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Michael Yendick Pure Heart
Award winner Todd Kaluzny, left,
with Al Yendick and Gary Klinger.

Steve Stein | Contributing Writer

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40 September 15 • 2016

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t was a fun summer for the men
who participated in the B’nai B’rith
Great Lakes Region softball and golf
leagues. Especially for those who won
championships.
Zeiger won the softball title for the
third straight year, beating Brotherhood
19-12 in the playoff championship game
at Drake Sports Park in West Bloomfield,
the league’s weekly home. Player-manager
Rick Sherline’s Zeiger team also had the
best record during the regular season
(14-5-1).
“Rick’s team was the best team in the
league,” said Gary Klinger, Great Lakes
Region athletic chairman.
Pisgah (9-9-2), Brotherhood (8-11-1)
and Impact (7-13-0) followed Zeiger in
the regular-season standings. Player-
managers for those teams were Max
Weberman, Klinger and Greg Lewis.
Other Zeiger players were Marc
Tushman, Dave Ettlinger, Rodger
Davenport, Justin Fisher, Mike Geller,
Todd Kaluzny, Eric Randolph, Josh
Randolph, Danny Weiss, John Shea, Lyle
Schaefer, Brian Tepper and Bobby Efros.
The softball league has had four teams
for a few years. While that’s the minimum
number to have a league, Klinger said,
there is a silver lining.
“We have four stable teams and good
competition,” he said. “Of course, we’re
always looking to grow.”
This was the 16th year the league pre-
sented its Michael Yendick Pure Heart
Award in honor of a former player who
died from colon cancer in 2000.
Kaluzny received the award in a vote of
league players.
Klinger said Kaluzny is a cancer survi-
vor “and a complete caring individual. He
cares about his family, friends and team-
mates more than himself.”
Yendick family members including
his parents Al and Bernice attended the
award ceremony.
The four-year-old B’nai B’rith golf
league was bigger than ever this year. It
had 20 golfers, topping the 12 in 2013 and
2014 and the 16 in 2015.
“Can the league grow? A little bit,”
Klinger said. “If we do, we’ll probably
have to start matches 10 or 15 minutes
earlier so we have enough daylight to
play.”
There were 10 two-man teams this
year. They competed as teams and indi-

viduals in weekly nine-hole, handicapped
match-play events.
Team champions were Dale Taub and
Klinger. They were followed in the stand-
ings by Mitch Lefton-Stu Zorn, Howard
Genser-Lyle Schaefer, Steve Lotzoff-Art
Hurvitz, Howard Mertz-Gary Fink,
David Swimmer-Jody Mendelson, Dave
Riger-Marc Ruskin, Mike Klinger-Kerry
Chaben, Mark Baron-Steve Wallace and
Al DiPaolo-David Lubin.
Schaefer won the individual title for
the second straight year. Gary Klinger fin-
ished second and Hurvitz was third.
League play was at the Links of Novi
for the third year.

HOCKEYTOWN HISTORY
A presentation about two Jewish men
who helped launch the Detroit Red Wings
franchise will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.
20, at Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph
Road in Bloomfield Hills.
Temple Beth El members Morris
Caplan and Morris Friedberg were part
of a group that purchased the 1925-1926
Western Canada Hockey League cham-
pion Victoria (B.C.) Cougars for $100,000
and brought the team to Detroit to join
the National Hockey League.
The Detroit Cougars became the
Detroit Falcons in 1930 and the Detroit
Red Wings in 1932.
Admission to the presentation, co-
sponsored by the Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan, is a $5 donation to
Temple Beth El’s Rabbi Leo M. Franklin
Archive. For reservations, contact archi-
vist Jan Durecki at (248) 865-0628 or
farchives@tbeonline.org.

HALL DOORS OPENING
Tickets remain for the 32nd annual
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
induction dinner. The event will
be Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
The 2016 inductees are ex-Michigan
State basketball player Mat Ishbia, former
University of Michigan basketball player
Donny Wohl, hockey player Kimberly
Spaulding Shaw and sportscaster Michael
Stone.
For tickets, call the Michigan Jewish
Sports Foundation at (248) 592-9323.

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