THE MIrCHIG P SJLAAIL41 otverines Open 1950_Base bal * * * <__________>____ 1a'Maryland Initial Opponent Lea Of 9(Garne Southern Tour Wii, Season Toay DAILY DOUBLE by merle levin, sports co-editor THEY SAY hone springs eternal in the human breast, and so, having picked Michigan to win the NCAA hockey title, Wisconsin to xi'± taie big ien oasKetall title, and Illinois to win the Big Ten track meet, Fearless Levin today ventures forth into the world of professional sports to announce the finish of the 1950 American League race. Quickly before anyone can stop me it will be Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and Wash- ington. Dissenters will please form an orderly line in the outer lobby. You just can't ignore those Red Sox - on paper anyway. They've got the best outfield in the league in Williams, Dom DiMaggio and Al Zarilla and, an equally potent infield with Johnny Pesky, Vern Stephens, Bobby Doerr and Billy Goodman. They Boast two of the league's best pitchers in Mel Parnell and Ellis Kinder and a po- tential great in young Mickey McDermott. Joe Dobson and Walt Masterson are above average hurlers and Charley Stobbs figures to be of help. * * * * THE BOSOX CATCHING will be handled by Birdie Tebbetts and Buddy Rosar and unless both these veterans pick this season to fold up, manager, Joe McCarthy's only major problem will be his lack of reserves. Since the other seven clubs have many more problems and since the Beantowners are bound to get off to a normal start one of these seasons I'll string along with the Sox one more time. Detroit with a fine outfield and excellent pitching should be up close to the top, but Red Rolfe apparently has too many prob- lems in the infield and catching departments to make the long jump from fourth to first in one year. Third base, of course, is set with George Kell, the league's best, and Gerry Priddy will strengthen the Tigers at second but Johnny Lipon leaves much to be desired at short and Dick Kryhoski despite a great spring showing this year still has to prove himself in actual competition. Remember he's the man the Yankees farmed out in mid-season last year at a time when they were desperately in need of a first baseman. (ATCHING DUTIES will be split by Aaron Robinson and Bob Swift a couple of run-of-the-mine receivers and the Tiger re- serves, like the Red Sox-are weak. Rolfe will deserve hearty plaudits if he can guide his charges to the top. Cleveland is the league's dark horse team. They've got the league's best pitching staff with Lemon, Garcia, Feller, Wynn, Gromek, Bearden, Benton et al. They have a top-notch catcher in Jim Hegan and one of the league's heaviest hitting outfields with Dale Mitchell, Larry Doby and the much-publicized Luke Easter, who was burning up the Grapefruit League, labeled a sure- fire star by all who have observed hint- But the Tribe's fortunes rest on the performance of their aging infield. Shortstop-manager Lou Boudreau has lost 10 pounds and looks like his 1948 self this spring but first baseman Mickey Vernon has been mediocre and Ken Keltner's poor showing has given Boudreau a third base headache which may prove tough to get rid of. 35-year old Joe Gordon has looked good at second but no one knows how the Flash will stand up on these hot summer afternoons. AS THEIR INFIELD GOES, so will go the Indians which means anywhere from first to fifth. We'll compromise and give theth'third. The World Champion New York Yankees seem destined to battle it out with the Philadelphia A's for fourth place this season despite the magic touch of Casey Stengel- The Yankee's success rests on the broad but aging shoulders of Joe DiMaggio and Tommy Henrich. The great but fragile DiMag' is taking a regular turn in the outfield after a brief injury scare (shoulder this time) and there's no reason but his age (35) to suspect that the Jolter won't have another great season, but Henrich has been on the sideline most of the spring with miseries in his knee and the Yanks and Tommy are mighty worried. TENRICH IS being counted on to handle the first basing chores for the World Champions which is an indication of how bad things are in the Yankee camp. DiMaggio is set in center field but the other two garden posts are likely to be manned by Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling, neither of whom gives promise of setting the baseball world on fire. Jerry Coleman has been plagued by a bad back this spring but will