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to protest the ru
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team and the South African
where the controversial rugby
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number of minor dramas. Here are
“some vignettes from Tuesday's events.
The controversy surrounding the
team’s visit to
Albany spilled over into the political
arena with an unusual exchange be-
tween Mayor Erastus Corning I! and
independent mayoral candidate
Charles Touhey.
» Monday night Touhey told a Siena
College forum, “If the rugby decision
goes down in history as being Mayor
Corning's most important decision in 40
years, I wouldn't call that much of a
erowning achievement,”
Responding to the Touhey comment,
Corning first said he didn't know what
Touhey meant by the statement.
Tuesday morning, Corning issued a
* stronger statment. “In regard to that
person (Touhey), his insensitivity is
unbelievable ,° Corning said. “His lack
‘of understanding is appalling. His
inability to digest and interpret facts
should be the envy of editorial writers.
“The only other possibility,” he
added, “is the truth is not in him.”
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While rugby officials awaited late
. eourt decisions on the fate of the game,
Edmund Lee of the American Rugby
Union tipped his hand to a reporter.
‘ Rugby officials had every intention of
ging on with the game, regardless of
the courts ruled.
* Lge told a reporter, “If you find out
hything (about court decisions), don't
me. Don't tell (Springbok tour
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- A handful of black protesters stood on
the steps of the Clinton Avenue building
used by the rugby players as locker
rooms. On the other side of a police
barricade: stood some Albany police
officers. Someone started singing, ‘'I
Love New York.”’ To that, the protes- |
ters sang to the police, “You love South
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After the rally organizers dispersed
problems now, people are flat out
asking for it.”
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An Albany police lieutenant traveling
along the route of the State University
of Albany student march said he knew
the reason for Tuesday's weather.
“See what Mayor Corning did," he
announced to anyone who would listen.
“He went up in the bell tower and asked
for rain. And look what it’s doing right
now,"
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Edward Haggerty, editor of Rugby
Magazine, said the protests unfairly
singled out rugby
“Gary Player (South African golfer)
plays here and no one protests," he
said. ‘There are 316 corporations with
$5.6 billion in South Africa, but that's
okay. But they go after our game. They
are asking us to do what the rest of the
country is not asked to do."’
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Mike Sherlock, 33, of New York City,
captain of the Colonials — the Ameri-
can all-star team that played the
Springboks — said Tuesday the protests
against the game could backfire.
“IT think the long term effects on the
game will be good. We've gotten more
publicity than we could ever hoped for
if we'd hired a public relations firm,”
he said.
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AS a security precaution, the colors of
the tickets were changed from red to
blue sometime late Monday or early
Tuesday. Tom Selfridge, president of
the Eastern Rugby Union said the
change was prompted by fears that
counterfeit tickets were in circulation.
The change caused problems for
problems at the gate resulting from the
change.
Each of the new, blue tickets also
Carried Selfridge’s signature.
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Signs of the protesters outside the
stadium carried a variey of messages.
Some read, “Death to Apartheid,”
and “Defeat White Supremacy.”
The chants included, “One, Two, .
Three, Four, Stop the Springboks, Stop
the Tour."’
Picketing began at 3 p.m., with police
keeping a block distant. By the end of
the game, no major incidents had been
reported,
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The Springboks scored their first
point at 7:15 p.m., and a great roar
went up from the crowd.
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Upon leaving the Bleecker Stadium
area following the game, two demon-
Strators from New York City ex-
claimed, “We pulled it off, we pulled it
off. With sweat and tears, but no
blood."
Apparently there was no blood on the
Spectators. But at least one of the rugby
players on the American side left the
field with blood streaming down his
face — albeit from a playing injury.
Another South African rugby squad
visited Albany Tuesday. The Old Ed-
wardians, a Johannesburg team, is also
touring the United States, according to
Haggerty. The club is the fourth South
African rugby team to come to the US.
in the past 18 months, Haggerty said.
2
If only she had thought of it earlier,
Bonnie Osterhout of 694 Clinton Ave.,
could have gotten rich from the rugby
controversy.
“We should have put a coffee stand
out there in the street or started selling
umbrellas,"’ she said. ‘We would have
made $1,000."
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Organizers quizzed those attempting
to enter, asking such questions as
“What rugby team do you play for?"
and ‘Who is your team captain?”
Depending on the answers, patrons
“were admitted or turned away.
While organizers said the crowd of
spectators totaled some | 800, other
estimates ranged from 500 to 1,200.
Since tickets were available only at
rugby clubs, most of the spectators
were avid rugby fans.
Inside the stadiurn, Pyramid Securi-
ty, @: private company, had about 20
ay band. Albany police also were:
tadiurn.
After he garne, Selfridge said he was
“very pleased. I'm glad we were able to
hold the game."’
The Easterr-Rugby Union has sched-
‘uled a game for Saturday between the
Springboks and another American
team, at a location which rugby union
officials refused to disclose. It is
believed, however, that the game will
be held in New York state.
From time to time, patrons of taverns
near the stadium shouted derogatory
remarks at demonstrators.
Several neighborhood merchants had
cloged early for the day — several said
they did so at the suggestion of police —
and @ number of shops had their
ered with plywood sheets.
“ officers patrolled the
to a car —
were visible in the back seats of the
Stet photo by Skip Dickstein
SCREEN PLAY — Using a metal detector, Albany police
Screen spectators trying to enter Bleecker Stadium to watch ‘ie
the South African Springboks piay a U.S. all-star team.
black-and-whites — and state troopers
with bomb-sniffing dogs were on the
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Despite Carey's stated fears of vio-
lence, turnout was far below the 6,000 to
8,000 protesters that demonstration
organizers had predicted and there was
no reported trouble.
Overall, about 1,200 demonstrators
attended the protests, according to
police Lt. John Dale.
The bulk marched west in the rain to
the stadium along Central and Clinton
avenues following a Capitol Park rally
and were joined at Quail Street by an
estimated 200 students from the State
University at Albany.
Some 100 protesters had spent the day
outside the stadium, chanting “Down
with the Sprinkboks, Death to the
Klan,” a8 spectators entered the stadi-
um's west gate. Many of the latter had
to exchange their color-coded tickets
for newly printed ones as a security
measure.
Police searched those entering the
Stadium with metal detectors, and
bottles of liquor and fruit were confis-
cated, .
black rain gear and newly issued white
riot helmets.
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Additional Capitol police and building
guards were also sent to the Capitol to
increase security at the building.
“We are providing whatever extra
security may be needed to secure the
safety of the Capitol,” said Thomas
Cooper, a spokesman for the Office of
General Services, which is responsible
for the building guards and Capitol
police.
