FRIDAY, APRIL , 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE M'Nine Loos for First in Today Against Iow rkci-Two Winless Squads Meet at Iowa City * * * * * Illini, Boilermaker RacqueteersToT Gl, Wolverine Consecutive Victory Skein Hetzeck-Bradley Duel Looms Highlight of Initial League Tilt PETE AND YOGI: Father, Coach Key to Palmer's Success Michigan hits the road for its first conference tennis action of the season today and tomorrow with matches at Illinois and Pur- due. The Illini, with a veteran-stud- ded squad, may well give the Wol- verines their most rugged test of the season. ** * LAST SEASON Michigan defeat- ed Illinois, 7-2. for one of their finest dual victories of the season. But when conference time rolled around, the Illini used their pow- There still remain open a few positions for freshmen in- terested in becoming sophomore football managers for the 194 season. If interested, report to Ferry Field any afternoon after 3:00, --,Lee Stock er in the number five and six posi- tions to shade the Wolverines jor second position in the champion- ships. Captain Al Hetzeck will come up against his last season's an- tagonist, smooth-stroking Son- ny Bradley, in what should be a great match. Hetzeck beat Bradley, 6-3, 6-2 in their 1950 meeting. Two Wolverine first-year varsity men will face acid tests when Jack Smart and Gene Barrack meet a pair of seasoned veterans, Bob Bennorth and Jim Moses, in the number three and five singles. only holdover{ STEVE BROMBERG, Michi- gan's only holdover other than Hetzeck, will also face strong op- position in Gene Buwick, who play- ed number three last season and moved up to number two this year. The Illini have won their only previous match, an 8-1 conquest of Washington University of St. Louis last week. Michigan's traveling squad, that left Ann Arbor yesterday for the long ride to Champaign-Urbana, consists of Captain Hetzeck, Brom- berg, Smart, Mike Schwartz, Bar- rack, and Bob Curhan. AFTER THE ILLINI clash, the netmen will move over to West Lafayette, Ind., tomorrow to meet Purdue's mediorce aggregation. The Boilermakers have never been a power in Big Ten tennis, and are not figured to stir up much dust this season. By GENE MACKEVICH' Good teaching can, lead to a success story. * Pete Palmer, Michigan's number one catcher for the past two cham- pionship seasons, attributes a great deal of his baseball knowledge and know-how to his two favorite in- structors: baseball coach Ray Fish- er and his father, who at one time was a sports great in his own right.- * * * WHEN PETE was attending' Park High School in Indianapolis, Ind., his greatest baseball tutor and most ardent fan was his father, who, incidentally, was a math teacher at this boys' school. Pete received nine high school letters: three each in baseball, football, and basketball. His father constantly guided him along his baseball career. "Dad would change me from sec- ond base to third, and then send me out Into the outfield," he said. "But finally, he made a catcher-out of me. Dad would always tell me that a team is 1 only as good as its catcher. "In my sophomore year at Mich-r igan, coach Ray Fisher picked mec up and began to make me think k +k < ATTENTION MR. CRISLER! Survey Shows TV Aids Grid Crowds v By E: A. WHIPPLE "Television of football contests is good for grid attendance," claim the boys who "ought to know," the Radio-Television Manufacturers' Association. This organization parlayed a cash output into a comprehensive survey called "The Long Range Ef- fects of Television and Other Fact- ors on Sports Attendance" which was published last year, and offers some eye-opening information to those who believe that TV slashes grid crowds. THE SURVEY concludes that a higher percentage of schools in TV areas than in non-TV areas increased attendance in 1948 in the Western Conference area. How- ever, the industrialists charitably admit that this was probably due to better performances. Also, there is no indication that television hurts small col- lege or high school attendance. Of the 31 schools surveyed in the Midwest TV areas, 20 increas- ed crowds in 1949, and 11 decreas- ed. The 17 colleges in the non-TV sections did equally well-eleven increased and six decreased. * * * HENCE THERE seems to be little argument for any change in the unrestrained television of. games by the Western Conference in 1949. However, a slight fly creeps into the rosy unlimited TV oint- ment with the survey's declara- tion that there occurs a tempor- ary decrease in football attend- ance by persons in their first year of television ownership. But, all is well again after the novelty wears off, according to the manufacturers, by showing that attendance returns to normal in about one year. S* * * AND, HOLD ONTO your lids, owners of two or more years have higher attendance than non-own- ers. To support these conclusions, a poll of 3,000 1949 University of Pennsylvania grid fans revealed the following: 39 per cent of new owners go to games frequently; 40 per cent of