Promising Freshman Backfield Cauididates Jmpu-tessMartineau THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TUREF By HOE SELTZER Now about those backfield pros- pects Mr. Martineau, I said. Ah yes, the backfield, reiterated Mr. Martineau, well son all I can tell you right now is that they're big and green but come around in the fall and there may be much more to tell. As a matter of fact, he cn- tinued, I am immeasurably cheered these days by the presence each af- ternoon on Ferry Field of several sturdy looking yearling chaps who will without doubt be integral cogs in the Wolverine backfield when comes September. Martineau Sees Prospects Which is to say the backfield coach ain't exactly moaning low apropos of the scoring quartet he will be sup- posed to flash forth with when the leaves begin to turn. Marty likes them big and fast and willing when he starts to work on them in the spring and at present he has a con- sifierable quantity of that calibre. At quarterback Capt. George Ceit- haml's the only backfield letterman out for spring practice and daily gives an exhibition of the kind of ball you have to play to make Varsity. Keeping very close tabs on their prof are soph Jack Harrigan and fresh- men Bob Vernier and George Kiesel, all of whom are pleasing Marty no end with the way they are drinking in Ci's quarterbacking lore. With the rest of the first team backfield out for either baseball or track for the nonce-Paul White, Don Robinson' and Don Boor on the nine and Tommy Kuzma taking a fling at his old high school accomplishment, pole vaulting-the rest of the spring practice backfield is completely man- ned by freshmen. At wingback Warren Yaap, Russ Reader, Bill Keenan and Chuck Avery are just about even up in high grade performance of their blocking and running duties. At tailback there are three applicants whom Marty graces with the appellation triple threat. These are Bob Chap- pius, Pat Keefe and Frank Wardley, and their coach professes to have no favorite among them. Greatest Strength At Full At mention of the fullback slot Marty just leans back and smiles. Here is that real size and speed he loves to see. Freshmen Bob Wiese and Don Lund have a penchant for leaving tattered shreds in their wakes as they rip through enemy lines and secondary defenses. These guys were both devastators on the frosh squad last fall and now they're shaping up well for work to come in the big time. That's what Mr. Martineau has to work with these days. Nothing pol- ished, nothing classy as yet. But plenty of solid raw material. And Marty states quite calmly and quite coolly that when he gets done his spring work on these lads and they come back in the fall to scrap it out with the lettermen for starting back- field berths the present Varsity boys are going to be hard pressed indeed to maintain themselves in office. SPOUTFOLIO " Lyle Bond Winning Fight " Hopes To Pitch Again iySrAL Wi SON Daily Sports Editor * * * * P rformance Against Adolph Kiefer Ranks holiday As Future Tank Star (The columns this week are being written by junior members of the staff who are applying for the position of sports editor for the 'coning year. This Sportfolio is by Myron Dann.) By MYRON DANN ON THE WHOLE a sports writer's job can be just as dull and monotonous as any other type of work. But every once in awhile as , these scribes ramble through the ath- Iletic world they bump into a story that makes them dash to a typewriter and start knocking out a string of adjectives. Sometimes the yarn comes off all right. Sometimes by the very nature of the material it slops over into what the "wisey's" call maudlin. This is one of those stories. The maybe-maudlin kind. Lyle Bond, was a curly haired pitcher on the 1940 baseball team. Before he came to college he had played a lot of baseball. The boy had even attended a baseball school at Hot Springs, Ark., where he was tutored by such greats as Burleigh Grimes, Schoolboy Rowe and Tris Speaker. WHEN he reported to Coach Ray Fisher, at the start of the 1940 season he showed plenty of stuff and before the Wolverines had played their last game of the year Bond had Rouo' om al to take out, ROUG.H 203 E. Washington St. ~ r Homer By Boor Paces Varsity To 4-2 Victory Over B'Team By BOB SHOPOFF Chubby Don Boor, who is bidding for the first base position on the Wolverine baseball team this year, was the hitting hero of the diamond team's intrasquad games yesterday. The barrel-shaped first sacker stepped into a high, hard pitch in the second inning and laced the ball into left field for a home run. Boor's hit drove in Bill Cartmill, who was on second at the time, to give the Var- sity 'A' squad a 2 to 0 lead. This was all that the 'A' nine needed as they kept the lead throughout and won the five inning game, 4 to 2. Besides his circuit clout, Don got a single to give him two hits in four appearances at the plate. Fishman Hurls Mickey Fishman was on the mound for the first team for the first three innings and he effectively scattered four hits to give up only one run. Mickey showed more control than he has before to keep the opposing bat- ters guessing. Coach Ray Fisher started Boor, -'I The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An Inlernational Daily Newspaper Published by THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Is Truthful - Constructive -- Unbiased - Free from Sensationalism Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Features, To- gether with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. Saturday Issue, including Magazine Sectionn$2.60 a Year. Introducto ryOlffer, , I-,sues 25 cents. Obtainable at: THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM 106 E Washington Street Johnnie Erpelding, Don Robinson and Bud Chamberlain on the first team infield yesterday and they proved to be an effective combina- tion. It has been the infield that has given Fisher the most trouble lately. Sandy-haired Robinson gave all indications yesterday that he was the one to fill the shortstop position. His fielding overshadows that of the other prospective shortstops. Don has a sure fire arm and he has really been gathering in the ground balls lately. Christenson Turns Ankle Wayne Christenson suffered a turned ankle in the game when he rounded second too quickly after hit- ting a double. The injury was not serious however. Paul White, who re- ceived a gash over his left eye Sat- urday, appeared to be none the worse yesterday as he handled his right field position smoothly. This is the last week of spring practice for the Wolverines for Coach Fisher and the squad head south next Monday. The opening game is against the Naval Academy, April 15. Fisher will probably announce the names of those that will make the southern jaunt Saturday following the final intrasquad tilt. Detroit, Leafs To Clash Today Illness May Keep Toronto Mentor From Struggle TORONTO, April 6.-(A)-A sick coach only added to the troubles of Toronto Maple Leafs today-trou- bles that started when they dropped the first game of the Stanley Cup hockey finals to Detroit Red Wings. Clarence (Hap) Day, fighting off an attack of flu for the past few days, finally yielded to his doctor's orders and went to bed. Whether he will be able to carry on from the bench for the second game of the best-of-seven series tomorrow night is not known now. Both clubs worked out today, shak- ing off the effects of one of the roughest contests witnessed this sea- son. The Leafs went through their paces under the direction of Maj. Connie Smythe and Eddie Powers. Meanwhile, buoyed up by getting the jump on their more highly-rated rivals, the Red Wings skipped through a 40-minute workout. Don Grosso, who scored twice and assisted in the third goal in his team's 3-2 victory, set a withering pace for his teammates. The rookie line of Jerry Brown, Adam Brown and Joe Carveth showed up well in the attacks and Carveth caught the far corner of the net with a regularity that brought praise from goalie Johnny Mowers. established quite a reputation for himself. The team liked him. He was a real ball player. Also a good guy. Coach Ray Fisher was happy he had found a hurler to lead Michigan to many a victory during the next two years. After the season ended the, squad figured Bond could be counted on the following year to be in there chucking to the best of his ability. The ball players knew the kid wouldn't get a big head. He loved baseball and want- ed to win.3 ALL during the following winter, Bond would eagerly ask Fisher, "When's practice, coach?" He was waiting for the gun. But Bond didn't get a chance to practice that spring. He didn't get a chance to finish school. The kid who wanted. only to pitch was in a sanatorium fighting for his life. The team went South for their annual spring trip. And in a sana-- torium at Howell the doctors were wondering if the game kid from Ann Arbor would have one chance out of three to pull through. How Bond passed that crisis is something no one is sure of. The doctors say it was the serum. The family felt that it was his strong constitution. The boys on the ball team probably came closest to the truth. They said simply, "Lyle wanted to play ball." WHATEVER IT WAS, the pitcher rallied with the bases loaded. He came through in the pinch. Today, still unable to get around alone, still in the sanatorium unable to partici- pate in his first love baseball, unable even to be back in Ann Arbor except with that spirit people call "game," he's still cheerful, still hopeful. In a recent letter to a friend Bond said, "I have been studying Spanish, doing occupational therapy, working on the patients' activity committee, and even get a chance -to write on the Sanatorium's newspaper. So with all these things to keep me busy and a letter from my gal every day along with occasional visits from my friends the time passes quickly and pleasantly. "I can't wait until I get a chance to be on the mound for Ray again. You can't love baseball as much as I do and not have the hope of get- ing onto that old diamond again." BOND'S SPIRIT doesn't surprise Ray Fisher. All the mound men- tor says is, "When that boy played for me, he gave everything he had in him. That's the thing he will always do, no matter where he is." The feeling is mutual. About his coach Bond has this to say, "When it looked pretty certain that my baseball days were over Ray didn't forget me. He stuck right with me, and has been a fine friend through this siege. They don't come any better than Fisher." Ray Fisher and the boys on the team are waiting for the day when Lyle Bond will be in there pitching again. They know he will get that chance because Lyle wants to play ball. Johnny Kovatch Named New Indiana End Coach BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 6.