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Show Veterans, Rookies Begin Baseball Training Period m tion will come at the hands of LaMar Erickson. Loss of Bill and Bob Dodge left the team weak in the battery de- i partment this year, but others have fitted in well. Kent Peterson has plenty on the ball he delivers from the portside, and Jack Wigren looks like a substaining right hand er. Other lefthanders who are back from last year to lend assistance to the championship cause is Gus Funtas. Gerald "Smokey" Wolff and McCoy MacMurray are other experienced righthanders. Behind the plate, Vernon Sceili is developing into an efficient player. Bob Storey, and Bill Grainger are also doing good work at backing up the pitching department. With an outlook for the championship cham-pionship brighter than it has been for several years, 33 Cubs are bidding bid-ding for positions on this season's baseball squad in a stroke intended to end West's reign on the "Big 3" diamonds. South, should open up with the most thoroughly seasoned squad in school history. All positions on the team hold at least one experienced player. With virtually the same team last year, Coach Jimmy Gilbert Gil-bert barely missed grasping the crown. v Brightest spot on the team is the outfield. Holding the inside lane on three positions are Lawrence Palmer, Bill Northrup, and Don Davis, all third year men who pack bats loaded wth dynamite. Gilbert has little to worry about in the infield. Dave Cooper and Dick West shine at first base, with the nod likely to go to Cooper. Second base has drawn bids from six men. Only one of last year's players, Kay Spackman, has returned re-turned to the baseball fold, but promising juniors are erasing doubt as to the strength of the keystone sack. Jerry Dalebout and Fred Weidner looked impressive in practice Unchallenged except for one man, Willie Stewart seems a certain cer-tain crioice for the third sack. Stewart Ste-wart held down the hot corner well in his junior year, but was even more valuable at bat. His competi- |
