50 | MAY 19 • 2022 

SPORTS

quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN 

A milestone season has 
begun for the B’nai B’rith golf 
league.
This is the 10th season for 
the weekly nine-hole league, 
and its ninth season at The 
Links of Novi after starting 
at Fox Hills Golf & Banquet 
Center in Plymouth.
The 17-week league once 
again has a full roster of 12 
two-man teams, 25 golfers in 
all (one team has two golfers 
who alternate weeks).
Competition, camarade-

rie and reasonable costs 
have kept the league going 
strong, according to organiz-
er Gary Klinger. So has the 
league’s stability.
“We’ve been playing at the 
same times on the same day 
(late afternoon/early evening 
Thursday) each week for 10 
years,” Klinger said. “Guys 
can count on it. It’s locked 
in.”
Klinger said the league 
isn’t filled with superstar 
golfers.

“Most of the guys are 
decent golfers,” he said. “We 
use handicaps, which is the 
great equalizer.”
Mike Klinger and Kerry 
Chaben led the league’s 
team standings through the 
first two weeks of the current 
season (April 28 and May 5).
They had compiled 30 
points by going 12-4-2 on 
holes and winning both of 
their matches.
League golfers also com-
pete as individuals. 

Happy 10th Anniversary to the B’nai B’rith Golf League

GARY KLINGER

Mike Klinger and 
Kerry Chaben.

Orthodox Jewish boxing pro-
moter Dmitriy Salita has put 
together a special pre- 
Memorial Day weekend 
show for area boxing fans.
Salita Promotions’ next 
Detroit Brawl card May 26 
in the Lincoln Ballroom 
of the Ford Community & 
Performing Arts Center in 
Dearborn is headed by an 
intriguing heavyweight main 
event.
It matches WBC No. 
11-ranked Otto Wallin (23-1, 14 
KO’s) of Sweden against vet-
eran Rydell Booker (26-5-1, 
13 KO’s) of Detroit.
Wallin shocked the box-
ing world in 2019 when he 

stunned world champion 
Tyson Fury with a third-round 
punch that Fury later needed 
47 stitches to close. Fury won 
the fight by a controversial 
unanimous decision.
Booker was the No. 
1-ranked heavyweight in the 
U.S. when he was an ama-
teur. All five of his profession-
al losses have been inflicted 
by a former champion or 
undefeated top contender.
“(The May 26) show is part 
of our bigger initiative to 
bring world-class profession-
al boxing to Detroit on a con-
sistent basis,” Salita said.
For ticket information, 
go to Dearborntheater.com.

Salita Promotions Packs a Punch

SALITA PROMOTIONS

Dmitriy 
Salita

Elle Hartje played a starring 
role in the best season 
in the history of the Yale 
University women’s hockey 
team.
The No. 4-ranked 
Bulldogs advanced to the 
NCAA Frozen Four for the 
first time. Yale lost 2-1 to 
No. 1-ranked and eventual 
national champion Ohio 
State in March in the 
national semifinals.
Hartje, a sophomore 
forward from Bloomfield 
Hills, broke the Yale team 
record for assists in a 
season (35), and her 51 
points were the most for 
a Yale women’s hockey 
player in 38 years and 
the second-most in team 
history.
An All-ECAC First Team 
selection, Hartje led the 
conference in points per 
game with 1.42, and she 
was fifth and 10th nationally 
in assists and goals per 
game.

Yale didn’t play in the 
2020-21 season because 
of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Hartje spent the season in 
Slovakia playing for a club 
team that earned a bronze 
medal in the Elite Women’s 
Hockey League and the 
Slovakian national team.
The Detroit Country 
Day School grad lived in 
Bratislava, Slovakia, where 
her maternal grandparents 
Jan and Eva Rival were 
born, lived as adults and 
got married.

YALE UNIVERSITY

Elle 
Hartje 

Elle Hartje Writes Her Name in the Yale 
Women’s Hockey Record Book

continued on page XX