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Reflections on the triumph in Detroit, 1972
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1972
Booing Tiger management
BASEBALL is a great game, and the peo-
ple of Detroit take it as seriously as
anybody. They absolutely must, or they
never would have taken the inexcusable
abuse heaped upon them by the Tiger
management last night.
It was a big game, one of the biggest
the Tigers have ever been in, and John
Fetzer, the Tigers' incredibly insensitive
owner knew it. He was assured of a sell-
out no matter what happened.
But honesty can never stand in the
way of making a buck, so Fetzer reneged
on Monday's announcement that bleacher
tickets for last night's game would go on
sale at 6 p.m. Instead, he decided that
making $10,000 in the morning is better
than waiting for night, and he went
ahead and sold every ticket he had be-
fore 1 p.m. The thousands of loyal Tiger
fans who went to workeyesterday never
had a chance for a ticket.
Early in the afternoon, people began
to line up at the locked bleacher gates to
get choice tickets when they opened at
six. But they were told by a voice over
a loud speaker, "There are not tickets
available for tonight's game. If you have
no ticket, please leave the area." The,
fans, thousands of them, became an-
gered and refused to .leave. Meanwhile,
those 10,000 fans who had bought tickets
earlier in the day were crowding up be-
hind the rest, pushing everyone into the
still closed gates.
IT WAS A FIASCO. The Tigers refused to
open the gates because those people
without tickets, they feared, would
charge in. The crowd pressed close and
tight. Tempers flared and people yelled
and cursed while the heat from thous-
ands of pressing bodies grew stifling.
A squad of Detroit Police Reserves and
'some regular Detroit Police moved in to
try to control the crowd, which was grow-
ing restless after two solid hours. Some
people screamed for the crowd to "knock
down the gates", but the mob, genuinely
anxious to see the game, exercised admir-
able control.
Finally at 7:45, one single gate was
opened, guarded by a horde of police-
men, checking tickets one at a time to
keep out crashers. The massive push by
the crowd was almost unbearable. Little
children and small adults were being
pushed down and virtually trampled.
People were yelling and screaming, while
one city policeman was shouting, "My
God, you people are just animals."
I finally got through the gate, soaked
with sweat, and hurting with minor
bruises from the police pushing me
around. I scrambled for a seat and pro-
ceeded to boo the Tigers with all the
vigor I could muster. In 15 years of go-
ing to sporting events, big and small,
never had I suffered the indignity that
the Tigers had the audacity to wield last
night.
IT IT TIME that sports fans stop allow-
ing themselves to be treated as ani-
mals by avaricious team owners who are
continuing to neglect the dignity of the
people who support their teams. Ten
thousand letters to John Fetzer might
do the trick.
The Tiger players won. The manage-
ment clearly lost.
-JOHN PAPANEK
Sports Editor
By DAN BORUS
BASEBALL, AS Joe Garagiola pointed out, is a funny game. The
last vestige of the Horatio Alger myth, baseball provides the setting
for some of the most improbable occurrences in American life. In
the course of a 162 game season (154 if you have a strike) the world
can end up a little inverted.
An example of this reverseness, this perversion of form, was
brought forth Tuesday night in the Motor City. The Tigers, baseball
world's version of the Summerhill Rest Home, eked out a victory over
the Boston Red Sox, securing the championship of the Eastern Division
of the American League.
And Detroit went wild. Streets were covered with wild, frenzied
fans who tore the Stadium apart. And over what . ..?
An honest appraisal of the situation reveals that the Tigers possess
the baseball adeptness of P.S. 149. The greatest advertisement for
Geritol and the ability of our elderly citizens to live useful and
productive lives without resorting to welfare in existence today, the
Tigers reached their lofty position by smattering such giants as the
Milwaukee Brewers, who rumor has it will play with a hard ballnext
year.
THE EASTERN DIVISION, after. all, was the weak sister; the
comedy division.'No one team could put together a winning streak
of any great duration and that wasn't a result of superior, play. A
quick glance at the statistics of the league show Western Division
clubs with a true superiority in pitching, hitting and power.
If the league was divided geographically as is logical, then the Allen-
Wood White Sox would be playing the Oakland Athletics for the title
and the Red Sox-Tiger showdown would be just another Billy Martin
wet dream.
Rational minds must ask what is all this bruhaha about. A 32 year-
old pitcher who couldn't throw a curve ball in the National League?
a journeyman catcher who couldn't stay with even the lowly
Indians? . . . a thug of a manager? Humph, it is a strange game.
