TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ------.the kitchen cynic.------ RICK STERN Elm Disease Alters Golf Course Missing the Mark With LdxciBaines Nothing is so disheartening as to lose a Piotential love to a rival. Lynda Bird is engaged. My last hope to marry one of the Johnson sisters is down the drain. And I won't even get an invitation to the wedding. I suppose I'll have to settle for Elizabeth Taylor. Seriously though, the idea of the "Kitchen Cynic" marrying a member of the First Family is only about two-thirds as absurd as it sounds. And there is a sombre note that goes along with the aston- ishing, ridiculous but true story of the "near miss." LBJ came to Chicago in June of 1965 to speak at a $100.00 a plate dinner at the late McCormick Place. My grandfather, a Chicago architect, purchased two tickets to the affair (all Chicagoans in the construction business purchase tickets to Dem- ocratic fund raising affairs if they want to get jobs in the city). I went along with him to the dinner. Beforehand there was a reception which the President did not attend. I grew tired of the reception and decided to walk outside and see if I could witness the arrival of the Presidential party. I went out a side door and saw about a block down a large mass of people waiting at the McCormick place entrance. Just as I started to walk toward them a big black limousine came barreling up to the door at which I was standing. Much to my surprise, out popped the "Bird" himself accompanied by such esteemed personages asDick Daley and Paul Douglas, and Lucy Baines. About four secret agents preceded the group as they walked into the building, not five feet from where I stood. "What the hec," I said and decided to join the entourage. This was facilitated by ten or more policemen who had suddenly formed a sort of cordon between the limousine and the door. Since I had just come out the door I was inside this makeshift cordon. The police saluted as the "Chief" walked by. I nodded my head to acknowledge the salute and they must have thought I was someone because no one even questioned me as I walked in about two yards behind the President, and almost directly next to Luci. We walked about 100 yards down this long hall to the room that the President was holding a private reception in. All along the way police and ushers were at attention, saluting. This was great for my ego. Sometimes I waved, sometimes I saluted back, once or twice I even winked. In the mean time I was tempted to ask Luci out for that night. I couldn't really think of a way to introduce myself, however, and I would have been hard out to explain how I had gotten into the Pres- idential party. She smiled at, me though, and didn't question my presence next to her. For her, it was to be a fateful day. That very night she went to a party in Waukegan, Illinois, and met Pat (Bird- In-law) Nugent. 1 As we approached the end of the hall I decided to make my move on LBJ instead. I moved up to maybe a foot behind him. "Mr Presi- dent," I said "May I shake your hand." "The Man" started to turn around but as he did an agent came up and sort of shoved me back. He didnt pull me away or even question what I was doing in the presidential party. He just pushed me back a step or two. Senator Douglas heard my request and, turning around, ex- tended his hand saying "Will mine do." I couldn't very well say no, so I shook it and mumbled that I had enjoyed hearing him do the Cub games last week. (Douglas had assisted Chicago TV announcer Jack Brickhouse in doing Cubs games off and on during the summer.) He didn't seem impressed.- The sombre note that I mentioned earlier was, of course, the mere fact that with 10,000 policemen on duty, and dozens of agents scattered throughout the building, I had been able to walk practically next to President Johson for over 100 yards without even having tried. Had I been a deranged assassin, it wouldn't have even been close. Back to the adventure: We arrived at the end of the hall and entered the reception room, where Chicago's Aldermen were standing in a sort of square around the room, with a large cardboard name card on the floor in front of each of them. Unfortunately they hadn't been kind enough to make a name card for me, and I had no place to stand but smack in the middle of the room Finally an agent approched me. From pictures, I recognized him as Rufus Youngblood, the one who was made famous by jumping onto Mrs. Kennedy's car after the assassination, "Who are you," he asked "Nobody," I replied truthfully. He beckoned to a fellow agent and together they put me in some sort of an arm carry and lifted me out of the room. They didn't question me or give me any sort of trouble. Just took me out of the room. Spurned by me, Luci waited only a couple of hours before making a second choice. LUNCH-DISCUSSION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 12:00 Noon U.M. International Center SUBJECT: "THE DETROIT RIOT AND THE WHITE COMMUNITY" Speaker: MRS. AMBER VAN BURNHAM Past