Jewish At hletes Starred in Many Sports in 5729
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-49
Friday, September 12, 1969
By JESS SILVER
quarterback Karl Sweetan of the No. 2 by both the NBA and ABA in throw; L. J. Cohen, quartermile;
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New Orleans Saints. Stromberg the annual player draft. Florida's Dick Trichter, quartermile and
The only discordant note in an
The Olympic Games in Mexico missed most of the season because first basketball All-America, Walk Bary Liebovitz, quartermile.
otherwise outstanding effort by
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City and the Maccabia Games in of an injury, and Sweetan was signed to play pro ball with the
the U.S. team was a loss to Israel
Walter Blum, one of the nation's in basketball and only a fair show-
Israel highlighted sports competi- traded to the Los Angeles Rams Phoenix Suns of the NBA. Others
who contribtued to their teams top jockeys, had six winners in one ing in track and field. It was the
tion during the past year. Medalists after the season ended.
d
in Mexico included swimmer Mark
Coach Sid Gillman could move were Billy Evans, Boston College; day.
Other jockeys included Willie first defeat ever suffered by a U.S.
Spitz, United States; track star his San Diego Chargers no higher Steve Bilsky, Penn; Ed Folger, Harmatz, Arnold lliescu, Marty basketball team in the Maccabia
Irena Szewinska, Poland; swimmer than third in the AFL's western North Carolina; Lou Goetz, Rut- Fromin and the first winning Games. As expected, the big.names
Gregory Rogers, Australia; fencer division. Owner Phil Iselin's Jets gers; Jeff Keizer, CCNY; Rick woman jockey, Barbara Jo Rubin. for the U.S. were Spitz. Heldman,
Ildiko Rejko, Hungary; cyclist upset Carroll Rosenbloom's Balti- I Caputo, Colgate; Ernie Merz, Adel- Neal Shapiro again was a member Fox and Fleisher. The brother-sis-
Pierfranco Vianelli, Italy; and six more Colts in the Super Bowl after phi; Bob Nayer, Brandeis; Mel of the U.S. Equestrain Team and ter team of Mark and Nancy Spitz
Russians, swimmer Semyon Belitz- the Colts had stopped Art Modell's Goldstein, Brooklyn College; Mike also worked as a harness horse help e d the U.S. dominate the
Geiman, wrestler Boris Gurevich, Cleveland Browns, and the Jets Miller, Lafayette; Scott Singer, trainer and driver. Steve Sandler swimming competition; Julie Held-
and Mark Rakita, Eduard Vino- had defeated Al Davis' Oakland LIU; Mark Gershwer, NYU; Eric retained his National AAU one-wall man and Alan Fox did the same in
kurov, Grigory Kriss and Josef Raiders for their respective league Fass, Rochester; Stu Poloner, Ye- singles handball title, and Paul tennis, and U.S. amateur champion
Vitebsky, all fencers.
titles. Max Winter of the Minnesota shiva; Jack Langer, Yale; and Haber won the U.S. Handball Asso- Bruce Fleisher led the Americans
Vianelli didn't wait for the Mac- Vikings and Eugene Klein and Sam Mark Kirschner, Stony Brook. In ciation four-wall crown.
to victory on the golf course in
Death took Phil Han ler, Herbert Caesarea.
cabia Games to visit Israel. The 12- Schulman of the San Diego Chargers I addition, Tal Brody, former Illinois
Fleishhacker,
Jr.,
Chatife
Goldman,
year-old Italian, who had vowed to were other pro football executives. American and Athlete of the Year
give thanks at the Western Wall if Jerry Wolman continued his fight in Israel, was a member of the Marty Cross, Barney Sedran, Harry
he won a gold medal, flew to Jeru- to retain control of the Philadelphia U.S. Armed Forces All-Star basket- Hoffman, George Levy, Lou Burs-
New Year Greetings to
ton, Si Rosenthal, Emil Gollubier,
salem after his triumph in the Eagles.
ball team.
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Max Rosenfeld, Jackie Goldsmith
gruelling 122-mile Olympic road
Sid Luckman continued to help
Mark Spitz dominated the swim- and Lou Burton. Hockey executives
race. He became the second Jew to the Chicago Bears with the quarter.
win Olympic medals in cycling. In backs and Bugsy Engleberg worked ming scene again. The Indiana Uni- were Sid Solomon, Jr. of the St.
1896, at the first modern Games, with the Oakland kickers. Engle- versity freshman became the ninth Louis Blues and Ed Snider of the
18287 Livernois
Felix Schmal captured a gold and , berg moved to Buffalo at the con- swimmer in NCAA history to win Philadelphia Flyers. R. F. Ben-
two bronze medals for Austria. , elusion of the season, and Mary three individual championships. He singer was elected to the American
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Vianelli turned pro shortly after he Levy resigned as head coach at set new American records in the Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.
