and professional game. The list of own- tional championships.
ers
included
Carroll
Rosenbloom,
Art Sherlock in gymnastics; Don
Mike Jacobson of Penn State
Spero in rowing; Gary Gubner Baltimore Colts; Art Modell, Cleve- and Dan Millman of the University
land
Browns;
Jerry
Wolman,
Phil-
in weightlifting and Adny Fitch
adelphia Eagles and Sonny Werb- of California won NCAA titles in
in wrestling.
gymnastics. Veteran Abe Gross-
lin
of the New York Jets. The feld
Two girls proved to be the out-
was a member of an Ameri-
coaches
were
Sid
Gillman
of
the
standing foreign Jewish competi-
can squad that defeated a British
tors. Irena Kirszenstein of Poland San Diego Chargers, Al Davis of team in the first gymnastic dual
won a gold and two silver medals the Oakland Raiders and Allie meet between the two nations.
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for her country in track and field. Sherman of the New York Giants.
She was a member of the winning Sid Gillman of the Chargers was
In fencing, coach Iry DeKoff of
400-meter relay team and took sec- the most successful coach as his Columbia saw his team win the
ond place in both the long jump team won their divisional title, but NCAA crown. Howard Goodman
and the 200-meter dash. The Hun- lost the American Football Lea- of NYU won the saber event at
garian girl, Ildiko Uslaky-Rejto gue's championship game.
the same meeting.
won two gold medals in fencing.
Sid Luckman, the great Chicago
The Westside Jewish Community
The other foreign medal winners Bear quarterback of the 1940s, was Center of Los Angeles won the
were: Hungarians Derso Gyarmati, installed in professional football's national volleyball championships.
waterpolo; Dr. Gyorgy Karpati, wa- Hall of Frame. Luckman keeps his Gene Selznick was the club's lead-
terpolo; Tamas Gabor, fencing; hand in the game by helping out ing player.
and Arpad Orban, soccer; and for his old team, the Bears, as a part-
Winter sports saw the emer-
the Soviet Union Rudolf Plyukfeld- time coach.
gence of an outstanding brother
er, weightlifting and Yakov Rylaky,
The outstanding active profes- sister team in figure skating. They
fencing. All won gold medals.
sional player was tackle Ron Mix were Ron and Viven Joseph. The
Israel sent a team of ten ath- of the San Diego Chargers. He was couple won the United States and
letes to Tokyo, but once again the named to the AFL All-Star team North American titles and finish-
Israelis found that they have a for the fifth straight year. Mix, ed second in the world campeti-
long way to go before they can who is a writer, became almost tion. The Canadians had a right
compete successfully with the top as famous for his literary con- to cheer when the Braunstein
sporting nations of the world. Much tributions to sport publications, as brothers, Terry and Ron helped
of the Israelis press was critical for his magnificent downfield their rink win the curling cham-
pionship of Canada.
of the methods of coaching used to blocking.
In boxing, a sport once domi-
In the collegiate ranks Mary
prepare the team for the games.
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Levy of William and Mary was nated by Jewish boxers, the great-
In baseball the name that led named "Coach of the Year" in the est contribution by a Jew took
all the rest, whether in a doctor's Southern Conference. The best of place in Maine when Nat Fleischer
report or in the box score of a the college players were Ron Hel- helped referee Joe Walcott stop
) winning pitching performance, was ler of USC, Jerry Fishman of the Liston-Clay fiasco.
The sports year opened v.rith the
Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Maryland and Mike Berdy of
Dodgers. For a time, at the be- Army. Heller was a back, and Olympic Games, a gathering of
Fishman and Berdy were line- the world's greatest athletes and
ginning of the season, it looked as backers.
closed with the Seventh Maccabiah
if Sandy had reached the end of
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Games, a gathering of the world's
his career. The doctors found that
On the turf it was a year of greatest Jewish athletes.
he had arthritis in his pitching
All in all
superlatives. Jockey Walter Blum
was an interesting
elbow, and some speculated that retained his national riding cham- and exciting it year
in sports.
he would be unable to pitch with
pionship. Buddy Jacobson repeat-
anything like his old brilliance. ed as the trainer who saddled the
All fears were dispelled once the most winning horses. The Bieber- Liberia Expels 50 Arabs
season started and Koufax picked Jacobs Stable were the top money for Anti-Israel Activities
up where he left off, as the top winners among the breeders, and
LONDON (JTA) — Fifty Pale-
pitcher in baseball.
