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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 23, 1961
Along the Jayhawk Trail
By Chuck Morelock
Joe Gordon's firing Monday ended what must have been one of the strangest relationships in major league history.
Back in 1959, A's general manager Frank Lane, then in a similar post with the Cleveland Indians, hired Gordon as Tribe field manager. Then last year, Lane fired the onetime Yankee great, rehired him immediately, and later traded him to Detroit for Jimmie Dykes in a wierd double play that made headlines from coast to coast.
After the season, Frantic Frank resigned his Cleveland post and moved to KC. In the meantime, the Athletics had given Gordon a two-year contract at an estimated salary of $30,000 per season. Thus the two were reunited again, for the third time.
Gordon had generally been re-
Gordon had generally been regarded as a fine manager, the best one Kansas City had possessed since leaving Philly in 1955. Take the recent road trip for example. The A's were forced to crowd in 23 games in a two and one-half week span. Furthermore, most of those games were against upper division teams. Not only that, but the team was continually unsettled thanks to a wholesale series of trades.
But Kansas City waded through and posted a very respectable 10-13 record. Gordon had every reason to feel encouraged. Instead, he's just another fan now. Not long ago, Lane had stated that Gordon should
GORDON . . . OUT
be considered for manager of the year honors. This was quite a compliment.
Apparently Gordon should have taken this with a big grain of salt
Apparently Gordon should have taken this with a big grain of salt. Gordon's replacement, Hank Bauer, had all the tools to become a first class major league manager. He's well-known, highly respected, aggressive, and knows baseball from a to z. Hank, a resident of Prairie Village, will continue to play occasionally until the A's can dig up another outfielder. Then he will retire to the dugout.
Bauer's managerial debut the other night couldn't have been more dramatic. This was the situation: New York was leading 3-2 with one out in the ninth. But then Norm Siebern belted a rare inside the park home run and Wes Covington put the icing on the cake with a blast over the right field fence. Final score: Kansas City 4, New York 3.
Little Jim Archer, acquired in a trade with Baltimore, won that game for the A's and upped his season's record to 5-1. Archer appears to be developing into the ace of the KC staff, unless teen-ager Lou Krausse can consistently duplicate his sensational opening game feat in which he shut out Los Angeles on three hits.
BAUER . . . IN
It's too bad poor 'ole Joe Gordon won't be around to check on their progress.
Lou Krause, the Athletics' $125,630 bonus rookie, will be out to prove that his inaugural against LA last week was no fluke as he takes the mound against the Boston Red Sox tonight.
Lou Pitches Tonight
Game time in Kansas City's Municipal Stadium is 8 p.m. Krausse, just 18, whitewashed the Angels 4-0 a fortnight ago, giving up three lone singles. More than 30,000 fans were on hand for that game, and more may pour through the turn-silies tonight.
Lab Program Operating Now
Sixteen members of the Science and Math Camp, affiliated with the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, are taking part in a three-week program of apprenticeship work.
The students are working in different science labs in the University as a part of the program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
They are working in the following labs; zoology, chemistry, psychology math, physics, anatomy, physiology radiation, biophysics, and biochemistry. The main interests are centered in math, chemistry, and physics.
The purpose of the program is to give those students interested in fields of science or math an opportunity to work with college professors in active research and get some practical experience.
Those participating were chosen from the students who attended last year's session of the Science and Math camp.
Adams Gets Grant For Chem. Studies
Ralph N. Adams, associate professor of chemistry, has received a grant of $28,500 from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for tracer diffusion studies.
The grant will support three years of study and measuring of the diffusion coefficient of a variety of organic compounds. The study will yield data basic to other research, Prof. Adams said.
Kansas Oil Production Cut
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Kansas oil production will be cut 12,500 barrels daily as the result of a strike at the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. Refinery at Oak River, Ill.
Sinclair takes about 10,500 barrels daily in Kansas and another 15,000 barrels in "trade-outs" with other firms.
The Kansas Union is offering a number of activities to keep the students busy and relaxed during the hot months ahead.
Union to Keep Students Busy
A mixed bowling league has been formed. Bascom Fearing, manager of the Jaybowl, said that more bowlers would be welcome to form another league. In past summers there has always been more than one league.
Five more Trail Room hour dances will be offered on the following Thursdays: June 29, July 6, 13, 20 and 27. All will last from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Highlighting the July events at the Union will be an ice cream social at 7:30 p.m. July 11th on the third floor terrace.
HAYDEN, Ariz. — (UPI)—A rubber conveyor belt system is helping miners here extract some 60,000 tons of copper yearly from ore abandoned before as worthless.
Recovery Technique
Movies will be shown in the Forum Room of the Union on: July 6,10, 17,18,24,and 27 at 7 p.m.
The belt, being used by a copper corporation, extracts bits of ore no larger than the size of a pea. These are then lumped into chunks the size of a basketball and recruced to pea size in which form recovery of usable copper is efficient, company officials explained.
How the Reader's Digest is edited for eighty million readers in more than a score of languages and sublanguages, through the magazine's international editions, will be the subject of Karl Detzer's public lecture to the University of Kansas Writers' Conference at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, June 29, in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
This annual literary lecture of the Conference is open to anyone interested, without charge. Interested persons may also attend the annual dinner at 6 o'clock in the Kansas Room of the Union that evening. The cost is $2 a plate.
Other sessions of the eleventh Writers' Conference at the University are limited to enrollees. Tuition is $30 and permits submission of stated amounts of manuscript for criticism by the Conference leaders. Both beginning and experienced writers may attend.
Reader's Digest Editor To Speak at Conference
Earl Wrightson and Jean Fenn will blend their baritone and soprano voices in the forever fresh and delightful "The Vagabond King," opening at Starlight Theatre Monday night, June 26.
The adventures of Francois Villon, vagabond poet of the fifteenth century, will unfold to the romantic and stirring songs of "The Vagabond King."
Poet Story At Starlight
Wrightson, as the vagabond poet whose wish is granted to be king for a day, will be heard in the stirring "Song of the Vagabonds," and will join with Metropolitan Opera soprano Jean Fenn in "Only a Rose," "Give Me One Hour," and "Love Me Tonight."
Detzer, listed as non-fiction leader, will give a workshop lecture, take part in panels and round tables and read manuscripts as will the other four leaders: Fiction, Mrs. Susan Kuehn Boyd of Iowa City, author of short stories in several literary collections; poetry, Edsel Ford of Rogers, Ark., whose new book "A Thicket of Sky" is just off the press; children's writing, Mary Francis
Rapidly becoming known as one of America's most talented singing actresses, lovely Jean Fenn's soprano voice will also be heard in the enchanting "Some Day." Also heard in "The Vagabond King" will be "Victory March," 'Waltz' and "Nocturne."
Shura of Liberty, Mo., author of five beginning-to-read and junior-age books bought for publication by Knopf; feature writing and photography, John Alexander of the Kansas City Star.
Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, is director of the conference and may be addressed for information at 203 Flint Hall, or called at VI 3-2429.
Watermelon Feed Tonight
The Wesley Foundation will have a watermelon feed at 7 p.m. tonight in the Foundation's home. All Methodist or Lutheran preference students are welcome.
"The Wild One" And "Drive A Crooked Road" Plus two bonus features Saturday
Starting Sunday "Callant Hours" And "I Passed for White"