_ _ r w1 ' . THE MTAiI-S i A ir Tt F# Tr . . . . . . .............. - -ram--- Baseball Squad To Fort Custer Saturd Army Team Has Three Veterans; Vars Reds Trounce Second String Blues, 12 By JOAN LINDSAY Coach Ray Fisher's diamond crew, which was rained out of the season's opener against Oberlin, will once again attempt to start the 1944 cam- paign in a doubleheader with Fort Custer there Saturday. The Fort Custer squad has had plenty of experience for everyone of the team has played either semi-pro or professional baseball before don- ning khaki. The team's chief draw- back is not lack of ability but finding time for outdoor practice. All of the men have been on ten-hour duty which has necessitated holding prac- tice at night, indoors. Won 37 Games in '43 During the 1943 season, the team won 37 of their 45 games which in- cluded two wins over the House of David ball club. Although Fort Cus- ter lost eight of their regulars from last season to overseas duty, the line- up still includes three veterans. Among the veterans is Fort Cus- ter's ace pitcher, Corporal Bill Ev- ans. Last year "Wild Bill" turned in a record of 15 wins, two losses, and two ties. He has a record of six years of professional baseball and has play- ed in several first classminor league circuits. The other half of the battery on the Post team is Sergeant Harry Wang who is also the coach and manager. Reds Trounce Blues In the daily intra-squad game the Reds thoroughly trounced the Blues by a score of 12-0 which featured the pitching of Jack Olson, a freshman civilian for the regulars, who was on the mound 'for the first time, and some very excellent fielding in the background by the varsity. Olson went the whole nine innings and gave up two hits and no runs. He received practically perfect support in the field. Varsity Pounds Schmidtke Fisher's ace right hander, Dick Schmidtke, pitched three innings for the second stringers, and the varsity pounded him for seven runs and sev- Mel Ott's Homer Gives Giants Second Victory NEW *YORK, April 19.--(P)-A home run by manager Mel Ott, his first of the year and 464th of his ma- jor league career,- enabled the New York Giants to win their second straight over the Boston Braves, 2-1, today. Ott's homer came in the first inn- ing with George Hausmann, who had walked, on base. Meet Browns Take Second Straight; i Nip Tiger's 3-4 0 Sundra Chucks Three Hitter; York Knocks 'Homer for 1,000th Hit DETROIT, April l9.-( P)- Big Rudy York joined the American League's exclusive 1,000-hit club to- day by belting a home run, his first of the season, but it was the only run the Detroit Tigers got as they dropped their second straight game to the St. Louis Browns, 3 to 1. Steve Sundra, 33-year-old right- hander who is awaiting military call, pitched a three-hitter against the Tigers. York's homer was the first safety, and catcher Bob Swift singled in the fifth. The other blow was pinch hitter Chuck Hostetler's loop- ing single in the eighth. All told, only seven Tigers reached base, three on hits, three on walks and one on Don Gutteridge's error, the only miscue of the game. Meanwhile, the Browns took ad- vantage of rookie Ruffus Gentry's faulty control to score enough runs to win. Gentry yielded seven hits before giving way to a pinch hitter in the eighth, and Johnny Gorsica al- lowed one hit in the ninth. Gentry walked eight and Gorsica passed two. The Browns left 14 runners stranded. Two walks, a wild pitch and Gene RD '--one of Moore's looping single scored a run erine baseball in the first. The Browns got another Ly be shortstop run in the fifth when Hal Epps drew ho as a soph- a pass, advanced two bases on George third base last McQuinn's single and scored on Ver- printer on the non Stephens' fly. he indoor sea- That was enough to win, but just pond combines to make sure the Browns scored again d fielding abil- in the sixth. Milt Byrnes opened racted several with a double and beat Roger Cram- er's throw at third base on a close play after Mark Christman's fly. Byrnes scored on another fly, this lg Bill Gregor one by Frank Mancuso. a-base blow of York, starting his ninth season in he first inning. Detroit uniform, belted the first pitch Hackstadt went in the fourth for his homer into the mst tevars lower left field seats. He thus gained me hit. Ralph admission to the club whose mem- mound and fi- bership consists of a dozen other and two hits in players now active in the league. The Lndtwohit in1,000 -hitters include teammates Cramer and Pinky Higgins. In two games the Tigers have has looked very scored two runs, both on homers. pnsition, turn- Higgins hit one in yesterday's opener performance of with two out in the ninth. our hits out of The Tigers will attempt to salvage u hthe last game of the series tomorrow, put his number with lefty Hal Newhouser opposing Pro Footballpwz's Hold 3=Day lleeot j For 19 4-4 Draf t, k PI1ILA13FLFUTA, April The National Football League tackl- ed the manpower problem today and wiped out most of the restrictions that would have hampered the pro- fessional clubs in their efforts to re- plenish depleted rosters through to- night's draft of college players. Opening their three-day spring meeting, the club owners devoted about nine hours to discussing an el- igibility rule that would permit a wide choice of players without en- 1 croaching upon the rights of col- leges, and came up with a resolu- tion that says in effect that they may sign any athlete who isn't ac- tually playing college football. 