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Summer Session Kansan
Friday. June 30, 1961
Along the Jayhawk Trail
By Chuck Morelock
The heavy schedule might have done it or the law of averages might have done it.
At any rate, the Kansas City A's are gradually sinking lower and lower in the American League standings. This is nothing new since the Athletics have never finished higher than sixth since moving to KC in 1955.
BUT THE FANS WERE HOPING for bigger and better things this year. And for awhile, their dreams seemed to be coming true. I suspect a major element in the A's plunge toward the bottom stems from Joe Gordon's firing. This move caught everybody, fans, writers, and players by surprise. It must have had an unsettling effect upon the team as evidenced by Norm Siebern's recent statement.
Siebern said he wouldn't be surprised if he showed up at the ball park some afternoon and found a housing development underway.
OWNER CHARLEY FINLEY, a man of unbounded optimism who seriously thinks the A's will be a pennant contender in a few years, may find at the end of the season that his sacking of Gordon was the biggest blunder he's made in his brief baseball career.
Gordon, on the eve of his departure, had a hustling ball club, one which was on the move upward. Hank Bauer, his replacement, may turn out to be a good manager, but as the old saying goes, it doesn't pay to change horses in the middle of the stream.
Right now, KC fans have only one real ray of encouragement and that's the age of the players. Except for a few old pros, the vast majority of the A's are in their early or middle twenties. Of these
youngsters, shortstop Dick Howser and Lou (full house) Krausse stand out. Unless he's traded (heaven forbid) Howser should have the KC shortstop job sewed up for years to come. Dick is a fine glove man, hits well, and is one of the top base stealers in the league.
Whether or not Krausse can make the grade remains to be seen, but at the moment he's the A's top gate attraction. I wish the kid all the luck in the world, for he'll probably need it, considering the A's feeble efforts of the plate of late. My pardons to Bill Shakespeare.
Dick Howser
KU
I was surprised to learn the other day that Indiana will open K-State's home football schedule this fall. Big Ten schools as a rule have rarely met a Big Eight opponent on the latter's turf for one good reason: money.
THE BIG TEN IS USED to gigantic crowds, and that includes Indiana, which has never been a football powerhouse. And when you consider that the Wildcats have to perform in a tiny stadium that seats barely 20,000, you begin to wonder why the Hoosiers agreed to such a match.
Over the years, schools in our own conference have bemoaned the fact that they can barely break even, expense-wise, after playing a game in Manhattan. Maybe the Hoosiers feel they need a "breather." regardless of the cost, before taking on tougher opposition.
A warning: sometimes these so-called "breathers" can turn into something else.
McClinton Rejects Pro Football Bids
Breathe easy fans-Curtis McClinton will be around this fall.
KU football coach Jack Mitchell said in Topeka Wednesday night that McClinton, twice all-Big Eight halfback, has turned down all pro bids and thus will be ready to go when practice starts Seent. 1.
A big, fast, and punishing halfback, McClinton is also a great corner man on defense as well as a superb pass catcher.
McClinton's presence in the lineup will mean that KU will have one of the top backfields in the country this fall. There's also a fellow named John Hadl.
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