Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 12, 1962 Sports Roundup
By Steve Clark
A zebu with a flattop, ridiculous!
After a brief three week respite, we are back again with our regular Kansan column "Along the Jayhawker Trail."
Summertime is slow for sports at KU. There are no football, basketball, track or baseball contests to cover, so it leaves time to just sit back and ponder over the past and prognosticate the future.
EVERY ONCE in a while something newsy floats across the desk like an athlete breaking his leg, not making his grades or possibly the hiring of a new coach.
Before the summer's over there's bound to be a rumor that Jack Mitchell is going to become head coach of the Saskatchewan Sadge-cats, or that Bill Easton or Dick Harp are leaving.
There is also a possibility of some local excitement concerning professional baseball, perhaps the Athletics moving into seventh place. There is always good news copy concerning their possible move to Dallas, but that's been played up so much it's getting a little old However, if anything really dynamic happens we will let you know about it.
The majors have already had one no-hitter by a rookie. Bo Bellinsky, but before it's over we can't help but think that there will be another.
BEFORE THE SEASON'S over there is bound to be a 14- or 15-year old pitcher who breaks into the major leagues à la Lew Krause and Von McDaniel style and pitches a no-hitter (not à la Krause and McDaniel), gets a big buildup and then disappears into obscurity.
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ON THE KU SCENE . . . Jack Mitchell is happy over his Jayhawkers spring football performance and would like for the 1962 season to open tomorrow.
"Overall, this may have been the finest spring practice we've had since we've been here (five years)," Mitchell says. "Squad morale and enthusiasm is probably the highest it has ever been. And our line really came. It progressed far more than we anticipated. It was the best spring practice for linemen we've ever had."
The Jayhawker's home football slate is going to be as good as the one two years ago which was billed the "Greatest Home Football Schedule in the History of KU."
Tickets will be at a premium which means the $70,000 deficit in the athletic budget could be alleviated.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska and California will all perform on the KU turf which means Memorial Stadium should see several full houses this fall.
Don Faurot, the director of athletics at Missouri, reports that the KU-MU game at Columbia is already sold out. The Jayhawkers, we hope, will get used to playing before sell-out crowds.
THE JAYHAWKERS again like the 1960 club, will have a fine backfield, although Coach Mitchell was not encouraged by their performance in spring practice.
Quarterback Rodger McFarland and fullback Ken Coleman are already all-Big Eight and All America caliber and if sophomore Gale Sayers can perform in varsity ball as he did in freshman ball, and Tony Leiker can equal his effort last season KU's backfield could be unstoppable.
KU WILL have a field goal kicker this year, something they missed last year. Gary Duff, Salina sophomore, has looked impressive even though he never kicked a field goal during his high school career.
As a freshman he kicked a 28-yard field goal against Missouri to tie the game 22-22 with 30 seconds remaining. In the Varsity's 17-6 victory over the Alumni he kicked a 32-yarder.
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HUGH BUMGARDNER, Kansas second baseman, finished third in the Big Eight conference's leading hitters. Bumgardner had 27 hits in 70 times-at-bat in 21 games for a .385 average.
Teammate Dick Fanning, a first baseman, was fifth with a .378 average. Fanning also lead the league in home runs with six and in runs-batted-in with 29.
Gale Weidner, Colorado footballer, led the Big Eight in hitting with a .463 average.
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JACK STEVENS became the first Kansas pole-vaulter to clear 15-feet as he did it unofficially at the Missouri Valley AAU meet three weeks ago.
Stevens won with a 14-6 vault and cleared 15-feet on his fourth try. His official best for the '62 season is 14-6$^{3/4}$ which he did for a fourth-place tie at Drake Relays.
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BILL DOTSON, captain of the Jayhawker track team, is currently the only KU performer ranked on the latest NCAA listings. Dotson's 4:03.7 time in the mile is the seventh fastest and his 9:01.1 two-mile time is ninth.
Hadl, McClinton Named All-Stars
KU's John Hadl and Curtis McClinton have been selected by Coach Otto Graham for the College All-Star football squad which will meet the world champion Green Bay Packers on Aug. 3 at Soldier Field in Chicago.
The 50-man squad from 24 states will begin practicing on July 13 at Northwestern University.
Eight major college conferences were represented with the Southeast Conference topping the list with eight players from five schools. The Southwest Conference had five players from four schools. There were four Big Ten representatives from two schools.
THE ONLY OTHER Big Eight player named was Ed Blaine of the University of Missouri.
The team announced last week, will represent the college ranks in the 29th game of the Chicago Tribune sponsored series. It will be the fourth appearance for the Packers who lost to the Collegians, 6-0, in 1973; defeated the All-Stars 45-28 in 1940; and won the 1945 game, 19-7.
Two Kansas baseball players were named to the all-Big Eight team. They are first baseman Dick Fanning and second baseman Hugh Bum-gardner.
Fanning led the league in home runs and runs-batted-in and Bum-gardner was fourth in hitting.
Littler Not Favored
His five under par 67 in the closing round yesterday at Clifton, N. J., earned him the biggest golf purse of the year and he finished 15 strokes ahead of Arnold Palmer, who will be favored in the Open.
OAKMONT, Pa.—(UPI)—Defending champion Gene Littler can't see why he should be favored to win the U.S. Open golf championship starting here Thursday despite his $25,000 victory in the Thunderbird Open.
KANSAS TRACK captain Bill Dotson won the 880-yard run in 1:49.6 at the Meet of Champions in Houston Friday night.
The only other KU man to score was Ron Swanson who placed fourth in the high jump at 6-6.
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