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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 28, 1961
By Chuck Morelock
At the rate he's going, Roger Maris may break Babe Ruth's home run record—but there's a catch to it.
Maris will play in 162 games this year, eight more than the usual 154. The addition of the new Los Angeles and Washington franchises is the reason.
BASEBALL MEN WISELY RULED a while back that the Babe's long-standing record (he hit 60 in 1927) could only be shattered if a player hit his 61st homer in his 154th game, if not sooner. If Maris, for instance, reaches that figure or surpasses it after his 154th game, he will be recognized in the statistical book, but at the same time he'll be placed in a special category.
In other words, Maris will be crowned as a home run champion, but not as the champ of all time.
Local baseball fans have bemoaned the fact for some time that Maris, a former member of the Kansas City A's, was traded to New York. But how do you think Frank Lane must feel? Lane was general manager of the Cleveland Indians when Maris, then an unknown quality, was playing for the Ohio club. Around the middle of the '58 season, Lane traded Maris to KC, who subsequently traded him to the Yankees a year later.
ROGER HAD A GOOD TOUR OF DUTY WITH THE A'S before illness forced him out of the lineup. It certainly would be nice to have him in that lineup right now for the Athletics sorely need a power hitter.
Maris hit four homers in a doubleheader with Chicago Tuesday night. That's more than the entire Kansas City team usually hits in a week.
KU
This really isn't important, but fun to recall department. . . Few teams in recent college football history have surpassed the 1957 KU team's ability to pull 'em out of the fire at the last minute.
The Jayhawkers that year nipped K-State 13-7, Colorado 35-34, Nebraska 14-12, Oklahoma State 13-7, Missouri 9-7 and tied TCU 13-13.
HOMER FLOYD, ONE OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS, pound-for-pound, to ever wear a KU uniform, was instrumental in three of those victories. In the K-State game, for instance, he grabbed a pass from quarterback Duane Morris in the final 18 seconds to give Kansas the go-ahead TD.
In the Colorado game, he caught another pass, made a long run, and set up the winning marker with about two minutes left. His 73-yard touchdown run gave the Hawkers an early 6-0 lead over Missouri, but it took a field goal with 48 seconds to go to put the icing on the cake. Ray Barnes, a 27-year-old sophomore, kicked that three pointer and thereby won himself a niche in KU's hall of fame.
The victory over Nebraska resulted when the Cornhuskers missed a short field goal with about two minutes left.
EVEN THE TIE GAME WAS A THRILLER. Trailing 13-7, end Jim Letcavits grabbed a pass then bulled his way into the TCU end zone as time ran out. You can't put things off any later than that.
When the Jayhawkers did lose, they really went all out. Oklahoma, for example, clobbered us 47-0, as did Miami, 48-6, Oregon State, 34-6, and Iowa State, 21-6.
Few events known to man are as thrilling as a last ditch football rally, but at the same time, it's certainly comforting to see the home team enjoying a 30 point lead in the fourth quarter.
Richards Adds Punch to Lineup
BOSTON—(UPI)—Two long-ball hitting first basemen and an outfielder have been added to the American League All Stars by Manager Paul Richards, who has also juggled his pitching staff.
This does wonders to one's peace of mind.
Newcomers include infielders Roy Sievers of Chicago and Bill Skowron of New York and outfielder Tito Francina of Cleveland.
Sievers currently is tied for ninth in the AL batting race with a .312 average. He has hit 22 home runs. Skowron has socked 19 homers and owns a .278 average. Francona, though not a power hitter, is batting .296.
In addition, Richards added Yankee relief ace Luis Arroyo (7-3), and Don Schwall (10-2) of the Red Sox, Cleveland's Barry Latman (9-1) and Camilo Pascual (7-12) of the Minnesota Twins to the AL's pitching staff. All but Arroyo are righthanders.
To make room for his four new pitchers, Richards dropped Boston's Mike Fornieles, Los Angeles fireballer Ryne Duren, Frank Lary of Detroit and Cleveland's Jim Perry from the roster. All had been selected for the first All Star classic three weeks ago.
Schwall is the lone rookie among the pitchers chosen. He was called up from the Seattle farm of the Red Sox May 21.
The American and National Leagues square off Monday in the 31st All-Star game at Fenway Park. The National League defeated the AL, 5-4, in this year's first All Star classic at San Francisco July 11.
By rules of the All Star game, Richards could add three players to his original 25-man roster. And he was allowed to change some or all of his pitchers.
Duren, however, did not appear for the first All Star classic because of the death of his infant son. Right-hander Ken McBride, Duren's pitching mate on the Angels, was named as his replacement in both games.
Math Colloquium Today
S. A. Householder, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will speak at the University of Kansas Mathematics Colloquium today at 4 p.m. in 119强 Hall.
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2 Seniors Win Reuter Award
Two seniors in the School of Fine Arts have been awarded Reuter Organ Co, Scholarships in music for 1961-62.
Miss Tebbenkamp, a voice major, is an active participant in the University Theatre. She has been on the dean's honor roll in the School of Fine Arts.
The recipients are Sharon Tebbenkamp, Salisbury, Mo., and Fred Wiemer. Drumright, Okla.
Recently she "pinch-hitted" in a Santa Fe, N.M., opera production of "The Ballad of Baby Doe," when the star could not sing because of laryngitis. Miss Tebbenkamp sang the role in a KU production last year.
Wiemer is an honor student majoring in piano. He is active in the University Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the orchestra for the Contemporary American Music Symposium held here in the spring.
Both students were given a tour of the organ factory by John Selig, executive vice president, in connection with the awarding of the scholarships.
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Hero Today, Bum Tomorrow That’s tho Life of a Manager
By Milton Richman
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Baseball fans not only are fickle, they're flakey.
Flakey is a word commonly used by ball players someone peculiar.
Like all those who roasted Freddie Hutchinson of Cincinnati last season and now are booming him for manager of the year.
Or like the fans in Pittsburgh, who keep booing Danny Murtaugh now less than 12 months after hailing him as the greatest manager to come along since John McGraw.
Let's take Hutchinson's case first because somehow or other he manages to keep his Reds from folding and still has them on top in the National League.
Exactly a year ago, the Reds, under this same Hutchinson, were floundering around in sixth place going nowhere. Some Cincinnati fans felt the club never would go anywhere until it got another manager.
But Hutch stayed on, and as he himself kiddingly says, look how "brilliant" he became in just one year.
Wednesday night, for example, he employed Ken Johnson, fresh up from Toronto, against the Milwaukee Braves and the Reds won. 3-2 to preserve their one game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers, who defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-1.
Johnson, 0-4 with Kansas City
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PITTSBURGH — (UPI) — An unidentified Latrobe, Pa., housewife returned her income tax questionnaire to the Internal Revenue Service with "Home Executive" neatly written across the top.
earlier this season, held the Braves to six hits during the seven innings he worked to gain his first victory. Jim Brosnan blanked Milwaukee on one hit over the last two frames.
As for Murtaugh, he was booed lustily in Pittsburgh the other night even though his fifth-place Pirates ended a five-game losing streak with an 8-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
They got on Murtaugh for permitting pitcher Bob Friend to bat with men on first and third with one out in the fifth and the Giants ahead, 3-1. That booing, however, was mild to the one he received when he again sent Friend up to hit with the bases full and two out in the sixth. But Friend came through with a two-run single off loser Dick Lemay that broke a 3-all tie. And Friend was the winning pitcher.
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