As early as 1:30 p.m., demonstrators
were huddled under trees in Swinburne
Park, with 25 or so from Brooklyn
trying to stay dry.
Two busloads — 50 people each — had
arrived, according to Julie Espinal of
Brooklyn and the rest were expected to
be back around 2 p.m. after they had
lunch.
Terming the game ‘“political,”’. she
said she was upset because “every time
groups oppposed to apartheid, racisim
etc. try to demonstrate against it,we
can't get a permit to demonstrate.
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She said the tour “is a way of the
South African government trying to get
out of their political isolation.”
John Castillo, also of Brooklyn, said,
“We certainly feel they do represent
the government (of South Africa).
Representatives of South Africa have
said that, if they had to use sports to get
out of their political isolation, they
would use it.”
Robert Hoffman, of the Albany Coali-
tion Against Apartheid, said fewer
people than expected attended because
of the governor's action trying to stop
the match than because of the rain.
“Basically, because of the governor's
trying to prohibit the match, the
planning for this demonstration was cut
off for a few days,”’ he said.
By 1 p.m., Albany police began to
gather outside the Capitol. Twelve
motorcycles and three patrol cars were
parked in the rain at the Washington
Avenue entrance.
Tuesday morning, about 25 persons
attended a so-called “training school’’
for demonstration marshals school in
the Capitol cafeteria.
David Easter, 38, of Albany, who
coordinated the session, said Albany
State students expected to attend the
dernonstration would provide their own
marshals for crowd control.
Capt. George Houting of the police
department's Traffic Division said
eight motorcycle officers were as-
signed to escort marchers from the
Capitol to Swinburne Park.
Earlier Tuesday, a group of clergy
and Quakers calling themse|ves Clergy
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By Ronald Kermani
Slatt Writer
A South African rugby team may be
grappling with a controversy over
playing in Albany against a loca! rugby
Club, but it will go ahead with its plans
to grapple on the field, the president of
the Eastern Rugby Union stressed
Saturday.
Thomas Selfridge, president of the
union, said the Sept. 22 game with the
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Springboks, an all-star, integrated
team from South Africa, will be held as
planned, whether it be in city-owned
Bleecker Stadium, surrounded by A
lice and protesters or on an out-of-
way private field.
“We have no intentions of canceling
the games’ scheduled in Albany, New
York City on Sept. 26, and Chicago later
in September, said Selfridge, organizer
of the tour.
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nounced, dozens of local and national
minority, neighborhood and religious
groups in Capitaland have urged local
officials to withdraw playing permits
and cancel the games.
Opponents of the tour have de-
nounced the South African team’s visit
to the U.S. on the grounds that the
players are to garner acceptance
for the government's
up a storm
policy of apartheid — an official policy
of racial separation.
The Springboks were scheduled to
play in municipally-owned Do
St. tam in New York City, but Mayor
Luward I, Koch reversed his position
and withdrew the stadium permit,
Saying crowd and police protec-
tion :
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_ Se. -ral of the speakers linked,
{the rugby team and the South
African government to Nazism
and the Ku Kiux Kian, and
blasted the South African none?
of land takeovers from blac
owners and forced relocation of
the natives. They denounced
South Africa’s recent military —
incursion’ against Angolan
guerillas, and accused Reagan of
viewing all world politics on a
‘basis of East versus West, ‘‘with
no regard to the poor people who
are suffe all over the world,"
said Lapchick. .
John Logan, a member of a
Boston rugby team, said the
Springboks were not the best
layers in South Africa. ‘The
st players are the 200,000 black
rugby players who are not
allowed to try. out for the
Springboks.” He ‘said the majori-
ty of players in the Eastern
Rugby Union were anti-apartheid,
and called the players inside the
stadium ‘a small minority of
racists."
New York City folk singer Pete
Seeger, a veteran of political
rallies since the early 1960's,
played banjo and sang “If I Had |
A Hammer,” and the 50's hit
“A-Weem-A-Wep,” which he said ~”
was based on a South African
tribal melody.
During the rally, seven men ..
who identified themselves as
near the Swinburne Park tennis ,
courts, about a hundred feet from
the crowd, drinking beer from a.
cooler. ‘‘We didn't get in because
we didn't have the five bucks,”
said one.. ‘We think it’s great
that these guys can play here, no
matter what the niggers say.’’ He
turned toward the crowd and
shouted, “Slavery!'’ None of the
men would identify themselves. -
Poet Joyce Clarno read several |
of her works, one a_ feminist
poem ‘‘about man against . Kenneth Stamp of Rochester,
woman, which must be seen in — who said he was one of 700 state.
the larger: picture as black ,.. University students who.
against white.” 5." participated the demonstration,
During the speeches, one man, ,' said, “It’s” obvious that. the
paced in front of the crowd,,, (confusion about whether the:
shouting, “What are we doing up's game was‘ canceled or not, and.
here? We gotta get down there *\:"? the rain, kept some people away.
politics and sports.'’
. “I saw the first or second best
_ “rugby team in the world pay
tonight. I went becasue it'll help
my rugby game.”’
“It's not often that a team of
‘+ this caliber comes into America,
“! Iet alone this area,”’ said Kevin
_ | Drewyer of Willlams College, who.
‘were not able to ‘get into the,
‘> game. “I'm really annoyed that.
_these (protesters) are preventing’
“ me from seeing them."’
. and stop the game!" Several of: /: It's really sad that these so-called |
; ' the stadium, booing and calling -
» the spectators ‘‘racists.” .
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“Albany rugby. fans” gathered °,
the demonstrators pulled the man ./ s
aside and spoke to him, and he
left the park. ; eae
The size of the crowd steadly:‘-; Reagan’s fault
dwindled as the rain kept coming. ' ing's."’
