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TURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945;

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

'PAGE THREE

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Grid Hopefuls

Will Play Saturday

NEWS + VIEWS + COMMENT
By BILL MUJLLENDORE, Daly Sports Editor
THE CASE of the mysterious Milan Lazetich seems finally to have been
settled with the University of Michigan's football team coming out
definitely on the short end of the deal.
Lazetich, who narrowly missed All-American honors as a freshman
tackle for the Wolverines last year, has been the subject of more con-j
troversial rumors than the death of Adolf Uitler since summer football
practice began last July.
Up until that time, it was generally assumed that Lazetch would.
be around for the coming season. At least, there was nothing to indi-
cate otherwise.
True enough, it was known that the former deputy sheriff from
Anaconda, Montana, was not in the best of physical condition even
while he turned in his excellent job in the Michigan line last fall.
The trouble was, reportedly, some sort of kidney ailment that made it
necessary for him to take the field swathed in tape, rubber pads, and
other protective paraphernalia.
Between the close of the spring semester and the opening of football
drills, Lazetich disappeared from the cambus. The story was that his
illness had taken a turn for the worse and that it was doubtful whether
he could play football for Michigan, or anybody else, this fall.
Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the report that "Laz" had signed
with the Cleveland Rams, entrant in the National Professional Football
League. That seemed to remove him from the picture as far as Michigan
was concerned.
SOURCES CLOSE to Lazetich, however, still maintain that he is much
too sick a man to play any sort of football for anybody. Yet, it hardly
seems likely that any professional outfit would sign a player without first
being sure that he would be available for duty this fall, especially since
pro footballers are on the scarce list right at the moment.
Terms of the contract that Lazetich signed with the Rams iwere not
disclosed. It has been rumored that he received a sizeable bonus for his
signature, which, if true, would make it seem queerer than ever if he
couldn't play football after all.o
So, although Michigan is definitely out of the picture, the case of
Mr. Lazetich remains as something of a puzzle. The final answer will
no doubt be found when the Rams open their season this fall.
If he is in condition, Lazetich can do the Rams ,or, any other team,
a lot of good. He is big, fast, aggressive, and likes to mix it up in the
line. He was far and away Michigan's best lineman last year, and could
have been again had he chosen to do so--if he was in good enough
physical shape to play ball at all.

A CHEER FROM THE BOSS-Dell Bissonette. (rear), new manager of
the Boston Braves, cheers on infielder Whitey Wietelmann as the latter
rounds third after hitting a home run in the ninth inning of a game
against the Giants at the Polo Grounds, New York City. Giants rallied
in their half of the inning to beat the Braves, 4 to 3.
Cubs, Yanks, and Indian Los
To Pirates Boston, W ie ox
Butcher Pitches Four-Hitter To Blank Cubs;
Bruin's Current Win Streak Stopped at Six

'Squad Will
See Action
InI Practicea
Most of Tryouts To
Play Before Coaches
Climaxing five weeks of summer
drill, the Wolverines' 1945 summer
football squad will play the first of
two scheduled intra-squad games this
Saturday at the Michigan Stadium.
Many To Play
More than half of the 97 grid can-
didates will probably see action, it
was revealed, as the Maize and Blue
coaches endeavor to get a line on
the makeup of the prospective var-
sity eleven.
Instead of breaking the squad into
well-coordinated playing units, the
men will be used interchangeably,
and the line and backfield combina- j
tions will be varied continuously,
"We're more interested in seeing how
the squad members are progressing
individually at this point," stated
Head Coach "Fritz" Crisler, "so we'll
try to use as many boys as possible
and use them in a number of combi-
nations to see how they react."
Discard Equipment
Preparing for the coming battles,
the young Wolverine hopefuls ran
through a comprehensive practice ses-
sion yesterday. Although they work-
ed out clad otly in T-shirts and run-
ning pants, a thorough review of the
lessons learned in the past five weeks
was held.
Forgetting body-contact and scrim-
mage drill for the day, the eager try-
outs concentrated on signal practice,
with emphasis on the passing and
deceptive phases of offensive tactics.
Ponsetto Leads List
TIhe list of squad members expected
to see considerable action in this
and next Saturday's clashes is led,
in the backfield division, by Joe Pon-
setto, quarterback-captain of the '45
crew. Howard Yerges, number two
"field general" of last year's eleven;
Bill Redmond, Navy student from
Kalamazoo. Mich.; George Hutter
and Howard Doty round out the com-
petitors for that position.ii
Outstanding in the fullback de-I
partment are James Foltz, George
Chiames and Dan Dworsky, while the
halfback contingent is dominated by
Pete Elliot, six-foot. 190pound Navy
trainee; Walt Teninga, scat-back
from Chicago, Ill.; Warren Bentz,
Henry Fonde, John Ott, Tom Im-
field and Wilbert Choisson.'
Watts, Lintol Look Good
Harold Watts, who alternated at
the center berth with John Lintol last
season, heads the roster of pivot-
men, while Lintol, Dominic Tomasi,
who starred at second base on the

