TURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945; THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'PAGE THREE . . ......... . ................. . . . -- -.- ---- -.- ---77 -'. 71 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 1-1-., Ta o ... eu .V ..1 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 j 1 l 1 (, ------ ----- - - ICHANUTE FIELD, Ill, Aug. 1--UP) 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............ 3 0 4 5 4 4 4 4 3 1 2 0 1 .0 AB RHPOA .5 1 1 2 3 5 1 1 2 1 4 1 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 3 4 1. 1 2 4 3 1 1 3 0 4 1 1 4 0 4 1 3 0 1 0 0 0" 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 8 12y25 12 winning run ABR HPO;A 3 0 2 6 2 3 8 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS.......36 9 12 27 10 Continuous from 1 P.M. C OL! Week Days 30c to 5 P.M. 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 CLASSIFI ED DIRECTORY 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. Slacks S.ummer 3.95 to 8695, CLASSIFIED RATES $ .40 per 15-word insertion for one or two days. (In- crease of cl fordeach additional five words.) Non-Contract $1.00 per 15-word insertion for three of more days. (In- crease of 25c for each additional five words.) Contract Rates on Request I AROUND THE CLOCK WITH WPAG Jane POWELL Ralph BELLAMY Constance MOORE Morton GOULD LIONEL 4 GLORIA BARRYMORE "DeHAVEN' AND 'p - '! N. THURS., AUG. 2, 1945 Eastern War Time 7:00-News. 7:05-Morning Round-up. 11:00-News. 11:05-Piano Moods. 11:15-Listen Ladies. 11:30-Farm & Home Hour. 12:00-News. 2:45-Baseball' Brevities. 2:55-Baseball (St. Louis at Det.) 5:00--News. 5:05-Music for Listening. i I I