Wednesdoy, June 30, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Wednesday. June 30. 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Amazing Doctor Meriwether prepares for Pat Am Games BERKELEY, Calif. ()- Dr. gust at the P. American er's main problem, howe Delano Meriwether already has Games in Cali, Colombia. Finding time for workouts is proved himself to Americans. Meriwether was the sensa- Because of his work in b Now he's set to make a believer tion of the indoor track season, research and patient care, out of international track ath- not only because he was a rank gets to run in practice me letes. beginner who knocked off es- two or three times a week. The 28-year-old hematologist, tablished stars but because he "I don't have anyt surely the world's fastest part- runs in swimming trunks held against daily workouts, I time athlete, ran a wind-aided up by suspenders. don't have the time." 100-yard dash in nine seconds Amateur Athletic Union of- He'll have even less tim flat last Friday to win the Na- ficials say, however, that Meri- e'll he e eley tional AAU title at Eugene, Ore. wether will have to wear the prepare for the Berkeley This weekend, he'll be com- same uniform the rest of the and admitted to feeling g peting here against the Rus- American team wears at Berke- because he competed at Eug sians and the World All-stars. ley. "We're in the process ofn His performance at Eugene "That's going to be a real ing from Baltimore to Bos brought to a climax the story- problem," he said last week in and my wife had to stay book saga of a man who began Eugene, when he was inform- to do all the packing this w serious running competition ed of the decision. "As long as end," he said in Eugene, less than a year ago. It also you're not overly gaudy, I think "You gentlemen who earned him a berth on the U.S. it adds something- to track." married can imagine what team that will compete in Au- Costumes are not Meriweth- thinks about my gallivan - -------- around the country to ru a ishould be home packing stead of being here," Fans' protest aans mps Vsedr astyi RHS ~ te~ R an~t H1 S Meriether said a saory national sports publica# fa i which indicated that he b ails 111 rem-e Court test running only after watchi track meet on television ELATED OVER RULING: i i ever. S. lood , he aybe ;ing just e to meet uilty ene. mov- ston, ome veek- are she ting n. I in- in a tion, egan ng a and Ali won't CHICAGO (P) - Muhammad Ali's attorney said yesterday the former heavyweight cham- pion has 'no plans to sue the World Boxing Association or other boxing authorities w h o stripped him of his title or sus- pended him as a fighter after he was convicted of draft eva- sion. "We'll let bygones be by- gones," said Chauncey Eskridge' the Chicago lawyer who direct- ed the lengthy legal battle which ended Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturn- ed Ali's conviction and five- year prison sentence for refus- ing induction into the Armed forces. "Naturally I was elated over the decision," Eskridge said. "It means finally somebody agrees with you. We went through the District Court twice, the Cir- cuit Court twice, the Circuit Court of Appeals twice and then we briefed our case in the Su- preme Court twice. Finally we got a breakthrough where a court agreed with us. You can't help but be elated, "We tried every opportunity we got to convince our oppon- ents that they were wrong in characterizing Ali's religious be- liefs as racial and political." Eskridge said the high court's decision presents an opportun- ity for all Black Muslims, the sue WBA sect of which Ali is a member and members of other unor- thodox religious groups opposed to war to resist induction into the armed services as consci- entious objectors. "It is our hope that members of such religious groups w ill take advantage of this decis- ion," the attorney said. "This case stands for the proposition that you look to the individual for his religious be- liefs, not to a group concensus as to the totality of such be- liefs," he said. Referring to a Justice De- partment letter to the Ken- tucky Selective Service Appeal board recommending that Ali be denied classification as a con- scientious objector, Eskridge said: "We tried repeatedly to con- vince the judges and Justice Department how awful that let- ter was. If the letter confused two District and two Appellate courts, then it must have con- fused the draft board composed of laymen. Eskridge said the federal sta- tute has been amended s i n c e 1967 to da away with the pro- cedure whereby the Justice De- partment advises draft boards, "We call that the Muham- mad Ali amendment," Eskridge said. NEW YORK (1P) - S t a t e Supreme Court Justice J a-c ob Grumet ruled yesterday that although baseball "umpires have been known on occasion to make bad decisions," t h e s judiciary will not interfere with them provided they are honest and rendered in good faith. The matter came up in Man- hattan Supreme Court when three Mets patrons sued for the return of their ticket money because they charged the S h e a Stadium opener on April .6 should have been called off be- cause of inclement weather. In angry language, the three paying customers charged that the Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc., the Mets, "wantonly and with mercenary intent disre- garded its duties and permitted * the game to be played u n d e r conditions which made it im- possible for any spectator to witness it without jeopardiz- ing his health, well-being and safety." It rained, snowed and sleeted and the winds blew in g a 1 e * force, the irate plaintiffs charg- ed. The chairman of the b a 11 club's board contended that the game was played in accord- ance with official baseball rules, Judge Grumet said. Some 30,835 tickets were sold before April 6, 4,113 were s o l d on the day of the game and 26,062 fans attended. The club official said that the rain stopped at 2:15 p.m. and SJoin CO-OPS (668-6872) that shortly thereafter the line- up cards were handed to the umpire-in-chief. The official then said as re- flected in the judge's decis- ion, "the crowds thereupon cheered as the ground crew re- moved the tarpaulin. The play- ing field was in excellent condi- tion. The game was played for four-and-one-half innings," and became official under the rules before it was terminated by the umpires "in deteriorating wea- ther. "While it may be that the decision of the management and the umpires was not a correct one, that is not for the Court to say. That is beyond its juris- diction and ability," the j u d g e wrote. "Umpires have been known on occasion to make bad deci- sions. These decisions very often arouse the wrath of irate fans. But the Court may not inter- fere unless there is a clear showing of a corrupt motive or bad faith." Since "no such showing has been made," Grumet said, "the plaintiffs are not entitled to re- turn of their money." Two of the plaintiffs are law- yers, and the third is an insur- ance executive. They undertook the action on behalf of them- selves and others who bought tickets for the opener. deciding that he could neat the sprinters, wasn't quite true. "The incident they mention- ed did happen, but by t h a t time I already had some run- ning under my belt," he said. "I started primarily for exercise." Most world-class sprinters have muscular thighs, but Meri- wether is greyhound-like at 6- foot-2 and 158 pounds. Track coaches say there's no limit to how fast he could run if he lifted weights to build up his muscles. They also think he's be un- touchable if he ever puts to- gether the basic fundamentals of sprinting: starting and s us- tained acceleration. He stunned track experts at Eugene by saying, "I usually start coasting at 70 yards, but today I kept pumping my arms. That's how I got second place finisher Jim Greene. I also got out of the blocks with the gang. That's amazing, for me." The 9.0 clocking would have been a world record if it hadn't been for the aiding wind, which was slightly over the allowable limit for records. He could eventually get the record, but he says his heavy personal work schedule p r e- vents him from speculating a- bout such things as the 1972 Olympics. "Perhaps I'm old. My run- ning days may be limited." Israeli Folk Dancing THIS EVENING At HILLEL--1429 Hill FREE FREE Want to know everything about sailing? Come to an informative meeting- U of M SAILING" CLUB THURS., JULY 1 7:45 P.M. 311 W. Engineering MASS MEETING PROJECT OUTREACH WED., JUNE 30 AUD. C 7:30 P.M. ANGELL HALL Mott Children's Hospital, Northville State Hospital, Project Transition, Retarded Adults, Child Core Center UNIVI TOW Fores an TIME TO MOVE? 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