Wednesday, April 17, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Wednesday, April 17, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine~ split wide to the left clarke cogsdill A small step for a coach: a giant leap for Rick Bay PEOPLE DROP out of coaching every year. In most cases, poor won-lost records and even-poorer salaries cause this attrition. Unnoticed for the most part, the departing coaches enter fields like life insurance or real estate, and work out the rest of their lives with a minimum of disruption. Rick Bay is not the typical departing coach. In four years here, he took an already-strong wrestling program and came agonizingly close to winning the national championship. He was under no win-or-else ultimatum from either administrators or alumni-and there is every reason to believe he could have gone on and coached successful teams as long as he wanted to. He dn't, and it's difficult to understand why. Any coach, if he is a normal human being, will neces- sarily develop a strong sense of obligation toward the athletes vho are straining themselves on the coaches' behalf. It is their action, both in and away from the arena, which will determine his reputation as a coach and as a human being with whom it is worthwhile to associate. Behaviorists to the contrary, there is no way any coach has total control over the actions and attitudes of his squad. A coach an lead, exhort, persuade and implore, but if he has any re- spect for .the autonomy of the athletes as individual persons, he will not compel them to make any sacrifice they would not agree to make independently-and if he tries, he will find him- self without a team altogether. The individualist ethic breaks down. The coach, as a person, becomes only partially responsible for his actions and their consequences. He is utterly dependent upon the goodwill and cooperativeness of his team if he attempts to teach them that in sports there are values that are more important than the won-lost record, and when they are performing, the result us- ually hinges on a combination of talent and fate over which he has absolutely no control. But although the coach's responsibility for his team's results is limited, his accountability is infinite. There is simply no-one else who can be called for to explain the success or failure of the team, and in our guilt-ridden Protestant culture, we insist dogmatically that for every sin there must be a sinner, and that for every good act there must be a saint. Never mind that life is really much more ambiguous! In athletics, unfortunately, all these considerations pale before the ultimate yardstick: victory or defeat. Society will canonize its SOBs if they can win like Vince Lombardi, and laugh at good people like Johnny Orr if his teams lose a few more than Sports Illustrated predicts. This emphasis extends into our everyday lives. Often we will describe people we know as "winners" or "losers" and go no farther than that. We continue to insist upon capitalism, a strange doctrine that insists that everyone benefits if everyone holds a knife to everyone else's throat, but never quite manages to hit the jugular. The concept of victory, therefore, can be extended too far and becomes the standard by which we judge our lives. A "win" becomes not just something that happens when the game is over and you add up the score, but a direct reflection of one's per- sonal worth. Similarly, defeat is not just something that happens when the game ends too soon, but becomes a statement of ac- cusation and blame. Indeed, since it's impossible to win all the time, the possibility of defeat becomes the games-playing cul- ture's substitute for the doctrine of Original Sin - the chief dif- ference being that games, unlike the church, don't claim to offer any hope of redemption. For thirty-one years, Rick Bay has devoted himself to competing fiercely. His intelligence and physical talents have been such that he almost always wins - and that's the problem. As a sportsman, he accepts defeat as gracefully as anyone, but inwardly - as he admits - he is unable to convince himself that occasionally it's all right to come out second best. "I was really proud of the way we wrestled this year at the Big Tens," he recalls, "and I knew we had wrestled the most outstanding tournament in Michigan history. But I stil felt terrible about coming in second, even though the guys did better than I had any right to expect. That's just no way to live." The nature of sports makes it too easy to react this way- to enter the murky realm in which victory and defeat become competing ideologies - and when you get into this trap, where your personality insists that it must be invincible, there is only one sane response: get out while you can. Rick Bay's decision to leave coaching was absolutely the right thing for him to do. If he can find an activity where what he does won't be measured against a scoreboard, he will cer- tainly do well. Michigan By FRED UPTONi T h e Michigan baseball t e a m, finally breaking t h e i r scoreless streak of over 20 innings, split a doubleheader with Bowling Green yesterday winning 1-0 and losing 2-1. Both games were pitching bat- tles with the Falcons collecting five hits per game while Michigan man- aged four in the first set and only two in the second. Michigan won the first game in the seventh and final stanza with the only run of the game-a de- layed suicide squeeze bunt. After Greg Buss had been re- tired to open the inning, Dan Da- miani hit a high bouncer over Fal- con third baseman Joe Meyer. Larry Gustafson responded with a single into right and took second on the throw to third in which Dami~ani was safe. BOWLING GREEN then held a conference on the mound and de- cided to intentionally pass Dick