The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1986 Page: 6 of 12
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The Prospector October 30. 1986/ Page 6
The ghosts of baseball past
Sport wraiths haunt University
Costumed crazies to
By Eddie Elfers
They’ve been blamed for
everything from lout equipment ki
int football games Former
Miner football couch Bill Yung
reportedly confided mar close
avoclates that he was glad k*
leave the 1 niversity it only to
cxspe the phontly vaasohnof
vice in the Brumbelow building
Purple Mi they ‘re the ghods
4 mil pays who used to play for
the Miner ba-ctull team buck in
the NIA.” oM an intramural
employee
1 don’t want you to use my
name became people might think
I was weird," he added
On everal different occasions,
the employee Mid students claim
to have seen the ghintly presence
t the to former Miners sitting
in the bear hers a the Intramural
Soccer Field He wand other
pikro claim to have seen the
itho foazing from office to
office in the Brumbek m building
"I guew they 're confined,”
Years ag
th ha-cbull office was in the
Brumbeh building, but it was
laner mawval to the Special Event
Center 1 gucw they (the ghosts)
never found out, and they ‘re will
looking '*
Alan Borde, noted sports
purapsys hologhi. said the ghosts
may have been displeased when
the I niversity discontinued the
hawchall program
"There are instances the public
does not hear of. The ghosts seem
to like revenge on seemingly
unrelated pouiple Some members
of the football team have told me
the real reason behind that fumbi-
ed reception, that muffed kick.
By Deborah Martin
sum woer
There may be an unusual number of
bizarre beings on campus this Friday as
people dress up to partic ipate in the Fifth
Annual University Bookstore Halloween
Costume ( Contest
Bookstore Director Rey ( adena Mid he
conceived the idea when he noticed that
“we always got Modems coming into thr
store on Halloween drewadl up" and droid
rd there would be an interest in a costume
comeet
Thirty people partic inated in it five years
ago. That n
( adena sah
Participat
"We have 1
content," h
Admissin
Martinet wr
drew Tip
nunt of thr
ly. dressing
prior to th
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tor his count
Sierra Medical will X-
By Raymond liolguin
Suaif wrer
Sierra Medic al ( enter % radiology depart
ment will be offering a Halloween candy X
ray service to the community of II Paxo from
7pm to 9 p.m Oct JI
Milow Knight, radiology director of Sierra
Medic al Center. Mid the service is being of-
fered because he wants the children of El
service for th
the past few 1
when objects
dy Th a
a Mie Hally
The X-ray,
jects kox ated i
added that ch
Milow said
he offered una
Pavo to have a safe Halloween want to encos
"Sierra Madlieal has been providing this that time
Q&A: La Llorona st
By John Gutierrez-Mier
Staff Wooer
war a sudden, terrifying glimpse
of one or both of the wraiths." Boide said
"Of course, these stories usually stay in the
locker room,” he added.
Joseph Bicau, a sophomore alcoholic
engineering major, said he has actually seen the
ghostly duo
"I was coming hack from, uh, studying with
a friend, and I drove past the soccer field on
Sunhowl it was just about sundown, and 1 saw
two guys hitting baseballs
"I thought one was a friend of mine because
he had the Mme kind of hat, so I stopped and
went down to the field When
they noticed me, they just kind of
melted away Man, 1 went
straight back to the bar and told
all my friends
“But all they did was laugh at
me Ever since that night, they
still give me a hard time
whenever I order a double
Kamikaze," he said
"But I'm telling you, man, 1
really did see those two guys that
night '*
Faked Prospector photo
by Stella Gutierrez
One of the phantoms of the ballpark
was caught here in a candid moment
celebrating the Met a victory in the
World Series Two ghosts are reputed
to haunt the Brumbelow Building on
campus. Some say these specters are
the ghosts of two ballplayers from the
‘60s; others hint they represent the
collective spirit oi the entire dead
University baseball program
A vivid character in local ghost stories.
La Llorona has survived generation after
generation in the minds of many El Pavo and
Southwestern residents
She has most often been heard wailing for
her drowned children in areas of El Paso that
have a large amount of standing water
Some Lower Valley residents claim to hear
her, and sometimes see her, along the many
irrigation canals that dot the agricultural
district
Not to be outdone, I pper Valley residents
occasionally spot the poor and destitute
mourner who scavenges area water ways in
search of her drowned children which many
say she murdered
The Prospector, in an exclusive interv lew
on the banks of the Rio Grande, learned
more about this timeless woman who has in-
trigued many for hundreds of years.
Question Where do you find the energy
to consistently wail so loudly?
Answer: I feel that if iv important in life
and death to have a goal and to make sure
that purpose is met Hundreds of years ago.
when I first started wailing, I used actual
tears and my own voice The constant strain
was too muc h No now I have resorted to ar
intrepid Pros
tificial tears a
Q: wiah
as your home;
A: The wat
year and I fin
and along the
order to prov i
during my lon
per athletic fr
ability to wall
0 Many
claim to hate 1
the real one?
A: Yes. I n
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