WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Varsity Nine Prepares For Strong Ih ni Invasion Saturday Indians After Seventh Win In Conference Larson To Face Swanson Or Berg In Mound Duel; Illini StrongAt Plate Believing it to be a necessary fact that everything which goes up must come down, Ray Fisher's pennant chasing Wolverines will Saturday af- ternoon assume the role of giant kill- ers and go about the herculean task of lowering Illinois' perfect six game won and lost average in what should be the outstanding game of the 1936 home schedule. So far this season Coach Wally Roettger's Illini have made a clean sweep in Conference competition to boast a percentage of 1.000, having taken two games from Ohio State, two from Northwestern and one each from Purdue and Chicago. Michi- gan, Minnesota and Iowa are also undefeated in Conference play. Have Good Hurlers A pair of right handers, Hale Swan- son and Howie "Ice" Berg, stand at the head of the Illinois hurling corps, and it will probably be Swanson who starts on the hill at Ferry Field Sat- urday. If the weather man comes through with a warm day, a capacity crowd should be on hand to witness the Wolverines in their acid test. A defeat at the hands of the Il- lini would go far towards eliminating Michigan from the championship class, while a Wolverine win would establish the Fisher charges as fa- vorites to cop their first Conference crown since 1928. Michigan's strike out king, Capt. Berger Larson, will get the starting assignment as Michigan pitcher. So far this season in 28 innings he has fanned 35 men, not a small feat in any league. If the weather is suitable Berger will have more than an even chance of curve balling the invading Illini into their first Big Ten defeat. Illinois will present a strong veteran lineup to local fans that apparently possesses a world of power, both of- fensively and on defense. The latter is centered in the excellent control and Ohility of the hurlers. In the field the left side of the infield seems weak- est. Are Heavy Hitters At the plate the middle of the Il- lini batting order is by far the strong- est section. Capt. "Red" Duffner, first baseman, is a heavy hitter but in late games has given way to Freddie Reinhart, left fielder, Ed Danisak, center fielder, and Murray Franklin third baseman, in the race for the Illinois batting crown. During the season's play the Il- lini have dropped but one tilt, that to Notre Dame when Andy Pilney, the great Irish back who led the way to the victory over Ohio State last fall, drove out a long hit with the bases loaded in the ninth to assure his team a 5-4 win. Michigan Normal Star Signs With Detroit Lions Charles Hanneman, Michigan Nor- mal all-around athletic star Tuesday signed a contract for the 1936 season with the Detroit Lions according to Coach Potsy Clark he will be a can- didate for an end position. Hanneman, rated by many critics as the outstanding wingman in the State last fall, is the third Michigan college star to join the Lions. Huron, Varsity Nines Rained Out; Play Today Coach Ray Fisher and his hard- hitting baseball club were forced to wait 24 hours in their try for the season's eighth victory when rain made playing Michigan Nor- mal yesterday impossible. The game will be played this after- noon, weather permitting, on the Ypsilanti diamond. Gee and Fishman are still slated to hurl against the Hurons, thus giving the Ypsi nine plenty of southpawing for one afternoon. Matt Patanelli will probably be on first base for the Wolverines, Lerner being moved to the outfield in place of Rudness whose injured ankle is still giving him trouble. Steve Uricek, also suffering from a slight injury, will be replaced at second base by Mike Miller. The game will start at 4 p.m. Sullivan Leads Tigers To 8-1 Win Over Nats Greenberg And Goslin Hit Homers As Bengals Gain Fifth StraightVictory WASHINGTON, April 28. - Uip) - Hank Greenberg, who tied with Jim- my Foxx for American League home run leadership with 36 last year, got his first of the 1936 season today as the Detroit Tigers beat Washington 8 to 1 in their eastern debut.- Goose Goslin also got a home run, his second of the year. Greenberg coupled his circuit clout with a double and a single in four times at bat. He and Goslin eachbatted in three runs. ThesTigers got 12 hits in all, for 22 bases. The victory brought the Tigers within half a game of the League- leading Cleveland Indians, who lost today. They trail the second place Boston Red Sox, who won today, by seven perecentage points. Joe Sullivan, making his first start of the season, allowed the Senators eight hits, but he scattered them well. Only in the fifth inning, when Wash- ington clustered three hits for its only run, did he give up more than one safety an inning. Manager Bucky Harris, of the Sen- ators, attempted a bit of psychology by sending Ed Linke against the Tig- ers. Washington has blamed Man- ager Mike Cochrane, of the Tigers, for making the protest that caused League president Will Harridge to outlaw a pocket heating device Linke used during the spring to keep his pitching hand pliable. Cochrane de- nied it, but the accusation aroused one of those minor feuds that make baseball players hurl invectives at each other. Linke did not do so well. The Tig- ers got to him for nine hits, including both home runs, and shelled him from the mound, with none out, during a four-run attack in the sixth. Henry Coppola succeeded Linke, and the Tigers fell on him for three more hits and three runs in three innings. Jack Russell pitched the ninth inning, and gave up no hits. BATTING LEADERS April 28.