STRANGE ENOUGH that a team with as much speed as a drugged
turtle and the hitting of an anemic cow could cause a celebration
that could engulf an entire metropolis. Strange enough that old men
could finish like young ones.
But let's not take anything away from the Tigers. They do have
assets - the second best fat pitcher in the league for one, and Stroh's
beer for another.
Perhapstwhen they enter post-season play they will reveal the
stuff they are made of, much to the chagrin of their proudest and loud-
est boosters.
A World Series berth, replete with television coverage so the whole
country can be appraised of Tiger exploits, would present the farcial
situation at its height. The Pirates (or Reds) would parade their
hitters and their stats across the screen with frightening repetitive-
ness . . . .355 batting averages, 25 home runs.
The Tigers will be forced to counter with their stick artists like
Willie Horton ".228, 10 hrs." As my high school coach used to say,
"class will out."
Of course, as any good social scientist will tell you, no event is
outside the realm of possibility but merely beyond the realm of pro-
bability. And Tiger Stadium was the site of a lot of improbability.
The Tigers, being' the wheeler-dealers that they are, didn't leave
it all to chance. A forgotten waiver regulation here, a trade deadline
ignored there, and the aging Bengals are fighting for glory. All legal,
it is true, but shaky nonetheless.
The cream, one learns, will inevitably rise to the top. Sometimes,
however, one is ironically forced to add, "Wait till next year."
Dan Borus, a sports night editor for The Daily, still firmly believes
that Lou Brock was safe at the plate in '68.
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SHORTSTOP AURELIO RODRIGUEZ blasts one of many circuit clouts for the Bengals.
Winning isn tallbut..
By CHUCK BLOOM
A WIN IS a win is a win is a
win, and the Detroit Tigers
won. It wasn't the Yankees or
the Orioles or the Red Sox, it
was the Tigers. As old and slow
and bad as they are, they won the
East Division of the American
League and no one else in that
division can claim that distinction.
True, the Tigers weren't running
away with the title like everybody
else, but what would the President
say if there wasn't an exciting pen-
nant race to thrill all America. So
what if Detroit was in a division
that didn't live up to its expecta-
tions and finished not too far obev
.500. They won and that is all that
counts. ,?
Al Kaline played out of his head
and Woodie Fryman pitched like
some infamous gambler the Tig-
ers had in 1968. They backed into
the lead when no one else wanted
it so they took advantage of a good
thing and grabbedit.
All the criticism of the Tigers
generally comes from jealous peo-
ple from other American League
cities whosebteams did not win.
(See story above). Not only is this
attitude bush but a 1 s o not fair
to all the Tiger fans who are at-
tempting to savor the sweet, suc-
culent juices of victory.
THE TIGERS got hot during the
last two weeks of the season and
won when they had to win. This
includes victories over upset-mind-
ed teams like Milwaukee who are
capable of derailing a pennant-
bound express. When it came down
to head-to-head competition with
Boston, the Tigers flashed t h e i r
fangs and choked off the puny
Beantown sticks.
Instead of acting like sore los-
ers, the American League fans
should be congratulating the cour-
ageous effort the old men put forth.
One admires good work, and
should not admonish it. The De-
troit fans deserve better than ver-
bal abuse. People like Dick
Young of the New Yory D a i 1y
News, saying that the American
League East should not even exist,
should apply his wisdom to him-
self.
The Tigers will walk into Oak-
land confident as the true champ-
ions that they are. They will play
to the best of their ability even
thought it may not be too good.
And if they fail to beat the A's,
it will not matter for the Bengals
will always be champs in the
hearts of the fans.
Class will prevail, age will con-
quer flair, and Detroit will wipe
out all that stands in its way of
the World Series title.
Chuck Bloom, alias Mr: Con-
stricTOR, is a sports night editor
for The Daily.
Exposing Detroit's shame'
Environment finds friend in
DAILY CHIEF Photographer Terry Mc-
Carthy was just doing his job early
yesterday morning, mingling with Ken-
nedy Square crowds, snapping pictures of
the street disturbances that followed the
victory of the Detroit Tigers a few hours
earlier.
Unfortunately, several Detroit police
officers felt that their duty to control
the crowds included beating McCarthy
with nightsticks, threatening him with
abusive language, and stealing the film
from his camera.
This might seem an isolated incident,
something that jumpy cops might do in
the heat and tension of battle. But when
The Daily called the Detroit Police yes-
terday to file a formal complaint, we
learned that both The Detroit News and
WXYZ television news'had encountered
similar harassment. The police promised
to investigate.
