Golfers Lose All Four Matches On Trip South
The Kansas Jayhawker golf team, composed of Bill Sayler, Jim Davies, Bob Wood, and Bill Toalson moved south over spring vacation only to absorb four sound beatings from some of the best collegiate golf teams in the nation.
The Jayhawkers played Houston, Texas, Baylor, and North Texas State in that order and were outscored by a total of 20-4 for their week's efforts. They were shut out, 6-0, by North Texas State.
KU opened on April 2 against Houston, winner of the 1956 NCAA championship, and was defeated 5-1. Jim Davies scored the lone Jayhawker point by shooting a 75 to win his singles match from Al Wharton.
Houston was playing the match without the services of captain Rex Baxter Jr., who was competing in the Masters tournament at Augsburg, Ga. Baxter was also a semifinalist in the 1956 National Amateur.
The following day the Jayhawkers moved to Austin to play the University of Texas and were defeated 5-1. Davies again was responsible for the only Kansas score as he fired a 71 to win his singles match.
From Austin the team moved to Waco to play Baylor. There the Jayhawks lost 4-2 with Davies again winning his singles match with a 72. The other Kansas point was scored as Davies and Sayler teamed up to win a two-ball match from Bob Harmon and Chuck White.
North Texas A 6-0 Victor
The final match of the trip was played against North Texas State at Denton. The Kansas team played some of its best golf in this match but still was shut out 6-0 as the Texans did not have a round over 69.
Sayler had a 74 but was beaten by Bud Reed who had a 69. Toalson had his best round, a 70, but lost one down as his opponent Dick Wilson shot a 69.
Wood, playing No. 1 for Kansas, shot a 73 but was defeated by Jim Wheatle, who had a 68. Davies shot a 72 but lost to Bill Powell's 67.
North Texas State won the NCAA championship in 1955 and was runner-up in 1956. The strength of this team can be shown by its performance in this year's Houston Invitational. Their top four players won the tournament, while the "B" team came in third.
Everyone Scores in Seventies
One bright point of the tour was the fact that all of the Kansas scores were in the seventies; there were no eighties. The team also had a week of good practicing weather while the rest of the Big Seven schools were battling blizzards and thunderstorms.
Coach Mike Chalfant said that "Toaison and Wood did a good job as sophomores, and that tough competition will improve the team's attitude toward the Big Seven competition."
The next match for the Jayhawkers will be Friday, when they travel to Norman to play the Big Seven defending champions, Oklahoma.
The Sooners have two returning lettermen and a sophomore who won the National Junior Chamber of Commerce Championship two years ago.
The Kansas team may be considerably strengthened this week. Senior letterman Gene Elstun will be trying out for the team.
"With Elstun, we will have a good chance to win the conference championships," Chalfant said.
After the Oklahoma match the Jayhawkers will travel to Wichita, where they will play on Saturday morning. KU will play 12 more matches, not including the Big Seven Championship, which will be held May 17 and 18 at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Sugar Ray In Top Form
GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y. — (UP) — Sugar Ray Robinson, in training for a return title match with middleweight champion Gene Fulmer, today admitted, "Tve never worked harder for a fight in my life." The former champ weighed 166 pounds Sunday after sparring four rounds.
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In 1915 K-State played an entire game against the Jayhawkers without committing a foul, winning by a score of 21-18.
Ford Tops Old Pro's Wins Masters Title
AUGUSTA, Ga. — (UP) — Doug Ford, a golfer from the sidewalks of New York who saw his first green on the top of a pool table, broke the stranglehold Sunday that the bigtime titlists have held on the masters tournament since Bobby Jones founded it in 1934.
The Swarthy kid from 87th Street and Broadway picked up 87 hundred bucks yesterday for his first big win since he took the PGA title in 1955.
Celtics Top Hawks To Even Playoffs
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—(UP)—The St. Louis Hawks and the Boston Celtics were deadlocked today after two weekends and four games in their best-of-seven series for the National Basketball Assn. championship.
Boston's Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman and teammates squared matters at Kiel Auditorium here Sunday night with a 123-118 decision that disappointed a partisan crowd of 10,035 fans. It was the second Boston win in the series and it came on the heels of St. Louis' victory Saturday night, 100-98, via Bob Pettit's 30-foot jump shot with 44 seconds to play.
Monday, April 8, 1957
The teams split their two games here just as they did the two opening games a week previous in Boston. They will play game No. 5 in Boston Tuesday night and return here for the sixth on Thursday night.
Set-Ups Win Volleyball Title At Rocky Mountain Tourney
In their first crack at intercollegiate volleyball, the KU Set-Ups upset top seeded Colorado University to win the Rocky Mountain InterCollegiate Volleyball Championships Saturday in Denver. The final scores were 15-11; 12-15; 15-13.
