Thursday, January 24, 1974

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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Dan Borus
'ITH THE ENTRANCE of Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford
last Wednesday, there are now 136 men in baseball's Hall of
Fame. Mantle and Ford were the driving force behind the
Yankees of the fifties and early sixties and there's no quarrel
from here with their election.
But there are some others, equally deserving and accom-
plished, who failed to get the nod and may be forced to wait
until the old-timers committee meets. That would be a shame.
Here ar just three of them. You can look them up.
The Announcer
George Kell speaks with a slow drawl. He lacks the type of
charisma that a Mantle or a Mays had. Very few kids would
pretend to be George Kell.
Yet George Kell was quite a hitter. In his 16 full seasons
in the majors, George Kell, a .306 lifetimer, hit over .300 in ten
of those seasons.
Of those ten .300 seasons, six were in a row. You can look
it up.
Kell's best years were 1949-51. In '49 he led the American
League with a .343 average. In 1950 he led the junior circuit
In both hits and doubles. He clubbed an incredible 56 two-
baggers that season. The next campaign was almost as
successful for the Tigers third sacker as he once again led
the loopmIn both hits and doubles.
"He was quite a hitter," former roommate Don Lund re-
calls. "He had a quick bat, a great eye, and was an excellent
gloveman."
Lund, then a Bengal flyhawk and presently the Associate
Athletic Director here, remembers that ole George wasn't too
fleet of foot.
"The funny thing was," Lund said, "that George turned a
triple play on a ground ball. We always thought he could hit
into one if the chance came up. It happened against Joe Gordon
when he was with the Indians. He hit it straight to George and
Kell threw to second.
"He was a great hitter," Lund repeated, "but he was
involved in another freak happening that was sort of funny.
George was with the Red Sox and he was one of their better
stickmen at that.
"Well, we had just made abcouple of trades and we came
into Boston a pretty tired ball club.
"In that game the Red Sox set a record-17 runs in one
inning and that Kell he flied out to me three times in that
inning. All thoseaplayers getting two hits in an inning and Kell
not getting a hit at all."
That may have been the only time Kell was stopped. He
was quite a ball player and he deserves the Hall of Fame nod.
He only got 94 votes. You can look it up.
The Outfielder
In the bars of St. Louis, they still talk about the play. And
if ever a play was famous it was Country Slaughter's mad dash
in the eighth inning of the last game of the 1946 World Series.
The Cardinals weren't the favorites in that Series. The
powerful Red Sox were. But the Cardinals had taken the Dodgers
in a two-game play-off series when the Brooks and the Red-
birds finished in the first tie for the National League crown
and the Cards were cocky.
The Series was a spirited one and went down to the
deciding seventh game. Sportman's Park in St. Louis was
filled to capacity for the showdown.
After the Cards jumped out to a 3-1 lead, the Sox picked
up two in the top of the eighth frame to knot the score at 3
apiece. Then came the improbable eighth.
Slaughter singled and appeared to be stranded when Harry
"the Hat" Walker stepped to the plate. Harry responded with
a line single to left center. It looked like a well hit single, but
nothing spectacular. Certainly not good enough to score a run.
Unless, of course, the runner is one Enos "Country" Slaughter.
Slaughter glanced over his shoulder as he rounded second
and saw Leon Culbertson, Bosox centerfielder, pick up the ball.
He pushed it into one gear higher and looked towards third.
Hub shortstop Johnny Pesky took Culbertson's throw from the
garden and tried to look Slaughter back to third.
But Slaughter didn't even know that he was being
looked back. He hardly knew that third base coach Mike
Gonzalez (the man whose scouting expedition immortalized
"good field, no hit") was giving him the "hold" sign. All
he knew was that he and Manager Eddie Dyer had agreed
that Culbertson could be run on.
Pesky didn't believe that Slaughter was coming. He just
froze. Had he thrown when he got the ball, "Country" would
have been out dead to rights. But he didn't and Slaughter slid
home with the eventual winner.
In his 20 years in Major Leagues, Slaughter did something
besides score from first. He hit an even .300. You can look it up.
He was a rough and tough ball player who always gave his
best and won quite a few ball games with his bat and with his
glove. When he left the Cardinals for the Yanks, he was hurt,
but he played the same way he always had-rough and tough.
Like Ruth's "indicator" home run, Slaughter's dash is a play
for the ages.
In 1967, when the Cardinals met the Red Sox for the World

