Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1957 — Page 10

Page PDF (1.54 MB) Locked

Back to issue view

The NATIONAL JEWISH POST and OPINION

Friday, June 2S,

Israeli Tennis Champions To Play in U. S.

.i j

>K4&8e%{

. • '\>y

W&wmmM

mmm U 4

, s :■ • > ■ •

m* mmzmv ^ • >:

ii iiiiii

• ii tiii I ■! ~x >..'■• :>■• .• ../••' <•. :y< 'v; vf i- ^ 1 •.•■

i.i> : aiip%

ISRAEL'S LEADING NETTER Arieh Avidan Will Be at Forest Hills

By JACK LEON TEL AVIV (NJP) — Israel’s two leading tennis players are due to compete in the United States this fall, probably in the national championships. Arieh Avidan and Eliezer Davidman have been invited by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. The Israeli pair are due in Montreal at the end of July for a Davis Cup tie against the winner of the BrazilCanada match. They may also play in the Canadian nationals after their appearance at Wim-

bledon.

Avidan, at 29, is Israel’s top player. He has played three years of Davis Cup tennis, and has made seven trips abroad. Davidman, 20, has played over seas five times, including two appearances as a junior at Wim-

bledon.

Something of a child prodigy, this sabra son of the Israel Lawn Tennis Association coach Willi Davidman, actually won his first Israel senior men's singles title at the age of 15. Young Davidman is now doing his Army stint and has received a special leave for this visit to the United Kingdom and North America, which is expected to last about two months. Perennial rivals in numerous singles finals in this country in recent years, with Avidan a slightly more frequent winner, the two Maccabi stars have established themselves as an invin> eible doubles pair. The tour abroad should give Avidan and Davidman some much-needed practice against top-class foreign competition in preparation for the eagerly awaited fifth Maccabiah here in September. There is no doubt that the game here is suffering from Israel's virtual isolation *rom the rest of the tennis

world, a situation brought about by the political and security situations. Such famous American Jewish stars as Dick Savitt, Herb Flam and Grant Golden (who won the men’s singles title in the last Maccabiah here), South Africans Abe Segal and Syd Levy and Rhodesian Basil Katz have expressed the hope that they will be able to participate in the Games, Mr. A. Feigler, secretary of the Israel Lawn Tennis Association, told The Jewish POST. In addition to players from the United States, South Africa and Rhodesia, there will be

representatives from Great Britain, Australia, France, Switzerland and probably other coun tries, said Mr. Feiger. The new T s that a weakness in her right w r rist wall prevent the 1956 Wimbledon finalist, Angela Buxton, from defending the women’s singles crown she won in the 1953 Maccabiah—against Anita Kanter of the United States—has caused much disappointment in tennis circles here.

Laskau Captures 10th Walk Title DAYTON, O. (NJP)—Henry Laskau, America’s two - time Olympic walker, captured his 10th American outdoor championship this week, breaking the AAU two-mile walk record here by 25 seconds. Laskau, representing the 92nd Strep* YMHA of New York, lif eral^ "walked off” with top honors, as no one in the field could keep near him.

Herb Flam Seeded In Wimbledon Play LONDON, England (NJP)— Herb Flam drew the seventh seeded spot for the Wimbledon championships w hich opened this week. Flam is regarded as a top contender for the title, defended by Australia’s Lew Hoad.

-WITH EFFORTLESS EASE!

Versatile . . . foolproof .. . easy as pie! Perfect results at very first try . . . because Dromedary outbakes any other method, any other mix! Try it and see!

ftttAtf Cake • Pound Coke • SinforWM Devil's Food • Hooey V Spice Cake White Coke • Fruit Cake • Vettow Coke

yZ COOL, MAN, COOL (witfi, nature's own auick Quencher!

