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4 ine Daily Tar Heel Tuesday September 13. 1977 Cozmic Croquet Respectability of sorts hits this ridiculous sport -Hi iillikiii wii mi 1 iii ii 1. i iiiiim m mi , 1 I $ '; ! .A . OA' ' ' , " " - iV "V I 4 V"v k i:i t"rrJ ,i ""v-t '4 K; !i,-5 , f Ji V' V (tour StaM pholo by Jowph Thomas Dressed in the typically unpredictable attire of croquet players, this member of the "Rosewater's Finest" team eyes the terrain in preparation for his next shot. "Scene after scene is unforgettable." Penelope Gillian, New Yorker Magazine SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT EiGCIfY Academy Award Winner 'BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!" starring Sylvester Stallone waiting Sifry Dmi!1 5i.sy S;fil Jmur Rnr fori I Fridoy :PGn Sept. 16 C 107 ? Ttnl1lt Cnluly-Fo Held Over 5th Big Week Sorry No Passes Shows! II7A MINNCLU 1R0BERTDENIR0 9:oo 1 NEW YORK NEW YORK i vef 11th Big Week Sorry No Passes A bog time ego in a galaxy jac faraway.. LL- 2:33 4:50 7:05 ..,,,,v.. 9:20 I Cria! 2:30 TJ 7:00 feJ 9:15 JUT la,t f? II fk Hi-: ' iS'v I Held i Over I VfFTR M 6th Big Week 1 L 1 1 pa88es I SnOWS JAMES BONO 007' I J: Ai THE SPY 1 KJvw WM0 1 I Cjii3 SHOWING Shows I rnTS 2:30 i MK j f I I D tn're!M(tts Hit L5-sie .,: ft. -il Held O 1 Shows' 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:15 1 water Continued from page 1 water." Managers of two of the apartment complexes supporting conservation efforts believe the complexes can save money by promoting water conservation. Rebekah Colley, manager of Bolinwood Apartments, said the apartment's August water bill was 20 per cent less than the previous month. She said the reduction was partially the result of the apartment's posting conservation cards throughout the complex. Water restrictors will be put on shower heads in Carolina Apartments, according to manager Rick Hester. And Hester said he expects the restrictors, which reduce the flow of water by about a third, will easily pay for themselves through reduced water bills. rfcuJc Whenyou can't think of the one right word, think of the right two. The all new Si 1 0d t'luinh -incited $K)50pan R By KEN ROBERTS Staff Writer What it was was croquet. Cozmic Croquet, that is. All the area greats made it out to vie for the Championship in the La La Bandito's tournament Sunday at the H inton James Intramural field. It was the thirteenth cozmic tournament since the founding of the Intergalactic Federation for Croquet and Cozmic Awareness (1FCCA). Teams such as the Blue Bag Boys. The Media Ogres, the H inton Jimmies, the Carolina Bagels. Dee's Boys. Squat Thrust Mentality, the Stoned Rangers and the Pair-a-dice Palookas all come out regularly to show what they can do with mallet and ball. It is so very ridiculous that it has come to be taken very seriously. Geno Medler is the head goncho of the Horses of La La Banditos, the host team for the fling. He has the tournament planned out to a tee. The opening ceremonies began at 12:30 p.m. with the parade sixty earnest advocates of the game marching around the lawn thrusting their mallets into the air joyously. The fireworks mark the opening and registration begins. "Clean" Gene, clad in a white dinner jacket, light green dress shirt, black bow tie, a sombrero big enough to shame any Mexican and blue jeans paces the four courses he has laid out. giving the wickets a final checking. David Zucchino is there spiffed up in the height of croquet fashion. The white dinner jacket, white slacks and white high-top Converse offer a striking contrast to the brown pin-striped shirt he wears. "Z" plays for the Jones Street Boys, a four-man team composed of the godfathers of croquet: Moose Pulley. "Country" Dan Collins and Craig Perry. Collins talks proudly of the vibrant red jacket he wears giving special attention to the black lapel. For four dollars at the PTA Thrift Shop, he can't complain. Throughout the day he gives out husky yells that do for croquet what Tarzan's did for the jungle. "We're passing the hat. It's time for another beer run." Hackney's has tennis service A complete tennis service including finest, famous maker rackets, shoes, clothing, accessories. ..plus racket stringing and good advice, if you like. for people who play... North HillsRaleigh University MalUChapel H J l lie (til new r h vfl oeets I hesaurus. -1 international mmiimmitmmum Former UNC fencer Ken Williams has formed a team penned the Gay Blades and has seen to it that they wear team shirts. Williams uses a jet black ball with a big eight on it. The eight ball provided him with all the luck he needed as he made it to the final round of six from one-hundred-plus contestants who entered. John Daggon looks a little puzzled by the happenings, it being his first croquet tournament ever. Yet the UNC graduate student played well all day and went on to top all the big names and win the tournament. "I think luck had a lot to do with it," he said good-naturedly. Moose Pulley, often pronounced Poo-lay hinting at French ancestry also made it to the finals. So did Warren of the Wizards. Gary from the Piedmont Pushers who play out of Chatham County and John, stroking for Eliot Rosewater's Finest. Zucchino is the only three time winner in cozmic croquet history: the aforementioned Collins and McKee Lee have both won twice. Lee, sporting a tee shirt, cutoffs, mismatched knee socks and a yellow headband that dances in and out from under his. curly mop of light brown hair, is one ol the "early heavies" and was in fact the winner of the First Annual Jones Street Invitational. That first tournament was not started at the sudden whims of these devout mallet men but was born of necessity. 