19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

PREDICTION: SIMPLE ARITHMETIC
Sirs:
Being of reasonably sound mind and body, I predict the Yankee dynasty is at an end this year and the Red Sox are going to win the pennant. With Ted batting a solid .360, Jensen .340, Piersall .325, Goodman .320 and Vernon .315, we are bound to get more than our share of runs. Brewer and Sullivan will win 20 apiece. Parnell, Baumann, Susce, Delock and Porterfield will win about 70 games between them. The rest of the pitching staff will win at least 25 games, thus giving the Sox 135 victories this season. For the past 10 seasons the Sox have taken it from the Yankees . This year the only thing we would like to take from the Yankees is Mickey Mantle .
DAVID BALKIN
Syracuse , N.Y.

?With a 154-game season this should certainly give the Red Sox a comfortable margin of victory.—ED.

PREDICTION: SAD-PAN BALL CLUB
Sirs:
I wish only to set forth a few observations and predictions concerning the demise of the 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers .

Jackie Robinson : Without his steadying influence, competitive spirit, know-how and clutch playing, the Bums will be like a ship without a rudder.

Pee Wee Reese : Old soldiers never die, they just fade away; 1957 could be it.

Sal Maglie : Our hat is off to this guy. To expect a repeat is just asking too much.

Carl Furillo : Used to be a fine outfielder.

Don Newcombe : To the other members of the Brooks we suggest that they hark back to those 1956 World Series checks and thank this guy. A master craftsman, but to achieve more than 20 wins with the 1957 version of the Bums would require superhuman effort.

Roy Campanella : His was a notable career.

Emmett Kelly: Ironically, this guy's sad-pan expression expresses perfectly the Dodger "new look."
DAVID W. DAVIS
Hatboro, Pa.