The White Falcon - 21.06.1968, Side 7

Fr i day, June 21, 1968
THE WHI TE FALCON
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UCMJ Amendment
Approved By
House Subcommittee
COMPUTER CORNER
By Bud Goode
A bi 11 whi ch vroul d amend t he
Unif orm Cbde of Ml it ary Justice
has been approved by a House
Armed Services subconrri 11 ee.
Among the major provisions
of the bill would be creation
of general and special courts
imartials with only one officer.
The bill is designed to make
ni lit ary procedure ‘‘conform
more closely’’ with procedure
used in criminal trials in U. S.
district courts.
Accor di ng to Maj. Gen. Rennet h
J. Hodson, Army judge advocate
general, speaking for all the
military services, this would
‘‘enhance the prestige and ef-
fectiveness of the law officer
so t hat hi s j udi ci al st at ur e
and authority in the courtroom
woul d mor e cl osel y appr oxi mat e
t hat of a ci vi 1 i an t r i al j udge.
Enactment, proponents say,
would speed up military trials.
The bill is suppor t ed by the
American Bar Association and
the Federal Bar Association.
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Which teams in the American
and Nat i onal Leagues have t he
best st r i keout per cent age?
With the first 1000 At Bats
under their belts, Cbmput er Cor-
ner poured the season statistics
into the electronic evaluator
to compare the team standings
on Strikeout percentage. Efere
are the results through games
of Mar 14:
American League
Cleveland
Baltimore
Minnesota
Detroit
Oakland
Boston
Chicago
New York
Washington
California
Average
Strikeout%
21.6
17.6
17.5
16.8
16.0
16.0
15.9
15.2
14.4
14.3
16.8
National League Strikeout%
N. Y. Mets 19.2
San Francisco 16.8
Philadelphia 16.7
Los Angeles 16.0
Pittsburgh 16.0
Chicago 15.9
St. Louis 15.2
Cincinnati 15.1
Houston 15.0
Atlanta 12.0
Average 16.0
The New York Mets are the phe-
nomena of t he Nat i onal League.
Their pitchers strike out 19.2
per cent of al 1 bat t er s f aci ng
them vs. only 15.2 per cent in
’67. Ifyan is the Met ’ s sensation,
striking out 58 men in only 6
games. He leads the league in
SCYs. Singer, of the Dodgers,
has 57 strikeouts t o hi s credit,
and Sadecki of the Giants, 51.
Cleveland leads the American
League t hi s season j ust as t hey
did in ’67. The Indians are now
dropping 21.6 per cent of all
opposing batters wi t h st ri keout s
vs. 20.1 per cent last year.
Three of the four top American
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League strikeout artists belong
to Qeveland-JfcDowel 1, who leads
t he 1 eague wi t h 73; f ol 1 owed by
WfcLain of Detroit with 52; then
'll ant and Siebert, both of Cleve-
land, with 51 and 41.
Gan the Indians keep up this
strikeout pace? They did it last
year. But pitching is not 100
per cent of the game. The Qeve-
1 and of f ense must add at 1 east
100 runs this year over last if
they are to make a serious
t hr eat for t he pennant.