The Daily Nebraskan
Friday, March 29, 1963
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hy George Kaufman
Many journalists and journalism teachers, especially
at this university's school of journalism, tend to dismiss
sports writing as a sort of bastard son to a noble profes
sion and treat it accordingly in their curriculum.
It is generally ignored, and when that is not possible,
it is run down and classed with the comics and movie ads
as flippant entertainment. At least whatever it is, it is
definitely not news, and is quite as definitely not taught
or mentioned in any of the courses.
One wonders, with all the sportswriters running loose
around this country, and the major part a sports page
plays in any newspaper coming out on a daily basis and
serving an intelligent public, where these misfits come
from if the subject is not taught in journalism schools.
Assimilation
The answer is that one must pick it up on his own,
despite the J-school attitudes and in many cases work
against the J-school in doing so when the accorded pur
pose of the department is to work with the student.
Perhaps sports is, on one level, an entertainment. But
on another, and very important, level, it is a microcosm
of the human struggle.
Nobility Varies
There can be a sombre and passionate nobility in a
man pitting his every resource mental and physical
against all the odds nature or another man can muster. In
many ways, this struggle can be far more noble than cap
turing every detail of a young man's pitiful pouring out of
his life in a miserable war he neither understands nor is
worth dying for.
I would also suggest that the recording of this type
of struggle is far more important than hanging around
a police station all night gleaning the tidbits of interest
for all the housewives the next morning.
I will even submit that it exceeds, in its sen-ice to
man, the act of sitting at a desk and receiving calls from
local mortuaries and then writing obituaries which win ap
pear the next morning in lite agate in a back page.
Loquacious lefty listens too
GU pitcher Toomey one of best
in Biff 8 at tossing and talking
If this is journalism, then journalism is taught in every
secretarial school in America. Yet. a student receives in
finitely more tutallage in how to write an obituary than
how to write a sports story.
J-Schools Lacking;
I would also, as a sort of parting shot like to throw
out the opinion that perhaps a Negro boycott of the Olym
pics and a massive boycott of participation in the Olym
pics on the part of countries constitutes more than mere
"entertainment value"; that perhaps a world heavyweight
boxing champion deprived of his title for refusing the draft
and being harassed by officials for doing so, is of a little
more interest to the public than Bugs Bunny or what the
hell Little Orphan Annie is doing to save capitalism today.
But journalism schools and Nebraska's is militant in
this refuse to recognize this and will not count a sports
job as an internship when anything from working from a
card company to being editor of the farcical Summer Ne
braskan will be sanctioned.
If the above examples do not put the point across, then
perhaps Nebraskans remember a few weeks ago when a
state high school basketball tournament was moved from
Omaha to Lincoln because of fears of racial trouble. Or
perhaps they would think back to an Olympics about thirty
years ago, when a young Negro athlete from America
named Jesse Owens turned Hitler's show in Berlin into
Owens' show.
So, despite the self-rightous refusals -of journalists
teachers to the contrary, I would say that sports has come
to play an integral part in the world and, to a greater
cxtcnt than perhaps ever on this earth, in America.
It deserves just as integral a place in American jour
nalism schools and the School of Journalism at the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
Instead of snickering at the cliches and trite structures
of sports writing, journalism teachers should do something
about it, and train young men interested in this field.
Finalists announced
in intramural archery
One nundred-thirty finalists
were announced Thursday for
the intramurals archery com
petition. The championship flight
which will shoot April 4, at 7
p.m. will include Glen Love,
Ag Men; Rob Kinsey, Farm
House; Mark Nyffeler, Sigma
Phi Epsilon; David Birch,
Kiesselback; Richard Crom
er, Ag Men; Ken Bonsall,
Abel IV; Charles Havlicek,
Ag Men; Lor en Faaborg,
Farm House; Bob Koss, Ag
Men; Robert Allen, Ag Men;
Robert Anderson, Indepen
dent and Jerry Craig, Inde
pendent. Competitors in the first
flight will shoot April 3, 7 p.m.
They will be Mike Swiggard,
Abel VII; Arnold Teten,
Pershing; Randy Mehin, Ag
Men; Steve Miles, Abel VI;
Don Hertz, Ag Men; Dale
Nelson, Harper IX; Dan
Thompson, Ag Men; Jay Jen-
One AT gymnast
goes to NCAA
Thomas Riesing is the Uni
versity of Nebraska's sole
representative in the NCAA
National Gymnastics Cham
pionships to be held April 4-6
at Colorado State University.
Tom is a sophomore from
Arlington, 111. and has only
been beaten twice during reg
ular season competition this
year on the trampoline.
Colorado is this district's
team representative in the big
meet after wtming the Big
Eight Championship last
week.
Top teams in the meet will
"be defending champ Southern
Illinois. California at Berke
ley and the yet undecided Big
Ten Champion, probably
Iowa, Michigan or Michigan
State. ;
sen, Abel VI; Ron Schuldt,
Fairfield; A d o 1 p h Roesler,
Abel III; Randall Mehlin, Ag
Men; Robert Santoro, Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Qualifiers for the second
flight which will shoot April
2, 7 p.m. are Jim Engdahl,
Phi Gamma Delta; Ron Rish
er, Abel TV; Lewis Rogers,
Ag Men; Charles Langan,
Harper IX; Steve Ryan, Phi
Gamma Delta; Tom Colvin,
Phi Gamma Delta; Ron Witt,
Abel IV; John Taylor, Glenn;
Lowell Daberkow, Harper VI ;
Robert Schmucker, Ag Men;
Dean Miller Ag Men; Erian
Beckner, Ag Men and Larry
Schulze, Ag Men.
