PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 29.1966 ,..SXT E MC IG ND IYT1iflYMIT AIR +x-6.1 i:t YG11.} iTitalLVii A'itslf JJVO 0 TIA VEJN G ABROAD? DON'T GO UNINFORMED Obtain helpful hints from three well-known travel books 1. Let's Go-Harvard Student Guide 2. Europe on $5 a Day 3. Work Study Travel Abroad Available now at discount prices at UAC Student Travel Committee 2nd floor Michigan Union A You can sell your TEXTBOOKS, for, CASH,, f nytime at a ,; There's no limit to the good a man can accomplish through reliance on God. But it takes humility and a deep spiritual commitment. You learn to de- pend on the divine Love that makes possible every worth- while act. You're invited to hear this subject explored further at a one-hour public lecture by William Henry Alton of The Christian Science Board of- Lectureship. The lecture title is "Man Unlimited." Everyone is welcome to come and listen. GII sianScience lecitre] 8:00-Friday, April 1 Aud. A, Angell Hall William H. Alton, C.S.B. Sponsored by the Christian Science Organization I a State St. at North Univ. insights and insults CHUCK VETRNER ILet's Scribble Scrabble To Save Our Pastime With excitement and encomiums mounting for the approaching baseball season, a lot of people are beginning to forget one of the greatest problems facing American sport today. The dilemma is, of course, the steady demise of our table-game-and-puzzle national pastime-scrabble. Once this revered activity was held in such high esteem that no one would dare criticize it. It was a symbol of democ- racy and American as apple pie, U.S. Steel, hot dogs, and lavender capri pants. Today, scrabble is a sport, surrounded by controversy and assault- ed with derision. At one end are the old timers. These lugubrious souls strain to hold back the tears when they see the modern game. Fondly they reminisce about the era when scrabble was for the real egghead, not the ivy league youths who are still fondling their B.A. degrees in English. The players used to have class, claim the'venerable experts. Now there's no strategy. Everybody aims for getting the "X" and "Q" in a Double Letter Value box, and all the excitement is gone. Scoring 50 points from Imarquee" just doesn't bring the same thrill when any student can do it. But even the younger spectators are disenchanted. They com- plain the game is too slow, and they are turning to shorter, more ac- tion-packed diversions like dots, tic-tac-toe, and checkers. Even Ouija board sales are picking up at a phenomenal pace, and one of the major television networks is considering a three year contract to broadcast the Monopoly Game of the Week. Clearly, scrabble needs dramatic revision and courageous reform if it is to recaptivate the imagination of America's sportsmen. First, something must be done to cut down the point totals, and make the big score have meaning again. One possible solution would be to deaden the point values of the wooden tiles. Another way to meet the problem would be to simply make the playing board bigger. If there were more space, the climactic moment of landing a word on a rubric Triple Word Value could once again bring a crowd to its feet. To speed up the game, a rule could be instated to place a three minute time limit for each move. One fan suggested that an electric clock could count off the seconds, and a shrill peanut whistle blast could denote a violation. Going along with such thinking would be a new measure to prevent the players from lumbering into a different room to check a dictionary or find an aspirin. Such tactics are usually just stalls to give the player a chance for his mind to warm up. Despite these rule changes, scrabble still might not reach its old status. Other possible changes include cutting thenumber of games played and eliminating night games and back-to-back contests (some- times called doubleheaders). This step would mean the players would be fresher and capable of going all out for every match. Some of the bearded radical thinkers feel that even these meas- ures don't go far enough. They say that if other activities are re- placing scrabble, the only solution is to copy the trend in other sports and introduce innovations that include the best features of the competition. Some of the tic-tac-toe element has suggested that scrabble eliminate all the letters except X's and O's. Card sharks want to see the wooden tiles made larger and more flexible so they can be shuffled. For years, one of the major game manufacturers has been pleading for the addition of spinner dials and dice to make the game more complex. These mare all worthwhile ideas which should be given serious thought. Of course, they would lead to some basic structural changes which would revolutionize the game. But undoubtedly the new form would be more popular. It would set off a construction boom for new, ultramodern tables and chairs to house the contests. More important, it would bring fantastic profits for everyone. Of course it wouldn't really be scrabble anymore, but every suc- cessful venture has a few drawbacks. SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: fi -j .GRETCHEN TWIETMEYER Batteries: Radakovic (W), and Brickley; Foshie (L), Johnson (6th), and Sizemore. FIRST GAME GRAND CANYON Kenny, if Snell, c Bush, lb Austin, ef Brannan, rf, Mendenhall, 3b Heiwig, Sb McDonald, ss Murray, p Brown, p a-Bishop, ph Williams, p Barfield, p Totals Diamondmen AB R 3 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 1 3 0 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 29 3 :7 MICHIGAN AB RI Gihooley, ss 4 3 Sygar, 2b 2 3 Tanona, if 4 3 Bara, rf 3 0 Schryer, cr 1 1 Fisher, of-rf 4 1 McVey, 3b 2 2 Nelson, lb 3 0 Berlne, c 4 3 Guidi, p 5 1 Totals 32 171 a-Struck out for Brown in 6th. H RBI 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 S 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 7 2 H RBI 1 2 1 2 37 2 0 10 1 2 00 0 1 3 1 1 2 11 16 0-,-1 0-- 3 Special To The Daily TEMPE, Ariz.