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wish I had a chance to bowl
against those guys."
If he had tried, could he
have been a pro? "Yeah,
definitely, without a doubt,"
he says. He regrets not trying
to make the tour, but feels he
is better off pursuing his pro-
fessional and earning money
in amateur bowling events.

"The people who make
money (on the PBA tour), I
call them Super Freaks.
They're unbelievable. Be-
cause the fellas that make
money are just a cut above
everybody else. It's very, very
tough. I have quite a few
friends who've gone out who
I thought were real, real good
bowlers — just haven't done
that well at all. I can stay
home and bowl on the week-
ends and make money."
Silverman generally bowls
one league at a time but
changes leagues frequently,
for variety's sake. He plans to
bowl this fall in a Redford
league which offers a $7,500
prize for the championship
team:
Silverman plans to bowl in
a match-play event in Penn-
sylvania over the Labor Day
weekend. If he does well in
Pennsylvania, he may bowl in
the High Rollers tourney in
Las Vegas in October. For an
entry fee of $1,000, bowlers in

the match-game event get a
crack at a $250,000 top prize.
But first round losers go
home with nothing.
During Thanksgiving he
will bowl the Hoinke Super
Classic, which now pays
$100,000 to the winner.
In head-to-head "combats,"
confidence is a key, says
Silverman. "You have to be
able to stay calm. A lot of peo-
ple lose their calm.
"When I was 15 years old I
was bowling all over the city
for money, going around and
bwling people — gambling. I
grew up, as far as the gambl-
ing atmosphere, betting on it;
it didn't bother me. I think
that was a little help. But I'm
used to head-to-head battles.
I like them."
Although Silverman has
rolled several perfect games,
he's never had a sanctioned
300. That remains one of his
goals. He'd also like to win
the $250,000 Las Vegas
tourney. But the competition
drives him more than does
the money.
"I like the money, but corn-
petition definitely outweighs
the money. The money's good,
but I like the head-to-head
combat, one-on-one. Because
you've got to be really tough,
you've got to be mentally
tough."

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T

he closing ceremonies
of the 13th Maccabiah
at the Western Wall
were marred by the explosion
of a smoke bomb, an incident
which police said was pro-
bably accidental.
Though three people were
hospitalized following the ex-
plosion, the ceremonies con-
tinued without incident. The
ceremony in the Old City was
followed by a march through
Jerusalem.
The Israeli team marched
in victory, having taken first
place with a total of 258
medals.
The host country, with by
far the largest number of
athletes participating in the
Jewish Olympic-style tourna-
ment, topped its closest rival,
the United States, by a com-
fortable margin.
The Americans, who sent
520 athletes to the quadren-
nial event, the second largest
contingent, collected 199
medals in the seven days of
competition. At the last Mac-

cabiah in 1985, they took
home 246 medals.
The U.S. basketball team,
coached by Ben Braun of
Eastern Michigan University,
brought home a silver medal
after bowing to Israel 101-92
in the final game.
Canada trailed in third
place, with a total of 70
medals.
Most of the events took
place at the Ramat Gan
Stadium, near Tel Aviv,
though the closing cere-
monies were held at the
Western Wall.
There had been speculation
immediately after the smoke
bomb explosion that the bomb
had been planted by ultra-
Orthodox activists, who had
denounced the ceremonies as
a desecration of the Jewish
religious shrine and threaten-
ed violence.
The ultra-Orthodox objected
because both men and women
participate in the sports
events and because Olympic
games are the invention of
the early Greeks, who were
enemies of the Israelites.
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published by the largely
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