TIRU1R - P "' Y1. A, - 3- 19- THE MJICHIGA .N DAIL-Y PACR ..T HBR ......... ....... --.- ... ......... . . . . . . . . . ................ . ........ . ... . ....... . . . Evii-Un. Is Sceneeo BI Ten r- Tr~Il il t;4 Cindermei Vie for Title By EL) ZALENSKI Michigan's a pi ci e di W o lerines, 1943 Big Tien indoor I r:a: H aupions and winners (i the OU Or 8Lm1 five times in the asl ei ) yeai will seek to dethrone - ieiAAAii Ohio State Bllkey at nual Western (ci d('i w H I po ships tomorrow Evanston's Dyclhe hlaiiii B e a te n Iy I id ia u a: a n d <, ,[a p during the past 1 _ o t, for Conference j lid n and Blue thinclad, have nevei tL(, cd 18 team victories since the games were established in 1901, Illinois, victor over Michigan in a dual meet two weeks ago, appears as the outstanding challenger to the vi with Minnesota, Wisconsin! r and [iAna slated to hatt.e it out !c tihe next three spots. Chicago,' Ninc r Play Ohio Semi-Pro Team Today By JO ANN PETERSON Provided rain c-es not ai in dog the footseps ci L: h' unyluc Varsity Netters Open Play for Conference Title Today McNu New( WAS! Baseball contests strong p Nutt, th i r ! 7 ', 1 1 u iually the Conference doormat, may nine, it Will inee r.,(nu , ad the second division with the aid Sox, a semi-pro team rom Fremont, arles (Whitey) Hlad, former Ohio, at 4:00t 1his afternoon on the n Normal hurdler, now an latter's field. iniy me eurology student there. Lit tle is knOwn 0bout the Fremont I ! , !i!pr.eseefiHlad is one of the squad. Fi lhar has heard nothing n\ ons why Coach Ken Doherty ex- about the squad since the manager -laimed earlier this week that the of the team wrote him last summer erence championships would be requesting the game. Ray agreed a dual meet with complications." since Fremont is on the road to Col- S =ad will probably win the low and umbus where the Varsity nine is h1r hurdles which otherwise would playing Friday and Saturday. haVe gone to Michigan, thus taking Five Twirlers Mae t'rip s away from the Wolverines. Fisher is taking five pitchers, Pro niis' strength lies in its indi- Boim, Bill Cain, Mickey Fishman,~ vidual stars. In the dual meet against Dick Savage and Don Smith. Dick, Michigan, Bob Kelley outran Bob Drury, freshman hurler, would have Ufier, Wolverine's national indoor made the trip also, but has two ex- quarter-mile champion, and fresh- aminations Friday. man Bill Beile was clocked in 1:55.5 Aside from the regular starting! as he defeated John Roxborough in lineup Mike Farnyk, Bob Nussbaumer e 80-yard run. It is easy to and Charlie Ketterer are on the trav-' imagine both Ufer and Roxy turning eling squad. These three have accom- the tables Saturday. panied the team throughout the sea- l pericrity of Michigan's mile re- son, and have seen action in most y quartet is recognized throughout of the gaines although they rarely f ?ie Midwest. The Maize and Blue start.I Itma run 3:19.5 in beating Illinois, Today'. game will find "Killer"! S d that time is good enough to beat Cain on the mound. He had only a te Big Ten's best. light workout yesterday, but prac- .. . ,J M ." s I.d 'pt ry y t . .lvc.. iV.1"rt B «y([ .s: 1 [Ai . . i.4;c0 s, .{ ' - . ., .A' r+. xii: h '" ' M ',' ' .y S, r '...p i i c x:t NE-W SPORTSHIRTS. With lone sleeves $2.50 and up. Short sleeves, $1 .65 and up. i . _ 3 By GLORIA VREELAND With two doubles teams seeded at the top of their division, the Michi- gan petters began play today at Evanston in the Big Ten tennis championships, having only an out- side chance for victory, according to Coach LeRoy Weir. Of the eight teams entered in the meet, (Indians and Iowa are the ab- sentees) at least five have chances to win the championship, which' Northwestern captured last year. The live include Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan, Chicago and Northwest- ern. However, the Illini being the only undefeated team in the con- ference and the sole aggregation to conquer the Buckeyes this season, are naturally favorites. Buckeyes Strong Ohio State also enters the meet with high hopes, not only for team honors, but also for individual titles. Bob Wasserman, undefeated in con- ference battles this spring has ex- ticed under the bleachers both Mon- day and Tuesday in anticipation of today's game. The inactivity of the team has been especially hard on the hurling staff. Dick Walterhouse, first sacker was hit in the left leg by a thrown ball yesterday. The injury is not expected to handicap him. White, Stenberg Hit Well Yesterday's practice was marked by sloppy play which can be ex- pected after the long layoff the squad has had. However, both Paul White and Bob Stenberg were connecting often during batting drills. Friday's game with the Buckeyes, the first in a two-game series, will be a decisive one for the Maize and Blue. Fisher feels that if the first game can be won, the second should not be difficult, because the Buckeyes are pitching their star hurler in Fri- day's encounter. He is Don Grate, a freshman, who is unbeaten this sea- son. He struck out 12 men in his last encounter. Fisher is planning to start Boim in this game, hoping that his veteran