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ou can't take anything away from Joe Dumars'
illustrious career on and off the basketball
court.
But the retired Detroit Pistons star didn't get
the first standing ovation Monday night at the Michigan
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame induction dinner at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek. That honor went to 97-
year-old race-walking champion Julius Spielberg, who was
applauded loudly as he was helped up the stairs to the
podium.
Spielberg didn't need any help at the senior nationals
in Orlando recently, when he won two more gold medals,
and he paid tribute to his family for supporting him dur-
ing his racing career, which began after he turned 70.
The evening was a study in contrasts for the Michigan
Jewish Sports Foundation, sponsor of the Hall of Fame at
the D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building of the Jewish
Community Center.
Alan Rothenberg,
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his friends laughed when told he was being inducted into
the sports hall, claiming he was the world's worst athlete.
Rothenberg was cited for his efforts in promoting amateur
and professional soccer, including chairing the 1994 World
Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation and the 1999 Women's
World Cup.
Inductee Allan Tolmich was amazed at the large num-
ber of Detroiters who had lost track of him over the
years. After an outstanding career at Wayne University
where he set 10 national and world marks as a
hurdler/sprinter, Tolmich moved to Chicago in the 1950s
and became a business executive. He retired to
Indianapolis in recent years. "I knew where I was!" he
said.
Included among the 500 guests at the event were 130
youngsters up to age 17, whose cost to attend was S1 per
year of age. Parents and grandparents met sports celebrities
and bid on sports memorabilia to find MJSF programs in
cancer research and the annual Hall of Fame Games for ath-
letes with disabilities, and munched on Paul Kohn's gourmet
delectables.
The younger set drove remote-control cars, played
miniature golf and ate hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream
sundaes and cotton candy at food and play stations that
were intermingled with the adults' stations in Shaarey
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