Summer Session Kansan Tuesday. July 10. 1962
By Steve Clark
Jayhawker football coach Jack Mitchell was in a local barber shop recently shining his shoes while waiting to get his hair cut.
One of the barbers noticed a lot of mud on the bottom of Mitchell's shoes and asked if he was now recruiting his football players out of the cornfield.
Mitchell laughed, shrugged off the question and cleaned the mud off his shoes.
There was a story that they used to tell about Bernie Bierman, the old Minnesota coach. Bierman supposedly would do his recruiting out in the farmlands of Minnesota.
He would be driving along a dirt road and see a husky farm boy out in the field plowing. He would stop, and ask the way to Minneapolis.
If the boy pointed with his finger, Bierman would get back in his car and proceed, but if the boy picked up the plow and pointed he would sign him up to play football.
Recruiting methods are different these days, and a good prospect not only has to be big, but he has to be a 10:0 100-yard dash man.
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Gordon Davis, former Jayhawker track captain and quartermiler, is the new assistant track coach at Central Missouri State at Warrenburg. Davis was notified of his appointment last week.
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Bob Lawson, new track coach at Iowa State, reports an erroneous fact about his fishing exploits in Friday's "Along the Jayhawker Trail." He says that the fish he affectionately termed "The Whale" weighed three pounds and was 16 inches long, another fish story!
Lawson visited Ames, Ia., over the weekend to find housing for this fall.
John Cronley, sports editor of the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, writing in his "Once Over Lightly" column has found the quote of the year, "That big league baseball is making an old man out of Bo Belinsky."
Belinsky is of course the rookie pitcher sensation and the dapper dandy of the Los Angeles Angels.
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Los Angeles may have their first intra-city World Series this year. Both the Angels and the Dodgers are atop their respective leagues (as of Friday) and show no signs of folding.
This is the second year for the Angels in the American League. The other addition to the A.L. last year, Washington, is presently in last place.
The former Washington team which Cal Griffith moved to Minnesota is only a couple games off the pace and is fighting it out with New York. Cleveland and Los Angeles.
The now Twins were cellar-dwellers while in Washington. The fans there just can't win.
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Rumors are that there might be a letter-writing campaign started before long to Washington protasting Charles Finley's supposed move to Dallas. Other rumors have it that Finley now has the necessary support to move the team from Kansas City.
Business people just do not understand athletics. People will not watch a team just for the sake of watching athletics. They like to watch winning teams or big attractions.
That's why Allen Field House was vacant this year. While, we thought KU had one of its most exciting teams in several years, fans and even students would not turn out for the games because KU was not in championship contention.
The old college spirit has even turned to apathy.
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Wes Santee and Bill Dotson appeared on a Kansas City radio show last week. With Dotson being a very quiet person, and Santee a quite loquacious one, the latter did all the talking with the former speaking only five to 10 words in about an hour's time.
Dotson left the microphone which he wasn't using anyway to talk to Riesinger. Riesinger called to tell Dotson he wanted to hear him say something.
Finally a Dotson teammate, Ted Riesinger, who is living in Kansas City called the station and asked for Dotson.
The call, while having good intentions, did not produce any noticeable results.
The new Kansas football brochure is quite clever. It centers around a western theme with the coaches and players attired in cowboy hats and bearing "new Handles" such as "Marshall" Lonborg, "Sheriff" Mitchell, "Handsome Kid" McFarland, "Cimarron Joe" Collins, "Limping Lee" Flachsbarth, "Hurricane Mickie" Walker, "Pistol Pete" Quatrochi, "Hopalong" Bogard, "Butcher Knife" Eiseman—to name a few.
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A recent television show slammed sports writers. We were watching a typical "whodunit" in which the leading role (naturally) was a sports writer.
One of the other characters, definitely not a journalist, got quite perturbed at the writer's verboseness and said, "Shooting off their mouth is an occupational disease of sports writers."
Naughtier things have never been said.
Earl Battey, Chicago
Jim Gentile, Baltimore
Bill Moran, Minnesota
Luis Aparicio, Chicago
Rich Rollins, Minnesota
Leon Wagner, L.A.
Mickey Mantle, N.Y.
Roger Maris, N.Y.
All Star Line-up
Del Crandall, Milwaukee
Orlando Cepeda, S.F.
Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh
Dick Groat, Pittsburgh
Ken Boyer, St. Louis
Tommy Davis, L.A.
Willie Mays, S.F.
Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh
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Musial Gives Pitchers Rest
By United Press International Time out for the All-Star break—and what a break it is for those poor battered National League pitchers who don't have to face Stan (The Man) Musial.
Musial has an appointment today in Washington, where he will appear as a member of the N.L. AllStar team for a record 19th time, and the pitcheres would just as soon he not hurry back.
Can you blame them, though, after the amazing 41-year-old St. Louis Cardinal slugger equalled still another major league record Sunday by belting three home runs in a 15-1 victory over the shell-shocked New York Mets.
Naturally, they're a bit prejudiced.
Dotson 33rd Man To Break 4:00
Kansas senior Bill Dotson became the 33rd man in world history, and seventh American, to break the sonic Mile barrier with that 3:59 flight for fourth in the NAAU. This lung-burner marked the first time four Americans have dipped under 4:00 with Jim Beatty, Jim Grelle and Cary Weisiger, finishing ahead of the Jayhawker captain. Over all, there now have been 86 sub-4:00 journeys in world history.
His performance at the Polo Grounds was such that Met Manager Casey Stengel was moved to comment:
LOS ANGELES - (UPI) - A total of 750 home runs were hit in the Los Angeles Coliseum during the four years it was occupied by the Dodgers.
"I don't want to give that boy any ideas, but the way he's hitting he can hang around in this business two or three more years easily."
750 Homers in Coliseum
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