What a wonderful way to soothe a summer thirst! Frosty Manischewitz Borscht cools you quicker . . . keeps you cooler ... because it’s rich in minerals you need most when summer heat takes its toll! Naturally wholesome and refreshing, too—just brim mmg with the natural flavor and goodness of crisp young garden-fresh beets. So keep it handy ... serve it chilled! Just twist on the cap . . . and turn off the heat!

m Ww NEW RE USABLE 0£CAUT{R *ftt> ' TWIST OFF" CAP

‘THE SPORTS POST

Sandy May Be Dandy But Marty's Also Hand

By GEORGE VASS

BROOKLYN—OR Is It L A.-

Dodger fans may get to feast their baby blue eyes next year on a brace of Jewish lefthanded pitchers who should keep the Bums in penn a n t contention for the next 10 years. This typewriter hardly had time to cool off from • tapping out the praises of Sandy Koufax, 21, last week Yass when news arrived of the armost incredible pitching feat of one Marty Stabiner, 22. Young Marty, who had a looksee with the Brooklyns this spring, pitched nine and onethird innings of hitless ball for the Macon (Ga.) Dodgers, and went 15 innings against Columbus to win a l-to-0 game. Stabiner retired the f'rst 14 batters he faced and walked only three men during the first

ANDY COHEN

Top Honor Still Available, Says Pilot Andy Cohen INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (NJP) — ANDY COHEN, manager of the Arperican Association Indians here, told The POST this week he still has hopes of being the first Jewish manager in the big leagues. J'George Vass’ two recent columns on ’managers' were inter esting,” Cohen said, “but you could hardly call either Freed man or Fuchs a manager.” Cohen pointed out that Andy Freedman had been a controversial owner of the old New York Giants, and had kept an active hand in club affairs, but didn't really manage the team on the field. AS FOR Judge Fuchs, Cohen said he remembered him fond ly. “I was a player at the same time the Judge owned the Braves,” Andy recalled. "It's true he didn’t have an official manager for most of the 1929 season and did sit on the team’s bench during frame games. "But the decisions were made by Johnny Evers, who was officially the coach. The Braves were a cellar team and didn’t actually have a manager of record.’* Cohen’s point is well taken. A manager should be (a) officially desifiFnated and (b) active in the management of his team on the field. No Jewish manager fitting this definition has yet made the grade in the majors.

nine innings. The hit with one out in the tenth inning came too late to spoil his successful bid for a spot in the Sally league record book as a no-hit pitcher. DURING THE last six innings of the game Stabiner allowed only four more hits. He struck out 10 men to record his fourth win in six decisions. Of course, it’s quite a stop from the Class A Sally league to the big time, but young Stabiner almost made it this spring and with a bit of luck may be a regular on the L.A.—or is it Brooklyn—staff next season. So, while Sandy may be a dandy, Marty, too, will come in

handy.

* * ♦ ' NOW THAT an uneasy but apparently fairly firm peace has settled on the Middle East, Israel once again is turning its attention to sports. High light of the 1957 sports calendar, of course, will be the Fifth World Maccabiah games, scheduled for Sept. 15 to 24. The games, while fully able to stand on their own merits as -a major sports event, will do a great deal to make up for Israel’s inability to participate in the 1956 Olympics because of the tense Middle Eastern situation of last winter. As Israel has grown so have the Maccabiah games. The first four were held in 1932, 1935, and 1950 and 1953, with the most recent being also the most successful. Twenty-three nations, including the United States, sent representative teams to Israel’s top sports event. This year’s Maccabiah deserves to be, and undoubtedly will be, the biggest of all. Jewish community centers, Jewish athletes and Jewish sports enthusiasts all over the country are going all out to ensure that America’s part in it will top even that of 1953. THE AMERICAN team of amateur athletes is being sponsored by the United States Committee for Sports In Israel. Top stars in track and field, swimming, boxing, gymnastics, wrestling, weight-lifting, fencing, bowling, tennis, soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball, cycling, shooting and table tennis are being recruited. Among those certain to compete in the games are the volleyball players of the West Side Jewish community center of Los Angeles, winners of the 1957 National Jewish Welfare Board Volleyball tournament; Gene Adler, a crack swimmer at the University of Oklahoma; and Harry Laskau, veteran walking champion. It should be quite a show * * * * SPORTS SHORTS . . . New York Boxing Commissioner Julius HeJfand has been elected president of the World Committee on Professional Boxing.

Boxer Helps Students HAIFA (NJP) — When David Oved, Israel's foremost professional boxer, was given a leave following the Suez War, he spent his time giving boxing pointers to the students of Haifa’s Technics Institute.