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Tarkenton traded
to Minnesota
ATLANTA (UPI) — “How
can I be so lucky?” quarter
back Fran Tarkenton said af
ter hearing he had been traded
back to the Minnesota Vikings
by the New York Giants Thurs
day.
“It’s like going home, going
home to Minnesota,” Tarkenton
said of the news he was going
back to the team where he
started in pro football in 1961.
The former University of
Georgia star, who makes his
home and operates his business
interests here in the off season,
By IRA BERKOW
NEA Sports Editor
NEW YORK—(NEA)—UntiI recently, the only time this
country has even taken the Indians seriously was when
they surrounded our covered wagons or were in the thick
of the pennant race.
But now the American Indians—some American In
dians, anyway—are taking a new look at their image.
They look for example at the grinning Chief Wahoo sym
bol of the Cleveland Indians baseball team, and find it
“demeaning, degrading and racist.” A Sioux, Russell
Means, executive director of the American Indian Center
of Cleveland, recently filed a $9 million damage suit
against the local baseball club to prohibit the use of its
Chief Wahoo symbol.
“It epitomizes the stereotyped image of the American
Indian," said Means. “It attacks the cultural heritage of
the American Indian and destroys Indian pride."
This comes as laughable irony to those who have never
had the vaguest notion that there was anything but harm
less fun in the comic, long-nosed visage of Chief Wahoo.
Perhaps only if one is an American Indian would the
thought have occurred.
There seems no malice aforethought to naming teams,
from high schools to pro sports, Braves, Redskins, Black
Hawks, Redmen, Warriors, and so forth. But ignorance,
in most cases, is no defense in the courts. Nor in personal
interaction.
“It is not our intent,” said a Kansas City Chief spokes
man, “to ridicule the Indian.”
There are arguments, in fact, to the contrary. Team
names are often chosen to personify some kind of special
skill, physically or mentally. “Lions” and “Tigers” are
ferocious. “Giants” are overpowering. “Super Sonics are
speedy. “Dodgers” are clever. “Astros” are heavenly.
Other times, teams are named for some kind of local
phenomenon. “Dolphins,” “Suns,” “Mets” may be in
cluded in those categories.
And one wonders if the Indians’ action might not elicit a
deluge of suits by sensitive partisans, such as a flock of
“Padres,” a roundup of “Cowboys,” a bibulation of
“Brewers,” a schizophrenia of “Twins,” and a wave of
“Patriots,” a consecration of “Saints.”
The Indian-like appelations can, in fact, be construed as
complimentary. Boy Scouts consider Indians to be loyal,
brave, adroit and Tonto was practically man’s best friend.
However, haven’t Indians usually been a thing apart?
Something almost sub-human? Our movies, for example,
have generally portrayed the Indian as a painted, scalping
savage. A recent trend has been toward such sympathetic
movies as “Little Big Man” and such empathetic books
as the best-seller about the tragedy of Wounded Knee. But
the stereotypes linger on.
Little fires sizzling 66
By JOE SARGIS
UPI Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (UPl)—Gene
Littler had no trouble putting
while Jack Nicklaus did, and
that’s why today the little local
pro has the lead in the $150,000
Andy Williams-San Diego Open
while the blond bomber is back
in the pack.
Littler, who lives only a few
miles up the road from Torrey
Pines, site of the San Diego
Open, rolled in eight birdie
putts in the opening round
Thursday en route to a six
under-par 66. He made two
birdie putts of 20 feet and
another from 15 feet.
Nicklaus, who won four of the
last five tournaments he played
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was traded to the Giants in
1966 after a highly publicized
dispute with then Vikings Coach
Norm Van Brocklin. Van Brock
lin now coaches the Atlanta
Falcons.
The Giants got three players
— quarterback Norm Snead,
wide receiver Bob Grim and
running back Vince Clements
plus two draft picks for the
scrambling quarterback.
“I am overwhelmed, simply
overwhelmed,” Tarkenton ex
claimed. “It’s exceeding my
fondest dreams.”
Indian vs ‘lndians’
in last year and then debuted
this year by taking the Crosby
clambake, missed 10 putts
inside of 15 feet and wound up
with a one over 73. There was a
catch, though.
Littler went out early in the
morning when the course was
in perfect condition and the
weather almost as nice. When
Nicklaus got under way, close
to noon, a strong wind came up
off the Pacific and the greens
became hard as cement.
“Everything I hit went in,”
said Littler. “I haven’t putted
this well in a long, long, time. I
guess it was because I went
back to my old putter.”
“I hit the ball well,” said
Nicklaus who led everyone on
Tarkenton had made no
secret about the fact that he
wanted to be traded by the
Giants, and he wanted to go to
a contender in the pro ranks.
He considers his former team
to be just that.
“It’s a championship team,”
he said.
“I really am excited about
playing in Minnesota again,”
he said immediately after hear
ing the news. “I’ve got so many
friends up there I started out
with.”
Tarkenton said he talked with
Ji J,
Maybe Russell Means is being overly sensitive. Maybe
the blacks who successfully sued to get “Amos and
Andy” (good fun?) off the air were overly sensitive.
Maybe the Anti-Defamation League, the Italian-American
League, the Anti-Cruelty Society are overly sensitive.
Maybe, though, oversensitivity comes only after a seg
ment of our population is shunted aside and put, for ex
ample, into reservations, and, at best, condescendingly
considered “noble savages.” Maybe the shame comes in
considering someone not like us a gook of sorts.
And who is gookier than toothy Chief Wahoo?
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the tour last year with close to
a quarter million dollars in
earnings. “I drove straight and
long but the greens became
very hard. They were difficult
to putt on and I didn’t make
any putts.”
Between Littler, who goes off
late today, and Nicklaus, who
goes off early, are more than
50 players. Closest to Littler,
who won the Colonial and
Monsanta opens last year, are
Jim Colbert, Paul Harney and
Japan’s Takashi Murakami.
Those three shot opening round
four under 68s.
At 69, a stroke farther back,
are John Schlee, Tommy
Aaron, Tom Weiskopf, Bunky
Spalding rips
Pike, 34-24
The Spalding Junior High
girls ended a two-game losing
streak yesterday with a 34-24
victory over Pike County.
Sandra O’Dell scored nine
points, Portia Vaughn eight,
Monte Carlo Gilford seven,
Vicki Adams five, Janice
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Vikings General Manager Jim
Finks shortly after the an
nouncement “and cleared up
most of the details,” indicating
there would be no problems in
signing his contract.
The quarterback walked out
on the Giants during the exhi
bition season last summer over
a contract but quickly
came to terms.
Besides the three players, the
Vikings gave up their number
one pick in next week’s college
draft and their N 0.2 choice in
the 1973 draft.
Henry, Homero Blancas, Dale
Douglass, Phil Rodgers, Hale
Irwin and Bill Brask.
Gardner Dickinson, Bob East
wood, Jimmy Powell, George
Knudson, Chris Blocker, Mac
McLendon and Lou Graham are
another stroke back at 70.
Twenty-one players are at 71
and 12 at even par 72. In all, 41
players among the starting
field of 144, broke par over the
6,808 yard layout alongside the
Pacific.
The cut will be made to the
low 70 and ties after today’s
second round and the weather
will have as much to do about
where the cut will be set as
anything else.
Prince two, Barbara O’Dell two
and Deborah Cox one.
AU of Spalding’s girls played
in the game.
Spalding will play a return
match with Pike Tuesday and
take on R. L. Cousins of
Covington on Wednesday.
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, Jan. 28, 1972