On Friday evening the Set-Ups, sponsored by the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce, trounced the Colorado Beta (fraternity) team 15-10; 15-2 and then were edged by Colorado University 15-13; 15-11. In those matches the local travelers were handicapped by lack of proper food and sleep.
One of two car loads of players was marooned for 15 hours on a snow drifted highway while the other players were fortunate enough to spend most of a marooned 10
hours in an overrowed hotel in Burlington, Colo.
On Saturday the Set-Ups won over the Colorado ATO's and Denver University in working their way into the championship match with the Buffalo squad.
In open competition the Set-Ups tied for fourth place by beating the Pueblo YMCA 15-6; 15-9, before bowing out to the Colorado University team by a score of 15-4; 13-10. The latter game was ended by a time limit of eight minutes of playing time which is imposed on all tournament games in which 15 points are not scored first.
The Buffers then rallied to upset the Air Force Academy faculty but then faltered in the tournament finals to be beaten by the Denver YMCA which was the eighth ranked team.
"What's it like to be A RESEARCH ENGINEER AT IBM?"
Two years ago, college senior Robert Thorpe asked himself this question as he worked toward his E.E. at the University of Toledo. Today, an Associate Engineer in the Applied Logic Group of IBM Research, Bob reviews his experiences and gives some pointers that may be helpful to you in taking the first, most important step in your career.
"I joined IBM for two clear-cut reasons," recalls Bob. "First, the tremendous company growth obviously offered every chance for advancement. Second, the work area was exactly what I was looking for—transistors and their application to computer systems."
Promoted to Associate Engineer In August, 1956, Bob was made an Associate Engineer. From April of the same year, he had been working on a new Government project. This was "to design and develop a transistorized radar data presentation system for the MA-2 system." Basically, this was a research program in sample data theory and the develop-
Bob entered IBM's voluntary training program in June, 1955, where he studied the entire organization, its divisions and diversified products. He received technical training in computer logic, programming, and components such as transistors, cores and tapes. By September, half his day was being devoted to an actual project; by the following March, he was on this project full time. "Our job was
The "small-group" approach to research
In IBM Research (as in all IBM) Bob works in a small group. "Our team consists of three E.E.'s and a technician. We start with analysis and synthesis work involving math and systems logic. Then we use the 'black box' approach." His group splits up occasionally to research special phases of a project but reunites in frequent sessions to coordinate activities.
to transistorize six servo-amplifiers for the MA-2 bombing-navigational system," he recalls, "and we completed the project in April."
ment of a system containing both analog and digital components. Bob still works on this project—toward a completion date of April, 1957.
Shortly after this program started, Bob joined the Applied Logic Group.
Plottina transistor characteristics
Here, he was concerned with research in new areas of computer technology for example, cryogenics and high-speed memories. Bob studies systems which operate on "real time," and his immediate problem is to analyze and synthesize closed-loop sample data systems for the control of complex data processing.
Asked what his most interesting assignment was, Bob replied, "My
New areas of computer technology
work on a digital-to-analog converter with a high degree of sensitivity and accuracy. This strictly electronic converter, with transistors, combines both digital and analog circuitry. It was a tough problem, and a fascinating one."
What does the future hold? At the present time, after two years in IBM Research, Bob is more than enthusiastic about his future. He plans to continue in systems study and to develop "a more sophisticated approach." Two lines of advancement are open to him: to Project Engineer,
the administrative side, or to Staff Engineer, the technical side of Research. "Either way, I'm sure I'll get ahead," Bob feels. "Electronics research is really on the move at IBM. We have about 600 people at Poughkeepsie now, as against 56 in 1950. We'll need some 1,700 before 1960 to help staff a new research laboratory at Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, N. Y."
What does he like best about IBM? Probably the fact that he's so much "on his own." "There's no over-the-shoulder' supervision," he says. "You schedule your own program and create your own 'pressure.' And, if you
Promoted in fourteen months
feel the need for more education, IBM provides every facility for continued study. Besides the voluntary training programs, there are excellent afterhours courses offered by the IBM Department of Education. And you have a chance to work toward advanced degrees-at IBM expense."
IBM hopes this message will give you some idea of what it's like to be an E.E. in Research at IBM. There are equal opportunities for E.E.'s, I.E.'s, M.E.'s, physicists, mathematicians, Liberal Arts majors, and Business Administration graduates in IBM's many divisions—Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Sales and Sales Assistance. Why not drop in and discuss IBM with your Placement Director? He can supply our brochure and tell you when IBM will next interview on your campus. Meanwhile, our Manager of Engineering Recruitment, R. A. Whitehorne, will be happy to answer your questions. Just write him at IBM Corp., Room 11804 590 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y.
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