Mounting Honors for Koufax
By JESSE SILVER
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
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Trying to keep up with Sandy
Soufax off season activities is al-
most as difficult as trying to hit
his fast ball. It seems that the
Dodger pitcher is being honored
by everyone.
His latest in a long list of awards
is the "Player of the Year" by the
Sporting News, the baseball news-
paper. Other recent honors are
Sports Illustrated magazine's
"Sportsman of the Year," and an
award given by the Chicago base-
ball writers for the World Series
hero. He also has been named
national honorary chairman of the
Arthritis Foundation.
Koufax modestly said when he
learned of the Sporting News
award, "I continue to tell myself
baseball is a team game. This is
especially true of the Dodgers of
1965 — and of Koufax of 1965. So
many men played a big part in
our victory this year that every
honor for any of us must be
shared."
After a recent sports banquet,
Sandy turned over a check for
$15,000 to the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica. He also has made personal ap-
pearances at veterans hospitals
and orphanages.
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Sandy Koufax isn't the only
baseball player receiving recogni-
tion for his work in 1965. Mike
Epstein of Los Angeles was
awarded the Helms Foundation-
Win Clark Memorial trophy by the
Los Angeles chapter of the Base-
ball Writers Association of Amer-
ica. The award is made annually
to the Southern California player
who excels in his first season of
organized ball. Playing first base
for Stockton, Epstein led the Calif-
ornia League with a .338 average.
Pitcher Barry Latman was
traded from the California Angels
of the American League to the
Houston Astros of the National
League. Latman spent part of the
last season at Seattle of the Pacific
Coast League. The new manager
of the Astros saw Latman at
Seattle and feels that he can still
do a big league job. Said Latman
regarding the trade, "I've never
played indoors but I should at least
get the opportunity to pitch with
Houston. I'm not sure I would
have had that chance with the
Angels."
Harry G. Frank, who pitched
in five of the old Baltimore Orioles'
seven straight pennant-winning
seasons in the International
League, died at Rockville Centre, •
N. Y. in November. He was 66
years old.
A righthander, Frank won 24
games against only six losses in
1919 when the Orioles won their
first championship. He had a 25-
12 record in 1920 and was 22-9 in
1922.
Rudy LaRusso of the Los Angeles
Lakers has been chosen to the Na-
tional Basketball Association West
All-Star team . . . Red Auerbach
of the Boston Celtics will shortly
celebrate his 1,000 win as a pro-
fessional basketball coach. He
started coaching the Washington
Capitols 20 years ago . . Art
Heyman is with his fourth team
this season. The former Duke All-
American started with New York
then went to San Francisco, Cin-
cinnati and now Philadelphia. It
is hoped that coach Adolph Scha-
yes of the 76ers will help Heyman
reach his great potential.
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The Jewish Welfare Board, the
only Jewish organization affiliated
with the Amateur Athletic Union
of the U. S. and the U. S. Olympic
Games Committee, will be repre-
sented on 12 different games com-
mittees of the U. S. Olympic Com-
mittee which will function until
the 196'8 Olympic Games.
This was announced by Charles
L. Ornstein, chairman of the
JWB's National Health and
Physical Education Committee, fol-
lowing the quadrennial meeting of
the U. S. Olympic Committee. JWB
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 14, 1966-15
British Communists Praise Their Own Role
was represented at the meeting by
Harold 0. Zimman, Lynn, Mass.,
and Michael M. Rand, director of
JWB's health and physical educa-
tion services. Mr. Ornstein is a
member of the board of the U. S.
Olympic Committee on which he
is one of the representatives of the
A.A.U.
JWB and Jewish Community
Center representatives named to
the U. S. Olympic games commit-
tees are: Basketball - Men — Jacob
M. Escoff, Elizabeth, N. J.; Basket-
ball - Women — Stephen Loeb, St.
Louis; Gymnastics - Men — Court-
ney Shanken, Highland Park, Ill.;
Gymnastics - Women — Jerry Lus-
chak, Baltimore; Judo — Alex
T u d o r, Miami, Fla.; Swimming -
Men — Leon M. Ginsberg, Balti-
more; Swimming - Women — Mrs.
Ruth Abramson, Jamaica, N. Y.;
Swimming - Synchronized — Mrs.
Binnie Close, Stanford, Conn.;
Track and Field - Men — Edward
Rosenblum, Washington, D. C.;
Track and Field - Women — Har-
old 0. Zimman, Lynn; Weightlift-
ing — Morris Weissbrot, Flushing,
N. Y.; Wrestling — Henry Witten-
berg, B r o n x, N. Y.; Volleyball -
Men — Harold 0. Zimman, Lynn;
Volleyball - Women — Michael M.
Rand and Robert Morrison, Detroit.
Scientific Studies
A total of 90,000,000 Israeli
pounds is spent annually in Israel
on scientific investigation. Only
about 10 per cent of this sum is
spent on problems connected with
industry.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON — T h e Communist
Party of Great Britain declared in
a statement Wednesday that it had
always "campaigned against anti-
Semitism wherever it manifested
itself," including the Soviet Union.
The statement was issued in con-
nection with a resolution on the
issue of the status of Soviet Jewry
which was referred to the party
executive by the recent 29th na-
tional congress of the party. Two
branches in Britain had demanded
that the party act on charges of
suppression by Soviet authorities
of religious and cultural rights of
Russian Jewry.
The statement also asserted that
the party in Britain "has equally
advocated freedom of worship"
and declared that "the right to
worship implies availability of the
means of religious worship and
practice." Critics of Soviet treat-
ment of Russian Jewry have con-
sistently charged denial of such
facilities.
The statement included a de-
fense of Soviet policy on anti-
Semitism, asserting that "the vic-
tory of the Bolshevik revolution
in Russia ended the anti-Semitic
pogroms of the Czarist regime
and the white guards. The Com-
munist Party in the Soviet
Union has always placed in the
forefront of its principles the
right of freedom of all religions
and opposition to racism and
anti-Semitism."
In support of its contention that
it had always fought anti-Semitism
everywhere, including Russia, the
what's
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in Anti-Semitism Fight
party cited the case of a virulently
anti-Semitic pampVet "Judaism
Without Embellishment," written
by M. K. Kitchko, an obscure pro-
fessor of philosophy and published
by the Ukrainian Academy of
Science in 1964.
The statement said that when
British Communist Party leaders
became aware of the "disgraceful"
book, "our party immediately rais-
ed the matter with the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union as well
as publicly criticizing the book."
Making no reference to the world-
wide outcry over the content of the
book, the party statement con-
tinued that "the book was imme-
diately withdrawn and all available
copies destroyed."
The statement added that when
the party leaders learned that "re-
ligious Jews" in Russia "were hav-
ing difficulties in obtaining matzos
to celebrate the Passover feast, we
again raised the matter with the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. Steps were taken to in-
crease the supply."
The statement then reiterated
that the British Party "will in the
future as it has in the past do all
in its power to condemn anti-Semi-
tism and interference with the
right to worship whenever and
wherever it manifests itself."
The party has an estimated
60,000 members and is important
on a larger scale as publisher of a
daily newspaper, the Daily Worker.
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