-Led by the fine pitching of two sophomores and aided by some lusty hitting, Mich- igan powered its way past Grand Canyon and Arizona State yester- day to sweep both ends of a dou- Monday's game: Take Two Wyoming MICHIGAN 001 400 000-5 10 2 000 050 10x-6 7 2 bleheader. The victories stretched the Wolverines' victory string to four against no defeats, and drop- ped Arizona State to 15-5 and Grand Canyon to 8-3-1. In the opener, Larry Guidi, from Croton Falls, N.Y., struck out four men, walked two, and scattered seven hits, while allowing only three unearned runs to pick up his first career win for the Wolverines. But hitting was the story of this game. Les Tanona, a junior from Hamtramck, drove in seven runs on a home run, a double and two singles. The game was sewed up in the seventh 'when 14 men went to the plate and 10 runs were scored on six hits and four walks. Guidi helped himself in this inning with a triple. All the Way Earlier in the contest, Tanona's three-run homer in the first gave Michigan a lead which they never relinquished, although Grand Can- yon pulled to a tie in the second. But a double by Andy Fisher drove in two more runs in the third. This game was called after seven innings because of a time limit set so that the Michigan club could travel to play Arizona State. In their second game, the Wol- verines started out just as they had ended the first. Five runs were pushed across the plate in the first inning on five hits, two walks, and two errors. The big hit was Chan Simonds' bases-loaded triple. 14 Down After the first inning, however, both pitchers settled down to pitch fine ball. Michigan's Geoffrey Zahn, from Toledo, got the win- his first-by allowing only four hits, striking out six, and walking one. In one stretch he retired 14 men in a row. Arizona State's only run was unearned. Also in the second game, Tanona got two more hits and one RBI, making his total for the day five hits in eight trips, four runs. scored, and eight RBI's. In Sunday's game, Mel Waka- bayashi proved he can swing with a bat just as well as with a hockey stick. The Wolverine center turned second sacker, led the baseball team to a 6-5 victory over Wyoming. The Coyboys had taken a 5-0 lead into the fifth inning, but Michigan came up with a five-run outburst in the bottom half of the frame. The rally was sparked by W akabayashi's triple' into right center which drove in two of the runs. In the seventh inning, he singled to knock in Andy Fisher with the game-winning run. Nick Radakovic, another talent- ed sophomore pitcher, had trouble with the Cowboys in the first few innings, but settled down and picked up the victory. Michigan scored its first two runs on a 350-foot homer by Al Bara. Wakabayashi's triple came after Fisher and Doug Nelson had drawn walks. Mel came home him- self when Wyoming muffed the outfield relay. The winning run was a result of managerial strategy as Fisher drew a base on balls, advanced- to second on a sacrifice bunt, and then flew home on Waka's smash. Today the Wolverines f a C e Western Colorado and Arizona State. EXHIBITION BASEBALL St, Louis.3, New York (N) 0 Houston 6, Oklahoma City (PCL) 1 New York (A) 4, Chicago (A) 1 Pittsburgh 5, Los Angeles 0 Cincinnati 5, Atlanta 3 Philadelphia 5, Baltimore 2 San Francisco 6, Chicago '(N) 3 California 11, Cleveland 1 Washington 3, Minnesota 2 U E 4 MICHIGAN Grand Canyon 302002 H 030 000 F. E-McDonald, Fisher, Nelson. DP- Bush, McDonald, and Bush. P0-A- Michigan 21-9, Grand Canyon 21-8. LOB--Michigan 8. Grand Canyon 8. 2B-Fisher, Tanona. 3B-Gurdi. HR --Tanona, McDonald. S-Murray. SF --Nelson. 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MICHIGAN Gilhooley, Sizemore, Schrier, cf Fisher, cf Spicer, 3b Tanona, If Bara, rf Simonds, i Wakabayas] Zahn, p Totals SECOND GAME F ~ AB R: ss 4 1 5 0 4 1 1 0 5 1 4 1 4 1 b 3 1 hi, 2b 3 0 430 37 61 ARIZONA STATE Jackson, cf Dyer, c Gretta, rf Carpenter, If Kleinman, lb Armstrong, ss Lind, 3b Smitheran, 2b Pentland, p Totals MICHIGAN Arizona State AB R 3 0 4 1 4 0 40 4 0 4 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 32 1 H RBI 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 10 4 H RBI 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 4 1 ' r \ i qCi FOR ALL YOUR FORMAL NEEDS R TUXEDOS C WHITE DINNER JACKETS WEDDINGS-PROMS-DANCES "Special Student Rates" RUSSELLS TUXEDO RENTAL SERVICE 4 * ade j 16 Ni 500 000 100-C 000 001 000-1 Ar E-Jackson, Armstrong, Gilhooley 2. DP-Smitheran, Armstrong, and Kleinman. PO-A-Michigan 27-8, Arizona State 27-6. LOB-Michigan 8, Arizona State 5. 2B-Spicer. 3B -Gilhooley, Simonds. 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