undoubtedly step into the second base spot when he recovers while little Phil Rizzuto will do likewise at short when his sore arm has healed. Bobby Brown and Billy Johnson will again split the third base chores and Yogi Berra will handle the catching. Pitching will be good as long as Joe Page is available but the Bomber pitching staff is aging and Vic Raschi who does his most effective hurling in the spring and early summer months has looked terrible in exhibition appearances. The Yankees have stood pat on the team which won the pennant by one game last fall. Nobody understands how they did it then. If they do it again somebody had better give Casey Stengel's boys a saliva test. PHILADELPHIA HAS A top notch infield with Fain, Suder, Joost and Dillinger but they are all over thirty, which means that the going may get pretty rough along about August. The outfield will be made up of the capable but erratic Elmer Valo in left, the aging and disappointing Sam Chapman in center and Barney McCloskey in right, if the heavy-hitting Barney's injured back, which kept him out of competition last year, has responded successfully to treatment. So far results have been en- couraging, and hs return would be a great help to the A's. Sore arms have plagued the pitching staff all spring with Dick Fowler and Joe Coleman the most serious casualties. Their loss would' seriously deplete a fine pitching staff which also ncludies Alex Kell- ner, Lou Brissie and Bobby Schanz. THE ATHLETICS will be somewhat weak on catching with Fermin Guerra and Joe Tipton splitting the receiver's job but if some of Connie Mack's question marks are satisfactorily answered the boys from Philly could be mighty tough. So could the Chicago White Sox with their good trio of left handed hurlers in Bill Wright, Bob Kuzava and Billy Pierce aided and abetted by two more southpaw starters in Mickey Haefner and rookie Bob Cain Old Luke Appling has moved back to short after a brief trial at first base and will team up with Cass Michaels to give the Sox an excellent second base combination. Hank Majeski will give the Chicagoans ade- quate third basing while Red Kress and Herm Reich will split the first base job with some degree of major league ability. * * * * HARD HITTING Gus Zernial, Dave Philley and rookie Jim Busby will cover the Sox outfield and 33-year-old Phil Masi will be the No. 1 catcher on a team that will prove a soft touch for no one but which fs Blank cgs, Gain es Edge Michigan Golf Team Faces Three North Carolina Foes By JIM PARKER Michigan's 1950 baseball season gets under way this afternoon as Coach Ray Fisher and 16 barn- storming Wolverines open their nine-game invasion of the South against the University of Mary- land at College Park. * * * BEFORE leaving Ann Arbor yesterday, Fisher announced his traveling squad and released ten- tative starting lineups. The veteran Wolverine men-j RAY FISHER . . . heads invasion Spring Recess To Delay Varsity Football Practice tor picked Big Ed Grenkowski to start on the mound for the Maize and Blue with Pete Palm- er behind the plate. Last year Grenkowski posted a 2-0 record in Big Nine competition and is being counted on this sea- sson to be one of the strong potlics in Michigan's somewhat question- able pitching staff. * ' * FOUR OTHER pitchers, Dave Settle, Bob Hicks, Al Virgona and Jack York, are making the South- ern tour and can expect to see considerable action as the Mich- igan team has games on eight con- secutive days following today's Terrapin encounter. Moving around the infield, cage star Hal Morrill will be at first with Bill Bucholz and Capt. Bob Wolff at second base and shortstop, respectively. Ed Fro- scheiser will back Morrill at first. Over on third Ted Berce Will get the starting nod with Gerry Dorr held in reserve. Both players had some experience at the hot corner on last year's Conference co-champions. * * * Rangers Win MONTREAL--(P)-The New York Rangers scored all their goals in the final period last night to defeat Montreal, 3-0, and gain the final round of the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs. By The Associated Press DETROIT-Goalie Turk Broda whitewashed the Detroit Red Wings for the third time in the Stanley Cup semi-final series as the Leafs beat the National Hock- ey League Champions 2-0 last night. * * * T1lE WIN put Toronto ahead 3-2 in the best of seven game series. Broda posted 21 saves in hanging up his shutout, but only a few were