PRACTICE PAYS OFF-hank Greenberg, slugging Detroit Tiger left-
fielder, takes his turn in the batting cage as two of his teammates look
a on. Greenberg came through with his fourth homer, driving one man
in ahead of him, in the eighth frame of yesterday's St. Louis game.
DU ]I I StyLoNuis, -8
On Cullenbine' s T Bge
Error by Stephens Allows Winning Run To
Cross IPhate; Five Homers Belted in Slugfest
Compiled from Associated Press Dispatches
DETROIT, Aug. 1--Roy Cullenbine's ninth' inning double with the
bases loaded scored three runs and Cullenbine raced across the plate on
Vern Stephens' wild throw to bring the Detroit Tigers a hard-earlned 9 to 8
victory today over the St. Louis Browns in a slugfest.
Lou Finney, making his first appearance in the St. Louis lineup after
his purchase from Boston, belted a grand slam homer as the Browns batted

;.;

CHICAGO, Aug. 1-P)-Chunky
Max Butcher of the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates, yielding only four hits, blanked
the first-place Chicago Cubs, 1-0, to
snap the Bruins' latest win string at
six and hand the pace-setters their
second shut-out of the season.
Frank Colman, replacing the slump-
ing Babe Dahlgren at first base for
the Pirates, broke up a brilliant
mound duel between Butcher and
Claude Passeau with a long double
to center scoring Jim Russell from
first in the seventh inning with the
game's only tally.
Passeau gave way to a pinch-hitter
in the eighth after allowing four hits
and was charged with his fourth de-
feat against 11 victories.
Big Max struck out only three, but
his final victim was Bill Nicholson in
the ninth inning after Don Johnson
had singled. Johnson stole second
on Nicholson's whiff, but Phil Cavar-
retta lined out to left to end the
game.
Pittsburgh .....000 000 100-1 5 0
Chicago .......000 000 000-0 4 0
Boston Beats Yanks
BOSTON, Aug. 1-(R)-New York's
five game winning streak came to an
end today when the Boston Red Sox
rallied for four runs in the seventh
inning to defeat the Yankees 7-5.
The Yankees got off to a four run
lead at the expense'of pitcher Jim
Wilson in the second inning, climaxed
by pitcher Floyd Bevens' first Major
League home run, with two mates
.aboard. After the visitors tallied an-
other in the top of the third, Eddie
Lake accounted for Boston's first run,
with his ninth homer.
Trailing 5-3 in the seventh, the Sox
drove Bevens off the mound and con-
tinued their rally against Jim Turn-
er. Skeeter Newsome's two-run double
tied the game and Bob Garbark's
single drove in Dolph Camilli with
the winning run. Johnson, himself,
followed with a long fly, to bring in
the last score.
New York.. ..041 000 000-5 4 1
Boston ........002 010 40x-7 12 1
Sox Lick Cleveland, 2-1
CLEVELAND, Aug. 1 - (M) - The
Chicago White Sox moved into fifth
place today, defeating the Cleveland
Indians 2 to 1 as Leroy Schalk scored
on Floyd Baker's squeeze play in the
ninth inning.
Steve Gromek absorbed his sixth
loss of the season as he fell victim
to Ed Lopat, Chicago left hander.
The Pale Hose scored in the fourth
as Schalk's double to left field plated
Kerby Farrell. The Indians evened
things in the seventh when Pat See-
rey clouted a four-baser with none
oan.
In the ninth after Schalk and John-
ny Dickshot singled, Baker bunted

and, the squeeze play scored
and sent Dickshot to second.
Chicago collected five hits ax
Indians ,seven.
Chicago ........000 100 001-,
Cleveland. .....000 000 100-:

EGAD ! WRONG AGAIN !
Whitney Martin Reviews His
Pre-Season Baseball Guesses
By WHITNEY MARTIN
Associated Press Columnist
NEW YORK, Aug. 1-UP)--For our own amazement we were just
checking over a list of predictions we made before the current baseball sea-
son staxted, and we're slightly bewildered in discovering how wrong a guy
apparently in his right mind can be.
We predicted Bill McKechnie would get some good games out of the
pitching relics in the Red museum. He has, but not enough, so we're not too
far wrong on that one.

