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Don't be afraid to enter the Deep Blue

There is a fresh face in the local restaurant scene. Deep Blue,
owned by Geoffrey Browning and Chick Taylor, is a contemporary
look to classic seafood. Maple Pecan Crusted Pickerel, Macadamia
Crusted Tuna with Mango Red Pepper Sauce, Jumbo Lump Crab
Cakes with Cajun Cream Sauce join old favorites Lake Perch,
Seared Salmon with Caramelized Capers and Flounder with
Deviled Crabmeat in creating an exciting, diverse menu.And if
seafood isn't your plate of halibut, there is a Spice Rubbed Bone
on Rib Eye, Double Cut Marinated Loin Lamb Chops and Angus
Filet Mignon.As a way of introducing ourselves; we would like to
offer an enticing deal. Come see us at 30855 Southfield Road and
bring this ad and we will take 20% off your bill, Monday -
Friday.

Deep Blue

Dive into a new dining experience

248.644.5330

30855 Southfield Rd. (just

South of 13 Mile Rd.)

Reservations Recommended

870100

Voted Best Coney Island
2 Years In A Row
by Jewish News Readers

8/ 6
2004

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W

hen Roy Clark, 83, attended
the dedication of the World
War II memorial in
Washington, D.C. this spring, he could
feel proud of the service he performed in
the Pacific, and grateful that, unlike
some others he served with, he didn't
have to pay the ulti-
mate price.
But he did make
sacrifices, including
his professional base-
ball career.
Clark was a six-let-
ter winner at Detroit
Central High School,
playing three years of
varsity baseball and
basketball, and win-
ning All-City baseball
honors in 1939. A
catcher, he played one
year of sandlot ball in
Detroit, then was
Clark in 1941
invited to a minor
league spring training
camp in 1941. Clark earned a spot with
an independent Class D team in
Bluefield, West Virginia, where his com-
petitors featured future Hall of Famer
Warren Spahn.
Clark batted .306 with seven home
runs and 37 RBIs in 79 games at
Bluefield. "It was great," he recalls.
"When you're a kid out of high school,
this is your dream."
At the time, he said, he was "a good
hitter. Great arm. A little bit to learn on
defense. But I had no doubt I would've
made it if I didn't go into the service."
We'll never know if Clark was correct.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps
before the 1942 season. "I figured I was
a Jew, and I thought it was my fight."
Clark received offers from several pro
teams after the war, but didn't pursue
them. "I was going to be 25 and I really
didn't know how my arm was going to
be because I hurt it when I jumped in a
fox hole," he explains. 'And at 25, I was
starting to think of a family."
Clark and his wife, Helen, who reside
in West Bloomfield, raised six sons,
whose sport of choice was mainly
wrestling. One son, Paul, won the state
119-pound wrestling championship for
Detroit Country Day. Another, Cliff,
followed in Roy's footsteps as a catcher,
at Southfield High, but was stuck

behind future major leaguer Ted
Simmons.
Clark, now retired, has coached Little
League baseball and been active in the
American Friends of Israel Association of
Baseball. He stays active by working out
at the Jewish Community Center.
Bloomfield Hills Andover's Dan
Smith won Observer 6- Eccentric All-
Area baseball coach of the year honors.
The Barons won their
first-ever regional
championship and
finished 30-4 overall.
Two Andover play-
ers, Mike Fenkell and
Casey Smith, won
Honorable Mention
All-Area notice, along
with Scott Moscow
and Brad Levick from
North Farmington,
West Bloomfield's
Brett Borock and the
Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan
Detroit's Sam
Yashinsky.
Yashinsky was also
selected First Team All Lakes Area by the
Spinal Column. Yashinsky was 7-2 with
a 0.90 ERA. He struck out 59 hitters in
55 innings and tossed four shutouts. He
also hit .509 with 26 RBI in 16 games.
Second Team honors went to Borock,
Eric Lubanski of Walled Lake Western,
plus Andrew Garon and Brad Garon
from the Jewish Academy. Three JAMD
players earned Third Team honors: Josh
Cohen, Brad Garden and Alex Tapper.
Two West Bloomfield softball players,
Sarah Elkus and Erica Lewis, gained
All-Area Honorable Mention status,
along with Andover's Lisa Goode and
North Farmington's Emily Jaffe. Jaffe
was also named All-County Honorable
Mention.
Andover's Howie Migdal earned sec-
ond team All-County tennis honors at
No. 1 singles. Honorable mention went
to singles players Isaac Kalo and Matt
Ran from Andover, Mike Kaufman
from North Farmington, West
Bloomfield's David Murav and
Birmingham Groves' Jake Seidman.
Doubles honorees include Jon
Beitner, Jeff Taxe and Alex Kahn from
Andover and Groves' Brad Krasnik.

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