Syd Nomis and Alan Menter were
returned to Italy.
William and Mary to serve as an !200- and 500-yard free-style events
Other non -medalists who per- assistant with the Philadelphia as Indiana captured the team title. members of the South African na- * *** ** **** ** ********* *1
Other place winners at the NCAA tional rugby team. Howard Wech- ;
formed well at the Olympics were Eagles.
Best Wishes for a
championships were Charles Mm- sler played jai-alai at the Miami
swimmer Andrea Gyarmati, Hun-
Defensive end Bob Stein again
Happy New Year
gary; runner Abigail Hoffman, created the biggest splash in coi- der, butterfly, SMU, and Dave Fronton. Peter Reveson, a rookie, it
Canada; weight-lifter Terry Per- 1 lege football. The Minnesota line- Solomon, butterfly, Ohio University. placed fifth in the Indianapolis 500.
due, Great Britain; swimmer Ta- man was named to a number of Paul Katz helped Yale win the 400- Svetlana Grinberg was a member
DAVIS IRON
mara Oynick, Mexico; boxer Viktcr All-America and All-Academic yard medley relay at the AAU of the women's doubles team that
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Zilberman, Romania; diver Jorge teams. All-Star recognition also championships. Best of the women won the title at the world table
Teich, Mexico; yachtsman Robin went to Steve Tannen, defensive was diver Debbie Lipman of Cali- tennis championship.
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fornia.
She
was
runner-up
in
the
Many
of
these
athletes
competed
Judah: Great Britain; and Israelis back, Florida; Bruce Weinstein,
Shlomit Nir and Avraham Mela- offensive end, Yale; Dick Sandler, one-meter event at the National at the World Maccabia Games in
med, swimmers, Shaul Ladany, defensive guard, Princeton; Bob AAU meet. In Australia Greg Rog- Israel in July and August.
The sports year ended as 1,500
walker,. liana Shezifi, track, Nehe- Levin, fullback, Yale; Lon Kaplan, ers captured national swimming
athletes from 27 nations com-
mia Sirkis, shooting, and the na- defensive tackle, Harvard; and titles in the 100-and 200-meter free-
style
events.
peted in the eighth Maccabia
tional soccer team which reached J. P. Goldsmith, defensive back,
Peter and Mike Asch of Santa
Gaines in Israel. The 350-mem
the quarterfinal round.
Yale.
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Clara, Calif., were the best in water
ber
Israel team captured the
Other college standouts were de- polo. Pete was a second team col-
Leaders and coaches of Olympic
most medals, while the United
teams included Arthur Gold, Great fensive tackle Harvey Zion, Florida lege All-America for the U. of Cali-
States
squad of 152 produced
Britain, track and field; Henry State; fullback Brent Kaufman, forina and Mike a first team high
the greatest number of gold
Wittenberg, United States, wres- Rhode Island; quarterback Pete school selection at Santa Clara
medalists. The U.S. was
as rep-
tling; Harlan Cohen, United States, Cohen, Tufts; and kickers Bob High.
resented by the largest foreign
volleyball; and Alexander Gomel- Bookatz, Tulane, and Mark Winick
Tom Okker, the "flying Dutch-
delegation
followed
by
Argen-
sky, who lead the USSR to a bronze of Williams.
man" of tennis, became a profes-
tina with 100; Brazil, 100; Bri-
It was the year of the coach in sional after earning a No. 3 ranking
medal in basketball.
tain,
91;
France,
90;
West
Ger-
Israel enjoyed an outstanding basketball as the New York Knicks' on the world list. He won the Monte
many, 65; Mexico, 60 and Cana-
year in international • soccer. The Red Holzman and Temple's Harry Carlo Open, the Belgium Open and
da with 50 athletes. It was the
national team registered victories Litwack guided their clubs to the a Japanese professional tourna-
first appearance of a German
over Romania, Sweden and Greece, top—or at least close to it. The ment. He also gained the finals of
team since the Second Macca-
and played to a draw with Austria. Knicks reached the semifinals in the men's doubles at Wimbledon.
bia
in 1935.