The real tragedy of what happened is
not the few bruises and loss of film suf-
fered by three reporters engaged in their
duty, but the fact that the Detroit police
are so undisciplined that their command
officers are unable to restrain themselves
from running wild. Special onions must
go to Police Commissioner John Nichols,
who was supposedly in personal con-
trol of the situation.
Reporters from this newspaper have
covered demonstrations throughout the
nation. In no other place, with the ex-
ception of 1968 Democratic convention
in Chicago, have they encountered such
obstacles as those in Detroit yesterday
morning.,
In contrast, police in Washington, D.C.
and Miami, Fla., managed to maintain a
healthy relationship with the media, de-
spite situations far more tense than a
victory celebration.
The Daily can do without the roll of
film, and McCarthy's bruises will fade
away in time. But the public must not
tolerate this type of behaviour on the
part of its police.
-JONATHAN MILLER
two-year-old,
By MARTIN STERN Yet in overf
ICHIGAN'S Environmental Pro- have been filed
tection Act is two years old as ception, the maj
of this month, and though neither favorable to the
a great cure-all nor just another suit, either thr
weak pollution control measure, tions or out-of-c
it does seem to have more posi- One specific c
tive than negative merits. This that of the Wa
is an encouraging sign. Dept. (WCHD)
Specifically, the Environmental ber Avenue in
Protection Act (EPA), as drafted oerAinewih
by University Law Professor Jos- operating with
eph Sax in 1970, allows anyone lution control d
to bring suit in circuit court erally coating
against any private or public en- neighborhood
titly which is in some way pollut- EXirt.
ing or harming the air, water, wild- EXISTENT P,
life, or other natural resources of trols couldn't sa
the state. the matter, so
University student Roger Connor, suit against Chi
who is a member of the state Air EPA, which at1
Pollution Control Commission, was and untested. TI
one of several lobbyists who help ing that a soluti
ed push the EPA through the state ed outside of t
legislature two years ago. Com- Chrysler, unco
menting upon the law's effective- new law, allow
ness, Connornotes that itnhas been drag on and on
successful, and "has been a bene- Finally, a gri
fit to the state." dred local resid(
pollution act
forty cases which
since the law's in-
jority have proved
parties filing the
ough court convic-
ourt settlements.
ase Connor cited is
Dye County Health
v. Chrysler Corp'.
st foundry, at Hu-
Detroit had been
inefficient air pol-
evices and was lit-
the surrounding
with heavy indus-
POLLUTION c o n-
atisfactorily handle
the WCHD filed
rysler under t h e
the time was new
he WCHD was hop-
on could be reach-
he courtroom, but
oncerned with the
ved negotiations to
up of several hun-
ents intervened. as
plaintiffs against Chrysler. Nov
caught in the middle between the
extreme revengeful demands of
the residents and the more mod-
erate requests of the WCHD, Chry-
sler capitulated and a compromise
solution was soon reached.
ANOTHER MAJOR aspect of the
EPA is that it serves as prevent-
itive medicine. Administrative and
pri'-ate enterprises, before making
decisions which could affect the
environment, now have second
thoughts about their actions, aware
of possible repercussions which
could arise from them.
Thus,the Environmental Protec-
tion Act seems to be celebrating a
happy second birthday. Involving
both citizen participation as well
as a means of constant' pressure
on government and industry, it
definitely seems to be a step in
the right direction towards con-
trolling pollution.
Marty Stern is a staff writer for
The Daily:
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Zolton' s breach of ethics
Fireside Chat
LI
ZOLTONFerency, a founding member
of the statewide Human Rights
Party (HRP) and one-time Democratic
gubernatorial candidate, has goofed.
Badly.
Ferency, it was announced at an HRP
press conference Tuesday, has given
Perry Bullard, Democratic candidate for
the 53rd State Legislative District, a
personal check for $100.
It is not quite clear where the money
for this check came from. Ferency claims
it came from others, who wish to remain
anonymous. Bullard has been saying that
Ferency himself is a campaign contrib-
utor to his fund.
Either way, Bullard is $100 richer and
Ferency is in trouble. If Ferency actually
donated the money himself, he was vio-
Editorial Staff
SIRA FITZGERALD
Editor
PAT BAUER ...........Associate Managing Editor
LINDSAY CHANEY..........Editorial Director
MARK DILLEN ..................... Magazine Editor
lating a long-standing party ethic for-
bidding support for candidates of other
parties.
If Ferency was merely being a "bag
man" for people who, in his own words,
are "interested in your (Bullard's) can-
didacy," then he is probably in violation
of state election law.
