WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY "Aber a rvvv_ 1 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY UD A P'~ ~ f r Margin for Error Gil Samberg What's=His-Name By GIL SAMBERG About six years ago, up came the kid out of nowhere. An Olympic champ. He. was young and naive and a pretty good boxer. And he got the backing of a group of honest businessman who made him a cor- poration. And he turned pro. He found his niche in the times. The heavyweight boxing championship was still what it had always been-the premier event in sports. But some people were getting tired of its substituting psychology forl talent as a draw. Cassius Clay gave them a circus as a calling card and then backed it up with his fists. He was bush. He was the underdog who kept coming through. He was featherfisted, but he could dance. He was young and he was talented, and although his technique was all wrong (he'd get his head handed to him soon) he was a winner. Cassius was simply what he was-an uncomplicated, inexperienced, honestly alive person who could charm the underwear off sports writers by being just that. And they loved him. And so the Louisville Lip, the undefeated kid boxer, became the Red, White, and Blue hope for wresting the heavyweight crown from the clutches of the mob. With luck he'd never even meet Sonny Liston. It was a good script. Then Cassius Clay went and turned Moslem. No, worse-Black Muslim. Cassius Clay, the pretty name for the pretty fighter, was now Muhammed Ali. Foreign. People no longer tolerated Clay's outbursts. Instead of going along with the PR games, they criticized. And then predictably, the crud began to fly-churned out. It was back to the basics. Ali's silk-suited entourage of Muslims was the Black Mafia, modern mobsters who surrounded him to keep him under their influence. Clay was a dupe. He had to be one to believe the stuff they were probably feeding him. Elijah and Herbert wanted a meal ticket and Cassius was a big one, a kid with all the trimmings among the wolves. And when the writers, making their subtle attempts at proselyt- izing for "America," found Cassius spouting back dogma and starting to preface his answers with "as the great and honorable Elijah Mu-, hammed said," the break for most of the scribes became final. Many people-the same people who are content to equate Buddhism with an Oriental version of the chosen Christianity-denied but made it clear that religion, or whatever it is, was at the center of things "He's not a good influence for the youth of America." And there were two ways of looking at it: (1) His religion stinks. It's radical. It's violent. It doesn't sound like our ideals. It's . . . I don't know .. . it's foreign. It doesn't make sense. and, (2) That's no religion. That's a business. They've done it before to the niggers and they'll do it again. One smart one gets up there and starts shouting "hozannah, hallelujah, we are free, we are equal," and that man makes a fortune and they'll make him a saint. They're not going back to Africa, and we're not gonna give them any states either. So we don't respect your "religion" Cassius, because we're not as dumb as you are. If Elijah and the boys wanna tell you that the black man is better than the white man, and you buy it and you're willing to let them take all your money, it's a shame (you could been a rich and happy, kid), but go ahead. Nobody else believes that junk. What it means, Muhammed Ali, is that your are unfortunate. Your religion is political and it is social. It seems preoccupied with today in Harlem instead of tomorrow in Heaven. And everybody knows that politics and things like that are fair game around here. But mommy said that nowadays it isn't nice to call Izzy a kike (they made a movie about it that won an Oscar) or Timothy a mackeral- snapper. It doesn't sound good. "He's not a good influence for the youth of America." Clay, it turns out, is a cruel fighter, a cruel person. Witness his unmerciful taunting of Ernie Terrell in the ring last week. Yelling things at a bloody, beaten man .... But the athlete lives on emotion. The man who wants it more, gets it, right? In prize-fighting you don't want it more remember- ing the Gipper. When you need to, you call out the big gun. Hate! And the man who can channel hate into skill when he needs to picks up a lot of pandas. The press conferences, the weigh-ins, the interviews. "Charm you one minute and repulse you the next." "Hystria,"' "The dignity of a new man.' They say it. Ali has always been a master of psyching himself up. When he wanted to or needed to believe something, he did it in spades. His emotions play on the extremes. Fear is haunting fear. Elation is total elation. Conviction