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Monday, September 19, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Spectator
Debra Viege-Stevens to Lawrence from Sioux Falls, Minn., to cheer on the St. Paul, Minn., Gorillas as they played in the Beep
Baseball World Series. Because she is blind, the best way to keep track of the action is to get close to the beeping ball. At bat is Joe Lazos from the San Antonio Jet-Sets.
Beep baseball game ends season
Rv WALT BRAUN
Staff Writer
The National Beep Baseball Association season officially ended yesterday when the Minnesota Braile Sports Foundation nudged Sioux Falls De-lighted 28-25 in the finals of the Beep Baseball World Series at the Holum Sports Complex.
For Quantrill's Raiders, the Lawrence entry, the season ended Friday. The Raiders dropped two games in the double elimination tournament, losing to Sioux Falls 27-18 and to the San Antonio Jet Set 26-17.
Beep Baseball, invented in 1964, was designed for the blind. To score a run, a batter must hit a beeping base at least 30 feet from home plate and reach a buzzing base 80 feet away before a defensive player fields the ball.
EACH TEAM consists of five players who are instructed or blindfolded, a sighted pitcher and catcher.
Charles Vassallo, president of the National Beep Baseball Association and member of Quantrill's Raiders, explained the Raider's poor showing in the tournament.
"There were some really good teams out there," he said after the tournament. "We're not quite that caliber of ball club. Next year we'll do much better."
Quantrill's Raiders, in its second year of play, entered the World Series for the first time. Though not pleased with last place, Vassallo did enjoy hosting the tour.
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"THE WHOLE, it went very well," he said. "Other than some squibbles with the umpires early in the tournament, everything went smooth. The play was quite good. Next year's tournament should be a great one."
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Ten teams were invited to the Second
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Vassala said he would like to see next year's
tournament, in Sun City, Arizona, limited to
eight teams.
"It's just too difficult to schedule a double elimination tournament for 10 teams," he said. "One team had to play seven games in three days."
He said he was glad the people of
Lawrence had a chance to see Beep
upon his best.
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THE PURPOSE of the tournament,
besides the skill, is to warn inform
about the sport, he says.
"A lot of people don't realize how aggressive a sport this is," he said. "It can get rough. On one队 I collided with Chuck Berry (annoyant) and got 10 stubs, Chuck Guckot16."
Vassallo he be thought more than 400 people watched the finals, which were not too hard.
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crowd would have been larger if the association had not charged as much.
Admission for all 18 games of the tournament was $2.
The competing teams traveled from as far away as Phoenix, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Antonio. The teams paid their own expenses, but the Lawrence Beep Baseball Association paid motel and food bills during the tournament.
"Right now there are about 35 beep teams in the country, and 20 of those are completely uninsigned, qualifying them for the tournament," he said. "Topeka may field a team next season, and maybe Kansas City will, too."
will, too.
To qualify for the tournament, Vassallo said a team may not use more than one sighted or blindfolded player at a time, although several may belong to the team. A team must have four blind players on the field at all times.
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VASSALO SAID Beep Baseball was expanding, locally as well as nationally.
"That really hurts us," Vassallo said. "We only have five blind players, and if two had gotten hurt, we'd have been out of the series."
VASSALO SAID the sports biggest problem was money. Beep baseballs cost $20 apiece and do not last long.
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"We started this tournament with 32 new baseballs, and ended up with two that weren't used," he said. "Some guys out there rounded the ball 150 feet. You do that for long and the ball's no good. That's only one of the expenses."
Another expense, the Raiders' uniforms, were supplied by the Fraternal Order of Police. FOP members also served as umps during the tournament, Vassals said.
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Other sponsors were the University of Kansas department of health, physical education and recreation, Kansas Association for the Blind, Lawrence Jaycees, Lawrence Lions Club, Douglas County Amateur Radio Club, Breakfast Optimists, Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department and the Telephone Pioneers.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan yesterday left for the United States and a new round of Middle East talks after a raid on Islamic State in Europe and a surprise return to Israel.
Dayan's travels coincided with the release yesterday by Palestinian sympathizers in Washington of three CIA officials detained deliberately ordered an attack on the U.S. Navy electronics research ship Liberty off the Mediterranean coast during the Middle East war. The officials were placed in what Israel called an accidental attack by planes and torpedo boats.
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However, the CIA also has a staff summary of the Liberty intelligence data that concludes the Israelis did not learn what was an American ship until after the attack.
As Danyn new to New York, Layman Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, also due in Washington this week, left Cairo and said there could be no Mideast settlement without the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
DAYAN IS scheduled to meet with President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Clinton today. He will be in attendance by his Egyptian and Syrian counterparts.
The Washington talks are expected to set the stage for indirect, Vance-mediated Arab-Latino negotiations concluding with the General Secretary's session which opens this week in New York.
Dayan originally had planned to leave for the United States on Friday, but abruptly changing his itinerary, he flew secretly to Paris Saturday and later returned home to consult with Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Begin said yesterday, "I hope developments during Dayan's visit to Europe will not have unfavorable implications for his talks in Washington.
In Tel Aviv, Dayan had stopped in Paris to "perform a task in my function as foreign minister. . . I am truly sorry but that I am not able to add anything."
"THEERE IS NO mystery. The foreign minister was in Europe on an important visit and is about to go to Berlin." He declared that Germany should return to Israel and consult with me."
The surprise shutting fueled rumors of possible new developments in the Middle East. Some Israel newspapers speculated that Dayan had secretly met with a top-
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Fahmy left Cairo yesterday for two days of talks with French officials before he travels on to Washington, where he will meet with Carter Wednesday.
In an airport news conference, Fahmy said he was carrying a letter to Carter from President Anwar Sadat underlining the challenge of Egypt to the Palestinian problem.
Fahmy said that the message stressed the necessity for PLO participation in a
reconvened Geneva Mideast peace conference and proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union, co-chairman of the Geneva negotiations, extend an invitation to the
LAST WEEK, U.S. officials announce support for Palestinian participation in Arab Israel talks. The announcement was a positive step. Fahmy said, but did not go.
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There will be no chance for a peaceful settlement without U.S. recognition of the PLO, he said.
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