The White Falcon - 31.07.1957, Side 4

Pace 4
THE WHITE FAl€ON
Wednesday, July 31, 1957
By Pfc Mickey Rosen
Consistency is one of the rarest virtues known to baseball.
With the Major League season a few games past the halfway mark,
many of last years stars are conspicuous this year by their absence
among the leaders, and many of the failures in 1956 are becoming
the stars of 1957.
Every big league manager, at the start of the season, makes a
predicition about the September finish of his club,and even though
most of the claims are wishful thinking, many of their predictions
are based upon the previous records of their stars, especially the
pitchers.
As an example, manager Jack Tighe of the Detroit Tigers rated
his team a top pennant contender, partly on the strength of two
pitchers, Billy Hoeft and Frank Lary, who won 41 games between
them last season. Tighe counted 40 games in the bag before the
season even started, on the past performance of his aces. So far
this season, Hoeft and Lary have won the grand total of six victories.
After the 1956 World Series, the Yankees looked like a team
that would make a parade out of the 1957 pennant race. This was
based mostly on the Records of the pitchers in the Series. Larsen
had pitched a perfect game, and Turley and Rucks had held the
Dodgers to one run in the last three games. Then there was Ford,
Grim, etc.
To date, Turley and Larsen have won only five games apiece,
and the rest haven’t done much better. Whitey Ford was hampered
by injuries earlier in the season, but is regaining his stride now.
The big gun for the Yanks has been little Bobby Schantz who
won only two games for Kansas City last year. His record this
season is 10—2.
Let’s look at some of the others surprises. Robin Roberts, who
can usually be counted on to win 20 games, this season has a
diss&pointing record of 6—12. Don Newcombe is off his 1956 pace
of 27—7, with a current 9—7 record. Chuck Stobbs, who last year
won 15 games for Washington, a feat equdl to climbing the Matterhorn,
didn’t win his first game this year until June 21. Bob Rush who
won 13 games for the lowly Cubs last year, is now faltering with
a 1—9 record.
On the credit side are a number of pitchers who couldn’t win
10 games last season, and are now on their way to a possible 20
victories. Two pitchers who played a big part in the American
League’s victory in the All-Star game, Jim Bunning (11—2) and
Billy Loes (10—4), didn’t win 10 games between them last year.
Ruben Gomez, who last year had a 7—17 record, has already won
11 games this year. Duke Maas didn’t win a game last year, but has
won seven so far this year. George Zuverink (9—5), Virgil Trucks
(7—3), Jack Sanford (12—3), and Lary Jackson (10—5) have
all been pleasant surprises to their managers.
Look Out Below
A Frenchman named Jacques Andre Istel has raised $50,000
and opened an office in New York to begin a new sport in the
States ....jumping. Jacques says, “from my own experience and
from what I’ve seen abroad, I know there are people who Have the
urge to jump, but don’t have the place or equipment. I intend to
supply them”.
But Jacques doesn’t mean broad jumping, high jumping or leap
frog. His sport is parachute jumping. He places it in a category
with water skiing, skin diving, and bobsledding, and he thinks it
will grow to the same proportions, and he wants to be in on the
ground floor.
Jacques’ company is called Parachutes Inc. At the beginning it
should cost about $50 for the first jump, and $10 each additional
jump. The beginner leaps at 2,500 feet or better, and it should
take him about 95 seconds to land.
Although the sport is new in the United States, it is quite popular
in Europe. In France there are an estimated 55,000 civilian parachute
jumpers, or sky-divers as they are called, and in the Soviet Union
estimates run as high as 800,000. Well, it might catch on in the
States, for if you ever get fed up with those everyday worries and
problems, you could always go to one of Jacques’ places and try
a jump. Any volunteers?
Football
Even though the baseball season is just getting into high
gear, and the mid-summer heat waves are plaguing the States,
preparations are already being made for the coming football season.
The professional clubs are starting the journey to their summer
training camps, and many of last^
year’s college stars are already
practicing for the anual football
classic between the college all-
stars and the professional champi-
ons. This year the collegians will
meet the New York Giants on
August 9 at Soldiers Field in
Chicago. We’re not yet ready to
stick our necks out and start pre-
dicting the outcome of the coming
season, but we will warm up a
little by picking the Giants over
the All-Stars by at least 10 points.
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Hollywood
(AFPS) — Doc-
tors said this
curvaceous
young lass could
never return to
show business
after she suf-
fered a broken
back.
Here to prove
they were wrong
is 21-year-old
Marie Lane.
Her back was
broken when she
fell off a bluff
at Laguna, Calif,
last year.
Currently she
is practicing for
her role in the
forthcoming mo-
vie. “The Joker
Is Wild.”
We’re happy
that she’s in
such fine fettle
once more with
her black lace
sunshade and
all.
