Looken 'Em Over
By Rich Ortega
Sports Editor
Having been firmly indoctrinated by our many profs here at Davis, that an expert is the man to turn to when a job has to be done, we dropped by the Student Health Center and saw amigo, Lincoln, the other day. It seems that Linc has been down with the bug for the last few days. So in order to cheer him up the topic of our conversation centered around his first love . . . baseball.
After making his customary remarks concerning baseball in general and "setting ’em” up for all hands, he asked if we had just come to be friendly or did we have something specific in mind. Told him that we were interested in his opinion concerning future Aggie games and asked if he would give forth.
The little man, who is quite familiar with Aggie sports in general, thinks that this might be the sport that the Aggies will take the crown in . . . provided they are not plagued with injuries—a characteristic quite familiar to our football and basketball teams.
However, Linc feels that if co-captain Bill Lovelace can shake off his sore arm, and can once again take his regular turn with Bob Bushnell on the hill, the Aggies will have a one-two combination that will give FWC teams much to worry about. Then too there is a possibility that Coach Loiter might develop another winning hurler??
With the pitching problem thus solved, Linc moved on to the infield where he was quite optimistic. He listed a flashy infield that is lacking in only one thing—experience.
Starting at first Linc summed it up like this "John Smith and basketballer John Wilson are fighting it out for the initial sack.
On the keystone sack Lotter can call on Bill Bizzini. Short stop, without a doubt, belongs to the classy fielding Stan Cebull and third base will go to the heavy hitting Dwight Barker. However, Linc hastened to add that Barker will be lost to the team for at least three weeks due to illness. In that case either "vet” Chuck Wilson or Ron Rutherford will handle the "hot corner.”
The catching department is really loaded with Co-Captain Chuck Wilson, Dan Purciful, and Dick Behrendt all being able receivers.
The outer pasture seems to be the problem of most concern. Here, Lotter has been shifting El Veerkanip, Carl Oehlman, Howard Harrison, Dick Heringer and Rich Shepherd back and forth in an attempt to find the right combination of flyhawks.
A big factor in Lincoln optimism is the fact that the whole team displays a lot of spirit and hustle ... a factor which was quite noticeably absent from last year’s squad.
That’s it! Line might be wrong, but he knows more about the situation than yours truly so we gave you his opinion . . Hope he’s right!!
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