SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1944
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'f ITH the withdrawal of the Uni- even the weaker squads in the
versity of Chicago from the Big Conference.
Ten a precedent has been set which, Although Chicago at the present
although it is not likely to be fol- time is planning to return to the Big
lowed by other Western Conference Ten after 1945, or at least after the
schools, is nonetheless of interest. war, the chances are that under its
Ch'cago, which was one of the present system of education, Chicago
founders of the Big Ten, has felt it will never regain the athletic super-
necessary due to a shortage of men, iority that was at one time the envy
to discontinue intercollegiate ath- of other colleges.
letics for the 1945 season at least. At present Chicago is matrieulat"=
This action on the part of Chicago ing students during their last two
was the only fair thing that the years =of high school, so that the
Maroon University could do, since average entrance age is approxi-
at the present time Chicago ath- mately 15. Most of' the students
letics are not comparable to those graduate while trey are still well
in other Big Ten schools. Chicago under 20, and it is small wonder
has a number of Army and Navy that Maroon squads for the past
trainees o campus, but there are few years have been manned al-
far fewer military men stationed most entirely by players much
there than there are stationed on yaesnger and more inexperienced
any of the other Conference cam- than those playing on other Big
puses. Ten teams.
As a result it has oeen imnpossible With this progressive system, Chi-
for Chicago coaches to train enough cago may find it difficult ever to re-
enter Big Ten circles on an equal
players to form adequate squads to footing, but it is certain that if Uni-
compete with teams from other Big versity officials determine to come
Ten schools. This winter the Maroon back into the Conference again in
basketball team ended up at the tail every sport except football, the Ma-
of the Conference, and neither the roons will be eagerly welcomed by
net squad nor the baseball team has oseir Big 'Ten mentors.
shown any strength this spring, that Chicago will do after the
Chicago gave up football in 1939 war remains a question mark, but
at the recommendation of Presi- from the viewpoint of all con-
dent Robert Hutchins, for much cerned, under existing conditions,
the same reason that it is now dis- tlh.e University of Chicago has done
continuing all sports. Hutchins the only fair thing, the thing which
foresaw in his plans for the Univer- shows an understanding of sports-
sity that there would be no possi- nianship which has always been
bility that Chicago could produce an outstanding characteristic of
teamns; capable of competing with the Maroon athletic policy.
'T HE CO LON EL'S' C AP ERS :
Renner Stars as Utility Man on
1944 Edition of Baseball Nine
Baseball Squad Swamps Newhouser Hurls Five itter as T igers
Hoosiers in Hitting Spree' efeat Athieties 2-I in Ten Inning Contest
Lund, Swanson Pound Out Three Homers;
Bowman, Hirsch Chalk Up Hurling Triumphs
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 27.-
(-)-Elroy (Crazy Legs) Hirsch, re-
turning just before game time from
Champaign, Ill., where he placed
third in the broadjump of the Big
Ten track meet, pitched a four-hitter
Today as Michigan beat Indiana in
both ends of a baseball doubleheader,
14 to 3 and 12 to 1.
With Michigan gathering 15 hits
in each game for its biggest batting
attack of the season, it was easy for
Hirsch and lefty Bliss Bowman to
maintain their undefeated pace. The
twin victory gave Michigan a 6-0
record as Big Ten leader with two
games remaining.
Hirsch, who arose at 5 a.m. today
to make the 250-mile round trip to
the track meet, missed a shutout in
the nightcap when the Hoosiers
Nation's Grid
NEW YORK, May 27.--GP)-There
was so litltle football talk in the lobby
of the hotel where the National Grid-
iron Coach's Association starts its
first wartime study of the rules to-
morrow that a quarterback rehears-
ing signals would have been mistaken
for a tax expert.
The two-day session gets under
way tomorrow with a report on foot-
ball in various sectors. Most of the
fireworks, however, is reserved for
Monday when the mentors survey the
playing code.
Although the National Collegiate
Association- rules group, of which
Lt.-Col. William Bingham of Har-
vard is chairman, has decreed there.
will be no changes for the duration
of the war, there has been agitation
for revisions.
"Generally speaking," said Lou Lit-
tle of Columbia today, "there are five
items the coaches would like to have
the rules committee to consider.
