W: ,,N" YI 1 1,' 15, lullu THE MICHIGAN DAILY ,.4 M yl Ne BfLL-ESSION by b. s. brown, sports editor WHO'LL BE CALLING the signals for Michigan's football squad next year? Your guess is as good as mine. It could be any one of the five or six candidates for the position. It could be the versatile Wally Teninga. But as far as the Michigan coaching staff is concerned -now that spring drills have ended-anyone could get the job. Though the quarterback slot wasn't decided upon during the spring workouts-or if they were, and the coaches just aren't talking-there was a promise of happy days for one of the Wol- verine leather-luggers. Don Dufek, who was awarded the Meyer Morton Trophy for his work in the practice sessions, can be counted on for some fancy cavorting next season, if precedence means anything. Last year, Leo Koceski copped the award, and just look at the job he did with Michigan's undefeated squad in the '48 season. The year before, Al Wistert took the spring honors, and'his work at tackle in the '47 season and in the Rose Bowl made the Rock of Gibraltar seem like a feeble pebble, in comparison. Other winners of the award who came through in due time were Marv Pregulman, Kip Taylor and George Ceithaml. * * * * WELL, TODAY'S THE DAY. Ole Casey Stengel won't be able to resort to one of his many tricks to get him out of the jam he's in; this is one time he'll have to make a decision, and an important judgment it will be. Joe DiMaggio's heel is still bothering him, and whether his playing days have ended or not is a question that may be answered by midnight tonight. At any rate, the New York Yanks are carrying 29 men on their roster-tonight that figure must be cut to 25. Will Joe be going, or will he stay? The story will soon be told. The Maryland Mauler, Charley Keller, is in the same boat as the Yankee Clipper. Keller's back is less dependable than a lassie who strongly believes in female prerogatives. But Casey has to cut his staff. This might be hail and farewell to two of the Yank's greatest home run artists. RAY FISHER, MICHIGAN DIAMOND PILOT, made Robin Roberts, ace Phillp hurler, a winning pitcher, according to the star rookie. . . Roberts tells his story in a baseball magazine which hit the streets this month . . . The former Michigan State athlete played for Fisher's Montpelier, Vt., team during a summer vacation . . "You know, all the time I've been in organized baseball," Robbie says, "I haven't heard one big leaguer or one minor leaguer give any better advice than Fisher did . .." The twenty-two year old rookie who struck out DiMaggio in his first time on the mound in the major leagues (an exhibition game during spring training) might still be playing basketball- his first love-if Fisher hadn't "discovered" and worked with the rising star that summer in Montpelier, the article declares. AL KIRCHER, Michigan State's new basketball coach, is planning quite a change in the Spartan cage attack . . . "We'll do a lot of running next year, and we may get beaten, but I'll guarantee the opposition will be tired . . ." Most of the Michigan cage followers are agreed in their opinion that the Wolverines will adopt the fire- brand type attack next year, too . . . Forsaking the slow-breaking offense they had used all season, the Michigan cagers dut-ran Illinois, the Conference champs, in the final game of the campaign, here, to rack up one of the most impressive upsets of the year, 70-53. Hetzek Springs to Net Renown in Six Years Drops HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: Canham Eyes Frosh for VarsitySlt { By BILL CONNOLLY In the Spring a coach's lightly turns to thoughts of uating seniors. fancy grad- -Daily--Wally Barth GOING PLACES ... Wolverine broad jumper and sprinter Var Baydarian will be among the graduating seniors this June. Maj or League Standing 9ge And it's just about this time of year that varsity track Coach Don Canham looks witha wistful eye towards the runners under the direction of Elmer Swanson, fresh- man track coach. * * STRONG SPOT on the frosh squad is in the distances and in the 880. This is good news to Canham, because the graduation of Captain Bob Thomason, Herbl Barten and Fred Stoliker will leave plenty of room for the fresh- men to move up into competition next Spring. Standouts among the fresh- men are Aaron Gordon, Don McEwen, Bill Hickman and Ron Packer. All four have turned in good times in the events which will be weakened when com- mencement time rolls around. IN THE 880, Barten's vacancy will provide incentive for middle- distance men Charles Whitaker and Dave Edwards, who will be competing next season with the members of this year's Jayvee squad who have their eyes on the middle distance slot. Quarter-milers Jack Heikken- en and Lit Bachus will be fight- ing to fill the vacancy in this event that will be left by the graduation of Bob Sergeson. They will receive competition from frosh teammates Charles Kepler and Dave Weigel. ONE MORE BIG HOLE in next year's varsity will be caused by graduation. Var Baydarian, who last week sparked Michigan's up- set of Illinois with his standout performances in the broad jump and in the century is now in his last year of competition for the Wolverines. Standout performer among the freshmen who is most likely to fil lthis vacancy is Horace Coleman. Although he has been currently working mostly in the field, Coleman can be used to fill in the dashes as well. Other outstanding dash-men are Formal Rentals SUMMER White Coats and Black Trousers All New - All Sizes Locally Stocked ftAAUOIPAVI AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York ......17 9 .654 Detroit .........15 11 .577 Philadelphia .. ..15 13 .556 Chicago ........14 13 .519 Washington .....14 14 .500 Cleveland .......10 11 .476 Boston..........11 13 .458 St. Louis........ 8 20 .286 G.B. 2 3 3 %/ 4 4% 5 10 LAST NIGHT'S SCORES Detroit 4, Washington 2. New York 4, Cleveland 3. Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 2. Boston 4, Chicago 3. * * * NATIONAL LEAGUE W. New York ......16 Boston .........16 Cincinnati.....14 Brooklyn .......13 Philadelphia ... .12 Pittsburgh......12 St. Louis.......10 Chicago ........10 L. 10 10 12 13 15 15 13 15 Pet. .615 .615 .538 .500 .444 .444 .435 .400 G.B. 2 3 41/ 411 41% 51 / By JOHN BARBOUR From 1943 to 1949 is only six years, but in those six years a fourteen year-old who thought that tennis was a sissy sport grew to be the Sophomore number two man on the Michigan tennis team, Al Hetzeck. Being number two man on a teameas strong ashMichigan's is no mean task in the first place, and to make it in your first year of varsity competition is close to amazing. * * * BUT ALL stories have a begin- ning and this one begins when the fourteen year-old boy was beaten in tennis by his sixteen year-old sister. This, as every fourteen year-old boy knows, was too much. That was how he started ten- nis but the story juhips now from him to Mrs. Hoxie, the var- sity tennis coach at Hamtramck High in Detroit. Mrs. Hoxie has seen young men and women change with a racquet in their hands from awkward kids to smooth, consistent tennis stars. She has turned out more young potentials than probably any other person in the United States. FOR THREE YEARS Al Het- zeck worked under the tutelage of Mrs. Hoxie. It's one thing to prac- tice, and another to practice the right things. Under her direction he won the National Interscholastic ti- tles and two national indoor doubles titles. In '46 he teamed up with Hugh Stewart to defeat Leonard Steiner and Sydney Schwartz, two New York boys, in four and a half hours of grueling, hard, indoor tennis 6-8, 8-10, 15-13, 15-13, 10-8. While playing with Hamtramck he copped the Metropolitan League Championship in '45-'46. * * * AFTER GRADUATING from Mrs. Hoxie and Hamtramck, he went to Kalamazoo College where he played for Dr. Stowe in '46 and '47 and copped the State Singles Junior Title both years. LAST NIGHT'S SCORES Pittsburgh 3. New York 2. 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