The White Falcon - 10.06.1961, Blaðsíða 4
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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, June 10, 1961
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By AFPS
BADMINTON CHAMPS NAMED
Ben Arietta, a civilian employe in ABS, won first place in the singles
event of the recent badminton tournament. Doubles was won by
Russell Mowry and Nes Hansen of VP-10, after a hard fought battle
with Air Force team Jack Snyder and Steve Lackey, Hq AFI. Runner-
up in the singles was Mowery and Snyder and Lackey were runners-
up in the doubles.
Modern Pentathlon Requires Varied
Military-related Skills, Prowess
Milwaukee Braves’ baseball scout Jody Johnson has asked B. J.
Banks of the Army’s 1st Cav. Div. in Korea to play for the Mexico
City Tigers in the AA Mexican League. Banks is a former member of
the Braves’ farm system and swatted a mighty .340 when he played
for Ft. Monmouth, N.J., in 1959 .... Capt. Michael McNamara, Air
Force Academy assistant diamond mentor for the past four years, is
now flying F-100 Super Sabre jets at Myrtle Beach AFB, S. C....
Despite the fact that Bill Nieder, former Presidio of San Francisco
athlete, was knocked out in the first round of his .pro debut, he still
plans on continuing a prizefighting career .... West Point’s Gerry
Garwick set an Academy 440-yard run record by covering the quarter-
mile distance in 47.7 .... Joe Eulberg, representing the Sixth Naval
District, became the South Atlantic Regional bowling champion by
rolling a total pin count of 3,427 for 18 games to finish with a 190
average .... Jack Douglas of MCRD San Diego, Calif., has been
selected for the U. S. Davis Cup tennis team.
DOUBLE WINNER—All American halfback Joe Bellino became
the first Naval Academy athlete since 1919 to win Navy’s two top
athletic awards—the Thompson trophy and the Naval Academy
Athletic Assn. Award .... Jack McCarten, formerly of Ft. Carson,
Colo., and one time top goalie with the N.Y. Rangers, is slated to
return to the pro league next season .... George Izo, famus for his
quarterbacking of Notre Dame and the St. Louis Cardinals, will soon
complete his six-month training stint at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo..
Three-time All America West Point fullback Felix “Doc” Blanchard,
is now an Air Force major .... George Welsh, the quarterback who
piloted the Midshipmen in ’54 and ’55, will be back at the Naval
Academy this fall to help with the Middies’ backfield coaching chores
.... Southpaw hurler Howard Diggers of Ft. Carson, Colo., former
ace at Southern Illinois College, recorded the first no-hit tilt at
Carson this year. Diggers has received bids from the St. Louis
Cardinals, Cleveland Indians and the Pittburgh Pirates .... The
National AAU Senior long distance running competition will be held
at San Diego Sept. 2.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK—Paul Richards, Baltimore Orioles man-
ager: “We have to stick close to the Yankees, Indians and White Sox.
If we do that kind of a job, we should be knocking at the door before
the 162 games are played.”
Academy Falcons Are Busy Birds
AFI Still Leads
Softball League
With 4-0 Record
Headquarters AFI continued its
torrid pace in the intramural soft-
ball race this week, winning three
more games to lead the pack with
a 4-0 record.
Along the way AFI has count-
ered for 44 runs, while allowing
their opposition only 6.
Two other teams are also show-
ing a zero-loss record, hanging on
to a tie for second place.
They are the 57th Fighters and
AACS.
Supply and NAF have won two
and lost one, while Naval Secur-
ity, Rockville, and Hospital have
won one and lost two.
The four remaining teams have
yet to hit the win trail. These
include Transportation, Civil En-
gineers, and Weather with zero
and two, and Transportation with
zero-three.
Getting the season underway,
AFI dropped Weather to the tune
of 10-0 with Nick Popovich tos-
sing a no-hitter at the ‘casters.
AFI then got to Hospital 14-1,
edged Rockville 6-3, and rounded
it out 14-2 over Naval Security.
57th Fighters beat NSG 4-0,
NAF 3-2, and Engineers 10-0,
while AACS was tripping AB Sq
3-2, Weather 8-4, and Rockville
12-3.
