YAACOV D. SCHOLAR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Above:
Al Mudryk keeps
his eye on the
ball for Detroit
Weberman.
T H E D E TR O I T J E WI S H N E W S
Right:
Harold Grossbart
prepares to fire
to second base.
Border
oes winning your own tour-
nament make you a bad
host? Hopefully the Cana-
dian visitors didn't feel that
way.
For the third time in 18
years, Detroit hosted the
Jewish Men's Internation-
al Softball Tournament
over Labor Day weekend.
Some 168 players formed 11 teams from six
Canadian cities and three teams from De-
troit for three days of softball at Novi's Pow-
er Park and Farmington Harrison High
School.
The Jewish Men's International — held
in Montreal last year, and set for Ottawa
next year— was previously held in Detroit
in 1987 and 1992.
"For the most part," says tournament co-
chairman Rick Sherline, "the same teams
participate year after year," and the friend-
ships become the main attraction of the tout)
nament. The other tournament co-chairme
were Harold Grossbart, Marc Weberm
and Lyle Schaefer.
The tournament was first organized b
the Canadian B'nai B'rith and went hide
pendent four years ago. Most of the team
and players participate in B'nai B'r .
leagues.
Detroit teams usually do well in the Je
ish Men's International, says Harold Gm
bart, third baseman for the Detroi
Weberman team, which won last year an
last weekend. "Of the eight years that I'v
played in this tournament, we've been in th
finals seven times."
Ed Radner, coach of the Detroit Radn
team, agrees, "despite the fact that we
with Canadian softball rules."
Canadian rules allow for an unlimited
when the ball is pitched, as opposed to a 1
12-foot-high arc hi American softball. Als
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