Director-Protestant Foundation for International Students Currently with the Downtown Churches Action Mission of Detroit For reservations Sponsored by the call 662-5529 ECUMENICAL CAMPUS CENTER Rumr. Cam &4#aRc*;41 / By HARRY ENGLEHART Making the University Golf Course safer for the everyday golfer and at the same time mak- ing that golf course more chal- lenging for tournament play is the task facing Michigan golf Coach Bert Katzenmeyer and his assistants. It started about seven years ago when the elm trees of Michigan contracted the fatal Dutch Elm disease. At that time, some 250 elm trees graced the Michigan course. Today, only about 50 re- main.. "We lost 83 elms this past sum- mer," said Katzenmeyer, "and in the past three or four years we have lost approximately 175. We will lose all of them eventually. So, in anticipation of this loss, we began a reforestation project which is continuing at this mo- ment." Trees Relocated This project includes the plant-1 ing of new trees as well as relo- cating trees which are already on the golf course.; "Our primary concern," says Katzenmeyer, "is not to increase1 the degree of difficulty of the course. The main reason for thea transplants this past summer is for the protection of the manya golfers who play the Michigan course." So, in spite of what the aver- age golfer may think, the trees were not moved to harass the' linksman. A great deal of thought and reasoning went into the placement of the trees. Naturally, the new placements will in some way af- fect the playing of the course strategy-wise. But here again, Katzenmeyer emphasized thatthe placements were "'strategic from Yanks Keep Amuerica Cup By The Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. - The sleek, white-hulled Intrepid, the United States' defender skippered by crafty Bus Mosbacher, swept through the fog of Rhode Island Sound yesterday and completed a 4-0 drubbing of Australian chal- lenger Dame Pattie in the Amer- ica's Cup yachting series. Intrepid, designed by Olin Ste- phens, won thetweather-plagued fourth race in the best-of-7-ser- ies for yachting's most prized pos- session by a margin of about one- half mile. It was no contest - either in this race of the entire series. The hopes of helmsman Jock Stur- rock and his Australian crew were crushed in the first race last Tuseday - Intrepid won by 5:58, or about a mile - and they simply never recovered. behind the fourth green, however, was not nearly as extensive and the elimination of the plainness was more difficult. After a great deal of thought, Katzenmeyer de- cided to plant two large pines at either side of the front corners of the green, thus achieving the same effect. New Green Katzenmeyer, with a gleam of pride in his eye, also talked of the new green being built for the tenth hole. "That green has always been one of the weakest on the course simply because it had the high- est concentration of putting sur- face." So, in an effort to diminish any possibility of having a "weak" putting surface, crews worked this summer resodding, recontouring, and enlarging the green. The traps to the left and right of the green will be restyled so that they can be brought into play more often with regard to a greater number of pin placements. It is hoped that the green will be com- pleted by May, 1968. There is a temporary green in use now. It would -be foolish to say that the changes that have been made over the past few years have not done a great deal to enable the golfer to enjoy a true test of golf. "We have filled in many weak- nesses," Coach Katzenmeyer said, "and they are definitely an ad- junct to a great golf course. This course was designed by one of the greatest golf course architects the world has ever known, Dr. Al- liester McKinsey (designer of the home of the Masters' tournament, Augusta National), and each of Dr. McKinsey's courses has a very distinctive quality. We just want to maintain that distinctiveness." Asked if he thought Michigan's course was the toughest in the Big Ten, Katzenmeyer promptly answered: "Definitely. As a matter of fact, I think it is the toughest col- legiate golf course in the coun- try." 'M' Club Holds First Meeting The "M" Club will hold its first meeting tomorrow night at 8 p.m. on the third floor of the Michigan Union, and will feature J. Fred Lawton, author of the "Victors," doing his impersona- tions of Fielding H. Yost. Other items on the program include a tribute to "Doc" Losh, and the selection of "Big Ten Sweet- hearts." The "M" Club meets once a month and is open to varsity let- ter winners, athletic managers and coaches. This year's officers are Elmo Morales, president; Jim Ke- ough, vice-president; Rick Hunt, secretary, and Harold Herman, treasurer. BERT KATZENMEYER the standpoint of safety, not de- gree of difficulty." The loss of the elms also had affected the scenic value of the course. For instance, the por- tions of ground behind the fourth and seventh greens were left bar- ren. 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