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Mark Spitz Swims to His 3rd Olympic Gold Medal
seven Jewish athletes won
13 medals.
Israel has never won an
Olympic medal but one of
the most distinguished of
Jewish medalists. A g n e s
A world record was broken
at Munich, and swimmer
Mark Spitz w a lked — or
rather, swam—off with his
third Olympic gold medal,
Wednesday. He was going to
attempt two more gold medal
wins Thursday night, which
would make him the first
Olympic swimmer to win
five golds in one Olympics.
The first gold was for the
200-meter men's butterfly.
His world record time was
2.00.70.
The handsome Spitz, 22,
whose two gold medals in
1968 came in relays, got an-
other gold in the Munich
games as his share in the
400 - meter freestyle relay.
The four-man American team
set another world record.
3 - 26.42. Spitz's third gold
came with the 200- meter
freestyle.
Spitz, a Californian. who
is studying dentistry at Indi-
ana University. swam so fast
in the butterfly that his run-
ner-up had to swim in the
rough water he left behind.
But the man who finished
second to Spitz Gary Hall,
paid tribute to the winner,
saying "finishing second to
Mark isn't like losing to
someone else. He's the one
man I don't mind saying I
lost to. He's great."
Spitz's greatness was com•
pounded by the fact that the
world record he broke was
his own, and it was the third
Keleti of Hungary, who won
no less than 11 medals, set-
tled in Israel after the 1956
revolution in Hungary and
became one of the country's
main gymnastic trainers.
Israel was represented in
Mexico and now again in
Munich, but thus far there
The chart in the Encyclo-
paedica Judaica show's a
complete breakdown of Jew-
ish medal winners as fol-
lows:
Dayan Mocks
JDL Protest
JERUSALEM (JTA) —De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan
called the Jewish Defense
League foolish after Rabbi
Meir Kahane and about 100
have been no winners from
JDL members stormed into
Israel.
Hebron in an effort to dem-
Fifteen athletes in seven
onstrate Jewish ownership of
sports are representing Is-
the West Bank city and hold
MARK SPITZ
rael, The contingent includes
a public trial of Hebron's
only two women — hurdler
winner," the Times, feature
Mayor Sheikh Mohammad
Esther Shahamurov and
reported. At 14, Spitz made
swimmer Shlomit Nir. Oth- Ali Jaahari.
it to the national champion-
Dayan made the remark
ers include long - distance
ships and by 17 he was re-
after a meeting with Jaaha-
garded "as one of the world's walker Dr. Shaul Ladany; ri, saying that if the JDL
marksmen Henry Hershkow-
best, setting or tying five
wanted to clarify something,
American records in one la and Zelig Stroch; wrest- they should have appealed to
lers
Enter Haiti n, Gad
year and breaking five world
the Israeli government.
marks in international com- Sahari and Mark Slavin (the
The JDL militants succeed-
petition," the Times stated. last a recent Immigrant from
Since 1896 there were per- Russia); and yachtsmen Yitz• ed in breaching the road-
bak
Nir
and
Yair
Michael.
blocks
set up by the military
haps 150 or more Jewish
In 1936, when Adolf Hitler government to prevent their
medal winners in Olympic
was f u ming because an arrival. They gathered near
games.
The record compiled in the American Negro, Jesse Ow- the Tombs of the Patriarchs
new Encyclopedia Judaica ens, emerged as the hero of where they declared they
shows there were Jewish the Olympics, there was an would hold a public trial of
prize winners from 17 coun- American Jewish gold medal Jaahari in view of his role
tries in 20 sports. They won winner—Samuel Baiter, who during the 1929 massacre of
Hebron Jews and the 1948
a total of 236 medals-101 starred in basketball.
Since 1948—there were no fighting. Brig. Gen. Raphael
of them gold.
Divided by sport, the first Olympics from 1936, when Vardi, military governor of
place went to fencing where they were held in Berlin un- the West Bank, asked them
Jews won 71 medals-31 by der Hitler's tutelage, until to leave ' and they obeyed
Jews from Hungary and 13 1948—U.S. medal winners in- quietly.
straight time he's done it.