"First, is the out of bounds kickoff,
then the forward pass behind the line
of scrimmage, permission to run a
fumbled ball, a less severe penalty of
a forward--lateral pass if the lateral is
also tossed forward and elimination
of the clock-'stopping for substitu-
tions."
Big Ten coaches met at Chicago
last Thursday and reached a gentle-
men's agreement to do away with
the out of bounds kickoffs but even
that wasn't being discussed by early
arrivals. Reports were that the coa-
ches, meeting here at the call of
their president, Lt.-Comm. Matty
Bell of the Georgia Pre-Flight school,
might do 'likewise.
scored in the sixth. He contributed
a triple to the attack and scored a
run.
In the opener, Bowman pitched a'
five-hitter and was backed by threej
homers, two by Don Lund and one!
by Eln r Swanson. The first game'
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DETROIT, May 27.-(P}-Hal New-
houser pitched the Detroit Tigers into
the American League's fifth place to-
day by cashing in on a five-hitter in
the tenth inning when Pinky Higgins
scored on an infield out to defeat the
Philadelphia Athletics, 2 to 1.
Newhouser, gaining his sixth vic-
tory against three defeats, salvaged
the final game of the series after
Philadelphia had won three straight.
The Tigers thus took their first home
victory in seven games and second
triumph in 14 starts at Briggs Sta-
dium this season.
While the .Tigers gathered ten hits
off Lanky Russ Christopher, they
had only an unearned run to show
for the regulation nine innings. That
came in the second on Edgar Busch's
error, but the A's got that back in the
third won singles by Irvin Hall and
Ford Garrison, sandwiched by a sac-
rifice.
Philadelphia 001 000 000 0-1 5 2
Detroit .... 010 000 000 1-2 10 1
Christopher and Hayes; Newhouser
and Richards.
Chisox Take Y: ank ees, 4=3
CHICAGO, May 27.-(P)-The Chi-
cago White Sex gained an even break
in their curtailed two-game series by
defeating the New York Yankees 4-3,
today, before 4,561 spectators
Bill Dietrich became the first pitch-
er to conquer the Yankees twice this
season, allowing them eight scattered
hits. The outcome snapped a four-
game winning streak of the New
Yorkers and ended a five-game losing
streak for the White Sox.
New York .... 020 010 000-3 8 1
Chicago .. . ..201 010 00x-4 8 0
Bubiel and Hemisley; Dietrich and
Tresh.
Browns Defeat Ilosox, 4-2
ST. LOUIS, May 27.-(P)-The St.
Louis Browns moved back to second
place today by dezeating the Boston
Red Sox 4 to 2 behind the four-hit
pitching of Jack Jakucki.
The Red Sox scored once in the
first inning when George Metkovich
opened the game with a trip}e and
crossed the plate on an infield out,
and picked up another counter in the
second on a walk, stolen base and an
error.{
St. Louis .... 111 000 300-6 9 1
New York .... 000 111 100-4 12 2
Munger, Gumbert and W. Cooper;
Melton Polli, Adams and Mancuso.
ter's ninth inning double bringing
in the run that gave them a 3 to 2
win over the Boston Braves.
It was the Cubs' fourth straight
win over the B
were tied two to
Reds Bhlrnrk aou geis., 2 Don Johnson
run of'f in the
BROOKLYN, May 27. -()- Cin- single and was
cinnati's Reds blanked the Brooklyn nbyg Bill Hadm
raves and the teams
o two in the ninth.
started the wining
last inning with a
sacrificed to second
After Henry Wyse
Dodgers, 2-0, today, behind the six-
hit pitching of Ed Huesser, and push-
ed Brooklyn deeper into seventh
place, only one half game ahead of
the up-and-coming Chicago Cubs.
Curt Davis, veteran righthander,
moved along on even terms with Heus-
ser until the eighth when the Reds
scored on a single by Max Marshall
and Gerald Walker's double.
Cincinnati . . 000 000 011-2 7 1
Brooklyn .... 000 000 000-0 6 3
Heusser and Mueller; Davis and
Owen.
Braves Lose to Cubs, 3-2
BOSTON, May 27.-(P)---The Chi-
cago Cubs chalked up their seventh
straight victory today with Bill Schus-
rr, a~raa a~aaa.a
grounded out, Schuster's double to
right center brought Johnson home.
