THE MICHIGAN DAILY Munn Declares Line Positions Wide Open For Able Gridmen By HOE SELTZER As line coach Biggie Munn himself puts it, there is as yet no lineman with a signed contract to the effect that he will positively be on the starting forward wall of the 1942 Wolverine grid machine. Which is to say the field from flank to flank and back again is strictly wide open. A handsome percentage of his charges down on Ferry Field are freshmen getting their first taste of the grid game the way the Varsity does it. And since it is from this source as well as from last season's reserves that men will be selected to bridge the gaps now present in last fall's starting line, Biggie is keep- ing the weather eye well peeled as, he puts the 'boys through their paces. Eight Varsity Lineman Return Four of the eight returning Varsity linemen are out for spring ball. Jack Karwales and Rudy Smeja are hold- ing down the end positions. Julie Franks daily demonstrates to the other guards how the position is to be played. And Merv Pregulman has ditched the guard slot he manned last fall and is once more functioning at center, the position at which he won- high school and frosh football fame. Two other lettermen, end Phil Sharpe and guard Bob Kolesar, have intermittently shown up for practice, while the returning tackles, Al Wis- tert and Johnnie Laine, are biding their time until Ferry Field opens for real business in September., Among the current aspirants forj ranking positions at end on a Crisler combine are plebes Hal Kruse and Cecil Bovee, both of whom are big strong boys with a distinct flair for high caliber play. Tackle Behemoths At the tackle slot there is a verita- ble bevy of brawny behemoths. Bill Baldwin runs something like six feet three and 230 pounds and is currentlya pacing the .right tackle crew. Bill Pritula has switched back to this position after performing at center last fall, and erstwhile quarterback Johnnie Greene is also taking a shoti at the bastion post. Vince Secontine was and still is a right tackle and a1 promising one at that.: On the other side of the line the4 S -POTFOLIO * Baseball's Travelling Nomad " The Case Of Bashful Buck By HAL WILSON Daily Sports Editork T ItT HAS TAKEN the latest thrilling episode in that r currcut melodrama 111GIE MUNN left tackle emplacement is at present the exclusive possession of three freshmen, Don Cady, Louie Bare and Stan Unger, all very able individuals with a great just for Al Wistert's starting position. Amstutz Doing Fine Work If the guard category will have only two lettermen back next fall, it should also have a wealth of highly effective reserve material drawn from last year's reserves. Ralph Am- stutz has been putting on some strict- ly masterly exhibitions of downfield blocking of late. Angie Trogan, who consists of 220 pounds packed solidly on a five foot six inch frame, contin- ues to make the guys he's playing defense against wish he weren't And finally, Walt Freihofer found his shoe size at guard when he came into the line from end last fall and is rapidly acquiring all the techniques of the trade. Merv Pregulman has already been mentioned as the next in the long uninterrupted line of great Michigan centers. Backing him up in this tradition will be soph Bob McFaddin and yearlings Jim Brieske and Ralph Copelan. Martin, Holiday To Represent Michigan In AAU Swim Meet, subtitled "Bashful Buck Rides Again" to bring out the possible solution to the inexplicable Newsom temperament mystery. Not until a ball player gets traded to another club, usually, do the baeball writers go poking into the dim corners of his past career. Bash- ful Buck Newsom, a 225-pound public address system, was traded a couple of days ago. This pleased a number of people, including Detroit Tiger official Jack Zeller, who resigned his membership in the "I Think Bo-Bo Is As Good As He Says He Is" club about a year ago; it was good news to Buck Newsom, a charter member of the l.T.l.B.lA.G.A.- 11.S:I... Club; Clark Grifith-hereafter to be referred to as the "sly old silver fox" because all sports writers refer to him as the "sly old sil- ver fox"-is equally delighted because Newsom to him represents onlyC a hunk of bait on the hook which will soon land him a sizeable portion of the thin green or a few valuable players. AT ANY RATE, the desperation deal which stripped Ncwsom of his u1- popular Tiger garb and marked him down as a Washington Senator once again was cause enough to send the sports writers scurrying into the record books. And then it came out: Newsom broke into big time baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers back in 1929 and 1930. That perhaps will explain a lot of things, Fat Bo-Bo wasn't exactly a ball of fire on the mound while with the Dodgers, who can tolerate almost anything. In 1929 Newsom, who even then was Newsom's 'greatest booster, trundled his bulk out to the pitchers' box on three different occasions. He finished with an earned run average of 11 per game. That performance led the Dodgers to regard Bashful Buck with a tinge of skepticism, which was quickly heightened to a full-fledged flush of disbelief in his abilities the following year. Since then Buck has bounced around the baseball circuits-major