Friday, March 23, 1945
THE NEBRASKAN
2) DD CS1I
Baseball Spring Training
Camps Work Full Blast
Well, spring Is officially here
now, and the baseball training
camps ere going full blast.
In the first exhibition game of
the season, Wednesday the St.
Louis Browns reaped two runs
off the Toledo Mud Hen on three
singles and a double to win 2-0
Pitchers Sid Jakuki and Al La
Macchia shut out Toledo on one
hit in their game at Cape Girdeau,
Mo.
Shortstop Vernon Stephins hit
the only extra baser, a double
which knocked in one of the runs
Vice-president Bill DeWitt of
the Browns said he had only three
holdouts, pitcher Jack Kramer,
catcher Myron Hayworth and out
fielder Gene Moore.
St. Louis Cards
The World Champion St. Louis
Cards have thought it all over and
will not leave their Cairo, I1L,
headquarters for another training
site. A drainage ditch was dug
and with the help of two fire de
partment pumps helping, the
water was being carried of the
Card's field. The drainage was ex
pected to be completed by today.
The Cards star pitcher Morton
Cooper, signed his contract and
is expected to join the squad to
day. Utility outfielder Augie Ber
gamo arrived in camp yesterday
and worked out with the team.
Cold weather forced the Chi
cago Cubs inside at French Lick,
Ind., Manager Charlie Grimm
played the piano to accompany
the indoor calisthenics of his ath
letes. He was requested to go on
tour.
Veteran outfielder Wally Moses
reported to the Chicago White Sox
camp at Terre Haute, Ind., and
informed manager Jimmy Dykes
that he had ben accepted for lim
ited Army service.
Rain Halts Practice
For the first time since train
ing started the weather interfered
with drills. Rain forced the New
York Yankees to toll in an old
Navy hangar at Atlantic City,
At Frederick, Md., Connie
Mack actually welcomed the res
pite afforded by a shower. "It's
about time the boys had a day off
he laughed.
A drizzle kept the New York
Giants inside at Lakewood, N. J.
Snow flurries mingled with rain
sent the Pittsburgh Pirates indoors
at Muncie, Ind,
Rookie Second Sacker Fred
Daniels of the Philadelphia
Phillies will enter a hospital Fri
day to have a cyst removed from
his spine. He 11 be lost for six
weeks.
ODT Says OK
The office of Defense Transpor
tation gave th'e Washington Sena
tors permission to play an exhi
bition with the Orioles in Balti
more, April 15. Club officials ex
plained that the Senators will
meet the Curtis Bay Coast Guard
team near Baltimore, April 14,
and play Orioles on the way back
using Coast Guard transportation.
The Senators were happy over
the condition of Marino Pieretti,
right-hand pitcher from the Coast
league. Pieretti, 23, won 26 and
lost 13 for Portland last season.
He will be the team's work horse.
There are 77 athletes in Brook
lyn's camp at Bear Mountain,
N. Y. Only 17 are considered
squad members. Leroy Pfund,
right handed pitcher, reported.
Frenchy Eordagaray signed his
contract.
The Cleveland Indians, hard
hit by the loss of Ken Keltner to
the Navy, took solace from the de
fensive ability of 21 -year-old Al
Cihocki, Coast Guard veteran.
who is scheduled to succeed Kelt
ner at third base.
Manager Bill McKechnie of the
Cincinnati Reds sees a brutal
season ahead for his team "because
they have lost too many players.'
He predicts the St Louis Cardi
nals, the runner-up Fitsburijh Fi
rates and the Chicago Cubs, who
finished fourth behind the Reds
last season, will be the class of the
league. On the brighter side only
a half dozen performers are miss
ing from the 20 scheduled to re
port.
The Navy department has an
nounced that Chief Specialist Bob
Feller, former Cleveland Indians
pitcher, will have charge of the
Great Lakes Naval Training Cen
ter's team this year,
Feller, just returned from duty
in the toutn facinc, repiacea
Cmdr. Mickey Cochrane, now on
duty in the southwest Pacific.
Cochrane coached the 1942-1944
baseball teams at Great Lakes,
teams that compiled on of the
greatest records in the game.
Men You Vill Find
Munn-Bush Oxfords
Wings Shirts
Cooper Socks
Botany Ties
Wimberly Ties
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Oklahoma Enters
Tryouts for Texas
Relays of April 7
NORMAN, OkL Oklahoma
may enter every relay race on
the progrtun at the Texas Relays
April 7 at Austin, Tex.
Coach John Jacobs hasn't made
up his mind definitely. However
tryouts at Owen Field the next
ten days may cause Jacobs to es
say this formidable task. It would
be the first year the Sooners have
ever attempted all six relays in
one meet
A pre-meet alignment of the
various Sooner relay combinations
at Austin, an alignment that
doubtless will be changed as some
lads displace others in trials this
week and next, is as follows:
440 yards relay Bion Mc
Bride, Tim Gannaway, Dave
and Laddie Harp.
880 yards relay same as
440 relay.
Mile relay Gannaway, Bill
Sylvester or Homer Sparkman
(440), Bill Kincheloe (440),
Jack Coe (440), Day (440).
