WEDINESDAY, JUNE 7, 1944 PTT Mcn g~~l r bA~v=.e .- ., I *~'4 .AN ±: . it L ..: 111 1 V 111 l.I..LY1.11 . Z.l 1"1. 1 . .J .l. _ .. ..... .. _.. ........._n ........... .....n." -.... , n. a n. f..n.. : ... RAGE I~ ~VE Bifan'cha rd Leads Hitters Absolute Quiet A4n Athletic Tilts t A H vg o 40 l d9 b .K T..J ~*i. ~ ~ - - A Record of 1.14; Hirsch Is Next with L20 By ILL MULLENDORE With ony fouar games remaining in the 1944 baseball campaign, hard- hitting shortstop Bruce Blanchard continues to lead the Wolverines in the batting department, sporting a fancy .400 average. Going into the recent Notre Dame seiies, Blanchard boasted a .411 mark but only collected three hits in nine trips tothedplate against the °Irish hurlers to drop 11 points. Nev- ertheless, he enjoys a comfortable margin over right fielder Bob Nuss- baumer who is next in line with .359. Left fielder Bill Gregor holds the third spot amoig the regulars with a .333 mark. Steady Don Lund is next in line and is the only other Michi- gan man to sit in the charmed .300 circle. Lund has been hitting con- sistently around .310 all season and came in with .38 after the two Notre Dame tilts. Wiese Climbs Reserve outfielder Bob Wiese has been climbing steadily in the hit column after getting off to a slow start and is now resting at .296, only four percentage points off the .300 pace. He is followed by first sacker Elmer Swanson, batting .283, and third baseman Mike Farnyk, who is pounding the ball at a .246 clip. The team as a whole lost nine points in its average over the week- end, falling from an even .300 to .291, a very commendable figure. Op- posing batsmen have not fared so well against Wolve.rine pitchers and so far have amassed a rather puny .164 mark. Gregor Is Leading Slugger In the slugging department, Greg- or leads the way with seven extra base blows including three doubles, three triples, and a home-run. Blan- chard, Lund, and Swanson follow closely behind, each having six long hits to their credit. Lund is out in front in home-run production with two to his credit. Blancard, Gregor, and Swanson have onse apiece. Gregor and pitcher Elroy Hirsch lead in three-base knocks with three each. The presence of Hirsch in this column is surprising as the powerful hurler has made only seven hits all season. Lund and Blanchard each have four doubles to show the way in that phase of hit production. Hit for 216 Bases Of the 152 safe blows which the Wolverines have made in the 16 games played to date, 38 have gone for extra bases. Five were homers, 16 were three-base blows, and 17 fell in as two-base wallops. Thus the 152 safeties have gone for 216 bases. The preponderance of triples in this total is unusual as such hits are considered rare in baseball cir- cles. It can be partially explained by the speed of the Michigan squad which has stretched several ordinary two-baggers an extra base. Pitching Records Good A study of the pitching records hung up by lefty Bo Bowman and Elroy Hirsch, who throws from the right side, Coach Ray Fischer's two ace hurlers shows the effectiveness of the Wolverine hurlers during, the season. Hirsch leads in the won and lost column with a perfect five and zero record as against Bowman's five, and one. The earned run average column shows Bowman giving up seven earned runs in 55 innings on the hill. Hirsch' record is only slightly infer- ior with six runs in 45 frames. Brokeri cown, lBowman's earned run aver- age ier nine-inning gamie rests at 1.14 with Hirsch trailing at 1.20. NEW YORK, June 6-- tAP)- Spo;rs tribute to D-day was the wlcmnity of almost absolute quiet today in its stadiums and fields. Only Delaware State Park and Bay Meadows of the larger racingt plants operated while the Pacifict Coast League was the only baseballt circuit among the majors and top minors to do full ::cale business. FW.i:ht , -i at me iting the 10-round affailr between Sammy Angott and flrW Williams at Philadelphia, als9 were set back. ' s Hors ~.aing tojr Coach Djoherty Awa~rds 29 Letters in Track Seven Men Receive Secondary Awards; Hiimes To Run i NCAA Meet on Saturda y By BILL LAM7BERT Twenty-nine varsity track men of Hume, Cannonsburg. Penn.; Doss the 1943-44 squad were awarded the Hume, Canonsburg. Penn.; Max Kel-3 "Block" M yesterday, while seven i 1y, Loda, Illinois; George Kraeger, received secondary awards for cin- Indianapolis, Indiana; Jack Martin,! derpath participation. Huntington, W. Virginia; Eugene The excessive number of letter j -_ --------- -- winners was due largely to team I :- . Lalance and the many point-getters which enabled Coach Ken Doherty's °cluad to capture both the indotr and utdoor Conference titles. The: names of those honored contains ":: M~anko .. Blaanichard Ncssbau m'e hirsch ... . G rego. . 