and minor-from season to season, sometimes hurling great ball, some- times very poor, always entertaining. He has hit variations of the St. Louis-Washington, Washington-St. Louis shuttle route several times with stints at Boston, Detroit and the minor leagues tossed in at intervals. N 1934 BASHFUL BUCK went through the motions in S. Louis after having been brought up once more to the big time fromi Los Angeles. The next year he went to Washington, played the entire 1936 campaign, then moved in 1937 to Boston. It took that long for Griffith to arrange a trade advantageous to Griffith. Rumor has it that crafty Clark, who taught David Harum all he knew, once got the short end of a deal before the turn of the century, but this is unfounded. Anyway, Newsom didn't produce for the Gold-Platers and grabbed a moving van to St. Louis again in time for th 1938 season. Pitching for a losing club, Large Louis did much better there, which led Walter Briggs to exercise the elastic on his chubby bankroll in mid-season of 1939. The fol- lowing year Newsom hurled almost as effectively as he talked, which was good enough to win a pennant for the Tigers. The rest is cut and dried fact for all Tiger fans. Newsom cashed in on his 1940 success to an unprecedented extent, hauling down about $32,500, more than any other pitcher has ever received. Rare are the cases in which a ball player drawing a tremendous pay raise responds with like improvement on the playing field. The tendency is to let down. Buck did just that last season. He reported to training camp out of condition and failed to do much to whip his fubsy frame into peak shape. As a result Buck suffered a very poor season, dropping 20 decisions rTHE DETROIT MANAGEMENT t his winter abandoned its previous open purse -string policy and socked the stiffest pay cut on record to Large Louis. In rapid fire order he got hot. Zeller got hot. The Tigers tried to waive him out of the league. Money-conscious Griffith refused, however, Result: Newsom traded to Washington, leaving three schools of conjecture- 1) the Senators will keep him, 2) he will be traded to St. Louis again, or 3) he will be waived out of the league by consent of the Browns (with con- cessions from Washington) and sold to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Number one is dismissed by many people because Griffith is already loaded with hurling talent, needs money and infielders much worse. Number two is a probability because Newsom seems to pitch well with he wea ker teams and the Brownies need tossing talent, Number three is a fairly strong possibility, because Brooklyn has the necessary coin aid is willing to ,hell out for Buck and inore importait because St. Louis lasn 'tii lw coin and is plenty willing to grab some. Thus, Bashful Buck, who has remained a Brooklynite in spirit, May soon become one in fact. Whether this will be tougher on Brooklyn or on Newsom is still a moot question. Larry McPhail, the Voice of FlIabush, has yet to meet his verbal equal. But then, of course, he has yet to meet Large Louis in an official capacity. sort of an irresistible force andl an immovable object proposition. Boim Permits Three Hits As 'A' Team Win Il tin g Of John Erpelding, Davey Nelson Features Sacond Intrasquad Tilt By MYRON DANN Sophomore Irving Boim, who is currently being touted as the sensa- tion of the Wolverine pitching staff, held a Varsity B team to three cheap hits in the six innings he worked, , to give the Varsity A team a 5-4 vic- tory. Along with Boim's excellent pitch- ing, came the heavy hitting of John Erpelding and Dave Nelson, who col- lected five hits between them. The contest, which was -the second practice game of the season, un- covered one large loophole that Coach Ray Fisher must fix if the Wolver- ines are going to make a proper de- fense of the Big Ten Crown. Squad Needs Fielding Shortstop The weak spot in the Michigan nine is the shortstop position. Al- though both Erpelding and Bob Sten- berg, who alternate at that position, are more than average hitters, neith- er of them has shown himself cap- able of handling the fielding respon- sibilities. In yesterday's game not one ball hit to the shortstop position was handled cleanly by these players and consequently five of the nine runs scored were the result of errors by these heavy hitting shortstops. Mickey Fishman, who started for the Varsity B team, lacked the con- trol that has made him one of the bulwarks of the 1942 mound crew. The Varsity A team nicked the stocky right hander for seven hits in the six innings he worked while collect- ing three off Les Parr who replaced him. White Continues Hitting Paul White, rugged right fielder, gave the spectators something to talk about because of his tremendous hit- ting power. He got off two of the longest drives of the game that were caught only after long runs by the outfielders. With the opening game a little more than two weeks* away Fisher must cut his 24-man squad down to 16 players. In all probability most of those dropped from the team will come from the pitching ranks, but the bad weather has continually kept Fisher from finding out just what hurlers he can really count on to give the Wolverines their many desired