The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 18, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 26, 1981 Page: 4 of 4
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Tin McMurry Indians
champions again thin year in
their 1 1AA conference traol to
Plamxiew Saturday night to
face tin cagors of Wa.xland Bap-
tist College in the NAI A District
8 plax offs
Gometimo is 7 30 p in
Dallas Baptist meets Paul
(uinn at the same time in Waco
The w inner of the plax offs go to
the NA1A national tournament
in Kansas City March 9 14
The WAR WHOOP asked
I Flowering
somow hat draw n out script w ith
a pronounced humanistic (in the
good sense of the otd dnft
though still with a sncied di-
mension and a foueful presen-
tation of that script h a solid
cast and ciow
Odets. of course was an in-
tensolx political plax w right
and the pla s implications out-
weigh am theologunl settle-
nunt He electrified audiciues
in the H' s with plns like
Waiiitifi ' I.? t nitti Aunke
unit Stun' with marked left-
wing socialist messages (Odets
himself was a Comtiuinist-part
member brioflx from 1934 to
lOJii twentx veaih bofnio this
pln was written' But bx 1951
he had moved bexond leftist
"agit-prop" in which the exp-
loited workers of the world line
up behind a chanmatic leader to
march into a new world order
In this storx. Noah half-iool
but half-saint as one of his sons
calls him muxes bexond asceti-
cism and chooses after the
I'lood to lixe not with mindless
hedonist Ham or the moralist
.lapeth but the materialist Shem
because life with him will be
more comfortable Just as the
Flood gaxe man a head-start so
did the War Odets seems to be
saving in 1051 and Odet's bit-
tersweet pronouncement is a
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r.ogimi.... uiiui..m..ou. ...
not socialism humanism and
not theocracy are mine conge-
mill with human nature At the
same lime he recognized rebelli
ous questioning and enthusiasm
asmer.K.luu..vcfj..ulI.
Bob Bein one of the pat-
riarchs of Abilene s irtiiicWirs
peitonue and a giaduatc of caricature
McMurrj.plaved Noah the pat The technical aspects of the
narch and his interpi elation production deserve commendn-
combines the chutpah ol I'evve lion. even though themusiechn-
of that most unforgettable of sen sounded more like half-
Jewish stage-fathers for whom baked Viennese waltzes than
God was not onl Creator and Hebrew melodies which sup
Judge but also a incniih vou posedly is what was aimed for
could talk to with the pathos of '1 he set was chaiactenzed by
Willy Loman. who liko Noah rich earth tones as were the cos-
round the change from the old tumes Again the scenery uv-
ways to the new frightening oided most of the cliches of the
Bern's performance was solid Bible-pagant syndrome ex
and fai supenoi to his perfoi cept for the rainbow The home
mance three yeni s ago us Japcth setting and ark however were
in ACT's production of Tun by especially complementary to the
Two Richard Rodgers' truly theme of the pla i e the per-
forgettable musical adnpationot ception of the real in the mytlu-
thisplav '!
Without hounding antagonis-
Victoria Spanglei stole the tu we must say that a complete
audience's heart howexer. as judgment on Marion
Noah's wife the primeval C'nHtloborrv's talents as n
yiddtttihi mumiiKi who like
Molly Goldberg on the radio in
Odets' life and Dolly Levine on
Broadway luter is willing to let
the Cieator run the universe
while she bottles the more
realistic problems like getting
food on the table ("Let's eat sup-
pei - that s real ) and keeping
some kind of peace among her
squabbling brood (Noah's sons
may wear Bible-story lobes but
they go at each other and each
others wives like J R and
Bobbv Ewing ) Like Edith
Bunker to Archie Esther puts
up with Noah's mule
headedness until it spells com-
pltte family disaster and she
Faces Wayland in Playoff
Coach Kimhrell nhout the sea
son
WAR WHOOP "You have
had the good fortune in past
years to win conference titles
hecause you started the season
with a solid core of returning
players This year you started
with a relatively unexperienced
team What is the key to turning
a greenhorn team into confer-
ence winners?"
KIMBRELL "Recruit good
players lots of hard work disci-
Peach.... I
joins Japcth in asking if Noah is
talking to the right God
Koch of the sons is portrayed
h a creditable oung actor not
as seasoned as Spongier and
Bein but all with obvious poten-
tial John Mormon is Shem the
son who shows that after the
Flood there will be Paradise
Lost because like the old car-
penter in Chancers Miller's
TnU i xx ho thinks he II be a new
Noah) he'll be top-dog in the new
world Tun Neustifter a new-
comer to an.x stage ilus onlx
dramatic experience having
been as a Sears & Roebuck
Santa . plays Ham. the son who
brings the fallen world on stage
with a sensual greed equal to
Shem's materialism His per-
formance contained just enough
swagger Tim Ruland a fresh-
man from Hereford plavs
lapeth and his vouthful xoice
and demeanor lent credibility
and grace to his role as the moral
conscience of the fnmil
Other than Mrs Noah the
play is a man's play The actres-
ses who plaxed the daughters
iCathy Sorrells as the quiet
Leah Signd Stephenson ns the
complex Rachel and Kim Bol-
linger as the (lightly Goldie)
with as much as individualizing
as the Odets script allowed
Harry Starks played tax col
lector and then a lamenting fig-
of -...
ut m'n tQ thc 8(u.
