SATURDAY, MAY .29, 1937 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PACE THREE SATURDAY MAY 29.1937 P.E.T..E Spanish A.C. Mi Beats Hawks ASIDE LINES T For I-M Title By IRVIN LISAGOR 7 Athletes Tally 9-3 Victory IM Awad Pending... Gai For Independent Crown; LAST FALL the powers-that-were of the sports staff conceived of the O Daily Individual Performance Award, to be presented to the outstanding H Hendrix Pitches Well athlete in the Intramural league. I-M officials are now busy poring through the files and compiling points, the ultimate total of which will determine Fil By MIKE NEAL the award winner. He is chosen on a basis of number of points participated will In a game featured by the pitching in and team success. The I-M authorities report that the winner will East of Don Hendrix, the Spanish Ath- probably have partaken of from 12 to 15 different sports. For such versa- Mich letes beat the Jay Hawks 9 to 3 to tility, a man deserves recognition in a permanent form. And The Daily will noon win the Independent softball title yes- announce the lucky individual on Wednesday morning of next week. the terday at South Ferry Field. While hAnn his teammates were getting to the Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, on South Ferry Field, the red- Tht two Hawk pitchers for 10 hits and pencil wielders of the English dept. encounter the linguists of the tnat eight walks, Hendrix allowed only Romance Languages in a softball siesta. It may sound like the man brooding of a disappointed grammarian, but it strikes me as an Burt ingout sn6.sexcellent opportunity for the student to make subtle retaliation Co ing out 16. against his faculty oppressors. It would be an act of discretion, that The Jay Hawks opened the scoring however, if the razzes and Bronx cheers remained anonymous, in view of h with two runs in the first inning. Af- of impending finals. send ter fanning the first batter, Hendrix *nwith walked Ed Wisniewski. Then Leo Fiegal found one of Don's fast balls The 220 nxtidale to his liking and slammed a home run over the right fielder's head. FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON three of Michigan's brightest out Spanrgtd's Lead. F prospects in the 220-yard run have never quite reached Varsity compe- John After failing to scare in their half tition. Disappearance, ineligibility and injury have been advanced as causes. agai of the first, the Athletes pushed three In 1928 Victor Leschinsky established a freshman outdoor mark aga runs across the plate to take the lead. of :21.3. With equal rapidity he passed out of the collegiate picture, righ After two were out, Chet Stabovitz, never returning to Michigan for reasons unknown. In 1932 George ,Co hurling for the Hawks lost control Hitt negotiated the distance indoors in :23.4 to set the one lap fresh- had and walked Hendrix, Bob Frailing, man record in the event. He tripped over the scholastic hurdles and year and Don Rivette to fill the bases. All quit school as a result. In 1936, Roy Heath, a still b.righter prospect, staff three romped home on the strength tied Hitt's indoor mark and lopped two tenths of a second off Leschin- part of Forest Keown's lusty triple to left. sky's eight-year old outdoor record. In his first start against State this hard The Athletes put the ball game on season, Heath pulled a tendon and hasn't been able to compete since. two ice in the third when they scored four Incidentally, Bob Collier's winning time for the 220 in the Conference hitti times. Herm Ulevitch cracked a meet last week was :21.1-the same as Heath's last year. C single over second and went to third * * * * walk when the second baseman muffed Bob DOTS AND DASHES-A Cleveland baseball scout, watching Illinois play is sa Dewitt's hard grounder. Both men Spani were safe on the error. Roger Nor- Northwestern Wednesday, remarked that the only actual playing field that whe ton drove Ulevitch home with a rivals the Illini diamond is Minnesota's, which has no seats for the fans . . sity single, and Hubbard also singled to The scout reveals the limited extent of his traveling, for Michigan has one his( send in Dewitt. Stabovitz fanned of the best bail yards in the Conference . . . Besides, an infielder could easily Lan the next batsman but again walked break his neck going back after a fly ball at Illinois, for the infield there inni Hendrix and Frailing, forcing in Nor- is