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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"You're through, Mulenscoussy! In the morning turn in your suit and convertable."
With Improvement We May Give K-State A Battle Saturday, Says Sooner Coach
Norman, Okla., Oct. 19—(U.S.)Coach Bud Wilkinson, who observes all the niceties, sent this pleasant little note along today to future Oklahoma opponents: "The Sooners are improving."
That's like telling Paul Revere to get on his horse and start warning the countryside that the "British are coming."
Up to now, all these modern-day red shirts have been able to do is win 24 games in a row, knock off one of the toughest teams in Texas on successive weekends and get themselves voted the second best team in the nation in the United Press Board of Coaches' ratings.
In fact if they continue to improve they may be able to give Kansas State quite a battle Saturday, despite the fact that the Sunflower Wildcats have roared to five victories in their last 47 games with 27 of those imposing defeats administered consecutively in a three-year stretch that ended last fall.
But Wilkinson isn't kidding. He knows his boys, many of them sophomores, had to pick up plenty of football know-how in those rough outings against Texas and Texas A. and M.
"I thought they played Texas about as well as they were capable of playing," the 1949 Coach of the Year said. "They're coming along a little better each week. If we continue to improve we'll have a chance to go along in the season."
"Go along!" is cautious Bud's way of hinting that his muscular boys may possibly continue beaten and untied for some time.
It is no secret that one of the "improving-est" men on the team is bustling Billy Vessels, a speedy sophomore from Cleveland, Okla. He is bidding to make the fans forget Lindell Pearson and George Thomas of last year's super-Soomers. Vessels smacked over for that season, but they touched against Texas and is an essex-class carrier of aerials tossed by teammates or handed off from the split T formation.
"He still makes some mistakes." Wilkinson says, grinning. "But he's getting better."
Wilkinson also is happy with
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Elsewhere in the Big Seven this week Kansas takes on Oklahoma A. and M. at Lawrence, Nebraska opposes Penn State at Lincoln, Missouri meets Iowa State in a conference game at Columbia, and Colorado entertains Arizona.
'Honeymoon Is Over,' Says A's New Leader
Philadelphia, Oct. 19—Urb.) James J. Dykes, the Philadelphia Athletics' new manager, had the customary cigar in his mouth today and unusual blood in his eve.
"If any of our players read this today," he barked harshly, "let them know the honeymoon is over."
The 54-year-old Dykes, successor to the 87-year-old Connie Mack, was talking about his Athletic players who had finished a webeogone last in the 1950 American league pennant race.
Dykes—the man who fanned a deep burning flame when he once accused Joe McCarthy of being a mere "pushbutton manager"—can be and has been plenty tough on occasion. But generally, baseball's "little round man" is known up and down the loom as plain ivory Jim.
"They had better make up their minds to turn over a new leaf," he added, relighting his cigar, "because I'm not going to put up with any nonsense."
The portly, wise-cracking Dykes.
Connie Mack Quits For Good Of Fans
Philadelphia, Oct. 19—(U.P.)—Connie Mack didn't want to quit. His sons wanted him out. His wife wanted him out. And then he decided the people wanted him out.
So he retired as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics Wednesday after holding the position 50 years—ever since the American league began. He said somewhat feebly that he was still president of the club, that he will continue to travel with the team and that he would be available to give advice to new manager Jimmy Dykes. But actually the 87-year-old Mack was at the end of the road—a long and sometimes weary road that had many expressways to conquest and compensative detours to defeat.
There were many contributions to his quitting. Old age and even the cross-town Philadelphia Phillies had a hand in catching up with him.
While announcing his retirement at a press luncheon, the wrinkled, grey-haired Mack mumbled sadly to a reporter:
"I am not quitting because I am too old. I am quitting because I think the people want me to quit."
The people Mack referred to were the fans of Philadelphia, who quickly lost patience with the last-place Athletics this season especially in view of the pennant success of the Phillies. The A's could prosper as long as the Phils were bums, but their attendance fell half a million this season when the Phil pennant-winners captured the hearts of the fans.
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who considers himself naked without a cigar, come well-equipped and well-recommended for his new job.
Jimmy played third base for the Philadelphia A's for 15 years and then stuck it out for nine more campaigns with the Chicago White Sox, playing even while managing that club.
Through most of that 24 - year playing career, Dykes remained in the lineup, come fractures, nose bleeds or bone bruises. Toward the end of his career, however, he saw service in only a few games and when a reporter mentioned that fact to him, he snapped:
"That's the way it is! Here I go and build a fine playing record for
myself and then when I take things a little easy, some fiend in human form has to throw statistics in my face."
Immensely popular in Philadelphia, Dykes built a reputation for being one of the most vehement and vociferous bench "jockeys" the game of baseball has ever tolerated.
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