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A Cos AnrjeUs (Rraes View PART IV SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1978 1 -ik If is to wtm Match Point for L. A. Tennis Club, Black Applicant Qty Attorney Considers Discrimination Suit BY BARRY SIEGEL Ttims Stiff Wrnw The Los Angeles Tennis Club, built in 1920 on a acre site at what is now Clinton Ave. and Cahuenga, often has been the scene of top international matches. Everyone from Bill Tilden and Jack Kramer to Pancho Gonzales, Ken Rosewall, Arthur Ashe and Jimmy Connors has played there.

Movie stars such as Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Gary Cooper have come to watch. Society writers call it the "grande dame" of local tennis clubs. But the Los Angeles Tennis Club also has come to be seen, by outsiders as well as some of its members, as a club that discriminates in its membership policies against blacks. Although Arthur Ashe holds an honorary membership and a young black tennis player holds a junior member 'I didn't ask if there were black members. Frankly, I didn't think there would be a 1 4 ft X-: A I if "1 mi.

iniirp8 JACK SMITH A New 'Greatest of All Time' Americans love lists the 10 best, the 10 worst and so on and now an astronomer and amateur historian named Michael Hart has given us something to chew on all winter with his own list of the 100 most influential people who ever lived. This list, along with Hart's explanation of his choices, is published in "The 100" (Hart), a book that runs to 572 pages and costs $12.50. The reader is invited to challenge Hart's selections, and as Newsweek magazine notes, "It's a game anyone can play, and at one time or another, almost everyone does." I haven't read the book, but the list is published in Newsweek, and I see no reason why I have to read Hart's arguments to quarrel with them. He probably won't read mine either. Of course the list will outrage almost everyone.

At the outset, for example, Hart twists the noses of 228,000,000 Christians by naming the prophet Muhammad the most influential person of all time. Jesus Christ is only third, behind Isaac Newton. In ranking Jesus below Muhammad the author explains that the Savior is obliged to share credit for Christianity with the Apostle Paul I suppose there are many Americans who, at first glance, will think No. 1 is Muhammad Ali, the contemporary prizefighter and minor prophet, who is nowhere on the list. Despite his follies, Muhammad Ali is perhaps the most widely known person of our times, and has not only entertained and awed but also inspired millions of us.

Who can say that, in the long run, he may not have been more influential than, for example, St Augustine (53)? SERGEANT Mike Adams is 19th-centu- SCHOOLMARM Helen Goodale teaches ry cavalryman in the Yosemite museum. with stone slates and McGuffey readers. PIONEER LIVING HISTORY CENTER The Way It Was, in Yosemite BY MARK JONES Timet Staff Writer ship, there are no blacks among LATC's 300 equity members. Unhappiness over this situation has in the past year led some LATC members to launch a campaign to change the club's admission policies. In addition, the Los Angeles city attorney's office told The Times last week that it is "considering" the possibility of filing a civil action against the club over its membership policies.

This concern within the city attorney's office and among some club members was particularly aroused last summer when the club's board of directors turned down for membership Stan Sanders, a local black attorney who heads his own law firm specializing in corporate and international law. Sanders, 35, a former football star at Jordan High and Whittier College, is a Rhodes scholar, graduate of Yale law school and cofounder of the Watts Summer Festival. His rejection triggered an internal brouhaha of some intensity among LATC club members. Letters and petitions were circulated by both sides. At least one member Walter Ralphs, retired head of the Ralphs grocery store chain says he quit the Los Angeles Tennis Club two months ago partially because Sanders was rejected.

Dissatisfaction over the Sanders incident also caused some LATC members to contact City Atty. Burt Pines last the men and women who settled in Yosemite National Park at the end of the 19th century. The Pioneer Center, started and administered by the National Park Service, hasn't escaped criticism. It took its share of lumps when it began in the early 1960s. It was then that Yosemite's then-chief ranger, Douglas Hubbard, was venturing into what many of his rangers had come to call "Doug's Berry Farm." His plan called for rounding up a handful of vintage log cabins from Yosemite's high country, fixing them up and establishing a pioneer settlement for tourists' enjoyment "Among some," said Hubbard's successor, Leonard McKenzie, "the feeling was that it was inappropriate to create an artificial settlement in a park so devoted to its natural wonders.

Besides that, the cabins would lose much of their historical integrity by being taken from their original site and refurbished." McKenzie said recently, however, that what criticism might have been harbored against the settlement seems to have vanished. "We don't get any static about it nowadays," he said. "Besides, I think the Pioneer Center does a good job teaching kids about American history and gives visitors a good overview of Yosemite's development" Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 1 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK-A burly Jeremiah Johnson character with boots and a scruffy beard sat whittling inside his log cabin the other day, talking with a young man in checkered Bermudas and blue jogging shoes. The topic was grizzly bears "grizz," as mountain men called them.

"Oh, yeah, I know about grizzlies," boasted the guy in checkered shorts. "I just finished reading about the new 'Grizzly Adams' show in TV Guide." 'TV the mountain man said, putting aside his whittling. "What's a TV Guide? What's a a The collision between the 19th and 20th centuries happens routinely at Yosemite's Pioneer Living History Center museum in the middle of a forest that attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year from around the world. The Pioneer Center combines a little theater with a lot of history, during the summer months. Park rangers and volunteers portray many of the original characters who inhabited this section of the Sierra high country between 1870 and 1912.