(Answers to Quiz)
1. Babe Ruth swatted the first
homer in Yankee Stadium on April
8, 1923.
2. Fred Hass Jr. was a member
of the Walker Cup team in 1938
and played for the Ryder Cup
team in 1953.
3. Red Auerback of the Boston
Celtics.
4. The first World Series game
was played Oct. 1, 1903 when the
Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the
Boston Red Sox, 7-3.
5. Lloyd Waner of the Pitts-
burgh Pirates in 1927.
Airmen Complete
Loading Course
Eight MATS loadmasters and
two air freight specialists will
introduce jet cargo loading pro-
cedures aboard the first Boeing
C-135 “Stratofreighters” at Mc-
Guire AFB, N. J. this month.
The ten EASTAF men have
completed the jet loadmaster
course at Castle AFB, Calif. The
week-long course is based on cur-
rent available KC-135 data.
According to MATS Personnel
training officials, a quota for four
additional MATS men and two
Air Training Command instruc-
tors has been scheduled for the
loadmaster course in July.
Lieutenant Colonel
List Is Announced
Hq. USAF has sent to all major
commands a list of 1,617 officers
selected for promotion to per-
manent lieutenant colonel in the
Regular Air Force.
“This announcement does not
constitute the actual promotion of
the officers concerned, such pro-
motions to be made on a specifical-
ly designated date after confirma-
tion by the Senate,” Hq. USAF
cautioned.
One thousand, five hundred and
twenty-six line of the Air Force
officers were selected, 267 defer-
red for the first time and 113
deferred for the second.
Ninety-one were selected in the
various components with only two
deferrals, both for the second
time.
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A few weeks back 25 military
athletes from the United States,
Mexico, Brazil and Argentina
stood at attention under sunny
Texas skies at Fort Sam Houston.
They were marking the ceremon-
ial end of five days of intense
and varied competitions that go
back in history to the ancient
Greeks.
The event was the international
trials of the modern pentathlon,
a warm-up for the world’s champ-
ionship competition scheduled to
be held at Moscow in August.
Of the 25 military competitors,
one was an Air Force man, Air-
man David Kirkwood, who finish-
ed a creditable fifth in the over-
all standing.
Airman Kirkwood and his col-
leagues had treated 10,000 spec-
tators at San Antonio to a rare
display of athletic skills.
These were no sporting special-
ists who can do only one thing
well. Instead, they pitted their
skills against world standards in
five diverse events: riding a stee-
ple-chase horserace over a 5,000-
meter course; fencing with the
epee; shooting a pistol at a bob-
bing target 25 meters away;
swimming free-style for 300 met-
ers; and running cross country
over a 4,000-meter course.
These five events took place on
five consecutive days. Each re-
quired different athletic skills and
muscle power. Each was scored
by stiff standards. For example,
the 400-meter or 214 mile run is
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Sports
Quiz
By AFPS
1. What famous baseball play-
er hit the first home run in Yank-
ee Stadium?
2. Name the only golfer to
represent the United States in in-
ternational competition as both
amateur and professional.
3. Who is the only remaining
National Basketball Assn, coach
still active of the original 11 who
opened the 1946-47 season?
4. In what year was the first
World Series baseball tilt played?
5. Only one rookie in the ma-
jor leagues has ever got 223 hits
in a single season. Can you name
him?
given full marks only when the
time of 15 minutes flat is record-
ed, a not bad time for specialists.
Other events were gauged by sim-
ilar stringent standards.
The rarity of such sporting pro-
wess is obvious. It was obvious in
708 B. C. when the Spartans’
complaint that Olympic competi-
tions were too specialized and did
not truly measure athletic skill
was recognized and the first pen-
tathlon held.
In those days, the first event
was a broad-jumping contest. The.
second a javelin throw, the third
a foot race, the fourth a discus
throw, and the fifth a wrestling
match to determine the champion.
Such events represented, of
course, the needed soldierly skills
of that ancient era.
Riding, fencing, shooting, swim-
ming and running in the modern
day pentathlon represent the mili-
tary skills deemed worthy in 1912
when the pentathlon again was
introduced into Olympic competi-
tion.