Jaaharl told reporters that
from the USSR. Thirty-three cluded:
Bets are on that Spitz will medals were won by Jews in
Frank Spellman, weight- he would be happy to appear
earn an unprecedented seven track and field events, 15 of lifting. 1948: Henry Witten-' in a public trial to accuse
Olympic swimming gold ' them by competitors from berg, wrestling, 1948 and his accusers.
It was later in the evening
medals.
the U.S., and 25 in gymnas- 1952: Dr. Steve Seymour,
lb a West German televi- 1 tics, 14 of them from Hun- track. 1948: James Fuchs, that Dayan visited the mayor
sion interview. Spitz hinted; gary. Twenty-four medals ! track, 1948 and 1952: Norman after which he made his com-
lie would retire from com-1 were won by Jews in swim- ' C. Armitage. fencing, 1948: ments on the JDL.
A conference of Ilebron
petitive swimming after the ming and 20 in water polo. Isaac Berger, weightlifting,
Olympics. lie said he won't Only one Jew has ever won 1956, 1960 and 1964: Albert notables decided last week-
a medal in ice hockey, judo Axelrod. fencing, 1960: Rob- end not to stage a counter-
have the time for it.
; ert Halperin, yachting, 1960: demonstration against t h e
The New York Times, in or rowing.
Taken by countries, Hun- Lawrence Brown, basketball, JDI. after Israeli authorities
a "Man in the News" lea- i
lure on the Jewish athlete, garian Jews lead with 76 1964: Gerald Ashworth, track, promised that law aura order
noted that when he was 10 medals followed by the U.S. 1964: Marilyn Ramenofsky. would be maintained.
1964;
James!
years old swimming inter-; with 47 medals and the USSR swimming.
The fellow with cold feet
fered with his after-school 1 with 30. Next is Austria with ! Bregman. judo, 1964: Mark
Hebrew lessons. His father, 20 and Belgium with 14. In Spitz, swimming, won two; had them because he has
Arnold Spitz, explained to the first modern Olympic gold, one siker and one sense enough to keep out of
hot water.
the rabbi: "Even God likes a Games at Athens in 1896, bronze medal in 1968.
I
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34 Frirbery, Sept. 1, 1972
—
Purges Hit Czech Community
LONDON (JTA)—Purges members of the small Jewish
by the Czech Communist community in Prague, it was
regime of personalities con- reported here from the Czech
nected with the Dubcek capital.
Dr. Vilem Benda, who has
"spring era" of four years
ago are starting to reach been ousted as director of
the State Jewish Museum in
Prague, has been succeeded
by Erik Klima, whose first
job will be to remove Jewish
staff members excluded from
the Communist Party in the
BONN (JTA) — A former post-Dubcek purges.
Ex-SS Officer
Wins Acquittal
SS officer who made home
movies of the execution of
Jews by SS units, was ac-
quitted Monday of murder
charges by a Bonn criminal
court, which accepted his
plea of amnesia concerning
The museum includes
six synagogues, the oldest
dating to the 13th Cen-
tury, as well as the 16th
Century Town Hall and
the old Jewish cemeteries
from the first half of the
15th Century.
The Pinkas synagogue has
"everything connected with
the Jewish question during
the Nazi regime."
The acquittal was the ac- been transformed into a
ond for the defendant, iden- memorial to the 80,000 Czech
tified under court orders Jews slaughtered by the Na-
zis, but it is the Klaus syna-
only as Franz T.
He had been tried previ- gogue, housing a permanent
ously on charges of partic- collection, which seems to be
most annoying to the present
ipation in the mass murder
Communist leaders.
of Polish Jews and was re-
There has been an inten-
leased after the court ac-
cepted his contention that he sive anti-Zionist campaign
with
strong anti-Semitic un-
had known nothing of the ex-
ecutions at the time and dertones in Czechoslovakia
found out about them only aimed mainly at Jewish back-
ers of Dubcek, many of them
at the end of the war.
He was put on trial a sec- now living in exile.
ond time after a police
search of his home during
the course of investigating
an unrelated case turned up
the film.
During the second trial.
Franz T. switched his de-
fense from no knowledge to
amnesia. He was supported
by a court psychiatrist who
testified that this could have
been the case.
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