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Monday, July 2. 1979
Summer Session Kansan
Little League has big competitors
By VALERIE HOWARD
Staff Reporter
Ten-year-old Joe Heeb doesn't mind the competition.
"I'm always batting and practicing baseball; cause I want the Hornets to be a
Joe said he wanted to have one of those this afternoon at the end of the season."
The Hornets are a team in the Midget League of the Douglas County Amateur Baseball Association. The association, which has three leagues of baseball teams for children 7-12 years old, has been criticized for emphasizing competition.
in contrast, the Lawrence Park and Recreation Department also offers a baseball program for children 7-12. According to the sports director of the department, Ernie Shaw, "we take anyone with a glove."
GARY LUCAS, one of the DCABA board of directors and coach of the Quaker Oats team, said last week. "In Lawrence every child can get involved in baseball programs through the park and recreation department. We at the DCABA just want to offer a little competition for the better players."
He was scouting another team in the
Broncos to make a statement and 12-year-olds
he made the statement.
the Midget League consists of 9- and 10-year-olds and the McDonald League is for 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds.
"A little competition" includes league
standings, uniforms and official scoring
cards.
"We try to play by the professional baseball rules, and the players go through a selection process to make the teams." Lucas said.
BUT DCABA UMPRIES, Nancy Long, KU Salma junior, and Mark Fitzgerald, KU Hutchinson senior, the program had fauds. They said last week that they thought the game should be played for fun and the experience of learning baseball.
"They want too many technical things, and these kids just can't field and throw like professionals." Ettzgerald said.
Long said, "It has to be competitive because it is a game, but the parents are breeding bad sportsmanship when they watch and the kids every time they see a strike."
Shaw agreed with the umpries.
"Children at this young age are not ready to compete," he said. "Pitchers need to get the ball over the plate, allowing all the players to walk base. That's why we allow our umpires to stop the game for instruction." And the bulk of our players to the different positions."
THERE IS NO FEE to join the city teams, and children may start at any time during the summer. "I think we do get it here," said Moe. "We don't do the DCABA leagues," Shaw said.
Philip Brown, 9, 3315 W. 8th St., didn't make a DCABA team, he said as he played catch with Hee and several other Hornet team members.
"It it wasn't that big of a deal. I just need more experience," he said. "I come out of the house every day."
The DCABA players, their parents and coaches said the tryouts were not difficult. "You just warm-up and then show 'em how you can swing the bat and throw," Kurt Easum, 10, 2018 Barker Court, said. "My team is #1 in the Midget League!"
TERRY PLATZ, 1605 Alvamar Drive, a mother watching her two sons-jen's Jeff catching and John pitching for the Merchants—said that after tryouts, the parents sign contracts stating what team the children will play on for the summer.
She said, her husband, Bill, who works in Kansas City, has coached their sons' teams and that he ever skips his lunch on order to get home in time for early games.
"We really like to have our kids involved in competitive baseball—we know where they play," said Todd.
Platz said her husband does not allow the boys on the team to swim or do any strenuous exercise the day of a game. "It is hard for them not to swim, but it is worth it," she said.
LUCAS SAID most of the coaches are parents of children on teams, and that is why he prefers not to have a coach.
Pete Petry, 1800 Maine St., coaches the Jaycee's Jayhawks. "I got into coaching when my oldest son was four and we got beat 22-0 in the first inning and I've stayed in baseball try to beat someone else that badly." he said.
tion process or the line-up of the games.
"Sometimes I leave my own boys out the
game."
His son, David, 11, is the leading hitter on the Jawhacks, he said.
Dwane Schaake, RFD #2 is, the father of one of the five girls involved in the DCABA leagues. He said the Association had been fitted for its competitiveness since it began.
THE DCABA STARTED league play in 1971, board member and coach Luces said. Revenue from donations, team sponsors, the $10 registration fee and concession stand income has built three baseball diamonds. The children have an annual cake sale before tryouts to further support college attendance and improvements of the fields he, said.
"Next year, when my own boys are in the 13-15 year leagues, may I will become an umpire," Lucas said, "I live out here in the summer and spend at least a week or two per week with my team. You might say I'm crazy about this com-mititive baseball."
He said he thinks that coaching is an ego trip for him like himself. After putting in so much time doing try-outs and practicing, "It's hard to lose," he said.
