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Vol. 5 No. 11 March 27, 1978
CCIMAP needs help for softball
by Eric Linden hope for last semester. Members free facilities either did not chore of choosing teams by Jotterv how much equipment is needed of the committee have said that a reserve courts or already had prior from its list of prospective player; times of the games, simultaneo~ The Columbia College Intra sufficient number of students com committments. and possibly pairing unfamiliar, or consec~• ;ve games, forfeit mitted to play basketball. These even incompatible players. Mural Athletic Program needs The basketball problems, rules, gamc:umpires, start and end help to keep its plans for in students' schedules were examin CCI MAP seeks to avoid forming however great, seem easy com of the season, and what (if any) tramural softball from going the ed and a specific day for games teams, but unless entire teams pared to the difficult experiences prizes for the winners. was decided. All the while, the pro register, there may be no alter same route as its unrealized with the proposed softball league. Leaders of the intra-mural pro basketball set-up. gram's organizers searched for ac native if, for no other reason there gram have been in constant con To be sure, the CCI MAP has pro commodations and facilities for its. Again, "somewhere to play" is to be the number of partic,ipants tact with personal counselor Bill gressed much since its inception program. gets in the way. Still striving for needed to defer equipment costs. Taylor, who is serving as their ad last fall, but, to be equally sure the One obstacle was finding a cen that elusive central location MosUy because registration ends visor. But, more than even his help committee's problems pro~bly tral location to play in. Since Col CCIMAP picked nearby Grani Thursday, then, too many par· will be needed to play softball number too many for smoothly umbia students live in all direc Park. The Chicago Park District ticulars are not definite, among sponsored by the Columbia College organized competition this tions and distan.ces, most spots does not reserve for Sunday them: number of teams, what and Intra-Mural Athletic Program. semester. would discriminate against people games on the Grant Park _,.r... Sin.ce _ the founding of the ~~nd=•• ; T'W+c the scftbaU <:'CIM.u>, 1111! otgafdzatlon's Of l!t\fl!gu\5na~h; o/jfils rea;;a;cl played in an open, all-grass area because other neighborhoods ficers (Dave Stanczyk, Willie southwest of the bandshell - if this would be unfamiliar to too many Payne, Kevin Carney, Marty area can be saved early on a first students, the sports organizers Par.ker, Steve Hymon, Starnes come-first-served basis. Paskett, and Marty Williams) are sought for a playing site relatively set, the committee is settled in its close to school. Equipment problems a lso own office in the seventh floor Naturally, this decision multiplied from basketball (a lounge, the Columbia administra· narrowed choices for gymnasium basketball) to softball The application deadline greater detail, as well as Those other positions are held by Perhaps there was one, but now application forms, are by M artin Williams Ron Noble !Program Director), there are more women involved in for the Albert P. Weisman Frand Interieri (News Director), news and women in programs, Memorial ·scholarship available in Dean Lya Ever since Mike Hartman en which is always promising." tered the doors of Downers Grove and Cindy Tucker complish. A class assignment is a C\'Crything you possess into a by Karin English good waytostart." \'ariety- b y Crystal Kirby Harrison is a superb director and estimating exit time gave me insight into my own direc I met Rodney Zarchariah Sam ting techniques. pson in May 1!177 when he selected "I've done many plays, but the three that have helped me grow as by Ronald Litke me for a part in a one-act he was directing. an actor was 'River Niger,' 'Native All the time I was working with Son,' and 'EI Hajj Malik, th life of The view from up here is not too bad. As spring tries to forge its Rodney on "Red Cross," I never Malcom X'. way mto Chicago, the wmds become confused as to which way they had a ny idea of the interesting life " In those three plays I had to use emotional recall. Which is to apply should blo":' away the weather of "The Great Winter." (Courtesy led by this connoisseur of ver ChicagoTr1bune. from one of their recent "great" sections ) satility. emotional experiences to a But. there are signs that spring has made an official if ~ot I portrayed Dr. Mary Terrell situation in a play. belated. appearance. ' Church and Rodney portrayed my " EI Hajj Malik gave me a better Cecil has come outside once again. Behind a salt-and-pepper future husband, a Latin depart understanding of Malcolm. I moustache. hiS upper hp wnggles as he surveys the traffic on South ment c hairman Mr. Rober t gained more insight into him, since Michigan Avenue. During the winter, Cecil sought refuge in the Pub Terrell. During the time we I played some aspects of his life. It or at the Deli on the sixth floor of the MRCA building at 624 S. worked together, I came to admire was enlightening." Michigan. But now, he is once again the genius of the