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ET- This year, 20 teams are On these Sundays, the LT ; placed into "A," "B," or "C" B'nai B'rith Basketball 1 leagues based upon ability. League turns doctors, Team managers and league lawyers, teachers, scrap-yard § officials meet at the start of workers, college students, each basketball season to stockbrokers, computer tech- evaluate and place the nicians, etc., into athletes. teams, taking into account They walk into the South- the previous year's record field-Lathrup High School and any personnel changes. gymnasium still waking up Overall, the system and stretching the sleep from works well, according to their bodies. Some jog around Gary Klinger, the league the gym to warm up. Some secretary. "Very few teams discuss strategy for the morn- are far and away above any ing's game. of the other teams in their For over 20 years, a large division," he says, Melton group of men, with a small says players even scout the sprinkling of women, have other teams for recruits for been getting together at vari- the following year. ous area gyms "to have a good Over the years, says time in a competitive sport," Klinger, many of the teams according to Marty Melton, have built up rivalries. And the basketball league's com- missioner and B'nai B'rith's Dale Taub tries to steal the ball from an opponent. partly because of the rival- ries, he says, "playing bas- Michigan director of athletics. ketball here is something "We have a lot of fun with Despite the fun and friend- people really look forward to." this league," says Melton. The Says player Ken Radner, players are competitive on the ships, the basketball itself is quite court and then often go out for competitive and the league seems tongue-in-cheek, "I really enjoy breakfast together after their almost professional in its opera- playing here. Where else do you game is over. Melton founded the tion. The season runs for 10 get to push around people you basketball league in 1976 and weeks and is then followed by know and get away with it?" As the games draw to a close, played in it himself until he in- playoffs. Officiating is contract- ed through Quad County Offi- fatigue becomes evident. Many jured his back a few years ago. B'nai B'rith also has softball cials, an organization with over players walk the length of the and volleyball leagues, but the 200 referees who work weekly court, no longer able to run. The basketball league is the most pop- high-school games as well as the athletes are turning back into the ordinary working mortals that state championships. ular, Melton says. There is a score-keeping crew they were Saturday night. Alan Goldstein says he keeps ❑ 50%-70% OFF ALL NAME BRANDS 21728 W. Eleven Mile Rd. Harvard Row Mall Southfield, MI 48076 Everyday people turn back the clock in the B'nai B'rith Basketball League. YAACOV D. SCHOLAR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS One of the many reasons why knowledgeable customers say: "MY Cleaners is my cleaners." 1204 S. Woodward, Royal Oak (Just North Sunday Warriors minutes from the Birmingham/Bloomfield area off off-696" 445-6000 lthough she is not the first woman to play in what is sometimes referred to as the B'nai B'rith "Men's" Basketball League, this season Karen Sklar is the only woman challenging the guys. A math teacher at Southfield High School, Sklar has been play- ing B'nai B'rith basketball since 1989, save for a hiatus when she lived in California. A She has been an athlete most of her life and played women's basketball at Farmington Har- rison High School and during graduate work at College of the Canyons in California. She also played softball as an un- dergraduate at Wayne State University and will coach soft- ball again for the Detroit team in the teen-age Maccabi Games this summer. Karen Sklar heads up court.