Field House family says:
Friday 13—just another day
By JOHN KIELY
JERRY KLEIN
The old how-many-days-in-a-
month rhime finishes something
like this " . . . and all the rest
have 31."
January, one of all the rest, has 31. But this January isn't like one of the rest. Just look at this month's calendar, its thirteenth falls on Friday.
In Allen Field House, however, a lot of people were looking at that calendar, but apparently not too closely. They hardly paid any attention to Friday. And when they did—it didn't matter.
FOR THE superstitious, that supposedly means bad luck.
To almost all of these people connected with sports, it's simply another working day. Besides, some have enough superstitions to tide them through a month of Fridays.
Take Nick Roach for example. Friday won't bother the ticket manager. It's his birthday.
Even if he's not a man who has everything, Roach won't be needing a tie-tack for this birthday.
HE SAYS, he's more than happy with the jayhawk tie-tack that he wears to almost every KU athletic contest.
py with the Jayhawk tie-rack that the home basketball games this season—and we've won," he said with a grin.
Before basketball games, white Roach tacks his tie in place, coach Ted Owens smooths his tie down and then buttons his coat over it. But which coat?
Chances are it'll be a black sports coat which he's already worn to ten games. And it's shown repeatedly—ten wins. For a change of pace, though, he twice wore a brown-check. The pace changed—two losses.
So he no longer bothers with that one.
"I KNOW that black sport coat doesn't have a thing to do with our winning," Owens said, "but as long as we're winning I'm going to keep on wearing it."
Not long ago, when Owens put on this light-weight coat to go out into the cold, his wife, Nana,
to Ted Owens, a gray suit is to sportscaster Tom Hedrick.
"Every time," says Hedrick,
"I've worn that gray suit we've
had good luck."
Does he really believe it helps?
"No, but I'm not going to change," he answers. "It just gives us a certain lever."
THAT LEVER is confidence. He feels better if he dons the suit; just as he feels better if he downs his hot apple juice juice before each play-by-play broadcast.
And there's more. Prior to broadcasting each Kansas City Chiefs' football game, Hedrick considers it lucky to swap anecdotes with namesake Sherrill Headrick.
And just before Sunday's Super Bowl, Hedrick will be trying—wearing that gray suit, sipping hot
"You better believe we're not afraid to try anything," Hedrick said.
HELL BE doing a lot of other things, too, but not as many as the fourteen different points of his pre-battling ritual in his semi-pro baseball days. Hedrick says that ritual during one season might have helped boost his average from .280 to .400.
Dutch Lonborg didn't disclose any of his averages. But the director of events certainly did say he used to tag third base on the way in from the field.
Right now, Lonborg doesn't tag bases or run from black cats.
"There was a time when I'd have turned around and gone the other way," he said.
BUT WHEN Monte Johnson, assistant athletic director, came this way to replace the late Earl Falkenstein, he said, "Gosh, no, I'm not superstitious."
You couldn't tell that from looking at the chart on his wall. Tucked into the frame of the field house seating chart is a real four-leaf clover.
It belonged to his predecessor
are truly superstitious. Noreen Nieder, however, is an exception.
This part-time track secretary carries a lucky charm that once had a ceramic seven atop it. The seven got lost somewhere, the luck didn't.
So far, Friday will only be another working day at Allen Field House.
"IT NEVER brought me any luck anyway," she said.
Neither has her chartreuse jelly bean, but she keeps them both handy just in case. Still, to be on the safe side, she follows her horoscope and knew two months ago that Friday would be the 13th.
pineapple juice and chatting with Sherrill.
Of course, the superstitions will continue. After all, the man the place is named for used to wear red socks to basketball games. And KU teams still win there.
How much is "luck" no one knows, but this much they can know. There won't be another Friday the 13th, good or bad, until September 1968.
TOM HEDRICK
Pineapple juice
All leagues active in intramurals
Battenfeld Scholarship Hall outscored Jolliffe Hall, 44-41. Monday in the first of three Independent "A" intramural basketball games held in new Robinson gymnasium.
In the second contest, Joseph R. Pearson, spearheaded by the 11-point: production of David Stanford easily defeated MBA. 44-23
Ton Mai scored 27 points to help Polermo run by Naval ROTC. 67-30.
Paul Sutton led Battenfeld with 13 points, while Jim True pumped in 12 for Jolliffe.
The only Fraternity "B" contest which materialized saw Phi Kapra Theta beat Alpha Tau Omega, 42-30. John Strutz pumped in 18 counters for the winners.
Delta Upsilon w from Pi Kappa Alpha by forfeiture.
Ii Independent "C" action, the Seers defeated Ellsworth no. four, 35-27, and ASCE buried McCollum no. five, 52-25.
Fraternity "C" action saw Phi Delta Theta no. two weight Sigma Alpha Epsilon no. two 22-20; Delta Chi defeat Lambda Chi 48-15, and Beta Theta Pi no. four 56, Sigma Chi no. three 19.
REALLY ANXIOUS TO LEARN
LONDON—(UP1)—Miss Jenny Manser figured one way to qualify for a driver's license. A day after flanking her test she announced her engagement to Irish racing driver Paddy Hopkirk and said, "he'll teach me to drive."
but Johnson says, "Quite honestly I didn't know it was there until somebody showed it to me."
Which means that Johnson isn't superstitious. But after the interview, the reporters bid him goodbye and he answered, "Good luck, men."
HE STOPPED, cocked his head to the side and said, "Well, I guess that's superstition, isn't it?"
And while most true believers would barely classify it as fulfledged superstition, the field house secretaries, in general, would consider it quite a lot.
For it seems that few of them
DUTCH LONBORG "Oh. areat!"
said, "You superstitious old goat"
He agrees, maybe he is.
Anyway, what a black coat is
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