The White Falcon - 27.02.1960, Side 4

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THE WHITE FALCON
Saturday, February 27, 1960
Supply Squadron Boasts
All-American Volleyballer
By A/1C Bill Tucker
How many of you have
volleyball player? How about
Well, you’re probably wrong.
Many of you see one every day
without even realizing it. He’s
SSgt Ben Acma of the 1400th
Supply Squadron, here at Kefla-
vik.
Ben, who is from Honolulu, Ha-
waii, won the All-Air Force honor
three consecutive years while play-
ing with the fabulous Hamilton
AFB, California team which took
five consecutive Air Force World-
Wide Championships from 1953
thru 1957.
United Kingdom MVP
Few people have accumulated
the honors which have been be-
stowed on this 28-year-old Hawaii-
an. Along with those mentioned
above, he won the Most Valuable
Player award in the volleyball
category for the United Kingdm
in 1954, at the same time making
All-United Kingdom in softball
and basketball.
He was on the Hamilton AFB
volleyball team that was selected
by the State Department to make
a goodwill tour through Mexico
in 1957. Ben described as his
greatest thrill that of playing to
a standing room only crowd of
some 8,000 enthusiastic fans in
Mexico City.
ever seen an All-American
an All-Air Force type?
Base Bowling
Roll-Offs
With 12 games of the schedul-
ed 21-game roll-off now com-
pleted at the base bowling lanes.
TSgt Lawrence Hawrys of the
Air Police Squadron, holds a
61-pin lead over runner-up,
MSgt Frank Faulkner of the
Supply Squadron. Ten pins
away in third place is MSgt Ed
Schurr of Hq AFI.
Rounding out the top six are
Lt. L. Williams of Field Main-
tenance, TSgt D. Hall of Air
Base Group, and SSgt J. Pen-
nington of AACS.
Despite oil-slicked alleys, new
pins, and the common “tourna-
ment jitters”, some fine scores
were turned in over the first
week-end of bowling. A contin-
ued upward trend is expected
today when the 24 keglers again
take to the lanes in their quest
for a berth on Keflavik’s entry
in the MATS World-wide Tour-
nament to be held at Scott
AFB, Illinois, April 5-6-7.
The Sports Arena
By Jim Warner
KEFLAVIK CAGERS IN MATS TOURNEY .... Keflavik Air-
Keflavik’s Coach
Acma has been selected to coach
this year’s Keflavik Airport vol-
leyball team at the MATS tourney
to be held at Travis AFB, Calif.
There is a tendency among non-
participants of the game of volley-
ball to consider it a “sissy” game.
Remarking on this, Acma cited the
fact that a spiked volleyball has
been clocked moving at a speed
of 130 miles per hour. Any of you
“he-men” care to stop a mouthful
of one of those?
Few of us who have ever played
the game, probably with much
more enthusiasm than skill, can
forget the aches and pains of the
day after. If this be a “sissy”
game, maybe we should take a
lesson from the sissies!
port’s ten best basketball players departed here last Thursday for
Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, and the MATS tourna-
ment.
The tournament is scheduled to end tonight. No results have been
received on the team’s progress in the four day action. The team is
fighting for a berth in the Air Force-wide tournament slated at
Stewart Air Force Base, New York March 1.
The team is co-coached by Dick McHarg, Base Athletic NCO, and
Lloyd McHenry, 1971st AACS Supply Officer. Team members making
the trip included Jim Quinn, AACS; Dick Paulson, 53rd Air Rescue
Squadron; Mike Guyman, Headquarters, AF Iceland; Bill Kruetzer,
Supply Squadron; Joe Rajauski, Supply Squadron; Dick Lanham,
Supply Squadron; Ed Sekelek, Headquarters, AF Iceland; John Lyle,
Headquarters, AF Iceland; Dave Walling, FASRON; John Malone,
“D” Company; and Grady Sanders, “D” Company.
If the team should win the MATS tourney, they will proceed on
extended temporary duty to Stewart AFB for the Air Force-wide
play-offs.
The team, over the past two weeks, concentrated on fast-breaking
tactics, figuring to overshadow their lack of height with plenty of
speed.
AFPS SPORT SHORTS
Ray Webster, substitute Cleveland Indians infielder, has at least
one unique experience among ballplayers. Almost resigned to another
season warming the Tribe’s bench, Webster, at Fort Dix, N.J., for
six months of soldiering, was told by his commander at inspection
that he’d been traded to the Boston Red Sox. A bit unorthodox to
be sure, but it’s one inspection the young second baseman will never
forget.
Less than a decade ago the new two-state middelweight champion
Paul Pender was in the Marine Corps at the now defunct air station
in Miami.
Adelburt (Red) Norwood at 30 will probably be the oldest rookie
in the big leagues if he sticks. The former Quantico Marines hurler
will try for a mound spot with the Washington Senators this season.
Two more hot prospects, Camilo Carreon and Charles Fields, now
at Fort Ord, Calif., will be out to make the grade with the Chicago
White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies respectively in 1960.
National AAU swimming champion Billy Utley beat North
Americas’ best in the 13-14 age bracket at the All-America Swim
Meet in Hamilton, Ont. He’s the son of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs.
William Utley of Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Ind.
Quote of the Week: Governor Nelson Rockefeller, addressing New
York baseball writers: “I’m not sure why I should be speaking at
a baseball dinner. Maybe someone heard I was the No. 1 spring
holdout.”
EXHIBIT...
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Prior to his coming to Iceland,
he held a staff position for two
years with the newly built Gug-
genheim Museum in New York.
Mr. Ponzi is married to the
Icelandic singer Gudrun Tomas-
dottir. They met when Gudrun
was studying voice in New York.
They were married there and now
have an eight-months old boy.
