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ti Friday. Apr. 9. '7S DETROIT FREE PRESS ill Kunkel Now Among Senior Umps Football League with the Regina Rough Riders and played on one Grey Cup championship team. Brinkman, Barnett, Cooney, Deegan and Denkinger were all prep football standouts" with Brinkman being cited as an All-American halfback at Hollingford High in Minnesota.

BUT NUMBER ONE undoubtedly was Luciano, the colorful, melodramatic product of Endicott, N.Y. The 6-foot-4, 240-poundpr made All-American tackle at Syracuse University and played in both the Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl during his collegiate career. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions, but his career came to 1 premature halt because of a serious knee injury. He then took up the study of Shakespeare, ornithology. and, of course, umpiring.

ing that the contracts of Hank Morganweck and Merle Anthony were not renewed. Anthony had been in the AL since 1969, Morganweck since '72. BOB FORD. PROMOTED LAST August from the American Association, becomes a full-time member of the AL retinue now. Most of the others are familiar to regular baseball fans Nick Bremigan, Joe Brinkman, Terry Cooney, Bill Dee-gan, Don Denkinger, Jim Evans, Art Frantz, Richard Garcia, Russ Goetz, Ron Luciano, George Maloney, Larry McCoy, Jim McKean and David Phillips.

The American League umpires, despite the heavy traveling schedule and lonely nights in hotels across the country, are family men with a variety of hobbies and interests. Kunkel, for example, runs a charter sportfishing boat in the off -season. Bremigan Is a chess player. Frantz, now 55, BY JACK SAYLOR FrM Prttt Sports Wrltor When William Gustave Kunkel was a 12-year-old in Hoboken, N.J., he was drafted to umpire in an adult sandlot league a thankless task, at best, even for anyone who was net a pre-teenager. But even after that experience, plus battling the "blind men" as a pitcher with Kansas City and the Yankees, nothing could sway Kunkel from the fascination of calling balls and strikes, safes and outs.

The ex-pitcher, now approaching his 40th birthday, passed up a minor league managerial career to launch a new career as an American League umpire in 1968. Now, only six of the AL's staff of 24 arbiters "pre date Kunkel in service. Venerable Nestor Chylak, who Joined the league in 1 954, is far and away the senior member of the staff going into the 1976 season. The only others with more service than Kunkel are Larry Barnett, Lou DiMuro, Bill Haller, Jerry Neudecker and Marty Sprlngstead. Among Kunkel's credits are one World Series, two championship playoffs and one All-Star game.

The umpiring crew of the junior circuit underwent a small change for 76, with president Lee MacPhail announc has a long list or past accomplishments in his old hometown of Chicago, Including championships in ice and roller skating, horseshoe pitching and ping pong not to mentioa a 200 bowling average. Several have made the switch to baseball umpiring from football-playing careers. McKean, a Canadian, played five years in the Canadian Coupon Bonus Offer blenc LENNOX- fMMiM It's easy to combine your present warm air system with central air conditioning why wait for hot, stuffy weather? Let our experts estimate and install complete year- 'round comfort in your present system NOW! I i f1 LtNNUA I ji i m. jos j' mm. i SPECIAL OFFER FULL SIZE UNIT $983 $1088 $1188 $1288 $1488 $1583 $1783 19,000 BTU 25,000 BTU 30,000 BTU 37.000 BTU 43.000 BTU 51,000 BTU 60,000 BTU For complete installation ia average six house.

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