n can come here while
the U.S. gives lip service to
“"\\ human rights. I see this as
more than Corn-
' By the time the game was over *”,. As the park continued to empty,
shortly before 8:30, there were '., Martha Biddle of New York City
less than 300 people inthe park. - °\> sat’ quietly at. the entrance to
“Dozens of demonstrators lined’. Swinburne Park. Mrs. Bidddle,
the walkway as spectators left © who said she was in her 60's, said
“I've been fighting apartheid
i. \ <4 ginee the 60's and I'm going to
“The game was, definitely ;?» continue until the African people
worth it,” said spectator Roger ."\} arefree.” '
Smith, a member of the Siena \ ‘‘I'm soaked, I’m beat, and I’m
College Rugby Club. He said he. ready to get out of here, overtime
was not bothered by the con- .; or not,” confessed one deputy, as
troversial nature of the game. ‘1°: *he awaited orders to disband the
don't think they , should mix .** line,
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Clara woany NAACP President “the Capitol began their march Carey had issued the ban
By JONATHAN HODGES ‘ Clara Satterfield. ,. » to Bleecker Stadium, where a following the release of a state
Staff Reporter : ia: Despite the confusion, due to crowd of some 200 people had police report which indicated
the legal battles involving the already. formed, }a second as many as 15,000 people might
Tig Springboks, and the inclement demonstration, involving , attend the demonstration . and
rie iid US. hore te Bei weather, about 400 persons, . primarily students from the hinted of a possible clash
; Justice Thurgood Marshall ref- Tepresenting a wide variety of ) State University at, Albany, between members of the Com-
* used a last attempt Tuesday by 8f°UPS, attended the 5 p.m. © began at the Albany. Thruway -munist Workers Party and the
state officials. to cancel the ,. C#Pitol rally. Hepresentatives. ‘House where the Springboks © Ku Klux Klan. _ .
* Springboks’ rugby game, the .. from the Peace and Justice {.were staying. “On Monday, U.S.’, District
planned demonstration against | commission of the Albany 74 Chanting “Go Home Spr- Court Judge Howard Munson
the South Africans’ visit began ., | ~atholic Diocese stood side-by-. ingboks,” the students demon- ruled Carey had acted improp-
with two peaceful’ protests at / S!4¢ with members of the __ Strated without incident outside erly , in canceling the game.
. Opposite ends of Albany. ; fadical ‘activist group, Red :the Thruway House before Despite efforts Tuesday morn-
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On the steps of the state’; Balloon Collective, whose! ’ beginning their motk. ing by state attorneys, a
~ banner proclaimed their opposi-‘ At LF federal appeals court in New
the 'Abarihoid. Mughy® Tour lon to raciamy ewig? the At the motel Eastern Hugoy federal appeals cou reverse
_ coalition called’ for an end to .. peer goad Bacal ne = palace Selfridge was with’ reporters Munson's decision. The state’s |
* U.S. involvement ‘in South | y EPG OCH, when he first: learned of possible: legal avenues : were
v,..Michael Cohen of Red»’ jus Ma , : . exhausted when attorneys, who
Pleasure at what they vonut, Balloon said the contusion oves ing the seme tebe paren flow Tosca wiereaye, whe
“ “whether or not the rugby game "8 lright. 7 Washington, D.C., were ref-—
ered ‘the narrow constitutional had been canceled resulted in | hing” oatd Belen pow ad aed & stay Gy dustics
interpretation” used by public Sd ares ee tage tee tates to a Marden.
' * far fewer
Officials in allow the game’ -
‘tobe played. mee ."Island-based group turning out cisions that had been made in __ Also in Washington Tuesday,
; i for the demonstration than was! ’ the House of Representatives
‘In the future,.I hope. their i, ERU's favor since Gov. Hugh 2 fouse of Rep
reading of the * Constitution Originally planned. That senti-/: Carey’s decision to ban he refused, in a narrow 200-198
» extends beyond the ‘First ment was also expressed by: game due to what he consid- vote, to « pass a resolution
it coalition leaders. as condemni the Springboks’ .
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Rugby played
September 23, 1981
WEDNESDAY
Albany, N.Y. 12212
without a hitch
Protesters
keep rally
untroubled
Albany's controversial Springbok rugby game was
played without incident in rain-soaked Bleecker
Stadium Tuesday night, three hours after a U.S.
SupFfeme Court justice turned aside a last-minute
effort by Gov, Hugh L. Carey to block it.
The South African team won handily, 41-0.
The game began in a driving rain at 6:55 p.m., with
the American team — in red shirts and white shorts
ad the field at the west, or Field House,
entrance. The South Africans, in green shirts and
white shorts, entered from Ontario Street.
About 200 city policemen — most on overtime —~
were on duty in the immediate vicinity of the stadiurn
during the game and the rally that preceded it, with
another 100 patrolling the rest of the city, according
to the police.:
There were five arrests, all on misdemeanor
weapons possession charges.
While the governor had agreed to provide State
Police crowd-contro! assistance if asked by Albany
Mayor Erastus Corning Ii, it was not requested.
Neither Carey nor Corning attended the game. The
mayor inspected the game site earlier in the evening
from the roof of the Central Towers building at 400
Central Ave.,then had dinner at Albany's Fort
Orange Club.
The game ended at 8:22 p.m., and the South
fricans were whisked from the stadium in waiting
“vans behind a police escort. They arrived minutes
later at the Thruway House motel on W
Avenue in Albany, where they have been staying
since their arrival Sunday night.
The security was tight as the South Africans were
whisked from the city stadium.
As the match ended, the heavy iron gates at the
east end of the field swung open and 12 helmeted
police officers hurried onto the sidewalks, one of
them carrying a shotgun.
The tear and its managers piled into two waiting
vans and two cars, and as the caravan sped away the
South Africans were taunted as they left by
demonstrators shouting, ‘Death to the Klan, scum of
the land.”
In a steady cold rainfall, anti-apartheid speakers
and a series of entertainers had begun their protest
about 7:05 p.m. in adjacent. Swinburne Park and
remained on hand, jeering spectators as they left the
stadium.
About 10 minutes before the game's end, organizer
Tom Selfridge of Scotia, thanked spectators for
attending and predicted ‘“‘more good rugby games”
for Albany.
A bit later, Clara Satterfield, president of the
Albany chapter of the NAACP, said the demonstra-
tion “helped to spread the cause to a lot of people who
either didn't know about (apartheid) or who forgot.”
See CONTROVERSIAL, Page 6
bd
This story was reported by staff writers Carol
DeMare, Fredric U. Dicker, David Brown, Cliff Lee,
Shirley Armstrong, Stuart Vincent, Nancy Connell,
Carol Poisky, Ronald Kermani, and Tom Friedman,
and was written by R.L. McManus Jr.
The rugby controversy
@ Some of the little tales behind the big
story. Page 6
@ Judge explains ruling to allow Spring
bok game. Page 7
@ How one rugby match caught the
attention of the world. Page 7
@ South African press reports Springboks
wanted to go home. Page 8
@ 2 journalists thrown out of stadium.
Page 8
@® The rugby game stands as a victory for
the American way. An editorial. Page 11
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Another match reported set within striking
By Carol DeMare
Staif Writer
The question Wednesday was where
will the South African Springboks play
their last scheduled game in this
country. planned for Saturday against
an all-star United States rugby team?
