S PORTS DO YOU HAVE GARAGE SCHMUTZ? Braun Has 3 Gagers From '85 Maccabiah HARLAN C. ABBEY - Special to The Jewish News T • • • • Free Installation Fully Adjustable European Construction Lifetime Guarantee on Hinges and Drawer Slides • Buy Direct from the Manufacturer Introducing THE GARAGANIZER© CALL NOW FOR MORE INFORMATION • 549-6374 FRANKLIN SUMMER TENNIS CAMP ALL DAY & 1/2 DAY SESSIONS WEEKLY CAMPS BEGIN JUNE 19 Ages 9-13 Non-Members Welcome Featuring Tennis & Swimming 3 52-8000 EXT. 38 For Registration And Information Fitness & Racquet Club he United States entry in the basketball corn- petition of the 13th Maccabiah in Israel next week probably will have a tough battle with the host team. Ben Braun, coach at Eastern Michigan University, has as returnees only three members of the team that edged Israel by two points in the 1985 Maccabiah: point guard Joshua Wexler of Cor- nell University; Jerry Simon, a shooting guard from Penn; and 6-foot-4 Albert Moscatel from the University of Washington. The U.S. Maccabi team will feature two athletes who represented America in last summer's Olympic Games in Korea: Ken Flax, America's No. 1-rated hammer-thrower, and rowing coxswain Sherri Cassuto. Many other top U.S. Jewish athletes in judo, fencing and wrestling will be competing in more presitigious tour- naments in hopes of qualify- ing for the 1992 Olympics. But few other Diaspora na- tions can match the United States' highly developed high school, college and age-group athletic programs, so it seems fairly certain that the United 'Bad Boys' May Stay, But 1 Piston May Go 29350 Northwestern Hwy./Southfield, MI RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer A DAVID ROSENMAN'S AtilF0 MEL PERCHASIERS NEW & USED CAR BROKER (313) 851-CARS (313) 851-2277 OPENING/EXPANDING A BUSINESS??? I've Got LOCATIONS LOCATIONS LOCATIONS Call Today JONATHAN BRATEMAN PROPERTIES INC. (393) 474-3855 50 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1989 You bi -"vsat g ria tia minc er with emoria t cur oca ntt o t ANIERIC.AN CANCER SOCIETY® States will win more medals than any other nation. Wexler and Simon were the first high school players to make a Maccabi team since Danny Schayes. Wexler, from Highland Park, Ill., and the only Midwesterner on the cage squad, led Cornell in assists for four straight years while Simon was a top scorer for his team. Moscatel, playing in the powerful PAC-10 Con- ference, was "Sixth Man of The Year" in 1986. Among the men's swimm- ing favorites will be Daniel Israel of Ann Arbor, who won the silver and bronze medals in Israel in 1985. Israel, who graduated from Brown University in May, is an All- Ivy League and All-East swimmer. Tennis top seeds are Dan Goldberg of the University of Michigan, a two-time all- American, and Andrea Berger of the University of Florida, who has reached the quarterfinals of four women's professional tournaments, in- cluding the U.S. Open and the second round at Wimbledon in 1987. Michiganian David Stollman, of Birmingham, who finished third in the col- legiate fencing champion- ships at Penn, will be among that sport's favorites. T he National Basket- ball Association cham- pionship won earlier this month by the Detroit Pistons had special significance to the metro area's Jewish community. Much satisfaction, of course, was evinced by the fact the team's principal owners — Bill Davidson, David Hermelin and Oscar Feldman — as well as other key in- vestors are members of the Jewish community. And all fans were shocked when the Piston manage- ment left unprotected Rick Mahorn, the key "Bad Boy" on the team, who went to Minnesota in the expansion draft. The fact the "Bad Boys" nickname might no longer apply had special significance to Bill Berris, marketer of the skull-and-crossbones "Bad Boys" logo. His Athletic Supporter Ltd. of Farmington Hills, one of six companies licensed by the NBA to produce and market Piston memorabilia, has sold over 120,000 "Bad Boys" T- shirts nationwide since November, he said. "The basketball motif has proven to be very profitable," he said. "It's an identity that the fans are behind and I don't think the fans are going to suddenly stop thinking of the team as the Bad Boys. It's an image the fans have created. We got calls from people saying, 'Save the Bad Boys.' " Rick Philip Brode, a Detroit attorney and sports agent for the Pistons' John Long, waited with his client for the June 27 NBA player draft to see what would happen because Long is to become an unrestricted free agent on Ju- ly 1.