C'isler Speaks,
Before Men's
Education Club
University athletic director and
head -football coach H. O. "Fritz"
Crisler last night told the Men's Edu-
cation Club how he had changed his
fundamental coaching philosophy
over the past 15 years.
Discussing "Experiences in Athlet-
ics," Crisler explained, "At first, I
considered the athlete solely in the
light of what he could do for the
team."
"Experience has taught me that,
the coach's basic premise should not
center around what the athlete could
do for the squad, but rather what the
coaches could do for the individual."
"If the player can be aided, Michi-
gan or any university will win a fair
share of its games," he declared. The
attitude of helping the boy is funda-
mental in player-coach relations."
Great Lakes Wins

around in the fifth to scor'e five runs
and chase Paul (Dizzy) Ti'out.
Many Homers
IThe Tigers bounced back with two
runs in the fifth on Eddie Mayo's
home run, another in the sixth on
Rudy York's drive into the left field
seats and two more in the eighth on
Hank Greenberg's fourth homer,
Two passes by .relief pitcher Zeb
Eaton followed by Nelson Potter's
third single scored the Browns' sixth
run in the eighth and Gene Moore's
two-run homer made it 8-5 going into
the Tiger ninth.
Borom Pinch-Hits
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BOX SCORE

It seemed to us that Ernie Lon-
bardi and Bill Nicholson were due
to battle it oiat for the National
League home run championship.
Lombardi with 15, is right up there
in the home run race, but it looks
like Nicholson won't battle anyone
for the crown. He's been anything
but a ball of fire this year.
We thought Leo Durocher would
play 75 games for the Brooklyn Dod-
gers. That was a clean miss. He
won't play 75 games of gin rummy.
We were pretty sure Larry Mc-
Phail would explode after a quiet
start with the Yankees, but that he'd
better not explode in Joe McCarthy's
face. He exploded all right, and not
in McCarthy's face, as far as we
know.
That the Cards would be leading
by six games by July 4 seemed a
cinch, with the American League
race closer than this all season.
Dead wrong on the first, right on
the second so far. About the only
thing the Cards were leading by
six games July 4 was the Phils.
We also thought that the only
thing of pre-war quality in the Ma-
jors would be the umpiring, and pos-
sibly the managing. Right for the
most part, although there are some
individual exceptions among the
players, notably Boo Ferriss.
On past performance it seemed
that Joe Medwick would be avail-
able to the Giants only at inter-
vals. That was right, as he was in
and out of the lineup until finally
sent to Boston.
After their sensational season last
year, it seemed that Hal Newhouser
and Dizzy Trout would be due for a
natural letdown and do well to win
35 games between them this season.
That seems to be wrong. Forty-five
would be closer.
We predicted Branch Rickey would
have to stuff his ears with. cotton if
the Dodgers got away to a poor start
BULLETIN!
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 1-(lP)
-Blooper-Ball Bobo Newson's per-
sonal winning streak of five games
was snapped tonight as Washington
defeated Philadelphia in both ends
of a doubleheader, 2-1 and 3-0.
The victories moved the .Senators

and the fans started yowling at him.
The Dodgers got away to a good
start and the fans have laid off the
Deacon, so you can't tell about that
one.
We thought the one player Mnost
missed by a team would be Dick
Wakefield of the Tigers. We're in-
clined to hedge on that one now.
We think the loss of Stan .Musial
was a greater blow to the Cards.
On Minor League performance, we
believed the Cardinals' Albert Schoen-
dienst would be the top National
League rookie. That may not be too

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far wrong. The guy is good., a VV - HArTt FLDr Wll n' g hom03
A great admirer of Bucky Walters, --Shortstop Larry Whallen's home
we predicted he again would win 20 run and catcher Walker Cooper's
games and stand the Cardinals on single which scored outfielder Max
their ears. Probably wrong on both Marshall for the second. of two runs'
counts on that one. in the eighth inning gave the Great
All of which means it's a lot sim- Lakes Blue-jackets an 8 to 7 tri-
pler to forecast something easy, like umph over Chanute Field today.
the day and hour and minute a war Great Lakes . . .021 111 020-8 14 21
will end. Chanute Field .104 010 100-7 12 3
OD TIs Agint oune