- UP) - Baseball's big five was still led by Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants. g ab r h Pet. Terry, Giants ..... 9 24 4 12 .500 Medwick, Cards ... 9 42 4 19 .452 Moore, Giants .....11 48 15 21 .438 Lombardi, Reds . . . .10 37 8 16 .432 Gehringer, Tigers . .11 51 16 22 .431 Jesse Owens Again Softball Games Sports f Da Speculation Rife As Derby Day Are Cancelled -Approaheis; Irevi4y Rated 1igh a n By Ra n (By the Assocated Press) expected courage in the face of de- By FRED BUESSER ing to fini'h second and third is feat, Mrs. Silas B. Mason's He Did Saturday that moment comes likely to supply the country's book- established himself as a definite Ken- again. Other moments may appioxi- makers with a lot of money. Postponement Of2tucky Derby threat today when he mate it but nothing can truly rival Tilts Necessitates New whipped seven other eligibles. includ- the single >emi-fiushed moment just sngsi e hpedhighly h reg e d Slam before the running of the Kentucky far the most outstanding of the en- Speed-UpIn Schedulerde Grnd la In Schedufrom the Bomar Stable of Detroit, in Derby. tries by reason of his winning of the the one mile of "the trial" stake at Only the nervous staccatto remarks Florida Derby at a mile and an For the second consecutive day the Churchill Downs. of high strung spectators break the ; eighth in 1:48 and 1/5, equalling the Intramural softball games were _-- stillness of that moment when, with world mark set by Discovery in 1935, rained out yesterday causing the SALT LAKE CITY - Capt. George the sun gently lowering itself into J. E. Widener's brilliant performer postponement of over 20 games al- Eyston of London, seeking a flying the surrounding blue hills, the prize fu ither established himself as a heavy ready this week and setting the whole mile" record for Diesel-power auto- three-year olds of the country step favorite when he copped the Sopho- schedule behind with a speeding up mobiles ,said today he will make his gingerly into the starting gate far up more Purse at Churchill last Sat- of the softball program due for the first run Thursday. The speed test the home stretch on the historic urday. next week. will be made in his "Flying Spray" on Downs. Muttered curses and prayers The Fighter, winner of the Texas According to an announcement by the Bonneville Salt Flats -- scene of rise and fall in rumbles of unison as Derby, and outstanding western Earl Riske, assistant director of the Sir Malcolm Campbell's 301-mile-an- first one and then another of the horse, has shown none of Brevity's I-M, yesterday's games will be played hour sprint last fall. great thoroughbreds breaks through speed while Grand Slam, whose sen- Thursday while Monday's postpone- _- the barrier. sational victory in the Arlington Fu- ments will be scheduled for a later CHICAGO, April 27.-The pro- One Of Breaks turity after being left at the post date as yet undecided. The man- hbto fMjrLau aebod aes of the competing teams will hibition of Major League game broad- Suddenly, as if done with a wall of established him as a good bet, has agers b tehoehn te ime casts into Minor League territory will glass, there is a split second when not shown a great deal this spring. i ebe demanded tomorrow of Kenesaw the whole field is in direct line with Granville A Good Bet The Phys. Ed. team, defending Mountain Landis, commissioner of the starter. For just that fraction Teufel and Granville who ran one- champions in the independent divi- baseball. that Mir Leaue fans of a second the hush over the crowd two noses apart in the Wood Mem- sion, played its first game Monday, becomes an electric tension--a ten- orial at Jamaica last week are two meeting Plowhorse A.C. The game was lsen tt d League sion that is shattered by the jingling, horses that should be given serious called with one and a half innings games rather thanattend contests in clangy surge as the tattoo of slashing consideration, but at even weights of play completed and the defending their own city, the Minor Leaguers whips blends into the lowcrescendo Granville whobcan run s day nd champions leading 4 to 0. DickprtsetoCmiinrLadso of "hyr off." Every spectator in on has speed to burn, deserves the nod Forsyth was on the mound for Plow- have the broadcasts stopped. his toe tips as the sprinters fight for' over Mrs. H. C. Phillips' stretch run- horse while Dwight Butler, fast ball the rail on the first turn. ner, even with the crafty Litzenberg- artist, was hurling for the Phys. Eds. 1Truck Coach Must Saturday's Derby, the 62nd in the er in the saddle. It will be the Michigan track team against Jesse Owens (above) again this Saturday when the Var- sity trackmen will travel to Co- lumbus to meet Ohio State in the first outdoor Big Ten track meet. Last week Owens nosed out Sam Stoller, Wolverine star, in the 100- meters and broad jump at, the PennRelays, setting a new carnival mark in the 100-meters with a time of 10.5. Ali Baba After Recooimtion As New Mat King DETROIT, April 28. - (P) - The glowering Ali Baba, billed as a Turk- ish wrestler, made ready