Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1956. University Daily Kansan
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PUT THE BALL IN HERE—Floyd Temple, KU baseball coach, explains to Jerry Baker, Minneapolis sophomore, just how the new pitching machine operates. The Goldberg-type of machine was set up this week in the batting cage in Allen Field House.
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Pitching Machine Aids Indoor Baseball Drills
If the Kansas baseball team doesn't have its batting eye when the season opens in early April, it won't be because the players haven't had any hitting practice.
Thanks to a new mechanical pitching machine which the University received Friday, players can get valuable batting practice inside Allen Field House. A netted-in batting cage permits hitting practice while trackmen sprint down the adjoining track and basketballs work out on the hardwoods.
The machine is operated electrically. Baseballs are fed from a rack which angles downward to a constantly-rotating arm. After the arm picks up the ball, it goes through the normal pitching motion and a spring releases the ball at the top of the motion, every eight seconds.
well-pleased over his new tireless pitcher.
Baseball Coach Floyd Temple is
"The big value of the machine is that it enables us to hit the baseball two months before we normally could outside," Temple said.
In addition, the pitching arm will keep Temple from having to use pitchers to throw batting practice, which often results in early-season sore arms from being in unsatisfactory shape.
The machine can be regulated to throw the ball at different spots from speeds of 45 to 100 miles an hour. However, because of the ball picking up dirt it doesn't go exactly to the same spot each time. Temple regards this fortunate since the batter has to be prepared to hit the ball anywhere it's pitched. He estimated that three of four balls were pitched in the strike zone.
Snow Fails To Stop K-State's 1st Workout
MANHATTAN, Kan.—(U. P.)—Ninety-three Kansas State football men opened spring practice yesterday on a snow-covered field. The squad is one of the largest in K-State history. Coach Bus Mertes sent the Wildcats through a two-hour workout on fundamentals without an attempt to sort them into teams. Included on the squad were 19 lettermen.
Basketball Scores
"We will work every day the weather will allow," said Mertes. "We plan to make every workout count. Last spring we had to get ready for practice because all the coaches were here. This year we had the jump on spring drills."
Iowa State's swimming team will invade Robinson Pool with a record of three victories, one loss and a tie
80 Swarthmore 53
Army 80, Swarthmore 90
Boston 81, Boston College 82
Hobbs 63, Connecticut 81
St. Francis, Pa. 101, Mount St. Mary's 76
Prescidentier 117, Furman 115
Kentucky, 143, Georgia 66
Missouri 89, Tennessee 81
Roanoke 95, VMI 76
Florida 66, Georgia Tech 48
Centenary, 84, Memphis State 80
Minnesota 80, Michigan State 84, Wisconsin 82
Iowa 86, Northwestern 68
Porture 72, Michigan 63
Oklahoma 67, Ohio 62
Illinois 97, Minnesota 81
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The Kansas indoor freshman track team won three postal meets Saturday, defeating Missouri, 62-42, Nebraska, 56-47, and Michigan State. 65-39.
KU Freshmen Win 3 Postal Meets
The top individual performance was turned in by Keith Gardner of Nebraska. He scored 241⁄4 of the Cornhuskers' 47-point total. The Jamaica track star won the broad jump, 440-yard dash, 60-yard high hurdles, tied for first in the 60-yard dash and 60-yard low hurdles, and was a member of Nebraska's winning mile relay team.
His best marks were 22 feet $11\frac{1}{4}$ inches in the broad jump and 49.8 in the 440, which is four-tenths of a second better than the Big Seven record set by Willie Jones of Kansas in 1954.
The top KU performer was Wilt Chamberlain. He won the shot put and high jump in all three meets. He set a new school and Big Seven postal record with a jump of 6 feet $ _{4/3}^{4} $ inches in the high jump.
The freshman trackmen will take part in the Big Seven postal meet this week end and will run against Michigan, Indiana, and Notre Dame March 10.
Kansas-Missouri summaries:
Pole vault—1, Davis, M; 2. Mitchel, K;
3. Webb, M; 13-2¹.
High jump—1. Chamberlain, K; 2. K;
J. Green, M; 3. J. Green, E; M. 4-{4%}.
Broad jump=1. Davis, M; 2. Dudley, M; 3. Rensberg, K; 21-114.
Shot putt=1. Chamberlin, K; 2. Dryer,
K: 3. Rimming, M: 47-2.
Mile run—1. Schroeder, K; 2. Sanders,
M: 3. Kelley, M: 4. 26.
60-yard dash 1, Tidwell, K; 2 Tie between Baukey, B and Caraffoli, M; 6.2.
440-2 K, 3. Kelly, M; 517. 60, red high bridge, Tilton F.
90, black handle, K. 2. Horn, N. 2. Bottom.
