THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL, 23, 1961 THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1961 'AM etroit innesota ew York eveland oston hicago Ansas Ci ashingto altimore os Ang~b .YES'7 ajor League Standigs dERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GB -W L Pct, 5 1 ..833 -- a-Cincinnati 5 4 .55 6 2 .750 - Pittsburgh 5 4 .55 5 2 .714 - San Francisco 5 4 .55 4 4 .500 2 St. Louis 5 4- .55 3 3 .500 2 Chicago 5 4 .55 3 4 .429 2t4 x-Los Angeles 6 5 .54; ty 2 3 .400 2Y2 Milwaukee 2 3 .40 n 3 5 .375 3 Philadelphia 2 7 .22 2 5 .286 4 es I 5,.167 4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS TERDAY'S RESULTS St. Louis at San Francisco (. t. 6 6 6 6 56 00 2 -I GB 134 3 MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP: Orioles Terminate Yankee Win Streak S (rain) altimore 5, New York 3 second game called in 8th) ansas City 5, Cleveland 2 Innesota 5, Washington 4 os Angeles at Detroit (rain) TODAY'S GAMES ew York at Baltimore ,s Angeles, at Detroit (2) oston. at Chicago (2) Vashington at Minnesota leveland at Minnesota, Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (rain) Chicago 6, Philadelphia 4 Cincinnati at Los Angeles (inc.) TODAY'S GAMES Cincinnati at Los Angeles St. Louis at Sari Franciseo Chicago at Philadelphia (2) Milwaukee at Pittsburgh By The Associated Press Idle 'Detroit took over the Amer- ican League lead yesterday, close- ly followed by the Minnesota Twins, after the Baltimore Orioles snapped the New York Yankees' five-game winning streak in the first half of a day-night double- header. The second game was called at the end of the eighth inning with the score tied, 5-5. The final returns on the Na- tional League awaited the result of a night game in Los Angeles where the Cincinnati Reds had a the farther Smoke travels Air-Softened, :r:" iv the milder, the cooler- the smoother it tastes ES w - THIS ONE'S THE.SATISFIER Make a date- with flavor. Try Chesterfield King. Every satisfying puff is Air-Soffened to enrich the flavor and make it mild. Special porous paper lets you draw fresh air into the full king length of top-tobacco, straight Grade-A all the way. Join the swing to Q Uggett & Myers Tobacco Co.. chance to tie for the lead by beat- ing the Dodgers. Detroit's home game with Los Angeles was rained out. So were the Milwaukee-Pittsburgh and St. Louis-San Francisco games in the National League, leaving four teams tied for the lead with 5-4 records. Gus Triandos' two-run homer in the eighth inning and Hoyt Wilhelm's relief pitching combin- ed to give the Orioles a 5-3 first game victory over the Yanks. Tri- andos' blow came off Ryne Dur- en, third Yank pitcher who had just walked Jim Gentile. Mary Breeding homored earlier for the Birds off starter Ralp Terry. Zorro Strikes Zoilo Versalles' sacrifice fly en- abled the Minnesota Twins to score in the 10th and edge Wash- ington 5-4 before 17,445 fans. Pumpsie Green's leadoff homer in the 11th gave the Boston Red Sox a wild 7-6 game over the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City won its first home game, downing Cleveland 5-2 with the help of a two-run homer by Mary Throne- berry. A total of six homers were hit in the Chicago game that was crazier than Bill Veeck's explo- sive scoreboard at Comiskey Park. Pete Runnels, Gary Geiger and Green homered for the Red Sox and Sherm Lollar, Al Smith and J. C. Martin for the White Sox. First Win it was Boston's first victory at Comiskey Park in 14 starts since Aug. 26, 1959. They were blanked there last year 11-0. Ted Wills, fourth Boston pitch- er, was the winner. Turk Lown, third to work for the White Sox, was the loser. Boston scored five in the ninth, for a 6-4 lead as Runnels and Geiger each hit two-run homers, but Chicago tide it in their half on Martin's two-run homer. KC Hangs On Kansas City's Bud Daley, saved by Ed Keegan in the ninth, was the winner over Cleveland while Johnny Antonelli was the loser. After Bubba Phillips opened the ninth with a single, manager Joe Gordon brought in Keegan who finished the game with no more trouble. Rookie Bill Pleis was the win- ner for Minnesota over relief man Rudy Hernandez. Earl Battey opened the winning rally in the 10th by drawing a walk. He took second on a balk by Hernandez. Billy Gardner's sacrifice bunt moved Battey to third and then both Reno Bertoia and pinch hit- ter Dan Dobbek were walked, loading the bases. Versalles' sac- rifice fly, a liner to center, drove in Battey. Don Mincher homered for the Twins and Willie Tasby and °Dale Long for the Senators. The home run was the big blow in Philadelphia where Don Zim- mer hit one with a man on in the 11th for a 6-4 Chicago victory over the Phillies. Frank Thomas and Ernie Banks homered earlier for the Cubs whose Don Elston was the wifiner over Dick Farrell on relief. Richie Ashburn, former Phil, opened the 11th with a sin- gle off Farrell. S ERNIE BANKS PETE RUNNELS ... clout for Cubs . .. wins for Sox Honig Heeds Hit and Run Sign TO Defeat Gophers By BRIAN MacCLOWRY Sidelights to Michigan's great 5-3 victory over defending NCAA champion Minnesota Friday after- noon: Michigan Coach Don Lund said he had flashed the hit and run sign on the pitch Dick Honig hit for the game winning home run. Ed Hood, who had walked, was on first base at the time. "I was hoping that Dick would get a piece of the ball and send it through the infield. It would have moved Hood to third and in posi- tion to score on a fly ball," ex- plained Lund. SIXTH IN ROW: Ruggers Post 13-6 Win Over Toronto Nomads Utilizing the same type of speed and defense attack that gained them a 29-0 shutout last week, the Ann Arbor Ruggers galloped to a 13-6 victory over the Toronto No- mads yesterday in a rain-swept battle at Wines Field. Harry Newman, Whata Winiata, and Dave Dingman scored tries for Ann Arbor, and John Niehuss added two conversions. ZINDELL OLDSMOBILE Ann Arbor, NO 3-0507 The Nomads found the Ann Arbor defense impenetrable in regular play, but did manage to score twice on penalty goals. Newman put Ann Arbor ahead 3-0 in the first half when he broke loose for an eighty-yard romp through the Nomad defense, fak- ing the last Toronto defender and scoring standing up. Niehuss' con- version increased the lead to 5-0. Close Gap Toronto closed the gap to 5-3 on a penalty goal by Colin Smee in the first half. Winiata opened the second half with a try to put Ann Arbor ahead, 8-3. Niehuss missed the conversion attempt. Toronto came right back on an- other penalty goal by Smee which again narrowed the lead to 8-6. M' Injury An unfortunate outcome of the rough defensive play was the in- jury to Ann Arbor's Bill Wenrich, who fractured a rib midway in the second half. Next week Ann Arbor lays its six-game winning streak on the line against the Kitchener-Water- loo Rugby Club of Ontario at Wines Field. Although Honig's homer cleared the left center field barrier by some twenty feet, at least one person in the ball park didn't think it would carry all the way. With the ball in flight and Hood steam- ing down second, assistant Coach 'Moby Benedict was screaming, "It's in the air Ed, it's in the air," meaning . he feared that Hood would be doubled off first if the left fielder caught the ball. Fast One The Michigan shortstop said he hit a fast ball for his home run, as did Barry Marshall in the sixth inning. In his three previous times at the plate Honig had grounded out third to first, flied to center field, and reached first on an error by Minnesota shortstop Carl Roll- off. In the ninth he hit the first pitch offered him. Sophomore pitcher Mike Joyce- who stopped Minnesota on five hits -was particularly rough on the Gophers' leading hitter, Roland Carlson, who entered the game with a .483 mark. Goose-Egged Carlson was goose-egged in five trips and failed to get the ball out of the infield. Adding to his miser- ies was the plunge he took over the left field fence in the sixth inning while trying vainly to grab Barry Marshall's home run. By virtue of their victory Fri- day the Wolverines are still unde- feated against University compe- tition. The three Michigan losses this spring came at the hands of Phoenix Junior College during the spring trip to Arizona. All the de- feats sustained in a ballpark with- out outfield fences. Big Homers Home runs are paying dividends for the Wolverines. While compil- ing a.10-3 season record, Michigan has walloped 18 round trippers Ten of these have come in the last four games. Bill Freehan leads the touch- 'em-all corps with six, Denni Spalla, Joe Merullo and Dick De- Lamielleure each have two, and Jim Steckley, Ed Hood, Joe Bre- feld, Frantz Neubrecht, Barry Marshall and - of course - Dick Honig all have one. In OIL E r by Brian MacClowry Ability Unlimited SOME DAYS AGO when unwary Daily readers opened their papers to page six they were greeted not with the usual plethora of sports news, but instead, with the pictures of several bizarre looking characters who, it was announced, were to form the Daily sports politburo for 1961-62. On the surface the transition looked peaceful enough. No blood was spilled, no outcries of fraud were heard. But to those more familiar with Daily sportsdom the transition was viewed as the climax to a three year struggle for ascendancy that would make Khrushchev's ouster of Malenkov seem like the afterthought to a cocktail party. T - THE FEW sedate survivors of the purge, the arbitor-the Board in Control of Student Publications-bestows titles, pay increases and a column. On the more belligerent, persona non grata faction, the board confers no title, no pay raise, a rap on the knuckles, a book explaining libel-and sometimes a column. My index finger is still sore and I can't read the book because I'm supposed to be a liberal. Because of this secrecy surrounding the Daily it might prove of interest to some to set forth the qualifications-as