Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, November 19, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, November 19, 1969 Cagers By PHIL HERTZ While the attention of the sports fans on campus has beei directed at Coach Bo Schem- bechler's Wolverines' charge for the Roses, basketball c o a c h Johnny Orr has quietly been preparing his charges for their takeover of the sports scene. Monday the cagers will at least begin to assume their share of the spotlight when they take on the Michigan freshmen team at 8 p.m. in the Events Building. The game is the first in a 25 .game schedule, which includes thirteen home contests, but does not have the Wolverines partici- pating in a holiday tournament. The early season independent schedule, including such na- tional cage powers as N o t r e Dame, Davidson, Marquette, Duke, and Princeton, will pro- vide a severe test for the Wol- verines. Assistant coach F r e d Snowden, however, says, "T h e tough schedule may be to our advantage, we'll improve as the season progresses, and may help us during the Big Ten sched- ule." Orr agreed with the assessment of the schedule, calling it, "One brace. of the toughest in the nation, but we would not have schedul- ed those teams if we didn't think we could beat them." Besides the schedule, O r r and Snowden have two major problems staring them in the face. One is replacing the de- parting Dennis Stewart, K e n Maxey, Bob Sullivan, Willie Ed- wards, and Dave McClellan. The other is overcoming the Wolver- ines' lack of height. The only Wolverines over six-foot-five are Captain Rudy Tomjanovich and Sophomore Ernie Magri, and the latter is not expected to see much action. Tomjanovich, the six-foot sev- en All-American out of Ham- tramck, is expected to be the key to the Wolverines' success this season. The Big Ten's lead- ing rebounder in 1969 will oper- ate out of one forward position where he will be flanked by either Richard 'Bird' Carter or junior college transfer Harry Hayward. Carter, who was a starter ear- ly last season for the Wolver- ines, is expected to see action at both forward and guard. T h e six-foot-four Hayward is a for ba( strong rebounder, who according to Snowden "has demonstrated outstanding defensive ability and great quickness for his size." Another player who will see con- siderable action up front for the Wolverines is senior Bill Frau- mann, who has been outstand- ing in fall practice. Sophomores Wayne Grabiec and Matt An- derson are also expected to see action at the forward spots The current favorite to oper- ate the Wolverine pivot position is Rodney Ford, a six-foot five junior, who started a couple of games for the Wolverines 1 a s t season. Snowden calls Ford "... extremely quick. He's a fine k-breaking schedule rebounder and is tremendous on defense." Fraumann also may see action in the pivot. The starting backcourt posi- tions will be manned by return- ing first stringer Dan Fife and senior Mary Henry. As a sopho- more, Fife was the number three scorer for the Wolverines behind Tomjanovich a n d Stewart. Snowden expects Henry to be a stabilizing factor" for the team. Senior Rick Bloodworth and Sophomore Dave Hart will un- doubtedly see considerable ac- tion at the guard positions. Snowden termed Bloodworth "the second best offensive play-. er on the squad after Tomjano- vich," and added, "We are hop- ing for great things from him." Hart seemed to excite Snow- den as much as any player on the team. The Michigan assist- ant coach called the five-foot eight guard, "the little dyna- mo." He added that he expects Hart to be at least the third guard, and says the former Yp- silanti star will become "The People's Choice" because of his small size and hustle. Another sophomore, Lamont King, may be able to aid the Wolevrine guards if he can conquer scholastic difficulties, which will keep him ineligible through January 8th. Snowden summed up, "We think we'll be exciting because of our lack of size, which will force us to make defensive ad- justments for taller teams. "We still think we can be ef- fective because of our speed and quickness, we're going to be the 'Go-Go Wolverines.'" Head coach Orr also indicated confidence in his team's ability. "I think we've improved on de- fense over last year and we're a quick and agile team." Orr, however, did add, "Our only real weakness is size," and that, fans, may be the rub. KIRK ON BRIDGE: Abortive overcall assures