Two-mile relay Kincheloe
or Tom Bump (880), Coe, Clar
ence Vicklund (880) and
Homer Sparkman (880).
Sprint medley relay Day or
Kincheloe (440), Harp (220),
Gannaway (220), Spakman
(880).
Distance medley relay Syl
vester (440), Bump or Coe
(880), Leach (1,320) and Vick
lund (mile).
Oklahoma's best event at the
Southwest Exposition meet last
week at Fort Worth was the mile
relay. The Sooners and Texas
A. and M.'s Border Relays cham
pions tied for first Oklahoma
hopes to be doing around 3:26 by
April 7. Sooner times in this
event at Fort Worth were Mc
Bride 55 seconds, Kincheloe 51,
Coe 52 and Day 50.5.
Bill Wilson, Southwest Exposi
tion meet co-champion, will enter
the pole vault at Austin.
45 Baseball
Season Drills
Begin at ISC
AMES, la., March 21. Starting
the 1945 baseball season without
the services of Pitcher Mel Kleen,
the Cyclone baseball team may
have a rough row to hoe. Coach
Chick Sutherland moved his
squad outside Monday as light
drills started.
The squad has been cut to 23
members, and Sutherland will
start organization of candidates to
see what material he has on hand
with which to build his team for
the coming season. Gene Phelps,
Wells, Minn., letterman from last
year's squad, is expected to re
port at a later date to bolster the
lineup. In addition to Fneips,
Sutherland has Don Halverson,
Tom Chudomelka. Dick Scott, and
Howard Voelker, who have seen
action with the squads of last
year. Chudomelka was on the 1943
team but spent a year in the Army
since that time.
As it appearnow, Iowa State
College will be the only Big Six
school to have a baseball team
this season. Consequently, there
will be no Big Six schedule. Last
year, the Cyclones played college
teams from the University of Kan
sas and the University of Minne
sota and service teams from Ot
tumwa and the Seahawks. It is
expected thatservice ieams will
make up the major part of op
position this season in the absence
of college baseball teams.
Material available to Suther
land at the present time includes:
Pitchers, Halverson; Chudomelka;
Ralph Theabold, and lefthanders
Bob Bescanson, and T. B. Jones.
Infielders: Jim Myers, Bill Block,
Bob Jensen, Art Collins, Bernie
Babbitt, Don Sparks, John Shock.
Chuck Heidel, Galen Jackson, and
Ralph Beckerle. Outfielders: Scott,
Voelker, Francis Ongara, John
Pflum, Don Fink, and Willard
Avery. Catchers: Art Johnson,
Ron Johnson, Alta.
In addition to these men, it is
possible that some players will
enroll for spring quarter work
and will be out for baseball be
fore the season starts.
AST SES IT I
By
Altho the Wings have played
their last basketball game for this
season, their fame will live, at
least until the season rolls around
next year. They were undoubted
ly one of the best, if not the best
team that ever trod the coliseum
fi nrr
Flavins a 33-eame schedule of
raking teams, the wings won jo,
numbering among their victims
The Phillins fifi Oilers. National
AAU champs beaten twice; the
Harlem Giobe Trotters; the
Wright Field Army Tecs; the Sec
ond Air Force Superbombers; the
Ottumwa Naval Air Station; Fort
Riley; Scott Field, and the Alex
andria, La., Bombers.
Altho the jurisdiction of the
Lincoln Field was transfered from
the Second Air Force to the Army
Air Forces Technical Training
Command during the final play
offs, were granted permission to
complete lor the uue, ana iney
brought home the bacon.
Pint thfe thine that will be re
membered most about the Wings
is that they did not ever LAJi)u
on their own court
Good News.
One of the best bits of news
to come into the sports world for
a long time, was the news from
the War Manpower Commission
that baseball players quitting their
wsr j"h to return to baseball will
not be drafted for leaving their
jobs.
The ruling which also applies to
managers and coaches, provides
that hpsphall men so emDloyed
during the winter months would
not need the statement oi avau
ahilitv from their industrial em
ployers to play ball during the
regular season.
Baseball,
Softball Teams
Due March 28
Plans for the Intramural
baseball and Softball seasons
are being drawn up now. All
houses planning to play soft
ball should hand in their
names to Gordie Ehlers at the
ATO bouse on or before the
28th of March. All bouses who
have baseball aspirants should
hand In the players' names to
Gordie by the same date. Base
balls, bats, catchers' equipment
and sweat clothes may be
checked out in the Field House
any afternoon between 4 and
6. It is imperative that all
houses co-operate on this mat
ter if they wish to be included
In the schedule.
Swimmers should also hand
in their entries by Sunday,
March 25, if they wish to par
ticipate in the meet on April 4.
Swimmers may practice any
evening from 4 to 6 p. m.
Eiddy Balz, Michigan State Col
lege junior, enroute to see the
housemother ran into Flight Of
ficer Dick Haddad who had come
to surprise her. Biddy took one
look and shrieked, "Horrors, my
hair is in pigtails. Well, that's
one way to greet him.
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