HonLlpiayt.ravvemU8lnott!thnt
... ..' .. '. e
on! Bein and Spongier were
able to use the Now York Jew
(() ndvnnl ml tht
d(( m rclranl
that is basic'to dialect expertise
so that neither sounded like a
dramatic mentor at McMurry
will have to watt until he moves
away from quasi-Biblical fuble
as we suw in the Thc Apple Tret
and The Flowering Peach (he
should have called the seabon "A
Snlute to Fruit") and docs a
more "classical" production such
as a Shakespeare piny n renlis-
tt Hy 8Ucl mc by Chekhov or
Miller or Williams or even an
experimental play. But we have
overy reason to behove that such
productions and may their time
t0me soon will bo professional
und laudatory if the stature of
the performance in 77ie Fhwer-
Ulg Pcuih is any indication
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THE McMURRY WAR WHOOP
pline and set reasonable goals "
"When we have an inexperi-
enced team (building a new
loanO we work xery hard on
basic fundamentals and try not
to get too fancy in our every da
drills Our conches spend a gieot
deal of time in tr.xing to develop
a strong positive attitude to
watd basketball
"We encourage our pla.xers to
set goals and xve challenge them
every day to reach those goals "
The McMurrx Indians won
not only their fourth straight
TIAA basketball title last
weekend in the championship
tournament the also won the
respect of their opponents for a
well played season
The Indians clinched the con-
ference title !x beating the
Lobos of Sul Ross H7-8'2 Fridiix
night in the gxmnasium at
Tarleton State in Stephenxillo
The.x then advanced to the finals
and beat the Roos of Austin Col
McM Track Squad
In ACU Quadrangle
The Mc Mm ix tiacWeis will
comHte in .i quadtangU tiack
meet on the Abilene Chiitinn
I'nixersitx campus this sntui
dax Thex will match 'hem
volxos against competitors from
Texas Tech. Angelo State and
ACU
Last weekend the runnei s and
throwers went to Houston anil
contended with athletes from
Texas Southern the Unixetsitx
of Houston. Houston Baptist.
Southern Unixorsitx ol New Or-
leans. Contonnr.x. and Pan
American Athletes unattached
to colleges also were united to
the meet
McMuir.v s 100-meter relnv
placed foil i th w ith a tune ot 42 9
seconds Robert Loano ran a
4 17 G 1500 meter run The
sprint medlev relay saw Willv
Joe Wajne Cobb. Chris
McNair and Arthur Fertile
combine or run a 3 3 1 G to place
third
Lo7ano ran again in the
800-meter placing fourth w ith a
'2 02 1 A Philip Rhodes. Richard
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nnls "They played very hard very
aggressive and they forced us
out of our offense" Austin Col-
lege conch Boh Mason said.
"They just did a good job and
they'll make a good representa-
tive of our conference "
Both teams played aggros
sively in the finals game The
Roos were behind by 1 1 points at
one time in the first period of
play but they managed to hus
tie and whittle that down to a
39-37 lead as they went into thc
hnlftime rest
The Indians came out of the
looker room fighting in the sec-
ond hnlf and put eight points on
the board in a row keeping the
Roos from scoring for five mi-
nutes The Indians shot close to sixty
percent from the field (31 of 52)
w hile the Roos managed to shoot
33 of 7f onl 44 percent
The team from Sherman
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never got closer than thiee
points to taking the lead in the
second half of plax against the
fired -up Tribe
McMurrx 's Vance Hughes
Rcnred '21 points in Sat ut day's
game Keith White who was
named the most valuable plax er
of the tournament suited eigh-
teen points hitting seven out of
ten shots from the field Kevin
Webber scored 17 points and
Bob Terry followed him in the
scoring roster with 1 1 Tonv
Colunga scored 8 points. Eat-
nest Merritt G and Ronald
Brown '2
Hughes and Teir.x vxere
named to the All tournament
team Boh beiause of his com
mendnhle defensive plax ing
The win allowed the Indians
to end their confeieiue season
with a 19 !) tecoid
Conch Hershel Kimhrell torn
plimented the Austin College
team "If xxe had plaxed as pas-
sively as we did iFrulav night i
against Sul ross we louldn t
have beaten them
The win against Sul R.ss Fii
dav night in lust round plav
was a much closet game in final
score as well as compel it ion I he
Lobos were led bv then high-
scoring R ( I'ollivet who
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him
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Hughes put ? points on tin
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