elevated almost a foot . . . cien ton. Diegal relieved Stabovitz on the Jake Townsend, cage captain-elect, shot-putter and discus man, to c mound and induced Rivette to ground makes his third trip to the Pacific Coast in six month when he entrains to Ed Bloom at short forcing out Hen- for the East-West and National meets in a couple of weeks , . . The In rx at thir but allowing Hubbard to best things Jake likes about the jaunts are eating on the trains and ag Jay Hawks Score the 6 foot 8 inch bunks on the new streamlined rattlers. setti Hendrix handcuffed the Hawks in gain the fourth but in the fifth they mom- MesTJ entarily found their batting eyes to Mechanic ISKd Ton y M aneroieT score their last run. Jack Brennan nra k fienc slapped a single over second and went In c urserackL aIefou all the way to third as the short field- Lsele er fumbled the pickup. After- get- INDIANAPOLIS, May 28.-(/P)- take ting a new lease on life when the Frank McGurk of Los Angeles,. G olTourney wee catcher dropped his foleaguer back crashed into the southwest wall of__ that of first to send Brennan home, the Indianapolis speedway late to- PITTSBURGH, May 28.-()-Na- can The Athletes scored their last two day in qualifying for the 500-mile au tional Open champion Tony Manero runs in the sixth. Rivette singled and tomobile race and was taken to a hos- took the sweetest victory of his life H Keown was safe when the third base pital, apparently in a serious con- today and joined Denny Shute, Ky man ,after making a nice pickup of dition Laffoon and Harold "Jug" McSpaden I his grounder, made a low throw to in the semi-finals of the Professional second trying to nab Rivette, who McGurk's car, an eight-cylinder Golfers Association championship. went to third on the play. Ulevitch rear drive entered by Murrell Belan- Gor Aociatio hamponshN got his third hit of the day, a double der of Gary, Ind., turned over sev- Four down at the end of 27 holes for to send both runners home. eral times after crashing through the to Harry Cooper, the man he "robbed" Det __sen _b__hrunnrhome inner wall. Albert Opalko of Gary, out of the Open title, little Tony rat- stru his riding mechanic, also was in- tied off seven pars and two birdies and Tue I jured and taken to the hospital, ascended the Field Club's mountains FC where he died. with a one up lead. met * r .Opalko's death was the second re- Cooper, badly shaken down the the Tennis Finals sulting from racing car crashes at stretch, squandered 40 shots on the the the speedway during the day. last nine. The nearer he got to the stat Earlier, George Warford of In- home hole the wilder he became. At "I WD11dianapolis, a spectator, was killed every vagrant shot he seemed to have said and four other persons injured when a vision of Manero's magnificent cuss a speedster driven by Overton Phil- finish at Baltusprol. T Kalamazoo, Grosse Pointe lips of Los Angeles crashed into the Steady as the Field Club's hills, gitis Are Class A Favorites On crowded pits lining the front stretch Shute defeated Jimmy Hines of Gar- long of the track. den City, N.Y., 4 and 3. gua Ferry Field Courts Prep school tennis stars from all over the state played through the first two rounds of the finals of the State Interscholastic net tourney yes- terday at the Ferry Field courts and looked forward to clear skies and 1 completion of the meet today.1 A total of 152 players, the men of winning teams in the sectional meets JLV5AvV(6W V V 0 began the tourney in Class A B and C divisions for the annual trophy awards. Forty schools are represent- ed. St IT In the Class A division Kalamazoo and Grosse Pointe stand as the fa- vorites to cop the prizes, the former having one player left in the singles and a team in the doubles. Grosse Pointe has two doubles teams left for the semi-finals and finals this HILLEL FOUNDATION, B'NAI B'RITH ST. PA UL'S LUTH morning. Lansing Eastern, the de- Oakland and East University. (Miss fending champion, has one doubles Cal.ThardnvndyLa team left. Saginaw, Owosso and Dr. Bernard Heller, Director. Cor. Third and Battle Creek each has a man in the 10:00 A.M. - Morning Sunday School Carl A. Brauer, singles. Open House. 