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University Daily Kansan Friday. April 13, 1962
By Steve Clark
Here's a salute to the "Old Pro," whoever and wherever he may be.
COACH FLOYD Temple's crew did everything within their power to make the "Old Pro" eat his words by sweeping both games of a doubleheader.
First, a prediction that Nebraska would win the Big Eight championship in baseball. Second, the implication that the Jayhawkers are cellar-bound.
The "Old Pro" was persistent however, and the headline on that day's story was "Kansas Slows Down Nebraska's Title Hopes."
There was more baseball on tap for that afternoon, and Kansas again defeated the Cornhuskers again to move into a first place tie with Missouri and Oklahoma in the Big Eight.
THE JAYHAWKERS are off to a fine start. They stand 3-0 in league play and 5-2 overall. Last year they were able to win but five games overall and two in the league, so KU has already improved over last year with the season but one-third completed.
A KU baseball player related to me an incident that happened on the Jayhawkers recent trip to Lincoln, Neb., to meet the Cornhusker's in a three-game series.
He said that all Kansas had was a catcher (Keith Abercrombie) who somehow managed to hit .345 last year.
ON THE SPORTS page of an unidentified Lincoln newspaper was a column entitled the "Old Pro." Within the column were some astounding statements.
Another feather in KU's cap was their split with the University of Houston. Oklahoma State, which last year won the Big Eight was held scoreless in two games by the Cougars. The Jayhawkers tagged Houston for 14 runs in splitting the series.
The Jayhawkers open their 1962 home season at Quigley Field, south of Allen Field House, today against arch-rival Kansas State in two seven inning games. Tomorrow the two teams meet in a nine inning contest starting at 1:30 p.m.
THE GAME WILL be broadcast by KU Sports Network director Tom Hedrick over KLWN.
The Jayhawkers have an improved team this year and could be the surprise of the conference.
Fan support means a lot to athletes. The players report real good support at Texas Lutheran and Nebraska. The Cornhuskers fans filled the bleachers and about 200 persons stood along the fences for both games. Even after NU's most humiliating losses the fans returned the next day.
Jay Runners Top
KANSAS APPEARS to have a good team this year, worthy of fan support. Maybe the "Old Pro" was right in picking his team to win the Big Eight. The fans turned out to see the games.
O.K. if this will help, I'll do it.
The Kansas Jayhawkers will win the Big Eight in baseball.
Kansas' record-shattering Distance Medley triumph of 9:46.4 in the Texas Relays is the fastest ever by a Big Eight team at this distance, dipping under the Jayhawkers' 9:48.8 American Indoor record engineered in the Kansas State Invitational. Bill Dotson anchored both bursts with Miles of 4:03.9.
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Kansas in Action; Golf Team Second
KU is presently leading the Big Eight along with Missouri and Oklahoma, all with 3-0 records. The Jayhawks handed the Nebraska Cornhuskers three stunning defeats last weekend.
The Kansas Jayhawker baseball team opens its 1962 home season this afternoon at Quigley Field against the Kansas State Wildcats in two seven-inning games.
COACH FLOYD Temple will make his first lineup change against the Wildcats. Dick Rader, Wichita junior, will start at third base in place of veteran Jim Esliveris.
Although neither players are hitting well, Rader holds a slim .111 to .063 advantage over Evilsizer. Temple said he made the change "in hopes of improving the defense some."
Jerry Waldschmidt, who has a 3-0 record and a 1.59 earned run average, is the probable starter for the opening game of the series. Temple is expected to start Roger Brock (1-1) in the second game and go with either Monte Stewart (2-1) or Carl Nelson (0-0) in Saturday's single game.
OUTFIELDER KEN HENSLEY is leading the club in hitting with a .333 batting average and seven runs batted in. Behind him is catcher Keith Abercrombie with a .286 batting average and outfielder Tony Leiker, infielders Hubert Bumgardner and Richard Fanning, all with .250 averages.
Meanwhile the Kansas track squad meets Abilene Christian and New Mexico in a triangular tomorrow afternoon.
Abilene Christian, coached by Oliver Jackson, is undefeated in team competition this spring. The Wildcats have won the Southwestern Recreation meet, Border Olympics.