'They agreed that any player whose ' class has graduated from college is eligible to play pro football and that players who have left school or whose colleges have discontinued football also may be signed for the coming season with the permission of the league office. Graduation will be regarded as taking place four years after matriculation in any college, including junior colleges, regardless of whether the player still is eligible for intercollegiate competition. Under 1944 rules, a player who fin- ished college in less than four years, r through an accelerated course of study, will have his choice between playing professionally or, in many colleges, returning to take more courses and to play more football. Arne Andersson Refuses Bid To Run in America STOCKHOLM, April 19.-(I')-Ar- ne Anderssoh, Swedish running ace, announced today he would not ac- cept an American invitation to, ap- pear with his fellow-countryman, Gunder Haegg, in the Randall's Isl- and meet in New York in June be- cause there was no' guarantee he would be able to return to Sweden within a mopth of his departure. GEORGE ME'I'KC3VICII--Stellar Red Sox first baseman, slides safe on third on Ford Garrison's burst in, the first inning of American League opener with World Champion New York Yankees at Boston. BRUCE BLANCHA the brightest Wolv stars this season ma Bruce Blanchard, w omore played regular year. He was a sp track team during t son, and on the diar speed with hitting an ities that have att major league offers. en hits. Hard-hittin bagged the only extr the day, a double in th Left hander -Jack I for two innings, again and held them to of Strem then took the nished the game whic sity make five runs ' the ninth. Infielders Work Out Mike Farnyk, who) good at the third base ed in the best hittingi the day by getting f five trips to the plate. Coach Ray Fisherp one infield combina Swanson, Charlie K Blanchard, Mike Fa Stevenson through as finish 'off the afterno Greene Signs With Packers John Greene, burly tackle on last fall's Wolverine football squad and outstanding Big Ten heavy-weight wrestler, has cashed in on his grid- iron ability and last night signed a contract to play with the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League. Greene, who was rejected from mil- itaxy service because of a punctured ear-drum, was made offers by the majority of the clubs in the league, but finally signed with the Wiscon- sin team where Ed Frutig and Bob Ingalls, both former Michigan stars, had played pro-ball. The Packers finished second in the Western Division last season, and ac- cording to early reports have not lost too many men to the Armed Forces. This fact is a good indication that they are good threat to the Divisional crown and the Playoffs which follow. Major League Standings American League St. Louis .......... Chicago ............ Philadelphia, ....... W 2 I Boston ............. 2 New York .......... 1 Washington ........ 0 Cleveland .......... 0 Detroit ............ 0 National League W New York .......... 2 St. Louis 1 Chicago ............ 1 Philadelphia ........ 1 Cincinnati ......... 1 L t 0 0 l 2 I 1 I 2 I 2 T L 0 0 1 . 1 1 1 I 2 Pct. 1.000 1.000 "1.000 .666 .333 .000 .000 .000 Pct. 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .500 .500 .000 .000 Cole Outlasts _ effy To Win 3tA Marathon Close ]Dual features 26-Mile Boston Grind BOSTON, April 19.-OP)-=Wiry Gerard Cote, of Montreal, outlasted i plucky Johnny Kelley, of West Acton, k in a gruelling duel through the last five miles today to win his second successive Boston A.A. Marathon and the third of the last five of these pa- triot's day classics. The pair ran almost shoulder to shoulder the last five miles"after Kel- ly had overhauled the flying French- man in the heartbreaking hills of Newton. The lead changed constantly with neither holding more than a yard"ad- vantage at any time as each jockeyed for position and for the hoped-for spurt which would leave his rival be- I hind. For a time it seemed that this was at last the day for Kelley, who has been "so often a bridesmaid" since he won the event in 1935. Tradition, too, was running with Kelley for no one has won the event two years in a row since the legend- ary Clarence Demar, absent from the field for the first time in years, ac- 0 complished the trick well nigh two 0 decades ago. 6 Before Demar, only J. J. Caffrey, of 3 Hamilton, Ont., was able to duplicate 0 his 1901 triumph in 1902. 0 White Sox Trim Tribe In Belated Season Opener } CHICAGO, April 19.--- R) --The 0 Chicago White Sox handed the 0 Cleveland Indians a 3 to 1 trimming in the delayed season opener at Co- o miskey Park today before 5,705 fans, 0 as Orval Grove held the Tribe to sev- 0 en hits. 0 Chicago ......100 010 10X"--3 10- . 1 0 Cleveland .....000 000 010-1 7 0 0 Smith, Harder, Calvert and Mc- Donald; Grove and Turner' Dodgers Win on Single s PHIT APEIPHIA, April 19.