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Friday, February 16, 1963 Page 6 The Daily Nebraskan II i t ii ;4 5 i '1 V! : 'J 4 it 4 9 - I Believe s by Tom Henderson Who's best today? Who Is the best player in baseball today? According to major league baseball's general man agers, it is Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh's super star out fielder, obtained in 1954 from the old Brooklyn Dodgers' Montreal farm club for only $4,000. In a poll taken by Sport Magazine at the recent 1967 major league winter meeting in Mexico City, Clemente was named on eight of the 18 ballots cast (two of the gen eral managers declined to vote), two more than the 1967 American League triple crown winner, Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox. Here's a look at the final tabulation. Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates Car Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox 6 Hank Aaron, Atlanta Braves 1 Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Bill Freehan, Detroit Tigers 1 Ron Santo, Chicago Cubs 1 Total 18 Stan Musial. then general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Charles O. Finley of the Oakland Athletics did not vote. How about Mays? Many might ask why San Francisco's great Willie Mays or New York's Mickey Mantle were not even listed in the balloting. However, it must be remembered that the GMs were asked "who is the best player today," not who they would like if they were starting a franchise or who they would pick if they were filling one position on their team, or who they would choose as the best of the decade, but the best NTOW. Even Chub Feeney, general manager of Willie's own San Francisco Giants, could not honestly vote for his long time star nnder these circumstances. "Of course . . . there is really no question in my mind that the best ball player over the last decade has been Willie Mays," Feeney said. "Willie is a little older now ... but he is still a tremendous ballplayer and again, next year ... he could be the greatest again." Feeney tabs Clemente Feeney, however, could not justify a vote for Mays as ' the best now, and cast his vote for Clemente "When you talk about the decade, you've got to con sider Willie," Feeney continued. "Today I'd have to say that Roberto Clemente, who over a period of years has led the league in several departments, would be a great asset to any team. Henry Aaron, of course . . . and a lot of people underrate Pete Rose. On the basis of the little we saw of him in the World Series, you'd have to put Carl Yastrzemski right op thc-rj with the superstars. "You cannot pin me down on this," Feeney said. "You can split them up. Mays in his prime, you could make a choice. My choice would be easy. But now," the Giant general manager concluded, "if you must pin me down to one . . .at this moment ... I would say Clemente." Record justifies rote Clemente's record as a major leaguer justifies the general mangaers' faith in him As a hitter, Clemente's major league batting average stands at .330, 18 percentage points better than Tony Oil va's .312, tops among players from 1960-67. He has been the National League leader in that de partment three times in Ms career, while in the field, Ms arm has placed him first in outfield assists five times and second four more. In the last four years, Clemente's batting average has won the XL title three times, while bis 209 hits last year was tops in that department. He tied for the lead in number of hits in 1964 with 211. Great tribute Cal Griffith of the Minnesota Twins paid Clemente one of the greatest tributes during the balloting when he said: "I've got to go with Roberto Clemente. He's got to be the best around today because he demonstrates year in and year out that he can Mt the balL" Griffith concluded, "To me he's got to be one of the great stars in the game of baseball" Karate group plans (krunch) exhibition by Bonnie Bonneau Sports Assistant For the Dast five months the Tokoyo Karate-Do Club has been the only club in the