f1935 "I"HE'311CHIGAN DAILY 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY n_ - Patehin Faces Wildcats In First Home Game ,.. . Northwestern To Put Untried Team On Field Hillsdale, Michigan State Hold Wins Over Coach Stewart's Team Fisher Is Confident Northwestern Pitcher To Be Either Toni Woods Or Ray Kimbell With Art Patchin after his first Conference victory of the year. Mich- igan's baseball team opens its home season at 4:05 p.m. today at Ferry Field against the hapless, but none- the-less confident, Northwestern Wildcats. Coach Stewart brings a band of ball players who have not played as many games to date as the Wolverine club. Rained out of each and every one of its scheduled tilts on the spring train- ing trip, Northwestern returned to Evanston to play a few games with minor colleges with only fair success. The Wildcats tasted their first real competition against Hillsdale last Friday and lost, 4 to 1. Michigan State then took Northwestern into camp the next day, coming from be- hind to overcome a seven-run lead and win, 8 to 7. KALAMAZOO, April 22.- ()- Western State Teachers defeated Northwestern University 9 to 6, in a free-hitting game here this afternoon. While Coach Ray Fisher has already announced his pitching selection, it is not certain who will hurl for North- western in its first Big Ten engage- ment. Tom Woods the lone left-hand- er on the staff, who hails. from Pot Huron, is likely to start for the vis- itors, with the ps sibility that Ray Kimbell, veteran4 ..itcher, will get the ":: ;:. job. Woods relieved Kimbell in the State game, pitch ed the last four m- pings and gave up __ but 3 hits, only to pAtCIN be charged with the loss. Fisher is expecting Patch to be tough for Northwestern's hitte Michigan broke even with the Wild- cats in a two-game series at Evan- ston last year, and it was Patchin, working in the relief role in an extra inning game, who was credited with the Wolverine win. It is likely that Michigan will give Patchin better support at bat than in the first Ohio State game, when the Wolverines could get but one single off Ronnie Peters' of Ohio. In the second game with the Buckeyes Mich- igan showed signs of gaining its bat- ting eye, slapping out nine hits for eight runs, and enjoying its biggest inning of the season in the fifth, when seven hits were combined for seven runs. John Regeczi and Kim Williams have risen as Michigan's hardest and most consistent hitters. Regeczi leads his mates with a .500 average in Con- ference games. He has hit two singles and a double in six times at bat. Following are the probable lineups for both teams: Michigan Northwestern Ford, .... , ...3b Merrell....... ss Lerner, ........rf Henikof ...... 2b' Rudness ...... cf Arnquist ....... cf Paulson,.....2b Pederson ......rf Oliver ........ lb Shanahan ... .lf Regeczi..... .lf Collins .......3b Williams ....... c Walsh .......lb Ieitelbaum .... ss Claborn ........c Patchin .......p Kimbell or Woods, ...... p 18 Freshman Wrestlers To Get Numerals Numerals will be awarded 18 freshman wrestlers, it was announced yesterday. Those receiving numerals are: Jack I. Berryman, Ferndale; Robert C. Boebel, Snyder, N.Y.; Rowland Bolton, Birmingham, Ala.; Cecil Cam- eron and Earl Thomas, Cresco, Ia.; Carl A. Clement, Jr., Rossford, 0.; Harold Gandel, Buffalo, N.Y.; James H. Lincoln, Harbor Beach; Malcom Marks, Pottsville, Pa.; C. James B. Behind Patchin, These Eight Seek Their Ffirst Big Ten Win Today WILLIAMS OLIVER . TE ITELBAUM$ PAULSON FORD RUDNESS HEYLIGER REGECZI I * * STAR }DUST -By ART CARSTENS-- IF MICHIGAN WINS the Big Ten baseball title this year much of the credit will probably be due to Berger ,Larson, 23-yeeV-old junior from the sandlots of Chicago. Larson set Ohio State down with two hits last Saturday and has had only one earned run scored against him in the 21 innings he has pitched. Though few Michigan fans heard about him before last Sat- urday, the right hander is no night-blooming eucalyptus whose splendors appeared with the morning sun to charm an unsus- pecting world. Folks around Chi- cago know him, and know him well. He pitched the Ten Bruins (no relation to the three bears) to a Midwest League champion- ship last year, losing