The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-09
Lions Obtain
Cream Of Crop
in Grid Draft
Detroit Heir to
Fronk Sinkwich,
Dove Sehreiner
BY DAVE HOFF

Dth
CHICAGO. April O. (F) -
The national football league
members have acquired their le-
gal rights TO the cream Of the
graduating college grid crop
and now all they have to do is
20 out and find how many OF
the boys are AZ in the draft So
they can play next season.
: The Detroit Lions are heirs 10
two of the finest of last falls
college players. Frank SinkWich
of Georgia and Dave Schreiner,
but their chances of using either
until after the war arc remote.
SinkWich already is on active
duty with the Marines and
Schreiner is reported facing in
duction into the armed forces.
Breaking up the three day
meeting, the magnates threw the
names on the suspended Cleve-
land Rams roster up for grabs
last night with the Chicago
Bears getting the best of the
blind lottery. They drew out
Dante Magnani and Jim Benton,
two of the Rams aces, and aren't
too hard up for players anyway.
With an eye on the future
more than next season, the
Bears picked their collegians
carefully, drawing five lineman
in their first eight choices and
also bagging halfbacks Bob
Steuber of Missouri, Fred dip
py) Evans of Notre Dame and
Jim Jurkovich of California.
The championship Washington
Redskins also drew neat as
sortment including Jack Jen-
klns, Vanderbilt fullback, and
William Dutton, Pittsburgh half
back, plus three well-regarded
Notre Dame men: end Bob Dove,
center Walter Ziemba and tao
kle Lou Rymkus.
Sinkwich, Georgias Allan
erica halfback and record
breaking star on total offense
last season, was the first man
selected in yesterday draft
Joe Muha of V. M l. went next,
TO the Philadelphia Eagles. The
c h c go Cardinals claimed
Glenn Dobbs. Tulsa halfback;
Brooklyn took Paul Govcrnali,
Columbias peerless passer; the
Cleveland Rams picked mighty
Mike Holovak, Boston College
fullback. and the New York Gil
ants grabbed Steve Filipowicz,
the Fordham plunger.
Pittsburgh's No. choice was
Minnesota's Bill Daley while
another Gopher, tackle Dick
Wildung, was first pick of the
Green Bay Packers. Fine Bears
took Steuber first time around
and the Redskins got Jenkins.
Players drafted tffe-De-
troit Lions were Frank Sink
wich. Georgia halfback; Dave
Schreiner, Wisconsin end; Dick
Ashcom, Oregon tackle; Ralph
Hamer. Furman halfback; Lloyd
Wicket, Oregon State tackle;
Casey Jones, Union College half
back; Paul Sizemore, Furman
end; George Poschner. Georgia
end; Jack Irish, Arizona tackle;
Jack Fenton, Michigan State
halfback; Dick Renfro. Washing
ton State halfback; Bob Kolesar,
Michigan Guard; Dell Huntsing-
err, Portland halfback; Ellard
Dernoncourt, st. Louis u. end;
Dick Woodward, Colorado end;
Marvin Bass. William and Mary
tackle; Victor Pealish, West Vir-
ginia guard; Chef Mazda, Color
ado State halfback; Barney
Kusczinski, Pennsylvania end;
AL Scanland, Oklahoma A and
NJ halfback; Royal Lohry, Iowa
State halfback; Percy Holland,
Louisiana State guard; Mike
Fitzgerald, Missouri guard; Will
Remington. Washington State
center; Huel Hamm, Oklahoma
fullback: Irv Konopka, Idaho
tackle, Jack Fears, U. G. l.. A.
tackle: Bert Ekcrn, Missouri
end; Virgil Wagner, Millikin,
Danny Kaplan, Western Mary
land halfback.
AL Wistert, Michigan tackle,
went TO the Philadelphia Eagles,
while the Brooklyn Dodgers
claimed George Ceithmal, Mich
igan quarterback. The Cleve-
land Rams chose Dick Kieppe,
Michigan State halfback.