adjudged by the Board-that are imperative to being a Daily sports columnist. The first pre-requisite is that the columnist have a realization as to the difficulty of his position. Unlike the editorial staff where the purveyors of information need only have certain pre-conceved opinions regard fraternity living, quadrangle living and making whoopee on Washington Heights, the sports columnist must have at his command a galaxy of facts. HE MUST KNOW why Dave Strack wanted to coach the Michigan basketball team; why Lawrence Berra is called Yogi; who had the gall to name Ferry Field-Ferry Field; the number of times Ted Williams outgestured the fans in Fenway Park; how many goalposts Bronco Nagurski ran into during his career; and why Dave Strak ... In addition, he must have some knowledge of: why the Detroit Lions can consistently beat Cleveland and almost never 'Baltimore; why Charlie Maxwell can only hit home runs on Sunday or against the Yankees; how Jerry Lucas can be so relaxed, look so asleep and still score 35 points; what would happen if Sonny Liston stepped into the ring with either Ingemar Johannson or Floyd Patterson; and how many Rocky Colavito's it takes to secure one Pet ;urnside on the open bubble gum market. THE DAILY SPORTS columnist must have loyalties to Michigan, mother and God, in that order. When Michigan wins he must be happy. When Michigan loses he must be sad. But in his sadness he must find the excuse-rather the reason-for the loss and expound on it to such an extent that it will be viewed not as a loss at all, but as a moral victory. He must anticipate a predominance of sad- ness and be prepared to turn out assembly line moral victories. He must be cordial at all times. When talking to coaches and athletes he must continually smile and be. concerned about their well being. Only when alone should he exclaim to himself, "You big Dummox." If he ever is granted the chance to meet reigning athletic director H. A. "Fritz" Crisler, he shall wear sun glasses and reveal what he saw to no one. HE DAILY SPORTS columnist-must be able to go below the sur- face for the real story. Did Denny Fitzgerald really run 99 yards with a kickoff against Michigan State or was it all the work of athletic publicity director Les Etter? Did Michigan really. wallop Duke 31-0 and then lose to Wisconsin 16-13? Is Yost Field House really that old or was it built after the war to ease the housing shortage? But above all he must be sound of mind and body. He must know that to bet a sawbuck on the Tigers to win the 1961 American League pennant would be foolhardy. He must know that to bet a sawbuck on Detroit to finish second would be foolhardy. He must know that to bet a sawbuck on the Tigers to finish third would be foolhardy. He must know to bet a sawbuck on Detroit to finish in the first division would be foolhardy. On he other hand he must know that to enter Detroit with that same sawbuck without having any intention of betting it on the Tigers would be in bad taste. FINALLY, A DAILY sports columnist is expected to make remark- f able, even epic, predictions. And not wishing to sever tradition I'll burlesque Cassandra and offer these horoscopic pronouncements. _ I predict that Al Kaline will someday get the chance to play for a major league baseball team. I predict that Chico .Ferandez will win the triple crown-average (lowest), home runs (least), and RLI's (runs let in). I-predict that the American League will change its name to the Big Ten. The National League will then-under an ultimatum from the House Un-American Activities Committee- change its name to the American League. t I predict that Minnesota will continue to vote against renewal of the Rose Bowl pact-until Washington's Bob Schloredt and -Charlie Mitchell graduate--at which time it will again cast a negative s vote because by then its team will be winless. I predict, that Min- nesota's hockey team will soon schedule 20 home games against Southern California-and thereby again qualify for 'the NCAA play- offs by virtue of the fact that Southern California doesn't have a hockey team. Lastly, I predict this will be my last column-by acclamation. i I Baseball's Top Ten AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R H Temple, Cleve. 8 31 4 13 Wood, Det. ' 6 24 7 9' Tasby, Wash. 8 27 2 10 Fox, Chi. 7 30 1 11 Mantle, N.Y. 7 22 6 8S Brandt,- Bait, 6 22 3 8 Kaline, Det. . 6 25 '6 9 Phillips, Cleve. 9 31 6 11 Green, Minn. 8 30 8 10 Cash, Det. 6 21 6 7 Pct. .419 .375 .370 .367 .364 .364 .360 .355 .333 .333 NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. Moon, L.A. 10 35 10 19 .543 Cunningham, StL 9 32 9 15 .469 Gonzalez, Phila. 8 26 7 11 .423 Post, Cinn. 9 27 5 11 .407 Kasko, Cinn. 9 37 4 15 .405 Thomas, Chi. 5 15 2 6 .400 Groat, Pitts. 9 39 8 15 .385 Santo, Chi. . 9 35 4 13 .371 Zimmer, Chi. 9 36 10 13 .361 Hoak, Pitts. 7 28 0 ,10 .357 Buy euig I A Massive voice for a missile base S k_1_r ,. iii% ;f -