-(A',)- Paul Waner's pinch single in the t tenth inning scored Connie Smyers J with the wining run as the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Philadelphia - Blue-Jays 5-4, today, to even the I series. 4r Brooklyn ........... Pittsburgh Boston ............. 1 0 0 PGA SPONSORS SUMMER PROGRAM: Nelson, MeSpaden, mood, Byrd Form Big Four in Tournament CHICAGO, April 19. - VP) - The Professional Golfers Association of America is mapping a ten-tourna- ment summer program-the richest tion of Elmer etterer, Bruce rnyk and Bob stiff workout to on. rookies Sigmund Jakucki or Newman and probably the most cut-and-dried Shirley. Detroit then goes to Cleve- in the game's history. land for a four-game series and to War bond prices estimated at $150,- Chicago for two before returning 000 will be awarded during the three- home to meet Cleveland. month campaign starting with the $17,500 Philadelphia Invitational I . June 8-11. A combine of four play- H il.chcocii D ies ers-Byron Nelson, Jug McSpaden, Craig Wood and Sammy . Byrd - n 'lane Crash threatens to monopolize the bonan- zas. They are the only outstanding "V attle talk Polo Star Reported Killed over England NEW YORK, April 19.-(9)}-Lt.- Col. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., one of America's famous polo players of all time, was killed in an airplane crash at Salisbury, England, yesterday, his family announced tonight. A member of the family said the crash occurred during a routine flight, and not in combat, so far as was known here. Hitchcock was assistant military attache for air at the American em- bassy and commanded a P-51 Mus- tang group in the 9th Air Support Command. The polo player's nephew, Thomas Hitchcock Clark, of Westbury, N.Y., recently was reported missing on a bombing raid over Europe. The polo player, known as "Tom- my" to thousands of sports fans in the United States and England, was engaged in his second war. As the youngest member of the Lafayette-Escadrille in World War L he shot down two enemy planes. He was shot down and slightly wounded himself, was captured and later es- caped to 'Switzerland. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1944 VOL. LIV Na. 114 All notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten form by 3:30 t p.m. of the day preceding its publica- tion, except on Saturday when the no- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices Honors Convocation: The 21st An- nual Honors Convocation on Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m., in Hill Audi- torium, will be addressed by Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States. There will be no aca- demic procession. Faculty members will assemble in the dressing rooms in the rear of the Auditorium and proceed to seats on the stage. Aca- demic costume will be worn. Re- served seats on the main floor will be provided for students receiving honors for academic achievement, (Continued on Page 4) championship contenders remaining in circulation, and, among them, won seven of nine meets on the revived winter tour which paid off $100,000 in bonds. McSpaden took four of the titles. Also on the Golden Summer Trail will be such "name" boys as Willie Goggin, Johnny Revolta, the Texas Open Champion, Toney Penn, Harry Cooper, Jimmy Hines, Ed Dudley, Gene Sarazen and possibly even Walter Hagen. From time to time such service- men as Chick Harbert, Jim Turnesa, Dutch Harrison and Clay Heafner may get furloughs and strengthen the entry lists. But the PGA will be able to guarantee the appearance 1 of only ten "big shots" headed by the Nelson - McSpaden-Wood - Byrd powerhouse. Red Sax Take Double Header f roan Yankees BOSTON, April 19.- VP) -Tom Yawkey's farm system outshone the New York Yankee variety today as George (Pinky) Woods and Emmett O'Neil, two Louisville products, hurl- ed the Boston Red Sox to a double patriot's day victory, 6-1 and 5-2, over the world champions. Crowds totalling 17,026 saw the usual am and pm routine. New York ....... 010 000 000---1 9 3 Boston .........001 005 0-0X-6 6 1 J. Johnson, Turner (6), Page (7) and Garbark; Woods and Conroy. Riddle Hurls Three Hit Ball To Stop Chicago Cubs CINCINNATI, April 19.- (IP)- Backed by Elmer Riddle's three-hit hurling, Cincinnati's Reds trimmed Chicago today, 2-1, on the strength of Ray Mueller's fourth-inning dou- ble with two mates on base, and evened the series at one game each. Don Johnson, a sparkplug in yes- terday's opening day Bruin triumph, doubled in the sixth for his team's only extra-base blow, advanced, on Phil Cavaretta's fly to right and scored on Bill Nicholson's drive to Dain Clay in center. Attendance was 1,766, against yesterday's 34,154. Spri gait a its rQ'sSwnp Time! at ItABIlIEAU=IIARIRIS .. . 0 Best Values Obtainable at whatever price you wish to pay! i. L, S 0 S SPRING IS HERE Let us cut and blend and shape a hair style to fit yt ur person- ality and need: THE DASCOLA BARBERS Liberty Off State -*Wow* ,! . yj" '. i F i000A!o"". ' \ I W DON'T MISS THESE RE, CEP u r ,.\,*t I r, 3 THE CURTAIN RISES - Quentin Reynolds.. . 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