, . , 1, 1944 THE MiCHIGAN DAiLY PACE 1~DiA~ MA~ 4 1944 PAO~ ~Efl~ olveritne Nine Engages Broncos Here Western Squad To Give Michigan Close Battle Coach Fisher Nomninates Bh-wian, isch.I. For Mound Duty; Team Meets Perry Sumlay By BILL MULLENDORE With four straight games already safely registered on the win side of the lever, Michigan's baseball team will seek to extend its victory string at the expense of Western Michigan this week-end when they take on theI Broncos in a two-game home series. Western likewise has' a perfect record in four contests to date, marred only by an 11-inning 3-3 tie with Northwestern. The Broncos. coached by John Gill, eked out a 4-3 decision over Iowa, swamped Fort Sheridan 10-0, and Tuesday pounded out a 5-2 win over Fort Custer. Biddle and Louthen Starj Western Michigan is paced by two ace pitchers, Warren Biddle and Ray Louthen, who have both proved very effective this season.B iddle, a south- paw, was with the team last spring and hurled in one of the two games between Western and the Wolverines. On that occasion, he was shelled from the mound in the early innings and Michigan went on to win, 12-11. In the return contest at Kalama- zoo, Biddle was called in from the bullpen -in the later stages of the game to protect a two-run lead and pitched three scoreless frames as the Broncos won, 4-2. Bowman and Hirsch To Pitch .Both Biddle and Louthen have made one start, Biddle being dead- locked in the Northwestern tie, and Louthen getting credit for the Iowa .victory. PDiddle will probably work in Friday's game, while Louthen will go to the mound Saturday. Wolverine coach, Ray Fisher indi- dated that hewouldprobably nomi- niate his ace port-sider, Bao Bowman, for the first tilt, and righthander Elroy Hirsch for the second. Bowman has notched two victories against Iowa and Notre Dame, and Hirsch has a single win in as many starts against the Irish. Michigan will be playing four games in five days, going to Camp t- Perry, O., Sunday and returning for a contest with the Grosse ~e Nava 4 Base team Tuesday afternoon. Right- hander Dick Schmidtke will prob- ably make his initial start Sunday; with Denny Manko seeking his sec- ond win Tuesday.I I I Six Linklo meii Seek ho0nors iM. a t rMeets Michigan's golf team, after bowing to Ohio State 12-6 last Saturday, is now making preparations for two matches this week-end when they will be seeking honors at Western Mich- igan and Notre Dame. Coach Courtright said that one of the reasons for the Buckeye victory was that the Ohioans had about two weeks more practice than the Wol-J verines, and this accounted for their better than average game. Also the rolling greens of the Ohio course pre-' sented quite a problem to the link- sters and consequently there were a large number of three-putt greens. The putting difficulty probably was the major factor for the defeat. Mich- igan's golf mentor remarked that when Ohio State plays here May 13 the decision may be reversed because by that time the golfers will have had the needed practice and will be hitting their stride. Tews Is Low Man The low manfor Michigan was Jack Tews who turned in a 79, but he could not keep pace with the Buckeye's star linksman, Dick Peter- son, who scored a 71 for the day. In last year's Conference golf champion- ship Peterson placed third among the Big Contestants. The only victory for the Maize and Blue came during the best ball matches when Capt. Mar- cellus and Messinger defeated Love and Spilker. Michigan also halved two singles matches. Michigan in Triangular Match This week-end the Wolverines will travel to South Bend where a tri- angular match will be held between Michigan, Notre Dame and North- western. On this same trip Coach Courtright's charges will also play Western Michigan but "Corky" has not definitely decided who will go. He said that six players will be cho- sen, and probably the five golfers, who were at Ohio State plus one oth- er will make the journey. The golf- ers most likely to play are Messinger, Tews, Marcellus, Jenswold, O'Hara, and either Noble, Welling or Burke.I Track Squad Pretiees for Outd ot' La/eet Ufer-Keley Duel To 1 ighlight Meet; Relay Te irms Also( torupele Having made one of the best per- formances displayed by a Wolverine track squad at the Penn Relays, the thinclads settled down to a hard workout yesterday in preparation for their first Big Ten meet. a triangular affair, with Illinois and Pu-due here a week from Saturday. Coach Ken Doherty ran the squad through a vigorous workout for this meet which promises to be a preview of the Big Ten Championship to be held at Champaign next month. It will be the only outdoor meet, to be held here this season. Young Sparks Illitii All the first and second place win- ners from the Big Ten indoor meet except three will be on hand. The three exception are Russ Thomas in the shotput and John Schmidt in the pole vault, both from Ohio State. Heading the Illinois aggregation will be Buddy Young who is National AAU Junior Champion in the 100- yard dash and who last Saturday at the Drake Relays won this event and the broad jump as well as an- choring two Illini relay teams to victory. The 440 will feature Michi- gan's Bob Ufer who will attempt to avenge last year's defeat in the out- door meet at the hands of Bob Kelley of Illinois. Ufer beat Kelley in the Big Ten indoor meet this year. Battle Wages in Mile Relay - Michigan's mile relay team which was one of the best in the country indoors and which ran a 3:21.8 at Philadelphia Saturday in finishing third, will compete against the Illinois quartet which turned in a 3:21.1 at the Drake Relays. Maj or Leagte Stan1'dingS rida Saturday LOlVdowi on Sports . by UD LOW Associate Sports Editor Iaseballs All-T ime t a m . .n . , VERY YEAR about, this tim ' , octwrit.ers ruargue the old debates about who should be picked for a ball s H ll. of Fame, or who should be picked for the all-time nine. Tis month the Esquire Sports Poll lists the choices of ten experts. together with the choices of the general public, of what they consider the greatest player of all time in each of the nine positions. This is how the public picked their all-time players (percentage of votes cast listed after player's names): P Walter Johnson.......46.72I Christy Mathewson . .28.69% 2B 3B s LF CF RhF Bill Dickey.......... Lou Gehrig......... Eddie Collins Pie Traynor........ Hans Wagner ....... . Ty Cobb ............ Tris Speaker ........ Babe Ruth .......... 54.53, 68.10 ) 31.351; 40.09