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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 24, 1949
Sports and Youth
Basketball Across the Sea Alliance Day Camp Opens
by Haskell Cohen Jta writer For Eight Week Season
Nat Holman has 'told more
about his recent visit to Israel
where he coached the boys in our
favorite winter pastime—basket
ball. “I gave the boys two hours
every morning and three hours
every afternoon. It was something
that impressed me deeply,” he
explained. “I mean here was a
young country still suffering from
labor pains, trying to hancge 30,-
000 displaced persons a month, and
at the same time launching a
sports program, trying to develop
sports.
"They gave me a class of about
forty that they had drawn from
four groups. There was a group
from Hapoel and one from the
Vfaccabi. Then there were the
teachers and trainers and people
from the Army, and there was also
a selected group of the better
players.
“Now I’ve conducted coaching
clinics before, but this was a little
different. I speak Yiddish to a cer
tain extent but do not speak He
brew, the language of the country.
iSo I toad an interpreter, an Amer
ican Army boy who had gone over
there to live. I don’t know whether
he had ever played basketball but
he understood the game, and we
got along very well.
"The game as they know it over
there is a little different from
ours. They play what I would call
European basketball. 1 mean, lor
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example, that they play—or did—
only the zone defense. I suppose
this comes from soccer which is
their big sport.
“I lectured at the school and
after I had been there several days
I got there early before a lecture
and some of them were playing on
the floor. I saw they were butting
the ball with their heads and
playing it off their feet, as in soc
cer, so I said to them, ‘You knotw
that’s sacrilegious. It’s like mixing
water with good wine. When you
play basketball, you play basket
ball. ’
"All in all they were a wonder
ful group. I can’t talk about sports
over there without straying from
the subject. I think of those people
with so little with which to work,
the hundreds of little settlements
throughout the country where they
start from scratch, and they want
sports.
“Their idea is to stress four
sports. They want basketball and
then swimming because they are
right on the sea, then soccer and
track and field. A group such as
the one which I worked with will
go out and teach other groups.
They seemed to pick it up quickly,
and toward the end I was dividing
them into teams, to work out the
things on which I lectured.
“I would tell one team to play
a zone defense and the other to
play man to man. Neither team
knew what I told the other, and
then after a time out I would
change assignments. When one
team switched from a zone the
other put on all court passes. If
one was using a single pivot I had
the other club use a double pivot,
and in that way I think they got
got a fairly comprehensive picture
of how we play basketball.
“I found that they knew the
names of all of our better known
coaches and learned that they read
all the standard works on the
game. They are familiar with the
names of our better boxers. They
haven’t much interest in baseball
The opening of the Alliance Day
Camp sponsored by the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center, on
Monday, June 20 was a hugh suc
cess, according to Mrs. Sam Alter-
man, chairman of the Day Camp
Committee. Mrs. Alterman ex
plained that the Alliance Day
Camp would be run for eight
weeks, running through to August
12th.
The enrollment at present is up
to capacity and there are just a
few more places open for the sec
ond session, which starts on Mon
day, July 18.
Day Camp director is Arnold
Piskin, recently appointed health
and physical education director of
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center. Mrs. Fred Grossman is
head counselor, together with a
staff which includes: Harold Gold
berg Harold Meltzer, Fay Merlin,
Frances Manheim, Mrs. Harry
Mostow, Mrs. Arthur Levin, David
Franco, Hanka Sanders, Erica
Myers and Sylvia Stillman and
Mrs. Sadie Sacks.
The Day Camp operates on the
site of the new Community Center,
at 1745 Peachtree Rd., N. W. In
addition the campers attend
Bars Red Members
SOUTH FALLSBURG, N. Y.
(JTA)—Resolutions barring Com
munists from membership in the
organization and calling for an
immediate investigation of the de
nazification program in the United
States zone of Germany were
adopted here by 800 delegates at
the 62nd annual convention of
Brith Abraham.
because land is too valuable to
lay out large diamonds.
“My greatest thrill came when
I reached a little settlement in the
north of Galilee where one of the
leaders was a N.Y.U. grad. He
] brought out three or four boys
who had gone to City College and
they gave me an ‘Allagaroo,’ City's
I famous cheer. And there I was in
I Israel.”
special swimming sessions at the
Mayfair Club and Progressive
Club. Included in the program are
Sabbath Services, Hebrew songs
and dances, observation of festi-
! vals and holidays, both American
I and Jewish, arts and craft pro-
! grams, music, dramatics, athletic
games, contests, and a host of
I other activities which are attrac
tive to the children.
Inquiries about registration for
the second period, may do so by
calling Jack Chilnick, executive
director, at MA. 2171, or EM. 1228.
First Camp Daniel Morgan Period Full;
Few Vacancies for Second; List Staff
Jack Maziar, chairman of Camp
Daniel Morgan—the Atlanta Jew
ish Community Center country
camp—has announced that enroll
ment for the, first four weeks of
camp is filled to capacity. He has
also stated that registration for the
second session of camp, August 1
through August 28, is rapidly fill
ing up. Parents interested in reg
istering their children for this
second session should contact Jack
Chilnick, executive director, at
MA. 2171. Registrations for this
period must be in within the next
10 days.
Mr. Maziar has pointed out that
a fine staff of counselors, headed
by Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Posner
of New York, will begin function
ing on Monday". July 4.
The Posners will be assisted by:
Lewis Kurtzman, David Smiley,
Arthur Lee Diamond, Herb Men
del, Bob Levetan, Bernice Rich-
man, Ben Hirsch, Fayge Siskind,
Paul Muldawer, Trudy Carson,
Sylvia Feldman, Brenda Katz,
Edna King, nurse, Mr. and Mrs.
T. Willoughby, cooks.
The camp committee includes:
Jack Maziar, Max Kuniansky, Joe
Gerson, Irwin Krick, Sol Green
berg, Mrs. Louis Geffen, Mrs. El
liott Rubin, Mrs. Abe Fitterman,
Laurence Posner, ex-officio, and
Jack Chilnick.
JEA Softball;
Fourth League
Starts Sunday
The time of the Girls’ softball
league was changing to 10 a. m.
and two, games were played Sun
day at Piedmont Park. One game
found the highly tauted DOZ team
barely managing to eke out a 9 to
8 victory over a scrappy FOJ
team. The FOJ team played some
very inspiring ball due to the pres
ence of their capable leader, Fay
Merlin, Phyllis Gershon was the
winning pitcher and Janet Knox
the loser. In the other contest,
SDG swamped the TNL crew by
a score of 25 to 9. The SDG girls
really had a field day at the plate
and received some good pitching
from Faye Rich and Pearl Carnell.
Elsie Tuck was the losing twirler.
In the Boys’ "B” League, 134
won over DSI by a forfeit; and
518 defeated JAO in a closely
played game, 8 to 7. JAO was well
behind but with Berney Kahn
urging them on managed to come
back and give the 518 group a
tough game. Hugh Klotz received
credit for the victory, giving him
a record of 3 and 9; and Arthur
Axelrod was the loser.
In the Boys’ “A" League, DSI
won over TEP’s by a forfeit and
the other contest found a rejuven
ated 134 team an important upset
by trouncing 518 by the score of
12 and 5. Dave Franco did some
excellent pitching for the winners
and was backed up by five batting
on the part of David Berkman,
Dick Forman and Jerry Siegel. In
addition, Barney Kahn made some
outstanding plays at shortstop.
Jerry Rittenbaum was the losing
twirler.
In addition to the three leagues
now in progress, the men’s Double
A league will get underway this
Sunday at Piedmont Park.
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