Scorecard

THE ALL-STARS

On the premise that we can make as many mistakes as the ballplayers, and are no less chauvinistic, it is our custom to anticipate the vote of the National and American League All-Star teams. Their annual game will be played July 9 in Cleveland. We go the players a few steps better, selecting for each league three pitchers, plus a relief pitcher, and then, pressing on to the end, a batting order:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Albie Pearson, Los Angeles, CF
Nelson Fox, Chicago, 2B
Leon Wagner, Los Angeles, LF
Al Kaline, Detroit, RF
Frank Malzone, Boston, 3B
Joe Pepitone, New York, 1B
Earl Battey, Minnesota, C
Zoilo Versalles, Minnesota, SS
Steve Barber, Baltimore, P
Camilo Pascual, Minnesota, P
Whitey Ford, New York, P
Dick Radatz, Boston, RP

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Vada Pinson, Cincinnati, CF
Dick Groat, St. Louis, SS
Tommy Davis, Los Angeles, LF
Henry Aaron, Milwaukee, RF
Bill White, St. Louis, 1B
Ed Bailey, San Francisco, C
Ken Boyer, St. Louis, 3B
Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh, 2B
Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles, P
Juan Marichal, San Francisco, P
Jim O'Toole, Cincinnati, P
Al McBean, Pittsburgh, RP

GLASS WAR

Plenty of noise has been made about the unesthetic quality of a countryside littered with cans, papers, bottles and ' old shoes, but there is growing evidence that the glass among such refuse may be not just a mess but a menace. Clear glass, and particularly clear glass bottles containing a residue of clear liquid, can concentrate the sun's rays and, in a dry area, start fires. Bottles, jugs and, provocatively, goldfish bowls, have been known to establish blazes.

Bert L. Cole, Commissioner of the State of Washington Department of Natural Resources, recalls a time bomb in the form of a clear glass jug of gasoline left in the sun in the back of a truck. The sun, shining through the jug, set fire to a box in the truck; the heat cracked the jug, and the blaze roared out over 19,000 acres before it was put down. Less spectacularly, the goldfish bowl sat in front of a lady's dining-room window. She seemed to smell smoke every day, but could find nothing until finally she noticed small, burned semicircles on the dining-room table. Elsewhere, tents have caught fire from Silex coffee-makers and brush fires have been ignited by water jugs. Obviously, discarded glass needs to be recognized as a serious threat to woodlands. Clear glass, that is. Experimenters have been unable to start a fire with the darker glass of beer bottles, which does not suggest anything to water drinkers and pop guzzlers except to be less smug and more tidy.

WHACKS AND WAVES
The propaganda of college football publicists is hard to come by in the summer. They are pressed into issuing accounts of how this player or that is making himself more formful, more formidable on summer jobs that practically smell of muscle. Vanderbilt University may be pardoned, therefore, if it goes only halfway with its summer report on Randy Wieser, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound center. Randy will take six weeks' training in the Marine Corps at Quantico, Va. Then he will go home to Dallas and work in his father's beauty parlor as a hairdresser.