slam contract TEACH ING FELLOWS YOU MUST SIGN A Petition to have a Teaching Fellows Union See your Dept. Rep. or Call 763-1334, ask for PAUL GINGRICH By LEE KIRK Daily Bridge Editor There are good overcalls, bad overcalls, and downright stupid ones. In today's hand, an utterly atrocious overcall turned out to be the light in the wilderness t h a t guided declarer along the road and allowed him to bring home a dif- ficult slan. Today's hand was played by Richard Glatzu of West Quad at the Union duplicate bridge tour- nament earlier this year. His part- nership had been having only moderate success and they were starting to bid aggressively when this hand popped up. After South's opening one spade1 bid, West, for reasons that willj never be known, decided to chirp in with two hearts. East made a good two no-trump bid, and aftert his partner bid clubs, set off on clubs aid spades, certain that West was reduced to the ten the road to slam. West had started with six hearts and nine of hearts and the king His skip to four no-trump was and two diamonds. He almost cer- and eight of diamonds, and he perhaps a trifle optimistic, for FORTH could afford to part with neither there was certainly no guarantee N-4 3of them. If he jettisoned a dia- that his partner had all three -A-43mond, South would play to drop missing aces, and other missing N-K 3 2 his king, and if he pitched a heart, honors were certain to be behind *-10 9 6 3 the three of hearts would be set whatever aces South had. Even if 4A K Q 9 up. Never underestimate the pow- South had shown up with two WEST EAST er of a three. aces, North would have had no 4-K J 8 A-7 6 2 recourse but to bid six clubs. IV-J 10 9 7 5 4 V-Q 6 If East opens a heart, t h e C squeeze is killed, but the hand can Happily, South conveniently had *-K 8 --J 7 5 4 2 still be made. Declarer must pull all three aces, and the club slam 4-10 5 4-6 3 2 two rounds of clubs and trump out was bid and West led a small club. SOUTH the heart loser. Then he takes the Declarer took it on the board and-A Q 10 9 spade hook and East is in with led a spade and finessed with the i--A 8 the jack. ten. West was in with the jack and returned a heart to the ace. South then took the ace of spades and roughed a spade on the board, happily noting the fall of the king from West. South ran off his winners inE f--A Q 41-J8 7 4 SOUTH 1 spade 3 clubs 5 spades WE ST 2 hearts Pass Pass NORTH EAST 2 NT Pass 4 NT Pass 6 clubs All pass _- : : . ;a _____ _ rI Opening lead- five of clubs FOR UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF TUE R0SE BOWL Super TOu -11I 101 tainly had to have the king of diamonds for his overcall, and if he did, he would be squeezed on the tenth trick. That's exactly how it worked out. THAT DOG ON WHEELS IS COMING - - - --E - West's best reurn is a heart. As the cards lie, the contract is cold, but if East has three clubs to the ten, the contract can be set. To do this, East must sluff a spade on the third heart lead. After West gets in and leads the heart, East must overtrump if de- clarer plays the nine from dummy and sluff his last spade if declar- er sluffs or plays the club queen, South will then be unable to set up his spades without giving the club ten a trick. The fact that the hand could be made no matter what does not ex- cuse West's anemic overcall. The information he gave was vital. South was quided away from the more routine play of taking finess- es in both diamonds and spades by West's bid and was able to con- i ur up an image of the opponent's cards and bring home the slam. Against Th4e Wa/I The black athletes ... .. .an old battle starts new By ERIC SIEGEL IT IS NOW a little over a year since Tommie Smith and John ' Carlos, a pair of black sprinters from San Jose State College, showed the world that they are men as well as athletes. For those who have forgotten, the date was October 17, 1968. Smith, who had just set a new world's record in the 200 meter run, and Carlos, who had finished third in that same race, used the occasion of their Olympic awards ceremony to stage a symbolic protest against racial discrimination in the United States. The two sprinters stood on the platform in Mexico City wearing black socks. In addition, each wore a single black glove -Carlos on his right hand, Smith on his left. When the playing of the National Anthem began, Smith and Carlos both lowered their heads and raised their clenched fists high into