THURSDAY,MAY 17,1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Notre Dame Offers Tune-Up for Weekend
PAGE SEI
By MIKE BLOCK
Special To The Daily
SOUTH BEND-Michigan's Wol-
verines, hot on the trail of their
second consecutive Big' Ten base-
ball championship, arrived here
today for a non-conference bout
with the Fighting Irish of Notre
Dame.'
The game today is the first on
a three-day road trip which pro-
vides the Wolverines with a single'
contest tomorrow at Northwestern
and a double chance Saturday at
Wisconsin.
Michigan currently leads the
Big Ten with an 11-1 won and lost
mark. Close behind, as they have
been almost all season, are the
Illini at 10-2. Both teams round
out their conference schedules
with three games this weekend.
Magic Number 3
For the Wolverines, then, the
magic number is three. Any com-
bination of Michigan victories and
Illinois defeats adding up to three
would mean the return of the
title to Ann Arbor. Anything less
than that number would mean
31 Hitters Sporting
.309 Big Ten Mark
By BOB ZWINCK
Will it be Michigan-or Illinois-
as the Big, Ten representative in
the NCAA district playoffs?
Each has three more hurdles in
the race to the wire, but the Illini
are a full stride behind, and they
cannot win unless the Wolverines
trip over one of the final hurdles.
Michigan leads the Western
Conference with an 11-1 record
and faces both of the teams tied
for fourth this weekend. First
comes Northwestern tomorrow and
then a doubleheader at Wisconsin
in the final games of the regular
season. Both have 5-6 records.
Illinois takes on Minnesota (0-7)
and then Iowa f(3-5) twice at
home. A 10-2 record leaves the
Illini in second place, one game
back, and hardly allows room for
a loss.
Offensively, Ohio State leads
with a .310 average, with Michi-
Major League
Standings
gan close behind at .309. North-
western, MSU, and Illinois follow
at .267, .251, and .248, respective-
ly.
Offensively, Illinois is fielding
.972 to head the Conference. Their
mound crew of Tom Fletcher (4-
0), Doug Mills (4-0), Ron Johnson
(2-1), and Jerry Rozmus (0-1)
has a combined earned-run-aver-
age of only 1.24.
Michigan has a fifth-ranking
.954 fielding percentage, while the
hurlers have a. 2.67 ERA. Dave
Roebuck (5-0) is the winningest
pitcher in the Conference and is
backed by John Kerr (3-0), Wayne
Slusher (1-0) and Fritz Fisher
(2-1).
MSU's Jeff Abrecht leads the
Big Ten in batting with a .545
average. Bob Klein of OSU is sec-
ond, hitting .434.
RBI Leader
Dennis Spalla is third with .425
and leads the Conference with 16
RBI's.
Six stolen bases puts Joe Jones
on top in that department. He al-
so is batting .370, tenth in the Big
Ten. Dick Honig is twelfth with a
.367 average.
(NOTE: The statistics below are
for all games this year up to, but
not including, last Tuesday's game
with UD.)
BATTING
either settling for a tie, or re- Lund's cohorts face no easy task some of the league's to;
linquishing the crown to the Il- against Northwestern and Wis- Ron Nelson (2-0) has ar
lini. Anything more would be pure consin. The two are now tied for earned run average of 1.
gravy. fourth place in the loop with 5-6 well supported by Star
With their sweep over Indiana records. The Wildcats in particular (2-2) with 2.39 and Rc
and Ohio State last weekend, are liable to produce an upset at (1-3) with 2.40. The Badl
Michigan has now won 11 con- any time, as they have demon- ing off a double sweep f
secutive conference games, having strated against Illinois and third last Saturday, have the
lost the opener to the Illini 1-0. place Ohio State. centive of acting as sl
This overall season record stands Northwestern, while not boast- their Big Ten swan sor
at 18-9, with their most recent ing the best pitching or fielding In addition to the like
loss coming Tuesday at the hands squad in the Big Ten, are third winning another Big T
of Detroit's Titans. in hitting and could pose some this weekend, the Wolve
A win against Notre Dame to- problems for Wolverine mounds- have the opportunity tc
day would level Michigan's extra- men. Their most dangerous power upon their won-lost ma:
curricular mark at 8-8. plant is shortstop Dave Hirtz, who year. Rained out in thr
Bombarded leads his teammates in batting their final standing way
When the Irish visited Ann Ar- (.375), homers (3) and runs bat- clean sweep atvEvanston
ted in (10) in Big Ten action. ison would leave them wi
bor earlier this season, they wereStnyPchrmakUlieosohr
greeted by a barrage of four home . Stingy Pitchers mark. Unlike most othei
runs and lost 18-7. They are, how Wisconsin, on the other hand, teams, the Wolverines
ever, rated along with Detroit is dead last in the conference to be the victims of a
among the Midwest's top inde- batting department with a dimin- this year.
