I THE MICHI-AN DAILY rAGE T Wolverines Start Season with Double Win over Ha vkeyes Iowa Collects Only Ten' Hits in Losing, 7-0, 20-2 Bowman Hurls Three Hit Ball in Opener; Manko, Willers Combine in Seven Hit Nightcap By BILL MULLENDORE With Bo Bowman hurling superb three-hit ball in the opener and Den- ny Manko and Al Willers combining to limit Iowa to seven safeties in the nightcap, Michigan opened the 1944 baseball season yesterday afternoon by taking both ends of a double- header from the Hawkeyes, 7-0 and 20-2. By far the outstanding highlight of the day was the masterful pitching of Bowman who garnered 14 strikeouts over the nine inning route. He was in trouble only once when he lo ded the bases in the eighth inning, but struck out pitcher Herb Preul to retire the side. Meanwhile the Wolverine hitters combed the offerings of Preul for eight hits including a lusty, triple to left-center by left fielder Bill Gregor in the fourth. Gregor scored the first run of the game a moment later on Don Lund's long fly. Manko Gets Call Michigan added single runs in the' fifth and sixth, and then sent over two more in each of the eighth and ninth innings. The scoring was aid- ed and abetted by eight passes and three Hawkeye errors at crucial mo- ments. Dick Ives was called in to retire the last man in the ninth after Preul faltered. The second contest saw Wolverine coach, Ray Fisher, send Manko to the mound in a surprise move after announcing that Elroy Hirsch would probably get the call. Iowa's "Wad- dy" Davis countered with Jack Spen- cer, -and for two innings the game proceeded on an even basis. Score 11 Runs in Eighth In the bottom of the third the Michigan batsmen junped on Spen- cer for three runs and' from there on in were never headed. They got three each in the sixth and seventh and in the eighth opened up with an 11-run barrage which drove both Preul and Ives, his successor, to the showers before Allen McCord could come in and put the fire out. Bruce Blanchard started things off in the big eighth with a single, and Gregor, Lund and Elmer Swanson followed suit, bringing in three tallies. Nussbaumer drew a pass but was forced' on Bob Stevenson's grounder to second. Manko and Blanchard both walked and Hirsch struck out. *Lund then singled and Swanson followed with a Keep It Up FIRST GAME MICHIGAN AB R H 0 A Farnyk, 3b....... 3 2 2 0 1 Ketterer, 2b ...... 4 1 0 1 0 Blanchard, ss ..4 0 1 1 1 Gregor,lIf....... 4 2 2 0 0 Lund,cof........ 2 0 0 2 0 Swanson, lb ,, 3 1 1 7 1 Wiese, rf........3 0 1 0 0 Stevenson, c .... 4 0 1 15 1 Bowman, p......3 1 0 1 4 TOTALS .....30 7 8 27 8 IOWA AB R 11 O A Bendorf,Z2b...... 3 0 1 2 1 Anderson,lb,.... 3 0 0 6 0 Hughes, ss...... 4 0 0 2 1 Dunfrundrf 4 0 1 1 0 Woodard, If .... 4 0 0 2 0 'Hansen, c ...... 2 0 1 4 1 Gildea,ocf....... 3 0 0 4 1 Hokanson, 31t .. 2 0 0 3 1 Preul, p......... 3 0 0 0 3 Ives,p .......0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS....28 0 3 24 8 lusty triple to the extremities. Nuss-I baumer brought him home with a base knock but Stevenson grounded out to end the inning in which Michi- gan tallied 11 times on only seven hits. Iowa found Manko for a run in the seventh on a walk and a triple by. Dick Woodard, his first of two during the game. Willers took over in the last frame for Michigan and was promptly greeted with Woodard's second three-bagger and a double by catcher Jim Hansen. He retired the side without further difficulty to end the 20-2 rout. The loss of the twin-bill practically knocked Iowa out of the Big=' Ten race, leaving them with a record of two wins and three defeats with only two more games scheduled. Several of the earlier Hawkeye tilts were rained out. Michigan, in winning, got off to a good start in the race and gave evi- dence that it will be a power to be reckoned with. Notre Dame invades Ferry Field Friday and Saturday for single engagements. * D *E