,' 9 A V- 4 I F I V 4 5 4 * 6 Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, August 11, 1970 Against 'The Wl There's no news ... ...so we wrote this By BILL ALTERMAN and LEE KIRK TH1E DAYS when news from' the wide world of sports came from just the playing fields apparently have died unnoticed. I can't say I'll miss them. The dust has settled on the football strike and the exhi- bition season got underway marred only by an abundance of rookies at a few games, and finally the view is clear enough to make some sense out of reason that the players walked out. There are few more dangerous occupations than play- ing football. Injuries are frequent and in many cases they can end a career before it begins. Deaths due to football injuries have occured even at the pro level. Players who play pro football deserve compensation from on the job injur- ies just like everyone else: Basically, the players struck for security. Despite its glorification by alumni and the mass eye of television, college football is played by college students. (The- oretically) these athletes go to class and are involved in student activities and protests just like you and I. Last year, at several colleges notably Washington, Wyoming and Indiana, the foot- ball coach got into a dispute with his black athletes.- Many coaches apparently feel that a player has sold his mind and body to the team when he joins. It is their belief that any activity detrimental to their glorified image as an ath- lete, is reason enough for their dismissal. It is the image of a player long dead but still beating in the hearts of a few "old- school" coaches. So far Bo Schembechler has handled this type of prob- lem wisely and discretely. When middle guard Henry Hill was placed on probation for his activities during the BAM strike, Schembechler was astute enough to separate Hill the tackler from Hill the black. This fall, however, things may become more complicated. In March there was no conflict for black striking athletes. Dur- ing the upcoming football season though, the possibility lurks that some sort of protest will be in order when the Regents are forced to deal once again with the BAM demands. It will be interesting to follow the actions of both the coach and the players if and when such action is necessary. Michigan's misinformed Minnesota maniac continues in his daring belief that, despite dropping three in a row to Oakland, the-Twins will arise victorious in the American League's West- ern division and furthermore, revenge last year's debacle against Baltimore by sweeping the Orioles three straight in the fall. In the World Series, he further predicts, the gallant darlings of the Midwest will go on to whip the vaunted Big Red Machine. Motes from the underground: The Tigers will not win it this year. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Only a little more than three weeks ago, they were three games back, but since then, everything that could go wrong has. The one-two punch of Willie Horton and Jim Northrup werebsidelined with leg injuries, and even though Northrup is back and ripping the ball, the Tigers are dead without Horton. Wil- lie's ankle injury is now said to be much worse than first thought, and rather than risk further damage, the Tigers will probably keep him out for the rest of the season. Another factor in the Detroit demise has been the rever- sion of the bullpen to its early season form. Through June and most of July, the firemen didn't lose a game. Without a con- sistent starter in sight, the Tigers suddenly have found them- selves with no consistent hurler. Maybe they should have canned Mayo Smith instead of Johnny Sain. It occurs to us . . . All of you intrepid basketball fans on the hill are going to have a rough time of it trying to dribble the ball from hoop to hoop on the decidedly soft and slow court known as Palmer Field. Aside from serving no useful purpose, the backboards are a curse to all dedicated frisbee players who consider Palmer Field their home turf. (Maybe they're making plans to pave the field over?) Oh well, it will make the post pattern a reality for football games up there. That the athletic department has a lot of gall to charge students 25 cents per hour to use the tennis courts next to the IM Building while the courts on Palmer Field are free. Students line the athletic department purse enough as it is, and the cost of maintaining the