Mayor Erastus Corning I! said it won't
be in Albany
But even though the mayor, when
asked if the game would be played in
Albany, said, “No, I haven't had any
more requests whatsoevr, and I do not
anticipate any,” there was still specula-
tion within the press corps following the
tear that Albany was a good possibility
as a site And a South African newspa-
ae
par, Die Vaderland, reported Wednes-
.day the site would be within “driving
distance” of Albany.
Meanwhile, the 36-member Spring-
bok contingent checked out of the Best
Western Thruway House on Washing-
ton Avenue Wednesday and checked
into the Sheraton-Airport Inn on Wolf
Road in Colonie. The South Africans
had been staying at the Thruway House
since their arrival in Albany Sunday
night ;
The move was due to the fact that the
Thruway House was booked for the rest
of the week with a convention, and the
rooms occupied by the Springboks were
ters clash
needed, hotel manager Tom Ehmann
said.
Earlier in the day, rumors flew that
the team was packing to fly out of
Albany. Reporters stationed them-
selves in cars in the Thruway House
parking lot, ready to follow police-
escorted vans. The trip led, however,
not to the airport, but to the Sheraton
Inn.
The third game, to which all the
attention has now turned, is against the
Eagles, an all-star U.S. rugby tear.
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distance of Albany
Chicago, where & match also was
canceled, early in the morning — with
only determined reporters and ardent
rugby fans following. The game was
under way in Racine by the time
protestors in Chicago were supposed to
be boarding buses.
The Eastern Rugby Union covers 23
states from Louisiana to Maine. As one
put it, "Selfridge could give us
the word Friday that we're taking off
for New Jersty to play it there.
Meanwhile, Ehmann at the Thruway
Ne — eel
House said the publicity surrounding
the Bleecker Stadium rugby match
Tuesday night caused the hotel to
cancel a large reception.
About 400 fans and players would
have attended, Ehmann said. Instead
two private parties were held just for
American and the South African rugby
ayers and officials.
ge (the hotel management) orm bose
rugby committee got together
pos A it was in the best interest of the
public to cancel it,” Ehmann said.
LMAO AAAI
Originally, it had been scheduled for a
public facility in New York City. Mayor
Edward I. Koch canceled it, citing
security reasons.
Tom Selfridge, president of the East-
ern Rugby Union, which is hosting the
South African team, then considered
playing it in Rochester. But city offi-
cials there denied the use of municipal
facilities to the team.
It is very likely the match will be
played in secrecy as it was Saturday in
Racine, Wis. The team slipped out of
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_ According to the judge, the report to the
governor by State Police Superintendent William
Connelie warning of possible violence did not
provide “a sufficient factual basis” for canceling
the match. “The factual evidence supposed] y
substantiating the governor’s determination is
Albany, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 24, 1981 13
EDITORIALS:
“se eee eweee
Rugby match
legacy
- More than 1,200 demonstrated against the -
rugby match at Bleecker Stadium Tuesday and. |
not a single instance of violence was reported. In»
view of the issue involved — apartheid —- and the
strength of the protestors’ convictions, their
mature and dignified behavior is to be lauded.
The demonstration here was a marked contrast
to the riots that accompanied protests of the
Springboks’ games recently in New Zealand.
So, too, is the behavior of the police forces to be’
praised. The 300 or so Albany police officers and.
the 40 Albany County sheriff's deputies struck a
judicious balance between a show of strength
and professional restraint.
The role of Gov. Hugh Carey in this matter,
however, is troubling. A week ago he announced
that the game should be called off, in part,
because of what he said was the “imminent
danger of riot and breach of peace."’ But
reporting conducted by this newspaper and the
ruling of Judge Howard Munson strongly suggest
that there was very little reason to believe that
violence was likely to accompany the rugby
game, much less that a riot was imminent.
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woefully inadequate,’ he said.
The report, which was given to the
last week, stated that State Police intelligence
had uncovered the possibility that professional
agitators would infiltrate the crowd and that a
riot could occur. The State Police also suggested
that the KKK and members of the Communist
Workers Party would likely demonstrate.
But calls to the leader of the Klan group
Suggest that not only did the Klan have no plans
to come to Albany, they had not even heard of the
game. The entire report seems to have been wide
of the mark.
Mr. Connelie, continuing to stand by his report,
contends the number of protestors was smaller
than expected, not because the intelligence
report was wrong, but because bad weather,
doubts as to whether the game would be played
and the bomb explosion in Schenectady kept
many away.
This claim may have some merit. But the fact
remains that Judge Munson judged the report
insufficient grounds for canceling the game —
and he made that determination before the game
was played. .
It seems to us that either Mr. Carey relied ona _
defective intelligence report, or that the sub-
stance of his intelligence report was shaped to
provide justification for calling off the game.
in either event the citizens of New York have
reason to feel less secure. Less secure in their
salety if the intelligence force performed at its
best, less secure in their constitutional rights if
the substance of the report was “made to order.”
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are in the remodeling busi-
ness, decided to remove
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Police: Threat
not overstated _
By Fredric U. Dicker
and Cliff Lee
Ratt Writers
State Police Superintendent Wil-
liam G. Connelie Wednesday strong-
ly defended his department's report
that warned Tuesday's peaceful
protest at the Springboks rugby
maich in Albany could have led to a
violent confrontation between the
Ku Klux Klan and members of the
Communist Workers Party.
“That was the information that
was available to us at the time. |
don't believe we overstated the
danger, not at all. There were many
possible threats, there's no question
about it,"’ Connelie said.
Connelie’s report, which has not
been made public, formed the basis
_ State Police chief def
Continued from Page 1
appeals court decision that upheld a federal
court ruling that Carey had no constitutional right to
stop the game. Federal Court Judge Howard G.
Munson, who ruled against Carey, had questioned the
adequacy of Connelie's information in a ruling
Tuesday.
Munson, who read the report in chambers, said,
“The factual evidence supposely substantiating the
governor's determination is woefully inadequate."
No Klan members showed up at the protest, which
was peaceful and attracted fewer than 1,500 demon-
strators, although the State Police report used by
Carey had said as many as 10,000 or more were
expected.
But Connelie said he had “‘no regrets’ about the
report, contending it contained the best information
available to State Police at the time it was prepared.
Connelie said three ‘variables’ that developed
after the report was prepared may have contributed
to the peace at the Tuesday night match.
He said those were the cold, rainy weather, which
held down the size of the crowd; uncertainly over
whether the game would take place because of down-
to-the-wire legal battles, and the Tuesday morning
bombing at the Schenectady headquarters of the
Eastern Rugby Union.
The bombing, which caused $50,000 damage to
nearby offices, may have kept some protesters away
from the event, Connelie said.
