Sunckry, April 8, 1945
THE NEBRASKAN
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With the start of the major
league baseball season only a
week and a half away, the vari
ous clubs are in the home stretch
of their training period. The hold
outs are signing and the sore arm
pitchers are right back where they
were last year. In fact, the be
ginning is in sight.
Like all the rest of the Monday
fluarterbacks and bleacher mana
gers I like to indulge in a little
guessing as to the results of the
league races.
I'll start off with the National
league just because it is the old
est. Here is my opinion on the
way the teams will finish; I'll just
pick the first four teams, you can
put in the also rans.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
1. Chicago Cabs.
2. St. Louis Cards.
3. New York Giants.
4. Philadelphia Phils.
I think the Cubs will slip into
first because of their all veteran
team, especially their infield cen
tered around Phil Cavaretta at
first and old reliable Stan Hack at
third. Hack has always been the
best hot corner man in the busi
ness for my money and I think in
the year of sparseness he will
stand out even more. The Cubs'
biggest threat, however, is big Bill
Nicholson, their slugging right
fielder. Bill has led the National
league in both homers and runs
batted in for the last two years, a
record in league history. As long
as they have him, the Cubs should
come out on top.
The Cards have lost too many
of their leading hitters to keep
up with the Cubs. The loss of
Stan Musial will be a big blow to
the Cards. The Giants, too, have
a veteran team but don't have the
pitchers to keep up.
The black horse of the bunch
will be the Phillies. The Phils
have a bunch of youngsters, old
sters, and don't seem to "mess with
mister in between." There is my
opinion of the National league.
I'll tackle the American league
right now.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
1. Detroit Tigers.
2. St. Louis Browns.
3. New York Yankees.
4. Cleveland Indians.
The Tigers have the best pitch
Ine staff in the league with New
houser and the infamous Dizzy
Trout. These two boys won a
total of sixty games, and this year
are liable to win more, even tho
the Bengals have lost Dick Wake
field and Pinky Higgins. The
Browns with just about the same
team as last year will be threat
ening all the way and might come
out on top.
The Yanks will have a powerful
ball club as. if and when they
sicn all their holdouts. If not
they will iust have a mediocre
club. The Indians are the best
of the poor five of the American
league.
Well, there it is .take it or leave
it, but we are all entitled to our
own opinions.
The recent WMC ruling that a
lows baseball players to quit war
jobs to play baseball should help
considerably.
Previously ball players who
went into essential jobs at the end
of last season would have been
classified as job jumpers if they
attempted to return to baseball
without special permission of the
United State Employment Service.
Essential Notes.
At the same time, WMC chief
Taul V. McNutt gave baseball a
note of essentiality when he said,
"There is considerable evidence
that baseball adds to the morale
on the home front in war time."
Perhaps this will be just the
boost baseball needs to get it over
the war period. This year is go
ing to be the erucial one for base
ball. If all the teams manage to
struggle thru this season . the
chances are that next season will
not be so tough. The saying,
"The calm before the storm" can
also be applied backwards, I
HOPE.
Twenty ISC
Cindermen Go
Former Football
Star Assumes
African Post
Mai. Edward E. "Blue" Howell,
former university football star
and one-time coach at Yale, Kan
sas State and Louisiana State, has
been appointed commandant of
the non-commissioned officer's!
school at Fedala m French Mo
roc co.
The school is used to train key
personnel of the North African
division of the air transport com'
mand for the part they are to
play after the collapse of Ger
many.
Major Howell played football
for the university from 1926 to
1924.
EBttFQiriZSB'QlQ
The I-M softball season starts
(tomorrow and continues on Tues
day. The games:
MONDAY, APRIL 9.
1. Zips vs. Sig Eps.
2. Phi Gams vs. ATO's
TUESDAY, APRIL 10.
1. Betas vs. Si No's.
2. Sir Chi's vs. Theta XI
All eames will begin promtply
at 5 p. m, and all teams should be
Signs
To Iowa City
AMES, la., April 7. Coach
George Bretnall has named 18 of
the 20 Cyclone cindermen who
will travel to Iowa City Saturday
for the triangular meet with Mis
souri and the Iowa Seahawks in
the University of Iowa fieldhouse.
Two more men are to be chosen
for the trip to fill in competition
in the various events. Bretnall
held time trials on the Cyclone
indoor track to pick men to fill
out the squad.
According to pre-meet informa
tion, the mile run and the shot
put will be featured events at the
Iowa City meet. Missouri will
have Quirk and Bangert in the
shot event and the Seahawks will
enter Schleich, former Nebraska
Big Six champion, in that event.
Quirk is the present Big Six
champion and record holder.
Bangert holds the outdoor shot
record and the national A.A.U.
indoor" record.
The mile event will feature Bill
Arlen, Cyclone runner who has
annexed two indoor champion
ships in that event and has two
legs on the Glenn Cunningham
trophy. Running against Arlen
will be Reed, pre-flight miler who
was formerly with Southern
California, and Quinn, Missouri
mile star.
So far, Bretnall has named the
following men for the trip: Mile
run, Arlen, DeKalb and Hart; 70
yard dash, Wagner, Howard, Lar
sen and McCauslin; 440 yard dash,
Roland and Alexander; high' hur
dles, Moorman; two mile run,
Arlen and Deane; half mile, Jones
and Burroughs; low hurdles,
Moorman and Wagner: pole vault.
Belt; high jump, Lovell and Foy;
broad jump, Clark, Foy and
Larsen; shotput, Rawson.
The meet will be run on the
220 yard track in the University
of Iowa fieldhouse starting at 2:30
Saturday afternoon.
John Hopp
With Cardinals
Centerfielder John Hopp of
Hastings, Neb., recently signed a
contract with the St. Louis- Car
dinals, world champions of last
year, completing the 1945 roster
of the ball club. Hopp and pitcher
Harry Breechen signed Frida;
Major J. E. Stockman
Addresses Home Ec Club
Major J. E. Stockman, chaplain
at the Lincoln Air Base, will ad
dress the Home Economics club
Thursday evening on "The Re-
turned Veteran." This is a mass
meeting of the Home Economics
club and will be held in
306 Ag hall at 7:30 p. m. Helen
Mortenson and Lucille Manning
are in charge of the program.
FlightTraining
School
Flirht lessons arranged at the
Union Air Terminal by ap
pointment Night classes for
rround school instruction.
2415 O Street Phono 6-2885
or 2-6124.
Lincoln Airplane tf
Flying School
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lent service they get when
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on the field by 4:50. Any team
falling to appear by 5 will forfeit
their game.
The first baseball game will
be played on Thursday, April 12,
with A toam (barbs) playing team
B (Xi Psi Phi, Sig Alph, Phi
Delt, Sig Nu, Phi Psi, Sig Chi).
The game will begin at 4:45, and
the same rules of appearance will
apply to the baseball teams as to
the softball teams.
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history at the University of Wis
consin and noted author, ad
dressed the joint meeting before
dinner. Choosing "The American
Scholar as a Patriot" as his sub
ject, Dr. Curti cited many
the widely varying interpretations
and rationalizations of patriotism,
which he defined as "love of
country."
Dr. Curti, a native Nebraskan,
has recently been appointed as a
visiting professor to the 18 differ
ent universities in India. He grad
uated at Harvard university, and
was winner of the 1943 Pulitzer
history prize.
'nf Lane Lancaster, president
of of Phi Beta Kappa, presided over
uie meeting. In addition to tne
new members who were spa. ml
guests, 165 faculty members and
parents were present.
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