non-owners, and 46 per cent of TV owners of more than a season go to games often. This temporary loss in attend- ance among new buyers, indicated by the public opinion surveys, is not reflected in national attend- ance statistics. ti c a ri it b IA n e p n c PETE PALMER ...veteran backstop * * * baseball." Since he has been "thinking" baseball, Pete has done rather well for himself as a first class Wolverine receiver. * * * HE ENTERED Michigan in Sep- tember, 1947. His first year on campus he won football numerals and at the decision of his coaches returned to the gridiron the follow- ing spring instead of going out for baseball. During his sophomore year, the backstop from Indianapolis played football, basketball, and baseball. He held down a varsity quarterback position in the fall, and received J-V numerals dur- ing the basketball season. In the spring, Palmer finally went out for baseball. Fisher recog- nized him as a young, inexperienc- ed receiver with a great deal of potentiality. He was promptly made the team's second string catcher, behind Harold "Tubby" Raymond, now football coach at the University of Maine. * * * THE FOLLOWING year he con- centrated on baseball, which has always been his favorite , sport. That season he batted fifth in the lineup, hit .340-which was one percentage point behind the team batting champ, Gerry Dorr- and had 11 RBI's to his credit. Now, as a senior, the six foot, 195 pound blond is looking for his finest Wolverine season. Pal- mer hopes to be able to improve on his 1950 rating when he was selected on the second string all- Big Ten team. Pete's greatest sports thrill came last October when the Wolverines met Army in Yankee Stadium. "They led us down a long passage- way to what I thought would be some out - of - the - way dressing room," he began. "But to my com- plete surprise they assigned us lockers belonging to the Yankees. I sat in front of one with the name of Yogi Berra on it. Yes, Yogi and I shared the same locker . . . and he gets $30,000 a year," he con- cluded. A "PHYS-ED" MAJOR, Palmer hopes to become a major leaguer some day. He maintains that hav- ing a professional baseball contract is like getting a doctors degree in some other profession. When ask- ed which major league team he would most like to play for, the big blond quietly answered: "Any one of the 16 would be fine." This year's pitching staff, for the most part, is young and inex- perienced. But Coach Fisher is con- fident that Palmer has learned how to handle these pitchers well and as many know, it is the catcher who is largely responsible for a pitcher's effectiveness or lack of it. But Coach Fisher firmly believes -as do many others-that this season his pitchers will be in good hands. By BOB LANDOWNE Merlin Kurt, a returning sen- Fisher will send Bob Larsen Victoryless in their curtailed ior, seems to be Coach Otto the mound today to give the ] initial home stand, Michigan's Vogel's only choice for the first hander his second conferm baseball squad will invade Iowa base position. start. 'Five other hurlers City today and tomorrow for a Michigan Coach Ray Fisher al- traveling with the teambut.S two game series in which both the so has a few problems as indicated urday's starter is still somew Hawkeyes and the Wolverines will by the recent slumping of. his of a questionmark, be looking for their first confer- charges,FrnHoelwlgtth wThird place finishers in 1950, THE INJURY to Al Weygandt in center field and some shuff Iowa also has an 0-2 record in Big will only add to his woes which will have to be done in case W Ten play this year as a result of a seem to center around the lack gandt can not play at first. double loss to Northwestern last of hitting evident in the Illinois Bill Mogk may be Weygar weekend in Evanston, series when they were able to * * * gather only- a total of seven hits, replacement, leaving Gil Sabuc THE HAWKEYES had previ- Weygandt has made the trip second, or Pete Palmer may r ously lost to the weatherman two to Iowa City but his ability to first giving Line Painter a cha games with Illinois, twice conquer- start is still doubtful, at handling the catching dutie ors of Michian. Iowa has nine returning let- termen from last year, which. includes three pitchers, their en- ORUY FOR NOW - OR FOR NEXT FALL tire outfield, captain and catch- er John Dinzole, as well as ex- perienced first and third base- men. Their mound corps is led by grid quarterback, Glenn Drahn, who had a 4-0 conference record last year, and he is supported by OUR ENTIRE STOCK two senior lefthanders, Bruce OF HIGH EST QUAL I TY Marsh and Dick Orth. THEIR OUTFIELD is well pa- Topcoats trolled by a trio of seniors, George Hand, who bats cleanup, in left, Rex Vana in center and Charlie Cebuhar in right. 2&0% The latter two have been con- siderably weak at the plate so far this year and may be re--OFF placed by Duane Brandt who is batting .370 to date and Frank REG. $35 Bok, occasionally used against COATS . 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