“Things went off very well at the game. There is no
question about it,”’ he conceded.
The rugby
controversy
for Gov. Hugh L. Carey's contention
that the match posed “an imminent r
danger of riot and breach of the
peace” and led to his unsuccessful
effort to have the game halted.
* The game went on at the city’s
Bleecker Stadium just hours after
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thur-
good Marshall — the justice as-
signed to this area of the country to
hear appeals when a decision is
needed fast ~- denied a last-minute
request for a review of a federal
See STATE POLICE, Page 9
Connelie said State Police “were ready” to provide
assistance to Albany city police if such aid was
requested.
“We could have had a couple of hundred (troopers)
there within an hour," he said.
Asked if he planned to change State Police
intelligence techniques in an effort to obtain more
accurate information in the future, Connelie respond-
ed, “No, I don’t think so.”
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ends warninc
Albany police — who Carey said supplied some of .
the information used in the State Police report —
credited protest organizers, the steady rainfall, and
themselves Wednesday for the peaceful nature of the
demonstration.
Police officials could give no estimate of the cost
for the security on hand.
Department Capt. John Dale said
police officials were still figuring out Wednesday how
much the game cost the city in terms of
overtime for police officers.
Dale said about 300 officers were on duty
throughout the day Tuesday to provide security both
inside and outside the stadium and a manpower cost
probably would not be available until “Friday”
because some officers were working a normal shift,
while others were extended shifts and still others
were called in on their day off.
Albany County Sheriff George Infante also said he
had not figured out how much it cost to have a detail
of men from his department assisting Albany Police
because some deputies were on regular duty, while
others were working on overtime.
Infante added that he has not determined whether
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the city or the county will ultimately pay the bill for
his assistance.
Besides the city police, about 50 Albany County
sheriff's deputies and a handful of state troopers
were responsible for preventing violent disruptions at
the city-owned stadium during the game.
Dale said uniformed officers were supplemented
by plainclothes detectives, who he said mingled with
the demonstrators in an attempt to spot ‘'trouble-
makers'' before any violence broke out.
During the event, five persons were arrested by
Albany police, one of them a spectator inside the
stadium, on minor charges mostly related to
possession of knives, clubs or other weapons.
The only tense moment for police came at about
7:30 p.m. when a splinter group of about 150
demonstrators broke away from the main body in
Swinburne Park and started to make their way
toward the west gate of Bleecker Stadium.
A detail of about 20 Albany police officers quickly
threw up a human barricade between the protesters
and the gate.
As the enthusiasm of the demonstrators grew,
police.
Reinforcements were quickly brought up from the
traffic division headquarters about a block away on
Central Avenue, and the barricade of officers doubled
and then tripled.
One. officer nervously slapped his mightstick
against the back of his legs as the demonstrators
chanted anit-rugby slogans and taunted the officers.
Dale said the rainy, cold weather was a major
factor in the lack of violence during the demonstra-
tion by keeping the number of protesters far below
the 6,000 to 10,000 that had been predicted by several
sources, most notable City Councilman Nebraska
Brace and the State Police report.
Few protest organizers had predicted a turnout of
more than 4,000.
Dale also said leaders of the demonstration were
instrumental in preventing violence.
“Whenever it appeared things were get ing a little
tense,” Dale said, “the leaders stepped in and
calmed things down."
Dale said the ‘‘on again, off again’’ status of the
game during the previous few days may also have |
contributed to keeping the number of de
below. :
The arrest Monday of four persons connected with |
the demonstration on charges ranging from criminal —
of a weapon to unlawful possession of
marijuana, Dale added, may also have discouraged
violence and demonstrated to the protesters that
not hesitate to ma
“They (officers) took a lot of abuse from them
(demonstrators), Dale said, “but they remained
caim throughout it ali and conducted themselves in a
professional manner.”
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Corning savors outcome
By Nancy Connett/* A 4/; I/
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He was vindicated by the US.
Supreme Court and by events, but
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 1!
took a low-key tone Wednesday
about the outcome of Tuesday's
controversial rugby match between
teams from South Africa and the
Eastern Rugby Union.
“There is just one word —
thanks,"’ Corning said when asked
his reaction to the police effort
Tuesday night.
Although about 1,200 protesters
were demonstrated against South
Africa's apartheid policy of racial
Separation, no serious incidents
marred the game, held in the city-
owned Bleecker Stadium.
“That also goes for the protesters,
the marshals," Corning continued
“They were all trained, and they
were all briefed. It was a team
effort.” cae:
In rapid succession, three federal
courts, including the United States
Supreme Court, came over to the
mayor's side, upholding his argu-
ment that the First Amendment of
the U.S. Constitution protected the
South African Springboks’ right to
play.
The decisions were a defeat for
Gov. Hugh L. Carey, who, citing a
State Police report, tried to stop the
match because of what he said were
predictions ef violent demonstra-
tions and an “imminent” danger to
public safety.
See MAYOR, Page 10
More stories on the rugby con-
Pages, 6-8
IES
KN eceee Thursday. September 24. 1961 6A
By SUSAN SCHULMAN
Knickerbocker News Reporter
If the Springboks play their planned
third match in the United States,
chances are few people outside the
rugby community will know when or
where it is held
Determined to avoid a repetition of
the peaceful demonstration Tuesday
aight at Swinburne Park when the
South African team played at Albany's
Bleecker Stadium, rugby union officials
. Sponsoring the Springbok tour are
; attempting to prevent disclosure of the
* team’s upcoming agenda
+ Alhough protesters stayed away from
; the South African players Wednesday,
3 a meeting of rugby officials and state
* police held in Loudonville late Wednes-
+ day ended with a decision for all
involved to keep tight-lipped about the
final gare of the Springboks’ American
tour scheduled for Saturday.
The game, originally scheduled for
' New York City, was moved to Roches-
ter after Mayor Edward Koch revoked
permission for the South Africans to
play at a municipal stadium. But as in
New York City, Rochester officials
canceled the game because of threat-
ened demonstrations.
The peaceful demonstration that at-
tracted about 1,300 people to Swinburne
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Park Tuesday night was the largest
protest the Springboks have met since
arriving in the United States for a
three-game tour.
The Springboks, meanwhile, checked
out of the Best Western Thruway House
in Albany on Wednesday and into the
Sheraton-Airport Inn, Colonie.