to leave to- morrow with his promoter-manager, Adam Weismuller, in an attembt to get the New York State Athletic Com- mission to change its decision refus- ing to recognize him as the new heavyweight champion. Weismuller, informed of the ad- verse ruling, was determined to seek a "voluntary hearing" before the commission to argue his claim that Dick Shikat lost his title here last Friday night. "Ali Baba is the best wrestler in the ring now and h2 can prove it," challenged Weismuller. "The commission was misinformed about there being a foul when Shikat was tossed out of the ring. Shikat came back afterward and was pinned by a body press. "The bout here was advertised as a championship bout and ought to be considered one." Weismuller blamed other promot- ers for the New York ruling. "Every promoter is fighting for profits," he said. "Every time there is a new champion somebody wants to get a piece of him and if he can't he attempts to block him." Weismuller still has hopes, he said, of putting Ali Baba in the ring with Big Chief Sanooke at Madison Square Garden. The Sigma Alpha Mu-Trigon tilt went three and a half innings yester- day before rain halted the game. S.A.M. was leading, 3 to 0, with the Trigon team failing to touch Jerry Dick, S.A.M. pitcher, who seemed headed for a no-hit game. Sigma Alpha Mu scored all of its runs in the first half of the fourth when Tom Ayres, Trigon hurler, walked Hy Gass and Bill Levy and then yielded a homer to Marsh Samp- son. All contests stopped because of in- clement weather must go at least four innings before they will be recorded as full games. The faculty league will open next Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. So far three clubs have entered including the Chemistry, Physiology, and Geog- raphy teams. At least three teams are expected to enter before the start- ing date. Irish Backs Hurt As Damsels Watch SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 27. - A little demonstration of how the famed Notre Dame football teams make an off-tackle smash, put on for the benefit of some St. Mary's College girls, sent two Irish football stars to the infirmary today with major injuries and caused another to be treated for lacerations about the face. Shakespeare was supposed to be the blocking back, Mazziotti the ball carrier and Gleason the defensive back. As Shakespeare started off tackle he tripped on a root and fell. Gleason tackled Mazziotti and as they went down his knee hit Tony in the face, lacerating it. Mazziotti fell on Gleason breaking his rib. Shake- speare's fall resulted in a severe in- jury to his right leg. He and Gleason were taken to the infirmary. COLLEGE BASEBALL. Illinois 4, Northwestern 0 Wisconsin 4, Illinois Normal 3 /Develop Unknowns Into Point Winners By BUD BENJAMIN Track stars are rarely born great, in fact so rarely that they play a comparatively small part in the suc- cess or failure of a track team. Ac- cording to Track Coach Chuck Hoyt the greatest percentage of track lu- minaries are developed at the Univer- sities of the country, and more often than might be suspected eventually surpass the "advance build-up man" in ability. In Coach Hoyt's opinion, high school experience is unimportant in the success of a track man providing- he has natural ability and the ambi- tion to succeed. "The real job of a coach is not to give instruction to I stars like Eddie Tolan, Willis Ward, or Sam Stoller," stated Coach Hoyt. "These men," he continued, "come to college with enough knowledge of fundamentals and like to be a success and in their case a coach acts as a supervisor rather than as an instruc- tor." Coach's Real Job According to Coach Hoyt a coach's real job is in the development of the unknowns, the men who come to col- lege without any experience and who . make up the bulk of a successful team. "Take the case of Mike Savage over there," he began, pointing to a husky figure who was engrossed in a maze of complicated calisthenics. "Mike never threw a discus in his life before coming to Michigan, yet last year he tossed it 140 feet to take a fourth in the Big Ten meet." Among other examples, Coach Hoyt cited the cases of Tom Ellerby, track captain in 1933-34, who had never history of the American turf, prom- ises to be one of the greatest of the modern era. Were it not for one horse, it would be safe to say that the 1936 Derby field contains as evenly matched a group of outstand- ing three-year olds as renowned Churchill Downs has ever seen. Ties Discovery's Mark The outstanding nominees ,save one, have beaten each other with confusing frequency over varied routes at differentweights, and the question of just what horses are go- If enough of Detroit's citizenry at- tend the Derby they will back the odds on the Boman Stable's Grand Slam down to slim figures, but al- though Grand Slam should be at his best by Derby day and finish fast in the last eighth, unless the track is sheer gumbo, it looks like Brevity, Granville, and Grand Slam, FRITERNITY JEWE LRY Burr, Pc A NOTHING ELSE HAS ITS FLAVOR Also Imperial Yello &ol* $1.50 i _ _ ________1 done any work in track whatsoever prior to his coming to Michigan, of Rod and Bill Howell, both of whom became crack distance men despite the absence of any measurable prep- aratory school experience. 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