Joel Meier, director of in
tramurals said anyone with
time or date conflicts should
contact him in his office, room
115 Men's P.E. building as
soon as possible.
ALSO
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Boulder, Colo. Colorado
pitching star Taylor Toomey
has established a solid dou-
i ble-pronged reputation during
the past two years as one of
the Big Eight's best and, also,
most talkative performers.
But the lefthandtr has a
third important quality , . .
he can be a good listener, too.
And he learns quickly when
he listens.
Certainly no fireballing
young southpaw ever made
the transition to a thinking
moundsman faster than the
6-4, 200-pounder from Laguna
Beach, Calif.
"I had a real good curve
when I was little," he says.
"Then when I got into high
school the only thing I used
was my fast ball. But I found
out in a hurry when I got to
Colorado that you needed
more than a fast ball. When
I pitched against the varsity
in practice as a freshman,
guys like Adrian Mohr and
Don Sessions really teed off!
on me. I went back to work
on my curve in a hurry." I
Under the direction of CU
coach Frank Prentup, an ex
cellent craftsman who still
steps to the mound and baf
fles his hitters with a big as
sortment of off-speed pitches
Toomey developed quickly
into a topflight hurler.
Topflight hurler
In two years against tough
opponents from the Big Eight,
Big Ten and WAC confer
ences, he's fashioned a nifty
1.48 earned run average while
winning 13 of 19 decisions.
He's finished 14 of 17 starts
and in 140 innings has fanned
158 while walking only 40.
These figures speak much
louder than words and Toom
ey is the first to admit he has
gotten great help from Pren
tup. "I believed in him right
away," says Taylor. "He
knows a lot about baseball
and, especially, about pitch
ing. He can show you how to
set up a batter. I do it with
my fast ball to set up the
Smith, ISU sophomores
made 'interesting' team
Ames, Iowa Don Smith
and a surprisingly mature
crew of sophomores made
Iowa State a most interesting
basketball team during the
1967-68 season.
Despite the presence of the
brilliant Smith, the Cyclones
were not tabbed to make
much of an impression the
Big Eight this year. This pre
diction appeared even more
certain when the Cyclones fin
ished last in the Big Eight
tournament for the first time
since 1949. It was as bad a
start as any team could have.
But between the afternoon
of Dec. 30 and the night of
Jan. 5, Coach Glen Anderson
did a tremendous job. What
ever was wrong with the Cy
clones in December was elim
inated by Anderson and the
team became a most exciting
part of that "ridiculous" Big
Eight race.
Anderson was the man who
predicted the Big Eight race
would be ridiculous when
quizzed at a pre-season press
meeting in Kansas City.
''Ridiculous," was Ander
son's answer. 'This is a great
league this year and it is go
ing to be a ridiculous season
with everyone having a
chance to win."
Going into the final days of
the season five teams could
gain a share of the title. Go
ing into the final week Kan
sas State, the eventual cham
pion, Iowa State and Kansas
were still in the title fight.
Even on the last day Kansas
could have tied for the crown.
Probably the greatest ans
wer g i v e n by the kids who
didn't know how to act like
sophomores was in a 93-92
overtime upset of Nebraska at
Lincoln. Only the day before,
Tex Winter, whose champions
to-be had taken an -unmerciful
beating at Lincoln, said:
"Not even the Boston Celtics
could win at Lincoln."
Out of the game by four
points with less than 20 sec
onds to go, Iowa State tied it
to send the game into over
time. With iust six seconds
left in the overtime Nebras
ka led by 92-91. Three regu
lars, including top scorers Don
Smith and Bill Cain along
with Jim Abrahamson, were
on the bench with five fouls,
Steve Cooper, a reserve who
seldom shot, had the ball st
that point and soft-touched it
through for the big upset.
The early loss of veteran
guards John McGonigle and
Dave Hartman ought to have
killed any chances Iowa State
had. It was then, in mid-January,
that the four sophomores
joined with Smith to win a
third-place tie in the final
standings.
Smith led the scorers in a
spree that wiped out most of
the Iowa State records and
picked off a few in the Big
Eight. He led the conference
in scoring and rebounding, the
first time that had happened
since Wilt Chamberlain id it
in 1958.
He was picked on every
ballot for all-league honors
and chosen as the outstanding
player in the loop. Bill Cain,
second in scoring, was named
the sophomore of the year.
curve. I rely on my curve in
the clutch. But last year we
went to an overhand fastball
more than the three-quarters.
It's more effective because it
breaks down pretty shaply.
Winter weightlifting
A strong pitcher who has
come back to work in relief
on Saturday after going the
route on Friday in Big Eight
series, Toomey should be
even stronger this spring af
ter working with weights for
the first time during the win
ter. .
Last summer, he was a
member of the U.S. team
which won the Pan American
Games championship. Used
strictly as a reliefer because
of his good control and low
pitches, he saved two games;
and lost another in six ap
pearances. i
Despite his glossy college:
record, he's still somewhat
disappointed in his college ca
reer because h i s Colorado
teams have played only .500
ball over the 2-year period,
doing 26-26.
' I've always been with
w inners and I'd like to be part
of one here before I gradu
ate," he says. 'We're all oj
tismisuc tnis year. We ve had
a good spring and our trip to
Hawaii should really be good
for us. It'll be hot and we'll
get in six games which
should be great. Our team
has been hitting well in prac
tice. I think we'll be OK."
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