The White Falcon - 03.05.1958, Page 3

Saturday, May 3, 1958
THE WHITE FALCON
Page 3
The World of Sports
By FRED THORNBERRY, JOC, USN
gASEBALL is finally America’s national pastime. Giant pitcher
Ruben Gomez threw a breaking: pitch past Dodger Gino Cimoli
for strike one and the first major league game ever played west of
the Rockies was underway. Charley Neal of the Dodgers made the
first major league hit in California, a single to left in the second
inning; Darryl Spencer of the Giants made beautiful history in the
fourth when he swatted the first big league homer in the Golden State.
At the end it was San Francisco 8, Los Angeles 0; major league base-
ball had gone national in scope.
Gary Thompson, AAU All-America from Iowa State, is slated to
report for six months’ Army duty at Ft. Sill, Okla., on May 4 ....
What price condition for a top-flight rower? Here is the training
schedule of Robert Hopman, now at Ft. Sill, Okla., and an ex-rower
for the Detroit Boat Club who will be trying out for the 1960 Olym-
pics: An early rising in order to run six miles and row 14 miles
before 12 hours ofArmy duty, and then rowing another 14 miles be-
fore bedtime .... Otto (Hughes) Colclasure, years-ago star of service
and professional boxing, is now a resident of the. Naval Home in
Philadelphia .... Truly a spare-time golfer, Paul Thompson of Eng-
land AFB, La., used his pilot layover to score the first hole-in-one
ever recorded on the course at Lajes Field, Azores.
Everett Gross, last year an 8-3 chucker for Nagoya AB, Japan, is
a newcomer to the Maxwell AFB, Ala., mound staff .... Don’t sell
the wrestlers short in the brain-power department. Michigan State
grappler Joe Marchal missed a straight A average in the'winter term
by one-tenth of a point .... Pitcher Don Kenway of the San Diego
Marines finally lost a game; snapping his outstanding 21-0 record
covering two years was Long Beach State College .... New mentors
of service teams are Jim Aiello, signed to coach the Ft. Dix, N. J.,
nine, and Richard Barnhart to steer the Ft. Carson, Colo., football
aggregation. Aiello is a one-time New York Yankee farmhand and
played with the Class A Binghampton, N. Y., club before service;
Barnhart is a three-year grid veteran of Indiana and coached the
8th Army eleven in 1956, Korea co-champions .... Another former
professional fighter now making a career in the Armed Forces is
James Allen at Ellsworth AFB, S. Dak. Now a M/Sgt., Allen fought
295 times with a 172-58-65 record, including a third round TKO over
Archie Moore. Sgt Allen was formerly stationed at Keflavik.
Quote of the Week: The first “Duffy-ism” of the year was vented
at Michigan State’s opening spring grid drill by Coach Duffy Daugh-
erty: “Now remember, men, this year you can block with only one
arm and one head.”
Defense Concil Members
The Icelandic-American Defense Council, the body that coordinates
relationships between United States personnel and the Icelandic
government was photographed after one of their recent meetings at Kefla-
vik Airport. In the usual left to right order are: Seated (1. to r.) Capt.
James T. Moynahan; Mr. Tomas Arnason; Col. Richard W. Philbrick;
Mr. Pall Asg. Tryggvason. Standing (1. to r.): Lt. Cdr. Evan C. Griswold;
Major Truman Heminway; Col. Linwood Griffin, Jr.; Col. Ragnar
Stefansson; Mr. Hallgrimur Dalberg; Mr. Hannes Gudmundsson.
Keflavik Takes MATS
Volleyball Tourney
Rooters for the Keflavik Airport Volleyball will be dis-
appointed that the “Falcon” has not been able to obtain
more detailed information on the recent MATS Tourney
at Donaldson AFB, South Carolina, than that outlined in
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Walter Reed
Celebrates
Walter Reed Army Medical
Center, one of the outstanding
contributors to the health and
well-being of Army personnel and
benefactor of the entire nation’s
civilian population, celebrates its
49th birthday on May 1.
Named after the Army major
whose discoveries resulted in the
virtual elimination of yellow fever,
this medical center now includes
an Army hospital, an institute of
research, a prosthetics research
laboratory, as well as the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology.
An outstanding achievement
during its 49th year was the
identification of the virus respons-
ible for the Far East influenza
epidemic, and testing of a vaccine
for the disease.
