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This little shtick was pul-
led at the U.S. Committee
Sports for Israel Hall ,of
Fame dinner which was
held in Los Angeles a couple
of weeks ago. Al Campanis,
general manager of the Los
Angeles Dodgers, a product
of New York schools and
New York University, was
led upon to induct Al Ro-
len, president of the New
York Yankees, into the
Jewish Hall of Fame.
When Campanis got up to
speak he acknowledged the
fact that Nat Holman,
president of the U.S. Com-
mittee Sports for Israel, Was
in the audience and brought
out the-fact that as a student
at NYU he used to attend
lectures given by Nat and
he heaped praise upon the
famous hoop mentor, com-
monly referred to as "Mr. )
Basketball."
Campanis has a sly sense
of humor and related to the
audience of over 400 that
while he attended a rival
school, City College, he was,
in addition to a fair basket-
ball player and a good
baseball player, on the foot-
ball team. As Campanis re-
lates it the story goes as fol-
lows:
"Our backfield, and
you must remember this
is at a time when NYU
was a strong football
power in the East, was
comprised of three Jews
and myself. I was one of
the running backs and
was usually referred to
by my three backfield
mates as the shaygetz.' I
don't have to explain to
this audience what a
shaygetz is, but at any
rate, I was the shaygetz in
the backfield.
- At that time we played a
very heavy schedule o _ f an
intersectional nature and
took on some of the big pow-
ers on the gridiron.
"During the Ohio State
game, we took the ball, on
one of our better moments,
close to our 10 yard line and
began to move. Time after
time I was given the pigskin
(if you'll excuse the expres-
sion) and I managed to pick
up three and four yards at a
clip and the ultimate result
was that we really brought
the ball down to about their
three yard line. At this
point, after yeoman duty on
my part, the ball was given
to the two other running
acks and NYU was pushed
ack to about the eight yard
line, at which time we called
a time-out.
"Before the quarterback
could give his instructions, I
piped up 'Hey, what's be-
come of the shaygetz all of a
sudden?' This brought on a
burst of laughter and some
of the boys got so hysterical
that we were penalized an
additional five yards for
holding up the game. As it
turned out we didn't score
and the shaygetz didn't get
his hands on the ball again
during that drive."-
The anecdote related
by Campanis tore the
house down and thereaf-
ter the burly GM of the

Dodgers got serious and changed his mind about set-
made a marvelous pre- tling in 'Israel.
sentation to Al Rosen,
He said, "Mr. Cohen,
who accepted his induc- Israel is a beautiful coun-
tion into the Jewish . try and I like it very
Sports Hall of Fame with much, but I found that
composure and dignity.
there is a total lack of
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religion there and, as you
The quest for American know, I am a graduate of
talent continues by Israeli the Yeshiva of Queens
basketball coaches who this and found it very hard to
year have come over in adapt to the non-
droves. The final two sig- religious ways of the
nees are Dave Kufeld, a people I came in contact
graduate of Yeshiva Uni: with.
"After all, during my
versity, and a Long Island
University grad by the playing days at Yeshiva of
name of John Bailey. Queens I competed against
Kufeld, who is extremely - boys from other yeshivas
religious, is going to play and we developed a friend-
with Maccabi Ramat-Gan. ship which was steered
Bailey has been signed by along by our mutual respect
for the Jewish religion.
the Mizrachi's Elizur five.
The fact of the matter is
- It seems that th6-e is
some inconsistency in the that in all probability the
signing of these two Elizur people may have
youngsters. Sense would signed the better player so
dictate that Kufeld, who is far as Bailey is concerned.
religious, should actually be He played in tougher
playing for Elizur and ' competition than Kufeld did
Bailey would seem to be and after watching both
more at home with the Mac- boys on the court I'm in-
cabi Ramat-Gan team. The clined to believe he might be
religiosity of the Mizrachi a potent force for the Elizur
movement does not extend club, whereas Kufeld would
heavily to its basketball have been another fair
players albeit, obviously, player.
It remains to be seen how
the majority of them are
Kufeld does with the
Jewish;
I recall vividly that one of Ramat-Gan team since they
the former U.S. Maccabia are better s'Iocked with
players, a black Jewish boy coMpetitors than Elizur is
by the name of Aaron and Dave will have to prove
Grandison, after the 1973 himself under tougher con-
Maccabia, joined the Elizur ditions than what confronts
team of Tel Aviv. After Bailey. One concession
playing for a couple of years, Kufeld did wring out of the
Grandison returned home management of his club is
disillusioned. I ran into him that he is not to practice or
and asked him why he had play on Shabat.

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