corner of him more and more. Rodney is also a director and, as Michigan and Harrison, the judge of a ll who pass. His reemergence We talked at the Human Resour was said earlier, I met him signals not only sprmg but also his twenty-third year of making in ce office where Rodney is a liaison through a play he was directing . sightiul assertions, because, as he says, "you can't fool me." co-ordinator and supervisor. Rod Rodney Zachariah Sampson "The first time I directed was Indeed, one cannot. You park your car with a grin as you realize ney said that at age 18, he became through a good friend of mine, you have parked, not next to a meter, but within a legal range of the a traveling magazine salesman. ump, wasn't that a little too high'' Sharon Reed. She's a student at Sign that will not willingly admit people to park behind you. Cecil He loves traveli ng and also chose He said he'd kick me out of the Columbia, also. knows your car is there. His moustache now seethes with the saliva such an occupation in order to duck game if I disputed him again. The "One night she called me up and of excitement. He warbles in his throat. He makes a mental notation the draft. next pitch was low and inside and asked if I wanted to assistant- of face and car ; he computes these factors into his investigative For a year, he worked with John he called another strike. Then my direct a play that would be fac1hhes and comes up with a term until recently kept secret by the Chand ler's Traveling Salesmen's manager came out and asked if he televised oo Channel 38. So, of men who work this area : ETE or Estimated Time of Exit. This is Organization and travelled to 20 was calling them the way he saw course, I hesitated since I had all he needs. states. Then, he was traded to the them or if this was a racial matter. never directed before, but she He moves the brim of his cap so that it now rests on his hairline. Hubert Lewis Thompson Traveling Of course, he denied it. So, when talked me into directing and acting Salemen's Organization in Terre the next ball came, it hit me and 1 in it. It was a religious play en- titled; 'To Rough at the Bottom. • I Haute, Indiana, from where he got a free walk to the base. This in traveled to 26states. played a bartender who owned a furiated the umpire, and you could bar where people would come and Hans Adler has an appointment to see the doctor. ~~~:~~~~~ ':~:~. h;_ ~~-". _ to t.~in_k see the redness on his face. And we H a r ry Rnuras ol::ayl'l. $1 ~m,..n ,,~~~o_ ; ...... n~ .. o.,..,.....-•., _ . _...--_ .. , discuss arious problems. - - ...... --• minor teagutl .. .. •.•- - ~ . <~ ir~>Ctin lt for ~ ternoon of A Faun" so loud that it reverberates through the s truc " I remember in Arlington, Texas, .. B~t, beinl -a television comparea to stage Is ture of the building, simultaneously jarring one of the speakers from I had to sell a magazine sub player lasted two weeks. I hit a altogether different. You have to its perch on a desktop. scription to a women who had just double and tried to turn it into a do a scene from each camera angle lost her daughter. So I decided to triple, showing off to the crowd. I to see which angle is the best. It take her mind off of it by doing im incorrectly tried to slide to third. was work but challenging and a / pressions and so forth. It worked My spikes caught the dirt and my great opportunity. ' One becomes accustomed to being an extra for a low-budget and l sold her the subscription. She body went one way and my foot " I've directed numerous stage classic. Tripods become as numerous as trees. Celluloid does not told me I should be an actor and so twisted in another direction. They plays and all have helped me bran carried me off the field tears and emit an odor. but it sure has presence. The coats that have been did many other clients. l tho11~ht ch out as an actor as well as a shed for the better weather reveal not limbs. but telephoto lenses that if l could act in front of o1.e or all. So ended my brief baseball director." career. I took the train bound for and Bolex cameras that shoot from the hip. two people, what would it be like if l saw Rodney smile and sigh- ! Chicago, Illinois and pursued my Much to the chagrin of lunchgoers. the puddles arc now reser it was one or two thousand. So l suppose proud of his 25 years of ex voirs. Passage across the streets is difficult as waves fly from the caught the train back to Chicago." acting career ." periences- a nd knew that the in undersides of the cars and buses. The grass in the park is soggy af Of course. Rodney dido 't get an In t!l74. Rodney decided to go to terview had come to an end. ter the moisture it has received from the barrage of snow. acting job right away. that only Mayfair College tnow Truman " Well Rodney." I sighed, "is Altogether. it is very wet outside Inside, things continue to be the happens in Broadway musicals. In College) where he majored in there anything more you want to same. The advent of this year's spring has not brought anythmg stead. he became a fork-lift driver theater. He spent a year there and go in this piece'" new as yet although many promises have been made. for Western ~: l ectric . performed in numerous plays but He gave me a pensive look and