Wednesday. March 5. 1958 University Daily Kansan
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PITCHING MACHINE-8 of 10 in strike zone.
Net Team Preps For 1st Meet
The air will soon be filled with tennis balls, as Kansas prepares for its coming tennis season. Several men have already begun work so as to be ready when actual practice begins.
The first tennis meet will be held April 11 here when the Jayhawkers meet Oklahoma State. Two non-conference meets have been scheduled with Wichita and coach Denzell Gibbons is trying to schedule meets with Washburn University.
"I expect Oklahoma and possibly Oklahoma State to be powers in the conference this year," Gibbons said. "Our returning lettermen are Bob Peterson, Lynne Sieverling, Bob Mettlen and Gene Kane. Kane lettered two years ago, and didn't compete last season." Gibbon stated. Malcolm Applegate, former Washburn star, is expected to make a strong showing.
Baseball Team Needs Break In Weather, More Players
"We need a break in the weather." Baseball Coach Floyd Temple said in an interview Tuesday. "The team has done as much as possible inside.
He said that all the men could do inside was hit and throw. The main thing holding them inside was the muddy field.
Oklahoma won the Big Seven tennis tournament last year by winning six out of seven final matches. KU's season record was 8-3. The Jayhawkers finished third in the tournament.
Missing from the KU team will be Bob Riley, who finished his collegiate career with a 29-5 record. He was conference champion hisophomore year. Peterson and Sieverling reached the finals in the No. 1 doubles in the tournament last year, but were defeated by an Oklahoma team. In all, 18 men have indicated that they intend to participate in tennis.
Temple said he would have to find two more pitchers and two more outfielders to go along with the returning lettermen.
The returning men who will be depended on this year include Barry Donaldson, catcher; Jim Trombold first base; Ron Wiley and Larry Miller, pitchers; Barry Robertson shortstop and Bob Marshall outfielder.
Wiley and Miller were both allconference selections last year. Marshall is a doubtful starter due to a knee injury suffered in football.
"Barry Robertson is perhaps the finest shortstop in KU history." Temple said.
The second base spot will be filled by either Art Muegel or Ed Ash. Temple said that Carl Lauder-jung a promising sophomore catcher might take over and move Donaldson to third base.
Temple expects Missouri and Oklahoma to be the chief threats as usual. However, Oklahoma State becomes eligible for conference play and will be very tough. "They are a strong baseball school and always have a fine team," Temple said.
KU is again using the automatic pitching machine this year. The machine cost about $300 and is a very good investment according to Temple.
He said that the machine is more accurate than the pitchers although not quite as fast. It throws about eight out of ten pitches in the strike zone.
Temple said that it is a great thing to have at the beginning of practice because the pitchers are not ready to throw. The machine enables the hitters to start working on their timing early instead of wating for the pitchers to get in shape.
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A Campus-to-Career Case History
Roy Vaughn (left) discusses a central office power installation with Switchman R.F. Heider,
"I like (and get) 'start-to-finish' engineering assignments"
"My job is to engineer the power requirements for telephone central offices.
"After this experience I looked over power engineering opportunities in a number of companies. I joined Illinois Bell because it promised the most interesting and challenging work. That was three years ago. My work with IBT has everything that I was looking for.
"When it comes to making a job interesting, I think the assignments a man gets are more important than the size of the project he's working on," says Roy Vaughn of Illinois Bell Telephone Company. "I found that out soon after I graduated. My first job was with an organization where the projects were big, but the individual engineering assignments lacked variety and scope.
The work never gets routine. One job may be for a new building, the next for expanding existing plant. And power needs vary tremendously from little rural dial offices serving a few hundred telephones, to big metropolitan telephone plants serving hundreds of thousands.
"But what I like best is that I generally handle the job from start to finish. I determine the operational and emergency power requirements of the facilities to be served, and order the equipment needed. And I'm usually on hand during installation to see the job through."
"Not only does this kind of engineering assignment keep work interesting, but I find it is helping me become a better manager. And that improves my chances for advancement."
Roy L. Vaughn, Jr., graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1954 with a B.S. in E.E. degree. He is one of many young men who are finding interesting and rewarding careers in the Bell Telephone Companies. Find out about career opportunities for you. Talk with the Bell interviewer when he visits your campus, and read the Bell Telephone booklet on file in your Placement Office.
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