SPORTS the Michigan Doily Friday, November 5, 1982 Page 9 M'baseball legend Fisher dies at age 95 By JOE CHAPELLE Michigan sports fans lost a great friend Wednesday morning when former Wolverine baseball coach Ray L. Fisher,age 95,passed away at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Fisher, who coached the 'M' nine from 1921 to 1958,died of kidney failure at 8:40 after spending close to two weeks in the hospital. In his 38 years as the Wolverine mentor, Fisher amassed a fine record as a coach, leading Michigan to 14 Big Ten Championships and one NCAA national championship in 1953. A member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, he finished out his coaching career in Ann Arbor with a record of 637 victories, 294 losses, and eight ties. FISHER, BORN in Middlebury, Vt. on October 4, 1887, got his start in baseball pitching for the Hartford team of the Connecticut League. In his fir- st year as a minor league pitcher, Fisher amassed a 12-1 record and returned the next year to garner a 24-5 tally. After his seasons with Hartford, Fisher went on to play for the New York Highlanders, a team that later changed its name to the Yankees. Last August, Fisher was honored during Old-Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium where he received two standing ovations. Fisher was the oldest living member of both the New York Yankee and Cincinnati Reds organizations. After pitching in New York, Fisher served briefly in the Army Air Corps during World War I. He then travelled to Cincinnati where he garnered 14-5 and 12-11 records with the Reds. Fisher drew a star- ting assignment in the 1919 World Series against the Chicago White Sox, a series that is infamously known for the "Black Sox" scandle. He ended his stint in the majors with' a career record of 102-98 and a 2.38 earned run average. On April 19, 1921, the Michigan Daily reported that "Derrill Pratt Fisher left the team (The Wolverine ... hall of famer baseball squad) at Atlanta Thursday morning, and turned over all the coaching duties to Ray Fisher." ANOTHER Michigan baseball coach, Branch Rickey, had recommended Fisher to fill the vacancy left by Pratt, who went on to work for the Boston Red Sox. Rickey coached the Wolverines from 1910-1913 while he attended the Michigan Law School. , From his first game, a 12-1 victory over Michigan State Normal College (now known as Eastern Michigan University) in 1921, to his last, a 6-5 win over Iowa in 1958, Fisher recorded a .687 winning percentage with the Wolverines.' The former Michigan. mentor was active in baseball until 1965 when he retired as a batting practice pitcher and spring training coach for the Detroit Tigers lcers ace top-rc rpecrds nut the dor" said Michi an By CHUCK JAFFE Michigan hockey coach John Gior- dano and Michigan State coach Ron Mason have been listening to the radio and hearing different noises. The WM- PL radio hockey poll lists Michigan State as the number one team in the country, which sounds good to Mason, but bad to Giordano, whose Wolverines open a home-and-home series with the Spartans tonight. For Michigan State, the game at Yost Ice Arena is their first chance to prove themselves as being worthy of their lof- ty rank, while the Wolverines will be looking to extricate themselves from a five-team last-place tie in the CCHA and a four-game winless streak against the Spartans. "WE KNOW that they have good players, so you can throw all past Michigan Hockey Statistics Individual i %;U1USUi ICUUI, guullul'l State assistant captain Newell Brown. "We always look for tough games against Michigan." But the difficult task in the series belongs to Giordano, who has readied his team to face All-American goalie Ron Scott, who already has two shutouts this season. "They have the best goaltender in the league," said Giordano. "They're a very fine team. We're going to have to play tougher in the corners, but we won't give up. I think we can test them, and we'll see how they handle it. Everybody's fired up around here." "WHEN YOU play Michigan it's always a tough game," added Spartan Scott. "I think that with the defensive game that we play that we aren't going to be involved in a shoot-out. It won't be a very high scoring game." A low scoring game would please Giordano, who has moved sophomore Dave McIntyre to defense in an attempt to get more support at the Michigan blue line. Junior transfer student John Tonight's Michigan-Michigan State hockey game at Yost Ice Arena begins at 7:30. Tickets are available at the door or at the Athletic Ticket Office at the corner of State and Hoover. The game will be broadcast on WJJX-AM (650) radio, which along with WCBN-FM (88.3) will broadcast Saturday night's game from East Lansing. rnked Spartans DiMartino, a