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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 9, 1968
Orioles have close one
Somebody up there likes you, Harry
NEW YORK—(UPI)—There is some justice left in the world after all.
The best proof of that is what happened to the Baltimore Orioles late Wednesday afternoon.
It happened to Harry Dalton at the same time.
Harry Dalton is Vice President and Director of Player Personnel with the Orioles and nobody can ever remember him saying a bad word. That's because he's a gentleman.
He's so much of a gentleman he doesn't say a bad word about people who try to take advantage of him. That doesn't mean he doesn't know what they're up to.
When Harry Dalton awoke Wednesday morning he knew he had to do something about a crisis which the Baltimore Baseball Club would have to face this coming Monday.
On that day the ball club would lose its shortstop, Mark Belanger. On that day Belanger would report to active duty with his Reserve Unit, the 175th Tactical Fighter Group, and might be gone for as long as two years.
Harry Dalton knew this, Hank Bauer knew this, the whole American League knew this.
Not the type
Dalton isn't the type to wait until the last minute. He knew about Belanger's military commitment for some time and tried to do something about it. He tried to make a deal with a major league club. He would've had better luck making one with Hanoi.
Openly, all the other ball clubs commiserated with him about the Orioles' impending loss of Belanger. Privately, they all had the same one-word reaction. Good!
Nobody ever feels sorry for
Shortstops who ordinarily would go for the $20,000 waiver price suddenly became worth 10 times that much. Those clubs which didn't ask for money asked for something more. Front -liners. Sometimes front-liners, plural, for a second-stringer, singular.
somebody else in baseball. Especially, nobody ever feels sorry for a club in first place, which is where the Orioles are.
Dalton and the Orioles weren't exactly over a barrel but they weren't far away. They had extra infielders like Don Buford, who isn't a shortstop, and Chico Fernandez, who has never started a major league game, and why couldn't they move second baseman Davey Johnson over to short some people wondered?
He's learning
Don't worry if baby scowls
Changing facial expressions and bodily tensions induced by various stimulation are the earliest signs of learning in newborn infants, according to Lewis Lipsitt, director of the child study center at Brown University.
Lipsitt discussed "The Study of Infant Behavior: A Big Booming Buzzing Confusion" Wednesday in the Kansas Union Forum Room in a colloquium sponsored jointly by the departments of psychology and human development and family life.
Bauer's thinking was to try Fernandez at short and keep Johnson at second.
Providence, R.I., show that infants can be conditioned to turn their heads, change their rate of sucking on a pacifier and open their mouths when stroked on the face or touched on the palms of their hands.
Experiments conducted by Lipsitt at Providence Lying-In Hospital, a maternity hospital in
The earliest signs of infant approach-avoidance behavior may unintentionally be induced by a baby's mother during feeding, Lipsitt said. When a mother nursing her child positions the nipple in such a way that the baby's nostril is blocked and he has difficulty breathing, the baby turns his head from side to side for comfort.
"I think," said the Baltimore manager, "Davey is a little reluctant to go to short, but he'd move if I asked him. The way he's going I'd hate like hell to move him."
Unable to deal
As late as 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dalton was unable to make a deal with any of those clubs which sympathized with him so much. As late as 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dalton was still in there trying.
to his kidnies. He didn't want to say they were holding him up although they actually were right there in broad daylight.
"We're still trying to decide whether we should get a regular shortstop or a reserve infielder," he said. "Consequently we're looking for both. Everywhere we've gone we've found infielders are not very prevalent. Those who may be available are coming rather high at the moment."
That's Harry Dalton, always the gentleman.
Harry Dalton felt like singing when he put the phone receiver back in its cradle. He didn't say anything for a few minutes but merely sat there feeling good all over.
Shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday Dalton received a phone call. It was from a representative of the Maryland Air National Guard saying there had been a change in plans.
Harry Dalton, who never says a bad word, didn't want to come right out and say they had a gun
Belanger's Reserve Unit was not called to active duty this coming Monday. The young shortstop would be able to remain with his present employer for the time being. No definite date was set for another call-up.
There is some justice left in the world after all.
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Two students were named Wednesday by the Kansan Board to direct the University Daily Kansan during the Fall 1968 semester.
John Marshall, Lincoln junior,
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Marshall, who has served as city editor and assistant managing editor of the Kansan, will direct the news and editorial staff of the newspaper. Haney will be in charge of the Kansan's advertising staff.
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