Chicago ......200 000 001-3 11 0
Boston....002 000 000-2 6 2
Wyse and Hoim; Barrett and Hof-
ferth.
Tribe Wins in Twelfth, 5-4
CLEVELAND, May 727.-(AP)-With
the bases filled, Jeff Heath smacked
out a 12th inning single today to
shatter a 4-all deadlock and give the
Indians a 5 to 4 decision over Wash-
ington.
Wash. ... 000 000 130 000-4 7 2
Cleve. ... 202 000 000 001-5 13 1
Wolif, Lefebvre, Carrasouell and
Ferrell; Kieins, Heving, Smith and
Rosar, Susee.
Whenever Baseball Coach Ray
Fisher needs a man to fill in a posi-
tion for a practice game, his eyes al-
most invariably alight upon the
elongated form of general utility man
Art Renner to do the job. And Art
Renner always responds with a cred-
itable performance wherever he is
told to play.
"The Colonel," as he is known to
his teammates, has done everything
from pitching to playing right field
during the course of the season, and
in addition has appeared as a catcher,
first baseman, and third baseman at
various times.
Starts as Hurler
Renner started the spring cam-
paign as a hurler, drawing Fisher's
attention because of his strong arm.
Just when he seemed to be finding
the range on the mound, his activities
were suspended for three weeks by
an ankle injury and by the time he
got back in shape the personnel of
the mound corps was pretty well set.
Then began Renner's tour of duty
at most of the other positions on the
diamond. Whenever a member of the
first or second team teas absent from
practice it was Renner who took his
place. Sometimes he didn't do so
well in the strange surroundings, but
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was always in there trying and
laughing at his own mistakes.
Best as a Catcher
Fisher is most impressed with his
work behind the plate, one of the
few positions at which he has had:
some experience, where his strong
throwing arm is a constant threat to'
unwary base-runners. But with two
such stalwarts as Bob Stevenson and .
Elmer Swanson ahead of him, there
is little chance for Renner to break 1
into the lineup.
Renner will probably never appear
in the box score of a game, becausec
he is a notoriously weak hitter and
does not possess enough all-around
ability to oust any of the regulars1
from their places. But, nevertheless,
the "Colonel" is one of the most val-
uable and best liked members of the
squad in the eyes of coaches and
players alike because of his ability to1
play almost anywhere and his never-
complaining disposition.
Enter NCCC
DETROIT, May 27.-/P)-National
champion Pauline Betz of Los An-
geles and the colorful Francisco
(Pancho) Segura of Miami, Fla., are
top entries in the National Clay Court,
Championships starting here June
12, the Iietroit Tennis Club an-
nounced today..
Miss Betz will defend the clay
court title she won here last summer,
while Segura will bid for the cham-
pionship won in 1943 by Seymour
Greenberg of Chicago. Greenberg is
in the armed forces and may be un-
able to compete.
Other top entries in the women's
division are Nancy Corbett of Chi-
cago and Gloria Thompson of East
St. Louis, Iu.
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1'n Belmnont Feature
DON LUND
was a seven inning affair in which
Michigan scored in each frame but'
the seventh.
The Wolverine attack in the opener
was centered on Indiana's captain,
Kerit Wahl, who went the distance.
Southpaw Gene Seifer was the vic-
tim in the nightcap,
Michigan ends its conference sea-
son June 9 and 10 at home against
Purdue. The Wolverines now lead
idle Minnesota by a game and a half.
Michigan . . .122 612 0-14 15 3
Indiana .. . .000 003 0- 3 5 2
Bowman and Stevenson; Wahl
and Cohen.
Michigan. .000 053 150-12 15 1
Indiana ..000 001 000- 1 4 5
Hirsch and Stevenson; Siefert
and Cohen.
Detroit Whips State, .3- l,
To Sweep Spartan Series
EAST LANSING, May 27.-(P)-
Chick Cunningham, the University
of Detroit's one-man pitching staff,
tossed a three-hitter today in a 13 to
1 baseball victory over Michigan
State. The victory gave Detroit a
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Boston.......110 000 000--2 3 0
St. Louis....111 000 10x-4 7 2
Partenhiimer, Woods, Terry and
Wagner; Jakucki and ayworth.
