FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY; FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Diamondmen Open Big Ten Season Fisher Hurls for Michigan Against Illini; Play Twin Bill with Purdue Tomorrow By MIKE BLOCK Michigan's baseball team will play its first Big Ten game of the season this afternoon at Ferry Field. Furnishing the opposition will be the University of Illinois. The Illini finished fourth in the con- ference last year, and are prime contenders for the crown held by the Wolverines. Last year the teams met twice, each taking one victory. Pitcher's Duel runs batted in. The team as a whole, however, has hit only .241, 20 points below their average of .261 of last year. Coach Don Lund will probably stick with the lineup he used in the Wayne State game of Jim Newman at third, Dick Honig at short, Joe Jones at second, and, Dave Campbell at first, with Tate, Jim Steckley and Dennis Spalla in the outfield, and a battery of Fisher and Merullo. Host Purdue Illinois, the Wolverines will host Purdue in a twin bill tomorrow, and play single games with Cen- tral Michigan and Notre Dame Tuesday and Wednesday before taking to the road. They will re- turn May 5 to play a double- header with Michigan State. By that time, they will have seen enough action to indicate whether or not this year's squad has the same tight pitching and fielding, and all - around batting spark which last year swept them to the Big Ten's top spot. -Daily-Bruce Taylor' SAFE OR OUT!-More baseball action such as this is due to take place when Michigan opens its Conference season at Ferry Field today against Illinois. The Wolverines will oppose Purdue in a dou- bleheader Saturday. Michigan, defending Big Ten Baseball Champions will try to get a good start for the new season. LEAD IN SERIES 3-2: Toronto Beats Chicago 8-4 '1 TORONTO VP) - The Toronto Maple Leafs, getting three goals from Bob Pulford and two from. Frank Mahovlich, blasted Chicago 8-4 last night and grabbed a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series. The Black Hawks' Stan Mikita, a Czechoslovakian-born center, got two assists and smashed two play- off records. The total score also was a record for a playoff final se- ries game. Returns to Chicago The series returns to Chicago, where the Black Hawks won the third and fourth games, for the sixth game Sunday. The seventh, if necessary, will be played in Tor- onto Tuesday. Mikita assisted on each of two, goals by Ab McDonald in the sec- ond period. It gave him 21 playoff points on six goals and 15 assists, one, up on the record 20 set by Detroit's Gordie Howe in 1955. It also broke the record 14 as- sists recorded by Boston's Flem Mackell in 1958. McDonald's two goals, less than four minutes deep in the middle Knudson Leads In Golf Classic HOUSTON (P) - George Knud- son, a young Canadian playing with an Alabama putter, fired a four-under par 66 yesterday to grab the first round lead in the $50,000 Houston Golf Classic. The 32-34-66 for the 7,100- yard, par 70 Memorial Park course left the 24-year-old Toronto pro one stroke ahead of Jay Hebert, the defending, champion from La- fayette, La., and Jacky Cupit, the 1961 rookie of the year from Longview, Tex. Cupit and Hebert, late finishers, missed 20 foot putts on the final green while trying to tie Knudson's early 66, Cupit, a 24-year-old Tex- an who won $22,813 his first year as a pro, had a 33-34-67, as did Hebert, the 1960 PGA champion. Knudson missed only two greens and had birdie putts of 6, 6, 18, and 25 feet. He got his long bogie, a five on the 454-yard fourth, by missing the green and then seeing a seven-foot putt stop short. "The cup on that 25-foot putt was impossible," he said. "I told myself before putting I'd be lucky to 'get down in two." A pro five years, Knudson's lone PGA tour title came in late De- cember in the Coral Gables Open. His only high finish on the 1962 tour was a second place that was good for $4,600 at San Francisco. If past performance means any- thing, today's battle should be strictly a pitcher's duel. The Big Ten's two most effective pitchers last year-Illinois' Doug Mills and Michigan's Fritz Fisher-are both back, and will carry their respec- tive teams' hopes into the action. Mills paced conference hurlers with a stingy 1.03 earned run average, while Fisher compiled a 1.74. Both moundsmen also notch- ed respectable won-lost records, Mills with 4-0 and Fisher with 3-1. Quite Different But for Fisher at least, the story thus far this year has been quite different. He won none and lost three on the team's Arizona trip, and was racked for an over- all 5.56 ERA. In fact, the entire Michigan pitching staff was a dis- appointment