pendents, and with some improved utive .206 mark. But they're second But the first order of
pinntcinud ihvsme imhpgovedin fielding to Illinois, and boast is to get by Notre Dame.
pitching, could give Michigan a __________________________
tough battle on their home
grounds.
The chances are that Michigan
coach Don Lund will go with
sophomore hurler Jim Bobel (0-2)
today, and save his aces, Dave
Roebuck (7-1), John Kerr (5-0)
and Fritz Fisher (3-4) for the
crucial battles tomorrow and Sa-
turday. Roebuck, Kerr and Fisher
have accounted for all but one of
the Wolverines' Big Ten victories.
tne Man Sets
New Hit Mark
Stan ("The Man") Musial equal-
led the National Baseball League
career record fob, base hits yes-
terday with a line single to right
centerfield in the sixth inning
against San Francisco.
It was his 3,430th hit since he
entered the major leagues some
21 years ago in 1941. The previous
mark was held by Honus Wagner
who player three years for Louis-
ville and 18 for Pittsburgh before
retiring in 1917.
The most hits record was the
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pct.
Cleveland 18 11 .621
New. York 17 11 .607
Minnesota 19 13 .594
Chicago 18 15S .545
Baltimore 15 14 .517
Los Angeles 14 14 .500
Detroit 13 15 .464
Boston 13 15 .464
Kansas City 14 19 .424
Washington 7 21 .2501
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Minnesota 8, Detroit 4
Cleveland 10, Kansas City 9
Los Angeles 3, Baltimore 1
New York 9, Boston "8
Washington 3, ,Chicago 1
TODAY'S GAMES
New York at Boston
Los Angeles at Baltimore (n)
(Only games scheduled)
GB
-2
2
3
3/
4/
4%
6
10%
Sparla
Honig
Tate
Jones
Chapman
Post
Campbell
Steckley
Newman
Merullo
Hood
Lauterbach
Heavenrich
Shirley
Phipps
Totals
Slusher
Kerr
Roebuck
Fisher
Bobel
Dunston
Neubrecht,
Totals
G
22
26
25
26
20
.7
22
24
16
25
5
4
2
2
1
26
AB
75
104
102
103
62
18
76
89
43
89
14
7
2
0
0
8601
R H RBI Pct.
15 26 22 .347
24 34 22 .327
19 32 20 .314
26 30 14 .291
17 18 14 .290
7 5 1 .278
13 20 11 .267
19 23 17 .258
8 11 2 .256
17 21 22 .236
2 3 1 .214
0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 .000
0 0 0.000
183'243 162 .283
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
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San''Francisc 26-
x-Los Angeles 21
Cincinnati 18
St. Louis' 17
Pittsburgh 16
Philadelphia 13
Milwaukee 14
x-Houston 11
New York 9
Chicago 9
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12
13
13
14
16
18
19
18
23
Pet. GB
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.636 4%
.581 6
.567 7
.533 8
.448 10%
.438 11
.367 13
.333 131/2
.281 16
PITCHING
G W L IPR-ERERA
8 3 0 21 7-3 1.29
8 5 0 51. 18-15 2.65
9 7 1 55 26-19 3.11
8 3 4 61 32-2413.54
4 0 2 183% 19-13 6.27
3 0 0 7% 8-7 8.22
3 0 1 2% 15-15 57.86
26 18 8 216% 125-96 3.99
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
New York 6, Chicago 5 (11 inn.)
San Francisco 7, St. Louis 2
Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 5
Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 0
Houston at Los Angeles (inc.)
TODAY'S GAMES
St. Louis at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Philadelphia (n)
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (n)
Houston at Los Angeles (n)
(Only games scheduled)
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