PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, 3 APRH, 1965 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, 3 APRIL 1965 LLOYD GRAFF Aristocrats of the Bronx Will Snatch Pennant Hating the Yankees is like hating cancer. Everybody agrees with you and it still doesn't do any good. Somebody once said that rooting for the Yanks is like rooting for U.S. Steel. CBS would be more appropriate now. It seems like the pinstripers have always had that corporate image, kind of the gray flannel suit boys of baseball. And since they disposed of Casey and Yogi the aristorcratic heart stopped beating entirely. Aggravatingly, this year the Yankees will win it again-for the sixth straight time-with new "organization man" manager Johnny Keane. The Bombers aren't supermen this year. There is too much scarred tissue in Whitey Ford's left arm and Mickey Mantle's battered legs, but a wounded Ford and Mantle plus the efficient supporting crew is much too good for the rest of the American League. Mel Stottlemeyer, a pitcher with a notably unYankeelike name, stole a pennant for the Yanks last year after the supstart Orioles led all season. Stottlemeyer will be back for a full season and should win 20. Jim Bouton knocks the cap off his bean an average of 53 times in a nine-inning game, but the Yanks can afford the hat bill if he wins 18 games like he did last season. With Pete Ramos and Bill Stafford the Yank bullpen is adequate if not exactly fearsome. The outfield has "The Mick," Tom Tresh, and Roger Maris if he can satisfy himself with assaulting pitcher's offerings rather than verbally assaulting reporters. The infield appears as slick as greasy kid's stuff, and Ellie Howard is the best catcher in the majors. The Baltimore Orioles who played like Yankees for 140 games last season still have the pennant bug. They also have a character who is even younger than me-Wally Bunker-who isn't going to wint 19 games again for awhile. Wally's really been pasted this spring and2 his future is not quite as bright as the new crimson Corvette he's8 been racing around in.I Milt Pappas should be worth around 20 and Steve Barberf should have a much better go of it than last season's debacle. The bullpen is top notch, with Stu Miller, who has three speeds on his curve-slow, slower, and slowest and occasionally un- leashes his "Wells Fargo pitch" that comes up in stages. Dick Hall, an accountant who matriculated at Swarthmore of all places, and Harvey Haddix who once pitched 12 perfect innings and lost, help Miller out. Brooks Robinson is without peer at third, and Luis Aparicio still gobbles grounders gracefully at short. Boog Powell, Sam Bowens, and rookie Curt Blefary make a bone crushing outfield, but Oriole pitchers better keep the ball low. The Chicago White Sox, a team any Cub fan loathes from birth, should be in the running for second place as usual. Al Lopez is a superb manager. Who else could keep a team of the White Sox caliber near the top every year? The Sox do have a couple of fairly good pitchers. Gary Peters has a whiplash fastball and is probably the best hitter on a team of nonhitters. Gary was Lopez' best pinch batter last season, which of course doesn't mean much. The Sox do have some hitters, however. Pete Ward occa- sionally homers and always murders the Yankees, which makes New York sportswriters think he is a modern Lou Gehrig. Floyd Robinson hits righthanded pitchers like cousins, but is hapless against lefties. John Romano is solid behind the plate and a great improvement over J. C. Martin who slipped to .197 last sea- son after a resounding .205 the year before. Who wouldn't be? On the shores of Lake Erie is a mammoth stadium that is filled every week for pro football and vacant every day for baseball. But this season a couple of people will show up to see a rebounding Cleveland team cream homers and split 19-18 games. The Indians, have a real offense, but a pitching void. With Vic Davillio, Leon Wagner, Chuck Hinton, and Rocky Cola- vito they have four of the better outfielders in the league. Chances are Rocky will play first. Max Alvis is an excellent third baseman, but the double play combination is below par. But the pitching . . . Jack Kralick and Luis Tiant could win 15 apiece. Sam McDowell is one of those players who has tremendous potential every year and never makes it big, but Sandy Koufax had the same tag with the Dodgers. Big Sam might burst forth, but then again . . . The bullpen is decidely weak. There is no depth among the starting pitchers. Minnesota has Harmon Killebrew, Bob Allison, Camilo Pascual, Tony Oliva, and an owner-general manager who seemingly doesn't want to win the pennant. Calvin Griffith, sorely lacking pitchers and empty-handed at second base, made only one trade in the off-season. He got rid of one of his more promising pitchers, Gerry Arrigo. The infield is leaky, catching is questionable, and pitching is slim. Pascual and Jim Kaat are established pitchers, but the rest of the staff is iffy. The bullpen "ace" is a washed-up old Cub named Johnny Klippstein. The Los Angeles Angels have two of the wildest names in baseball,Aubrey Gatewood and Costen Shockley, and one of the best pitchers, Dean Chance. The Angels are the best of the ex- pansion teams because manager Bill Rigney has put together a promising group of young players. Chance, Gatewood, Fred Neumann, Don Lee, and Barry Latman all possess live arms on the hill. Lee has the chance to be the best reliever in the league in the Dick Radatz tradition. The Detroit