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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, February 27, 1965
Vince J VieitA
On Sports
by Tim Vincent
Last week I touched lightly on the subject of the upcom-
ing baseball season. This week, I’ll dip a little deeper and
see if I can come up with a few more facts and figures and
maybe a prediction or two.
Last season, we found the perennial New York Yankees
once again dominating the American League race. Why?
Well, look at it this way. Who'^
else? What other team had a
better infield last year? An in-
field composed of Boyer at third,
Kubek at shortstop, Richardson at
second, and Pepitone (a hometown
favorite) at first is tough to beat.
The Orioles may have a match
at third in Brooks Robinson but
they stop there. As far as power
the Yankees have an infantry.
I”ll go as far as to say they have
the second strongest team in the
league as far as power is con-
cerned.
When you have guys like
Mantle, Maris, Howard, Tresh,
Blanchard, and Pepitone, knocking
the life out of that horsehide you
have power. But I will go with
the Minnesota Twins as the
strongest team for power in the
League. What they need is a
couple of front-liners on the
mound.
The Yankees also have, in my
opinion, the best catcher in the
league, speaking of course of
Elston Howard.
As far as pitching goes, and I
may get thrown out to sea for
this, the Yankees are tough.
Whitey Ford, the old reliable, is
the mainstay but they can also
count on A1 Downing, young Mel
Stottlemeyer, reliefer Pedro
Ramos, another youngster Jim
Bouton, and Bill Stafford.
The Los Angeles Angels have
Dean Chance but who else?
Baltimore can counter with Milt
Pappas but he won’t win a pen-
nant.
To top matters off the Yankees
let go of the manager who led
them to another pennant flag,
Yogi Berra, and picked up a guy
that brought a second division
ballclub in the National League
to a pennant and a World Cham-
pionship.
In the National League the
going gets rougher. Here you have
much more balance, and it’s really
hard to pick anyone so early. As
for the St. Louis Cardinals, I do
not think they will repeat again
in 1965. They had a real fine
season in ’64 but ladyluck won’t
strike again. Granted, they have
the best infield in the league, but
I don’t think they’ll click as a
team in this year’s campaign.
The Philadelphia Phillies are a
young ballclub with some fine
pitchers and could very easily be
the team to beat. They have a
fine manager in Gene Manch who
did an excellent job last year.
Herman Franck over in San
Francisco also has pleny of talent
to work with. A finer outfield you
can’t find and the power is su-
perb. Their pitching could use a
little help but they may come on
strong.
The Dodgers also have to be
reckoned with as well as the Cin-
cinnati Redlegs. The Dodgers have
probably the best pitching staff
in baseball today. Sandy Koufax,
Don Drysdale, Ron Peranoski,
Bob Miller—beat that.
The Redlegs are a come-from-
behind ball club. Frank Robinson
plays as well as anyone and hits
a little better than that. As for
the rest of the league anyone
could cause trouble to the top
brass.
Now for some predictions! As
you probably already guessed, I
like the Yankees to repeat in the
American League, with the Chi-
cago White Sox behind A1 Lopez
finishing second, the Orioles will
have to settle for third followed
closely by Minnesota.
In the senior circuit, here I go,
I’m going with San Fransisco.
I feel “65” will be their year. In
second I find the Phillies and a
real battle for third and fourth
between Los Angeles and Cin-
cinnati. That’s right, I don’t
figure St. Louis to finish any
higher than fifth.
Well, that’s that. Now all I
can do is sit back and wait for
all the irate people to come gun-
ning for me. Please Mike C., no
comments!
1. What baseball player drove
in 100 or more runs for a record
13 consecutive years for the New
York Yankees between 1926 and
1938?
2. How many baseball players
have hit fair balls out of Yankee
Stadium.
3. Terry Barr, flanker on the
Detroit Lions, established an East-
West Shrine football record in
1957 when he caught how many
passes.
4. The Montreal Canadians
played a record of how many tie
games in the 1962-63 season?
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AFRTS STYLE — “Swishing” Ed
Setaro attempts his patented shot
while Rockville’s Jim Winters tries
a block. AFRTS finally won the
game 63-62.
INTRAMURAL
STANDINGS
Team Won Lost
1. AFI 25 5
2. Sec/Admin 25 5
3. 57th FIS 24 6
4. Rockville 22 8
5. Medical 20 10
6. AMD 20 10
7. Marines 19 11
8. VP-23 15 15
9. AFRTS 13 17
10. IDF 12 18
11. NavCommSta 11 19
12. Public Works 10 20
13. NavSecGru 9 21
14. IKF 8 22
The Naval Station intra-
mural basketball leagues stand-
ings as of Feb. 25 finds the
top four teams ending out the
season as they ready for the
play-off tournament which is
taking place this moment.
Although the team from
Rockville was on the verge of
collapsing out of the magic
circle a month ago, their win
over AMD Tuesday clinched
fourth place. The Medical team,
after hobbling around sixth
and seventh place for a month,
finished in a tie with AMD
for fifth place.
The most improved team, as
far as climbing up the team
ladder goes, should be awarded
to the AFRTS “fighting five.”