tennis court cannot be as large as, say, keeping the pools filled with clean water and manned with lifeguards. It is also galling to be charged by the hour. Tennis isn't played by the hour, and charging for it that way is like paying the president a. salary determined by the number of bills he signs. Ere I end some beautiful friendships, I would like to say that. the Athletic Department is doing a whale of a Job with their free summer recreation program. The thousands of kids and the coaches working with them are having a ball, as it were. As you doubtless can imagine from this trivial column, the two of us are exceedingly bored. If anyone out there cares to give us some companionship, feel free to drop in anytime at Bu s walk Tigers get plank; seven Special report on 6 oose ZZI P ~See ~taI in ninth -still lose Vol. LXXX, No. 64-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, August 11, 1970 Ten Cents By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH - Tom Seav- er fired a six-hitter and won his 17th game of the season as the New York Mets, taking ad- vantage of three Pittsburgh er- rors and 11 walks, crushed the Pirates 10-2 last night. Cleon Jones doubled to start the Met second and with one out, Wayne Garrett drew a walk from Dock Ellis and Jerry Grote singled to fill the bases. Oliver threw wildly to second on a po- tential double. play ball, letting- in two runs. Tommie Agee and Ken Har-- relson followed with singfes to load the bases again. Ken Bos- Authoar IBouton retires HOUSTON, Tex. (P) - Jim Bouton, author of "Ball Four," one of the most controversial books ip the history of baseball. was placed on t h e suspended list yesterday of the Oklahoma City farm club of the Houston Astros. He immediately announced his retirement in Oklahoma City. The recent publication of the book which is rather critical of some of baseball's greats and of Richardson and Houston Man- ager Harry Walker had drawn no fines for Bouton but he had been called in for conferences w i t h Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and with Houston officials. well walked for another run and Donn Clendenon drove home the first with a sacrifice fly. Five walks by relief pitchers Dick Colpaert and Jim Nelson and a sacrifice fly by Grots scored two more in the fourth. The start of the game was delayed 27 minutes when fire- men shutdown power lines con- trolling the lights at Three Riv- ers Stadium as a precautionary measure following a fire near the new park. * * * Boston beans Bengals BOSTON - Billy and Tony Conigliaro, Boston's s l u g g i n g brothers, led the Red Sox to an 11-10 victory over Detroit yes- terda despite a seven-run rally by the Tigers in the top of the ninth. Detroit, trailing 11-3 going to the ninth, knocked out winner Sonny Siebert and Sparky Lyle before Chuck Hartenstein final- ly came in to strike out Bill Freehan with the tying run on first. Pinch hitter Gates Brown, Jim Northrup and Norm Cash each drove in two runs with sin- gles and another scored on Mike Andrew's error. Billy Conigliaro, who joined Tony in the starting outfield June 19, drilled his 15th homer with two on base in the four-run fourth inning. He also singled twice and drove in a run in the eighth. Twin~s trumped MINNEAPOLIS-ST. P A U L -Rick Monday hammered out a homer, two doubles and a sin- gle and the Oakland A's bom- barded .the Minnesota Twins 7-3 yesterday with a 19-hit at- tack. BLUES X10,000 FESTI1 TO! rL SUFI $20,000 Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East NATIONAL IEAGUE East Baltimore New York Detroit Boston Cleveland Washington W L 71 42 61 51 60 53 56 54 56 58 51 62 W~est Pet. .628 .545 531 .509 .491 .451 'GB 9 11 13 15x , 20 61. 7 20 29y% 30 Pittsburgh New York Chicago St. Louis Philadelphia Montreal Cincinnati Los Angeles Sal Francisco Atlanta Houston San Diego W 64 6 58 5 53 52 49 6 -West 77 63 55 5 54 51 45 6 L 51 52 56 60 60 46 39 49 57 59 63 69 Pet. .556 .537 .509 .469 .464 .426 .664 .563 .491 .478' .447 .395 GB 2 51,4 10 101 15 1_ 20 21>' 25 31 Minnesota 69 41 .6; California 64 49 .56E Oakland 64 50 .56 Kansas City 42 71 .37 Milwaukee 42 73 .36 Chicago 42 74 .36: Yesterday's Results Boston 11, Detroit 10 Oakland 7, Minnesota 3 other clubs not scheduled Today's Games Detroit at Milwaukee Baltimore at California Cleveland at Oakland Minnesota at Washington Chicago at New York, day Kansas City at Boston ?7 56 61 72 5 62 