university s intramurais ae partment. Wednesday night it was joined by a fencing club. The clubs are designed from the recreational angle of the sports with less stress on competition that the reg ular intramurais program, ac cording to Joel Meier, assist ant professor of physical ed ucation for men and director of the intramurais program. Meier also added that the clubs give the beginner more of a chance since "the com petitive sports often aren't much fun if you have no ex perience with them. The karate club was formed in September on the incen tive of Richard Schmidt who is currently directing and in structing the sessions. The group, with about 30 members, will be holding a tournament and exhibition Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in the University High auditori um. Special guest Guest at the meet will be Takashi Akusawa, president of the National Tokyo Karate-Do club of wMch the university extension is a member. Akusawa will present some demonstrations at the Tues day show, but will not com pete in any matches as "we don't have anyone good enough to compete with Mm," Schmidt says. Akusawa will also be pres ent Monday night for the test ing of karate club members for advanced belts. Akusawa has a fourth degree black belt. The highest honor pos sible is a fifth degree black says Schmidt, who holds a brown belt himself. Schmidt explained that the belt colors start with white and vork up to green, pur ple, brown and black with varying degrees in each col-j or. Some of the members of the local club have seventh grade wMte belts, which is! as high a white belt possible so they will be trying for green belts in the test Mon day night. Shotakan style Tokoyo Karate-Do prac tices Japanese style or Sho tokan karate, Schmidt ex plained. "Do" means "art" or "way." There are two parts of ka rate: Kata, in which the em phasis is form and Kumite, in which the emphasis is the actual competition. The fights consist of hits and kicks, but no throws, as in Judo. "All punches are pulled on contact, of course," Schmidt emphasized. In matches, the points are scored on the number of po tential killing blows. The matches last two minutes without any stops. Larry Durst of the Lincoln Police Department is the club's adviser. Durst has been Schmidt's karate teach er for the past three years and is the head state instruc tor. Men only Durst is still teacWng classes but the university club is designed for the stu dents' convenience. The only difference between the class es is that Durst's classes are co-educational while the uni versity courses are only for males. There is a nominal month ly fee for the karate club, as it is a member of the national organization. The fencing club however, has no such fee, according to Meier. The fencing club too is co educational, as will be an archery club which may be started this spring, according to Meier. Meier cited Schmidt and Jerry Novak as "instigators" of the karate and fencing clubs respectively. He says that it was their idea and he merely went along with it. "I like to let them handle it "We hope that the exhibi tion Tuesday will drum up some interest in the karate club," Meier said. "We also want to give the boys a chance to demonstrate their abilities." -Report from J ay hawk camp Owens set for his 'best game 9 Husker Cage Stats But fgaa-ffa Ma-Ma f arc , .156-323 M-7 111 MS gcaoUaaaty Stminoaa Damn m ficjara Martial ... 127-256 108-132 14s 1J 1 He Tarrtaa (0-221 2Z-4S . 22-4 . 