Nevertheless, swimmer Avraham the NBA's eastern division play-
New York's Julie Heldman play-
offs,
while
Temple
won
the
National
Melamed was named athlete of the
ed the best tennis of her career.
year, with soccer stars Giora Tournament. It was Litwack 's first She captured the Italian Open, her
Shpiegel and Mordechai Shpiegler post-season tournament victory in first major title, and was a big
as runners-up. In basketball, the 17 years as head coach at the Phil- winner on the Caribbean circuit.
h'
Israelis qualified for the European
She also contributed greatly to the
Max Zaslofsky was not as for- U.S. victory in the Federation Cup
championships, and in tennis the
Davis Cup team scored an opening tunate. His New York Mets finished competition and was selected to the
last in the ABA and he resigned as Wightman Cup team.
round victory over Portugal.
coach and general manager. Arthur
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Also playing tennis on an inter-
While the cast of characters re- , Brown sold the club soon after- national and national level were
mained the same in baseball, the ' ward. Bernard Sarachek completed Mike Belkin, Canada; Esme Eman-
performers showed a marked im- his 25th year as head coach of uel, South Africa; Frank Salomon,
provement. Washington first base- Yeshiva University, while Isadore Rhodesia; Torgen and Jorgen
man Mike Epstein hit for a higher (Spin) Salario resigned following Ulrich, Denmark; Jackie Saul,
average and discovered the long nine years as head man at Chicago South Africa; Victoria Burton,
ball, while outfielders Norm Miller State.
Great Britain; and Marilyn Asch-
of Houston and Art Shamsky of the , The Brown brothers moved ner; Kathy Harter, Len Schloss,
Mets raised their batting averages around. Herb Brown left his head Alan Fox, Ron Goldman, Tom Karp
coaching post at Stony Brook to and Pam Richmond, all of the
to a respectable level.
After a brilliant start (10-1 at one work as an assistant at C. W. Post, United States.
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point), hurler Ken Holtzman of the and Larry Brown gave up playing
Chicago Cubs had trouble gaining for the Oaks of the ABA to become
Dick Siderowf and Bruce Fleis-
the win column and outfielder Rich head coach at Davidson College. cher were members of a four-man
Scheinblum of the Cleveland Indi- The ABA's assistant leader, Larry team that won the World Amateur
ans experienced difficulty hitting quit Davidson after two months.
Team Golf championship for the
Other basketball coaches were U.S. in Australia. Fleischer, the
the ball. New faces appeared
among the baseball executives. Roy Rubin, LIU; Jerry Domer- U.S. Amateur champion, continued
Marvin Milkes moved in as general schick, CCNY, Mike Gordon, Adel- to play well and was low amateur
manager of the expansion Seattle phi; Hal Blitman, Cheyney State; at the Masters in Augusta, Ga. Pro
Pilots, and Charles Bronfman help- and Julie Cohen, Miami-Dade Jun- Marty Fleckman had his troubles
ed Canada acquire the Montreal ior College South. A great Brooklyn and did not win much money on
Expos, the first major league base- high school coach, Jammy Mosko- the tour.
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ball team outside the United States. witz, retired after 43 years.
The women performers were best
Larry Brown and Rudy LaRusso
Other major league executives in-
cluded Gabe Paul of the Indians of the San Francisco Warriors, in track and field. Poland's Irene
and Jerry Hoffberger of the Balti- Dave Newmark of the Chicago Szewinska won the 50-meter dash
Bulls, Art Heyman, Minnesota Pi- and the long jump at the European
more Orioles.
Sandy Koufax was named the pers, and Steve Chubin, who played Indoor championships and the long
"Greatest Dodger Ever" and Hank with a number of ABA teams, were jump at the U.S. National AAU In-
Greenberg the first baseman on the the professional basketball players. door championships, while Canada's
all-time Detroit Tiger team as part Adolph Schayes continued as super- Abby Hoffman won the mile run.
Milt Sonsky's fourth place in the
of baseball's centennial celebra- visor of NBA officials and Mendy
Rudolph assumed the post of chief javelin competition at the National
tion.
AAU Outdoor meet was the top per-
Class of the professional football of NBA referees.
Professional club executives were formance for men. Steve Marcus
players was veteran offensive tac-
kle Ron Mix of the San Diego Abe Polin, Baltimore Bullets; Iry took fourth place in the shot at the
Chargers. In his ninth year, Mix Kosloff, Philadelphia 76ers; Wesley NCAA meet and Italy's Flavio Asta
was named to the first all-pro Pavalon, Milwaukee Bucks; Bob bettered 60 feet in the shot for the
team, containing American and Brietbard, San Diego Rockets; Eu- first time. Other track men who did
National League players, ever se- gene Klein and Sam Schulman, well during the year were miler
lected. Other pros were linebacker Seattle Super-Sonics; and Gabe Ray Roseman, Great Britain; Len
Walters, a quartermiler from Great
Mike Stromberg of the New York Rubin of the Minnesota Pipers.
Neal Walk was the best of the Britain and Americans Jeff Gable,
Jets, kicker Booth Lusteg of the
Pittsburgh Stealers, and reserve college players and .was drafted triple jump; Kew Dietz, discus
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