Friday, July 27, 1962 Summer Session Kansan
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By Steve Clark
An elementary rule of sportswriting is to write the English language. Some sportswriters incorporate so much slang and jargon into their writing that it is barely understandable.
Ray Soldan of the Daily Oklahoman uncovered a classic while checking some files. The following is an account of a baseball game written in 1902.
"FOUR WIDE ONES and Hogan paraded. Dooley tilted the pellet to the outer-most precinct for a hassock and invested second citadel through Groogin's insane heave. Jones' agile mitt engulfed Smith's towerer to left garden, but failed to ferry it in before Hogan's extremeties soiled the rubber.
"Donavan jabbed a solitaire to left pasture, slabbing Dooley, but met his death purloining a bag. Higgins made three frantic lunges at the leather, but Guff's saffron mitt let him amble down the trail to the initial roost.
"Duffy's steaming grasser to right meadow incinerated Giff's digits. Doyle dunked safely to larboard, but Brown's swift return of the globule contributed to Higgins' demise at the platter."
WHAT DID HE SAY?
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Bud Wilkinson, Oklahoma football coach, is singing a new tune these days. Usually he weeps profusely this time of year lamenting what a poor Sooner aggregation he has.
Tickets are going so fast that rumors have cropped up that Harold Reid, OU football ticket manager, would like to silence. The rumor is that the Sooners have positively sold out their Notre Dame and Syracuse football games.
For many years he would do this and nobody would believe him, but the past couple of years the Sooner mentor has blossomed into a prophet.
THIS YEAR he has an optimistic approach, probably for one reason alone, ticket sales. His strategy must be working because the OU ticket office is sizzling with orders for this year.
"I'm getting fed up with picking up the phone and hearing some fan say, What's this I hear about you're having sellouts already for the first games?" Reid says.
"IT HAS HAPPENED 20 times a day for the last 20 years about our biggest games.
"For the record we are not sold out for the two games any more than we were sold out for the Nebraska game back in Stidman's day. Our sales for those two games are moving right along, but season and reserved seat tickets for both are still plentiful. We've had only eight sellouts in the past 13 years at Norman."
Reid also disclosed that interest in the Notre Dame game is strong in South Bend, Ind. The Irish have asked for a block of 8,000 seats.
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Monte Johnson, KU sports public relations man, who is spearheading the ticket drive for the Jayhawkers reports the KU season ticket sales are good. He says that 96 per cent of last year's total has already been reached.
Footballers Ken Coleman and Tony Leiker are traveling the state promoting the KU ticket cause. Coleman handles the eastern portion and Leiker the western.
THE TWO APPEAR at civic clubs and quarterback meetings, show a KU football highlights film and talk about KU's prospects for the coming year.
Both are doing a fine job according to Johnson. Leiker is very popular in the western part of the state since he hails from Hays. Coleman traveling the eastern sector usually gets to Lawrence on the weekend, but Johnson has not seen Leiker in many moons.
The KU alumni are giving the program a tremendous boost by taking care of the ambassadors when they pass through town. Alumni house the footballers which cuts expenses for the program.
A new Babe Ruth story has been uncovered. Once the Babe was disturbed because writers wrote of his boyish pranks rather than his hitting exploits.
So a newsman consented to write something serious asking the Babe what he thought of the Napoleonic era.
After due thought Ruth answered, "I think it should-a been scored a hit."
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All-Star Game Might Profit From Old-Timers
By Oscar Fraley UPI Sports Writer
And, off the record of recent doings in this latter series, the American Leaguers might do worse than draft some of the players who will show up at Yankee Stadium for the old gaffers' get-together.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— The All-Star dodge goes into high gear this weekend and it seems somewhat probable that some of the players are going to the wrong stadium.
If you recall the recent initial offering at Washington of the All-Star
What brings this to mind is that the New York Yankees will stage their 16th annual Old-Timers Day at Yankee Stadium tomorrow. Then, on Monday, at Chicago's Wrigley Field, the season's second major league All-Star squabble between the National and American Leagues will take a curtain-call.
pension fund gouge, the American Leaguers are in something of a dilemma. When they blew the duck by a 3 to 1 score, with their alleged sluggers handcuffed to a mere four hits, it became increasingly evident that they were in dire need of assistance from almost anywhere. For it marked their fifth defeat in six starts, including a tie.
TO MAKE IT even worse, their demise was instigated by a creaking old gaffer from St. Louis named Stan Musial, who still isn't quite certain whether he'll call it quits after this season. To make it worse, the coup de grace was administered by a skinny little guy named Maury Wills, who stole everything but first base and the American Leaguers' unmentionables.
Ralph Houk was a bit less than highly pleased. As manager of the world champion New York Yankees
Berra Heads Additions To A.L. All-Star Roster
BOSTON — (UPI) — Yogi Berra, whose 1959 him helped the American League to its last All-Star game victory, heads four additional A.L. players named for next Monday's second 1962 All-Star game.
American League manager Ralph Houk of New York made Berra one of his choices while planning a breakthrough of National League domination in recent All-Star competition. The Nationals, once far in arrears of the American Leaguers in the All-Star won-lost records, have won four and tied one in the last five meetings.
Joining Berra, named for the 14th successive season, were Boston first baseman Pete Runnels, the current American League batting leader, and pitchers Jim Kaat of Minnesota and Ken McBride of Los Angeles.
Houk also repeated a first game move in which Baltimore pitcher Milt Pappas replaced ailing teammate Hoyt Wilhelm on the American League pitching staff.
To make room for the fourth additional player, Houk was forced to drop Boston pitcher Bill Monbouquette from his first game mound staff. Under the rules, the All-Star manager may add only three players for the second game but is permitted to make changes in his pitching and reserve choices.
The remainder of the American League squad will be the same which lost a 3-1 decision to the Nationals two weeks ago at Washington. The National win pulled the league to within one victory of tying the American League's once-dominant 16 victories in All-Star competition.
They've Asked For It
WATERBURY, Conn. — (UPI)—A local gas station operator apparently thinks his business needs a woman's touch.
He notified the state employment service he needs four or five women to pump gas, supply oil and clean windshields.
he is quite accustomed to slightly better production. His stint as manager of the American League All-Stars could do little more than elicit an observation that his lads were every bit as capable as their antagonists. Even, it might be added, if the proof has been sadly lacking of late.
Houk, of course, will be at Yankee Stadium tomorrow. In addition to the turnstile-spinning Old Timers' Day festivities, his own band of heroes, cantering easily toward another pennant, will be on hand to engage the Chicago White Sox. And, when he looks back on that Washington debacle, he may be sorely tempted to draft some of those so-called "old timers" for duty in Wrigley Field on Monday.
THE VISITORS will include such 1937 American League All-Stars as Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Charles Gehringer, Jimmy Foxx, Hank Greenberg, Red Rolfe, Earl Averill and also such pitchers as Monte Stratton, Mel Harder, Tommy Bridges, Lefty Gomez and Johnny Murphy. There still might be some mileage, too, in the whip of new Hall of Famer Bob Feller.
That 1937 crew put it on the National League by a score of 8 to 3. Those, Houk must sigh, were the good old days when the lads from his loop were making a minor mockery out of those current upstarts from the other conference.
He might do real well by drafting some of those "old-timers." Certainly he couldn't do much worse than the American Leaguers have been doing of late.
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