A last place team at mid-season
with a 1 and 15 record, blazed
the court-paths to an out-
standing 12 and 2 record for
the latter half of the season.
The amazing resurgence of
the AFRTS five is naturally
due to the two big men who
joined the fledgling team at
mid-season. Big Jim Keeney,
the Navy All Star, and center
for AFRTS and “Swishing” Ed
Setaro at guard, also a Navy
All Star and the team’s high
scorer, were the “big guns”
that blasted AFRTS to ninth
place. It should be noted
further that for most of the
season AFRTS had only five
men on the team.
Credit should also go to Buzz
Shipp, the center, Bob Bur-
chette and Tim Vincent,
guards, who played aggressive
and outstanding ball for
AFRTS all season.
Arctic Lanes
Big Delight To
Young Bowlers
by Annette Babneau
Higher scores were recorded
this week in all leagues at the
Arctic Bowl.
The Tuesday Lucky Strikes have
just one more week to bowl and
Team Three is in first place with
34 wins. Team Six has second
place with 32% wins.
In the girls division, Peggy
Aitchison has all the honors with
a 125 average, a 279 high series
and a 146 high game.
For the boys a tie for high game
of 152 goes to John Wesely and
Orlando Cabcabin. Thomas Howell
rolled the high series of 276 and
high average is held by Orlando
Cabcabin with a 134.
The Srikes Outs have changed
their day to Friday afternoon.
Team Three is in first place while
Team Six holds the second spot.
In the girls department, Ann
Howell had the high game and
high series with a 100 and 172
respectively. High average goes
to Betty Devaney with an 86.
The boys leading scorer in high
games goes to Mike Babneau who
rolled 148 and also holds the high
series with a 249. The high aver-
ages for the boys is deadlocked at
108, co-held by Mike Bush and
Mike Babneau.
FOUL OR NOT—Medical’s ‘Doc’
Brown tries to block Foster’s
under-the-board shot. The Medics
clipped the Marines 66-55.
HIGH SCHOOL
IKF SCORES FG FTA-FTM T
Einar 2 2-0 4
Hilmar 0 1-1 1
Reynir 1 2-2 4
Georg 3 1-0 6
Jon 0 1-0 0
Helgi 2 0-0 4
Gudni 3 0-0 6-
Guffi 0 2-1 1
Fiddi 3 9-7 13
Y sarnn 1 2-2 4
15 20-13 43
Vikings FG FTA-FTM T
Rogers 1 11-7 9
Sparks, J. 1 7-3 5
Thornhill 1 0-0 2
Starbird 2 9-6 10
Jordan 0 3-2 2
Sparks, R. 1 0-0 2
Green 2 1-0 4
Hurt 0 1-0 0
8 32-18 34
Scores
TUESDAY
Rockville FG FTA-FTM : t
Winters 1 1-0 2
Goodp’st’re 2 5-3 7
Perez 11 8-7 29
McKemey 3 5-3 9
Harrington 0 1-0 0
Cole 2 0-0 4
19 20-13 51
AMD FG FTA-FTM T
LaCrouts 0 1-0 0
Gunsorek 3 17-7 13
Williford 4 5-3 11
Armstrong 2 0-0 4
Souchek 1 0-0 2
Kirby 1 4-4 6
11 27-14 36
IDF FG FTA-FTM T
Welch 3 1-0 6
Ward 8 2-1 17
Wedeking 5 3-2 12
Guy 0 2-0 0
Stone 0 0-0 0
Brown 2 2-2 6
18 10-5 41
NavSecGru FG FTA-FTM T
Allard 8 1-0 16
Voigt 3 2-1 7
Sirrs 1 0-0 2
Gerdeman 2 4-2 6
Peck 3 2-1 7
17 9-4 38
WEDNESDAY
57th FG FTA-FTM T
Bailey 7 5-3 17
Mclntire 9 4-2 20
Bensing 11 6-4 26
Coombs 6 1-1 13
Webster 5 5-1 11
35 25-11 87
AFRTS FG FTA-FTM T
Vincent 2 1-0 4
Burchette 3 1-1 7
Setaro 16 6-6 38
Keeney 11 2-1 23
Wood 2 0-0 4
34 10-8 76
Sec/Admin FG FTA-FTM T
Dorner 9 8-5 23
Graves 3 0-0 6
Cutshaw 13 5-3 29
Klausing 6 0-0 12
English 1 2-0 2
Meyers 4 0-0 8
36 15-8 80
Medical FG FTA-FTM : T
Brown 4 7-3 11
Griffits 2 3-1 5
Williams 8 3-1 17
Hanson 3 3-1 7
Cramer 5 4-3 13
Eades 2 6-1 5
Gunther 0 2-2 2
24 28-12 60
AFI FG FTA-FTM T
Robinson 11 8-5 27
Lauriano 4 1-1 9
Martinez 9 3-0 18
Crocket 1 0-0 2
Barry 7 1-1 15
Broussard 1 0-0 0
Crawford 1 0-0 2
34 13-7 75
IDF FG FTA-FTM T
Welch 3 1-0 6
Ward 7 2-1 15
Wedeking 3 13-10 16
Brown 4 5-2 10
Guy 1 4-1 3
Ball 0 1-1 1
18 26-15 51