Toughman
Continued from Page 9
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Journalists should not
be allowed to stop their
hearts to experience
and then write about
it's like to dead, nor
should they be allowed
to enter a toughman
Contest for a story.
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alion. Even though I was fighting on
a lark, the instinctual rules of winning
and losing still applied. I was going to
lose a test of manhood on a spot-lit
stage. Pershing Auditorium holds a
lot of people.
Real fighters must fear humili
ation more than anything else. I had
journalism to blame if I fought and
lost badly. I could claim I wasn’t
taking it seriously, and that I was
going to get $50 anyway.
Real fighters, including the other
light heavyweights and heavyweights,
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had only their pride. The “killer in -
stinct,” “the desire to win,” seemed
Rot like the desire to be first, but the
instinct not to be last.
Most people simply avoid con
frontation and laugh at the philistine
notion of competition.
And some people must prove to
themselves they are not last. These
people are the lifeblood of the
Toughman Contest.
Also, I was beginning to believe
that participatory journalism should
have boundaries, both of good taste
and of good sense. Journalists should
not be allowed to stop their hearts to
experience and then write about what
it’s like to be dead, nor should they be
allowed to enter a Toughman Contest
for a story.
Tuesday and Wednesday passed
with routine training, intensified
somewhat by fear. I did pushups and
situpsuntill wascxhausted.andshad
owboxed with two-pound ankle
weights.
At2:30p.m. Thursday, my mother
called:
“You got yourself into it,” she
said. “Be careful. Just get slammed
down real fast. It’s a dumb thing to
do, but you’ll get a kick out of it...
“Wait, that’s the wrong thing to
say.”
Monday: Round 2
The Orientation, The Wait
and The Fight
“Canvasback" Bob Nelson
Track
Continued from Page 8
women — have not yet qualified for
the NCAAs.
“We have athletes who haven’t
qualified yet, but that’s pretty much
the way it is all across the country this
year,” he said. “The standards arc so
high, you usually don’t getqualifying
marks until the end of the year.”
But because the end of the season
is quickly approaching, Pepin said,
the Huskers need to concentrate on
turning in qualifying times.
But Pepin is optimistic, he said,
because Nebraska is traditionally one
of the winn ingest schools at the Drake
Relays.
Last year at the Relays, the Ne
braska men captured one title and
finished second in three events. The
Husker women had two champions.
Pepin said he is hoping this year’s
meet is good to the Huskers.
“We need more qualifying times
for the NCAA meet,’’ he said. “It’s
getting down to the last few weeks.
We have some people who need to
start making things happen.”
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Frank Alonso
Student wins pool championship
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
Frank Alonso dropped down lo
eight ball and won big.
Alonso, a Spanish-French major
from London who first used a cue to
play snooker, picked up pool when he
came to Nebraska 18 months ago.
Last week, he won the Association of
College Unions International’s na
tional championship.
After playing snooker for 12 years
on 12-fool by 6-foot tables, Alonso
said he had lo make a few adjust
r
ments in his game. Pool tables are
usually 9 by 5, he said.
“There’s a huge difference,” Alonso
said. “Snooker’s a much more defen
sive game. And the shots are longer.
“But it helped me out getting posi
tion."
Alonso said he advanced to the
national tournament by winning the
University of Nebraska-L.incoln intra
mural competition and advancing to
a regional of players from Nebraska,
Kansas, Missouri and Iowa.
“I didn’t think I would win nation
als,” he said. “But I felt I had a pretty
good chance in the regional.”
The winners of the 16 regions
advanced lo the finals held at Pitts
burgh University.
The first rounds of the tournament,
Alonso said, were a “race to four.”
The first player to win four games
advanced. In the final rounds, a player
had to win seven games to stay alive.
Alonso said he was surprised that
he won it all.
“I played good, but I didn’t play
great.”
The tournament will be broadcast
on ESPN, Alonso said.
Rec Scoreboard
Results from Wednesday's games
Co-rec softball
A
Free Dirt 20. Lambda Chi Alpha 13;
Free Dirt 15. Schramm 3&8 5; ETC 12.
Mustangs 4; Gamma Phi Beta 15, Delta
Upstlon/Kappa Delta 5. Law 44 by forfeit
over Pure Athletes; Chicks & Sticks 9,
Schlongs 7; Sigma Phi Epsilon A by for
feit over ASGSA; St Andrews Slicers 7,
Sigma Phi Epsilon/Pi Beta Theta 6
B
Bruins 13, Triangle 10, Beta Sigma
Psi 12, AgMen 1; The Trashcans 8, Phi
Delta Theta 7, Demon Bunnies by forfeit
over Magnum PR, Jagers 12, Chi Phi 11,
Ac© in the Hole 17, Harper 5 6
C
Lambda Chi Alpha/and friends 19
Sphinctoids II 5. Pritchard's Dry Riders
10, Sigma Alpha Epsilon & Theta 9
t
r
Co-rec Softball
1- Chicks & Sticks (4-0)
2. Gamma Phi Beta (6-0)
Alpha Tau Omcga/Alpha Phi
(4-0)
4- Sigma Phi Epsilon/Alpha
Omicron Pi (5-1)
5. Schramm 3&8 (3-0)
6. Law 44 (3-1)
7. ASGSA (4-0)
Bad Habit (3-1)
9. Mustangs (4-0)
10. Sl Andrews Sliccrs (2-1)
From the Office of Campus
Recreation