Management at the Best Western
said the team was asked to leave
because rooms were needed for a
motel. At the Sheraton, management
convention previously booked at phe
would not disclose for how many days |
After returning to the Sheraton,
team members, most clad in jeans
T-shirts, ate dinner in the inn's di
room before some went into the
ton’s bar, where they drank beer
flirted with young women.
planned to go to the Love Nest
the Turf Inn.
match would mirror those when
Springboks played the first game
their American tour in Racine,
Saturday, The team was quietly sli
out of a Chicago hotel and taken to
Wisconsin site. With the cloak-
dagger secrecy, few protesters w
aware the game had been played.
Thomas Selfridge, president of
Eastern Rugby Union, which spon
the Springboks’ Albany game, said
South African team intended to pla
third game against the Eagles
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Richard Lapchick, of the New York
City-based organization that sponsored
Tuesday night's demonstration at
Bleecker Stadium, said Wednesday
that he had no information on where the
game scheduled for Saturday would be
played
Lapchick said people within the
rugby organization who have supplied
his organization with information on
the Springbok tour have been unable to
. learn where the game will be played.
Lapchick and others involved in the
anti-apartheid movement are speculat-
Wherever the game is played, Lap-
chick's group — Stop the Apartheid
Rugby Tour Coalition — has said it is
determined to protest the match But
Lapchick said the farther the match is
from New York City, the smaller the
protest is likely to be.
Speculation that the game will be
held at Bleecker Stadium was all but
washed by rugby union officials
ednesday who said the ERU didn't
fequest use of the Albany stadiurn for
jaturday’s game.
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Lapchick
he'd like to know
While Selfridge is giving no hints on
where the game will be played, he
Previously has said the team was
offered the Meadowlands Arena in New
Jersey and Kennedy Stadium in Wash-
ington, D.C.
Selfridge had also hinted he consid-
ered having the match played at a
municipal stadium in New York City
that is leased to a private firm.
Also mentioned was a site in Geneva,
goby game
~“ ‘| which the Springboks were offered
when the ERU was told earlier this
month the South Africans could not play
at a stadium in Rochester.
Albany police had 300 officers at
Tuesday night’s game, and the county
Sheriff's Department had an estimated
40 officers. Overtime costs were not
available Wednesday
Tuesday's game, in which the Spring-
boks defeated an all-star ERU squad,
41-0, was played only hours after
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Mar-
Shall refused a last-minute request
from Gov. Hugh L. Carey to bar the
match.
Carey last week cited “‘an imminent
threat of riot" in seeking to ban the
game. He said a state police report had
convinced him that violence might
occur,
However, U.S. District Judge How-
ard Munson, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court
of Appeals and Marshall overturned the
ban
“It was a credit to all the people,"
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning II said
Wednesday. Corning has maintained
the Springboks had a constitutional
right to play in Albany.
“I think the whole thing was an_
expression of Americanism at its best," |
Corning said.
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Rugby renews - of aciuvism among area clergy
By DAVID SYLVESTER
Knickerbocker News Reporter
The Capital District religious com-
munity fae rallied more strongly to the
anti-apartheid protest at the South
African Springboks game than to any
other issue since the civil rights and
Vietnam War eras, some religious
leaders say.
Pastors from a wide variety of
denominations in the Capital District
marched from the Capitol to Bleecker
Stadium during Tuesday's protest.
Some groups, such as the Peace and
Justice Commission of the Albany
Roman Catholic Diocese and the down
tov" Albany FOCUS churches, carned
the ir own banners.
The area clergy's opposition was
exp: “essed early in the summer, when
several leaders appealed directly to
Albaity Mayor Erastus Corning I to
revok.e permission for the game to be
played in a city-owned facility. Six
clergymen attempted to meet the
Springboks on Tuesday to appeal di-
rectly to their consciences.
“The future will tell if it is a return to
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activism,” said the Rev Alan Delamater,
pastor of the Calvary United Methodist
Church, Albany. He said he would pursue
the issue of apartheid in an adult forum
after this Sunday's service.
The Rev. Ernest Boston, pastor of the
Israel African Methodist Episcopal
Church in Albany, said he understood from
other pastors the unity shown in the
protest represented a “tremendous step
forward” for Albany. He participated in
the protest march as the representative of
the AME bishop.
“Our church was founded on a philoso-
phy of civil rights,’ he said The AME
church broke away from the Methodists in
1787 over the inhuman treatment of blacks
by white Methodists, he said
Other religious leaders pointed out
activism has been increasing over the past
year in the face of Reagan administration
policies toward the Third World and social
programs in the nation
The Rev. Brenda Biggs, associate pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church in
waged pe lela omg, Haan
aiths was at her church in March to of
Kitminadiansaa.
“| think activism has always been a part
of the religious community,"
Eliwood Carey, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church in Johnstown, Fulton Coun-
Albany,
ty. He said he had come to the protest out
of his personal beliefs, not as a pastor of
his church.
the issue.
said the Rev. James Campbel
in addition to religious concerns, the
Rev. Biggs said FOCUS churches became
involved also when one black mernber of
the Westminster Presbyterian Church
specifically mentioned the importance of
She added she was ‘“‘very disturbed" at
the lack of emphasis in the news media on
the issue of apartheid and the overemphas-
is on the fear of vidlence at the protest.
Apartheid has been an issue close to the
concerns of several pe pie District
churches. “At the heart
understanding of the unity of the human
family, that we are all en equal in the
image of God," said Sister Barbera
DiTommaso, a member of the Peace and
Justice Commission.
Apartheid is particularly ‘contrary to
the spirit of true religion,”’ she added;
saying the controversial game may be a
“blessing in disguise’’ because of the
opportunity to educate people about the
racial segregation in apartheid.
“It’s an ethical concern, the freedom
Joyce Giles, director of the Capital Area
Council of Churches.
United Nations Week in October to protest
the recent U.S votes in support of South
Africa in the UN,
U.N. condemnation of the South African
invasion of Angola
Other churches are planning to pursue
the issue of South African apartheid in
sermons and discussion groups.
such as the veto of a
Donald Pangburn, director of the United
religion is an
Urban Ministry in Troy, said he believes
the anti-apartheid protest is getting
through to South Africans. “It gives thern
pause that from a Christian perspective, it
(apartheid) is anathema," he said.
He said his church, the Reformed
Church of America, is particularly con-
cerned about the issue because it comes
from a common Dutch heritage with the
Reformed Church of South Africa. Howev-
er, the Reformed Church of America has
broken all ties with South African church
South Africa.
" added the Rev.
‘ in Albany “reall
1, chairman of the coun- ic
cil’s international affairs committee, said
the council is planning a forum during
and established ties with black churches in
The Rev. Bruce Gray, rector of St.
Andrew's Episcopal Church in Albany,
said he — many church leaders saw
Also, he sald he attended to help keep the
protest peaceful.