Its premise is "living its purpose is to breathe life into the past, to allow visitors (approximately a thousand a day an intimate look at x.d. 7 Tx'l iv1 7 I may buy the book just to find out why Hart ranks Sig-mund Freud (32) three places ahead of Adolf Hitler. Freud did nothing but get us all to worrying about our ids and our egos, and provide a prototype for the comic psychiatrist of the movies. Freud's influence is hard to measure, and Hart himself admits, according to Newsweek, that he couldn't decide whether psychoanalysis would go down in history as a major discovery or just another fad of our century. Hitler's accomplishments on the other hand, are e.g., tens of millions dead; they can not be denied nor can history wash them out Hart lists no living persons, but John F.

Kennedy (80) makes the list for the sole reason that he started the program to put a man on the moon. Strangely, Abraham Lincoln is left out on the ground that emancipation of the slaves would have come without him. By that logic Hart might also have excluded Christopher Columbus (9) because if he hadn't discovered America some other sailor would have, and the Wright brothers (30, an entry) because if their airplane hadn't flown someone else's would have, and Francis Bacon (78) because if he hadn't written Shakespeare's plays someone else would have. Shakespeare, by the way, is ranked only 36th, and is one of only half a dozen titans of the arts, Hart believing that "in general, literary and artistic figures have had comparatively little influence on human history." I am also surprised to find Michelangelo (49) ahead of Johann Sebastian Bach (74) by 25 places; without Bach, of course, there would have been no Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no rock. By listing only two women Queen Isabella (68) and Elizabeth I (95) Hart may annoy feminists, but at least he bears out the obvious thesis that women have been systematically excluded from stations of influence outside kitchen, nursery and boudoir for 7,000 years, overlooking a few queens.

Newsweek says Hart "goes out on a limb" by listing Gregory Pincus (81), a principal in the development of the oral contraceptive, pointing out that the Pill may eventually be superseded. No doubt it will be, but it has already so expanded the freedom of women that life between the sexes will never be the same. On my list Pincus stays. But somehow the list seems ominous to me. Karl Marx and Lenin rank above Moses.

Perhaps because Moses must share credit for the Ten Commandments with God? Though Gandhi is missing, the handful of scientists whose labors brought forth the atom bomb are not I have the feeling that the most influential human being of all time may be at work at this very moment, puttering away in some laboratory on a grant, perfecting a chemical compund that will silently, peacefully, wipe us from the earth and end our turbulent story once and for all But I prefer to believe that somewhere there are three girl children, perhaps only in kindergarten or still in their mother's wombs, who are destined to become President of North America, First Secretary of the Communist Party, United States of Europe, and Empress of Greater Asia, and who will quench our angers, heal our wounds, fill our cups and bring us together in a sweet matriarchy that will last a thousand years. Then back to Genghis Khan (21), if that chemist doesn't get us first. irk I jj if i Ami iJrPr STAN SANDERS "The way they handled it was tacky." Times photo by George Rose fall and ask that he look into the club's membership policies. As a result, Pines' office last November called LATC officials to an informal hearing and assigned a deputy city attorney to research the question of whether there was a basis to file a lawsuit The deputy city attorney, The Times has learned, reported that there were possible grounds for civil prosecution. Those who think there are grounds for prosecution say it could be based on Section 51 of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination by business establishments.

The LATC is a private club, but some lawyers argue that it may qualify as a business establishment because it hosts several public events every year-including U.S. Tennis Assn. -sanctioned tournaments and uses its state-granted liquor license to sell alcoholic beverages to non-member guests. Violation of the Unruh Act normally must be prosecuted by the state attorney general. But some lawyers suggest PIONEER Michele Jurgens portrays MOUNTAIN MAN Dean Shenk gives life daughter of noted outdoor artist, to an early Yosemite inhabitant.

THE VIEWS INSIDE Sanders' credentials include a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford and a law degree from Yale. that a violation of the Unruh Act would also be a violation of Section 3369 of the Civil Code, which bans unfair business practices. This civil section is enforceable by the city attorney, so it could give Pines' office authority to prosecute. If the city attorney did prosecute, and won such a case, the court most likely would issue an injunction prohibiting discrimination at the LATC. The court could also impose, civil penalties of up to $2,500 per violation.

There is some question, however, whether the city attorney would file a lawsuit. Since meeting with LATC officials in November and receiving the requested report from a deputy city attorney, Pines' office has taken no action in the case for more than six months. In response to an inquiry from The Times last week. Pines' office said, "We have determined there is insufficient evidence for criminal filing. We are, however, still considering civil action." Stan Sanders' rejection might not have triggered such turmoil if his credentials were not so impressive.

A student body president and a first team NAIA (National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics) AU-American split end for Whittier College, Sanders went on to study at Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 1 THE EYES HAVE IT: Beverly Beyette says that from the day it became apparent that her mother's thirdborn had one brown eye and one blue, she became somewhat of an object of passing curiosity. See Other Views on Page 4. THE AYES HAVE IT: A handful of people, many of them recovering alcoholics, have developed services to help alcoholics help themselves, and CLARE Foundation (Community Life for Alcoholics by Rehabilitation and Education) is in need of volunteers to participate in these services.

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