difficult shots as the Leafs gave him terrific protec- tion against Detroit's would-be scoring thrusts. The game was marked by 121 penalties, but none of them was incurred via brawling. Ser Michigan temporarily suspended its spring football drills yesterday afternoon after four days of rig- orous practice, which included two scrimmages. The University adjourns today for spring recess, and practice will resume along with classes on Mon- day, April 17. * * * SUMMING UP the week's work, Coach Bennie Oosterbaan said: "We've got a lot good boys out her among the newcomers. We'll get right down to work fitting them in when school resumes."a A large squad of 150 candidates wound up the week's workouts, with their coaches still placing the stress on fundamentals. VETERAN FULLBACK Don Du- fek was the only first string regu- Bus Easter Planined For Tennis Team- Michigan's tennis team will not be idle over spring vacation with Coach Bill Murphy scheduling leisure time practices for players on hand during the recess. STILL WAITING for agreeable weather to determine place posi- tions, the squad plans to concen- trate on testing possible doubles combinations. A strong number one duo would combine Co-captains Al Hetzeck and Don MacKay. Het- zeck defeated Grant Golden, Northwestern ace for the Con- ference number two champion- ship last season, but he and Fred Otto, now graduated, lost to the Wildcats Ted Peterson and Lar- ry Daly. MacKay turned the tables on Daly to win the number five sin- gles title last year. The Michigan co-captain and Gordie Naucle lost the number three doubles to Northwestern, however. LEFT-HANDED Dick Lincoln is slated to pair with sophomore Steve Bromberg at the number two doubles post, unless Coach Mur- phy decides to split the pair be- tween Len Brumm and Ross Her- ron, number five and six singles players, for more balance. 411 larly in attendance at the closing session, as the unwieldy squad jammed every corner of old Ferry Field. Oosterbaan and his staff ex- pected the total would be cut down considerably by dropouts when drills are resumed. The second scrimmage in two days highlighted yesterday's prac- tice, with no serious injuries re- ported in either workout. Considerable improvement in the execution of plays by the offensive units was noticable in the concluding scrimmage as the gridders huddled innfreezing temperatures on a wind-swept field. During the recess, the players will be concentrating on memoriz- ing plays as they anticipate the grueling three hour scrimmages, scheduled for every Saturday for a five week's period after their re- turn. With attention being directed towards newcomers, the only let- termen in addition to Dufek who have reported during the past week are Chuck Ortmann, left half; and Les Popp and George Sutherland, ends. IN THE OUTFIELD L ki and Ralph Morrison ed by Fisher as definites left and center respectiv field presents a unique with pitcher Bob Fancet cher Linc Painter both in the outergardens in a their. battery chores. T will alternate on the i patrol. Fisher stated that he ed to use his entire1 roster (ho pe fullye pitchers, of course) in t land contest, searching best working overallc tion After a game with th sity of Virginia April 15,t igan squad will return t bor to open its home against Wayne Univers 17. eo Koces- were list- cf a rwrc nt By HUGH QUINN I Michigan's seven-man g o 1 f squad left before dawn today for its "spring training" swing into North Carolina, whire it will face three top Southern teams during the coming week. The Wolverines will sandwich daily practice rounds between their matches with Duke, Wake Forest, and North Carolina. It will be their first real opportunity to play, since the Ann Arbor weather has limited the outdoor sessions to a minimum. THE SEVEN MEN making the trip are co-captains Chuck Mac- Callum and Bob Olson, and Leo Hauser, Keith LeClair, Dean Lind, John Fraser, and Dick Evans. MacCalum, Olson, Hauser, and Le- Clair are lettermen, while the other three are sophomores. First stop on the tour will be Ashville, North Carolina, where they will spend the week-end with practice rounds. These week-end rounds will give Coach Bert Katzenmeyer a chance to decide the order in which he will use his men. Present indica- tions are that the two co-captains will be played in the one and two positions, but from their on down it is uncertain. ON MONDAY the Wolverines take on Wake Forest at the Ral- eigh Country