Thursday, September 12, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 12, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY I from the seat Bill Levis of my pants Mizchigan's own Charlie Brown When you're too small for football and too short for basketball, there's only one sport that will do. That's baseball. But what happens when you're not good enough to make the * varsity team? Well, the Intramural department finally found the answer this year-fast pitch softball., Softball may not be the same as baseball but with the fast pitch rule, it's almost as challenging. Some windmill pitchers are even faster than their major league counterparts. Eddie Feigner of King and His Court, for example, whips a softball at over 100 miles an hour. A softball is bigger than a baseball, and the distance between the bases is shorter-60 feet instead of baseball's 90. These both make for more hits. Arid when there are more hits, there are usually more runs and that means more excitement. Last week, the intramural department inaugurated the first all-oampus softball tournament. I spent the summer in a fast pitch softball league, so the tourney was just what I needed be- fore starting in on some serious studying. Many of my teammates from the summer team, which finished the season buried in the second division with a 2-5 record, jumped at the chance to try and beat the best that Michigan had to offer. We should have stayed at home. our first problem was rounding up nine men who could play at our assigned time. We had so much trouble finding players that we had to call off our first and only practice because only my room- mate and I showed up. It reminded me a lot of a Charlie Brown prac- tice where only he and and Snoopy make the scene. As it turned out after losing the only two games we played, we resembled Charlie Brown and his All-Stars more than I would like to admit. Take our first game for example. Here we were, the little David, facing the mighty Goliath in the form of the 1967-68 Intramural fraternity champs, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Even their girlfriends were bigger than most of our players. We had only one player in our starting lineup over 5'10". Our bench was in his anthropology class. We won the flip of the coin but had to take first ups because our ninth man couldn't find his gym shoes. That was only the begin- ning of a long afternoon. The game started innocently enough as we moved ahead at the end of the first inning, 0-0. The second frame wasn't quite as un- exciting. After our first threat, a walk, was snuffed out, Sigma Phi stepped to plate. What followed shouldn't even happen to Charlie Brown. Six runs crossed the plate as we played hot potato with the ball. Charlie Brown, reincarnated as catcher sent two throws over the third baseman's head. It was typical of the game. Before the inning had ended, my all-stars had only committted about 10 errors. The score climbed to 8-0 in the third before the All-Stars got F down to business. The fourth was OUR inning. Coaxing walk after walk, and mixing up a few hits in between, we managed to squeeze three runs across the plate. Sigma Phi came back with two in the bottom of the fourth but our hopes were now soaring, We had actually scored some runs. We were terrors in that fifth inning. Getting clutch hitting, the All-Stars scored three more times. There was- only one out in the inning, a man was on first, and our power hitter was up. The thought of victory came back to our minds. The pitcher windmilled, our hitter dug in and swung. The ball wound its way slowly to the shortstop while the runner from first neared second. The shortstop scooped the ball up and nar- rowly threw the runner out at first while the other All-Star rounded second and headed for third, ignoring the sign of our pleading third base coach to stay at second. The first baseman seeing this mistake threw to third and the All-Star was nailed to end the ball game and our chance of winninig the championship. Charlie Brown had done it again. We had another game in the consolation round three days later but the All-Stars just couldn't get up for it. If we had won it, we could have won the loser's championship but it didn't mean anything to us. Our chances of winnning the real championship were behind us. We played well in the second game, coming up with a double play, but our hitting wasn't there. The game was close all the way, going down the last half of the last inning, but Charlie Brown knew the cause was lost from the beginning. It was all there in writing. ITigers, Wolfpack seek ACC title By DIANA ROMANCHUK Last season the North Carolina State defense introduced white shoes on the gridiron "for dis- tinction." They distinguished themselves as the best defensive unit in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but the "good-guy philosophy" failed them as the Tigers from Clemson took the title. Wolfpack coach Earle Edwards is back to try again this year, NATIONAL OUTLOOK r though things still seem in Clem- son's favor as they aim for their third consecutive solo crown. The Tigers, who compiled one of the most unusual records in the nation, blazed through to the crown at the wire. Battle-scared by non-league competition after losing four straight, they pro- ceeded to a perfect conference season, the final two victories coming over North Carolina State and South Carolina. Both will seriously challenge Clemson again this seasonalong with a surprisingly strong Wake Forest. If anything is sure in the ACC, it's that this year