Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday. January 6, 1957
A's Workhorse
Carroll Is Too Busy To Run Business End
Kansas City, Mo. —(L&P)—Many baseball men say Parke Carroll is the best man for the job of handling the business end of the new Kansas City Athletics.
Carroll says he is too busy to know much about that.
"We're trying to do a lot of things," he said, "and we buster that hell."
Athletics owner Arnold Johnson lost no time naming Carroll to the post of business manager and making him a vice president.
Ernie Mehl, sports editor of the Kansas City Star, said Johnson "could not have chosen more wisely."
Carroll, a native son, is not as new to baseball as the A's are to Kansas City. He broke into baseball through economic necessity when the old Kansas City Journal threw in the towel while he was sports editor.
That was in 1942. A lot of baseball have gone over the fence since then, with Carroll watching them from the front office of the Minneapolis Millers of the American association, the old Newark Bears of the International. league, and the now-moved-to-Denver Kansas City Blues.
Carroll was with the Blues for five years as general manager. The last two of them were desperate, since Kansas City had come down with major league fever and fans were deserting the Blues. But Carroll kept battling for the New York Yankee-owned club.
"We've got a lot of work to do to get ready for our major league
debut," Carroll said. "We're grateful for the cooperation and assistance we are getting from the entire community."
All Carroll has to do before the A's open here against the Detroit Tigers next April 12 is to get the stadium ready; do something about Ottawa of the International league, an Athletic property of uncertain status; sell tickets; make sure nobody does the club out of the only two real ball players it has; sell tickets; look out for pitfalls of spring training; work with field manager Lou Boudreau and player personnel manager Ray Kennedy on heavy problems, and sell more tickets.
Marciano May Fight British Champion
Johannesburg, S. Africa —(U.P.)
British promoter Jack Solomons offered world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano $300,000 today to defend his title in London in April or Mav.
Solomons made his offer in a cable to Al Weill, Marciano's manager, in New York.
The British promoter, in South Africa on vacation, promised in a New Year's resolution that he would stage a bout in London sometime in 1955 matching Marciano and British heavyweight champion Don Cockell.
Eye
Stalcup Wanted Big Man, And Reiter Filled the Bill
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Stalcup, who stands about belt-buckle high to his taller cagers, wouldn't talk about the NCAA regionals, nor the finals. But other coaches were beginning to take notice of Missouri as the only team with real class in the Big Seven, and that's a start toward the regionalis, one of which will be played at Manhattan, home of Kansas State college.
Missouri's Reiter, Norm Stewart,
Med Park, Redford Reichert, Lionel
Smith, and others go against Nebraska at Columbia Saturday. It should be a Tiger romp. Nebraska (3-5) finished eighth in the eight-
"Give me a big man and I'll get into the NCAA tournament picture, one of these seasons," Stalcup said about a year ago. "Just give me a big one."
team Big Seven pre-season tournament which Missouri won easily.
Missouri whacked Kansas (6-3) on the Jayhawk home court Tuesday and the way Stalcup's men did it was very convincing. It was the first Jay home loss in 33 starts and the first time a Missouri team had won at Lawrence since 1948.
Missouri (8-2) has a big one this year. As a matter of record, the Tigers had Bob Reiter last season and the season before that. But the Tigers never quite came up with the proper scoring punch.
This year they've got it. But the wallap is not all Reiter, a "big man" who stands 6-9. Stalcup has a combination of shotmakers who appear to be blessed with the ability to play as good as they have to in any given situation.
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