THE MICHIGAN DAILY THUJRSDAY, 11 TALKING SHOP with Bud Weidenthal associate sports editor Tidbits of sports chosen and chewed in the spring air: Dominic Tomasi, last year's football captain has been offered the coaching spot at Detroit's Catholic Central high school, a perennial state power. The diminutive gridder, who played four varsity years for the M Vaize and Blue, is undecided as to his plans following graduation from 2ngineering school in June. However, it'll be tough to turn down such an attractive offer.. . Ninety gridiron prospects greeted coach Bernie Bierman at Minnesota the other day, when the Gophers opened their spring practice. Included among the candidates were veterans Bud Grant, Billy Bye and Clayton Tonnemaker whose names are well known in Big Nine Football circles.. . All-American Leo Nominelli will be around next fall, but is presently on the track squad. . . Ile will by-pass the spring sessions. At Ohio State the nation's most publicized Freshman, Vic Jano- wicz, from Elyria, Ohio, showed up for the spring drills in Columbus and immediately took over the halfback spot from veteran Jerry Krall who was switched to fullback. The heralded Buckeye is short and shifty, and packs a lot of power on his stocky frame. . . .5 It is rumored the Bob Sumeran, a wing-back last season for Ben- nie Oosterbaan and a transfer from Navy, has an inside track on the much contested quarterback position for next fall's Maize and Blue ag- gregation. Bennie doesn't want to use versatile Wally Teninga at that. spot unless he absolutely has to. . . . In baseball circles, the talk of the grapefruit league are the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. The Bucks have won twelve straight down South against all kinds of competition and are exhibiting plenty of that long-ball power that all managers delight in. The Cubs at present are the leading exponents of the "bring Chicago back into the major leagues" campaign being waged in the windy city . . . local writers watching the home-towners perform in Los Angeles' Wrigley field are full of praise for the revitalized National Leaguers. Brooklyn's baseball factory at Vero Beach Fla, has all sorts of curious gadgets to aid them in their early season workouts. One of them is a pitching machine that looks like a bazooka. The other day, the former Michigan coach, and now Dodger executive, Branch Rickey, got an idea . . . why not use the bazooka to produce fly balls and elimi- nate the perennial fungo bat? Well, mechanics dismantled the thing and supplied it with a nozzle pointing skyward and an increase in the required air pressure. A baseball was dropped into the end of the con- traption and it was fired. Fielders just waited and wanted.... Accord- ing to reports the ball hasn't come down yet. Yogi Berra of the Yankees obviously has never read Emily Post .. . it seems that the likeable New Yorker has an etiquette all his own... Pete Reiser of the Braves tellsthe story of encoun- tering Berra in a St. Louis hotel several months ago. "You coming to my wedding," asked Yogi. Pete nooded affirmatively. . . "I just wanted to know," replied Berra, "cause I ain't wastin no invitations." The Yanks think they have a find in pitcher Paul Hinrichs who was picked up for $40,000 last winter when he was declared a free agent by the Tigers (of all teams!). The 24 year old right-hander ran his shutout streak to 13 innings by blanking the Phillies for three frames Monday. After yesterday's 12 inning 1-0 loss to Boston, Tiger manager Red Rolfe is full of praise for his tpitchers. . . Virgil Truck and Freddie Hutchinon held the hard hitting Beantowners to seven safeties in the exta-inniRg contest . . combined with Monday's performance by Hal Newhouser and Lew Kretlow against the Cardinals, the old red-head is more certain than ever that the Bengels have the best pitching staff in baseball. Baseball Howe Line Paces Wings aeWIn Comeback Detroit at lonie With Series Even DETROIT - (P) -The Detroit Red Wings' sturdy clutch man, 20-' year-old Gordie Howe, was thet center of attention today as De-, troit and Montreal brought their s Stanley Cup hockey playoff series back to Detroit for the important fifth game today. Going into game 5 the first round set stands all square at two victories each. Odds did a quick about-face after Detroit's 3 to 1 victory levelled the series Tues- day in Montreal. FRIED LI NOW THE EDGE appears to Burt Ksa be with Detroit,for two of the last K 1949 seaso three games, if the series goes thej Kessler, C0 seven-game limit, will be played scene ofa here. Duke furn 1the Wolve Normally, the home ice is Forest an considered vital, but so far in this series each club has won once and lost once at home. FROM The Red Wings powered their way back into the thick of things by winning Tuesday's clash, when Coa a defeat would have nudged them onto the brink of elimination. * 4 By P THAT CRUCIAL victory pro- ThePs vided the morale boost the Wings Tepe are convinced they needed to sports fan 1 steam ahead into the cup finals football tear against the Toronto - Boston a machine