only one game all season. BILL RENNER will be sorry to learn that at least one present-day Michigan athlete entered school here when he did. Larson came here as a freshman in 1930 and won numerals in football and baseball, but was ineligible in his sophomore year. After that he dropped out of school, how- ever, until 1934. Now he is back again, a junior, although most of the newspapers refer to him as a sophomore. The boys say he is better today than. Whitey Wistert ever was, and Wistert was one of the best in the league last year. Though Saturday's game was his first appearance in a Conference championship tilt, he displayed none of the buck-fever characteristic of rookies. His years of play in Chicago have removed all traces of nervousness from his work on the mound. In fact, he is just a little bit disdainful of the brand of ball played in the Big Ten, saying that he was playing in faster company in the Midwest League. Dyed-in-the-wool fans are al- ready looking forward to the meeting of the "two best pitchers in the Conference" here May 4. On that day Illinois, regarded as the strongest contender for the title, comes in for a game with the Wolverines. Pitching for the Il- lini will be Hale Swanson. Pitch- ing for Michigan will be Earl Larson. Swanson, a sophomore just break- ing-in, already has twotshut-outs in two Conference games to his credit. He has set down Ohio State with three hits, and Wisconsin with six. He struck out 15 men in the Buckeye game and nine in the Badger tilt.' He's a pretty good pitcher. In 21 innings Larson has allowed one earned run, and nine hits, only two of which were really hard-hit balls. He has whiffed 24 batsmen. Maybe that will be a pichers' battle May 4. Mitchell, Cushing, Okla.; Howard A. Nusbaum, Toledo, O.; Frederic Olds, Lansing; Beach Pierce, Charleston; W. Va.; Edward Reed, Marion, Ky.; John Speicher, Reading, Pa.; and Hal Wilson, Dearborn. Ward To Run In Penn Relays This Week-End Track Squad Votes For Study In Preference To Drake Relays Willis Ward, who has been the mainstay of Michigan track teams for three seasons, will be the only Wol- verine representative in competition this week. Ward will make his first Eastern appearance in the Penn Re- lays Friday and Saturday at Phil- adelphia, but the remainder of the squad has declined to participate in competition at the Drake Relays. The squad, returned but a week from its second cross-country trip to meet the University of California, voted against going to the Drake meet, preferring to concentrate on scholastic work. The squad's decision was concurred in by Coach Charlie Hoyt, who remarked that a layoff would be beneficial to the team, which opens the Conference season here April 27 against Minnesota. The decision not to compete will probably eliminate the only chance for Michigan's crack two-mile relay team to appear in competition, al- though it was suggested that a record attempt might be made by the team in the benefit meet for Neree Alix to be held here April 30. Ward will be entered in four events at his own request in the Penn Re- lays, the 100-yard dash, the 120-yard high hurdles, the broad jump and the high jump. Gridmen Work On Passing In Initensive Drill Coach Harry Kipke sent the spring football squad through an intensive passing drill yesterday afternoon at Ferry Field. The session was marked by the defensive work of a backfield composed of Bob Cooper, John Smith- ers, Cedric Sweet and Chris Ever- hardus. The squad will be put through a punting session today and tomorrow, according to Kipke, and later on in the week more attention will be given to the other departments of the game. A scrimmage is planned for Saturday but the time is not certain as yet. Kipke indicated that it would prob- ably be held in the morning so as not to conflict with the baseball game with Wisconsin. If too many of the grid- ders have Saturday morning classes, the scrimmage will be held late in the afternoon. Kipke in his search for a center is trying Fred Olds, freshman wres- tler who has also been playing at the guard and tackle positions. Olds was used as a defensive center yesterday and showed promise of bdr-jandls and showed promise in breaking up the passes thrown by Bill Renner, and