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Springboks keep ’em guessing on gamé,",
By BRUCE SCRUTON
and SUSAN SCHULMAN
Knickerbocker News Reporters
With the optimism all balliplayers have before a
big game, Robert Watkins says he thinks his team
will do well.
It doesn't matter that it will face the team reputed
to be the best in the world at the sport in a match
that will be played in the midst of publicity and
controversy.
Watkins will lead the U.S. Eagles, an all-star
Scented —
team representing the United States Rugby
ciation, onto an unidentified field otra to ae
the final American-tour match against the Spring-
boks of South Africa.
He doesn't know — or at least won't say — where
the field will be. And he says he doesn’t really care.
Secrecy surrounding the game was heightened
Thursday when Eastern Rugby Union President
Thomas Selfridge said the site of the match would
not be made public. .
“The game is not a secret game, it's a private
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game,"’ Selfridge said.
Selfridge said the United States Union —
which is hosting the third game and of which
Selfridge is a director — decided to keep the game
private.
He said the match would be held within three
hours’ driving distance of the Capital District, but
not at Albany's Bleecker Stadium. |
He predicted, however, that if the game were held
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Selfridge said no tickets would be sold
“for Saturday's game
and that it had not
been decided if media would be invited to
the match.
Other rugby officials, who have asked
not to be identified. have said the Ameri-
can rugby unions are determined to avoid
any confrontation with protesters Satur-
day.
The peaceful demonstration that attract-
ed over 1,000 persons to Swinburne Park
when the Springboks played at adjacent
Bleecker Stadium Tuesday was the largest
protest the South African team has faced
since its American tour began.
Leaders of the anti-apartheid move-
ment, who view the Springboks as unoffi-
cial ambassadors of the racist South
African government, repeated Thursday
they are attempting to determine the site
of Saturday's game, as well as when the
team will be leaving for its return flight to
South Africa.
Richard Lapchick, co-founder of the
Stop the Apartheid
Rugby Tour coalition, said he wanted
protesters at the game and at the airport.
For security reasons, Selfridge said, the
Springboks’ travel plans will also not be
disclosed. He would not say when the
Springboks, who are staying at the Shera-
ton-Airport Inn, Wolf Road, Colonie, will
leave the Capital District.
The South African rugby players prac-
. ticed Thursday morning at Lincoln Park,
‘then went shopping at Mohawk Mall.
The secrecy surrounding Saturday's
game mirrors that of last Saturday, when
‘+. the Springboks were taken quietly from a
Chicago motel to a field in Racine, Wis.,
for the first game of their American tour.
By the time anti-apartheid protesters
found out about the match, it was finished.
The Eastern Rugby Union's third game
was first scheduled for New York City, and
then in Rochester. In both cases, the game
was canceled by city officials after protes-
ters threatened huge demonstrations
against the game.
Selfridge said plans for the third game
have been in place for four weeks. He said
several facilities have been offered to the
rugby union, but most are inappropriate
for various reasons.
He said the Meadowlands stadium in
New Jersey has the wrong surface for
rugby. He said it would cost $20,000-$30,000
to play at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in
Washington, D.C., but when asked the rent
for the facility being used for Saturday's
gare, he responded the question was “‘not
pertinent.”
Selfridge said the ERU is almost break-
Meanwhile, it is being reported today
that the South African Rugby Board is
helping to pay for the trouble-plagued
Springboks tour.
In a story for today editions, The Boston
Globe said $50,000 from the rugby board,
which administers the sport in South
Africa, was transferred to the tour's
American sponsor, the Eastern Rugby
Union.
Earlier, The Globe said, a gift of $25,000
was given to the sponsors by a South
African businessman who reportedly has
close ties to the South African government.
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Selfridge confirmed the $50,000 transfer,
The Giobe reported, but he said it was a
routine way to defray costs of the team's
tour.
Regarding published reports that some
players within the ERU ranks were
unhappy with Selfridge bringing the
Springboks to the United States, the ERU
president said he didn't know of any
organization in which leadership was
endorsed 100 percent by its members
Selfridge said he was interested in
improving the level of rugby in the United
States, while others were more interested
in the social aspects of the game.
“There is room in the sport for both of
them,"’ Selfridge said.
Selfridge said he offered himself as an
ERU presidential candidate in an uncon
tested officers election last December. His
term expires this December and he would
not say if he planned to seek a second
term.
Thursday at the Ramada Inn in Guilder-
land, where the U.S. team is staying. that
the important thing was the game and
friendships created on the playing field
and cemented at the socializing that
follows each rugby match.
He said some of the Eagles would be
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EDITORIALS:
Rugby match
legacy
More than 1,200 demonstrated against the -
rugby match at Bleecker Stadium Tuesday and.
not a single instance of violence was reported. In -
view of the issue involved — apartheid — and the
Strength of the protestors’ convictions, their
mature and dignified behavior is to be lauded.
The demonstration here was a marked contrast
to the riots that accompanied protests of the
Springboks’ games recently in New Zealand.
So, too, is the behavior of the police forces to be’
praised. The 300 or so Albany police officers and
the 40 Albany County sheriff's deputies struck a
judicious balance between a show of strength
and professional restraint.
The role of Gov. Hugh Carey in this matter,
however, is troubling. A week ago he announced
that the game should be called off, in part,
because of what he said was the “imminent
danger of riot and breach of peace."’ But
reporting conducted by this newspaper and the
ruling of Judge Howard Munson strongly suggest
that there was very little reason to believe that
violence was likely to accompany the rugby
game, much less that a riot was imminent.
e According to the judge, the to the
governor by State Police rietendent Williae
did not
Connelie warning of possible violence
provide ‘‘a sufficient factual basis" for canceling
the match. “The factual evidence supposedly
substantiating the governor's determination is
woefully inadequate,” he said.
The report, which was given to the governor:
last week, stated that State Police intelligence
had uncovered the possibility that professional
agitators would infiltrate the crowd and that a
riot could occur. The State Police also Suggested
that the KKK and members of the Communist
Workers Party would likely demonstrate.
But calls to the leader of the Klan group
Suggest that not only did the Klan have no plans
to come to Albany, they had not even heard of the
game. The entire report seems to have been wide
of the mark.
Mr. Connelie, Continuing to stand by his re rt,
contends the number of protestors was seater
than expected, not because the intelligence
report was wrong, but because bad weather,
doubts as to whether the game would be played
and the bomb explosion in Schenectady kept
many away.
