SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1945 "THE MICHIGAND-AILY Don Lund Is Schedule to Hat Jack Pot By MARY LU HEATH When Don Lund, captain and regular center fielder on this year's baseball team, is awarded his third diamond letter by Coach Ray Fisher in June, he will be the eighth nine-letter winner in the history of Michigan athletics and the first athlete in six years to earn such an honor. Lund's life has been curiously tied up with previous nine-letter winners. He was preceeded at Southeastern High School in Detroit by Norm Daniels who, after' playing on the baseball team which won the city and state championships, came to Michigan and collected the maximum number of awards given in football, basketball, and baseball from 1929 to 1932. Lund's basketball coach at the University, Bennie Oosterbaan, was a nine-letter man also, winding up his career in Wolverine sports in 1925. Although Lund was drafted by the Chicago Bears pro football team for tle coming season, he prefers baseball to the gridiron sport, and would like to make a career of the game. Coach Ray Fisher, who is starting his 25th year of Michigan baseball, believes that the possibility of Lund's making the grade in the majors is a very real one. Lund has been approached by both the Washington Senators and the Detroit Tigers, on the subject of a professional career, but has remained in the University, where he will graduate in physical education this June. If he were to go into baseball seriously, he would probably teach during the off-seasons. Although he would want to coach in a high school or college, Lund is also equipped to teach history, in which he is minoring. Since he entered the University in 1941, Lund has played under three football captains. George Ceithaml, Paul White, and last season's captain, Bob Wiese, were chosen to lead teams on which Lund has played, and last season, with Wiese's mid- season departure, he himself served as co-captain with quarterback Joe Ponsetto. Although his tenure on the team has been lengthy. he has never played at any other position than fullback. Lund enjoys thi distinction of having played on the- last "all-Michigan" team before the war brought athletes from other schools to the University with its Navy V-12 program. This was during his sophomore year, when he was a teammate of boys like Tom Kuzma and Julie Franks. N. During the 1942 basketball season, Lund got one of his biggest thrills in sports when he played against Illinois' famous Whiz Kids. He considers the Illini team of that year one of the greatest sports combinations he has ever seen. In baseball, he enjoyed most working with Elroy Hirsch, who was one of the ace hurlers on last spring's squad. "If anyone ever commanded my respect, Elroy did," Lund says, "mostly, I think, because he had so much competitive spirit that yclu always did your very best in backing him up." And Lund certainly backed !Hirsch up, for it was his bare handed circus catch in the last Conference game which helped give Hirsch a victory over Purdue and was called the best fielding play of the season. Of the three years in which Lund has participated in Michigan athletics, none has ever netted him injuries amounting to more than a sprained ankle. For this luck, the husky athlete is grateful, because you don't play marbles when yeu are up against the big boys. Tiger iound Staff Adds Trio of Von trot Artists' By The Associated Press three possess the coveted knack of TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 7- putting any given pitch precisely Control, the pitching asset that where they want it. wasn't there in Detroit's 1944 Ameri- "We've got much more control, and can League flag fight that fell one much more stuff than last season," game short, isn't one of manager O'Neill declares. "Curves of all our Steve O'Neill's worries this season. pitchers are breaking sharper, thanks The Tigers of last season, after to excellent conditioning weather." steady Hal Newhouser and Paul (Diz- O'Neill's chief case in point is zy) Trout, didn't possess a finger righthander Zeb Eato-a, one of De- that could find the plate consistently. troit's "chain gang" relief pitchers Relief pitching, to Detroit, meant a of 1944. steady stream of firemen from the "Eaton's curve never broke better bull pen, none of whom could put than this spring," the Tiger boss re- out a candle. marked. "And his control is 100 per Three added starters on the Tiger cent improved.'' mound corps this spring-big Al Ben- "Last year Zeb threw most of his ton, Army dischargee, Les Mueller and pitches from different angles. Now recruit Walter Wilson-loom as the he's learned how to throw everything top "control" artists of the staff. Ben- from the same position. In other ton figures to be used asa starter; words his delivery has become better Mueller and Wilson in relief. All 'grooved'." Iaking the IGun44 By HANK MANTHO Daily Sports Editor i ITST AS W"EBSTER S CO LLEGIATE DICT ARY N RECENT ISSUES of various newspapers in the country that carried remarks made by Gil Dodds of Boston in a radio. interview which per- tained to the incident of the removal of his world indoor track record for the mile run, the Amateur Athletic Union was again subjected to bitter criticism for its actions. Dodds, who