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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 19, 1954
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Houtteman Making Bid To Take Feller's Spot
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Art Houtteman, the trim right-hander with a penchant for fast curves and automobiles, made a strong bid today to oust Bob Feller from the Cleveland Indians' "Big mound four."
With three strong Grapefruit league performances under his belt, the 26-year old "hard luck kid of the majors" easily shaped up as the Indians' most effective pitcher this spring. Feller, meanwhile, was hammered for six runs in three innings in his initial outing and Manager Al Lopez admits the once-great strikeout artist no longer can pitch every fourth day.
Houtteman's 1953 record was an unimpressive 9-13 but he won seven and lost seven after he was acquired by the Indians and was 5-3 after the all-star game. He is reported in sound condition and eager to return to the pitching heights he knew with the Tigers in 1949 and 1950.
Houtteman, acquired last June 15 in an eight-player deal with the Detroit Tigers, turned in his third powerful showing yesterday when he limited the Baltimore Orioles to a single run in three innings. Including six shutout innings in his previous stints, he has a spring record of having yielded a single run in nine innings.
Houtteman, then regarded by such experts as Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams as the "best young pitcher in the American league," won 15 games and lost 10 in 1949 and posted a 19-12 record in 1950. He spent 1951 in military service and then suffered through a dismal 8-20 campaign with the toothless Tigers of 1952.
Houtteman's spring form is especially interesting to Lopez because a comeback by Art would make it possible to spot the 35-year-old Feller more effectively. Lopez then could rotate Houtteman with Bob Lemon, Mike Garcia, and Early Wynn—all strong-armers—and reserve the cunning but aging Feller for spot assignments.
Rookie Don Fraccia wasted Houtteman's fine effort yesterday when he yielded seven runs in the seventh and eighth innings as the Baltimore Orioles rallied for a 7-6 triumph. The erstwhile St. Louis Cardials won 10 games and lost only two in the Grapefruit league.
Twenty-game winner Carl Erskine pitched one-run, five-hit ball for six innings as the red-hot Brooklyn Dodgers beat the New York Yankees, 4-1, for their ninth straight triumph. It was the fifth loss of Josse Hammons in 12 games for the Yankees who see determined to verify General Manager George Weiss' charge of complacency.
The Philadelphia Athletics' seven-game winning streak came to an end when infielder Fred Marsh hit
a ninth-inning home run run off rookie Cookie Sempel to give the Chicago White Sox a 5-4 verdict. The Athletics left 13 runners on base as Manager Eddie Joost continued his policy of playing half the game with regulars and half with substitutes.
Ken Raffensberger of the Cincinnati Redlegs, who sprained his right ankle last Monday, was slated to resume training today—Johnny Pesky singled home the winning run in the eighth inning to give the Detroit Tigers a 1-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.
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Kelley to Play In Shrine Game
Al Kelley, KU co-captain and all-Big Seven forward, was named yesterday to play for the West team in the annual Herald Tribune East-West all-star basketball game in Madison Square Garden on March 27.
Kelley, KU's second leading scorer, was named with Bill Sullivan of Notre Dame at guard spots on the West team.
Men already named to Coach Ozzie Cowles, basketball coach at Minnesota, team are: Charley Kraak, Dick Farley, and Bob Leonard of Indiana; Ed Kalafat of Minnesota; John Kerr of Illinois, Bob Mattick of Oklahoma A&M, Arnold Short of Oklahoma City, Dance of Rice, Bob Mathey of California, and Al Bianchi of Bowling Green.
Aussie Sprinter Ties Mark
Sydney, Aus. — (U.P.)— Australian Spinner Hector Hogan equalled the world record of 9.3 for the 100-yard dash here Saturday. The time tied the existing mark set by America's Mel Patton.
Denver—(U.P.)—The Peoria Caterpillars and the Denver Central Bankers, strong National Industrial basketball league teams, and two sprinting darkhorse clubs are matched in the semi-finals of the National AAU basketball tournament tonight.
Caterpillars, Bankers Clash in AAU Tournament
The Cats, defending champions, ranked as moderate favorites over the fourth-seeded Bankers. Peoria got by a boiling mad San Francisco Young Men's Institute club, which believes it was cheated, 56-55 last night and Denver had a tough, 68-65 time with Kirby Shoes of Los Angeles.
Grihalva Motors of San Diego, Calif., easily the best of the independents in the big tourney, knocked second-seeded Phillips Oilers out, 63-58, when Jim Hoverder scored nine points in the final seven minutes.
The only lopsided quarterfinal match was between Sparky Fort Sill, Okla., and the Ogden, Utah. Associated Food Stores. Fort Sill larked to an 80-85 victory as its pair of saww-off guards, George Macuga and Bill Locke, wheeled and dealed.
The San Francisco team filed a written protest after losing to Peoria by one point, claiming that it was illegally denied possession of the ball in the final eight seconds. But AAU officials decided referee Joe Conway's decision was right.
It was a tough one for the West coast team to lose, because it scored one field goal more than the Peoria champions, and forced the Cats to play an unfamiliar control game.
Tonight will be the first time in six years that Denver has had a team in the semi-finals of its biggest basketball event.
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A CAMPUS-TO-CAREER CASE HISTORY
EMMITT SMITH, E. E., '50, never heard of telephone traffic work, but what he saw of the job intrigued him,
He explains how it worked out.
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Emmette Smith supervises operation of this training switchboard, which he originally helped to design.
"Communications have always been one of my main interests—in the Navy and at the University of Michigan. So I was very happy when the Michigan Bell Telephone Company invited me to visit their headquarters to talk about a job."
"In Detroit I had a chance to look at a number of departments, including one I'd never heard of before, the Traffic Department. I found that, in addition to the engineering of switchboards, its work involved the supervision and the actual handling of customer calls. It struck me like a wonderful opportunity to combine staff engineering and field management."
"My first impression was right, too because my work covered both. First, I had on-the-job training assignments in several different kinds of offices—local, Long Distance, dial and manual. Then
I worked in engineering, translating estimates of future growth into the actual number of circuits and switchboard positions required.
"Now I'm supervising the operation of one of the boards I helped engineer. Briefly, my job is to see that my district gets the kind of equipment it needs and that what we have is functioning properly. Working with people is another major part of my job, too, because I serve in an advisory capacity to the supervisors of the Long Distance operators.
"Needless to say, I'm happy with my job. A job I didn't even know existed."
Emmett Smith's job is with a Bell Telephone Company. There are similar opportunities for college people with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric and Sandia Corporation.
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