Daily News from New York, New York • 1338

SUNDAY: JUNE 5, 1966 30 Sports mm -f 1: V- e- TJSWif- X. as i George Scoff, fhe mosf excif Dosox rookie's long homers highlight smashing year for freshmen in majors My JOE O'DAY BASEBALL'S VERSION of "New Faces of 1966" is a sure fire smash hit. Time as it must to all athletic endeavors has made ravaging- inroads on the majors this year. But, while the graybeards faded away, an army that looks as if it had been dispatched from local draft boards has been jamming its way through the revolving doors. At cutdown tima last month, 65 players classified as rookies forced their way onto major league rosters.

The AL had room for 34 while its older rival found room for 31. There is quality as well as quantity. Zooming young stars like George Scott of the Red Sox, Rick Raichardt and Jackie Warner of the Angels top the impressive AL contingent, while Don Sutton of the Dodgers and Sonny Jackson of the Astros lend a distinctive sparkle to the NL crop. Everybody Loads Up Every team, with the exception of the Timers, has drawn some plum from the cornucopia loaded up by the streamlining of farm systems and the open drft on college and high school players. Tha rag-tag Cubs claim no less than seven frosh on their roster, while the AngeU, Athletics and Mets have half a dosen each.

Scott is the standout in the lot, what with his tape-measure thumping and cotton-field jargon. The muscular 6-2, 220-pounder from Greenville, really hai the Boston populace buzzing and for the first time in years it's not invective. Still. Scotty was all but overlooked at the Red Sox' camp in Winter Haven, this spring. Joe Foy, the All-Every-thing from Toronto (IL), was ticketed fr the third base berth by manager Billy Herman but all that was before the Great Scott started to rattle and roll.

Scout Ed Scott and another bird dog, Milt Bolliog, were touting Scotty, as was his farmer manager at Pittsfield (Eastern League), Eddie Popowski. Ed, who signed Henry Aaron for the Indianapolis Clowns, and inked Scott out of high schl, said: "He was a more advanced hitter than Aaron at the same age." Boiling, who gives all the credit to Ed hi sfgning the youngster, added: "We sat on the steps all through the graduation exercises and grabbed him as soon as he got hi3 diploma. There was a Houston scout there but we beat him and the others, who arrived the next morning." Scotty was a bargain at $10,000 and he more than proved it last year when he won the Triple Crown and Most Valuable Player Award withone swing. Oae Swell Foop "George went up needing a hit to win the batting title and a homer to win the Triple Crown," Popowski recalled. "Well, he got all three." Boston's short left-field screen would seem made to order for Scott but his farmer pilot cautions: "He goes into slumps when he tries to pull the ball.

He has tremendous power to right-center and can hit it out anywhere." Tight fast balls around the stomach upset Scotty. When rival pitchers try it, he good-naturedly says: "They're pitching in nay kitchen." Thanks to advice by Ted Williams to vm a heavier bat to cut down on his Scott found the groove and opened the season at third. Still, for all his the Bed Sox out of des- Among the newcomers going places in the majors are (I. to Sonny Jackson of Astros, Angels' Rick Reichardt, Dodgers' Don Sutton. Ing thing fo hit Beantown in 1 7 years, lashes into fast ball.

peration moved Eddie Kasko to third and switched Scott to first base. Scotty made the adjustment and continued to hit. Finally, he ran into a harrowing experience a slump. He fanned five straight times in one game in Cleveland but his teammates and Herman never doubted his ability for a moment. Outfielder Lenny Green took him to dinner and explained: "I had those days.

Only the greatest of hitters escape them and you will, too." Herman brushed it off and added: "George will have days like that. Maybe not five strikeouts but pitchers will fool him. You have to expect it. But he battles back and you have to like that." Well, George has come fighting back and is a definite threat for the AL homerun title. He drew raves everywhere he went and the long ball is box office.

tot Coatrol Cited In New York, he hit one into the sacred precincts in the upper left-field deck off- Whitey Ford, no less. The easy-going Ford exclaimed: "I guess that was the longest home run ever hit off me. I'm glad he didn't hit it to center field because it might have gone out of this place." With a homer and triple in two games in vast Yankee Stadium, Scotty dead-panned: "I like this park very much." In Detroit, Scotty hit a pair, including a 410-footer. Herman winked at that one and declared: "That was George's cheapest yet. He might throw it back." Finally, he almost put one over-the roof a spot exclusively reserved for Harmon Killebrew of the Twin.

En route to Twin Scott said: "I like that Detroit park very much. Nice place." in Twin he hit 443- footer off Jim (Mudcat) Grant. When asked what kind of a pitch he hit, Scotty laughed: "He tried to put some heat by me." That heat is a Scottism for fast ball. One of Scott's loudest boosters Is veep Rick Ferrell of Detroit- "He has wonderful control of that bat. That's why I'm convinced he's no flash in the pan." A bit less spectacular, Reichardt and Warner have also been doing the long ball routine for the Angels.

Reichardt, the 200,000 bonus baby out of Wisconsin, insists he doesn't have the "homer swing." AL pitchers will 'disagree as he and his teammate Warner continue to break down the fences. Earl Wilson and Dan Osinski of the Red Sox each got tagged for a circuit by Reichardt, who became the 18th player in history to hit a pair in an inning. The 6-3. 200-pounder said: "After all, Paul Schall hit nine during the first month and didn't hit another all season. Basically, I don't believe I'm a home run hitter." Over in the NL, the accent is on arm and ies, what with Sutton and Jackson'.

off to sensational starts. Dolfo Phillips, traded away from the Phillies to the Cubs, has shown good power and just might get in the home run sweepstakes, too. Sutton so far has been a stickout for the well-armed Dodgers. He also is a good hitting pitcher and labeled a real find by Los Angeles veep Fresco Thompson. "He not only has great natural talent, but more poise than any young pitcher I can remember.

When Drysdale first came up, he gave the impression on the field of having been around a long time. But it was years before he could control his temper. Sutton is completely composed, both on and off the' diamond." Jackson of the Astros is a fleet-footed shortstop, who seems heir apparent to Maury Wills of the Dodgers as kin of the basepaths. Still, he and sophomore, Joe Morgan just might form one of the best keystone combinations in the game. His talent is unlimited and on this the experts agree.

Scott, Reichardt, Warner, Sutton and Jackson are off and running; for Rookie-' of-the-year honors, but it's a long, long; way until September..