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...trouble with general managers I is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything." The angry man is the University of Texas' Baseball Coach Bibb Falk, onetime Chicago White Sox outfielder; the objects of his rage are the major leagues, particularly the fast-talking scouts who circle the campuses and lure away the best college baseball players with sweet talk and bonuses. It not only hurts college baseball, argue Bibb and other college coaches, but also hurts the young men who are wooed away. For their reasons, see SPORT, Blame It on the Majors...
...team had just won the Southwest conference baseball championship for the 31st time in 42 years, but the University of Texas' Coach August Bibb Falk, 58, sounded like a man who had hot heard the score. "It's a 'five out' team," he snarled around the butt of his cigar. "Five men don't get on base enough to count. Besides that, we don't have any power. Why, we have a shortstop and second baseman hitting .300-that is, they're hitting .150 apiece...
...What about next year?" asked a wellwisher, trying to ease the agony. "The unbeaten freshmen will be coming up; most of this season's varsity will be back in uniform." Bibb almost choked on his bile. "Now how can you tell what we'll have back next year?" he roared. "You never know until after the big leagues raid...
Bird Dogs & Bargains. Bibb Falk's teams have been winning, and Falk has been bellyaching ever since he took over Texas baseball in 1940. Rival coaches have long since ceased to listen to his plaints. But Bibb spoke for them all last week when he attacked the raiders-the fast-talking big-league "bird dogs" who scout college campuses for the least sign of talent, who use the lure of a pro contract to bargain for an athlete's amateur standing...
...Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped off to Bibb Graves Hall for Autherine's next class (children's literature). Autherine had to use a back door once again, but the crowd kept pelting the car with rocks, shouting at Bennett, "Kill him! Kill him!" Says Autherine: "After that class I was not permitted to leave the building...