Springtime Sport Is "A Real Cool Ball"
The frigid winds and the sudden showers have made baseball at KU this spring a haphazard occurrence, but the sound of a bat hitting leather, the gutteral cries of the umpire, the intermixed yells of the infielders have drawn crowds to the diamond southwest of Memorial Stadium.
And already this season, the Jayhawk nine has won more games than in the entire season last year. One possible reason is that this spring the squad practiced indoors for the first time in Allen Fieldhouse—Floyd Temple, the team coach, says the practice put the Jayhawkers a month ahead of their training last year.
A full swing in the top picture adds up to nothing more than a long foul in a recent game. The second shows practice session in the fieldhouse, and the third, left, illustrates that animals like baseball, too. Third, right, is a batter rapping a ball in the fieldhouse bating cage. At the bottom is the bench scene in a regular game. That civilian at left imitating KU's "Phog" Allen is Don Pierce, KU's sports publicity director.
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