Club. Wake Forest M' Gym Stars To Tour North There will be no vacation for two Michigan gymnasts next week. Tom Tillman, outstanding tum- bler and trampoliner, and Bob Willoughby, high bar star of last year's team, will take off Monday for a week-long tour of northern Michigan high schools. THE TWO WILL hold clinics and exhibitions in cheerleading and acrobatics in six northern peninsula towns. Accompanying them will be two members of the marching band who will conduct sessions in baton twirling and band tactics. Starting next Monday, the group will visit Manistique, Negaunee, Houghton, Watersmeet, Menomi- nee and Escanaba. plans on using Arnie Palmer in the number one singles slot and Buddy Worsham in number two. The latter is the brother of Lew Worsham, the National Open champ. The next two days the team will tackle the tough Pinehurst Country Club course at Pine- hurst, N. C. This course is known to be one of the finest in the country. Thursday Michigan will meet North Carolina on the Hope Val- ley Country Club links. North Car- olina boasts collegiate golfing's top player, Harvey Ward, who won the NCAA title last year. The Tarheels finished seventh in the NCAA behind sixth-place Wake Forest. . FRIDAY the Wolverines will wind up the Southern tour with a match against Duke University, also over the Hope Valley course. Duke, who beat Michigan last year, does not look to be as strong this season. Against the same three teams Michigan was unable to salvage a single win on their last trip. The best they did, as a team, was tie Wake Forest, while they dropped the matches to North Carolina and Duke. Southern schools, however, have the advantage of year round play and longer team work-outs. Ma/c Rhyt/hm/s InI Dnceible 15" starters ac TORONTO moved into a 1-0 ely. Right lead at the 10:35 mark of the first situation period as Ted Kennedy rammed a t and cat- 10-footer past Detroit goalie Har- doubling ry Lumley while each team was a .ddition to man short because of penalties. these two ight field ThesWings, who played their poorest home ice game of the e expect- series, looked pretty weird in traveling the first two periods. They excepting couldn't get going. he Mary- Detroit looked better in the last g for his period, but efforts to press home combina- a score backfired as Max Bentley stole a puck from the Wing's Lee e Univer- Fogolin at 8:37, skated half the the Mich- length of the ice and blasted an o Ann Ar- unassisted 15-footer past Lumley schedule to make it 2-0. That tally blasted sity April the hopes of - 14,806 fans-largest crowd of the Detroit season. SLIPPIN' AROUND: MSC, Wildcats Name New Cage Heads "FREDDY MARTIN (above) plays Jerome Kern" . . . Make Believe, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Who, 3 others in a brand-new album "De- signed For Dancing"! 15 such al- bums just released by RCA Victor. 15 big-name bands, 15 great com- posers! 90 great hits, wit hthe solid danceable beat you've yearn- for! Hear Martin's album and you'll want to roll back the rug and dance! Own all 15 albums! At Liberty Music Shop, Inc., 205 E. Liberty. By The Associated Press EAST LANSING - Wilbur N.= (Sparky) Stalcup, head basketball coach at the University of Mis- souri since 1946, yesterday was named head coach of basketball at Michigan State College. The appointment was announc- ed by MSC Athletic Director Ralph H. Young. Stalcup succeeds Al Kircher, who resigned after a sin- gle year as head coach to go to Washington State as a football backfield coach. STALCUP HAD A four year rec- ord at Missouri of 54 wins and 43 defeats. This past season his team won 14 and lost 10. Stalcup is 39 years old and has fifteen years of coaching behind him. His overall record is 256 wins against 95 defeats. Kircher resigned after a dismal season with a record of 18 defeats against only 4 victories. Michigan State lost all its games with West- ern Conference teams during the 1949-50 season. * * * ball season as a full-fledged West- ern Conference member. Michigan State has a full schedule of 14 Big Ten games slated for next year. The new MSC coach began his basketball career at the Oregon, Mo. High School. He captained AP Baseball ATLANTA-The Detroit Tigers got off to a five run lead in the first inning and hung on to beat the Atlanta Crackers of the South- ern Association 7-5 in an exhibi- tion game before 835 chilled fans yesterday. DALLAS, TEX.