defenseman who scored years ago," said Scott,,who is curr five points in three games, is out for 9-12 atop the CCHA goaltending stan weeks with a knee injury, so Giordano "We always knew that we ha is looking for his young defense and talent, and it is starting to show goaltenders to keep Michigan in the realize that it is only six games in game. season though, and there are 18 "We're going to be improving our weeks left to play, so we have to system," Giordano said. "Our young consistent to keep going. Two year defensemen are getting a great look at we upset Michigan, so anythi the play in this league. Last week it was possible." Bowling Green, who is wide-open, and This weekend's series will mean this week it is State, who controls the to both teams. For Mason and the puck more." tans, it is a chance to prove that "WE TRY TO be a control-type deserve their ranking. For Michi team," added Spartans' Mason. "We Giordano, it is a chance to change built our team around Ron Scott and we his and Ron Mason's tune. have been stingy giving up goals. But we can score a few too." TONIGHT at The series marks a turnaround from -j the 1980-81 season, when Michigan was highly rated and the Spartans were league doormats. "We were probably considered one of Liberty 994- the worst teams in the country two rently> dings. d the w. We to the or 20 o play rs ago ng is n a lot Spar- I they dgan's e both Name, Pos. C. Seychel, LW ........ T. Speers; C ........... B. Tippett, LW ........ J. McCauley, RW. D. Krussman, LW ..... J. Milburn, C......... P. Goff, D........... J. DeMartino, D. T. Stiles............ F. Downing, RW ....... M. NeffD.......... S. Yoxheimer; RW ..... K. McCrimmon, RW ... P. Kobylarz, C/RW. D. May, D............ J. Grade, LW......... T. Carlile, D......... D. McIntyre, RW/D B. Brauer, D ......... J. Mans, LW......... MICHIGAN.......... OPPONENTS ......... GP 6 6 6 4 5 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 3 6 6 5 6 5 6 1 6 6 G 7 4 5 4 4 3 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 39 37 A 8 11 9 3 2 2 4 4 2 3 4 1 2 2 3 0 1 2 65 53 PTs 15 15 14 7 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 104 90 P/M 3/6 8/16 4/8 0/0 1/2 3/6 0/0 3/6 3/6 0/0 6/12 7/14 1/2 3/6 2/4 2/4 5/10 0/0 '1/2 0/0 53/106 66/140 Goaltending sta Goalie Chiamp . Elliott ........... MIN. 196:44 160:00 GA 16 21 AVG. 4.89 7.87 ts SAV PCT. 82 .837 76 .784 klco-s copies We have five otes self service machines OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 540 E. Liberty St.--761-4539 Corner of Moaynard & Liberty kliniw's copies Gymnasts travel to OSU By KARL WHEATLEY returning from last vear's invitational Junior Steve Scheinman will be A A*£fl~tJ J,..t Ae. e The Michigan mens gymnastic squad have only had one head coach ever. And today that coach, Newt Loken ill be kicking off his, and the tumblers 6th season together as the Wolverine gymnasts travel to Columbus for a two- day Buckeye Invitational. The Buckeye Invitational, which in- cludes Ohio State, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Western Michigan, and Iowa, will be the rough beginning of the Wolverines tough schedule, which includes defen- ding champion Nebraska and the Russian national team. "WE'RE LOOKING forward to eteing some top performances and hopefully we'll place several guys in the finals," said Loken. "Our men are determined, they've been working hard and are ready for the season opener." The fortune of the Wolverines this year rests in large part on the perfor- mances of three gymnasts who achieved first-place finishes in last year's Buckeye Invitational. The titlists are seniors Kevin McKee (floor exer- cise), Rick Kaufman (rings), and cap- tian Milan Stanovich (vault). The bad news, however, for the Wolverines is the loss of Merrick Horn, one of their top all-arounders, who was injured over the summer, and is not ex- pected to compete until January or February, if at all. filling in for Horn, thus joining other top all-arounders Rich Landman, Dino Manus, and Scott Ramsey. "We may be hurting on final team score in our meets this year," said Loken. "But we should get some out- standing performances, and hopefully, improvement through the year will bring up the team score as well." * Clinical PhD. program combining research, theory, and field experience . Practitioner Faculty . . Institutional & External Financial Aid . Three entry levels depending upon background . CSPP Minority Fellowships . Application Deadlines: December 15th & January 15th GRIDDE PICKS --,-I I I Bring your picks to the Daily. Now. To win the Pizza Bob's pizza. Include name. Include Address. Phone num- ber too. 1. MICHIGAN at Illinois (pick score) 2. Minnesota at Ohio State 3. 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