THE MICHIGAN DAILY Ford, Spahn Named To Pitching Chores (Continued on Page 2) PTACEK RETURNS: Gridders Prepare for MSU Despite Rain the fielding and power depart- ments are Hank Aaron in right and Wes Covington in left. The centerfield spot{will be handled by fleet-footed Felix Mantilla who was shifted from the infield to re- place the injured Billy Bruton. Former Milwaukean Tony Ku- bek at shortstop, Gil McDougald or Bob Richardson, second base, Andy Carey, third base and Bill Skowron, first base, make up a surprisingly intact Yankee infield. Skowron's recent hitting slump may mark him as the weakest link in Yankee hitting. The Braves will rely on Ed Mathews to repeat his strong 1957 series play at third with Joe Ad- cock moved from the bench to first base. Frank Torre's injured wrist plus the power Adcock has shown against left-handers like Ford account for the change._ "Braveland's" one-two punch of Johnny Logan at shortstop and Red Schoendienst at second base- make up the rest of the infield for the National League cham- pions. American League teams hold the edge in wins, 34-20, going into play today. The last consecutive National League victories oc- curred in the 1954-55 series The return of quarterback Bob Ptacek to action marked yester- day's Michigan grid practice. Ptacek, a senior from Cleveland, sustained a hand injury in the Southern California game Satur- day, and was on the sidelines when the Wolverines practiced Monday. In Uniform, Wearing a bandage on his left hand, Ptacek put on his uniform. yesterday and participated in pass- Pe Rally Set For Friday Michigan's traveling football squad will receive a "peppy" send- off when they depart for East Lansing and the State game Fri- day afternoon. The Wolverine Club is sponsor- ing a pep rally scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at Yost Field House. Leaving from the Union, the stu- dents will move in a body to the field house lead by the Anderson House marching band and the cheerleaders. For the fortunate who have tickets to the game, the club is sponsoring buses to East Lansing which will leave at 10 a.m. Satur- day from the Union. The round trip cost is $3.25 and tickets are on sale on the diag. defense drills and piloted the first team through some offensive maneuvers off both the single wing and T formations. Michigan's other top-flight quarterback, Stan Noskin, again missed practice because of a cold. Team physician Dr. Alfred Coxon consigned Noskin to Health Service yesterday for the night, but he indicated' the Evanston, Ill., junior would be ready to return tomor- row, if not today. Spidel Directs Squad With Noskin's continued absence, John Spidel commanded the sec- ond team through its defensive and offensive maneuvers. Rain and a biting wind early yesterday afternoon forced the Wolverines inside Yost Field House for a while. Head Coach Bennie Oosterbaan delivered a 20-minute lecture. presumably on strategy, to the team. After the'rain stopped, the first and second units went outside and alternated on pass-defense drills against reserves dressed in green Michigan State-type jerseys. It may have been fortunate the rain did stop, allowing a drill of this type. Only two more days of practice remain before the Blue travels to East Lansing to be entertained by Michigan State, and Michigan's pass defense in Saturday's USC game was less than good. MSU, led by halfback Dean Look, gained 318 yards rushing against California Saturday, but Michigan did not practice rushing defense yesterday. Instead, the first and second units worked on offensive pass patterns and straight-ahead power running plays. WARREN SPAHN ... series starter ON THE I-M SCENE: BY Sigma over-all I' began def terday by 20-0, in a rnt tpclfl_ Si*E SAE Capture peners TOM WITECKI again this year as they whipped Phi, 16-8; Phi Delta Theta shut- Phi Epsilon, last year's Trigon, 42-0. Ralph Hutchings, out Delta Kappa Epsilon, 16-0; -M fraternity champions, Wolverine baseball captain, scored Sigma Phi Epsilon edged Phi Sig- ma Delta in overtime, 1-0; Sigma ense of their crown yes- three times for SAE. Alpha Epsilon walloped Alpha Sig- beating Tau Delta Phi, Sparked by Bob McCollum's ma Phi, 26-0; and Chi Psi won by hard-foughtAthree touchdowns, Sigma Chi, forfeit. Held scoreless by a determined Tau Delt squad through most of the' first half, the Sig Eps finally broke loose when Lou Grimaldi took a short pass from Larry La- Vercombe and raced downfield to the Tau Delt two-yard line. LaVercombe Stars Two plays later LaVercombe flipped Grimaldi a short pass for the game's first touchdown. La- Vercombe, passing with deadly ac- curacy, brought his total of touch- down passes to three in the second half when he hit Charley Turner and Grimaldi for six-pointers. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, last year's runnerup for the 'A' football title, showed it will be a top contender another perennial powerhouse, walloped Acacia, 40-0. However, top scoring honors of the day went to Alpha Epsilon Pi who beat Phi Kappa Sigma, 46-0. Phi Sigs Win In other 'A' games, Phi Sigma Delta beat Phi Kappa Tau, 24-0; Sigma Alpha Mu edged Kappa Sigma, 14-0; Theta Xi trounced Pi Lambda Phi, 18=6; Lambda Chi Alpha won over Zeta Beta Tau, 18-0; Zeta Psi nipped Psi Upsilon, 14-6; and Delta Sigma Phi won by forfeit. In 'B' action, Sigma Alpha Mu topped Tau Delta Phi, 18-0; Sigma Chi beat Lambda Chi Alpha, 14-8; Alpha Epsilon Pi edged Beta Theta Maj or League Season Ends On Mediocre Note for Most Do you guess well on exams? If you do or not you can still take your guess as to what teams will win in this week's grid picks contest. If you pride yourself on skill rather than guessing, well, this contest is for you, too. In the past guessers have done as well as the so called "experts," so you have nothing to lose by entering. All you have to do to enter is to clip out the list of games, predict the score of the Michigan- Michigan State game, circle the winners in the other games and send your selection to Grid Picks, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor. Entry blanks are also available at The Daily and can be filled out there. The winner will be awarded two tickets to "The Big Country" which opens today at the State theater, and will play into early next week. 1. MICHIGAN at Michigan St. 11. Pittsburgh at Minnesota 2. Yale at Brown 12. Pennsylvania at Partmouth 3. West Virginia at Indiana 13. Penn State at Army 4. Washington at Ohio State 14. Oregon at Oklahoma 5. Washington St. at California 15. Mississippi St. at Tennessee 6. Virginia at N. Carolina State 16. Clemson at Maryland 7. UCLA at Oregon State 17. Colorado at Kansas 8. Tulane at Georgia Tech 18. Illinois at Duke 9. Stanford at Northwestern 19. Harvard at Cornell 10. Notre Dame at SMU 20. Rutgers at Colgate " ByDAVE LYON There were 1,231 games played during the course of the major league baseball season which end- ed Sunday, but Detroit's Tigers have some reason to holler about the one contest that wasn't played. Cleveland and Baltimore were rained out a while back in their last scheduled meeting of the sea- son. When the Indians defeated Detroit 6-2 Sunday, they replaced the Tigers in fourth place in the American League. Won Same Number Although Cleveland and Detroit won the same number of games, 77, Cleveland lost 76 to Detroit's 77. 'A Baltimore victory over the Indians in the game that wasn't played would have enabled Detroit to tie for fourth and get a minor share of the World Series receipts. Fans with good memories may recall that Detroit fin'ished in undisputed fourth place in 1957 because Baltimore was rained out of two games,. victories in both of which would have given the Orioles a share of fourth position. Tight Year Around the leagues, the range' of teams' winning percentages in each circit was one of the tightest in some years. In the National League, champion Milwaukee, finished with 92 won and 62 lost for .597; last-place Philadelphia had a 69-85 record for .448. In the AL, World-Series bound New York posted' a record identical to that of Milwaukee. Cellar-dwel- ling Washington would have finished above .400 but for the fact that it lost its last 12 games of ""LOWEST PRICES the season. The Senators finished at .396 anyway with a 61-93 per- formance.{ No Weak Teams So even though the pennant "races" in each league were pretty well decided by the first of Sep- tember, there were no overpower- ingly strong or woefully weak teams this year. This balance helped to keep interest at a relatively high level even after the league champions had been decided. Individuals distinguished them- selves during the course of the season. One of 1957's batting champions repeated this year. Boston's Ted Williams, the main reason the Red Sox finished as high as third, posted a mediocre- for him-average of .328, but it was six points better than team- mate Pete Runnels. Close in NL Philadelphia's Richie Ashburn nosed out Willie Mays of San Francisco for the NL batting title. Ashburn collected 16 hits in his last 2 7times at bat to finish at .348, a single point ahead of Mays. The majois recorded two no-hit games, and four pitchers won 20 or more games. Detroit's Jim Bun- ning stymied Boston, 3-0, on July 20 and Hoyt Wilhelm of Baltimore stunned New York Sept. 20, on a 1-0 no-hitter. Milwaukee boasted two 20-game winners, Warren Spahn again (22- 11) and Lew Burdette (20-10). Bob Friend won 22 and lost 14 for Pittsburgh's surprising Pirates, and Bob Turley finished with a 21-7 mark for the Yankees. 4 ~. OFFICER'S SHOES U.S. Army-Navy Type