-Bobby Thom- son and Nap Reyes hit home runs yesterday as the New York Giants routed the Cleveland Indians, 5-1. Sheldon Jones went the route on the mound for the Giants, scattering nine hits. * * * COLUMBIA, S.C. - Boston's Braves, aided by clutch pitching of bonus lefthander Johnny An- tonelli, shut off a ninth inning rally by the Cincinnati Reds to win the opener of a northward exhibition tour 8-7 yesterday. Clague, Director of Bureau of La- bor Statistics; with the following campus men as chairmen: James P. Adams, provost; John A. Per- kins, assistant provost; R. P. Briggs, vice-president and John W. Lederle, associate professor of Po- litical Science. Reservations for luncheon and dinner should be made with Mr. Brennan, Bureau of Appointments. Choral Union Members are re- minded that a regular rehearsal will be held Tuesday evening, April 11. All members who are not out of the city are requested to attend at the usual hour, 7 p.m., Haven Hall. Members are also reminded that a state championship team and was named an all-state forward. In Chicago, Harold G. Olson, for 24 years basketball coach at Ohio State, was appointed basketball coach at Northwestern yesterday succeeding Arthur (Dutch) Lon- borg. OLSEN, WHO won five Big Ten basketball championships at Ohio State, left there in 1946 to be- come executive vice president and coach of the Chicago Stags in the Basketball Association of America, from which position he resigned a year ago. Lonborg recently resigned to become athletic director at the University of Kansas. Lonborg's duties as assistant football coach will be filled by Robert P. Reih- sen, Evanston Township High School football coach. The ap- pointments of Olsen and Reih- sen were announced by T. B. Payseur, Northwestern Athletic Director. Olsen has been prominent in basketball circles for a quarter century. He originated the Na- tional Collegiate Athletic Asso- ciation basketball tournament and is former chairman of the N.C.A.A. basketball committee. Thor Johnson will conduct re- hearsals on both Monday and Tuesday nights, April 17 and 18. Easter Sunrise Service, sponsor- ed by Inter Guild. Meet at Lane Hall at 6 a.m. to go to Arboretum. In case of bad weather, service will be at Lane Hall. Breakfast to fol- low. Group Discussion on Mysticism: Lane Hall, Mon., April 17, 4 p.m. Discussion leaders: Father Bradley of St. Mary's Sudent Chapel, and Dr. Boulding of the Economics De- partment. AIM Meeting: Council meeting, 7 p.m., Mon., April 17, Union. 1. Seniors! The netters ha the four Intra courts all wintc switch to the gr faces of Ferry F weather permits. DA] OFFI BULL (Continuedf ve performed on KIRCHER, a former assistant Lmural Building coach, succeeded Ben F. Van Al- er, but plan to styne, who was head basketball een Varsity sur- coach at Michigan State College Field as soon as for 23 years. Stalcup will coach the Spartans in their first basket- ILY CIAL ETIN from Page 2) eral Power Commission-A Criti- cal Analysis," 3 p'.m., Fri., April 7, 816 Business Administration Bldg. Chairman, W. A. Paton. Doctoral Examination for Ray- mond Clifford O'Rourke, Physics; thesis: "Theoretical Studies in Photoelasticity," 4 p.m., Fri., April 7, 2048 Randall. Chairman, W. A. Nierenberg. Applicants for Combined Curri- culums: Application for admission to a combined curriculum must be made before April 20 of the final preprofessional year. Application forms may be obtained now at 1010 Angell Hall and should be filed torium, followed by a group of songs by the Tudor Singers, May- nard Klein, conductor, in the Rackham Assembly Hall at 5:30. Dinner will be served the group at 7 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Ypsilanti, and at 8:30 two School of Music students, Patricia Baum- garten and William MacGowan, will present a program in St. Luke's Church. The three per- formances will be open to the public. Events't'oday University Museums Friday Eve- ning Program: Exhibits on display in the Museums building from 7 to 9 p.m. Moving pictures: "Baby Animals," "How Animals Move," and "The Fur Seal," 7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium; auspices of the University Museums, through the courtesy of the Audio-Visual Education Center. "Portraits of Michigan Mammals," by Richard P. Grossenheider, on exhibition in the rotunda, Museums building. sn i iltini I , f 1 1 f 1 9 Having a devil of finding a parking a time place? You'll be in heaven when you shop at t he o r , \ , , . . 11 The Ensian can fill I firN 11 I