• 72 Friday, April 18, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Best in Dining CARL'S :01:E 3020 Grand River Free Parking Send Someone Special a Gift 52 Weeks a Year. „, 1 .1 Send a gift subscription to 833-0700 Nationally known for serving 4,14 Prize Blue Ribbon Steak and Chops. Finest Seafood and Liquors. Private Dining Rooms for Banquets and Parties Serving daily from 11:30 — Sunday from 2 p.m SPORTS Boston And Beyond THE • _ AU bat WI in Continued from Page 65 JEWISH NEWS! OW own OWNS 10 Mile at Southfield Road 559-4230 Michaelson and Robinson hit the road near the Jewish Community Center. Extends Best Wishes For A Joyous And Healthy . Passouer • ••••••••••••••••••••••••aoloo••••• BARBARA & STAN SNITZ AND THE EMPLOYEES OF a • 0 .3 • • • DELICATESSEN & RESTAURANT • • 0 • 13821 W. 9 Mile Rd. • Oak Park • • • 54G-1111 or 541.2888 Wish To Extend Wishes For A Healthy & Happy Passover To Our Customers & Friends • • 0 WE WILL CLOSE WED., APRIL 23 AT 3 p.m. REOPENING FRI., MAY 2, 11 a.m. O • a OUR NEW SUMMER HOURS AS OF FRI., MAY 2 WILL BE MON. 11 TO 3 p.m. TUES.-SUN 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. • • • • FREE DELIVERY ON ALL PARTY TRAYS IN OAKLAND 'COUNTY • 424 • • • Minimum 10 Persons •••••••0••••0•••••• •.006 • , , 1 •• • elks remember I was in Boston or in the Marathon. I learned a les- son. In learning I said I'm going to beat that thing." And so he didn't quit, return- ing to Boston three more times. However, Gelfond sees Boston "as a hassle. It's expensive for one race ... It starts at noon. You've got to get up early and get onto a bus and then wait ... When I run I want to enjoy it." Michaelson, though, and Robinson swear by Boston. "There's something about Bos- ton," Michaelson says. "Al- though this year there is prize money, it's really the last bas- tion for the serious amateur. I've done New York five times and many other marathons. There's always been big money changing hands. This year, fi- nally, Boston is paying the top runners because they weren't getting a good field. When somebody asks you a question (about marathoning), they say, 'Oh, did you ever run Boston?' It's a great marathon. The prestige and tradition of Boston is such that it isn't the same as anywhere else." Robinson, who was chairman of the 1984 United States Mac- cabi Youth Games held in De- troit, says all marathons are judged by the standards set at Boston. "Everybody says you go to Boston to have a good time, not to run a good time," he adds. "There are two things differ- ent about Boston. The eliteness, because Boston is like the World Series. The race is 90 years old. People who never heard of any other marathon have heard of Boston. And when ydu run Bos- ton you run through Wellesley and there are 20,000 girls lining the street. There are so many traditions. It's a high you'll never forget. "You take a number. There are rosters. These college stu- dents lining the street look at the rosters and when they see you going by they call you by your name. That's really excit- ing." "Heartbreak Hill" is really a. series bf hills about 151/2 miles into the race "just when you don't need them," Robinson says, and lasting almost five \t miles. Spectators "are screaming for you to get up the hill. I've got a cousin in Boston who's got his own place where he's sat to watch for 25 years." There are about 8,000 legiti- mate runners, Robinson. ex- plains, and about as many "bandits" — unqualified and unentered runners who ran anyway. Robinson says he was stationed in Boston in the Navy in 1959 when the event had perhaps 100 runners, yet still it was "the greatest event in the world" in his eyes. "If I was an Arab I'd like to go to Mecca," he says. "And if "I was a non-athlete all my life — overweight and uncoordinated. Running became part of my way of life. It taught me to have faith in humanity." you're a runner you go to Bos- ton. There's nothing comparable to it." Robinson says his' brother Mickey, who is 57, is a psychiat- rist who "got the bug" a few years ago and noW runs at Bos- ton. There is a special group of about 500 doctors who run in the Boston Marathon, whose qualification times don't have to match the regular standards, Robinson says. The regular qualification 'times are two hours, fifty minutes for men under 40 and 3:20 for women under 40; 3:10 for men and 3:30 for women from 40-50; 3:20 for men 50-60; and 3:30 for men 60 or older. The .qualifying times, he says, eliminate all but .a handful of the 100-125 or so runners who frequent the Jewish Community Center track. . Michaelson says the Boston Marathon "has a carnival at- mosphere. It's Patriots Day.