Saturday, April 6, 19f8 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Saturday, April 6, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ _., * thevc .tC'"} '' . Vl. WftA. a J +lV.i A. "' " "Huntsicker Wins NCAA Tramp ... howard kohn Gymnasts * * * * - Tie o'n P-B~ -~ - - Title * * , ' 1 ' "* i Si n of Ommission, Not Sin of COmmiSSion ORIGINALLY, I was going to write about Ron Johnson, the first black to be elected captain of Michigan's football team. Instead, I am going to write about Larry Payne, the first black to die for the garbage work- ers of Memphis. Payne, 16, poor, frustrated, rebellious, useless, was a punk kid shot by Memphis police a week ago Thursday. Police said Payne was shot after he threat. ened an officer with a butcher knife. Witnesses said Payne was unarmed and was shot while his hands were in the air. IT DIDN'T make a whole lot of difference to decent folk everywhere. It didn't make a lot of difference until the Memphis of Thursday night refocused our inat- tention . . . until we responded as good decent folk. For two days we have focused on Congress- which has failed. We have focused on ministers and priests and rabbis-who have failed. We have focused on groups like the New Detroit Committee -which have failed. We have focused on labor and business and education leaders-who have failed. IN OUR SORROW, which was much easier to live withwhen we translated it into anger, we have put the blame on those who have failed . all of them . .. except for you and me. Except for me. Sitting here, feeling sorry for myself and filled with hate for the system which allowed it to happen, I tried to think about what I've done. I knew I hadn't done a damn thing. Sin of omission. Not sin of commission. I WON'T ASK you what you've done. I won't even ask you what you're going to do. I'll let those who stand in pulpits and behind lecterns plead to you for good will and equity and peace and justice and decency. I know I won't listen to them. I know you won't listen to them. I know because you and I have never listened to them before. We heard. Oh yes, brother, we heard. But we didn't listen to them. We listened to only one person. AND IT WASN'T Rev. Martin Luther King. And it won't be Lyndon Johnson or Roy Wilkins or J. L. Hudson Jr. or Whitney Young or Walter Reuther or Robben Fleming. And it won't be Ron Johnson, who watched National Guard tanks roll by his home In Detroit last July. And it won't -be Larry Payne's family, who watched the National Guardsmen march past their home in Memphis Thursday night.- And it won't be me who -will listen to you. And it won't be you who will listen to me. SO I'LL LET you tell the rest of the story to whomever listens to you. Trampoline Special To The Daily TUCSON, Arizona-"I personal- ly feel I'm better than either Dave Jacobs or Wayne Miller." That was sophomore trampolin- ist George Huntzicker's brag at the beginning of the Wolverine gymnastics season. While he never quite proved his boast during the tegular season, he won where it counted, in the NCAA Gymnastics Championships yesterday afternoon. Scoring a 9.55, he edged out his teammates by .05 points asMichi- gan made an almost unbelievable" sweep of the tramp event. Jacobs and Miller had to settle for a sec.. ond place tie. "The bouncers were absolutely phenomenal," grinned Wolverine coach Newt Loken. Their 28.55 combined score is the highest hit in the nation this year. This is now the fifth time in the past six years that a Wolver- ine has taken the event. 3rd Year for Crown Huntzicker's victory also marks the third consecutive year a soph- omore has taken the top honors. Miller won the tramp two years ago, only to be upset by Jacobs last year. In addition to taking the tramp crown, Huntzicker placed sixth in the floor exercise. Michigan. State's Toby Townsen and Calif- ornia's Sid Freudenstein tied for that title with identical 9.5 scores. Michigan's other two entries Sid Jensen and Ron Rapper, didn't see action until the night events. In a close parallel bar event, the Wolverines' ended up in a two- way tie for third posting 9.3 tal- lies. Makoto Sakamoto of USC had a score of 9.4, good enough for first place honors. Sakamoto also headed toward the all-around championship by hitting 9.65 for the high bar crown. Vaulting Jensen had earlier scored 9.0 on the vaulting far behind winner Fred Colter of Los Angeles State. Coach Loken was "extremely proud of all five boys," especially with the competition of the tough- est caliber in years. Iowa, California, and Southern Illinois, and most likely Temple will go after the ,team champion- ship today. Michigan and Michigan State, because of the new NCAA ruling and last week's playoff, could not bring a full team into the com- petition. But the performances of their individual qualifiers shows the strength of the Big Ten among the nation's gymnasts. University Charter Caledonian Airways FLY TO LONDON from DETROIT $230 Roundtrip May 20 to Aug. 19 Also, Wait Lists For: May 9 to June 19 June 27 to Aug. 22 CALL: 761-2348 5-7 P.M. mhi~ Il ~Vhi2h ~ E~S~-,.I '7Ai~ utLttUc a t Vet Wyai . uoers, 1Z i -116s - 1~)~ 110 The lady won'th protest too' much By The Associated Press John Havlicek's 35 points and a tough defense carried the Bos- ton Celtics to a 127-118 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers last night in the first game of their National Basketball Association semifinal playoff series. Boston was aided by Sam Jones' 27 points and Bailey Howell's 24. Boston took the lead for good in the second quarter at 48-46 and built it to 65-56 at halftime. In the third period the 76ers cut the Boston lead to four, but the Celtics rallied for a 97-37 ad- vantage at the end of three quar- ters. The closest Philadephia got aft- er that was eight, at 108-100. Wilt Chamberlain, with 33 points andt25 rebounds, led Philadelphia. Chet Walker added' 31 for the 76ers. Both teams reached the finalsI in six games. The Celtics downed Detroit 111-113 on Monday night, jwhile Philadelphia was- finishing of New ork 11-97 GEORGE HUNTSICKER reled1offeigrai oitoffNewYork,11-7 reeled off eight straight points to 1l ZV SPORTS BULLETS: Dimag New A's Coach ! BIRMINGHAM. Ala.-Oakland Athletics owner Charles 0. Finley announced yesterday that Joe DiMaggio, executive vice president of the club will become a full-time coach on the staff of Manager Bob Kennedy. Kennedy said that DiMaggio, a former New York Yankee gret, will be with him on the bench, not on the coaching lines and will continue to instruct players in hitting. Kennedy said, "The players and I and the other coaches are very happy about this and I know that Joe is, too." DiMaggio said his vice presidential status would not inter - fere with his coaching. "Bob Kennedy is my boss,", he said. "Whatever he wants me to be, I'll be." DiMaggio said he decided to accept the offer to become a full-time coach because "I have become attached to these kids. I have never been around a group so eager to learn." GOLF at DON'SFPAR 3 50665 West Huron River Dr. LEAGUES WELCOME Susterka Lake HUnter 3-5010 This is the fourth consecutiveI year the two teams have met in the Eastern Division finals. The National Basketball Asso- ciation postponed Sunday's East-j ern Division playoff game betweenj the Boston Celtics and Philadel- phia 76ers which had been sched- uled for Boston Garden and na- tional television coverage. The NBA said the game wasI called off "in defe-rence to theI memory of Dr. Martin Luther I King." 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