the after- noon sky. The publicity given the actions of these two black men, who refused to be honored by the officials in Mexico City when they and their fellow blacks were humbled by the white power struc- ture in America, was widespread; the reaction to their symbolic protest was swift. On October 18, the US Olympic Committee, af- ter meeting for more than five hours, issued a statement apolo- gizing to the International Olympic Committee for the actions of conscience taken by Carlos and Smith. THE NEXT DAY, Carlos and Smith were suspended from the team. At the same time, a boycott by the rest of the black athletes on the US squad failed to materialize, and the Olympic Games continued quietly, with the US winning more than its share of team medals, and the blacks winning more than their share of individual honors. The "incident," as the symbolic action was later labeled by Olympic officials, is still not forgotten by the hierarchy of the IOC. Last week, Avery Brundage, the 82-year old president of the IOC, perhaps taking his cue from Spiro Agnew, declared that any country entering athletes likely to stage political dem- onstrations at the 1972 Olympics should be censured. Implicit in Brundage's statement is his notion that political protests at future athletic events, including the Olympics, are a distinct possibility. And this notion is understandable, even as his desire to avoid and surpress such protests is to be deplored. It seems clear that Brundage's words were intended, to a large degree, for the US Olympic Committee. To Brundage, as well as to many other observers, this year is The Year of the Black Athlete in America. This characterization does not apply to the performance of the black athlete, which has always been good, but to his new- found willingness to stand up, on the field and off it, and be counted as a man, as well as an athlete. This willingness is dis- turbing to those who, in the words of Carlos, see the black ath- lete as a "showhorse," rather than as a human being. FIRST AT IOWA and Oregon State last spring, then at Wyoming and Washington and Indiana and Minnesota this fall, the black athlete has shown his contempt for the dual standards of the sports world, which treats him as an equal on the field, but gives him second-class citizenship off it. That protests by black athletes have struck only a handful of schools thus far offers little comfort to coaches and athletic directors who realize it might strike many more. A few of the more enlightened coaches seem to realize the complexity of the problem and understand the depths of the black athletes' grievances. Penn State's Joe Paterno, for exam- ple, was quoted by the Associated Press, "There isn't any place in the country where black athletes have as many things avail- able to them as whites." And UCLA's Tommy Prothro told the same news service, "We know there is a natural situation of rac- ial tension." Prothro then went on to say, "It's bad for the game, the coaches and the players, black and white, to let the player- coach relationship disintegrate into a racial thing." Here at Michigan, the consensus among players and coach- es seems to be that morale is high on all the teams, and that good communication exists between the coaches and all the ath- letes. No-one, however, seems to be taking an It-Can't-Happen- Here hard line. STILL, THERE ARE several coaches a n d administrators across the country who express varying degrees of bewilderment at the recent actions taken by black athletes at these handful of schools. They seem unable to understand why black athletes would protest. This attitude I find difficult to understand. For the actions of the black athletes at a few schools this year, like the actions of Smith and Carlos at the 1968 Olympics, are really nothing new. Rather, these actions are a continuation of the age-old struggle of oppressed and mis-treated groups to stand up and assert themselves and tell the world "That's enough." As John Carlos said in Mexico City 13 months ago today, "The clenched fist symbolizes that the black man is coming rap- idly together." V OF MICHIGAN CHAMPAGNE PARTY JET 7 FANTASTIC DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD DEPARTS DEC. 28 RETURNS JAN. 3 ,r,,{'' ' .. ,f. J.,. COMPLET K225 Plus $10 Tax E PRICE .00 & Services rom Detroit IN WASHINGTON OVER THE WEEKEND? WAS ANYONE LISTENING? 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