KU club host
'Hagime' command Sunday will start karate tourney
By MIKE RIEKE
Kansan Sports Writer
"Hagime" starts the action.
When the judge gives that command at the Jayhawk Karate tournament this Sunday, men and women from four states will begin slashing, hacking, and kicking at each other.
Max Muller, head instructor of the KU Karate Club, expects 60 to 70 contestants from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma. Twenty members of the KU club will compete.
The preliminaries will begin 10:30 a.m. followed by the finals 7:30 p.m. The tourney will be held at the Community Building, 11th and Vermont.
Two types of competition will be held: kata and kumite. In kata, the contestant simulates a fight against four to eight imaginary opponents. Judging is based on his body control and the degree of difficulty of his moves.
The free fighting of kumite uses a real opponent.
Muller said Clement Ching, the club's assistant instructor and Dan Garner should place high in kata. In women's kata, Muller expects a strong performance from Elizabeth Cole.
"The fighter wins a point for a well-focused, controlled strike or kick to a vital area of the body," Muller explained. A match lasts two minutes, or until one contestant scores two points. If the scored is tied after two minutes, sudden-death playoff takes place.
It's this way
"There is contact in kumite, but only light body contact. The head is off-limits," he explained. If the judge detects any malice in a blow, the offender is warned or disqualified.
"The most serious injuries," Muller said, "occur when someone has the wind knocked out of him. A fighter would rather lose the match than hurt the other man."
Muller expects the KU club to
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Max Muller, head instructor of the KU Karate Club, leads his students in karate movements. The club will host 60 to 70 contestants from four states Sunday in the Jayhawk Karate tournament.
score well in kumite with Terry Rees, Charlie Boyd, and Buck Carson. Best among the women, Muller said, is Susie Spalding.
Individual trophies will be awarded for the top three finishers in kumite and the two best in kata. Trophies will also
be presented the two highest-scoring teams.
"Our team shoud win one of the team trophies," Muller added optimistically.
To have a good tournament, Muller explained, there must be good judges and a good referee. "We have high caliber people," he said, "the finest possible."
After the kumite champions in each belt division have been determined, competition will begin for the grand championship trophy.
The white belt champion will fight the green belt winner, then the winner meets the brown belt champion. That winner will meet the black belt champion for the grand championship trophy.
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Intramurals begin in volleyball, badminton
Thirty-three volleyball and badminton teams begin competing for trophies tonight in intramural tournaments.
Miss Dolores Copeland, director of women's intramurals, said the volleyball action is schedules through March 27. The women's teams will play best-of-three-games matches on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Co-recreational badminton teams-one man and one woman-also begin a single-elimination tournament that should run three to four weeks, Miss Copeland said. First and second-place team trophies
will be awarded in both volleyball and badminton.
Miss Copeland said co-recreational volleyball and softball, and a women's singles tennis tournament, are being planned for March and April.
Basketball Boom
ST. LOUIS (UPLI) -Ben Kerner, who sold the St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association to an Atlanta, Ga., group, remembers when his payroll was under $100,000 in 1955. Kerner says in the Hawks' final season in St. Louis, 1967-68, his payroll had increased to $350,000.