1 1 seems a van had come to die on the team's Jones Street property, and they had to be rid of it. Solution: have a croquet tournament and offer the van as first prize. Croquet tournaments caught on quickly except with landlords. The Jones Street Boys were forced to relocate not once, but twice. After their departure from their Jones Street abode, they were forced out of Littlejohn Apartments, but not before the First Annual Littlejohn Invitational. Other tournaments include the Clarence B. Alligood Memorial Tournament and the Richard Raskind "Don't Say You're Gay, Rene" Memorial Tournament. Collins jests about the luck with landlords. ."Croquet is so mobile. Within half an hour you can have your wickets down and within an hour you can have the property devalued. Those landlords just quake in their boots when we croquet." Now Collins and clan reside in the "self insufficient" community, full of lounge lizards, lunatics, scoffiaws. layabouts and ne'er do wells." says David Zucchino. The community has politics in the form of Mayor Edmund Muskie, a newspaper, the "Spudtowne Tattler" and bumper stickers that are frequenting more bumpers every day. The bumper stickers take shots at organized religion and. yes. even at UNC. "Honk if you love spuds." reads one. "Have you hugged your spud today ?" asks another. "I'd rather be in Spudtowne" boasts the third. The pseudo-ambitious fellows have even rented the stage at local bar. Cat's Cradle, to put on the "Spudtowne Follies." an always profitable event for all concerned. T.Y. CROWELL 10 East 53rd St New York. NY 10022 i 0" 4 fj t WW.- x .;:: & ft t y j. Staff photo by JoMOh Thomt That's not pancake syrup Noland Smith is mixing up. The junior accounting major acquired the taste and the expertise for beer making when he found a recipe for home-brewed booze. Student brews his own By DAVID CRAFT Staff Writer Even though the price of beer in Chapel Hill has fallen considerably, one student believes beer is still too expensive. He has found a way to drink all the beer he wants at only a fraction of the cost. He brews his own. Noland Smith, a junior accounting major from Murphy, found a recipe , this summer that he uses to make his own beer for six cents a can. "It's tough being a beer drinker in Cherokee County," Smith said. "The Baptists and bootleggers have kept the county dry. You can either drive twenty miles to Tennessee or pay the bootleggers $3.50 a six-pack." Three ingredients are necessary for making your own beer, Smith explained. They are: ( I) a five pound bag of sugar, (2) one packet of yeast, and (3) a can of Blue Ribbon Brand syrup, containing hops and other grains. "To make the beer." Smith said, "You take a five-gallon can and pour in the sugar, less two cups. Then you pour in the syrup and add four-and-a-half gallons of lukew arm w ater. Then, you sprinkle the yeast on the mixture and stir." The yeast reacts with the sugar to produce the alcohol, Smith explained. "I have been experimenting with different amounts of sugar. Generally speaking, the more sugar, the higher the alcohol content. The dark brown mixture must be left in the covered can to ferment for about a week. "After four or five hours, tiny bubbles start to rise to the top. This is the brewing process." After the bubbles stop, the beer must age for three days. Smith bottles his beer in sixty-four-ounce soft drink containers and old wine bottles. And the taste? Something between beer and wine. "I drank it all during the summer and acquired a taste for it. Somebody gave me a.Millr when I got back to school. I drank part of it and threw the rest away." There are two advantages to home-brewing, Smith said. First is the cost. "I can make five gallons for about $3. That's about six cents a can. The second benefit is the taste. "It's twice as strong. The alcohol content is about six per cent. One eight-ounce glass and you feel a little light-headed." Smith hosted a party this summer for 50 friends in Murphy. "We made fifteen gallons of home brew for six bucks. Everybody felt pretty good after the party, and we still had beer left over." There is no law against making your own beer, as long as you make only small batches, Smith said. "We even had a couple of highway patrolmen to drink some of it once." And what did they think of it? "They loved it." Cz BiscuKville pO FEATURING: HAM, SAUSAGE AND STEAK BISCUITS . . .65f each Ummm. So Good For Breakfast Lunch and Dinner, Too! Biscuitville University Square 133 W. Franklin Street Open 6 AM until 12 PM YOU'LL PRAY FOR RAIN fl&V 4 . ; , , .- "- lJ.t A A Phone 929-2425 .1 You'll shine on even the gloomiest of days in this v A double-breasted trench coat x't . from Vickers Clothiers. 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