Yesterday's Results New York 10, Pittsburgh?2 Other clubs not scheduled Today's Games Los Angeles at Pittsburgh San Francisco at Chicago, day San Diego at St. Louis Montreal at Atlanta New York at Cincinnati Philadelphia at Houston Final rites for slain judge Father John Tierney says a final benediction yesterday in San Rafael, Calif., beside the casket of Judge Harold Haley who was slain Friday in a van that three San Quentin Prison inmates and an accomplice used in an escape attempt. KRASNY ON CAMPUS VIOLENCE Deaths here a possibility' By The Ann ended Sund ter" financi ler, presiden Center (UA of the event co-sponsor, for the festi Sandler e although he servative esi ber of the mittee, said could be as r Whipple due to "No field costs. installations (David) A] hitched her $200, things Although lost money, "A great sF The loss peril. "If wi in donations can keep the will save m have anoth Discussior ested memb mittee and, cover some o Although the plannir gram to sa8 discussed. Id general don Sandler said the Blues I Attendanc was about 8 below that n ing to Sandy steering com Turn I today's D three-day along wi Krulwich the Goose I held near The Blues marred by have been festivals arc Ann Arbor said yesterda good co-opa zers and vol two arrests fenses but t related to th arrested wer The arrests festival grou The perfc they enjoye Williams, oi the festival er" for blu By PHILIP HERTZ Kent, Ohio; Jackson, Miss.; Lawrence, Kan.-the death toll in the nation's uni- versity cities continues to rise as the year progresses, and as the deaths mount, the question more and more in the minds of many University students has become, "Can it happen in Ann Arbor?" Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny says it could. "The answer to that ques- tion is always an unknown," he says. "It's very unlikely, but it could be a possi- bility. "When you go into a total situation, you're worried about someone losing his cool. You can't always control the human mind," Krasny adds. Krasny says, however, the experience of most of Ann Arbor's patrolmen lessens the likelihood of shootings during a stu- dent disturbance at the University. "When you have trained officers, you don't really have to worry about it hap- pening. The problem arises when you bring in auxiliary units, who are usually inexperienced, untrained and poorly briefed," Krasny explains. Krasny notes the problem with using auxiliaries is in "choice of assignment. They should be given traffic duties," he says. "It's when they are given other tasks that the problems arise. There is a tendency when you're not properly" briefed to react only to what you see and The police chief says he could visualize a shooting occurring in Ann Arbor only "if there's positive evidence that police are being shot at." Even then, he says the firing would nc be haphazard. "In such a situation v would return fire only with a highly skilled squad, and definitely not into a crowd." Krasny says the Kent State shooting did not prompt any special action on the, part of the Ann Arbor Police Dept. "We have sent men to specialized schools to come back and retrain men, but often the training has not been suited to our prob- lems." However, Krasny says he is interested in some of the techniques developed by the Berkeley, Calif. police for quelling riots. The Berkeley police ° have obtained wooden pellet and bean bag guns, which will be used in place of conventional fire- arms. These devices are supposed to in- flict little more harm than tear gas. "We're looking into it," Krasny says, "but we don't anticipate using them now. The division of _ police authority on campus has come in for- severe criticism from students because jurisdiction is split between the Ann Arbor Police Dept., the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Dept. and the State Police. Krasny, however, feels this is a minor consideration. a business-like manner," he says. "If you're operating under a central control, as we have ususally done in the past, there should be no problem. If you get an individual leader who goes off on his own, then you'll have problems." Krasny says the University administra- tion has always cooperated with the po- lice and adds that the appointment of Col. Fredrick Davids to the newly-create., post of Director of Safety at the Univer- See KUASNY, Page 9 Reggie Smith scores for Boston as Bill Freehan catches the ballC Chief Krasny