winner, beings are c precision. And the sparkplug of the This reput rally, the man Montreal must the great stop to upset the National 1947 whichs League's regular season cham- ents and ra pions, is Howe. 49-0 victory Gordie is the leading goal-mak- IT WAS C er of the playoffs with five in his four games, two in each of son as the N the last two clashes at Montreal tained their * * *and again w AS A MATTER OF fact, the tend their v Red Wing offense has been dan- It doesn't gerously packed into a single for- the fan sh ward line, where Howe teams with a conclusio Ted Lindsay and Sid Abel. That machine - threesome has scored eight of the achieved s 10 goals Detroit has made in the overlooked. playoffs. At spring " teday, the Montreal's sights are centered this very de on stopping that line. Whatever idly demons happens from here in will be determined by how well the AFTER S Canadiens can do it. coach Benn After the fifth game here the wholec Thursday, the series shifts back rigorous scr to Montreal. A seventh game, if The char necessary, will be played in De- anything b troit. Almost all Squad O ff on Training Trip Season Opener Pits 'M' Versus Georgetown Nine At six o'clock this morning baseball coach Ray Fischer and seven- teen athletes left Ann Arbor for Washington, D.C. on the first leg of the spring training trip. The Wolverines open their season tomorrow afternoon against Georgetown University. Before they return to Ann Arbor, the Wol- verines will have played nine games against nine different opponents throughout Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. In their final practice session yesterday, Fisher stressed funda- mentals, concentrating on bunting and infield practice. The probable starting lineup on Friday is as follows: leading off will be Bill Bucholz playing second base. In the number two spot will Daily-Tyson NKS-Snapped prior to their spring junket into the southland for conditioning, Coach enmeyer's Maize and Blue varsity golf squad lines up for their first official picture of the on. Right to left: Coach Katzenmeyer, Ciuck MacCullum, Pete Elliott, Bob Olsen, Rog aptain Ed Schalon and Leo Houser. North Carolina's Hope Valley golf course will be the action for the three Michigan pre-season tourneys. April 4 Wake Fqrest is on deck while ishes the competition April 7. To round out the southern tour, North Carolina opposes rines April 8. Coach Katzenmeyer expects the strongest threats to come from Wake d Duke aggregations. Varsity competition begins April 23 with Ohio State at Columbus. RAGS TO RICHES: Lches' Efforts Behind Grid Precision -- i RES HOLMES ent conception the has about Michigan's n is that it resembles as closely as human capable of patterning ation was built up by Wolverine squad of swept by nine oppon- acked up a crushing in the Rose Bowl. ONTINUED last sea- Vlaize and Blue main- precision-like form ent undefeated to ex- ictory string to 23. I seem illogical that could come to such , yet just how this like quality was- tems to have been football practice yes- means for reaching sirable end were viv- rated. OME group work head ie Oosterbaan called crew together for a immage. acter of the play was ut precision-like. of the players were men up from last year's junior varsity or freshman teams, and were fairly familiar with the plays used by Michigan. But on only the third day out they couldn't be expected to have all of them down pat, which accounts for some of the raggedness. WITH OOSTERBAAN switch- ing combinations on almost every play this fact was accentuated. It seemed hard to believe at first that from this rather in- describable gang of men would emerge a polished, smooth-op- erating team, but after watch- ing the coaches sculpter for a while the faint hope became a definite possibility. Genial and boisterous Wally Weber handled the "red shirts" who were working at stoping the "blue" offense. FOR THE FIRST few plays the red jerseys were still up in the equipment room so both teams were wearing the blue shirts. When the red ones finally arrived Wolly joked, "OK, you had an excuse that you didn't know friend from foe those first few plays, but now you've got no alibis." Oosterbaan, after every play, Westminster Guild: Informal Easter morning breakfast prior to the Dawn Service on that day, 5 a.m., Presbyterian church build- ing. For reservation please call either Mr. Henderson, 2-4466; or Edward Coleman, 7879. TOURING EUROPE? If you are touring Europe this summer use a Whizzer Motor Bike. Al orders will be crated for ship- ment. WHIZZER MOTOR SALES CO. 424 So. Main St. Phone 7178 EASTER GREETINGS TO ALL!! Lct us groom your hair with art individualistic, suave, smart- !ooking hair style--for those special occasions. Our nine tonsorial artists will please you iService and Workmanship when he noticed a man had done something especially wrong, would talk the situation over with the player. Bill Orwig circulated through the players who were watching the scrimmage pointing up things and asking questions, impressing upon them the value of observing. "You're a tackle. aren't