is complete conviction. Athletes have no use for "semi-s" or "quasi-s," In the ring, for the fight, .Ali hated Ernie Terrell. And Terrell hated just, as fiercely. Ali was the better fighter by far, and when Terrell was a pigeon in the eighth, Ali took his revenge with words. Other fighters with other impulses-for the man's tactic was cer- tainly not the result of a conscious choice-would have done it with their fists. And you have to wonder whether the taunts might have been as bad for Terrell as the disdain of an enemy who could beat him at will. You are paid to hurt, Cassius Clay. But you should not have embarrassed a man of dignity that way. You are a good fighter, Cassius Clay. But not as good as the memories of Joe Louis or Rocky Marciano. You are a naive, dazzling kid, Cassius Clay. But you are an obnoxious, cruel, and stupid man. And somebody'll knock that chip off your shoulder too ... some- day. Y17EA KIDS! Support Children's Community Bucket Drive Thursday STUDENT TRAVEL COMMITTEE can help you plan your trip UNION-LEAGUE to EUROPE Ta nA. - J ia -a n# a La a.II.k a en...n cavrae Sprinter Wiebeck PIlgs Tanker Leaks y _E* LWI By DOUG HELLER The Michigan swimming team didn't play water polo this past fall, but that didn't bother Ken Wiebeck a bit. It seems that he had a transi- tion to make, from a sprinter who didn't do anything else, to a 200- yard freestyle man who could also swim the 100-yard sprint. In his first year at 200 yards, Wiebeck has shown steady im- provement, although he did have trouble at the last meet with In- diana, finishing third in the 200 and last in the 100. He says he likes the longer race instead of just sprinting all the time." The stroke is also different for the 200, and it even changes the way the 100 is swum, "I started off the year practicing the 200. And once you get a stroke, you feel a certain way in the water. You are down more for the 100, and not tight as in the 50 yarder where you are on top of the water." Wiebeck thinks his main trouble in the 200 is the fact that he is a sprinter going up to the longer race, while others, such as Bill Utley of Indiana, are middle dis- tance swimmers going down. As a result, Wiebeck can stay with any- body for 150 yards, "but I haven't had it at the end. It's not really that others swim faster, it's me slowing down." Birth Trauma Wiebeck started swimming with- out any fanfare, but his problem was that he had a little trouble starting life at all. "I had pneu- monia as a baby and almost died." When he recovered, he looked about the same next to the 98- pound weakling as the 98-pound weakling does next to Charles At- las. As a result, his father condi- tioned him on some exercises "run- ning about two miles a day, 100- sit-ups, 20 pushups" so that no- body would ever notice anything now. As proof, Wiebeck weighed in September as the heaviest man on the team., The blond Detroiter notes that he started organized swimming because of the money involved. "I had always liked to swim, and I used to go down to a place that charged ten cents an hour. Once, when I was twelve, my mother gave me a dime to go swimming. But on the way, I saw this big candy bar in the store that was justddying for me to buy it. So I did. When I got the pool, I tried to find a way to get in for free. A guy told me about the recreation league they had there, and this; was OK with me, of course. So I was started. Looking back at the Indiana meet, Wiebcek observes that the major disappointment were Paul Scheerer and himself who lost the 200-yard breaststroke for the first time this year. Otherwise the team swam as well as could be hoped for;it had actually been calculated before the meet that Michigan had little hope of winning. It's He or I The most unanticipated differ- ence between Wiebeck and every other swimmer except John Salas- sa is that he is a junior. "At least I know who my competition is," for next year's captain laughs Wiebeck. Next year the team will have lost a large number of seniors ,in- cluding Scheerer and other room- mates Carl Robie and Russ King- ery, but Wiebeck in no way thinks that he is going down with a sink- ing ship. He and coach Gus Stager both agree that the sophomores are at least as good if not better than expected. In addition, many freshmen look capable of filling the gaps. For his own personal future, Wiebeck sees himself capable of a, 1:44-1:45 200-yard freestyle this year (the NCAA record is 1:42.9) and who knows how fast he will go next. As for the 100, Wiebeck swam 47.4 at NCAA's last year, in the high altitude of the Air Force Academy, which is a mere hun- dreths of a second off the Michi- gan team record. 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