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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, September 21, 1973
Association of Jewish Faculty and Grads
invites you to a
WINE AND CHEESE PARTY
SUNDAY, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m.
at H I LLEL--1429 Hill St.
Bring wine, cheese or $1.50
SHABAT SHALOM
FRIDAY EVEN ING-Sept. 21
7:30 p.m.-COMMUNAL SABBATH DINNER
6:30-Chocolate Services (traditional)
8:00-Strawberry Services (liberal)
SATURDAY MORN ING-Sept. 22, 10 a.m.
Reservations for dinner must be placed by 1 p. m
Friddy-663-4129r
HAVURAH SERVICE (Hillel Library)
MIDNIGHT SATURDAY-Sept. 22
This is the last week of the year 5733. To begin
this week in the proper mood setting the tone for
the high holidays we will meet at midnight for
Selihot in two settings-liberal and traditional.
HILLEL-1429 Hill St.
Mays:.
By CLARKE COGSDILL
WILLIE MAYS IS through. The laconic readout
from the teletype surprised no-one. There
were the great statistics, the rundown on where
he stands on the all-time lists, even something
about his salary . . . a topic in which too many
sports fans take a macabre interest. For good
reason, his .211 batting average this season was
obscured.
Mays was much more than just another great
centerfielder, perpetual all-star, or universal hero.
His 'career focuses within itself many of the im-
portant changes, both in baseball and the whole
society, of the past two-and-a-half decades.
Mays was one of the first black players
whose careers were not truncated by the color
bar. The other early pioneers - men like
Monte Irvin, Don Newcombe, Larry Doby,
Satchell Paige, even Jackie Robinson - all
spent years in the obscurity of the black
baseball leagues. In many cases, these blacks
were over the hill before the quote-unquote
Major Leagues let them play.
Mays was the first example of what black peo-
ple can do when allowed to perform freely in
a previously lily-white environment. Had he spent
A Ieen
the, last 15 years anywhere but in Candlestick
Park, it would be his record which Hank Aaron
would be out to break.
Battling 40 mph winds both at bat and on de-
fense, isolated from the New York media which
originally made him famous, he invariably meant
more to his team - and the game-than the raw
figures suggested.
As recent labor confrontations aroused public
ire against the high wages of professional ath-
letes, Mays almost singularly escaped criticism,
even though an objective wage - performance
comparison could have raised some interesting
questions.
May's six-figure salary for his mediocre years
can be justified only by remembering he was
grossly underpaid as a youth, and brought plenty
of people out to watch him play.
Mays escaped such criticism because at no
time was there any doubt but that he was giving
everything he had to the game, and would con-
tinue to do so even for a cup of coffee and a sub-
way token.
The man on the assembly line, fed up with
cars which rust through in a single winter,
I quits
tele ,ision sets which fViI the day after the
w -rranty expires, the faceless pencilpushers
who spend his t-'xes and the foreman who
speeds up the line to meet a monthly quota,
could look at Miys and think, "Here is a man
who cares about himself, the things he is
doing, and the people who are counting on
his efforts. He's worth every penny he gets,
and then some."
Willie Mays was the last surviving link be-
tween the struggling baseball of today and the
"glory years" embalmed in record books and
photographs. He spanned the era between Joe
DiMaggio and David Clyde.
Until his last struggling years, Mays was an
example of "the way things used to be," the
subtle excellences our ascendant Haldeman-
esque technocrats are mindlessly destroying.
Only the image will remain: the streak almost
disappearing in deep centerfield to snare Vic
Wertz' line drive, the ebullient "Say Hey Kid"
playing stickball with the kids on 125th Street,
the towering fly balls disappearing into the left-
center field bullpen the easy stride and the de-
ceptive basket catch that looked as natural as the
act of breathing.
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By ANDY GLAZER
What's the most popular sport
at the University of Michigan?
If you said football, you'd be
right-for non-participant sports.
But what is the most popular
participant sport? Got an an-
swer? Okay, all those who said
I.M. softball get a gold star.