won't be the traditional two-team race. Nonetheless, Clemson has one, undeniable edge-12 of its 22 starters are back. The WolfpackI lost 17.! Defensively, the entire line re-. turns intact including All-ACC: end Ronnie Dusworth. This is basically the same unit that yield- ed only 38 points to league op- ponents. Coach Frank Howard's key wea- pon, however, is Buddy Gore, theI 190-pound tailback who was ACC player of the year. He earned that} honor by setting a conference; rushing record of 1,045 yards on4 230 carries. r Though much of the offensive wall which provided his holes have Riding a four-game winning streak (when they scored 121 points) into this season, the seld- om-heard-from Deacons could work their way to the top. The man who will put them there is quarterback Freddie Sum- mers, the kind who runs more than he passes. In fact, he kept the ball 20 more times than he threw last season, 179 plays op- posed to 159, rolling up 1,419 yards to lead the conference in total offense. Yet to be a legitimate challeng- er, Wake Forest must survive its daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: FRED LaBOUR four-game opening gauntlet -4 North Carolina, State, Clemson, and non-conference Minnesota and Purdue - not an easy task. The gaps on the defensive squad are presently beingJ plugged by! juniors Carlyle Pate and Chick George along with several junior quarterback is South Carolina's fcollege transfers. The lack of an experienced biggest hangup. The leading con-' tender for the spot is a 5' 9" soph- omore, Tommy Suggs, but there are four other possible starters. Suggs piloted the undefeated freshman squad, which holds the Gamecocks' Biggest hope to im- prove on last year's 5-5 record. Two other sophomores, Rusty Ganas (6' 5", 240) and Jimmy Posten (6' 4", 245) will step into the only defensive holes at the tackle positions. GERALD WARREN, NORTH CAROLINA STATE'S kicking spe- cialist adds another three points against arch-rival Clemson last year. His 17 field goals for the season set a NCAA record, and he led the Atlantic Coast Conference in points scored with 70. graduated, there are five letter-! Bobby Hall and Settle Dockery men waiting on the sidelines to fill may provide an even more potent the vacated positions. running attack, while co-captain The big question yet to be an- Carey Metts, the best blocker in swered is who will be quarterback. the conference assures the holes. Right now the signal calling spot Here too, the starting quarter- is up for grabs between senior back is uncertain though Jack Billy Arimons, who missed most Kleve, a left-handed senior ap- of spring practice with a knee in- pears the most likely candidate. jury, and junior Charley Waters. In tight situations, Edwards has Neither have seen much stadium one ace up his sleeve: kicker action, and it may be several Gerald Warren, who set an NCAA games before the final decision record with 17 field goals and is made. topped the ACC scoring with 70 Over in Raleigh, Edwards is at- points. tempting to build nis defense The solid Wolfpack line will around All-ACC end Mark Capu- tangle with Tiger Buddy Gore ann and junionr R nn C xnnt Nnvm~ b9 in xxha nirn-- Life in1 these United States Mrs. C. F. Jackson of Florida holds a bunch of bills she got from the electric company because the computer was screwed up. When she called the computer it told her that she could pay one bill and return the rest. The boys at the dams must have had some hearty chuckles over this one. OLD HEIDELBERG COMPLETE BANQUET FACILITIES CATERING 211 N. Main Phone NO 3-7758 Open at 11 A.M. 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Ryun disappeared into the woods immediately rafter the race without explaining his pull-out. Ron Kutschinski of Michigan finished third in the 800 in 1:47.8! and thus made the Mexico bound team. While Ryun lost his chance t6, double, little Gerry Lindgren kept his hopes alive for gettinginto at least one race in the Olympics. Lindgrep, who failed to qualify earlier in the 10,000 meters, fin- ished third in the preliminary of the 5,000 meters with 15:04.2. Bob Day of Los Angeles won the 'race in 14:50.6. If Lindgren can do as well or better in the finals of the 5,000 tomorrow he will earn a trip to Mexico. Vanderstock's victory gave the U.S. track coaches plenty to smile about on a day in which John Carlos ran the 200 meters in 20.1, just one-tenth off the world Novem er z, in w at coui proveW to be the championship game . .. but not if Wake Forest can help it. aie 00i aohr20 V-f RNTAL S Ryun Upset FREE service record. Tommie Smith ran a wind- aided 20.0 in another 200. per month6 Washington State's fast im- proving hurdler Boyd Gittins, fol- lowed Vanderstock in 49.1, which fi tied Rex Cawley's world record set back in 1964. Ron Whitney of the Southern N5671 C foni~anStridies became the SERVING BIG 0 SCHOOLS SINCE 196 third member of the Olympic in-SEVN BI10CHOSICE96 termediate hurdle team with a time of 49.2. w_ __ w/ ----:- F- Do wntow WENK Sales & Service, Inc. washingtn 665-8637 *Service entrance on 5th Ave. n Honda We Have Them All Big and Small Sales Service Accessories Parts State St. Dvison St. Ith Ave. 3 4th, Ave. Charlie Brown never won a softball game, and All-Stars in the all-campus tournament. neither did his UNION-LEAGUE Breaking in Bursley No. 2 / -HEAR THE HEARD FRI., SEPT. 13, 1968 9-12 P.M. Bursley Drive ENGLISH 3-SPEED Bicycle SALE Now-$43.95 I _NMI I SEE Cayle &2ueU FORMER U. OF M. ALL AMERICAN SEPTEMBER 14, 7:30 P.M. 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