WHEN HRP scheduled the press confer-
ence that merely muddied the topic
it was intended to clarify, the idea was
to disclaim Bullard's public announce-
ment that Ferency had jumped his party
to contribute to a Democrat's coffers.
Instead, it became apparent that Fer-
ency did contribute-or at least he wrote
the check.
This looks bad for Ferency-and well
it should. It deserves to be taken into ac-
count when people decide. who to send
to the State Supreme Court, for which
Ferency is a candidate in November.
The problem is, it also looks bad for
the rest of HRP's candidates,kespecially
Steve Burghardt, who is running against
Bullard, and herein lies the tragedy. In
contributing to a Democrat's campaign,
Ferency has made his own ties to HRP
suspect.
FERENCY SHOULD be severely repri-
manded-at the very least-for what
SG C president explains Council's activities
By BILL JACOBS
IN RECENT WEEKS, there has been con-
siderable controversy in the pages of
The Daily concerning Student Government
Council. Controversy and criticism are al-
ways welcome as they guarantee full air-
ings of views on important issues. However,
much of the latest controversy has been
misguided in that it has been based upon
inaccurate news stories and irresponsible
editorials printed in The Daily. Rather than
recite these inaccuracies here, it would be
more useful to discuss the basic legitimate
questions that have been raised by the
students on campus.
First, what is SGC supposed to do? The
purpose of Student Government Council is to
represent its constituency, lobby on behalf
of that constituency, take action to provide
for the social, academic and economic wel-
fare of its constituency and provide a
forum for discussion of significant campus
issues.
Second, what is SGC actually doing? Since
the last all-campus election, the following
concerns have been the objects of most
of our efforts:
-FUNDING - One of the basic rights of
any constituency is to set its own level of
Finally, the Regents did approve the
one dollar. However, in direct opposition
tb the wishes of the students, the Regents
prohibited the SGC lawyer from suing the
University and prohibited SGC from spend-
ing money on a grocery cooperative.
SGC plans to fight this denial of a basic
constitutional right and is presently con-
sidering the most effective means of doing
so;
-SGC LEGAL ADVOCATE - The pur-
pose of the SGC Legal Advocate program
is to place the student body on more
equal terms with the Administration, the
city and the state. A few of the projects that
the Legal Advocate, Tom Bentley, is pre-
sently engaged in are fighting the recent
voiding of the Ann Arbor $5 pot law, open-
ing all Regents meetings to the public as
required by the state constitution, chal-
lengingthe AttorneysGeneral's ruling that
a student cannot sit on the Board of
Regents, forcing the University to release
its salary list with names in an effort to end
discrimination against women, forcing the
plagiarism merchants (Write-On and Crea-
tive Writing) out of town, and forcing the
City Clerk to enforce the new voting rights
laws;
This year, the SGC Voter Registration
Committee is sponsoring a drive which is
expected to register between 1500 and 2000
new voters;
- REPRESENTATION ON UNIVERSITY
COMMITTEES - Each year SGC appoints
dozens of students to sit on University wide
committees dealing with all aspects of
campus life.
Two of the more notable actions SGC has
taken in the past week have been; a) ap-
pointment of students to the Health Service
Planning Committee who support a system
under which all students would pay a small
flat fee each year and receive health care
free of charge the rest of the year, and
b) mandating the students on the Office
of Student Services Policy Board (a com-
mittee on which students are in the major-
ity) to force open meetings;
- BAIL FUND -- SGC operates a bail
fund which will bail out any member of the
Ann Arbor community whose bail has been
set at up to $150 and who can be ceasonably
expected to pay back the bail. Over the
years this service has proven invaluable to
individual students as well as in times
of mass arrests;
INSURANCE - Each year SGC nego-
THE FINAL AND PERHAPS most cruc-
ial question is how is the student body is
supposed to know what SGC and the school
and college governments are doing? In the
past, this service was provided by the
Daily. However, in recent months, Daily
coverage of SGC has been reduced to oc-
casional shabby and biased attacks. In an
effort to keep our constituency informed,
SGC in cooperation with other student gov-
ernments has created the "Michigan Stu-
dent News," a weekly newsletter which is
being mailed to all students. It should be
noted that the News is not controlled by
any one government, so that.students can
expect accurate and unbiased reporting..
In addition, all SGC meetings are open
and students are invited to attehd and par'-
ticipate in debate. SGC meetings are held
every Thursday at 7:30 in the SC Chamb-
ers on the third floor of the Michigan
Union. If you can't come to meetings, our
office is open 9 to 5 Monday 'hrough Fri-
day and there is always someone around
to talk to.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL was
created and exists to serve she students
on this campus. Yet, in the final analysis,
, I