Wolverine baseball team; and Joe j Pinch-hitter Ed Borom led off with
Soboleski lead the field of hopefuls a single but was forced at second by
for the guard assignment. Chuck Hostetler. Hubby Walker drew
Ed Bahlow and Don Hershberger a pass and Al Hollingsworth became
stand out in the end division, while the third St. Louis pitcher, walking
the promising tackle candidates ap- Mayo to fill the bases. Cullenbine
pear to be George Johnson, Al Wah, bounced a double off 'the left-center
Jim Rehberger, Bob Callahan and field fence, took third on Stephens'
Gene Hinton. throw to the plate and scored the
winning run as the ball bounced
through catcher Mike Hayworth.
a or Lea ie Frank (Stubby) Overmire, who
Major ag ;gave three hits and two runs in the
St. Louis ninth inning, was the win-
Standings ; ning pitcher and Hollingsworth the
loser.
Homers Net 11 Runs
NATIONAL LEAGUE Altogether the five home runs ac-
TEAMS W LPct. GB counted for 11 of the game's 17 runs
!Chicago ..........58 33 .637 ...-six for the Browns and five for the
Brooklyn.........53 39 .576 512 Tigers.
*St. Louis .. ......55 41 .573 5Td 'h
Pittsburgh. ........50 46 .521 1012 The Browns didn't have a hitoff
*New York. .........50 47 .515 11 Trout until they ganged up on the
*Cincinnati ......42 48 .467 15' I big Tiger righthander for six in a
*Boston...42 52 .447 171 row in the fifth as they staged their
Philadelphia.......26 70 .271 34 3five -run spree.
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Detroit trailed all the way to the
Pittsburgh 1, Chicago 0 sudden climax but tagged Potter for
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, post- 10nhits in seven innings and added
poned, rain, one each off George Caster and Hol -
e, .lingsworth.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Trout yielded six hits in a 4 1 3 in-
TEAMS W L Pct. GB nings; Eaton gave three in 3 2/3 and
Detroit ...........52 36 .591 Overmire three in one.
New York ........47 41 .5.4 5
*Washington ......45 41 .523 6
Boston ...........47 42 .522 6
Chicago ..........45 45 .500 8
Cleveland ..:.....44 45 .494 8_ _ _ _ _
St. Louis... 4.2 45 .483 91 er e oCtt in modern' oolz
*Philadelphia ......30 56 .349 21 NOW
*Does not include - twilight and
night games. LOVE SET TO MUSIC
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS tAND FUN
Detroit 9, St. Louis 8.
Chicago 2, Cleveland 1. FOR ALL!
Boston 7, New York 5.
Philadelphia at Washington, in-d
complete. 4* L1 ('I

ST. LOUISA
Gutteridge, 2b .,. . .
Finney, If. ....... .
McQuinn, 1b.......
S ephens, ss. .. .. . .
Moore, rf.........
Christman, 3b.
Byrnes, cf........
Hayworth, c......
Potter, p...........
Caster, p. ........
Hollingsworth, p. . .
TOTALS .........
y-One out when
scored.
DETROITA
W ebb, ss. .........
Walker, zzz........
Mayo, 2b. .........
Cullenbine, rf. ....
Greenberg, lf. ....
Cramer, cf. .......
York, Ib.........
Maier,3b.........
Swift, c..........
Borom ..,......... .
Trout, p..........
Eaton, p.........
Overmire, p.......
Hostetler.........
Hoover............

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1-()-The
Office of Defense Transportation to-
day told professional football to hur-
ry up with reductions in its 1945
travel schedule.
The agency also announced disap-
proval of the National Amateur Fed-
eration Baseball Tournament at
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Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 8-16 involv-
ing about 400 players.
In disapproving the Amateur Base-
ball Tournament, the ODT figured
it would use 286,400 passenger miles
which could be utilized in the rede-
ployment program.
A wire of disapproval was sent to
L. A. Beeghly, President of the
Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.
The ODT said 20 teams of 20 play-
ers each are entered.
Beeghly recently wrote the ODT
saying that "We assure you that the
only transportation facilities required
will be those to bring the teams to
Youngstown."
Michigan teams in the meet are:
Detroit, Dearborn, Battle Creek, Pon-
tiac, Royal Oak and Flint.

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