THE MICHIGAN DAILY Skala, Jorgenson Appointed Basketball Aides to Strack 1 By DAVE ANDREWS The youth movement among the Michigan coaching staffs rolled on during the summer with the addi- tion of Jim Skala, 30, and Tom Jorgenson, 25, to the basketball staff under new head coach Dave Strack. Skalla, who received his Masters here in 1953, spent a year at Adrian in central Michigan. He then moved to nearby Eastern Michigan University to assume the head coaching position there and remained there until his appoint- ment as an assistant to Strack. Coaches Prep Schools Jorgenson since his graduation from Michigan in 1956 has been coaching in the high school ranks. His first position was at. Mau- mee, Ohio where he led his cagers to a conference title in his second year. Following his three-year ten- ure there he accepted the head coaching position at Mount Pleas- ant High School and last year his team reached the regional finals against tough Class A competition before bowing to Flint Southwest- ern. Outstanding Players Both men were outstanding on, the hardwood for the Wolverines. In three years Skala played at all positions, and in his senior year was named Captain and Most Val- uable Player and his efforts also brought his a place on the all-Big Ten second team. Jorgenson, while not gaining an honored position on an all-Con- ference team, also had his big moments. He held the all-time Michigan career scoring record for a while before All-American Ron Kramer smashed the mark. Hard at Work Both men at present are hard at work side by side with Strack in an attempt to bring Michigan to the top following last year's disastrous season. Skala will assist Strack with the varsity, while Jor- genson has the Job of introducing the boys who may make Michigan a basketball power some day (the freshmen) to the Michigan sys- tem. The new Michigan system under Strack will be different from the fast break used in the past few years by Bill Perigo. This year the Wolverines will put the accent on defense and on ball control-pat- tern offense style used with so much success on the West Coast. Adjust Style This means that Jorgenson's boys will not only have to adjust to collegiate style basketball, but learn many more defensive skills than usually applied in high school. Finally, both Jorgenson and Skala, besides their duties on the court, will handle most of the scouting for Strack and will assist in the recruitment of players next spring. SCORES RUN-Wll Franklin, recent acquisition of the Detroit Tigers, comes home with one of the many runs he scored during his two-year collegiate career for Michigan. Franklin's speed on the bases and in the field was an important reason behind his signing. Franklin Signs Tiger Contract By DAVE ANDREWS Wilbur Franklin, slugging right- fielder for Michigan's baseball team for the past two years, be- came the third Wolverine in three months to turn pro a few weeks ago when he signed with the De- troit Tigers for an undisclosed bonus. He follows first baseman Bill Roman and leftfielder Dave' Brown to the Tigers. Roman and Brown had both played out their collegiate careers but Franklin for- feited his senior year of eligibility. Michigan Baseball Coach Don Lund said, "I hate to lose him as he was a heck of a good ballplay- er.' Attempt to Postpone Michigan Baseball Coach Don Lund spent parts of two days talking to Franklin in an attempt to postpone his signing until next summer thus giving him another: year in school and allowing him to play college baseball and foot- ball again this year but to no avail. Franklin will report to Detroit's training camp at Lakeland, Fla., next spring. This past summer "Wil" hit well playing for the Grand Rapids Sullivans in league and exhibition play and then starred as the 8ul- livans won the National Non-Pro- fessional Baseball Championship held in Wichita three weeks ago. Prime Target He had been a prime target for the major leagues since he completed high school. Several pro teams considered him a top prospect for the future. He had led the Michigan team in batting percentage for the past two years and his loss will leave an unexpected hole in right field for Lund to fill next spring. ' M' Diamond Stars Do Well Playing Professional Ball I GRDSEETIN, In the next few months you will be seeing a section of every day's Daily sports page devoted to an item known as Grid Picks. Here you will have an opportunity to demonstrate your abilities at pigskin prognostication and to win a pair of tickets to the latest movie at the Michigan Theatre. The Daily sports staff selects 20 of the top football games of the week to be featured in Grid Picks and makes this list available daily. You, the reader, clip the list out of the paper, circle your selections, and mail the list into The Daily, postmarked before midnight Friday. Your pick of the score of the MICHIGAN game will be used as a tie-breaker. One entry only per person. Mail your entry to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, or bring it to our offices The recent signing of Wil Franklin brings the total of recent Wolverine ball players in profes- sional baseball to five. Besides Franklin, Bill Roman! Dave Brown; and Steve Boros are in the Tiger farm system and for- mer All-American fullback John Herrnstein is with the Phillies chain. Brown and Roman, the two most recent initiates, are with De- troit's Durham, N. Carolina farm club and with the club in sixth place hold .257 and .287 batting averages respectively. Boros, playing AAA baseball with Denver of the American As- sociation, is slugging away at a healthy .306 clip for the first-place Bears. Herrnstein, playing with Class A Williamsport in the Eastern League, had a great year. He led the team into first place with a .306 batting mark, good for fifth place in the league, and swapped 15 homers. The former football star chose baseball over a football career two years ago when he signed for the biggest bonus ever received by a Michigan man. The Phils paid him an estimated $55,000, while Roman is next in line with $30,000. I 'Af i I r I Ad 1 1