440-yard dash -1. Gauby, K; 2. Hoff-
mann, K; 3. Kelly, M; 51.7.
6-yard high hurdles - 1 Tillman, K.
20-yard high hurdles - 1 Tillman, K.
Two-mile. M. 2
Sanders. M. 2
880-vard run--1, Kelly, M; 2. Schroer
doe; K; 3. Green; K; 1-587
60-yard low hurdles - Tidwell, K;
Tie between Tillman, K and Davis.
Mile relay -Kansas (Gauby, Hoffmann,
Mitlure, Green). 3.28.9.
Kansas-Nebraska summaries:
Pole vault -1, Pollard; N; 2. Mitchel.
Basketball -1, Pollard; N; 2. Mitchel.
High jump= 1, Chamberlain, K; 2.
Smith, N; 3, Lammel, M; 6-47s.
Syrmidium, N; 3 Lunamium, N; 6-47s;
Bathroo
Broad jump—I. Gardner, N; 2. Dillard,
N; 3. Phillips, N; 22-115.
N; 3. Phillips, N; 22-115.
shot put—1. Chamberlain, K; 2. Dryer,
3.
Mile run-1, Schroeder, K; 2. Crawford, K; 3. Morrison, N; 4. 26:
60-yard dash—1. Tie between Tidwell, K, and Gardner; N; 3 Dillard; N; .062.
440-yard dash—1. Gardner; N; 2. Gauley; K; 3. Hoffman; N; .498.
60-yard high hurdles -1. Gardner; N;
2. Pollard? N; 3. Tillman; N; 07:5.
Two-mile, run-1. Schroeder, K; 2.
Crayford, K; 3. C. Cormack, K; 9:452.
880-yard, dash-1. Schroeder, K; 2.
Green, K; 3. Hicks, K; 2:00.2.
60-yard low hurdles - Tie between
Todwell, K. and Gardner, N; 3, Tillman,
K.
Mile relay—Nebraska (Gardner, House,
Miller, Wollaston), 3:28.6
Kansas-Michigan State summar- jies:
Pole vault—1, Mitchel, K; 2. Dill, MS;
3. Swartz, MS; 12-1.
Broad Jump = I. Elihoff, K 2, hemm-
berg, K 3, Hoffmann, K 20,
K 18, Dever.
Shof put-1. Chamberlain, 2. Dryer, K; 3. McIntle, 4. K7-2.
High jump-1. Chamberlain, K; 2.
Neely, MS; 3. Vershinky, MS; 6-4%
**Mite run**-1. Tie between Wheeler and
Kennedy of MS; 3, Schroeder, K; 4, 23.9;
60-yard dash -1. Tidwell, K; 2, Gauby,
K; 3, Horner, K; 06.2.
440-yard dash —1. Gauley, K; 2. Hoff-
mann, K; 3. Grissom, MS; 31.7.
60-yard high hurdles- 1. Tie between Tillman, K, and Thompson, MS; 3. Tie between Remsberg and Tidwell of Kansas; .07.9.
Two-mile run-1. Wheeler, MS; 2. Kennedy, MS; 3. Schroeder K; 9:274. 880-yard run-1. Kennedy, MS; 2. Schroeder K; 3. Green K; 1:585.
Mile relay—Kansas (Gauby, Hoffmann,
McIntire, Green), 3:28.
60-yard low hurdles - 1-Tidwell, K;
60-yard low hurdles - 2-Berriman, Berryman,
& Remsberg, K; 306.9.
A Campus-to-Career Case History
Cliff Dower (right), A.B. in Mathematics, '49, M.S. in Civil Engineering,
'50, Harvard, on the site of a building construction project.
"Projects you can sink your teeth into"
Clifford D. Downer started his telephone career in the building engineering department of The Southern New England Telephone Company. At present he is working with the Bell System's manufacturing unit, Western Electric, helping to build facilities for housing a Continental Air Defense project. His assignment: a key liaison job in supervising a subcontractor's work on a several million dollar construction operation.
"One of the most interesting features of my present job," says Cliff, "is making decisions on the spot. For example, drawings showed where bedrock for footings would be reached. Excavations revealed a poor grade of rock. How much further
down do we go? A hundred workers and tons of equipment are waiting for the decision.
"There's a lot of future for a civil engineer in the telephone business. New and smaller types of telephone equipment will probably change our ideas about how telephone buildings should be built. It's fascinating work, all right. And broadening, too, because it's leading me to other engineering fields.
"It looks to me as if there are real challenges ahead - projects you can sink your teeth into. Besides, I'm convinced the telephone business recognizes and regards personal industriousness and drive."
Interesting career opportunities of all kinds are also offered by other Bell Telephone Companies and Western Electric Company, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Sandia Corporation. Your placement officer has more information about these companies.
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