victories. Intramural Sport Shots 11 By JACK FLAGLE1R It looks like the stretch drives for Fraternity and Residence Halls titles will be blood, sweat and tears all the way according to the standings is- sued by the I-M department yester- day. To date we find the lrethren division topped by the perennially strong Phi belt outfit with a total of 1127 points. Their precarious perch bids fair to be toppled by the versatile Sigma Phi Epsilon tribe who have been able to garner 1021 points and who expect to make a- successful defense of their diamond title this spring with most of their team back intact from last season. Right after them and breathing hard for all-year honors come a dark horse bunch of Chi Phis who have been busy rolling up second and third places this year after winning the speedball title in the fall. So with three powerful teams still much in the running for all- year honors and these being battled hard and close by the other upper division houses in the league, it looks like the Greek spring sports docket will be one of the most col- orful and hard fought in Intra- mural history. To add battleground effects to the scenes of the forthcoming spring pro- grams we have a similar if not more intense situation existing aniong the Residence Halls. Williams House holds first place after the winter campaign, but by a thread. Prescott is right there with a 729 total, prac- tically telescoped by Fletcher Hall holding down third spot with 728 markers. On the face of these fig- ures it looks like nothing but a stren- uous and intensified stretch drive will cinch victory for any one of the main contenders. Other standings in the residence halls division are: Chicago, 684; Winchell, 631; Michigan, 588; Greene, 559; Lloyd, 513; Allen- Rumsey, 438; Wenley, 377; Adams, 333; Tyler, 283; and Hinsdale, 183. Following close after the first three in the fraternity division we find in the next nine places, respectively: Phi Psi, 883; Phi Gam, 875; Sigma Chi, 859; Beta Theta Pi, 814; Delta Tau Delta, 802; Zeta Beta Tau, 788; Sigma Alpha Mu, 787; Theta Delta Chi, 752; Chi Psi, 731. By GEORGE KOZLOFF Only two Michigan men will swim in the National AAU meet tomorrow and Saturday at Yale. T-Bone Mar- tin, the Wolverine diver, and Harry Holiday, an unknown freshman tanker, will enter this the last meet of the current season. Holiday will swim unattached. This is to comply with the eligibility rule which prevents freshman participa- tion in Varsity sports. He will be en-! tered in the backstroke event- T-Bone After Diving Crown The other members or the Wolver- ine tank squad are not swimming in this meet because Michigan is not entered as a team. The reason is that the season is too far advanced. Martin, however, w fill endeavor to win the National diving crown. His performances this season have been quite good, if not exceptional. His competitors will undoubtedly be the Varsity Baseball Managers All eligible sophomiores itr ested in becoing Varsity baseball managers please contact me nim- mediately at 2-4489. Joe Hallissy, Senior Manager CREW-CUTS FOR SPRING! We'll t ir tically tyl ; Crew- iii fi yo. r I 'c" 4 typ(' rf hair and hape uf iew i a 1 OUT SPFI' IALTY The Dasecola Barbers Between IStatc and Mich. Theatre same divers that competed last week in the Collegiate meet. Divers like Frank Dempsey and Charlie Batter - man of Ohio. State, Sammy Lee of Occidental, Jim Cook of Yale, and Howie Jaynes of Northwestern will again carry the torch for the diving crown of the nation. Each one of these men has had his perfect days this season of diving and each one has had his bum days, so the event will again be a closely contested match. Martin has defeated Dempsey ani Batterman twice during dual nmeets this season. The Ohio State boys, however. t ock the first two places at the Collegiates. Jaynes has de- feated the Michigan star off the low board inl anotherU dual mneet. But T-Bone outdove the Northwestern boy last weekend off the three meter board. Cook To 1, lhrnat Cook proved to be the mst ncon- sisten liver in thw Michigan cir- cuilt of the; asitlie c (~iow(dMar- tinl illheYa-ihigan ul n(I in February and again iv Ile Na tionais. The Km re :v t'r rm ( Jc)(evi nIal College, Sammy Lee, is the fans' choice, avid is another thral to Mar- tin's asliratius. If '-PBon lil:; Iis erly seasovl form wilw v1" d(owno I it' 3 iriekeye siars. he will be w 5a'rinils oner de fr lthe diving tite Lhis week. This will be his last haice to win : title um iuei'l Michiga}11 N's (- lrl.i Gra-pefru itt Leagi C. ,, Detroit (A) 000 000 021-3 10 0r St. Louis (Ni 001 101 11x-5 8 0 Trout, Triucks (8) and Tebbetts; Lohimlan, Lanier (7) and W. Cooper. Cleveland (A) 204 002 200-10 16 4 New York (N) 100 100 114- 8 9 1 Harder, Center (7), Gromek (9) and Desautels; McGee, Melton (4) anld Danni11ng. Chicago 'A) . 103 020 000-6 14 1 Pittsburgh (N) 001 212 30x--9 13 4 Rigney, Himphries (6) and Dickey; IHamlin. Sewell (5) and Phelps. and for many None of these standings include sports on the spring list, namely, baseball, tennis, golf or horseshoes. The I-M indoor season virtually does its swan song for this week with about one more main event left to be played off. 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