in the Southwest. The staff ERA was a sky-high 7.43, contrasted with 3.33 a year ago. Both pitchers will be backed up by fine defenses. The Wolverines tied for the Big Ten lead in that department last season, while the Illini stood a strong third. The Wolverines will be trying for their third straight victory, having won their previous two jousts with Arizona State and Wayne State. They will also at- tempt to even their season's rec- ord at six and six. Tate Leader Michigan's leading batsmen thus far have been right fielder Ron Tate with .318, and catcher Joe Merullo with 2 home runs and 10 Following today's bout with period, gave the Hawks a brief 3-2 lead. But Toronto wouldn't be denied, and came flashing back to take a 5-3 margin before the session was over. The powerful Leafs made a rout of it with three in the third. Pulford got his first two goals in the first period, giving the Leafs a 2-0 lead before Murray Balfour scored for the Hawks. 17 Seconds Pulford's 'first goal, only 17 sec- onds deep into the game, produced a shower of debris from the fans. They littered the ice with items that included three hats, two over- shoes and three eggs. It served as the keynote for the fast, rough affair that produced 16 penalties and featured a brief sticking duel between Carl Brewer and Bob Turner. Bob Nevin of the Leafs and Chi- cago's Elmer Vasko left with in- juries in the middle period. Second Period Billy Harris, Dave Keon and Mahovlich scored in Toronto's sec- ond period rush that gave the Leafs a two-goal lead and put them ahead to stay. Pulford's third goal, another by Mahovlich and one by George Armstrong in the third completed Toronto's scoring. Turner got Chicago's other goal. The Leafs had the masked Don Simmons in goal, substituting for the injured Johnny Bower, Toron- to's regular goalie. F Ii Trac kmeu Off to Ohio Relays > I By DAVE GOOD The loss of ailing dashman Mac Hunter left track Coach Don Can- ham on the lookout this week for a replacement to bolster his sprint units in the annual Ohio Relays at Columbus tomorrow. Last year the Wolverines took four of the six featured university relays but Canham feels secure about defending successfully in only the two-mile and distance medley. Leps Anchors Captain Ergas Leps, the Big Ten mile and half-mile champion, will be anchoring both races just as he did last year. But the other two relays, the 440 and 8$0, Can- ham rates as only "possible" wins as Hunter is out with a muscle pull in his leg. So to strengthen his 440 relay, made up of four men each running 110 yds., Canham reached down in his magic hat and pulled out a man who has never run a flat race for Michigan. Instant Track He's a junior who came out for track this year as an afterthought and has broadjumped in three meets and run the low hurdles once-but no flat races. His name is Dave Raimey, he plays halfback on the football team and Canham hopes to good- ness he can sprint. Raimey in Sprints Canhan says he "probably" would have used Raimey on the sprint team even. if Hunter had not been hurt, but that now Rai- mey can play a role of increased importance on a team that's short of dashmen. "We've got to find out if he can do a good 100," explained Can- ham. "If he's fast enough we plan to run him in the sprints in the Big Ten meet and we may run him in the low hurdles. But if he's just another sprinter, then we won't." Robinson, Now Hunter Raimey will team up with Ben- nie McRae and Detroit sophomores Talt Malone and Ken Burnley in the 440. McRae ran on the 440 and 880 teams last year, .which both won even without Tom Robinson, one of the best sprinters in Michi- gan history. Maybe history will re- peat. But the other two short relays, the 880 and the sprint medley, don't stand much chance of win- ning in a field which will include Michigan State, Illinois, Penn State, Loyola of Chicago and little Central State of Wilberforce, 0, among others. In Sprint Medley Charlie Peltz, John Davis, Jeff Engel and Malone will run the 880, and Bill Hornbeck, Peltz, Joe Ma- son and Dave Romain the sprint medley. The mile relay, which Canham has been juggling all year, is an- other "possible" win against tough competition. Malone, Carter Reese, Charlie Aquino and Burnley are listed tentatively, with Ted Kelly and Dorr Casto as alternates. Rainy weather forced the Wol- verines to pull out of the meet last year before the race was run, and Canham says if it's cold out, he won't attempt to run the sprint relays. Best Finishing Kicks Leps, with one of the best- known finishingnkicks in thecol- lege ranks, makes the Wolverines one of the favorites in the two longer relays. 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