Championship, some publicity agent thought it would be a nice
tough to re-enact that play. Only this time Pesky would toss out
Slaughter. Well, Harry Walker got his hit to left center (Harry
always could hit the ball to where he wanted) and Enos took off.
And even though Pesky didn't hold the ball, . Slaughter was
safe. "Country" was that kind of a ball player.
The Lefthander
The knock on Hal Newhouser was that his best years were
war years and that's why he's not in Cooperstown. The knock
is unfair. When you can win 20 plus games four years in a row
and 207 in your career, you're a pitcher. I don't care who you
threw a 1.81 ERA against (Newhouser did that in 1945), you're
pitching. Besides in 1946, a non-war year, Newhouser led the
American League with a 1.94 ERA. You can look it up.
"I never could hit Hal very well," Lund said. "His break-"
ing stuff was murder.
"Nothing against Whitey Ford, but Newhouser was just
as good as he was. I think Whitey got in over Hal because
he was with the Yankees."
They asked Enos Slaughter, who had come to New York to
play in an old timers game, a question that goes for all three.
They asked Enos why he wasn't in the Hall of Fame. "I don't
know," he said. Neither do I.

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By BILL CRANE
The Michigan swim tea
tered the 1974 season ki
that graduation had thinn
Wolverines' ranks. Althoul
tankers retained fine ind:
talent, the swimmers di
have the necessary depth
main truly strong. With
considerations in mind,
Gus Stager recruited a c
swimmers with excellent
tial.
The lack of. available s
ships made Stager's task

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ford he swam excellent distance
events but couldn't quite pull
them off. Coach Stager thought
inexperience was again the key
factor.
STAMINA IS Semchyshen's
forte and his kick at the end of
a race is incredibly strong. "A
tough competitor and racer,"
Stager describes him, "but he
isn't as strong yet as he will
eventually become."
Time and conditioning will
mean much for Semchyshen's
improvement. While at Dearborn
High School, he was coached by
former Michigan swimmer, Jim
Longstreth. N e v e r a quitter,
Semchyshen endures right up to
the end of practice.
Both he and Downie figure in
Michigan's plans for hopeful fu-
ture victories in Big Ten com-
petition. However, Coach Stager
feels the strong swimmers from
Indiana, Jim Montgomery and
Bill Heiss will make it tough for
the Michigan rookies this year.
FRED YAWGER and Rob Helt,
complete a second category of
new swimmers. These are the
guys who still have learning to
do but figure in the Wolverines'
plans this seasonvia hustle and
determination.
Yawger is a "big strong guy"
in Stager's terms. In the meet
with Stanford last week, Yawger
swam a fine 200 butterfly and
lost to Tom Szuba by five-tenths
of a second.
HELT IS the rookie backstrok-
er to watch. Beautiful form
makes up for his lack of strength.
Stager sees him as a fine natural
talent.
Joe Bauer, Rob Bauman and
Wayne Leslie round out the
freshmen recruits who will pro-
vide the backbone for future
campaigns.