hurler will be able to hold down the Buckeye stickers. Can Cinch Title If the Varsity nine can win both Ohio State contests it will cinch the Big Ten Conference title which it shared with Iowa last year. If it loses even one game the possibilities of winning will be practically nil, as Wisconsin still has four games to play, and would only need to win three of them to better the Varsity record. Major League I B g cellent prospects for copping the singles crown. Jim Lothrop is Illi- nois' big contender in the top singles division. However, Michigan's prom- ising freshman, Roger Lewis, showed the Illini ace some tough competion when he forced him to go three sets, but finally succumbed in the last one 7 to 5. Downs, Northwestern Ilope The Wildcats have one of the most outstanding prospects for the title winner in the person of Naval Aviation Cadet Roger Downs. Downs, who formerly attended the University of Illinois, has lost only to Wasser- man this year. The Wolverines, sad to say, have had a rather poor showing in con- ference battles this year. They lost all four of their Big Ten matches- all of them by heart-breaking scores of 5 to 4. Johnson and Bradley Strong However, the number two doubles combination of Captain Jinx Johnson and Roy Bradley won all but one of its matches this season, thus earning the honor of being seeded in its di- vision. Merle Brown and Roy Bouch- er would up the season undefeated and will also be seeded in the meet. Johnson looked as if he were head- ed for a great season when he won his first three matches of the cam- paign, but his three recent set-backs at the hands of Chicago, Ohio State and Northwestern prevented his en- tering the championships as threat to the other title seekers. Ray Courtright In 15th Year With Michigan By JEAN GASKELL Introducing Ray Courtright, sin- cere friend, great coach and teacher of Wolverine linksmen for fifteen years. "Corky" came to Michigan in the fall of 1927 with a brilliant personal athletic record behind him, and sev- eral successful years as coach of teams in the West. A twelve letter man in his college days at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma, Courtright won honors in football, basketball, track and baseball. Coached Tennis, Too Leaving his coaching job with the Colorado "Aggies," Courtright came here to take charge of the "B" squads in football and basketball. In the spring he alternated between the ten- nis and golf chores. He coached his tennis team to the Big Ten dual matches championship one year, be- fore specializing in the golfing de- partment. Golf was an entirely new game to him when he began coaching the linksmen. He took lessons from sev- eral good pros, later taught during the summer at golf courses in the northern part of the state. Chuck Kocsis and Johnny Fisher, star golf- ers for the Maize and Blue in the thirties gave him a chance, he says, to see some great exhibitions of the game at its best. Great Teacher "Corky" is one of the best teachers in the business. All the team mem- bers will testify to this. Whenever anything goes wrong he can spot the difficulty immediately. Then prac- tice begins with the coach standing by t.o make sure that the mistake is not unknowingly repeated. Court- right is always out with the team. Daily practice rounds with the men are just a part of his accepted and pleasurable routine. Michig tii . ( .750 SBaseball's sconin 4 2 .66 ti .-ius Bsebll' Ioa.............. 4 .600 Odd Hour Games Illinois......... .... ... 3 3 .500 KING(3NMay 2,-{P}-Minnesota.,. ... ..... . 3 .500 INTON, May 12.- )- Ohio State.............1 1 .500 1 in general, and off-hour Chicago...............0 2 .000 in particular, received a Northwestern .... 0 4 .000 lug today from Paul V. Mc- Purdue................0 0 .000 e nation's manpower boss. Indiana..............0 0 .000 when teha~o... ~- p~ 8 *f0 ~:Z~~\\ l ( andsabt. 1343. Tvoli Browias Co. Detroit, Mirk. / This is dcfi iJ season. For Ann _tI c ver;rti_ A 1 EI)')L' it's the thing to eep up wit I the weather. 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Tigers Gain Third in AL DETROIT, May 12.-(A)-The De- troit Tigers gained another 15-inning victory today by staging a rally cli- maxed by Ned Harris' single to cen- ter field with two out that scored pinch runner Charles Metro from third for a 3 to 2 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. The triumph tightened Detroit's hold on third place in the American League race. Hal Newhouser of the Tigers opposes Roger Christopher on the mound tomorrow. L BE PUBLISHED DOkING SUMMER SCHOOL The Michigarn Daily will be published five days a week Never since Courtright became coach have the Wolverines finished lower than third in the Conference. From 1930-1935 Michigan golfers and their coach gave the school five consecutive Big Ten crowns in golf. This coming Monday and Tuesday 1943's golf squad will be fighting to retain the crown won by last year's aggregation. -)> PREVENT SCORCHING ON HOT APPLIANCES APPLIANCE END OF CORD IS FRAGILE- AVOID DROPPING during regu!ar ihe summer semester. 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