SECOND GAME Track Squad Departs for Penn Relays Wolverines, Maroons To Represent Big Ten In Week-End Carnival By BILL LAMBERT Four members of the eight-man track squad which will represent Michigan in the Fiftieth annual Penn Relay Carnival, left this morning for Philadelphia and the Franklin Field where more than 2,000 tracksters will be competing on the 69-event pro- grain. Bib Ufer, Ross and Bob Hume, and John Purdue embarked with Coach Ken Doherty and trainer Lyle Ben- nett, and will be followed by Will Glas tonight and V-12 trainees Fred Negus, Jim Pierce, and Dick Barnard. The distance medley team, which is the only event the Wolverines are running in on Fri., will be composed of all civilians, Ufer, the Hume twins, and Glas. 20 Service Teams To Compete This year's meet is noticeably ef- fected by the war, inasmuch as 20 teams will be running for various branches of Uncle Sam's services. Numerous midshipmen's schools throughout the east as well as air bases and army camps will be repre- sented. Michigan and Chicago are the Big Ten entries; the south has Virginia and Duke; the east Army, New York University, Cornell, Columbia, Dart- mouth, Princeton, Villanova, Temple, Penn State, Colgate, and many others totaling up to 40 colleges in all. Many individual stars are entered at the carnival among whom are lanky Bill Hulse, the American record holder for the outdoor mile, Don Burnham, the crack miler from Dartmouth, Ollie Hunter, former Notre Dame star, now at Columbia's Midshipmen's school, and a host of others. Wolverines To Run Three Relays Saturday will be the big day for the Wolverines, and they will be toe- ing the mark in the three events. The four-mile relay squad, which is definitely going to be composed of the Hunes, Dick Barnard, and the newcomer, John Purdue. The two-mile quartet has only one tentative change, that being Ufer as the anchor man. However, with Bar- nard being troubled by a foot injury, Purdue may take his place with the baton. The mile relay foursome which ran Fto the Conference Indoor crown in 3:23.6 will be out to add more laurels to their collection. HERE TODAY ... By HARVEY FRANK Sports Editor STIR UP-Mrs. Payne Whitney's Greentree Stable has a Kentucky Derby entry in Stir Up, winner of the Flamingo handicap at Hialeah Park. Eddie Arcaro, noted jockey, is shown here on the son of Stimu- lus out of Lady Minnie. Golfers Prepare for Saturday Match with Bucks at Columbus' WITH the weather finally giving a halfway decent break, we took ourselves out to the ball games yes- terday to see Michigan in action against Iowa, hoping to get some indication of how the Wolverines will fare in future Conference battles. And we came away very pleasantly surprised. Michigan, according to practice dope, was supposed to have the hitting and fielding this season, but the pitching was one very big question mark. None of the hurlers had ever started a college game before, and one of Coach Ray Fisher's biggest worries was as to their reactions under Big Ten fire. Last night he could rest a little more peacefully. Bo Bowman, who pitched the open- er, looked as good as any Wolverine hurler did at any time last year, and put on a performance that, in our memory, ranked behind only the one - hitter that Mickey Fishman pitched against Northwestern in 1942 and the vain battle that Pro Boim fought against Great Lakes' host 'of major leaguers the same year. Bowman, while hanging up his first college win, allowed only three hits, all singles, and permitted only one visitor to get as far as third and two as far as second. At the same time he struck out 14 foes, walked only three and was behind only a few others. In the nightcap Denny Manko didn't do badly by himself either. Although hit harder than Bowman, he was charged with only five hits and one run, while fanning four and walking three. Both Manko and Bow- man are left-handers. However, the