The v1ew from the windows is spectacular once again. and the " While working at Western Elec his most memorable one was "A said , "Earl Calloway of the Defen concentratiOn level decline has been noted by some instructors. tric. a friend of mine told me about llalful of Rain ." der is going to do my biography. But Cecil is surely pleased about the turn of the seasons· " I've tryouts for the St. Louis Ca rdina ls' " ! portrayed the fat her in "A He's going to go back to when I was been around for a long time. around here If there's anything new, minor leagues. Ever since I was llatful of Rain." seven years old . I'd be the first to see it. Especia lly since I'm out here all the time." little. I wanted to be a baseball "There was a scene in which l "Also to all actors and actresses he says, and keeps one eye to the distance, and one finger to calm player l was on the Washington had to cry. I had just learned that it's nice to have talent but to per his quivering mous tache. Park team and had joined north my favorite son was a drug addict. fect it lea rn you r c ra ft side teams. but to have a chance to So, in order to get the emotional academically. you'll have a better be on a minor league team was a realism. I thought of how l felt chance getting to where you want step toward the major league. l when I was a little boy and my to go. And keep on pushing, can't had always said. even when l was mother would scold me." stop a stepper when they're down, Since Mayfair was only a junior small. that first I'd be a baseball cause they'll get back up a nd keep player and then. when I retired, go college, Rodney decided to look fo r stepping." into at·ting. It seemed as if my a four-year school. "Rodney," I said to him as he " I wanted to go to Good man plans were working out. signed his picture, "one day you'll So in t97:1 !while l was in my School of Theatre, but it was too become the Oscar-winning actor junior year of high school I, Rodney expensive for my budget. l heard you're perfecting to be, I'll become was g<'lting prepared to leave for about Columbia College and went that P ulizer Prize-winning jour to the theatre center and spoke lloncywcll. Missouri for tryouts. nalist I'm striving to be, and I'll be " I was one of the chosen twenty with Mr. Paul Ca rter Harrison. the doing your biography in hard five and the only black man out of chairperson, a nd got accepted." back." :150 men. l don 't know if l was Thus, Rodney Zarchar iah Sam selected because l was black or my pson started his acting and direc skills as a centerfielder. but l was ting career at dear old Columbia IN t\\SOtl HOTEL picked. l must say, though, l was a College. damn good baseball player. l call Hodney has played in numerous HA~ Chicago myself the pioneer black man in plays here. But his favorite is 65 E. H ARRISON ST. that team. " He turn to My Native Land." in Livt> in DownTown and "My teammaters, who were all which he told a story about his white, showed no signs of prejudice village in Ghana . It was under the Save. toward me. And surprisingly when direction of Paul Carter Harrison. there was a racial incident
21 -year-{))d hit a double a nd a tr iple by Dave Stanczyk in his debut last summer for California. Bob Cullucio might "Na, na, na, hey, hey, good 'Rented Players' surprise Sox fans a nd play left bye." This refrain, from the field. His defense is good, but not popular song recorded by Steam, be the Eric Soderholm of 1978. During one play against Texas, answered. his offense. Add to these names became the White Sox theme song Soderholm spent the 1976 season Blomberg missed the final peg in a As for the rest of the White Sox. Ron Blomberg and the picture is last season. With slugging power out of action, because of a bad triple play. Yankee coach Gene there will be some new races along hazy. indeed. from Richie Zisk and Oscar Gam knee. Blomberg shattered his Michael has been noted as saying with the old. Besides Zisk , Gam Behind the plate, Jim Essian will ble, visions of a championship knee-cap during spring training in that he'd rather eat a ball than risk ble, and Downing, golden-glove share the duties with an im danced through many southside 1977 when he ran into an ouUield throwing it to Blomberg at first rirst baseman Jim Spencer· is no pressive Bill Nahorodny. Nahorod heads. The Pale Hose ended up in fence m pursuit of a fly ball. The base on a close play. Blomberg longer with the club. Spencer was ny, experts say, is " another Brian third, but, last season was the most season before that, Blomberg hopes that he will stay in the sold to the Yankees for a large sum Downing." The only advantage he exciting since 1959, the year the separated his shoulder and had two outfield. of money. Lamar J ohnson, who has over the tra ded Downing is American League penant came to operations. To sum it all up, certain that Bonds will fill the right spent much of the season as a his s trong arm . His bat Chicago. Blomberg has swung his bat only field position Richie Zisk vacated. designated hi tter , will take over is impressive. too. In his debut But, all good things must come to 108 times during the last three Bonds' quickness will be an asset the first base chores. His glove with the Sox last September . he