later in the afternoon, by Cooper, who was replaced in the defensive back- field by Stark Ritchie. In commenting on last Saturday's scrimmage at the Stadium, Kipke said that he was particularly pleased with the work of Sweet, Cooper, Ever- hardus, Renner and Olds. Sweet had gained in speed over last season while Everhardus' extra weight should be bene'ficial, he said. Renner's passing looked good and is expected to be an important weapon in the Wolverine attack next fall. Basketball To Feel Effect Next Year Of Pivot, Tip-Off Rules By RAYMOND GOODMAN As yet no official definition of the the "foul lane," which will be im- portant in effecting that the desired result of the new basketball rule to eliminate the pivot play under the basket, has been handed down. Until Oswald Tower, editor of the basketball manual, gives the word- ing it will not be known whether the lane includes that part of the foul circle behind the foul line or not. No matter what the final ruling is, however, certain effects will be evi- dent here next season. The pivot play will not be eliminated. By the new rule no man is allowed in the pivot lane more than three seconds, either with or without the ball. This means that the pivot man will be forced on the side of the lane, and it will be more difficult for him to make pivot shots. Timing Will Be Affected Timing will also be more compli- cated in executing the pivot play. Of; course, the new rule doesn't affect the figure eight or any other play which is based on a circling forma-! tion around the pivot man. In some ways the tall man will lose his advantage but he still will be valuable under the basket in fol- lowing in shots, for players are still allowed in the foul lane if scrambling for a loose ball. This piece of legislation comes at a particularly inopportune time for the Michigan basketball team for it was hoped that John Townsend, star freshman center, would be given an opportunity to use his outstanding passing ability under the basket next scason. Now some changes will have to be made in next year's plans. Other Rule Result of Fight The other important change made by the rules committee was a com- promise between the West and Mid- dle West. It says that there shall be no center tip-off after a success- ful foul attempt, but in its place the other team shall be given possession of the ball under its own basket. This rule is the result of a long fight on the par, of the western uni- versities to eliminate the toss-up at center after each basket. During the past season, the Pacific Coast schools played under a very different set of rules from those used by other sections of the country, by practically eliminating the tip-off. When the Stanford five toured this part of the country last season, their rules were used and some of the teams that they played were ex- tremely satisfied. Marquette, espe- cially, favored changes in their favor following the game that they played with the Indians. Tigers Fail To Hit, Losing To Cleveland, 5-0 Hubbell Hurls Four-Hit Game As Giants Go On Batting Spree To Win The Cleveland Indians defeated the Detroit Tigers in the deciding game of their three game series, 5 to 0, at Navin field yesterday, behind the three hit pitching of Willis Hudlin. Hal Trosky led the Indian batting attack with a single, double and triple, while Joe Vosmik hit a homer in the third inning with two men on base. Tommy Bridges showed signs of his last season form as he struck out six Cleveland batters, but between strike- outs he didn't seem to have much on the ball. Cleveland ......004 000 010-5 12 0 Detroit .........000 000 000-0 3 1 Hudlin and Myatt; Bridges, Sullivan and Cochrane. RED SOX DEFEAT NATS WASHINGTON, April 22. - (P) - The Boston Red Sox won their third straight victory over Washington to- day, 4 to 2; giving Wesley Ferrell his second victory of the year. Boston ............000 012 001-4 Washington......... 000 001 0 10-2 W. Ferrell, Walberg, and R. Ferrell; Whitehill, Russell, and Bolton. BROWNS BEAT WHITE SOX The Browns took the odd game of the White Sox series, 6 to 5, over- coming the handicap of Bonura's home run in the first inning, which scored three runs. 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