Tigers seemingly lack zip, particularly without Charlie Dressen. Al Kaline had a disappointing season last year and has had a disastrous spring, which does not bode well for Tiger fans. The infield is unspectacular, with Dick McAuliffe and Don Wert. Bill Freehan, the Michigan boy, is a proven catcher and should rival Elston Howard for catching supremacy in the league. But games are won-on the mound and the Tigers don't have great strength there. Mickey Lolich is a screwballish lefty who should win 20 this year, but Dave Wickersham is unlikely to win 19 again. Hank Aguirre, up until yesterday afternoon, seemed to have lost his touch. The bullpen is shaky. Boston, Washington, and Kansas City will battle to avoid the cellar, and the Senators with Frank Howard and some former Dodger pitchers stand the best chance to ascend to eighth. K.C. has Charlie Finley and a pitching staff with a nucleus of Diego Segui and Moe Drakowsky. Charlie, with stars like those, I sympathize with you. Poor Boston has some name players like Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Conigliaro, Richard R. Radatz (The Monster) and not much else. Jerry Stephenson, a rookie pitcher is highly touted, but he's been clubbed in spring training. Lefty Dennis Bennett has also been un- impressive so far. Look out below. Well, here they are. (Man, I'm tired.) New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Detroit, Washington, Boston, Kansas City. Robie Splashes to AAU Record By The Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Olympian Carl Robie led four finalists from Michigan's swimming team, all competing unattached, in the NAAU Indoor Men's Swimming championships here yesterday, as he won the 200-yard butterfly event. The sophomore swam the race in 1:52.7, bettering the meet rec- ord of 1:53.8 set by Indiana's Fred Schmidt a year ago. The Hoosier bypassed defense of his title to at- tend to his studies in Blooming- ton. Ed Bartsch, captain of this year's Wolverine swimming team, lost his crown in the 200-yard backstroke to Thompson Mann of the North Carolina Athletic Club by a mere five feet. Mann's time was 1:56.8, beating by less than a second the clocking of 1:57.7 giv- en to Bartsch. formance of the year, Yale fresh- man Don Schollander, who won four gold medals for the United States in the Tokyo Olympics, broke his own eyebrow raising mark in the 200-yard freestyle sprint with an even more amaz- ing time. Last year he won the NAA- 'with a t me of 1:42.6. and: he bettered that record along with the American record with yester- day's time of 1:41.7. Following Schollander were Steve .,+ Clark, a Yale senior, and Greg Buckingham, swimming unattach- ed from Atherton, Calif. Bob Hoag, a Michigan sophomore, took the fourth spot with a time of 1:45.6; his best ever in the 200- yard race. Ken Merten, an unattached Los Angeles swimmer, swam to a 2:11.8, victory in the 200-yard breast- stroke. Michigan's Big Ten champion in both the 100- and 200-yard; CARL ROBIE: NAAU BUTTERFLY CHAMP NCAA SEMIFINALS: Three Qualify onT Special To The Daily CARBONDALE, Ill.-Michigan's team of gymnastics specialists astounded the contestants, fans, and coaches with what Newt Loken called a "phenomenal per- formance" to take the first, third, and fifth spots on the trampoline in the NCAA qualification rounds. The top six qualifiers will com- pete tonight for the individual gold medals. In a display of single-event power, the likes of which have rarely been seen in the NCAA meet, Gary Erwin, a Michigan senior from Arlington Heights, Ill., who has won the NCAA crown for the past two years and added the world title to his trophy case this season, walked away with the top slot. Second in the event was Frank Schmitz of the Southern Illinois Salukies. Close on his heels was Fred Sanders of Michigan. Sand- ers, who has followed close behind Erwin for the past two seasons, finished in a tie with Danny Mill- man of California, who held the world title two years ago. To complete the Michigan sweep of the odd numbered spots, JohnI Hamilton placed fifth, which en- titled him to compete in tonight's finals. Although the tramp sweep was the talk of the tourney, Michigan has no other qualifiers in the finals. Mike Henderson, Michigan's entry in the free exercise event finished a heartbreaking seventh, just short of a qualifying position. breaststroke events, Paul Scheer- In what might well be the most er, finished a dismal fifth with a fantastic single swimming per-, time of 2:17.3. Two more Hoosiers, the now familiar team of Ken Sitzberger and Rick Gilbert, finished one-two in the one-meter diving, with teammate Dick Earley in the sixth ra m O in e position. Ohio State's Randy Lar- son notched a fourth. Inte400-yard freestyle relay, Rich Blanton fell victim to the Southern Cal's team of Bob Ben- "pressure of these big meets" ac- nett, Jim McGrath, Rich Mc- cording to Loken, missed his rou- Geagh, and Roy Saari was award- tine on the rings and finished well l ed first place with a meet record down in the list of qualifiers. timing of 3:07.4. A Yale combi- The national team title will be' nation of Dave Lyons, Doug Ken- decided tonight along with all of nedy, Ed Townsend, and Steve the NCAA individual champions. Clark had finished the race in The team finals will feature Penn 3:06.2, but judges disqualified State, which eliminated host them, saying that Kennedy had Southern Illinois last w e e k, jumped the gun before Lyons against Washington, touched. 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