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Summer Session Kaasan
Friday, July 20, 1962
By Steve Clark
On the southwest side of the KU campus, is a huge stone structure with a vast acreage of green grass surrounding it.
During the winter, its parking lots are full and activity is brisk as coaches and secretaries busily go about their work.
BUT DURING THE summer Allen Field House is quiet. The thousands of people that flock to the gigantic gymnasium during the winter, do not come, because there is nothing to attract them there.
The impressive basketball floor with its red trim and a Jayhawk pictured in the center circle is not there. It was removed before commencement and all that remains is a dirt floor.
Chairs were set up on the ground floor before commencement in case that showers would drive the exercises inside. The chairs still stand, because there is nothing pressing to require their removal.
IN HIS OFFICE at the north end of Allen, head basketball coach Dick Harp stands in front of a blackboard diagramming plays that the Jayhawkers might be using against their opponents this season.
In the office next door, assistant coach Ted Owens is watching movies of last season's games. He has many rolls of film and continually reverses the film so that he can study the mistakes made by both individuals and the team.
The recruiting is finished, Harp says, and he is happy with the prospects who have decided to come to KU.
"I THINK we're going to have a fine bunch of boys," he says. "I hope we do better than last year."
Towards the south end on the right side of the hallway is the publicity office. Here Don Pierce, KU sports publicity man, with cigar in mouth, labors at his ancient typewriter, getting ready for fall.
"WORKING ON football season?" Pierce was asked.
"Yeah," he replied, and went back to work at his typewriter.
In an adjoining office is Monte Johnson, public relations director. He is presently coordinating the appearances of two KU football players across the state.
KEN COLEMAN and Tony Leiker are promoting the Jayhawkers' ticket sales and Johnson is responsible for the promotion.
Across the hallway is head track coach Bill Easton's office. It is empty. Easton is in Malaya on a State Department tour.
In the outer office assistant coach Bob Lawson works at his desk. It soon will be vacant as Lawson leaves Aug. 1 to assume his new position as head coach at Iowa State University.
AT ANOTHER desk a cole-black-haired secretary clips track articles from newspapers to bring Easton's file of his Jayhawker appearances up to date.
The usually hustle-bustle atmosphere of Allen is no more. The many athletes who duck into the offices during the fall and spring terms seeking their coaches advice about injuries, scholastic difficulties, new play assignments and other problems are not there.
They are at someplace they call home, working out on a high school football field. There are no cheers. Each works out alone, knowing that before long he will perform before 40,000 people at Memorial Stadium.
There are few reporters. Those who graced Allen each day are not there, because there is no news at Allen now. But come this fall they will return, interviewing coaches and players, hoping to find out the Crimson and Blue's chances this year.
SHORT ONES—San Francisco's Candlestick Park has had 16 deaths in its short existence. Many of them have been due to heart attacks because of the steep ramp outside the park.
During the summer Allen Field House is stagnant. It is as quiet as a tomb.
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Don Drysdale attributes his 16-4 pitching record to the Los Angeles Dodgers' new park, Chavez Ravine. The old coliseum was tough on pitchers and Drysdale says he can now pitch at home as he does on the road.
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NEWTON SQUARE. Pa. —(UPI) All the golfers—except one—say it is Arnold Paimer against the field in the P.G.A. championship which started yesterday on the Aronomink golf course here.
"Ive got 173 other golfers to beat." Palmer said after playing #8 first practice round over the long course in "about even par." "I can just tell you one thing—I have the desire."
The exception? Arnold Palmer himself.
After all, he explained, victory here could put him the closest he may ever come to his golfing dream — a slam of the Masters, the U.S. and British Opens and the P.G.A. He has won the Masters and the British Open but lost the U.S. Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus.
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"I'm going to keep shooting for al four," he said, "and if I make i three this year—well, it will only add to my desire to make it four next year."
Kansas basketball coach Dick Harp will head cage faculties at three coaching schools during August. He opens Aug. 5-11 at the New Mexico Coaches association in Albuquerque. He'll serve the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Aug. 12-15 at Estes Park, Colo., then the Colorado Coaches association at Pueblo, Aug. 15-18.
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Curtis McClinton and John Hadi will be the sixth and seventh Kansas football players to participate in the College All-Star game at Soldier Field next month. Too, they will mark K.U.'s first double representation, following a string of Pete Mehringer, tackle, 1934; George Dick, end, 1944; Mike McCormack, tackle, 1950; Bob Hantla, guard, 1954, and Fred Hageman, center, 1961.
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The closest he ever has come was in 1961 when he won the Masters and British Open—the crowns he already has in the bag this year. But in between he blew the U.S. Open—just as he did this year—and then tied for fifth in the P.G.A. in 1961.
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He figures he has two problems—an aning back which "is feeling much better" and an adjustment to the bigger U.S. ball, compared to the small ball he used in winning the British Open by a record score.
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"I'M NOT WORRIED about my back," he said, "as much as I am about adjusting to the larger ball again. But if desire will do it, count me in."
Just to show what kind of desire he has:
He arrived in New York City on Saturday from his triumph in Troon, flew his own airplane to his home in Ligonier, Pa., later the same day, and then decided to rest on Sunday, "because I was awfully tired."
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He still was tired when he got up Monday morning, but decided to come here "to test this course for size."
"I found it all right," he added. "I used a lot of balls on each hole and I guess my best ball would have been about two under. But just let's say I shot par."
PAR FOR the 7,045-yard course is 35-35-70.
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"It's easier than Troon, thank God," he said. Then he added that he planned to play at least 18 holes Tuesday, plus putting in some time on the putting green, and another 18 holes in a final Wednesday warmup. "I'd better be ready then," he said.
"for this could be the toughest tournament of the year."
The betting was that Palmer would be ready.
Defending champion Jerry Barber summed it up best:
"I'm playing well and feeling fine. Then I look up and see Arnie. All I can say is that I better be feeling fine and playing well—or there will be a new G.P.A. champion."
Now he's about 250 miles away and there are 173 other golfers in the field trying to win it, too.
Palmer never has won this one—as a matter of fact he never has won a big one in his home state of Pennsylvania. The closest he ever came was in that playoff for the U.S. Open title last month at Qakmont—only a long drive (or maybe two or three) away from his home in Ligonier.
Like Palmer they also have desire.
But unlike Palmer, they may not
have the game it takes to go along
with it.
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