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Pa K t 3 — THK SOUTHERN ISRAELITE, August 10, 1973
SPORTS by Haskell C ohen
MACCABIAH GAMES
P L U S E S AND MIN USES
The 9th Maccabiah Games
flame was hardly extinguished
when plans were underway for the
10th Maccabiah slated four years
hence. The World Maccabiah
Union wants to keep the momen
tum going This year the Union
had a natural, the 25th anniversary
going for them. For the 10th set of
games a little more creativity will
be required
As usual, the Israeli press is
critical about the conduct of the
1973 Games. Some writers try to
equate the inferior performances
in some sports events with the
overall conduct of the Games. This
is unfair. True, some of the perfor
mances on the field and in the
swimming pool suffered terribly in
comparison to world and Olympic
performances. But let's not forget
the Maccabiah is for Jewish
athletes only and when you can
muster but five Yehudim from
Spain they are not going to set any
world records.
The fact remains some of Mark
Spit/'s records were wiped out by a
Swedish woman swimmer who
won seven gold medals, better by
far than Spit/ did here in his two
appearances.
Wendy Paskin an American
swimmer, walked away with a
total of nine medals, a new high for
the Maccabiah.
After a beautiful, poignant open
ing ceremony the planning com
mittee fell down badly on the clos
ing activities. It's hard to believe
that the same architects could
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come up with such a radical
variance in contrast between the
pesicha (opening) and the neilah
(closing). Whereas the first day’s
march-in plus field exercises and
memorial ceremony in behalf of the
fallen Munich eleven tore at the
heart strings, the closing was un
imaginative and bare of imagina
tion. Even the final soccer game
between Uruguay and Israel was
lackluster.
Overall, however, one had to
leave the games with a sense of
satisfaction. For once in their life
times young Jewish athletes were
made cognizant of their Yid-
dishkeit. Like it or not they had to
observe kashrut and the Shabbat
with various onegs at their dis
posal Returning from some of the
venues with the American athletes
particularly the younger ones, I
got the impression these kids were
enjoying one of the great ex
periences of their lives.
One pleasing note was that for
the first time in five sets of games
nobody complained of "non-
Jewish ringers." All of the par
ticipating nations abided strictly
by the "Jewish athletes only" dic
tum, avoiding the embarrassment
encountered in previous Mac-
cabiahs on the “who is a Jew"
question. Some competitors look
ed with a jaundiced eye on U S.
shooter Terry Armstrong. But
pretty pert Terry was kashered by
her rabbi as 100 percent Jewish.
For the first time ever, the U S.
Committee Sports for Israel asked
for recommendations on our
TFT AVIV (JTA) — Shrimp,
an edible most Israelis have never
tasted because of the kashrut laws,
is now being hotly sought here by
Italian and French importers. A
French importer has recently
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that Israeli fishermen can supply
Israel has been selling the shrimp
vield to an Italian importer for
$3.50 per kilo. Thirty tons of
shrimp were sold in 1972 and the
same amount has already been
shipped in the first half of this
year
The Italian importer hearing of
the French offer arrived in Israel
to negotiate higher prices for the
shrimp. Dov Schmiede, the
Fishermen's Union secretary, said
in Haifa that Israel expects to net
S3(X).(XX) this year from shrimps
caught off FI Arish in the northern
Sinai.
BRUSSELS, (JTA) — Israel
and the European Economic Com
munity opened tariff negotiations
in Brussels with the EEC propos
ing the reduction of customs tariffs
for all Israeli industrial exports lo
the Common Market beginning
January I, 1974
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athletes from rabbis among others.
Perhaps the cutest or funniest
recommendation for one of the
performers came from a rabbi,
who wrote "He must be a fine boy,
he fasted all day Yum Kippur.”
In a complement of 200
American athletes one is bound to
find some unusual characters. The
LI.S. athlete who drew most com
ment of course was Aaron Grandin-
son the black basketball player
from Yeshiva of Queens. A fine lit
tle ball player Aaron surprised the
Israelis with his fluent Hebrew and
his frumkeit.
William Tinkle, a PhD. from
MIT, an economist with the
Kaiser Foundation, lighting as a
middleweight didn't do so well in
the ring but knocked out his
audience at an international
meeting when he delivered a paper
on medical economies. I had the
misfortune to miss his lecture and
instead I looked on as he was
kayoed by a Russian immigrant.
It is doubtful that any American
team participating in international
competition ever set a record to
compare with the one compiled by
Coach Eugene Weiss’ wrestlers in
Greco-Roman grappling, favored
by most Europeans. The U.S. won
seven gold meals and two silvers.
In straight wrestling it was nine
golds and one silver, an amazing
display by a tough, well-trained
squad.
I understand that many readers
in the States and on the Continent
were confused about the non-Jews
who were invited to compete in ex
hibition track races. Some fans
were led to believe that for exam
ple, four Kenyans, a Norseman
and a Dutch runner were to com
pete against the Jewish track men
in the regular competition. This is
erroneous. These foreign runners
originally were to run against each
other in straight exhibitions When
it developed that there weren't
enough runners for these ex
hibitions, one bright Israeli official
conceived the idea of letting the in
vited visitors run in the regular
competition
The idea advanced was that the
non-Jews would run but not for
medals Thus if a Kenyan, say,
came in first the Jew finishing
behind him would get the gold
medal When U.S. track Coach
Roy Chernock, together with
Aussie mentor Joe Rosen heard of
the idea they exploded "Who ever
heard of anything so ridiculous,"
Chernock expostulated. "Do they
want to make a travesty of this
track meet? If they do, I'm pulling
out our American team from the
lunning events.”
Rosen backed Rm up and the
end result was races lor Jewish
athletes only.
As it turned out finally, the
Kenyans were recalled home
because Rhodesia fielded a unit
albeit not under the Rhodesian
Hag but under the country’s Mac
cabiah banner I he Norse man
was so angered that he wouldn’t
compete. He left immediately for
home.
Despite a turnout of 51,000 for
the opening ceremony and 40,000
for the close, il appears that the
Games will lose in the vicinity of
250,000 to 400,000 Israeli pounds.
Theoretically all of the par
ticipating nations are supposed to
make up (he deficit.
You know who will be asked to
cover most of the loss don’t you.
Right
The good old U.S.A — The
U S Committee Sports for Israel
— Uncle Sam's arm for the Mac
cabiah (iames.
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