is better known as the "Flying Parson," retired from track to become a traveling minister this year, and when he was notified that his record had been ruled out, he made this statement to, news- papermen: "The A.A.U. likes to count the greenbacks that slip across the ticket window." Inasmuch as this statement was misinterpreted by many people, Dodds tried to clarify it by stating that "I meant that they want the money to advance amateur athletics." The world indoor-mile record of 4:06.4 which Dodds esablished was stricken from the records when officials suddenly became aware of the fact that the mark was set on a track which had no inside curbing. However, these same officials made no attempt whatsoever to rule out all other track records that were set under the same conditions and on the same track, and this faulty line of reasoning, which is pretty hard to comprehend, is the main line of contention that has arisen. N RETROSPECT, it seems that a similar border-line case was brought to our attention not so long ago, and this hit home, for the athlete concerned was a former Wolverine track star, Bob Ufer. Ufer, who was arduously training to return, to competition in the hopes of retiring the Cardinal Hayes Memorial Trophy for the 600-yard dash in New York's Madison Square Garden was declared a professional by the A.A.U. on the premise that he was combining his athletic abilities with coaching, a money profession,. However, Glenn Cunningham, Les Eisenhart and many other track greats, combined amateur running with teaching and nothing was done to deprive them of their amateur standing. The ironic: part of this edict was that Ufer held the same position while competing the year before and nothing was said. The charge was brought up that this could have been the A.A.U.'s method of taking a crack at the Western Conference for prohibiting Big Ten track men from competing in Eastern circles. This intimation against the A.A.U. was almost entirely disregarded, but this case of Ufer's has been bolstered by the new one of Dodd's, who claims that his record has been ruled out because A.A.U. officials did not like him to retire when he was a good drawing card. Dodd's statement is substantiated by the fact that his record was net obliterated from the books until his retirement, and it seems incon- ceivable that this is coincidence, especially since we allowed for coin- cidence in the case of U1fer. This column finally boils down to the question of what we intend to do about such matters. Is the A.A.U. an association that is interested in the betterment of amateur athletics, or has it suddenly lowered its standards to the point where prejudices and personal animosity will take precedence in their judgments? THE GOOD OLD DAYS Wings To Play Second Game In Cw- Finals Detroit Seeks Fourth Title in Leafs Playoff By The Associated Press DETROIT, April 7-Still hopeful of winning hockey's most prized tro- phy for the fourth time, the Detroit Red Wings planned to produce a strong attack on the Toronto goal from the outset in Sunday night's second game of the Stanley Cup fin- als here. To even the series at one gameI each before the teams shift the scene to Toronto, the Wings must find some way of cracking an alert Maple Leaf defense that blocked them off from the danger zone in Friday night's opener. In ten games of the regular season Detroit players drove 44 goals into the MapleLeaf nets,dbut they drew a complete blank Friday as the Tor- onto defenders gave goalie Frank MeCool almost perfect protection,. Dave Schriner's ten-foot shot in the first period was the only score of the game. There'll be no waiting, or "feeling out" in Sunday's game, Earl Seibert of the Wings promised today. "We'll attack," he said. "We'll pen them in their end and keep them there all evening." Bob Chappuis, Former grid Star, Is Prisonter Lt. Robert Chappuis, former Mich- igan football star, is a prisoner of war somewhere in Germany, his par- ents have revealed. Chappuis, who played left halfback in 1941 and '42 for the Wolverines, had been listed as "missing in ac- tion" prior to the announcement of his safety. VICTORY HAIR-CUTS!! One blended- shaded- cut to conform to your specifications! THE DASCOLA BARBERS Between State & Mich. 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The steamer, believed the oldest umpire in point of service in profes- sional basball, declared with ill-con- cealed pride that he had been "pop- bottled twice in every park in the league." "I've had some seven thousand pop bottles flung at me," he added, "not to mention beer jugs, brick bats and other handy items. But, ycu know, I've only been hit 20 times. I've kept count. It's been two years since a bottle was thrown at me and I haven't been hit since 1939. The colorful little ball-boomer with the fog horn larynx said this was in- deed a far cry from the old days. HAPPY LISTENING HOURS ORI YOU U t)U UINI 1'i C"LEVELAND MASTER "T IIE MODEWLS T HE MEN IN TiHE MAKE your own model of planes constantly seen on front pages of newspapers everywhere - from the world's finest line of authentic 4" built-up f!yinig scale inodels. SYMPHONY NO. 88 in D MINOR Haydn . . . Toscanini SYMPHONY NO. 1 in C MAJOR, Op. 21 . . . Beethoven. 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