- (P)-Athletic Director Zora G. Clev- enger of Indiana University an- nounced tonight Johnny Kovatch had been appointed varsity football end coach. Kovatch, former Northwestern player, will come here tomorrow to take the place of C. A. Temerario, who has been given a Naval Reserve; commission. _. . .. _ .._ ._ . By BUD HENDEL Like a convict just evicted from prison, a sadder but wiser Michigan freshman, Harry Holiday, returned to Ann Arbor yesterday. Defeated by the great Adolph Kie- fer in the National AAU 150 yard backstroke at Yale last Saturday night, the big Wolverine yearling only said, "I guess I need a lot of polish before I can beat a guy like Kiefer." Even though the 23-year-old Kie- fer, who has won 21 AAU titles in his swimming span, did send Holiday's hopes to the bottom of the pool, Coach Matt Mann's prodigy need not be ashamed of his performance. Kiefer swam the distance in 1:30.5 to set a new world's record, while Holi- day finished four yards behind in the time of 1:33 flat which is faster than any backstroker in history, with the exception of Kiefer, has ever done. Mann Is Satisfied Matt Mann was well satisfied with Holiday's big-time debut. The wily coach asserted, "Next year will be Harry's year. He still needs compet- itive experience, and when he gets it I think he'll crack every one of Kiefer's records." Holiday can't understand the story that has been printed from coast to coast concerning an alleged conver sation between Kiefer and himself just before the meet. The story says that Kiefer's curiosity had been aroused by the whispered tales of the Michigan freshman's time trials, and he decided to find out for him- self just how good Holiday was. But, the story continues, when he did ask Holiday about his time trials, the Wolverine cub replied, "It's a secret." Whereupon Kiefer is alleged to have drawled, "Yup. and it'll still be a secret after the final is over." Conversation Misrepresented J But Holiday insists that wasn't how it ran. "Matt told me to keep quiet about my times," says Harry, "so when Kiefer asked me, I did say it SWeir Puts Varsit Through First ( By DICK SIMON Coach Leroy Weir's net squad,1941 Western Conference champions, fin- ally got a chance to practice outdoors yesterday. For the first time this season, the genial tennis mentor took his pro- teges into the warm, spring air where they worked out for over two hours before old Jupiter Pluvius cast his shadow over Ann Arbor. This is the first year that the new Har-tru courts have been available to the netters and this fact should make quite a difference in their abil- ity to play outdoors after a rain. Be- cause the courts are made of a ma- terial which dries in about two hours after a hard downpour, the team will be able to get much use out of the courts as long as it doesn't turn cold.. Outside Play Needed The sooner the boys get a chance to practice outside, the sooner Weir will be able to decide in what posi- tions he should place his defending champions in order to have the team at full strength. This is the first time since Weir took over the coach- ing duties four years ago that the squad hasn't made a southern tour. During that trip he, was always able to shift his men around and see what they can do under fire, but this sea- son he has only two non-conference matches to test his strength. TENNIS TIDBITS: News comes out of Michigan State that the Spar- tans have good potentialities. this year as far as tennis goes . .. on their recent southern jaunt, the State net- ters were paced by sophomore John Kline who showed up quite well . , the Green and White made this trip without the services of Bill Maxwell who stayed at East Lansing to win the 136-pound National Intercolle- giate mat crown. Up Minneapolis way, the Gopher netters have already started to get themselves set for the 1942 cam- MAT1 MANN was a secret. But he never said any- thing like the papers claim. All he said was 'Oh,' and he didn't mean anything like that story implies. Some of the other fellows started to ride me because I was a new comer, and they were the ones who made that statement aboutitstill being a secret. Kiefer is a very fine fellow, and he was as sorry as I that a harm- less conversation should have caused so much trouble." Martin Fails To Place Michigan's other representative at the AAUs was Strother (T-Bone) Martin, competing in the high diving. Martin, however, was not in form and didn't survive the qualifying trials. He was eighth man among the qualifiers, and the first seven earned places in the final. An Ohio State freshman, Miller Anderson, was the winner, surpassing Frank Dempsey, Jim Cook, Sammy Lee and all the other big-name divers. From Mann's mouth yesterday there came nothing but a constant ;Court Squad )utdoor Practice paign . . . four lettermen greeted Coach Phil Brain when he called practice last week .. . Christie Gean- koplis, who defeated Jim Porter in the semi-final round of the Big Ten matches last year, and Henry Nosek, who beat Wayne Stille for the num- ber four title, are both back. -3 117 South Main i I ynot too joemb, Captain Clover Says: i Yes, it's not too soon for you to decide on a practical gift for Mother's day. 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