Mrs. Ben Cohen's horse, Hail to
The other Jewish major leaguers, All, won the Belmont Stakes. In stine Arab refugees who emi-
Larry Sherry of the Detroit Tigers France Guy de Rothschild was the grated to Liberia several years
ago, have been expelled from
and Barry Latman of the Los An- leading horse owner.
that
country because of their
geles Angels proved to be highly
activities in fomenting anti-
effective relief pitchers for their
The Heldman family continued
respective clubs. In the executive to play fine tennis. Julie, the Israel plots and spreading anti-
Israel propaganda, it was re-
field Jerry Hoffberger was named seventh ranked United States wo- ported
here.
chairman of the board of directors man player, took part in her first
A number of other African
of the Baltimore Orioles.
European tour. She defeated, governments are also planning
Arnold "Red" Auerbach, coach among others, the number one similar moves against Arab refu-
of the Boston Celtics, continued his ranked player of both Germany gees residing in those countries,
domination of professional basket- and Italy. She is very young and the report stated.
ball. His team won its seventh shows great promise for the future.
consecutive world title, a feat un- Her father, Julius, retained his
"Comfort the sufferer by the
precedented in major professional senior indoor title.
promise of healing even when you
sports. Auerbach was named
Alan Fox, the eighth ranked are not confident. Thus you assist
"Coach of the Year" in the Nation- American player, toured Africa his natural powers."
al Professional League. He also and Europe and met with varied
—Isa ac-Israeli
became director and part owner success. He captured the Passover
of the team. One of the other tourney in Israel. Mike Belkin, a
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
coaches in the _same lea tie 1.VA sophomore at the University of
Friday. ettchel. 1 1965 31
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The Koufax Record
Success Story-
Model-to-Princess
in Film 'Darling'
BY JESS SILVER
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
When Los Angeles Dodgers
pitcher Sandy Koufax won his 20th
game this season he became the
second Jewish player to win that
many games for two seasons. In
1914 and 1915 Erskine Meyer of
the Philadelphia Phils won 21
games for both years. In 1963 Kou-
fax won 25 games. Undoubtedly
this would have been Sandy's
fourth straight 20-win year if he
hadn't suffered injuries in 1962
and 1964. When the Dodger general
manager was asked about the pos-
sibility of Koufax becoming base-
ball's first $100,000 pitcher, he
said, "He's worth it and he'll get
it. Sandy puts an extra 5,000 peo-
ple in the park every time be
pitches." Koufax reportedly re-
ceives $75,000 a year.
This is the "before" of a be-
fore-after success story starring
Julie Christie. In the motion pic-
ture "Darling," Miss Christie
turns from kooky model to prin-
cess, wearing a $40,000 Irobe
with 50 changes.
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Everything from knee - length
trousers with boots to a brocade
coat-dress is worn by Julie Chris-
tie in the new motion pi c t u r e
"Darling" now being shown at
four Detroit theaters, Summit, Mer-
cury, Punch and Judy and La
Parisienne.
The $40,000 wardrobe, designed
by Julie Harris, carries the heroine
through jet-set society as the
model-turned-princess wife of an
Italian millionaire. There are over
50 changes of cl6thes in the film.
Miss Christie co-stars with Laur-
ence Harvey and Dirk Bogard.
Koufax has the distinction of
having the largest hands in base-
ball. The Dodger trainer says
this provides him with more
leverage when pitching. Koufax
also wears a size 13% shoe.
U. S. Bonds issued between
May, 1941, and May, 1949, had an
original maturity period of 10
years and have been granted two
10-year extensions.
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