Walterhouse to load the bases and go for the force at any base. That left it up to Chris Burak. After a Ruthian swinging strike, Burak executed the squeeze, and; it worked perfectly. That was it offensively for the mighty Maize and Blue in the :first game of the twin'bill. Michigan skipper Moby Benedict moaned, "The squeeze is about the only way we'll score." He was openly disappointed with the per- formance of the bats. THE WINNER of the game was Chuck Rodgers who had his off- speed pitch working well as he chalked up six strikeouts. Bowling Green coach Don Pur- vis knew it would be a pitcher's battle from the outset. "Yes, I saw that Michigan had lost 1-0 and 2-0 over the weekend and have! dlaily sport~s NIGHT EDITOR: LESLIE RIESTER had other close games as well." That's why the Falcons went for the sacrifice from the second in- ning on. They attempted four, of which three were successful. The Bowling Green sixth inning looked the most promising against the Wolverines. Designated hit- ter Gary Turner led off with a walk and moved to second when Meyer was hit by a pitch. Dale Swiger laid down a bunt but Turner was forced at third. Both men moved up on a grounder to first. Finally in a 3-2 pitch, Fred Jereb flew out to right to end the inning. If one thought that the Michigan bats were cold the first game, they were even colder the second. They must have been stored on the east side of a glacier during moose hunting season in Siberia: Two hits were all that the Wolverines could scrape together. Five out of seven innings, Michigan went down in order, one-two-three. The contest only lasted one hour. A FRUSTRATED Benedict aptly said, "We're an apathetic hitting ball club right now." The Wolverines solo run came off the bat of John Lonchar when the big catcher propelled a 370- foot blast over the left field wall in the fourth inning to tie the game ivides momentarily. Pete Ross collected the only oth- er Michigan hit but was wiped out on an attempted steal. The only other inning in which 'a Michigan batter reached first base was the second. This easily could have been a big inning. Mike DeCou reached first on an error by the shortstop Gary Haas. Designated hitter Ted May- han hit a sizzling grounder that was turned into a double play. But the inning was not dead yet. Ross walked but was caught stealing in his first of two aborted thefts. CRAIG FORHAN started on the mound and needed relief help in the sixth by Tom Joyce. They were opposed by Falcon southpaw Mike Frilling. Forhan was touched in the third when after one out Dave Fox sing- led into right. After another sac- rifice, Larry Owen singled him home. The fire wasn't out yet as Haas hit a bouncer off Forhan's toe and was safe when the throw from Forhan forced Ross high in the air off first base. Finally Dick Selgo endedthe inning with an unassisted putout by third base-Ri man Ed Clegg. The winning run scored in the fifth when Mark Aprile led off with .. an infield hit. Moved up again by the sacrifice into scoring posi- tion, he scored when Owen re- Michi sponded with his second RBI of the char game scoring Aprile on a close swing play at the plate. home It was a beautiful day in Bowl- in Bo, ing Green but the batters just verine didn't respond to the warm wea- Bowli ther. Maybe they will have better Boi luck this weekend in Iowa and ning Minnesota. dropp' doubleheader --------- BUCKS BLAST BULLS: Ceiti*c, By The Associated Press NEW YORK - The fast-breaking Boston Celtics, getting 20 or more! points each from John Havlicek, Don Nelson and Jo Jo White, rode a 33-point third quarter to a 111-99! victory over the New York Knicks last night for a commanding 2-01 lead in their National Basketball Association playoff series. Game three in the best-of-seven! Eastern Conference final 'show-, down will be played Friday night in Boston. blast The racehorse Celtics, trailing 60-53 at halftime, outscored New York 33-14 in the crucial third period and catapaulted to an 86- 74 lead by the end of the quarter. A 19-4 burst in the opening 6%1 minutes of the period proved de- cisive as the Celtics charged ahead 72-64, and the Knicks never re- covered. Havlicek, who was devastating with 19 points in the first quarter, wound up with 27 points. Nelson Ts ished with 23 and White added 22. Walt Frazier was high for New York with 21 points and Bill Brad- ley scored 20.: * * * Chicago bulled MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Bucks, led by 25 points from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bob Dandridge and tight team defense, whipped the Chicago Bulls 101-85 last night in the opening game of their National Basketball Associa- tion Western Conference playoff finals. Oscar Robertson a d d. e d 15 points for the Bucks, who with- stood a fourth-quarter Chicago rally led by Norm Van Lier, who finished with 26 points. Game Two will be played in Chi- cago Thursday night. The Bucks outscored the Bulls' 13-2 and held them without a fieldI goal for 4 minutes and 14 seconds' to open a 70-50 lead with 5:20 left in the third period. -1 The B points o to withi Ron W Curtis P a pair b led 89-7 utes to Thef a flurr back to point with 4: After changed blocked minute gan catcher John Lon- illustrates the powerful that produced a 370-foot run yesterday afternoon wling Green as the Wol- es split a twinbill with the ing Green Falcons, win- the opener 1-0 while ing the nightcap, 2-1. -99 Bulls scored the first five f the fourth period to close n 13 points, but baskets by Villiams, Jon McGlocklin, Perry and Robertson offset by Bob Weiss as the Bucks 2 with more than six min- play. Bulls retaliated by forcing y of turnovers and fought o within 91-81 on a three- play by Dennis Awtrey :20 left. 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