best exhibition of clutch pitching for the afternoon was given by an Iowa moundsman, Jack Spencer. It took place in the fifth inning of the second game. Charley Ketterer, the first man to face Spencer in the stanza lined a triple to right field. Then the Hawkeye hurler proceeded to strike out both Bruce Blanchard and Bill Gregor, two of Michigan's hardest hitters, and wound up the frame by forcing Don Lund to ground out to third baseman Bill Hokanson. Three innings later Patrick was shelled from the mound in Michi- gan's 11 run uprising. BILL GREGOR, who turned out to be the Wolverine's top hitter for the two games also found out how it felt to be the goat for awhile. Gregor opened the seventh by beating out a hit to short, but got caught on one of baseball's oldest gags, the hidden ball trick. Bill Anderson, Iowa's first sacker, kept the ball hidden in his glove while Spencer went through the act of getting ready to pitch. Then when Gregor started to lead off, Anderson calmly walked up and tagged him out. Gregor's chagrin wasn't eased a bit by the fact that Don Lund fol- lowed with a double, Elmer Swan- son got two bases on Dick Wood- ard's error and, after Bob Nuss- baumer had popped out, Bob Stev- enson, Manko and Mike Farnyk all singled. E VERYTHING seemed to go wrong - for the Iowans in the last half of the eighth inning of the second game. Second baseman Mary Bendorf made errors on tw'o consecutive double play balls, the outfield was guilty of throwing to the wrong base on more than one occasion, and Dick Ives, who had done a swell job of relief hurling in the opener, couldn't seem to find the plate after going in for Spencer. A third Hawkeye pitcher, Allen McCord, had to be called in, and he finally put out the 'fire by causing Stevenson to ground out after 14 men had already batted in the frame. "Keep A-head of Your Hair" Let us give you a new hair style!! TheDAS COfA Barbers Liberty off State MICHIGAN , Farnyk, 3b ...... Ketterer, 2b , .. . Blanchard, ss .. . Gregor, if ..... Lund, cf ....... Swanson, lb ... Wiese, rf ....... Stevenson, c .... Manko, p ...... , Willers, p ...... *Phelps, 3b.. .. * *Kell, 2b. ...... Nussbaumer, rf. Hirsch, If...... AB 6 3 3 4 4 5 2 6 3 0 0 0. 3 2 41 SR 0 3 0 3 3 0 2 1 0 1 1: .2 1 20 1i 3 1 2 2 3 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 20 O 1- 2 2 0 1 10 0 6 2 0 1 0 1 0 27 Wolverine linksmen, hoping to con- tinue their string of victories, had a long practice session yesterday after- noon in preparation for the match Saturday with Ohio -State at Colum- bus. Coach Ray Courtright has not defi- nitely decided who will make the trip, but he said that four or five of the six boys who played in last Saturday's tilt against Northwestern will be chosen. Jack Tews, Tom Messinger, Phil Marcellus, Paul O'Hara, John Jenswold and Duncan Noble were the team that faced the Wildcats and defeated them to the tune of 13-8. Tews and Messinger turned in the best cards of the day with respective scores of 77 and 79. Buckeyes .Will Be Tough Coutright remarked that the Northwestern match was tough but Ohio State is going to give the team a lot of competition. The 1944 Buck- eye linksters open their Conference play against Michigan with three veterans from the 1943 squad, sup- ported by three inexperienced fresh- men who carry the load in the num- ber four spot and in the doubles. Michigan's Schedule Michigan's golf mentor announced yesterday that Western Michigan has definitely been added to the golf schedule. The Wolverine golfers play the Broncos on the .same trip they play at Notre Dame, and on May 13 they will meet Ohio State and West- ern Michigan at Ann Arbor. The best ball matches will be played with the Buckeyes in the morning, and all three schools will compete for indi- vidual honors in the afternoon. , BoWis Win 7th Straight ST. 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