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Etten, Ex-Yankee, Becomes Cole Lenzi Player-Manager Nick Etten, former major league first baseman with the New York Yankees, Philadelphia As and the Philadelphia Phillies, has been signed to manage and play with the Cole Lenzi semipro baseball team in the Greater Chicago League. Etten, who succeeds veteran catcher Benny Bedrava as Lenzi manager, was in organized baseball for 18 years, finishing up last season with the Memphis Chicks in the Southern Association, a White Sox farm. A left-handed throwing and hitting first sacker, Etten started his long, successful diamond career with St. Rita high school of the Chicago Catholic League. His most productive years in the big show were with the American League Yankees in 1943 and 1944. He topped the Yanks in home runs in 1943 and the following season was high in the runs batted in department. Nick had a chance to pilot the Colorado Springs club of the Class A Western League, a White Sox farm team, this season, but he passed it up to take a position in private business, which, according to Etten, holds more of a future. He will be at first and in charge of the club when it makes its second start of the season next Sunday at Lenzi Park, Rt. 66 and East av., four miles south of La Grange. Game-time is 3:00 p. m. All Cole Lenzi home games are broadcast over Radio station WTAQ, of Hodgkins, HI.
