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Friday, Srpt. 1, 1961 Pa(c Thraa THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Atlanta Center Drive Approaches Halfway Mark AJCC DEVELOPMENT FUND CAMPAIGN SCENES Balls Well pardner ya can’t cut the wire any thinner and ya can’t net any closer to the end than we now have at the AJ.C.C. Men’s Softball League. This year’s league has been the closest, hottest and most hard fought games that we have seen in many a year. This past Sunday we saw the playoffs for the champs of the first half as it was an elimination game where we saw a double header and the Adlers Battlers come out on top. It all started in the morning where we saw the Adlers Bat tlers trounce the Silvermen by the score of 16-6. In this game there were a host of outstanding players. The Battlers with great pitching by Jerry “Sober” Sobel- son (who by the way won both games for the Battlers) and strong Hitting by “Hesh” Adler, “Soapy” Maziar, “Roberto” Pall or, Abe “L. L.” Golub, and homers by “Stan the Man” Sil verman and great field plays by Mat and "Meschor” Robbins (no kin). And queer catches but great by “Legs*’ Stine. The Men from Silver-men hung by the cleat straps for another year and outstanding plays for them were had by the captain “Marv Wally Butts” Silverman. Freddy “Stogie” Ber.amy, Gary "Short by heavy” Leff, Norm "Lebs” Lebedin,” “Pedro” (who has hung his straps up at least for another year) Morris, “Topi- ea” Attinson and Stan “Firebug” Firestone who is the best slider in the league, and Doe “Dee” Cohen. On diamond two we saw the men from Weiss's Mices chew away at their brothers the Fields Rats by beating them 9-6. This gave the Mices the chance to lose or should I say play the Adlers Battlers for the first half championship. The game also was a good one but the men from the Fields Rats stated they had it in the bag and therefore did not give it all they had, anyway the mices beat them and the capt. Sey Weiss who hit the ball to any field, did not get to be in the playoff but went down like a great captain should. Don “Peanuts” Diamond, Bobby “Yes” Ney, “Moose” Miller, “Husky” Hirsch were great men with the bats while in the field. “Meats” Goodman, Randy “Real- ing” Feinberg all had a hand in making it a great season. For the Fields Rats "Votin for Slotin” Jacobs, George “gettin’ Mar ried’’ Enteen, “Ruby Rubinson, “Choo Choo” Joffre, Stan “The Man’ Flamm, “Gabby” Rai ser, were hot men in the field and the big sticks were “Sambo” Siegel, “Hustler” Halpem and “Returnie” Solomon. Well, anyway the big play for the championship of the Mens AJCC Gold Cap (Gold Cup??) wfll take place next Sunday at 9:50 at the Center ball pork. Winners of the first half of the Adler's Battlers will play the winners of the second half of the Fields Rats and the winner will be the champs for the year 1961. The way the games have been all year around this should prove to be a very good game and all are Invited. They have added 600 more seats in the grandstand, so you all are invited to come. Look for this game and also for the last of Bits of Bats A Balls by yours truly next Sunday Till then, SHALOM. Campaign Goals — Medintz Camp, Expansion * At a report meeting held on Wednesday at the Atlanta Jew ish Community Center, an en thusiastic group of community and campaign leaders cheered the announcement that the Drive was proceeding ahead of sched ule. The first phase of the Develop ment Fund Campaign is sched uled to be completed by Septem ber 8 and funds secured at this point have reached a total of $454,550. The campaign goal is $934,000. Expressing optimism about the campaign, Erwin Zaban, general campaign chairman, and Ben Massell, honorary campaign chairman, in a joint statement said: “This is a once in a life time project o£ great magnitude. It can only succeed the way it should with once in a lifetime gifts made out of present and future earnings and out of capi tal, too, where available. The needs being met by this cam paign are not for next year but for the next generation." They explained that pledges may be made on the basis of payment over a four tax year period. A group of 81 campaign lead ers have indicated that they are reserving some of the leading units of the Atlanta Jewish Community Center Complex with pledges running from $1,000 to $50,000. Each unit for which a pledge 4s made will be estab lished as a Memorial or an Hon- orial in the name of the person or family suggested by- the pledge. Bernard Howard, Chairman of the Leadership Gifts Division of the Drive, stated that he and his committee are very conscious of the great responsibility which the Leadership Gifts Section must achieve. “We are confident ly proceeding with the plans to fulfill this major community responsibility and we are de termined to cover every pros pect in our section of the cam paign.” Working diligently to success fully complete the first phase of the AJCC Develop m e nt m e n t Fund Campaign are: Joseph K. Heyman, M. Wil liam Breman, Isadore Alterman, Max Alterman, Joseph Gerson, Max Rittenbaum, Dave Center, Morris Abram, Abe Alterman, Meyer Balser, Jack Bercenko, Dr. Nathan Blass, Joseph Cuba, Max Cuba, Herbert Elsas, A. L. Feldman, Sidney Feldman, A. DeJongh Franklin, A1 Garber, Dan Garson, Edward Glaser, Abe Goldstein, Dr. Irving Goldstein, Dr. Marvin Goldstein, David Goldwasser. Ralph Hillman, Bernard How ard, Perry Kaye, David Koplin, Max Kuniansky, Nathan Lipton, Harold E Marcus, Simon Mendel, Sam Per ling, Milton Rauzin, Charles Rinzler, Louis Ritten baum, Leonard Rod bell, L. A. Rosenberg, Bernard Smith, Mil- ton Weinstein, Erwin Zaban, Abe Adair, George Alterman, Morris Arnovitz, Saul M. Blum- enthal, Leonard Bock, Melvin A. Brown. Sidney Cavalier, Bernard Co hen, Leonard Diamond, ®y Freedman, Jerome Gilbert, Ber nard Gordon, Sol Greenberg, Sidney Gulden, Jerome Kaha- now, Edward Krick, Harry Ku niansky, Sam E. Levy, Marshall J. Mantler, Sydney B. Marks, Coleman Medintz, Hyman B. Meltz. Harry Mendel, Leonard Micha- love, Samuel A. Miller, Perry Morris, Ben Rice, Herbert A. Ringel, Clyde A. Rodbell. Men del Romm, Jr. Alvin Saul, Sam Schaffer, Philip Shulhafer, Rob ert Weinstein, and Mrs. Dorothy Medintz, Mrs. Meyer Balser, Mrs. Harold E. Marcus, Mrs. Sam Alterman and Mrs. Simon Selig, Jr.