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Thursday till 8, closed Sunday BUY DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER AND SAVE 18 Friday, August 22, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS Maccabi Games Continued from Page 1 York University, the main site for the games. The Ven- ezuelan delegation, which had been hosted by Detroit families last week, arrived in Toronto last Thursday and had to sleep on the lawn out- side a dormitory because they arrived a day early. Other foreign delegations arrived without having contacted Toronto officials in advance. Some Detroit youngsters told their parents that they took public transportation to downtown Toronto late at night to go shopping. There were reports of noisy delega- tions carousing in the dor- mitories, and a barbecue on Sunday sponsored by the To- ronto host committee had four grills preparing hot dogs for 2,500 persons. Detroit team captain and long-time Maccabi volunteer Jay Robinson minimized the difficulties late Tuesday night in a telephone inter- view with The Jewish News. "The first few days were very rocky," Robinson said. "Fri- day night's opening cere- monies were rained out, but the kids were already there when the storm hit and they got soaking wet. No an- nouncements were made be- cause the ceremonies were cancelled, and the dining room was running very late because of the cancelled schedule. Saturday was Shabbat, and the kids had very little to do. But on Sun- day the kids started their competitions, and by Monday things started to smooth out. Everybody got to their games and matches." Steve Weiss, president of Detroit Maccabi, spent last weekend in Toronto. "When we walked in Friday after- noon we immediately realized there were major problems." Weiss said the Detroit dele- gation refused to allow its team to be switched from its assigned dormitory, and "we also told our coaches that they were responsible for get- ting their athletes to their contests" off-campus when the scheduled buses did not arrive. "We also told the coaches to buy lunches for the kids" at off-campus competitions "and give us the bills" when boxed lunches were not deliv- ered, Weiss said. He credits Detroiters Robinson and Mort Plotnick, executive director of Detroit's Jewish Community Center, for helping the To- ronto host committee solve the games' problems. Robinson reported "that a whole bunch of people jumped in to help out. But it wasn't a palace coup. There are a lot of people here from all over the world who really know a lot about these things." Some of the difficulties were attributed to a campus location for the Toronto games. In Detroit two years ago, more than 1,000 athletes received home hospitality Jay Robinson: The bottom line was the athletes. from the Jewish community, nearly eliminating problems of entertainment, supervi- sion, food, lodging and trans- portation for the guest dele- gations. With more than 2,000 athletes going to To- ronto, the host committee re- lied on the York University facilities. Jeff Engel, chairman of Maccabi Ontario, confirmed that many of the early prob- lems were caused by "more people coming last-minute than expected." He also ad- mitted that "we have been understaffed. The Toronto volunteers did not come through. But adults attend- ing the games with other delegations have pitched in," he said, "mostly from Detroit and New York." Plotnick added that daily heads-of-delegation meetings were instituted Monday, and those meetings have been a major factor in improving the games. Both Engel and Robinson described the athletic compe- titions as running smoothly. "We've had top-flight compe- tition," Robinson said, "world class in 'some cases. The sports themselves have been fabulous." At mid-week, Detroit's athletes were challenging in the medal rounds in several competitions. Through Tues- day, the boy's basketball team had a 4-0 record and the soccer team was 3-1. The boys' and girls' baseball teams were also in the 'medal rounds. Detroit athletes are also competing in track, sailing, racquetball, tennis, table tennis, girls' gymnastics, and Continued on Page 20