Cardinals Beat igants, 6-4
NEW YORK, May 27. -(AP)-In a
game enlivened by four home runs,
the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the
New York Giants in the opening con-
test of a four-game series, 6-4, before
8,582 paying customers, today.
George (Whitey) Kurowski hit two
circuit clouts for the Cardinals, his
second in the seventh inning with
one on, accounting for the winning
runs. Pepper Martin also hit a home
run in the first inning.
Mel Ott hit the lone Giant homer
in the seventh inning, his sixth of the
season, placing him in a tie for the
lead with Howard Schultz of the
Dodgers and Kurowski.
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Major League Standings...
AMERICAN LEAGUE 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE
W L Pet. GB' W L Pet. GB
New York ......18 11 .621 -- St. Louis ......23 9 .719 _--
St. Louis ......20 16 .556 1i/ Cincinnati......19 -12 .613 31.
Washington . . . .18 15 .545 2 Pittsburgh ......17 11 .607 4
Philadelphia . ..17 16 .515 3 Philadelphia . . .13 15 .464 8
Dletroit ........16 "19 .457 S Baston ........15 21. .417 10
Boston.........15 18 .455 Nev York ......13 19 .406 10
Chicagol ........14 18 .438 5'X: Brooklyn .......13 19 .406 10
Cleveland ......15 20 .429 6 Chicago ........11 18 .379 10kj
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Detroit 2, Philadelphia 1. Cincinnati 2, Brooklyn 0.
St. Louis 4, Boston 2. St. Louis 6, New York 4.
Chicago 4, New York 3. Chicago 3, Boston 2.
Cleveland 5, Washington 4 (12 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, post-
i nnings) . poned, rain,
TODAY'S GAMES TODAY'S GAMES
Washington at Detroit (2). St. Louis at New York (2).
Boston at Chicago (2). Cincinnati at Brooklyn (2). '
New York at St. Louis (2). Chicago at Boston (2).
Philadelphia at Cleveland (2). Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (2).
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NEW YORK, May 27.-('P)-It was
the same old story at Belmont Park
today as Twilight Tear ran her
string of victories to seven straight
and once again proved that she is
the queen of the three-year-old fil-
lies.
Favorite at the prohibitive odds of
1-10, the bay daughter of Bull Lea
from Warren Wright's Calumet Farm
soundly whipped five other fillies of
her age in the mile and three-eighths
of the American Coaching Club Oaks
before a crowd of 34,475 that pro-
duced several unusual angles in the
wagering.
The total bet on the race was $466,-
247. The winner paid $2.20 for $2 to
win and $2.30 to place while giving
the show players the minimum of
$2.10.
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ANN ARB
tA. DEVICE for exposing
flaws in metal has been
perfected by Dr. Floyd A.
Firestone of the physics
department, it was an-
nounced last week. It's
called a supersonic reflec-
toscope and uses sound
waves to measure the
thickness of metal when
one side is inaccessible or
to expose tiny flaws hidden
deeply beneath the surface
of metaltcastings. In one
second this device w ill
thoroughly examine a piece
of steel five or ten feet
long. Befor e its release,
metals were usually tested
by an x-ray-a procedure
reuiring one hour for a
five-inch piece of metal.
Dr. Firestone explained
that the idea is based on
the method used by sea
captains to chart their
course along a rocky coast
when they sounded the
ship's whistle at regular in-
tervals and, by the time
required for the echo to
return to them, were able
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OR, MICH
SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1944 ,
the comments that many
intellectually curious souls
neglect their assignments
in order to spend time on
more interesting material.
390 said they follow current
news; 142 said they don't,
Periodicals which ranked
high in popularity were
Time, Newsweek, Life and
the New Republic among
the magazines, and PM,
The Daily and the Detroit
News' in the newspar. ,
field. Favorites armng the
books were war stories and
Book- of- the- Montli Club
selections.
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BUT, according to Miss
Fredericka B. Gillette ,
chief circulation librarian
of the General Library,
student interest in outside
r e a d i n g is manifested
mainly by the borrowing
of mystery stories and by
choices from the two li-
brary display cases, o n e
containing the l a t e s t
books on the war and the
other current fiction and
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