Army Seeking
Civilian Help
The Office of the Chief of In-
formation, Department of the
Army, today noted that more
than ever before the Army is look-
ing for promising young men and
women to become Department of
the Army civilian employees
through the cooperative training
program. Conducted in coopera-
tion with civilian colleges, this
program is a work-study plan in
which engineering and science
students alternately study at col-
lege and work in Army civilian
jobs. Students are paid for their
work, and on graduation are of-
fered beginning positions at the
GS-5 Civil Service level.
The trouble with meetings,
claims one authory, is that people
spend a lot of time talking about
things they should be doing.
U. of Md. Lists
New Courses
The University of Maryland’s
College of Special and Continua-
tion Studies has announced that
the following new subjects will be
offered during its fifth term
which will begin on May 19 and
end July 18:
English 8, College Grammar, 3
credits; History 6, History of
American Civilization, 3 credits;
Icelandic 1, Elementary Icelandic
3 credits; German 1; Elementary
German, 3 credits; Sociology 2,
Principles of Sociology, 8 credits;
and Sociology 141, the Sociology
of Personality, 3 credits.
Registration for the courses will
be accepted all day on May 14,
15, 16, and 17 at the Base Educa-
tion Office. Enrollees should bring
with them checks or money orders
payable to the University of
Maryland, College Park, Mary-
land.
If courses in addition to the
above are announced later, the
information will be published in
the “NATO Blade” and announced
over the Armed Forces Radio.
Further information may be had
by calling extension 5180.
Army Weight Thrower
Tops Pending Record
Medford, Mass. (AFPS) — A1
Hall, a former Cornell athlete
who is currently stationed at the
Boston Army Base, has bettered
the pending world record in the
35-pound weight throw with a
heave of 67’ 9%".
Hall’s distance tops the mark of
66’ 7", which was set by Harold
Connolly last December. Hall hit
the record distance on the last of
his six attempts in a meet at Tufts
College.
And then there is the hen-
pecked husband who asserts him-
self by asking for a clean apron.
Army Team Wins
Boxing Honors
Bolling AFB, D. C. (AFPS)—
According to the Chinesecalendar,
this is the Year of the Dog. Judg-
ing from the Interservice Boxing
Tournament just concluded here,
it is possibly the year of the
underdog.
Of the six 1957 champions who
climbed the 1958 pugilistic ladder
to this classic, only three retained
their crowns. To cap off this year
of fistic upsets, a talented Marine
squad surrendered their team
title to a razor-sharp Army squad.
After only the third match of
the finals-—when Donald Johnson
won over Marine Frank Guelli in
the featherweight division—Army
was assured of at least a tie for
the team title.
This assurance was possible
because of Army dbminance in
the previous night’s preliminary
fights, which cut the field of 40
boxers, 10 from each service, into
half for the title^outs.
Of the 20 preliminaries, Army
won nine, six were won by Marines,
three by the Air Force and two
by the Navy. As soon as two of
the Army men won interservice
crowns a team victory would be
in sight.
Team points were calculated on
a 3-1-1 basis: three points for an
interservice title, one point for a
preliminary win and one point for
any defeat in the tourney.
Donnie Adamson, Fuchu AB,
Japan, retained his flyweight
championship of the Armed Forces
when Navy’s Chick Brady from
the destroyer Damato was unable
to make the 112-pound weight in
the finals.
Army was on the way when
Gerry Armstrong, Ft. Bragg, N.
C., flashing the best left jab seen
in this year’s service champion-
ships, punched out a victory over
Walter Nakema, Kaneohe MCAS,
T. H.
Then Johnson slugged it outtoe-
to-toe in his battle with the Marine
from Beaufort MCAAS, S. C. The
Ft. Lewis, Wash., boxer wearied
in the third round but earned a
clear-cut decision.
Aggressive Bill Cherry, Tempel-
hof AB, Germany, drew the night’s
first blood ip his victory over
lightweight Harry Campbell of Ft.
Campbell, Ky.
Campbell had come into the
finals by virtue of posting a real
upset the night before over
veteran Luis Molina, 1957 Inter-
service Champion and pride of
the Marine Corps.
In a pier-six brawl, Thomas
Schafer, Camp Lejeune, N. C.,
earned the Marines their first
1958 Interservice title with the
defeat of Joe Mangiapane from
Ft. Campbell in the light-welter-
weight division.
In the welterweight class, hard-
punching Dick Turner scored the
only TKO of the finals when he
decked Marine Billy Hailes.
Turner, from Hawaii’s 27th Inf.