West Texas Relays and San Angelo Relays. In addition they beat Houston, Texas Tech and Texas A&M in a quadrangular.
THE NEW MEXICO Wolfback has a seven-two record in dual and triangular meet competition. NMU holds triangular victories over Texas Tech and Texas Western, and Wyoming and the Albuquerque Track Club.
KU's golf team showed surprising strength yesterday in a triangular meet with K-State and Wichita U. at the Wichita Country Club. The Hawks' four-man team, which does not have a single letterman, carded a 311 to capture second place in the meet. K-State won the event with a 307 and Wichita had 323.
In dual competition New Mexico has defeated Utah, Colorado State, Brigham Young, while losing to Arizona and to Colorado.
KU'S JOHN HANNA was matched against Wichita's ace Johnny Stevens, who won the Kansas State amateur title in 1960. Hanna's 38-37-75 topped Stevens' 39-37-76.
The meet was played in strong winds and cool temperatures over the par 35-36-71 Wichita Country Club.
Other scores for KU showed Reid Holbrook, 42-39-81; Paul Carlson, 37-38-75; Doug Kieswatter, 39-41-80 and KU's fifth man, Dick Haitbrink, 42-43-85.
JERRY SHAW of K-State won medalist honors with a one over par -72.
Markley said the players are playing as well or better than they were at this time last year.
KU travels to Missouri next Saturday for a dual meet with the Tigers.
By Dick West United Press International
"Brave" Riding Reporter Finds Race Car Floorboards Handy
There is a little ritual that takes place nearly every time a newspaper reporter interviews a champion racing car driver.
Moss and a group of other top sports car racers were here to participate in the American debut of the British Motor Corp.'s new Austin 850, which is being billed as the United Kingdom's answer to the Volkswagen.
The reporter will ask what is the most hazardous thing about racing and the driver will reply that it is driving through traffic on the way to the track.
"The best time to interview Moss is when he's driving," one of the BMC officials told me. "He is relaxed then and is more his natural self."
So I signed a waiver relieving the BMC of responsibility for life and limb, and climbed into a seat beside a small, bland, suntanned individual who is an acknowledged giant of the crash helmet set.
And it was this, as much as anything, that drew me out to the Marlboro raceway in Washington, D.C., to have a talk with Stirling Moss, the celebrated British break-neck.
Ever since Ben Hur, or one of those early speed demons, got a laugh with that line, it has been a staple commodity of pit stop journalism.
"Is it true that you fellows regard highway driving as more perilous than racing?" I asked as he slammed home the first gear and hurtled down the straightaway.
"That's a lot of ------ nonsense," replied Moss, whose use of the Queen's English is rather pungent. "The only thing dangerous about highway driving is that you never know what some idiot in another car will do."
I wanted to pin down, once and for all, whether these knights of the exhaust pipe really feel that highway traffic is more dangerous than speedway racing.
That was the end of the interview
as far as I was concerned, for we were then approaching the first curve, which Moss either didn't see or chose to disregard.
He, however, kept on talking, not only around the curve but around the hairpin turn at one end of the track. Evidently, he thought that I was interested in seeing the fine points of race driving demonstrated.
Actually, the only thing I was interested in was why I had been fool enough to sign that waiver.
Since I took no notes, the only thing I can tell you about the rest of the ride is this: the floorboards of the Austin 850 are able to withstand the continuous pressure of a 150-pound passenger pressing against them at maximum force with both feet.
P-T-P Workshops Meeting Today
Students interested in summer workshops to improve international human relations are invited to meet with a field representative of the Lisle Fellowship Foundation at 4 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
The program is part of the People-to-People program headed by former President Eisenhower. Summer workshops will be held in California, Washington, D.C., Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jamaica and Latin America. The foundation also sponsors an exchange program with the Soviet Union and an exploratory community development unit in Colombia, South America.
During the summer session's first week the fellows from different countries become acquainted with one another. They then will spend four days living in homes or institutions sponsored by community leaders.
In the closing days of the six-week session the fellows will meet again to relate their experiences to situations and relationships they might face at home, in school, in their work or in their community.
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