This claim may have some merit. But the fact
remains that Judge Munson judged the report
insufficient grounds for canceling the game —
and he made that determination before the game
was played.
stance of his intelligence report was shaped to
provide justification for calling off the game:
In either event the citizens of New York have
reason to feel less secure. Less secure in their
safety if the intelligence force performed at its
best; less secure in their constitutional rights if
the substance of the report was “made to order.”’
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By PHIL BLANCHARD
Gazette Reporter
ALBANY ~~ The South Afri-
can rugby team, ending their
controversial American tour,
will go back underground to
lay a final exhibition after
y's heavily- ap-
pearance at er Stadium.
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The final game of the -
boks" three. Fs US. or a }
be aoe turday afternoon
wi a three-hour drive from
Albany, Eastern R by Union
Thomas Selfridge said
y.
The location of the me, to
be played against the U.S.
Eagles all-star team organized
US. Rugby Union, will be
wy kept secret, said Self . At-
, tendance will be by invitation
only, he said, and those deemed
worthy of an invitation will be
notified of the game's location
by rugby officia
us, the arrangements for
Saturday's game
to those for
‘ei
lie facilities,
& location was t but there
were few available on auch
short notice
Of those, he said, Washington
D.C,'s RFK Stadium would have
cost a prohibitive $20,000 to
30,000 and Giants Stadium in
ast Rutherford, N.J. is
yg with artificial turf, on
which rugby cannot be played.
A num of persons called
Selfridge after Tuesday's
Bleecker Stadium game, he
said, offering sites in and out of
New York state for Saturday's
game.
Members of the Springboks
continued to stay in iso tion,
unavailable to would-be inter.
viewers who have been trying to
talk to them since their arrival
in Albany Sunda . Selfridge said
it was the deci of the team
manager, Johann Claasen, not
to allow press access to the
team because there could be no
assurance that politics would
not be the subject of some re-
porters’ questions.
Such isolation is not uncom-
mon in ts circles, Selfridge
claimed. He used the example of
teams participating in major
sports han like the Super
w! prohibiting press contact
at certain times “to allow the
athletes to concentrate.”
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Selfridge praised the efforts
of city, county and state police
in keeping order at Tuesday
night's game.
He added, “I would also like
to thank Governor Carey for
iding us with the opportuni-
ie py ke the way to the Su-
bgp Court to gor our
hat sports and politics don’t
mix.” Carey's attempt to ban
the Bleecker Stadium game was
overturned in federal court, and
on appeal by Supreme Coert
Justice Thurgood Marehail
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Spearman. He also told him to
80 back to Kansas while the
charges are pending against
him.
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and said that by any means
available to them (the protes-
ters) would stop the rugby
game,” Donnelly told Harris,
and was apprehended with a
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firecrackers and marijuana.
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Stay out of Albany County, or
any county where the Spring.
beke might stay, while the
cases are ng.
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have a right to be here because
were issued visas. “I'm not
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added. “Peaceful protestors
don't bring guns.
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saying you guns.”
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Estis. facing the same
charges as Michaelson, re-
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being indicted on charges of third-degree criminal South African team was staying. Police said they
to sng oer binges chepetcigs Joon a th found a gun under the seat of the car he was driving
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) Michael R. Young, 28, of Brooklyn, and John H. Act Albany. Police said they found among
; Jr., 31, ; 4 indict Young's possessions a speedloader used to rapidly
P Friday by an Albany County grand jury. reload a weapon of the type allegediy found in the
Albany County District Attorney Sol Greenberg car driven by iSpearman.
said the police investigation is continuing and the The pair faces a maximum of 2% to seven years in
pair may face additional charges outside Albany
. State prison if they are convicted of the class D
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The Capital District Coalition Against
Apartheid has called for a Congression-
al investigation
to determine if Eastern
ment in requesting and assisting the
Springbok | rugby team to tour this
country.
bring a large team like the
© this country from New
Zealand (where the team last played
Defore coming to the U.S.) would cost in
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during a press conference Friday.
“The question is where is this money
coming from?" Pogue said. “There is a
need for a Congressional investigation
reports that he acknowledged receipt of
$50,000 from the South African Rugby
rubble in Evansville. Ind.. to
ine whether a bomb blast that
devastated the headquarters of the All-
amateur rugby team Friday
morning was in any way connected with
blast Tuesday that Caused
$50,000 in damages to the building
housing the Rugby Union in
Schenectady.
The Indiana team had been seeking a
match with the Springboks.
State Police, an FB] Spokesman and
a Spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol
* _%0 and Firearms said there were
tw developments in the Schenecta-
dyablast.
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There were no injuries reported iy;
either blast
The Springboks’ tour has caused a
controversy among various groups op-
posed to the South African policy of
apartheid — enforced Segregation by
law —~ and demonstrators have at-
tempted to protest where ever the team
has playeu.
The Boston Globe reported Friday
that Selfridge said he had received a
previously undisclosed $50,000 from the
board to underwrite the Springboks’
expenses. The newspaper reported Sel-'
fridge said it was a routine way to
defray costs of the tour. ~:
The South African Rugby Board
administers rugby in South Africa, -
where the game is the national sport.
Selfridge was quoted as saying the
board was “private” but an unnamed.
American Rugby official was quoted in.
the store as saying the rugby board and.
the South African government are
“fairly synonymous.”
A spokeswoman for the U S Justice. :
Department said Friday Selfridge is .
not registered as an agent for any
foreign government.
Pogue said the local group would —
petition the House Subcommittee on
Africa to conduct the investigation.
But Stephen Weissman, a subcom-
mittee spokesman, said }'riday that the
Ccommuttee would probably not consider —_,
the request unless the coalition pro-
vides some evidence that Selfridge has
acted on behalf of South Africa.
“I'm sure the committee would take
the information,”’ he said. “But it would
have to be more than has been in the
press so far because there is no
evidence so far as I've seen, that he is
an unregistered agent."
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we.
Weissman, who requested that his
name not be published, said he had not
seen any proof that Selfridge had .
accepted the $50,000 from the South
African Rugby Board.
Officials of the Eastern Rugby Un-:
ion's parent group, the United State of.
America Rugby Football Union can-.
firmed that Selfridge received the .
$50,000, but said they hoped the rhaney
would be repaid. ‘~
“Our intention is that it be a loan and.
paid back at a future date,’ said the
national group's treasurer, Dennis L.
Shanagher 4
Bill Haffner, Eastern Rugby Unian-
treasurer who manages the union's
$32,350 annual budget, said he had not
been nofified of the $50,000 gift accepted
by Selfridge.
When asked why Haffner knew noth.
ing of the donation, Selfridge said, “P'm
in charge of that,’ and added there was
mo reason for Haffner to know of the
money.
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