you? What play was that? What was your assignment? Watch the man who's playing your position!" These and other innumerable questions and statements help the raw candidates mature and de- velop. The coaches take a definite and personal interest in eacheman. They offer suggestions to help the man grow. The results may re- semble a machine, but the meth- ods used to build it are down to earth and human. Leafs Win! I DiMaggio Says Heel Okay Frosh Track Squad Looks Impressive By HUGH QUINN Freshman track coach Elmer Swanson considers his first season in the coaching business a lucky one. When Swanson stepped in as coach of the yearlings last fall, he found that he had a talented group of trackmen whom he fig- ures will be running with the var- sity next year. FOR INSTANCE, Swanson found that he had a trio of fast two-milers in Don McEwen, Billl Hickman, and Russ Kinnel. Mc- Ewen, who comes from Canada, and Hickman, who is a converted miler, have turned in good times and stand to improve. And he also saw the makings of two championship sprinters in husky Bill Konrad, of Oak Park, Ill., and Gene Williams, from Kansas. Swanson was further encour- aged when he saw Aaron Gordon, Don Cooper, and Ron Packer in the mile run. Gordon, a long-strid- ing Detroiter, looks like he might develop into a champion distance runner. AND SWANSON saw promise in two quarter-milers, Lit Bachus, an Ann Arbor product, and Jack Rose, of Grand Rapids. He was further impressed by hurdlers Wally At- chison and Bob Hastings. But Swanson's luck didn't stop here. As soon as football season was over, freshman tackle Tom Johnson reported for track practice and established himself as a potential all-time great in the shot put. And at the beginning of the spring semester. Swanson was blessed by the arrival of several talented newcomers, fresh out of high school. Jack Heikkinen, of Detroit, stepped right in with the quarter-milers, and Horace Cole- man came from Ch icago to take over as the outstanding broad jumper. be Vic Fryling in center field, followed by right fielder Willard Baker. BATTING IN the clean-up po- sition will be third baseman Ted Kobrin. Either Jack McDonald or Hal Morill will bat number five and do the honors at first base. Next will come either Ted Berce or Leo Koceski in left field, followed by shortstop Bob Wolff. Captain Hal Raymond will bat eighth and fill in the catcher's spot. It will be either Bill Taft or Dick Smith who will go to the mound in the opening game. According to Fisher, the success or failure of the team this year is largely dependent upon the pitch- ing. Till this point the pitching has been rather doubtful, and if the pitching will improve, the Wolverines will have a good chance to retain the Big Nine Crown. Fisher expects tough competi- tion throughout the southern trip, especially in the last two games they play against the Virginia Mil- itary Institute and Washington and Lee University. THE TEAM to watch out for in Conference competition this year will be Ohio State, with Illinois and Iowa strong contenders. "The competition is a lot tough- er today than when I first came here in 1921," said Coach Fisher. He noted that the calibre of coach- ing has greatly improved. Almost every coach of the Conference teams has had big league experi- ence, and those that haven't seen action in the major circuits have been around the game long enough to pick up a lot of base- ball experience. The schedule for the southern trip follows: April 1-Georgetown Univer- ity April 2--niversity of Mary- land April 3-Quantico Marines April 4-University of Rich- mond April 5-George Washington April 6-U.S. Naval Academy April 7-University of Vir- ginia April 8-Washington and Lee University April 9-Virginia Military In- stitute BOSTON - R) - The Toronto Maple Leaf defenders gained the Stanley Cup's final round by out- skating the Boston Bruins for a 3-2 victory and a four games to one margin in the National Hock- ey League's B series playoffs yes- terday before a packed 13,909 crowd at the Boston Garden. ST. PETERSBURG-"Well, I'm afraid I'll play another year. It looks like I'll have to work for my money." That was Joe DiMaggio's way of saying that he was pleased with' the first real test of his tender right heel. Sitting half undressed in the clubhouse at Miller Huggins Field, the New York Yankees' great out- fielder discussed his six-inning stint against the Cincinnati Reds today. It marked the first game he started during the exhibition tour. Up to today the Yankees' No. 1 question mark, had limited his playing to pinch hitting chores only. "The pain has not completely gone," he told reporters, "but I'm very happy over the results. It hurt a little, but the pain is de- creasing steadily, however. If it lessens a little more, I'll be4n good shape. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 1° III: I llllllNmmwm . powwo. 0 V E R 1 00 YEARS AT MICHIGAN (Continued from Page 4) Deutscher Verein: Meeting, 8 p.m., Union. La p'tite causette: 3:30 p.m., Grill Room, Michigan League. 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