M ntra-Squad Game THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE To Mark End of Grid Practice Scrimmage Will Stress Individual Development! Assistant Coaches Take Over as Crisler Leaves for Western Conference Meeting Michigan's 1945 football squad will wind up five weeks of intensive practice Saturday with an intra- squad game in the Stadium which will test its progress during summer drills. As many men as possible will be used in the game, according to Head Coach H. 0. (Fritz) Crisler, who will not be on hand for the scrimmage. Individual rather than team devel- opment will be emphasized, he point- ed out, as the squad will not be di- vided into separate units, but will appear as varying combinations. Cirisler Will Be Absent In the absence of Crisler, who leaves tomorrow to attend a Western Conference coaches' and officials' meeting in Evanston Friday and Sat- urday, Line Coach "Biggie" Munn, End Coach Bennie Oosterbaan, and BackfieldCoach Earl Martineau will be in charge of the squad. They will be assisted by Art Valpey, who has charge of the junior varsity. Crisler explained that the speed which was lacking among the top candidates earlier in the summer is in greater evidence now, and that the game Saturday will be the first good chance for the coaches to see the ex- tent of the improvement. Yesterday's practice emphasized MOSELEY TYPEWRITER CO. COMPLETE REPAIR AND REBUILDING SERVICE place-kicking for both field goals and pcints after touchdown, with Capt. Joe Ponsetto and Bob Callahan do- ing the booting. Offensive drills were stressed early in the afternoon, and the top players lined up for a scrimmage later. Ott is Backfield Candidate John Ott, Traverse Ciy halfback, appeared among the leading back- field candidates this week for the first time. No other changes in per- sonnel, however, have taken place recently. Saturday's game, which is open to the public, will begin around 2:30 p. m. EWT (1:30 p. m. CWT) and will be free. Another intra-squad game at the Stadium is scheduled for the following Saturday, and will con- clude summer practices. Recent Heat Wave Helps Get Hinton Into Condition Gene Hinton, a candidate for a tackle position on Michigan's 1945 football team, is probably the only person in Ann Arbor who is thankful for the recent heat wave. Hinton, who reported for practice last month carrying around some 260 pounds of avoirdupois, was or- dered to reduce, but quick. Setting his goal at 220 pounds, the big boy from Drumright, Oklahoma, has come within 15 pounds of his mark, thanks to a combination of heat, diet, and hard work. SPOUTS s NEWS + VIEWS + COMMENT By BILL MULLENDORE, Daly Sports Editor FIVE YEARS OF WAR have just about turned Major League baseball upside down, in more ways than one. Besides the admitted deteriora- tion in quality and the evident lack of first class teams in either circuit, the war has produced another phenomenon that is becoming more pro- nounced every day. Traditionally speaking, the American League has always been known as a hitters' paradise. By and large the sluggers tended to congregate in the Junior Loop. Production of extra-base hits, fancy batting averages, and large clusters of runs was the keynote of American League baseball. The National League, on the other hand, has always been considered a pitchers' league. Where the American Leaguers depended on their heavy hitters to win ball games, their brothers in arms resorted to a tighter, less offensive type of play with the emphasis on pitchers' battles and strategy.' ALL THAT, for the time being at least, has been reversed. This year it is the National League that has produced the hitters, and the American League, the pitchers. The Nationals are slugging as they have never slugged before, pounding out hits and producing runs at a furious rate. tOn the other side of the fence, the American Leaguers have found the pitchers much tougher than the hitters. Never in recent years has the National League produced so many slugfests or the American so many close ball games. Statistics over the first half of the season bear out the change and suggest in some measure its completeness. The Chicago Cubs, Na- tional League leaders at the moment, lead the loop in team batting with a very respectable team batting average of .284. The Cubs have scored 441 runs in 89 games, making 872 hits, 195 of them for extra bases. On the other hand the American League leading Detroit Tigers boast a very puny .241 team mark for 85 games. The Bengals have pushed only 288 runs over the plate on 682 hits, 157 of them extra-base knocks. The difference is readily apparent. As a matter of fact, every National League club, including the peren- nially futile Philadelphia Phillies, is hitting at a faster pace than the Tigers. Six Senior Circuit outfits have done better at the plate than the Boston Red Sox, who lead the American League in team batting with a mark of .266. As a league, the National League is hitting a creditable .268 to the American League's .250. fHE NATIONAL LEAGUE, as a league, has scored 3,446 runs on 6,816 hits, including 1,104 doubles, 211 triples, and 344 home runs. Com- parably, the American League has scored 2,535 runs on 5,812 hits, including 869 doubles, 185 triples, and only 222 homers. The differences are great enough to be significant. Individual leaders in the various phases of battin-g also follow the same trend. Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves leads the National League with a .371 average. Aging Tony Cuccinello of the Chicago White Sox tops the Junior Circuit at .325. The gulf continues all the way down to the lowliest batsman in each loop. Dixie Walker has batted in 84 runs for the Brooklyn Dodgers to lead his league in that department. Bob Johnson of the Boston Red Sox enjoys the same distinction in the American League with a mere 55 RBI's. Here again the difference shows up all the way down the list. N THE MATTER of home runs thing's are a little closer. Holmes leads the National League with 16, as compared to Vern Stephen's 14 in the American. But total production in the American League has lagged 'way behind, as was previously pointed out. Several factors may account for the difference. The American League boasts superior pitching for one thing. The Nationals have no trio of hurlers to match Dave Ferriss of the Red Sox, and Hal Newhouser and Al Benton of the Detroit Tigers. Only four National League pitchers have won ten games or more, while seven American hurlers have done the trick. The American League moundsmen have fewer earned runs, more strikeouts, fewer bases on balls, and, of course, fewer runs scored and hits made off their offerings. But pitching alone probably does not account for the difference com- pletely. Apparently the effect of the draft has been to drain off American League hitters and National League '> pitchers and thus create this anom-I alous situation. Perhaps after the war, when these stars return to ac- CLA SSIFIE D tion, the old equilibrium will come back again. But the change has pro- IY duced some interesting results, be ER sides destroying for a time at least an old tradition. I Crisler Predicts Bright Future For Returning War Veterans HANK BOROWY .. .now with NL leaders Elliot Leads in Golf Tournev With 76 Qualifying rounds in the True- blood Cup tournament ended Sun- day with 14 entrants making the grade for the playoff matches, which will end Aug. 26. Low score in the preliminaries went to Pete Elliot, Navy man who is also a leading candidate for a back- field birth on the grid squad. Elliot shot a 76, while his closest competi- tor, Hank Zimmerman, came through with a 78. Of the 14 qualifiers, only three men, Elliot, Bob Wolford, and Keith Harder, a basketball regular, are Navy men. The other 11 entrants are civilians. One match per week is the quota for each golfer, according to Golf Coach Bill Barclay, who added that every player is asked to contact the Golf Course immediately in order to obtain the phone number of his op- ponent. Elliot and Zimmerman drew a bye in the first round, but the 12 other qualifiers have been paired. In the opening matches, Bob Schwartz will meet Henry DeMarco, Alden Johnson will play Wolford, King Weeman has been paired with Bob Stuckwich, Bob Springer will meet Harder, Har- vy Hubar will tangle with A. W. Se- gune, and George Koskinas will face Gilbert Shubert. Ex-servicementin postwar college as enthusias athletics, even though battle-testedan rsm veterans, will be as intense and en- any freshm thusiastic in competition as today's War Has He 17-year-olds, in the opinion of H. O. If anythir (Fritz) Crisler, athletic coach and experience 1- head football coach at the Univer- terest and ke sity of Michigan. Speaking Crisler disagrees with some coach- coach belie es and educators who believe that will be won returning veterans, especially those on mistakes who have undergone extensive com- More matu bat duty, will have become cynical squads and x or blase about "the old college try." make for i: "Of course, the mock heroics are "The older out for those fellows," Crisler said. on their toe, "But they were out before the war, "the kind o: anyway. I do believe, however, that may be grei returning veterans will be real boost- work hard." ers of college athletics and morale builders rather than debunkers." Veterans Well Represented VICTO He pointed to his own 1945 summer Your hair practice squad of 97 men as an ex- co ( ample. 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