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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 26,1964
Golf Season Opens With O-State Meet
By Glen Phillips
The KU golf team will open its season Tuesday when it meets Oklahoma State, champions in the Big Eight, on the Cowboys' own course at Stillwater.
The Jayhawkers will be strengthened this year by the return of five of the six lettermen from last year. Leading the KU squad will be John Hanna, Lawrence senior, who was runner-up in the Kansas state men's championships last year and has been among the top five contenders at the Big Eight conference meet for the last two years.
There are two returning two-year lettermen, Reid Holbrook Kansas City senior, and Paul Carlson, Lawrence senior.
Frank Kirk, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Scott Linscott, Topeka junior, and Ron Szczygiel, Leavenworth junior, are other returning lettermen.
Coach Dick Reamon expects some strength from the sophomore members of the team—John Beougher, Lawrence; Dodge Engelman, Salina; and Richard King, Salina.
Mike Rhodes, Newton junior; and Kim Corbin, Wichita senior, are two new upperclass members of the squad.
Coach Reamon said there will be a battle for the five playing positions for meets among the 11 members of the squad.
Reamon said the competition in the league this year is going to be especially tough. While Oklahoma State has won the golf title every year since they have been in the conference, and Oklahoma has always been a very strong contender, Reamon feels that his Jayhawkers will be able to do pretty well.
The KU men are already suffering because of the completely unpredictable Kansas weather. The men are supposed to play 72 holes of golf so that their scores can be evaluated and the starters for a meet can be determined. Snow, sleet, wind and rain have hampered the efforts so that they have not even shot enough for Reamon to rate them for the match with OSU next week.
The Stillwater match is the beginning of the Jayhawkers' annual swing through the southern schools. On Wednesday, KU will meet the Oklahoma Sooners at Norman.
On April 3 and 4 the Jayhawkers will compete with about 16 other teams in the Shawnee Invitational, one of the top college tournaments in the country, according to Reamon.
Reamon's hopes for a winning season are based upon strength in his senior players. However, he feels that he has promise in the sophomores and there are some good looking players coming up on the freshman team.
The University supplies some scholarship aid to encourage golfers here. There is an open tourney held at the Lawrence Country Club each year during Orientation week. All interested students may enter and play 72 holes. For the best eight scores, the University will pay the fees for their season's play on the Lawrence course. For the best four scores, the University supplies a scholarship that pays tuition and books.
The fall tournament takes advantage of the better weather and better condition of the course for choosing the golfers that will play on the varsity squad.
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CHICAGO — (UPI) — Owner Charles O. Finley of the Kansas City Athletics began a battle against the potent New York Yankees today, requesting American League action to force the elimination of the short foul lines in Yankee Stadium.
"The other American League clubs have been beating their heads against a brick wall," Finley said. "The Yanks have won 21 pennants in the last 28 years, and if something isn't done, they'll win 21 or more in the next 28."
Finley said a survey showed that in the past 28 years, the Yankees had hit 2,143 home runs in their own park compared to 1,345 for their opponents and had won 1,459 games against 707 for their foes. On the road the Yankees had won 1,240 and lost 918.
"Down through the years," he said, "the Yankees have concentrated on having players who can pull that ball. The opposing team's pitchers try to pitch to keep the Yanks
Finley charged that the "big reason" for the Yankee success was the "short foul lines, 296 feet in right field and 301 in left field," and pointed to a 1958 regulation that the minimum distance for new parks was 325 feet at each foul line.
"IM NOT KNOCKING the Yankee organization, not trying to take any credit away from the Yankee players, past or present," he said. "But it's impossible for the other clubs to compete with the Yankees' playing field advantages, because winning produces financial dividends."
Finley Protesting Short Yankee Foul Lines
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from pulling, they're not used to pitching in the stadium, they get behind, and have to groove one and bang.
"The hitter sees that short foul line and psychologically, he tries to pull, but the Yankee pitcher are used to that, they get the hitter behind, and he doesn't get that pitch."
"YOU DON'T HAVE to be a genius to know what's going on in
Yankee Stadium," he said. "It becomes obvious immediately. What puzzles me is the fact that the Yankees were permitted to continue with their short foul lines and restrictions placed on all other teams.
"They must have been wondering how long they were going to get away with this, and then the rules committee gives them protection in writing and says the other teams can't come down to where they are."
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This is the first in a series of 48 million columns examining the careers of men who have significantly altered the world we live in. We begin today with Max Planck.
Max Planck (or The Pearl of the Pacific, as he is often called) gave to modern physics the law known as Planck's Constant. Many people when they first hear of this law, throw up their hands and exclaim, "Golly whiskers, this is too deep for little old me!"
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Max Showed no indication...
But I digress. We were speaking of Planck's Constant, which is not, as many think, difficult to understand. It simply states that matter sometimes behaves like waves, and waves sometimes behave like matter. To give you a homely illustration, pick up your pencil and wave it. Your pencil, you will surely agree, is matter—yet look at the little rascal wave! Or take flags, Ann-Margret.
mings. Of All-Mariea Planck's Constant, uncomplicated as it is, nevertheless provided science with the key that unlocked the atom, made space travel possible, and conquered denture slippage. Honors were heaped upon Mr. Planck (or The City of Brotherly Love, as he is familiarly known as). He was awarded the Nobel Prize, the Little Brown Jug, and Disneyland. But the honor that pleased Mr. Planck most was that plankton were named after him.
But I digress. Back to Max Planck who, it must be said, showed no indication of his scientific genius as a youngerster. In fact, for the first six years of his life he did not speak at all except to pound his spoon on his bowl and shout "More gruel!" Imagine, then, the surprise of his parents when on his seventh birthday little Max suddenly cried, "Papa! Mama! Something is wrong with the Second Law of Thermodynamics!" So astonished were the elder Plancks that they rushed out and dug the Kiel Canal.
Plankton, as we know, are the floating colonies of one-celled animals on which fishes feed. Plankton, in their turn, feed upon one-half called animals called krill (named, incidentally, after Dr. Morris Krill who invented the house cat). Krill, in their turn, feed upon peanut butter sandwiches mostly-or, when they are in season, cheeseburgers.
Meanwhile Max, constructing a erude Petrie dish out of two small pieces of petrie and his gruel bowl, began to experiment with thermodynamics. By dinner time he had discovered Planck's Constant. Hungry but happy, he rushed to Heidelberg University to announce his findings. He arrived, unfortunately, during the Erich von Stroheim Sesquicentennial, and everyone was so busy dancing and duelling that young Planck could find nobody to listen to him. The festival, however, ended after two years and Planck was finally able to report his discovery.
Well sir, the rest is history. Einstein daily cried, "E equals me squared!" Edison invented Marconi. Eli Whitney invented Georgia Tech, and Michelangelo invented the ceiling. This later became known as the Humboldt Current.
© 1964 Max Shultman
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