The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-22

Michigan Normal's tennis stock
took a nose dive Monday as Charles
Frogner, Detroit senior. officially
announced that he intended giving
UP the net sport this spring to re-
port for the Huron track team.
Frogner. who has earned two
varsity letters In tennis. was ex-
pected to alternate at the No. 2
position with Fritz BENEFITS this
season. His shift leaves Coach Paul
B. Samson with an enormous gap
to fill.
"Frogner's decision comes as a
great surprise to me-" Samson COM
mented. His transfer TO track will
not completely wreck the tennis
team, but 1t may mean the differ
ence between a winning and losing
season."
The tall Detroiter, a Cooley High
School product. said that his choice
was . personal one. He hopes to
throw the discus and run hurdles
on the Huron track squad.
DR.. Lloyd w. Olds, director OF
thinclad activities, was surprised TO
hear that Frogner had switched
sports.
Its news to me-" he admitted.
With Frogner in the lineup, Sam
son figures that the Huron net
team would be stronger than in
1910. Michigan Normal won six out
OF nine matches for an imposing
.667 percentage.
Vic Mastromarco, OF Monroe, is
back to handle the No. l slot in
the lineup. Mastromarco, who ranks
with the best Of former Huron stars,
won the majority of his matches
last year against the best competi-
ton In the state.
His doubles partner, BENEFITS,
also junior. improved rapidly
year ago, and Samson expects him
TO continue to progress this spring
With Frogner out, BENEFITS Is GER
tain to see action at No. 2 through
out the season.
The veteran Harold Schwartz and
red'headed George Yellin. Rocka-
way, N. Y, sophomore, are contend
ing for the No. 3 position. Yellin
is q very good doubles player.
Battling for the two other posts
on the team are Walt Lepisto, a re-
serve last year, and Jerry Lamb
and Dtek Wortley, teammates at
Roosevelt High School in 1889. Olin
Cox, another ex-Rough Rider. has
cancelled plans to report for the
Huron team because of q heavy
scholastic schedule.
Michigan Normal will open It's
12-meet schedule Saturday after
noonwhen it plays host to Wayne
University at either Recreation
Park or the University OF Michigan
courts. The Huron courts will not
be ready for service for at least
two weeks.
The Hurons have been handi.
capped this spring in not having
been able to practice outdoors
more than a few times. Several
members OF the team have used the
Michigan indoor courts during the
winter. however.
Wayne, on the other hand, has
Just concluded spring vacation
1aunt through the South. The match
with Normal will be the Tartars'
eighth OF the season.
A two-day trip into Ohio, during
which matches will be played with
Bowling Green University and To-
ledo Tennis Club, is the highlight
OF the Huron schedule. Normal
meets Bowling Green on May and
Toledo the following afternoon.
Gfher contests have been carde1
V Aloion, Kalamazoo, University
roit. Michigan and Michigan
Either DeSales College or
J. W. ence Tech will be added to the
schedule to replace st. Mary's OF
Orchard Lake, which has dropped
tennis as a varsity sport this year.
The schedule:
April ,26-Wayne University. here.
May Blowing Green University
at Bowling Green, o.