Lab animals receive extra care at KUMC
The most sophisticated tool used in medical research is a living organism, according to Clifford Templeman, director of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Templerman and his staff of 20 are responsible for the care of approximately 15,000 animals, including rats, mice, monkeys, dogs, cats, goats, sheep and one burro. The animals are used for research done at the Med Center.
Although most of the research is done on the Unit's 10,000 rats and mice, Templeman said Saturday that the other animals also are used.
"For example," he said, "dogs are used to perfect surgical techniques because their vessels are about the same size as those in a human hand or arm."
The rats and mice at the Unit are highly inbred, with families sometimes going back to the same breed.
"WE HAVE SOME rats that are so inbred they have developed hypertension just like humans," he said, "and some that are less severe and are born from hypertension and diabetic rats."
Templeman said that genetic uniformity was important as a control factor in experiments and that it was the Unit's responsibility to see that it was maintained.
In addition to the careful attention paid to breeding, Templeman said, he and his staff are concerned about the treatment of the animals.
"They're treated with respect," he said. "With man's authority over them comes responsibility."
THE UNIT IS required to meet the standards of the Animal Welfare Act, and is also required to provide a minimum
To ensure that the animals are healthy, they are purchased only from licensed dealers, then put into quarantine for a certain period of time.
Special precautions are taken to maintain the animals' good health once they get into the environment. The animals are solution and vaccinated to eliminate fleas and disease. Because monkeys are susceptible to tuberculosis, only one person, wearing a mask and gown, is allowed into the monkey room.
"Lab animals are highly susceptible to disease. Templeman said, 'because they live in a clean environment.'
When the animals must be euthanized at the end of a study, they do not suffer.
"THERE'S NO panic or pain when they die," he said. "We use painless methods, such as putting them to sleep with carbon monoxide in the room." He slitted their throats before they waked up.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes is the highest paid administrator in the Big Eight Conference, according to a recent survey by the Iowa Board of Regents.
The unit is run like a small business, Templeman said. The animals are procured and cared for, then the investigators doing research are charged what it costs.
The survey, made during the academic year, said Dykes was at the top of the salary comparisons with $66,000 a year. Since then, his pay has been increased by the Kansas Board of Regents to $70,000, a 6 percent raise.
Dykes's paycheck largest in Big 8
"We recover all our costs," Templeman said, "by charging the investigators who conducted the investigation."
Jordan Haines, chairman of the Kansas Regents, said yesterday that the fact that Jordana was a graduate of Columbia
the big Eight reflects only the larger responsibility the Chancellor has with both the Lawrence campus and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"If someone thinks 6 percent is a large raise he is not well acquainted with the people."
The survey showed Duane Acker.
James Basham, a Kansas Regent, said, "We feel that we should pay our administrators for the work they are doing just as you would in industry."
president of Kansas State University, paid third best in the Big Eight during the 1978-79 school year at $60,000. He has since been advanced to $63,500 annually. The University of Colorado president has the highest Big Eight salary at $63,000 a year.
According to Frank Lowman, another Kansas Regent, Acker receives an adequate salary for "all the responsibilities that accompany a fine land-grant school with a large number of experimental stations around the state."
Other chief executive salaries around the Big Eight for 1979-80:
Iowa State University $65,335; Oklahoma
State University $60,000; Oklahoma
University $59,500; University of Nebraska,
$55,250; and University of Missouri $50,000.
The chancellor of MU, Barbara Uehling,
is responsible for only the main campus at
Columbia, which may account for her
work with students. The others have
varying responsibilities.
Each Big Eight chief executive is also provided with living quarters or receives a
KANSAN
Police Beat
Lawrence police reported yesterday that a robbery of a KU student took place early Saturday night.
Beverly D. Füller, Miltonville sophomore, was threatened by a man who had entered Füller's apartment, 1125 Indiana St., through the unlocked front door. The man stole $800
The police reported two other burglaries since Wednesday involving KU students. Both burglaries occurred Wednesday night at the West Hills apartment complex, 1012
Thomas Delaney, Topeka sophomore, reported that $450 worth of stereo equipment has taken from his apartment. Police said that an amplifier, cassette deck and turntable were lost.
The other West Hills Police was reported to police by Kathy A. Johnson, Overland Park parkhomore. Police said that a stereo amplifier, tuner and turntable valued at $450 were stolen from the park.
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