9:30 A.M. - Chur In Class B, East Lansing, the de- 10:45 A.M. - Morn fending champion, looked as if it Branches," ser might repeat, with a singles player Fairground Cl and doubles combination still in the FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH running. Grand Haven and Dowa- giac each have adrepresentative in Revn Temple, at 327 South Fourth Ave. FIRST METHODIS both singles and doubles. Also left Re. W. P. Lemon, Mnse in the running are Allegan with a Miss Elizabeth Leinbach, Assistant. Corner State and player in the singles competition and 10:45 A.M. - "Forgive Us Our Virtues." Rev. Charles W. P Western State with a doubles team. A Memorial Day service. Sermon by the 9:45 A.M. - Stu In the Class C-D division the title Minister. Student choir and double quar- Carrothers. is a toss-up with eight teams repre- tette. 10:30 A.M. - Morn 5:30 - Outdoor meeting of the Westminster ject: "The Un sented in the final rounds. East Ta- Guild at the home of Prof. O. S. Duffen- 6:00 P.M. - Wesl was, Lowell, Vicksburg, and St. Al- dack, 2107 Devonshire Road. Hall to go tot phonsus of Detroit all have one man annual Seniorl in the singles. Teams in the doubles will speak on which will open the semi-finals in- Fellowship hou elude Detroit University High, Stan- BETHLEHEM EVANGELICAL CHURCH- dish, Tawas City and University High South Fourth Avenue, near Packard of Ann Arbor.Re T . R.r h a ne, a r PR TkPrdC Play in the semi-finals and for Rev. T. R. Schmale, Pastor FIRST BAPTIST C the championships, both singles and 9:00 A.M. - Early service (conducted in Ger- East Huron betwe doubles in all the divisions will stirt man) 10-45 A M -Srm ichigan Nine o Play State This Afternoon me At Lansing Is First If Series; Spartans Play [ere On Memorial Day fteen Varsity baseball players leave by auto this morning for Lansing where they will meet igan State's Spartans this after- in the first of a two game series, econd of which will be played at Arbor on Memorial Day. e same team will make the trip went to Hillsdale last Tuesday iding pitchers John Gee, Her- Fishman, Johnny Smithers and Smith. ach Ray Fisher stated last night he is still uncertain as to which is four available hurlers he will to the mound to start the game the Spartans. He left his choice the last minute before the Hills- game and pulled the right man of the bag for the game. It was Gee, who pitched hitless ball nst the Dales. Coach Fisher n hopes that he can make the t last-minute choice. Pitchers Collapse ach John Kob's State nine has a rather disasterous season this due to a collapse of the pitching and a batting slump on the of most of his hitters. Milt Lehn- t and Steve Sebo are the only in the line-up who have been ng the ball at a consistent clip. )ach Fisher doesn't expect a :-away however. George Hill who ated to take the mound for the rtans is a very effective hurler n he is "on." However, the Var- had a great deal of trouble with offerings in the game at East sing last year. Only in the final ngs did they get to him suffi- tly to push across enough runs linch the game. Kobsmen Seek Revenge spite of ltheir poor showing nst other competition so far this the Kobsmen have hopes of up- ing the Varsity and would like to revenge for the double defeat of year. he Wolverines are still exper- ing hitting trouble although all of the pitchers that Fisher has cted for the trip look ready tc the mound today. All of this k's drills have been turned ove tly to batting practice in the hope the slugging "Gas House Gang' regain their batting eye. opes Of Recovery For Cochrane Soar EW YORK, May 28.-(J')-Hopes the recovery of Mickey Cochrane oit baseball manager, who was ck in the tempie by a pitched bal sday, soared today. r the first time, Dr. Robert Em- Walsh, chief in attendance fon stricken baseball star, came out o1 sick room with an encouraging ement. am encouraged, definitely so,' Dr. Walsh. He refused to dis- the case further. he danger of secondary menin- or infection of the sinuses, whic- have bothered Mickey, still wa rded against by physicians. Michigan Baseball Collapse Due To Slump In Witching, Hitting By BUD BENJAMINc What happened to Michigan's base-i ball team in 1937? What caused the promising Gas c House Gang of the spring to nose dive in mid-season and end up the year] among the also-rans?t What does the future hold in store1 for Michigan baseball after their poor season? Analyzing the success or failure of a team in any sport is a precarious business. Prosperity in athletics is considered by many a cyclical affair' -with the bad years being as inev- itable as the good ones. Yet, in re- hashing the 1937 