an end. In the case of the Sox, they years. for him . It looks like right field will may not be as good as Spencer's. greeted Chicago with a home run. go to greener pastures. Zisk is now Bonds has been very productive, be better defensively this year . but his bat is better. So, what is lost H Essian has the same great start in Texas, drilling for oil while though. Last season, with the The question that sports fans ask defensively is made up offensively. that he had last season, though, it Gamble is frying McDonald's ham California Angels, Bonds hit 37 now : How long wi ll these players In this position, the Sox a re as good will be tough ror Nahorodny. burgers for Ray Kroc in San Diego. homers, more than either Zisk or stay? Blomberg is here for at least as they were last year - barring The stronghold of the Sox is their Without these two leading home Gamble. Along with those 37 three years. With Bonds, though, injury. pitching staff. Though they ranked run hitters on the roster this year , homers , Bonds averaged .262, had Bill Veeck may once again be play In the middle, there will be a bat loth in ERA last season. this young who will pick up the slack? 115 RBI's, 103 runs scored a nd 41 ing " rent-a-player" which he did tle. Jorge Orta figures to be the se staff can only improve. Receiving Because of some shrewd stolen bases. His timely swing will with Zisk and Gamble. Bonds has cond basemen. But, he had about starting chores will be Wilbur manipulations by the Sox president be a great help in the pursuit of the stated that he would like to end his 20 errors in 1977. Don Kessinger Wood, Francisco Barrios, Ken Bill Veeck, the South Side Hit Men Western Division Championship. career in Chicago. As he says this, may not have the bat that Orta has , Kravec. Steve Renko, and Steve promise to have jus t as exciting a Many people ask themselves, he is a lso asking for a $2 million but he has the better glove. Stone. In the bu llpen, putting out season as last year. When the blue " Why did Veeck sign Blomberg?" contract over the next five years. Kessinger might be the stabilizer the (ire for Chicago, will be Lerrin and white of Chicago take the field The a nswer is simple when one " I've never made $200,000 in a the Sox need in the middle. LaGrow, Clay Carrol, Jack Kucek, on April 7 against Boston at Com looks at his credentials . During the single season," Bonds says. " But, I Alan Bannister figures to have Bruce Del Canton. and a surprising iskey Park, Bobby Bonds and Ron last seven seasons , Blomberg has read where the Sox are paying the shortstop position. Though he Ri ck Wortham. This promises to Blomberg will make their debut. averaged .302 for only 400 games. Blomberg $600,000 for three years, had 40 errors, he hit .275 last be the best pitching starr that the Blomberg comes to Chicago The lefty swinger will bring and he doesn't play a position or season. Kevin Bell, Bannister's Sox ha ve had in many years. via the Baseball Re-Entry Draft. strength to the left side, a gap steal bases. So where does that put closest competitor, is Ma ny questions will be answered The Re-Entry Draft is held in the created by the departure of Gam me?" coming off a knee injury on April 7, but the main one won' t winter of every year. Players who ble. If Bonds is not signed by April 7, that sidelined him much of last be answered until October 1. With have decla red themselves "free Bonds will strengthen the r ight he probably will not play with the season. And young John Flannery impress ive teams from Kansas Ci agents," (players who could not side. Along with Soderholm, Chet Sox after the completion of this might surprise everyone. ty, Texas. and California, this will come to terms on contract with Lemon and Lamar Johnson, the season. Bonds has made it known Soderholm has third base locked be a most exciting season. The the\r respective teams) are Sox will have one of the most that he doesn't like to talk contract up. UPI's Comeback Player of 1977 American League Pe n~ant , drafted ..., baseball teams. They devastating right-handed line-ups during the course of a season figures to help the Sox even more hopefully, will be in Chicago at the are chosen "' 15 teams and in baseball. Look at Bonds lifetime because " I only concentrate on this year . end of this season as the Sox will negotiate with these warns on a accomplishments. In 10 sea son~ . baseba ll ." Whether Bobby Bonds Thad Bosley is the brightest have a reason to sing, " na, na, na, contract. The team that comes up he has averaged 26 homers, 00 will stay in Chicago remains to be outfield prospect the Sox have. The hey, hey. good-bye!" with the best offer usually gets that RBI's and 36stolen bases. player. Blomberg has signed a Blomberg has the security of a thr,prr.ji)~J·~ - uo-<:"ul contrac t fnr $600,000. Ba1W' sond3"5il~·ihat'sJ~m~f~ Bobby Bqnds comes to Chicago "can hit, but he cannot play a posi by a I.Ftnle. In the off-season deal, tion." Blomberg is listed as a left What makes thla collection the beat Bonds and Thad Bosley came to fielder. While he spent his seven of 787 Super sleek tOOk & 1 Itt that 'he White Sox. seasons in New York, he also won't quit! Come on In and see. 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