One of the early American com-
petitors in 1912 was a young
American lieutenant named Ge-
orge Patton. Through the years,
at least two German and two
Swedish pentathlon athletes be-
came general officers of note.
That the pentathlon requires
skills and coordination not found
in any other sport is an under-
statement. That it is a soldier’s
sport is obvious. That Americans
have never won an individual
championship at international ev-
ents needs correction.
The American servicemen com-
peting are showing their stuff to
try for places on the United States
team for the coming Moscow
world’s championship.
For those who have pentathlon
aspirations, the experts say here
is a handy rule of thumb to judge
your potential — possession of
high skills in three of the five
events, two of these including run-
ning and swimming. It’s presumed
that you have the reflexes to be-
come a fencer and the steady
hands to become a shooter.
How does such a man look?
The experts say that with a few
exceptions he is on the slim side,
weighing about 175 pounds so as
not to handicap his riding.
Above all he is a true Spartan
about being able to work long and
hard hours training for all these
skills.
Since all varsity teams at the
Air Force Academy are known as
“Falcons,” and since there are
15 intercollegiate sports that boast
varsity squads, varsity sports
around Pike’s Peak is of the birds,
by the birds, but, to the credit of
the new school, not for the birds.
While having no conference af-
filiation, the football Falcons have
established a national reputation
in the few years of existence.
Such teams as the 1958 football
squad, which completed an unde-
feated season and played Texas
Christian University to a score->
less tie in the Cotton Bowl, have
served notice that the newest of
the service academies produces
athletes on a par with any school
in the country.
Expansion of the Falcon foot
ball schedule to include opponents
of national ranking made the need
for a home stadium obvious. Since
football is the only income-pro-
ducing sport, a stadium is a vital
necessity at the Academy and will
provide financial support for a
major portion of the AFA’s 15-
sport athletic program.
Excavation and earth-moving
operations are now complete on
$3,500,000 Falcon Stadium, funds
for which are being raised through
a world-wide campaign conducted
by the Air Force Academy Foun-
dation, Inc.
The foundation is a non-profit
nationwide organization of prom-
inent businessmen and civic lead-
ers which has undertaken the task
of providing for the Academy
needed facilities which cannot be
financed with government funds.
The 40,000-seat stadium is sche-
duled to be ready for the 1962
season.
Air Force members donated
more than $2,000,000 in the fund
drive.
All-America honors have come
to Academy athletes. Lt. Bob
Siteman, Class of 1959, became
the first cadet to win national
fame .when he was named to the
All-America Rifle Team in 1958.
Later that same year, Lt. Brock
Strom, also Class of ’59 and cap-
tain of the Cotton Bowl-bound
Falcons, was an unanimous first
team tackle choice on most All-
America elevens.
Varsity sports come under the
Department of Intercollegiate At-
hletics, which is charged with the
program for varsity, junior var-
sity and freshman sports. The Air
Force Academy Athletic Associa-
tion, a non-profit organization of
Air Force personnel, administers
the financial operation of the pro-
gram.
Varsity teams make the head-
lines and win acclaim, but Aca-
demy planners never lose sight
of the importance of the overall
athletic program for developing
every cadet to the limit of his
ability. The athletic program tak-
es its place with Academics and
Airmanship at the Air Force Aca-
demy in helping to produce the
graduate of today — the Aero-
space Age leader of the future.
Reykjavik Golfers
Mount Over Locals
Reykjavik’s golf club beat the
Keflavik Airport team 30% to
16% points in the Lt. Jason Clark
Memorial golf tournament held
May 28.
Top man for the locals was
CWO J. Reeves who carded a 72
to lead the Keflavik contingent.
Capt. H. Dingus was second with
77, and they were followed by
A2C J. Snyder and SMSgt. P.
Graham with 80; BM2 F. Kisil,
83; A2C S. Lackey, 84; Lt. B.
Stimac, 88; Maj. H. Hutchins, 91;
SMS H. Pedersen, 92; Capt. J.
Lunghofer, 93; Mr. J. Miolla, 94;
Maj. M. Thompson, 96; A2C T.
Wilson, 102: Mr. J. Swanson, 105;
Capt. P. Phillips, 107; and A2C
P. Assilen, 124.