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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 11, 1
By Chuck Morelock
I've got a free pass for the entire season but I don't think I'll use it much. ...
It's getting harder and harder to write about our fighting A's without going off on a wild optimistic tangent. Nothing seems to be going right for the team that showed some signs of life at the start of the season.
THE 1960 CLUB WAS A SORRY ONE indeed, but most baseball observers figured the A's would at least finish higher than the two new clubs, Washington and Los Angeles, in 1961. Right now these new clubs, comprised mainly of castoffs, rookies, and other bits of flotsam and jetsam from the diamond world, are embarrassing KC more and more each day. Why? Because they're giving the other teams a run for their money. The Athletics, alas, are not.
The Angels don't have much pitching or infield strength, but they've got power to burn. The Senators, on the other hand, don't have much hitting but their pitching staff has been the surprise of the league.
WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE KANSAS CITY? Mired in the quagmire, that's where, for the A's don't have anything period. At least for the moment-perhaps things will change.
Like the A's, the Minnesota Twins are floundering badly. From all indications, the two clubs will battle it out for the American League cellar, and on the basis of their previous meetings this year, the Twins will probably win.
It's too bad the Kansas City story has proved to be such a frustrating one these past six years. The A's have a beautiful park, the finest in the major leagues and thousands of loyal fans who don't expect a pennant, just a respectable team.
IF YOU COULD ROUND UP all the players the front office has traded since 1955 you'd come up with a solid combination. For instance, you could have an outfield comprised of Roger Maris in right field, Bob Cerv in left, and Bill Tuttle in center. In the infield you'd have Clete Boyer at third, Vic Power at first, Woodie Held at short, and—well, I can't think of a second baseman. But I think I've made my point.
KU
Although I consider Wayne Hightower to be a great basketball player, I'm not especially broken-hearted to see him go. True, he'll be missed but I don't think KU will suddenly fall apart at the seams next year, contrary to popular belief.
CALL IT TRADITION, fine coaching, pride, or what have you. Kansas usually manages to put a worthy team on the court year in and year out. This brings me to one of my favorite subjects,the 1953 squad.
That year found the Jayhawkers stripped of all but one starter from the great '52 team which won the national championship. But what a comeback story! Coach Phog Allen parlayed a fast break and a murderous half court pressing defense into the Big Eight title, the Western regional NCAA title, and missed by just one point of taking national again.
WHAT MADE THE STORY EVEN MORE ASTONISHING was the fact that KU had the smallest team in the conference and one of the smallest teams in the nation. At guards, Phog had Dean Kelley (5-11) and Gil Reich (6); at forwards he had Al Kelley (5-11) and Hal Patterson (6-2) and at center he had his one big boy, B. H. Born (6-9). Furthermore, one of his top substitutes, Dean Smith, now assistant coach at North Carolina, stood—you guessed it—5-11.
Indiana spoiled the story a little by edging this fireball crew 69-68 in the national championship game, but nobody was ready to hang Phog in effligy.
All-Star Lineup
Starting Lineup for All-Star Game Today at San Francisco
Starting Lineup for All-Star American League
Norm Cash, Detroit
John Temple, Cleveland
Brooks Robinson, Baltimore
Tony Kubek, New York
Rocky Colavito, Detroit
Roger Maris, New York
Mickey Mantle, New York
John Romano, Cleveland
Whitey Ford, New York
National League
National League
1b Bill White, St. Louis
2b Frank Bolling, Milwaukee
3b Ed Matthews, Milwaukee
ss Maury Wills, Los Angeles
lf Orlando Cepeda, San Francisco
rf Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh
cf Wilkie Mays, San Francisco
c Smoky Burgess, Pittsburgh
p Warren Spahn, Milwaukee
New Hope to Asia -
This month marks the 10th anniversary of a scheme, grand in concept and novel in design, which has profoundly affected the well-being of a quarter of the world's population.
Colombo Plan Has Birthday
In this short space of time it has brought new hope to many of the countries of South and South-East Asia: hope in the knowledge that they have friends prepared to help them to help themselves, and increased self-respect growing out of their widening efforts to help each other.
The Colombo Plan, as this farreaching bi-lateral aid program has come to be known, was first outlined by Percy Spender, then Australian minister of external affairs, in January 1950 at a meeting in Colombo, Ceylon, of the Commonwealth foreign ministers.
Spender's scheme—that the Commonwealth countries should take the initiative in launching a program of technical assistance, the area's first and biggest lack — coincided with an Asian proposal. J. R. Jayawardene, minister of finance for Ceylon, produced a resolution calling for a Commonwealth committee to prepare a 10-year plan of development for countries in the region.
He and his colleagues from the seven other Commonwealth countries — Ernest Bevin of Britain, Doidge of New Zealand, Pandit Nehru from India, Pierson of Canada, Senanayeke of Ceylon, Mohammad of Pakistan, and Sauer of South Africa — had been gloomily contemplating the situation in South and South-East Asia where a quarter of the earth's people are crammed into barely 6 per cent of the land surface.
In Sydney, the foreign ministers called on the Asian countries to prepare six-year development programs, beginning from July 1951, to provide a framework within which capital and technical assistance could be offered. They were quick to respond.
With Mr. Bevin's support, the two ideas were set aside for detailed discussion in a second foreign ministers' meeting which would be held in Sydney in May.
This area, torn and devastated by war, its industry in ruin, its population increasing like shoots in spring, could, the ministers agreed, be saved only by some great effort. This endeavor would have to come from within as well as from without.
Four months later the "Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South and South-East Asia”—a report produced by the seven founder members and presented “for the world's consideration”—was able to analyze the six-year programs prepared by India, Pakistan, Ceylon, the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak.
Golf Tough? Nuts, Anybody Can Play
DALLAS, Tex. — (UPI)— Barney Pfaff had never played golf before, so he could not have known better.
When three friends asked him to join them in a game at Cedar Crest Country Club, he agreed. Barney did not have any clubs, so he rented a set—two woods, four irons and a putter.
When the foursome got around to the 172-yard 17th hole. Barney picked up a no. 2 wood. Normally, the shot would require a five or six iron.
But nobody can argue that Barney used the wrong club. The ball he smacked dropped in for an ace—a hole in one.
LONDON — (UPI) — Cpl. Albert Wilkinson coupled his selection as the British Army's cook of the year with a complaint:
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Total cost of these plans amounted to over 5 billion dollars — despite the fact each country had included only projects it felt reasonably sure of completing within the period. As it turned out, this was an underestimation.
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From the first, the principle of self-help was laid down. The Asian countries must raise as much capital as they were able before calling on the donor countries of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to fill the financial gaps and supply technical assistance.
Financial and technical aid were, however, to be given without any strings attached. And each country must work out its own needs and targets and make its own bi-lateral arrangements with another member country for specialized help.
Although originally a Commonwealth scheme, other nations were quick to appreciate its aims and possibilities and were welcomed into the Colombo Plan as members. The United States and Japan joined the donor countries, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal.
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the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam augmented the ranks of the receivers.
More and more, however, as their own programs develop, the needy countries are evidencing a willingness and ability to help each other, just as the founders hoped.
In its 10 years of operation, the Plan has required $26.5 billion worth of capital. Roughly a fourth of this has come from the donor members.
Thus, the Philippines and India have joined the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan in helping to plot the great Mekong river project (affecting Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and even little Sarawak (where radio techniques are remarkably well-developed) has found itself able to train Laotian broadcasters.
While the U.S. has been the biggest single contributor, the British contribution also has been impressive.
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