2342 , 11-31 J-23 , 0-23 . C-2S 1-1 . U 74 13.7 a-7 111 11 14-21 11 24 14-17 14-24 U-l'i M S-lf 32 1.1 e i s IS 2 S 7 1.7 4 m uct mmk an Teaai Reaoaaat M, Opponent 14. Moat pointa 2t Baack. Wjommf, KSU I Toaraejr and Oklahoma; Lata, CnMv Moat If 1 Baac. K-0tai la Taoraqr. Moat rfc U Saack, Land. ScaatleBary. Moat ft 11 a u lantx. Hawaii U). TEAM BUM Moat Psinta 111 Cal CUM CNU-Blf t Rerd Moat RB 49 South Dakota Moat FG 41 Cal State. Oklahoma Cuaaecullva FT 2j OtlaMma la Taaf- nay (NU-Bif I Record) FT PerceotMeOM-t (27-21) Oklahoma to Tourney NU-Bi 1 Baoartf) L TOM BAACK 1197 1 STUART LA VTZ 114 1. HeraeteH Tnraar 1096 4. Nata Branca Kit . Bca Eckwall KM Ltiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!iiiiniiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiimii!i i Husker Happenings Friday Swimmtaf at Kajwas State. WresUiac State high achool tourney. Saturday BaafcrtkaN at Kanaaa (track basket bail at Kanaaa). Bwtmmlag at Kanaaa. Oymaaatiea Color ado. Mca'a PK.. t p.m. laaaar track at Colorado. WratHac S. W. Miaaouri State. Co aeum 7:30 p.m. KrraUiag guta hi(h admit tourney. Monday BaaaetaaH Oklahoma Stat. CoUenua 7:30 p.m. (froah prelim. 5:15). Friday Wraatan at State College at Iowa. Saturday Baaaethalt-at Colorado, Bir TV fame of ma week. Froah at Mieauurt. wtmimac at Iowa Bute; double dual with 1SU and Minneeota. Cymaaattca at Kanaaa. Freatltac at Iowa State ladaer Track Iowa State. CoUeeom. 1:30 p.m. 4 T M AND ' AUDREY HEPBURN ALAN ARKIN RICHARD CRENNA VLTJT bra I iL tiIi;! j -Hwa,EFREM 2IMBAUST.JR nmur m wm mum m I : J I THE ME WEST. WCCUT AND BUT! EASTWOOD "TOEGOOU THE BADS THEQGQT VAN CHEF ELI WALLACE .Vimw. Ft LaV itIH ANO'P" fir 2n Omalial afmtart h tWt Caena Tkeatret: CW432 TVIStiiiitTlwtietabbf.e 38- . 4 30,Moa.tlmtitirri. J m m m s Cii rrent Movies laa rarmaawl arTKalarTT LINCOLN CaoperLiaroln: The Ballad of iosie'. 7:M, :U. Staart: The president's Ana bat', 1:M. :, J: 14, 7:2. t.f. Vanity: The Good, The Bad ami The Ugly. 1:M. f.26. Slat: Wit Until Dark', 1:68, 3:00. (:M. 7:M. :M Jp7: Rotie". 7:11. :1S. Nebraska: 'Blcnr-TJp'. 1:M, S:. S:U, 7:U, f-.M. Starrfear: Ten Aerosi The River", 7;Si. Cat Bsikm', :U. UcLentock. U:4S. OMAHA bn m BOH: "Gone Wita The WintT. I . Omteei Tar From The Mad gSbs Crowd. I N. Cooper 79: CamtW, VrJrV 434-7421 XpCS 54th 1 0 Street STARTS THURSDAY They're they're FRIDAY I tM. ONLY I SATURDAT SUNDAY 2 ft Ul .M. I I 7j30 "J. I "GCIJEVmi THEWIHBT Winner A TOaaaa-aiaal efTet I Unrofhtmie Mmadi I Academr f 1 KattitXi KMXm Qwa I VV-f Ty 346-285S NX 14th t Douglat FRIDAY DAILY j SAT. & SUN. 2 4 PJA. I k. Daily Kansan sports editor Steve Morgan reports from Lawrence that Jayhawk coach Ted Owens apparently has nothing new to throw at the Huskers when they invade Saturday night. "We plan no drastic changes," says Owens, "We will iust trv to do a better job of what we have been do ing." So far this year, Kansas has failed to live up to pre season expectations. Return ing all but one starter from last year's Big Eight cham Dion club, the Javhawks fell early outside of the confer ence to Louisville and Loyo la of Chicago. When they hit conference olav. Mizzou shocked them at Allen Fieldhouse, some thing which is just not done, and Kansas State handled them easily at Manhattan. They have since had sev eral one-and two-point squeakers, many of them sur prisingly at Lawrence, and have failed to show the su periority over the league which had been expected. Coach Owens blames the let-down on a sagging de fense. "We haven't been moving the ball, and we have been playing very bad defense. De fense has been one of our strong points in the last cou ple of years, and we just haven't been hustling this year." Nevertheless, Kansas has won when they have had to, with the exception of the Mis souri game, which was won on two free throws after the buzzer. And the fact remains that Allen Fieldhouse is a very difficult place in which to win if you re not in a Kan sas uniform. And many Big Eight ob servers feel that the Hawks are overdue for an explosion. At any rate, the two clubs haven't met so far this year, and with Owens' team just one-half game behind Nebras ka in the league race, it should be a key game in de termining how strong each is going to be down the home stretch. Owens heaped praise on NU's dynamic duo, Tom The KU mentor is also looking forward to a big game Saturday right: "I think we are goiiig to have to play bet ter than we have been to win. In fact, we will .probably have to play our best game of the season to win." WANTA BE "IN"? 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