Mrs. Ponzi sang with the Robert
Shaw Chorale while in the U.S.
and now is heard on radio and in
concerts here. She also holds posi-
tion of Librarian with the U.S.
Information Service in Reykjavik.
They have been in Iceland a year
and a half and have spent two
summers at Lake Myvatn in the
north. Many of the works on view
are scenes depicting this pictures-
que area of Iceland.
The gallery is open from 1100
to 2200 every day during this
exhibit and the paintings are for
sale.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“A strong, mobile, ready Army
continues to be an essential ele-
ment of our total military
strength.” — Secretary of the
Army Wilber M. Brucker.
Sports
Quiz
(AFPS Weekly Feature)
1. Who holds the National
League record for most strikeouts
in a nine-inning game?
2. Who is the National Hockey
League’s all-time scoring leader?
3. Who holds the National Bas-
ketball Association rebounding
record for one game?
4. Wilt Chamberlain at 7'11/16"
is the tallest player in the NBA.
Who is the shortest?
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Three Teams Deadlocked
For Intramural Cage Lead
Three teams swung into a tie for the Keflavik Airport
Intramural Basketball lead last week, all with five won
and one loss records.
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’60 Volleyball
Action Starts
Next Week
Keflavik Airport’s Intramural
Volleyball season is slated to
swing into full action next week,
following a month-long practice
period.
The 14-team league was given
the month to practice primarily
to familiarize the players with the
host of new rules for the 1960
season.
Clinic Held
A volleyball clinic was held at
the Gek Rek Center Tuesday to
clarify the new rules adopted by
the Air Force for this year.
The fourteen teams entered in
the new league include Headquart-
ers, Air Forces Iceland; 1400th
Air Police Squadron; 1400;h
Transportation Squadron; VP-18;
Detachment 13, 9th Weather
Group; 1400th Supply Squadron;
1400th Installations Squadron ;
1400th USAF Hospital; 1971st
AACS Squadron; FASRON; 1400-
th Field Maintenance Squadron;
1400th Air Base Squadron; 932nd
AC&W Squadron (Rockville); and
the 57th Fighter Interceptor
Squadron.
One Month Long
The new league will probably
start March 1, Tuesday, or at the
latest, Thursday, March 3. The
season is expected to run for one
month.
Following the regular season, a
double round robin play-off will
be staged, and the top four teams
will hook up in a double elimina-
tion tournament to decide the base
champion.
Army Moves
Syracuse Tilt
To New York
New York (AFPS)—In a move
to return big-time college foot-
ball to the biggest city in the
country, Army’s Nov. 5 clash with
Syracuse has been shifted from
West Point, to Yankee Stadium.
But plans to bring the 1960 Navy-
Air Force Academy game here
fell through.
Yankee Stadium can accom-
modate a football crowd of about
70,000 while Michie Stadium,
Army’s home field, holds approxi-
mately 30,000. New York officials
were jubilant over landing the
major grid attraction but ex-
pressed disappointment at not get-
ting the first Navy-AFA tilt.
It will be held in the 57,500-
seat Baltimore Memorial Stad-
ium Oct. 15. Navy wanted to
shift the game from Baltimore
because in recent years the town
has become pro-football con-
scious with the success of the
champion Colts and college
games have failed to draw big
gates there.
The AFA was eager to return
to New York also, remembering
the full house they played to here
against Army last year.
Headquarters, Air Forces Ice-
land, Field Maintenance and
Weather kept up their winning
ways with AF Iceland and Field
Maintenance winning a game each
and Weather grabbing off two
victories to throw the lead into a
three-way tie.
Supply picked off two more
wins to bring their season’s mark
to five wins and two losses.
In Monday night action, Instal-
lations was victorious over the
VP-18 cagers and Air Forces Ice-
land took one from the Hospital.
Tuesday’s play saw the Weather
basketeers turn back Air Base
Squadron, AACS dumping Trans-
portation and Supply whipping
Iceland Defense Force.
The teams were idle Wednesday
and Thursday nights. Only one
game was played Friday evening.
Supply won a close, low-scoi ing
contest from Installations Squad-
ron, 22-19. Tom Sudol was top
man for the winners with 10
points, and Rogers paced the Us-
ers, picking up 12 of his team’s
total 19 markers.
The standings up to Monday,
February 22:
Team W L
Hq. AF Iceland .... 5 1
Field Maintenance 5 1
Weather ............ 5 1
Supply ............. 5 2
AACS ............... 4 2
Air Police ......... 3 2
Air Base Sq......... 3 2
Transportation .... 3 3
VP-18 .............. 2 4
Installations ...... 1 6
Hospital ........... 0 5
IDF ................ 0 5
Army leaves...
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often flew the “Santa Claus” runs,
delivering Christmas gifts to de-
serving children.
The 525th Engineer Platoon has
made many contributions such as
their work on the Base Chapel.
Men from all of the services and
their dependents have attended the
classes administered by the Army
Education Center of the 2nd BCT
which has supplemented the Base
Education program with high
school and grammar school level
courses. These are to mention a
few of the contributions of the
unit.
Won Commander’s Trophy
In overall base competition, un-
its of the Combat Team have dist-
inguished themselves. Company
“D”, winning three “legs” on the
Base Commander’s Trophy for
athletics, finally retired the award.
For two consecutive years, units
of the 2nd BCT took all “firsts”
in the Christmas decorations con-
tests.
One of the most memorable ex-
periences involving the Army was
the frequent “2nd BCT alert”
that disrupted movie audiences
with sudden activity. These alerts
were routine to the combat-ready
officers and men of the outfit.
Over many years Keflavik Air-
port has become accustomed to
Army personnel which have made
many contributions to the base.
The departure of the “Arctic
Rangers” will be felt by all who
have shared the Icelandic experi-
ence with them.