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Summer Session Kaasan
Tuesday, July 31, 1962
By Steve Clark
A new trend is coming to KU and President John Kennedy would certainly approve.
There will be a new emphasis on physical fitness at the University this fall. It will not be voluntary for the student but involuntary.
THE NEW TREND is not an expanded intramural program, or a strenuous athletic endeavor, but merely walking to class.
Many times we have seen fellow students awake for class at 7:55 a.m., throw on yesterday's clothes, grab a friend (or in many cases it is a fraternity pledge.) to drive them to their 8 a.m. class.
They charge into class three seconds before it starts, place a sleepy head on the desk and continue the ecstatic snooze that was so severely disturbed.
THINGS WILL HAVE to change this year. The poor, bedraggled student will have to pull himself from the sack considerably earlier this year for two reasons. One is that he can no longer drive to class, he must walk. The second, classes no longer start at 8 a.m. but at 7:30 a.m.
We are convinced that the KU student is innately lazy when it comes to physical fitness. His most vigorous athletic endeavor is the "twist" with some charming young damsel at one of the local dance halls.
This oftentimes proves too strenuous for the KU male, since after several swivels to the "Peppermint Twist," he looks longingly and pleadingly to his date asking respite from the excruciating pain.
ALTHOUGH THE DAMSEL has just begun to warm up, she feels compassion for her male suitor so allows him to collapse in the nearest chair or booth to ask pantingly for more liquid refreshment.
The 14th Street hill is another example of the physical ineptness of the KU student. One does not know whether to chuckle or cry when he sees congregations of students resting at one-third, or one-half intervals on treks up the hill.
KU HAS A FINE intramural program, but only so much can be done by the university as a whole. The major effort lies within the student.
An equally amusing sight is to watch an intramural basketball game. After several trips up and down the court, the players look longingly toward the bench for substitutes. Teams of 25 members are not uncommon as it takes that many to keep fresh players on the court.
KU TRACK COACH Bill Easton is one who avidly promotes physical fitness. He insists that his trackmen are in A-1 condition, but is appalled by the apathy of the student body toward physical fitness.
The best and most basic form of exercise is running. It is the primary athletic endeavor of every sport (with the exception of billiards and chess but they are not referred to as bona fide sports). You contend that swimming doesn't require running. Talk to Jay Markley, KU swimming coach. The KU swimmers run at the start of the season. They don't like it, but they do it just the same.
Easton proposes in addition to a football, basketball, and baseball intramural program that a track meet be instigated.
THIS IS INDEED a good idea, but one that is almost infeasible. First, the KU student is not interested in training hard for one meet, and second, he does not have time since instructors are controlling his time with lengthy assignments and written examinations.
EASTON BELIEVES that a person feels better when he undergoes some physical exercise each day.
When one gets up in the morning is the best time according to Easton. It stimulates an appetite for a hearty breakfast, which starts the day off right.
There should be more stress on physical exercise. The youth of our nation in colleges are retrogressing physically. Something should be done about it, but what?
KENNEDY'S EMPHASIS ON physical fitness is at least recognizing the problem, but we doubt if anything will be done at the college level.
Physical fitness is a good thought, and a good program, but is easier said than done.
Professionals Say That Amateur Golfers Fudge
By Oscar Fraley UPI Sports Writer
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa—Take it from the pro fairway fraternity, that game you've been playing can't hardly be called golf.
The odds are 999 to 1 that somewhere or other along the line you're judging on the rules of the game. Even in pro-amateur events the rule book is tattered and torn almost beyond recognition.
"Nobody much bothers to play all the rules in 'friendly' golf," analyzed Ted Kroll. "The reason probably is that it's either too demanding, too much trouble and, most of the time, the players just don't know the rules."
SO IF YOU flatter yourself as being a low 90's shooter, most of the pros will bet you that you're probably unable to break 100—if all your infractions were called against you.
The pros get a nation-wide look at the best—and worst—amateurs as they go from city to city on the tour and tee it up in pro-amateur and pro-celebrity events. The toll on the rule book is terrible.
"TD HAVE to guess that the mostbroken rule is changing to a 'putting ball' when they go on the green,"asserts former U.S. Open champion Jack Fleck. "Of course, in a progame I try to warn my partners against all infractions, but it's a tough job."
Easy-going Jay Hebert, a former P.G.A. champion, feels that the business of changing balls on the green is a hurricane in a stewpot, even though it is an infraction which calls for a two-stroke per hole penalty.
SOME OF THE other most committed infractions include stamping down the line of the putt, teeing off ahead of the markers, soling clubs in hazards, knocking away "gimmee" puts and carelessness in spotting balls on the green.
"Twice I've been unable to mark down birdies in pro-am events," said Leo Fraser, "because the player
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'conceded' himself a short putt. This may be all right in friendly golf—even though it's illegal — but it doesn't go when you're in a tournament."
Which is the cold eye the pros give the amateurs with whom they play. And any one of them will bet you that, if you play every rule in the book, you'll add at least 10 shots to your score in the beginning—but eventually you'll be a much better player.
"TD HAVE to guess that knocking down spike marks in the line of a putt is the worst." said Gary Player, who drew agreement from Dow Finsterwald.
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