Champions toss, drop Frisbees
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Monday, February 6, 1978
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
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Alan Geiss, a professional Frisbee champion from Topeka, showed his spinning form Saturday afternoon at a Frisbee clinic at the Lawrence Community Center. About 20 people turned out to see new Frisbee games and trick throws performed by Geiss and his partner Chris Brett. Both are regional team Frisbee champions.
By ROB HAGAN Staff Writer
People of all ages and sizes came Saturday to catch, chase and sometimes drop Frisbees at a clinic held in the Lawrence Community Center. About 20 people at the clinic, sponsored by Student Union Activities, learned new games and throws from professionals Chris Brett and Jesse Williams of Missouri regional team Frisbee champions
Bregi said the purpose of the clinic was to promote Piraeus as a serious sport that could benefit from training.
A Lawrence woman who took her children said, "My kids love to throw the Frisbee around the yard. I think the Frisbee might replace the baseball."
GEISS AND BRETT use acrobatics, such as jumping and twirling 380 degrees before catching the Frisbee or doing somersaults while spinning on their fingers, to keep the crown awed.
Mari Lynn Osterkamp, Lawrence graduate student, brought her son, Jeffrey, to the clinic so that he could learn how to throw a Frisbee, but she said she thought the clinic was for people who already knew how to use one.
However, Ostermark said, "I think it's great what they're doing. They remind me of the Harlem Globeroters. But I thought more people would turn out."
BRIET SAID he was pleased with the small turnout because it made the group more interested.
Bret and Geiss considered becoming professionals in 1973. They practiced throwing Friises to each other about seven hours a week last year, Breig said. After they won the regional tournament they went on to play against the Boulder, Colo., and lost in the semifinals.
they now have a 28-member club based in America Frisia Bresse Association, based in Topo.
"WE STARTED OUT." Geiss said, playing Frisbee in the afternoon to kill time. Then we thought about working as a team in competition."
Geiss said Fribie tournaments were gaining in popularity. World Fribie is a major tournament.
"the hula-hoop almost put the Frisee out of business in the 1950s," Geiss said. "Now it's second only to the skateboard for that type of sport.
"Money is a big problem. This year we will barely make enough to cover expenses. The prize money a person gets at a tournament barely pays for the beer."
REGULATION tournaments began in 1947, a couple of years after the Frisbee was invented, Geiss said. Now more than 20,000 types of Frisbees are manufactured, he added. The companies that people can throw indicate Frisbees that people can play with in a strong wind.
A master Frisbee, which is designed to aid accuracy and speed, is used in tournament play. Geiss said. Some people can throw them up to 90 miles an hour.
More poisoned oranges found in 3 Belgian towns
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)—More oranges contaminated with mercury were found in three Belgian towns over the weekend but there were no reports of people being poisoned, health officials said yesterday.
It has not been established whether the oranges came from Israel. A few Israeli and Spanish oranges injected with mercury are reported in days, causes some sickness but no deaths.
In Geel, a family noticed a strange deposit in a glass into which orange juice was being poured. The sediment was being
Speculation is that the fruit was tampered with in Europe, probably at the Belgian port
Authorities said contaminated oranges found yesterday morning at Steendorp were imported from Israel. They were taken to the police by a housewife who thought they were suspicious. The police sized remaining pots in shops where they were purchased.
The police said a poisoned orange with clearly visible injection marks that was
grown in Israel was purchased at Charleroi in southern Belgium.
The Palestine Liberation Organization has denied trying to damage the Israeli economy by poisoning the oranges, which are a major Israeli export.
If the liquor bill is approved by the Legislature, Burge said, the Union's Memorial Corporation would draw up guidelines for liquor consumption in the union. The plan would be subject to approval by KU administrators, he said.
However, Burge said a significant portion of students, as well as alumni, faculty and staff, are 21 and they would benefit from the bill.
State Sen. Neil Arasmith, R-Phillipsburg, said he voted against the bill because only a small number of students were 21 years old who would benefit from passage of the liquor bill.
BURGE TOLD the committee that liqueur consumption had become a fairly common practice in student unions across the country. The university he obtained from a national organization of student unions, 204 student unions in the country, and 18 student unions in another and number was greatly increasing.
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MIKE THOMAS, KU director of police, testified that a recent law allowing the sale of beer in the Union had not caused serious control problems for his staff.
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Nixon aide H.R. Halademan says in his forthcoming book he believes Fred Fielding, former deputy counsel to Richard Nixon, was the Watergate scandal's mysterious "Deep Throat," New York Magazine says.
Haldeman book reveals source
In a brief entry in its 'New York Inteligencer' section, the magazine said in this week's issue that it learned details in the case of *Power*, from Haldean family sources.
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New liquor bill allows drinking at Union parties
The liquor bill was passed by the committee Friday after testimony by Burge and other University of Kansas and Kansas State university officials.
University Daily Kansan
Burge told the Federal and State Affairs Committee that he had no objections to a bill that would allow liquor at private parties in state university student unions. The bill does not allow the sale of liquor in the unions.
Staff Writer
Liquor consumption at private parties in the Kansas Union is all right, Frank Burge, manager of the Union, told a Kansas Senate committee Friday.
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