baseball season, definite causal factors become ap- parent as reasons for the team's flop -factors which discard inevitability in favor of more concrete reasoning. Conference Crown Contenders When the Wolverines left their musty Field House abode this spring and headed for the more favorable climes of the South, they were doped as outstanding contenders for anoth- er Conference crown. The champion- ship team of 1936 had lost five of its mainstays, Captain Berger Larson, John Jablonski, Joe Lerner, Carl Fer-1 ner and George Rudness, but therel were plenty of replacements. Down South, they took up right where they had left off in 1936. Pounding the apple at 306 clip, they won four games and lost two-a good record for any spring trip. The team was hitting, the pitchers were doing nicely, and it looked like another crown might not be an idle dream after all. Herm Fishman, stocky junior southpaw, who in his first year had won eight games for the Wolverines led the mound corps with Burt Smith and veteran John Gee lending as- sistance. Fishman too continued his '36 ways, holding Ohio State to three hits in his first game and giving Mich- igan a victory in their Conference opener. didn't help matters, the Varsity beat- ing only the weak Boilermakers. The Gas House Gang was taking it on the chin. Interspersed, however, among the losses were wins over Toledo and Wes- tern State Teachers, which, although! they may have aided the team's rec- cord, didn't make them look any bet- ter. Season Proves Bad An even bread with Minnesota, and John Gee's no hit victoryuover Hills- dale brings the season up to date. And a pretty bad season it has been. Why did they lose? First, they didn't have reliable Berger Larson to step in there when the going was tough and turn on the heat. The pitching staff fell far below expecta- tions. Then the team couldn't hit. Their average today is below the .200 mark. For example, Vic Heyiliger who hit over .300 last year ard led the Con- ftrence in runs batted in, hit below .100 this year. He had plenty of com- pany too,sfor only Steve Uricek bat- ted consistently. Thirdly, the loss of Brewer, whether psychological or actual-was felt. How much is impossible to say. Only Three Graduate Yet all is not failure. Only three men: Gee, Heyliger, and Patanelli- graduate. The mound corps will be intact, with two good yearlings in Bob Annis and Russ Dobson coming up to lend a hand. Leo Beebe, whose puissant whip made him one of the most feared catchers in the Confer- ence, should develop into a real star. So, should Danny Smick, Walter Peckinpaugh and the other sopho- mores. Yes, 1937 was a bad year. The team disappointed its supporters and coach as well as itself. Yet, barring the unforseen, 1938 should mark a definite form reversal. Michigan teams have a habit of doing that. 17 Freshmen Get Numerals For Baseball Coach Bennie Oosterbaan an- nounced the awarding of freshmen baseball numerals yesterday to 17 members of this year's yearling squad. Of this number only five are out of state men. According to Coach Oos- terbaan five or six of his better pros- pects were made ineligible last se- mester. The men receiving awards were John Barry, New York City; Ralph Bittinger, Detroit; Hyle Carmichael, Wayne; Herbert Cross, Grand Rap- ids; Russell Dobson, Ann Arbor; For- est Evashevski, Detroit; Howard Greenberg, Dayton, Ohio; Thomas Netherton, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Charles Pink, Detroit and Bruce Ran- dall, Detroit. Other athletes winning numerals were Dean Ray, Gobles; Michael Rod- nick, Chicago; Joe Savilla, Gallagh- er, West Va.; John Schuler, Royal Oak; Virgil Scott, Hazel Park; Hor- ace Tinker, Battle Creek and Fred Trosko, Flint. TIGERS BEAT BROWNS DETROIT, May 28.-OP-Roxie Lawson pitched his eighth victory of the season today as the Detroit Tig- ers took both ends of a doublehead- er from the St. Louis Browns, 6 to 5 and 7 to 2, and climbed into second place in the American League. Hank Greenberg's eighth home run gave the Tigers their margin in the first game, Beau Bell hit one for the Browns with Vosmik on-base for the only St. Louis runs off Lawson in the second. STROH'S PABST BLUE kIBBON FRIAR'S ALE At All Dealers J. J. O'KANE, Dist. Dial 3500 fa Lose To Iowa The season progressed in due fa-f shion, a lone defeat at Iowa marring an otherwise perfect record. 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