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Show Page HKRALI). Prwvo. HK Hah. Friday. March 14. 1980 Kern's Philosophy: I Can Do What By MILTON RICHMAN POMPANO BEACH, Fla. UPI -Sit down and get into any kind of serious discussion with the Texas relief ace Jim Rangers' Kern, and the conversation from his end is bound to be sprinkled with the teachings of such noted scholars as Confucius, Castinedas, Socrates and right-hande- d Aquinas. But stand up there at the plate and put a baseball in Kern's hand, and he's going to be throwing much more than the book at you. Kern enjoys philosophy. When you ask him what's his he thinks a moment and says: "Water, the softest of things, will move rock, the strongest of things. Lao Tsu, the Chinese philosopher, said that. BYU Ruggers In Canada This week the BYU Rugby team heads for Victoria, Canada to participate in the Inter- national SAT. Can he's considered strange." There isn't anything really strange about Jim Kern. He has a good head on his shoulders, both feet on the ground and a fastball that does everything but I consider that the biggest compliment stand up and salute. He also has a way I've ever gotten in baseball." of being able to tell a story on himself To some people Kern is "a kook" and laugh about it, such as the time he because he usually has his head in a and catcher Ray Fosse disagreed on book and he also has his own ideas on what he should throw George Scott any given number of unrelated sub- when Kern was still with the Indians. "I had a jects. count on Scott "To anyone who says I'm too serious. and wanted to throw him a hook." Kern I'd say that in baseball, there's a lot of recalls. "Fosse kept putting down one insanity involved. You have a lot of finger for a fastball. I kept shaking him guys running around cutting shoe laces off, and finally I stood out there on the and lighting fires. Baseball is not termound and called into him 'You got ribly conducive to intellectuality on any another finger, use it!' Fosse hollered level, so when you have someone who back out to me "You just throw what I doesn't exactly adhere to the norm. call and you'll be OK.' Scott was get All-St- ting more and more impatient. Finally he couldn't take any more. He called time Hey you wanna talk to him. go talk to him ' he said to Ray. "I'm not gonna sit around here waiting for you two guys to make up your minds. "' Joins Blues - ST. LOUIS (UPIl The St. Louis Blues said Tuesday they have signed veteran defensenui ferry Harper, who retired last year after 17 seasons in the National Hockey League. Blues President and General Manager Emile Francis said Harper was signed as "an insurance policy. His experience will help us should we run into any injuries in our defense during the final stages of this season." one-and-t- 8-- 6 MAC HONORS MASTER CHARGE VESA Rugby Tournament. BYU joins UCLA and UC Berkley as the teams invited from the U.S.. Auckland University will represent New Zealand, Exeter University is coming from England, and the University of Lien's rtiri n 1 first three matches include UBC and Exeter on Thursday, and UCLA on Friday morn- Suit Headquarters ant IMILSIAJ 1 If mm fe "' "- - 6 P.H. SATQMAV 8 A.C3. HED'S SUNTS SsOJ -- in two pools and 2-P- $ JifJ Columbia, University of Victoria, and York University from Ontario are the Canadian teams invited. The tournament will be Elayed I "Pitching in the game a couple of years ago, I struck out Reggie Smith. Coming up to the plate Pete Rose asked Smith 'How is he throwing?" All Smith said was "Jesus Christ!" 71 Kern was easily the American League's most effective reliever last season with Texas which got him from Cleveland at the end of 1978. The Indians wanted him to throw only his fast ball which is right up there close to Nolan Ryan's. But Ranger Manager Pat Corrales, seeing Kern was able to get his breaking ball over the plate, told him he was perfectly free to use it. from The Gladwin, Mich., went to his curve ball from time to time, more so than he ever did in four previous seasons with Cleveland, and the results were 13 vic Hi Universities British tories compared with only five losses in appearances 29 saves and a spectacular 1.57 earned run average. Kern who struck out 136 batters in 143 innings was only 19 innings short of qualifying for the best ERA in the majors. Despite that curve ball Kern essentially is a power pitcher. "I'm not a heavily muscled person and I don't throw like a lot of people." he says. "I have a lot of whip in my arm. The whip pops the ball. I throw with the same type of motion as Goose Gossage but he muscles the ball. I sling it in. The hitters know what's coming. They sit on it and still can't hit it." Kern's fast ball has never been timed accurately and talking about it reminded him of an incident. His basic philosophy was passive resistance. I'm not sure I agree with that. My own philosophy is that man is capable of doing anything he believes he can do." Believe I - ing. According to performances the teams will be cross matches with teams in the other pool. Over the last decade UBC and UCLA have dominated college rugby in Famous Brands their respective countries and Coach John Seggar feels that it is a great honor for BYU's ruggers to be invited to such a prestigious gather- Solid Colors Fancy Patterns Knits Cords ing. BYU is presently 10-- 1 for the season and is look- Sizes ing better each week. 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