Monday, April 17, 1978
Rain doesn't wash away Frisbee enthusiasm
By DAN WINTER
Staff Writer
University Daily Kansan
Even the rain could not keep the diehards away.
The KU Frisee Club's tournament took place last weekend, but because Saturday's stormy weather hampered the competition, the tournament was extended through yesterday.
Wayne Gaul, president of the club, said yesterday that many more than the 77 participants who turned out would have participated if the day had not been rainy and cold.
Halfway through the distance-throwing competition Saturday, raindrops pelted the contestants for about five minutes before they called it quits.
"THE RAIN has really devastated us," Bill Gordon, tournament director, said, "but it has deterred the really hard-core people."
The diehards were the only ones left after several cloudbursts dampened the tournament and forced some of the competition inside Robinson Gymnasium. It was being held on the softball fields of Watkins Hospital.
The registered participants were classifi-
nated in three divisions—open, women’s and
junior.
Most of the contestants were not from Lawrence. They came from all over the Midwest - St. Louis, Lincoln, Columbia, Mo., Springfield, Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka—and they all had one thing on their mind - Frisbee.
"It would have been a real picnic day," Gaul said. "We have seen people with food and coolers and lots of kids running and still having a great time with Frisbee.
Because the tournament continued
one more day, the participants stayed at Club members' homes.
"WE TALKED A LOT of Frisbee and drank a few beers." Barney Byard, Kansas City, Mo., said. "But not too many. We're athletes, you know."
Saturday night they all got together for a party at one of the members' homes.
Byard was the winner of the men's distance throwing competition. He won with a toss of 275 feet, 4 inches. He is a teacher at Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City.
Gaul said all of his spare time was devoted to Frisbee.
The club was started in October by Gaul, a graduate student in radiation and biophysics. The club now has about 75 members.
"We're fanatics; we just love it," he said. The club meets every Wednesday and Saturday to loss the disc and talk business. His treatment had been planned for four months.
One event that was included in the tournament was a version of golf, played with a backstroke.
The golf competition was held yesterday because the rain destroyed some of the mounds.
Frisbee game is played like the regular game except for a smaller course. The course was mapped out in the area between Potter Lake and the Cannamite.
THE MAXIMUM TIME aloft event probably was the most difficult event in the
In that event, the disc is thrown into the end and the thrower must run and catch it.
The world record time in the maximum time aloft event is 15 seconds. Wind is a big factor in this experiment.
Individuality in Frisbee is the most evident in the free-style competition. It is the most colorful and creative aspect of Frisbee.
"Most Frisbee is self-taught," Gordon and "Everyone must develop their own skills."
In Saturday's preliminary competition, 10 teams of free-stylers had three minutes to show the judges how they could dance, dance or, for free-style are the contestants themselves.
will catch the disc and hold it aloft is most desirable.
IN FREE-STYLE, the two contestants on
each team toss the disc to each other with certain tricky and difficult moves such as over the head, under the leg and while doing a somersault.
Free-style can be compared to free-style ice skating. Some contestants have as much grace, strength, style and speed as the skaters.
Most of the Pristree players were eager to admit their fanaticism for the sport.
The International Frisbee Association has been trying to get free-style Frisbee competitions.
"Frisbee has cult appeal." Gordon said. "Most of us live the sport."
Postal workers threaten strike if wage lid enforced
ST. LOUIS (UPI) - The director of the National Post Office Mail Handlers Union says 600,000 postal workers may strike this June if President Jimmy Carter enforces his 5 percent ceiling on federal pay increases.
"Carter can take that 5 percent and blow it out of his ears." Johnson said.
The director, Lonnie L. Johnson, told about 60 members of local 314 Saturday that Carter and postal officials in Washington were mistaken if they thought they could pressure the union to accept a 5 percent pay increase.
Negotiations on a new contract begin Thursday with the mail handlers, the letter carriers and the clerks' unions, which represent 600,000 postal employees
Carter said in his inflation message last
week that he would hold forthcoming federal pay increases to 5 percent to encourage more moderate wage and price increases in the private sector.
$337 missing from Murphy
Thieves escaped with $37 from Murphy Hall sometime Wednesday or Thursday.
Ronald Williams, director of the University Theatre, reported to the police Thursday that $215 from a safe and $69 from a cash register in the box office were stolen.
A few hours later, $$$ was reported stolen from a Zerot机密 on the Muskuline music store.
FOR ONLY $3.25 YOU'LL GET
Commission on the Status of Women Presents
Women's Recognition 1978
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Monday April 17 7 p.m. Kansas Union partially funded by Student Senate
Emily Taylor, director of the office of women in higher education in Washington and dean of women at KU from 1968 to 1974; will be guest speaker at the program.
professor of English who won the award in 1972, is the only woman to have received the award.
She was founder and administrator of the commission and the Emily Tylery Resource Center.
5 enter Women's Hall of Fame
Five women will be inducted into the KU
Women's Hall of Fame tonight at the ninth
anniversary celebration.
For the first time, the committee will present a citation to an outstanding woman
The program, sponsored by the KU Commission on the Status of Women, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union A reception for women honored at the program, titled "Herscope of Recognition," will follow.
The women's recognition committee also has chosen women to receive awards for outstanding staff member, teacher, nontraditional student and athlete and women outstanding in student services, community services, politics and women's rights.
The Women's Hall of Fame was initiated in 1970 by the commission to honor KU women alumnae, faculty and staff members.
The HOPE award, initiated in 1959 to honor an outstanding educator, is sponsored
Mar Boyd, adviser to the women's recognition committee, said yesterday that the hall of fame was the only award besides the HOPE award that allowed students to honor women teachers and faculty members at KU.
Women chosen as outstanding members in their departments and living organizations also will be recognized at the program.
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