That's right, I.M. softball. The
single largest intramural sport
has 186 teams this season. That's
an increase of seven per cent
over last year's 164-and with an
average of 12 men (or women)
per team, there are over 2000
participants in this year's pro-
gram.
But don't let the numbers
frighten you. No one comes in
186th. The teams are broken up
into 10 divisions of varying sizes
and purposes. From there they
are further broken down into
four-team leagues. A quick three
g a m e round - robin tournament
separates them into first, second,
third or fourth, and from there
each team goes into a single
elimination tournament w i t h
teams from the other leagues
that had similar finishes.
Here's a look at the 10 divi-
sions.
INDEPENDENT OR ALL-CAM-
PUS - The largest division, and
probably the most talented. Any-
one affiliated with the Univer-
sity can play. Two years ago the
independent division h a d 26
teams. Now it has 57. The larger
number of students in apart-
ments is one cause. And of
course, with the widest range of
people to draw from, the more
top talent there will be.
FRATERNITY-The frats ex-
ist because of the social life they
provide. There's no exception
when it comes to softball. Thirty
teams play in the division with
the most varying talent. Why
varying? A simple size question.
Some frats have to virtually drag
every member onto the field in
order to have enough men (10)
to play. Larger frats have the
litter. This was evident on the
first day of play when the Evans
Scholars scored 60 runs in two
games, crushing both Phi Gam-
ma Delta and Tau Epsilon Phi.
RESIDENCE HALL - Twenty-
five teams from the various Uni-
versity dorms play. Size often
plays a part in who wins-but
most of the halls are big enough
to take care of themselves.
CO-RECREATIONAL-The fast-
est growing division of all has
25 teams. Co-rec means just
what you might think-guys and
girls playing together. Five of
each play and they must alter-
nate in the batting order.
GRADUATE-University grad
students only. 16 teams.
WOMEN'S RESIDENCE HALL
-Ten all-female teams play in
some of the most unusual and
hard fought games around.
FAST PITCH-Mostly for the
more experienced players, the
fast pitch division fields seven
teams, four of which are faculty,
nine players to a side.
INDEPENDENT WOMEN -
Five all-girl teams formed un-
der the same conditions as the
men's independent.
SORORITY - F o u r sorority
teams.
In the co-rec, women's inde-
s
pendent and sorority no spikes
are allowed.
The overall slow pitch rules
are for the most part the same,
as those of the American Softball
Association - 60 foot bases, no
base stealing, and a minimum-
maximum arc on the pitched ball
of from one to ten feet.
Two major differences are a
three ball-two strike limit (three
balls constituting a walk, two
strikes a strike-out), and a semi-
free substitution rule where a
removed player may re-enter the
game after his team has com-
pleted one full batting order
cycle.
But mostly, everyone just has
a lot of fun. And that's what
intramurals are all about.
Y ankees
hurting In
Ryde'r Cup.
MUIRFIELD, Scotland M) -
The upstart Great Britain-Ireland
team, paced by Scots Brian
Barnes and Bernard Gallacher,
romped off to a stunning 51 to
2 lead over the heavily favored
Americans yesterday in the first
day of play in the biennial Ryder
.Cup golf matches.
Barnes and Gallacher scored
two victories over shocked and
subdued American teams, beat-
ing Lee Trevino and Billy Casper
1 up in the morning Scotch four-
somes and then routing Tommy
Aaron and Gay Brewer 5 and 4 in
the afternoon four-ball matches.
Jack Nicklaus and Arnold
Palmer scored one American
point in their 6 and 5 romp over
Maurice Bembridge and Eddy
Polland in Scotch foursomes but
lost to Bembridge and Brian
Huggett 3 and 1 in the fourball.
"We just got our ears pinned
back," Nicklaus said. "Jack
(American team captain Jack)
Burke) wanted to get two sure
points by putting Arnold and me
together in both matches, but it
just didn't quite work out that
way.
"Neither one of us could make
any birdies in the afternoon
match. We were both right
around par, maybe over. That's
not good enough."
Trevino teamed with Homero
Blancas to win a fourball match
over veterans Neil Coles and
Christy O'Connor 2 and 1. It was
the Americans' only victory in
the four afternoon matches.
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