Div., missed several opportunities
before he got across the punch
that ended it for the Quantico
slugger. Referee Eddie LaFonde
stopped the fight at 2:43 of the
third round.
In the 156-pound, light-middle-
weight class, it was Roosevelt
Charles of Camp Lejeune all the
way over Eddie Kitchens, Ft.
Riley, Kan. In defending his 1957
title, Charles showed tremendous
style in heavily outscoring the
talented Riley fighter.
Larry Howard, Navy’s only
fighter to suit up for the finals,
was defeated by speedy Dick Lee
from USAREUR in the middle-
I weight fight. Howard, from Cecil
Troop-Bearing
Rockets Seen
Washington (AFPS)—A present
plan to fire a man 150 miles into
space and return him safely to
earth will be the forerunner of
troop-bearing rockets, the Army’s
top civilian missile expert has
disclosed.
Although the project has not
been approved, Dr. Werner von
Braun recently told the new 13-
member House Committee on
Space Exploration, the Army has
a proposal to send a man up in
the nose cone a Redstone missile.
A separate mechanism, the Di-
rector of Technical Development
of the Army Ballistic Missile
Agency explained, would slow the
“space pioneer’s” reentry into the
atmosphere and return him safe-
ly in a capsule.
The Army is ready now to make
this probe by man into outer
space. Dr. Von Braun revealed.
Eventually entire contingents of
troops and supplies can be rock-
eted to Europe in a matter of
minutes by huge intercontinental
ballistic missiles, he said. x
“I am convinced that if we
don’t go into this area quickly
that this will be one of the next
surprises that the Russians are
going to pull on us,” he warned
the lawmakers, adding, “I am not
talking about an orbit. I am talk-
ing about just a shot up to that
altitude and down again.”
The idea is simple. Dr. von
Braun said: to shoot a man up to
an altitude of 150 miles, separate
the nose of the missile from the
Redstone, and land him in the
cone equipped with aerodynamic
brakes.
Field NAS, Fla., came into the
finals by defeating 1957 titlist
George McCorkle of Bolling AFB.
Southpaw Amos Johnson, Kane-
ohe MCAS, earned the final
Marine win in a see-saw battle
with Andy Slaughter, Ft. Eustis,
Va., in a light-heavyweight con-
test.
Powerful Allen Hudson, defend-
ing heavyweight champion from
Ft. Bragg, N.C.,and Billy Daniels,
Hahn AB, Germany, clashed in
the finale with Hudson winning
the judges nod.
the TWX quoted below. The mes-
sage was received from the Office
of Information Services at Donald-
son a week ago, immediately after
the close of the series.
“For Information Services and
Personnel Services. Subj: MATS
Volleyball Tournament. Keflavik
Airport Iceland copped the MATS
Volleyball Tournament today at
Donaldson AFB, S.C. The second
place team from Donaldson AFB
had won three straight games in
the losers bracket for a chance
at the crown after they were
beaten by Keflavik in their
second game of the tourney. In
the first game of the afternoon
Donaldson won the final two
sets of the match to down Kefla-
vik and even the two teams at
one loss each in the double eli-
mination tournament. Keflavik
returned to the court in the
afternoon’s second match deter-
mined to win and although they
won the match and the champion-
ship in two successive sets, those
two sets rated at the top of any
played during the four days. The
two games were packed with un-
believable saves of drives and
the squads fought fiercely to
control the ball. In the capacity
crowd on hand were many
members of teams already eli-
minated who stayed on to cheer
a favorite. The managers, coaches
and officials selected six men
from the losing teams to accom-
pany the winning six from Kefla-
vik’s squad to represent MATS
in the Air Force world wide vol-
leyball tournament to be held at
Otis AFB, Mass, starting April
30.
The 14-man team representing
Keflavik includes 2d Lt Leon T.
Miller, player-coach, 2d Lt Mark
Cameron, 1st Lt John Voetach,
1st Lt Lawrence Lattomus, SFC
Edward Hurst, Sgts Nelson Abreu
and Herbert Febus, Corp. Juris
Zirdzins, A/2C Ronald Boyer,
PFC’s David Edson, Edward
Fagan, Foster Phelps and John
Whyte, and team manager T/Sgt
Joseph Somuk.
Hills Blasted
Heard recently while on CQ and
listening to the 0600 “Hillbilly
Fever” program: “Warning! All
men who are now shaving are ad-
vised to be extremely careful—
listeners are hard find.”