Keflavik
Sports Briefs
As softball season closed bad
weather has held up the playoffs
and only three games have been
played. The tournament will con-
tinue when weather permits.
The final top four teams in the
American and National League
are: AMERICAN, 57tb FIS won
24 lost 2, Co “B” 23—5, Co “D”
21—6, Co “A” 19—7. NATIONAL,
Supply 23—3, Fasron 22—4, 86th
Btry 21—6, AB Sq 20—7.
Winners in the Horseshoe tour-
nament will be announced next
issue.
The base softball team will
journey to Harmon AFB, New-
foundland on 16 August to parti-
cipate in the NEOC Tournament.
A team will be picked from
the NEOC entries and will go to
Patrick AFB, Florida for the all
Air Force Championship Tourna-
ment.
Education Notes
S/Sgt James Murray and A/2C
Albert Whipple have gone TDY
to H-3 Site, Iceland for the pur-
pose of counseling personnel on
Education and Personal Affairs
program.
Sgt Murray and Airman Whip-
ple plan to visit H-2 and H-4 in
the near future to provide the
men with educational opportuni-
ties.
Regular registration period for
the University of Maryland will
be held from 1 through 17 August.
The US government will pay
three-fourths of the tuition on two
courses. The students part of the
tuition is 7.50 for each course but
does not include books and sup-
plies. In the case of a first en-
rollment there is a matriculation
fee of 10.00.
The University of Maryland
conducts five terms throughout the
year. It is possible for a student
to earn 30 hrs of credit by atten-
ding all terms.
Class schedules include the fol-
lowing courses: English 2, Geo-
graphy 20, German 1, German 4,
History 6, Math II, Military
Science 153, Philosophy 123, So-
ciology 2, and Spanish 2.
Freedom Contest
Underway
Valley Forge, Pa., (ANS)—Have
you mailed your entry letter to
the Freedoms Foundation?
Participants seeking cash and
honors in the 1957 Freedoms Foun-
dation Letter Awards Program
have only two months left to sub-
mit their entries to meet the Sept-
ember 17 deadline.
Open to all members of the
Armed Forces on active duty, the
subject of the 1957 letter, not
less than 100 nor more than 500
words, is “My Job: Protecting
America’s Freedom.”
This year for the first time the
Freedoms Foundation has prepar-
ed a new combined rules-entry
blank that is now being distri-
buted throughout the services. It
provides space for the contestant’s
entry in addition to complete in-
formation about the 1957 program.
The top awards will be $1,000
cash for the best letter, two $500
cash awards for second place and
100 checks for $100 each for
third place entries plus a George
Washington Honor Medal. Honor-
able mention contributors will re-
ceive George Washington Honor
Medals only.
The top service winners will
be invited here to receive their
awards during an official cere-
mony on George Washington’s
Birthday, February 22, 1958.
Entry blanks are available at
the WHITE FALCON office, IDF
Headquarters.
Battalion
Hi-Lites
2nd Bn Combat Team
By Pfc Ron Bayes
Here and There
M/Sgt Wm S Bledsoe has been
appointed, PDY, as Sgt-Major of
the 2nd Inf Bn. . . . Slated for De-
ros in near future: HQ’s SFC K
Tower; also 95th Tank’s SFC F
Helton ... on morale leave at
(of all places) PLEASURE
BEACH, Conn, is “C” Co’s Lt V
K Bane . . . fresh from TDY at
Ft Dix (Sig Corps activity) is
Capt C B Watson, HQ S-3 Div. . . .
Capt Ulmer McNeill of 2d BCT
has been rsg to ROTC work in
Texas w/Allen Military Academy.
His EDCSA is 19 Aug. . . . Motor
Pool’s Lt Souza has shipped out
. . . and “A” Company has a new
Cammanding Officer: Capt Mar-
shall Butt, Jr, who has spent 5
years with the 16th Inf’s 1st Div.
Side Notes
New feature of this column up-
coming: a personality sketch each
issue. Watch for it. . . . Charlie
Co’s B Tulley is home; father ill
w/ heart attack . . . hi-lite among
recent Platoon parties: “C” Co’s
1st Pit Party at E-7 under NCOIC
Brown, SFC . . . Battalion wishes
are sent to EM Jim Mahoney’s
friends who hope he likes his new
Benning assignment. . . . New
treasurer for the KIA Masonic
organization is Med Det’s Sp/2
Barrett.
On the Lighter Side
Maj Eb Smith invoked the music
which hath charms on his last
night at KIA. The music was on
TFK’s request hour and was cro-
oned by Elvis via Miss Melody’s
turntable. The number was dedi-
cated to the Officers and EM of
the 2d BCT. The tune, you recall:
“All Shook Up.”
New Sgt-Major for the 2nd BCT
is M/Sgt Wm S Bledsoe, formerly
1/Sgt for Battalion’s Charlie Co.
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