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Gus Stager
cult one. "We were not able to
go after the real 'blue-chipper'
because of our lack of financial
aid," Stager reported.
STAGER HAS been known to
take the ordinary swimmer and
turn him into a collegiate stand-
out. If ever Stager's coaching
were to be tested, the time is
now.
Probably the best recruit to
appear in Matt Mann Pool this
year is Gordon Downie. Stager
describes Downie with much en-
thusiasm. "He's s w a m some
sparkling races for us this year,"~
Stager said. Downie holds the
team's best times in the 200-
and 500-freestyle events.
Stager added that Downie' s
inexperience has hurt him. For
this time of the season, Downie
feels below par. He has to im-
prove his knowledge of strate-
gies for different races.
Downie is still a young swim-'
mer and besides inexperience he
still has to work on techniquel
and strength. The hard work
necessary to build these .abilities
are, of course, something Stagert
can't govern.
AT THE MOMENT Downie is
in New Zealand representing Scot-
land in the British Empire
Games. Last year he represent-
ed Great Britain in the World
Aquatic Championships.
NormeSemchyshen is another
newcomer to Michigan swim-
ming. Last week against Stan-
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Special To The Daily
The Toledo Rockets used hot
foul shooting to destroy the Michi-
gan Varsity Reserves' unbeaten
streak last night as the Baby Blue
absorbed a 68-52 pasting in Toledo.
The Wolverines kept it close for
most of the game, but were never
able to get enough breaks to allow
them to forge ahead. Toledo led
28-24 at the half and 47-44 with1
seven seconds to go.'
The Rockets then proceeded to
score their next 13 points from the I
free throw line, as Michigan com-
mitted a foul on every Toledo j
possession. The Rockets hit a
basket to break that string, but
then went on to score the last six
points of the game from the charity
stripe.
Overall, Toledo was 24 of 26
from the line. Michigan was four
for seven.
To complicate the problems
for the young Wolverines, they
were afflicted by a cold shooting
night from the court, hitting on
only 34.3 per cent of their shots.
Even so, the Baby Blue scored'
two more buckets than Toledo.
Randy Melean led Michigan
scorers with 12 points. Ken Smith
was the high point man for Toledo,
garnering 28 points in hitting 10 of
11 from the free throw line.
The next game for the VR' s is'
Mondayat home against Aquinas.
This game will be a preliminary
to the big showdown with Wiscon-
sin that the varsity-is holding on
the same date. Game time is 5:30.

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By JOHN KAHLER
Great freshman basketball teams
are not a new phenomenon at
Michigan; the school hasnbeen
blessed with some fine ones in
the past. The Campy Russell squad
used to draw crowds of 5,000 to
their preliminary games, and two
years before them Henry Wilmore
i d company put on shows for
the Crisler Arena faithful.
Michigan has another great.
team this year, but a few things
have been changed from these
past squads. For one, the name,
is now the Michigan Varsity
Reserves, and the roster is lib-
erally sprinkled with upperclass-
men. But the major difference
is in the people that comprise,
the team.
IN THE PAST, the only time
walk-ons got to play was after the
scholarship freshmen ran up a'
large lead. This year's Varsity'
Reserves start an entirely walk-on'
lineup, and it is the scholarshipl
players that must ride the bench.'
The .VR's currently sport a 6-0
record for the season, and first
year coach Bill Frieder is under-
standably pleased.
"I think we've done pretty good
this year for a bunch of walk-ons.
This bunch is a little better than
the average collection of walk-ons.
We have some kids here who could
have gone to smaller colleges on
basketball scholarships, but they'
chose to come here for academic
reasons."
A Varsity Reserve basketball
team exists primarily to serve
the interests of scholarship play-
ers who are not quite good
enough to make the varsity or
who need more seasoning. Gain-
ing game experience on a re-
serve team would be more valu-
able for their future develop-
ment than rotting on the bench
for the varsity.
THE HELP THAT scholarship
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MARCIA MERKER

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Reserves this year has been mini-
mal. A case in point is last Satur-
day's Michigan State tilt. Three
scholarship playerstappeared on
the court and scored a grand total
of four points, all by Tim Kuzma,
Michigan won 72-61.
"he walk-ons nave been prac-
ticing together all year, and the
scholarship people have been work-
ing out with the varsity. (Bob)
Malaby was just dropped to our
squad and hasn't practiced much
with us, and Kuzma has never
practiced with us," explains Frie-
der.'
Every now and then, a walk-on
cager impresses the coaches
enough with his play that he is
given a chance to make the var-
sity. Jake Whitten and Don
Johnston started their careers in
this manner.
Another such gem may be Kent!
Storey, a 6-4 forward from nearby
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Ann Arbor Pioneer. Kent averages
13.3 points and eight rebounds per
game, and is steadily improving
his play. Against Michigan State,
he hit 10 of 11 from the field and
two for two from the line. He
shoots an incredible 70.1 per cent
from the field.
G u a r d s Bill Burress, Les
Browne, and Howard Comstock
play well, with Comstock probably
the best of the three. Forward
Scott Mason and center Daryl Car-
ter closely follow Storey in re-
bounds.
Ranking behind recruiting and
assisting Johnny Orr, coaching the
VR's is Bill Frieder's third priority
duty. But Frieder does not neglect
the BabyBlue. Assistedtby Bird
Carter, he has turned the VR's
into a well drilled collection that
may be Michigan's first undefeat-
ed reserve team since Campy
Russell was a frosh.

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