'Lund e. .. .. Wiese,. . S.wanson .. Schmidtke Phelps ... Farnyk ... Bowman .. Ketterer.. Stevenson Kell ...... Nelson .... IHaekstadt T E AM . . . OPPONENTI ie NBm Pra.a The adver ed in a ma Brooklyn F 1944 edition club in a pr tured wild maLzny rsL year mnen as ve t as ver- r' I h .hjhje racing industry, which an- rars competing for the second and _______ nncelans to close on D-day two third Years. ~-~^- weeks ago waxen President Roosevelt thal'AreSrvis. emen G AB T PUT, suggested that citizens go to their Hal re alroiceen ..........2 3 2 .667 homes and churches on invasion day, Over half of the members of the . .16 65 26 .400 quickly fell into line. team were servicemen, many of them Pr ......14 39 14 .359 New York, Chicago, Boston and creceiving their M after having ........ .6 20 7 .350 Detrait. turf plants cancelled their Roxborough, who was drafted into ....... . .15 57 19 .33 I ingrans early followed by Pascoag the armed services just before the ....... ..16 52 16 .308 Park in New England, Charlestown indoor Big'Ten Meet was included ... 1 27 8 .296 in West Virginia, Ascot Park and on thi,e list. Elroy Hirsch garnered .. ... ..16 53 15 .283 River Downs in Ohio, Canada's his third letter of the year while .........I2 4 1 .250 King's Park and the old country running with the thinclads, and upon .........7 4 1 .250 trotting association at Westerbury, the receiving of his baseball award, . ' . . 15 57 14 .246 N. Y. will become the first Wolverine .. . .......E6 19 . 4 .211 Botl scheduled Major League con- athlete to be a four-time winner. .........:16 58 II .189 tests, night affairs at Pittsburgh and The inclads last week lected ..........16 56 10 .178a B'ooklyn, were switched to other Ross Hume. to captain the next . , .. . .... ,6 6 1 167dates. The two games listed in the years' squad, thus replacing his ......... 2 0 .000,international league, whose president brother, Bob, who led them so cap- ..........1 1 0 .000 Frank Shaughnessy said he had ably this season. The Hume twins "two sons over there and I am not and four or five other as yet undeter- . . . .. .16 522 152 .291 much interested in baseball today," mined entries will wind up all Michi- s ....16 489 80 .164 also were postponed. gan's track activities this, Saturday, - ----.- - American Association games, at when they trek to Milwaukee to com- * Kansas City and Milwaukee went pete in the National Collegiates. h mtates unplayed but St. Paul and Minneap- List Follows tohis made plans to be hosts to Toledo The complete list of letter-win- * and Columbus, respectively. ners: 5 11 - . The smaller minors also were dot- Richard Bernard, Williamsville, N. * Led with cancellations.- Y.; Charles Birdsall, Rocky River, ICC 01.t ] Bout Hfeld Tomorrow Ohio; Bruce Blanchard, Detroit, ?romoter Herman Taylor said the Michigan; Philip Collia, Charleston, nt of D-Day was celebrat. Angott-Williams bout would be held W. Virginia; William Dale, Wayne, anner reminiscent of the tomorrow night, weather permitting,Mcan; Melin;Detwhiler, st. 3odgers yesterday by the in Shibe Park. A Buffalo card also Plasncciar slAn; Joh E ily of the Wolverine baseball was set back a day. The latter post- Richard Forrestel, Akron. Ohio; Wil- actice session which fea- ponement followed orders of Gen. lis Glas, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Elroy base running and even John J. Phelan, New York State Hirsch, Wausau, Wisconsin; Robert r is .:;:;:: :.1 .::" ..: .: .l '"ti " " t Z ,} 1::: : . :1':'. r. 'h k $>.,.. ayv :"}. { .. :.,. .,.," :: r::fiiMOt ..: .. .. .......... i {i p ,.,. ...... " H E RE TODAY ... By HARVEY FRANK Sports Editor NSTEADt OF MINNESOTA, it is now Northwestern that Michigan's base- ball team will have to fight off to win its ninth Big Ten Title in 24 years and Michigan's eighth Conference Championship of the year. Up until last Saturday te Wildcats were rated only a mathematical chance of cpping the crown, while the Gophers were expected to step right in if the Wolverines stumbled twice against Purdue. But all that is changed now. Northwestern trippr'd Minnesota twice last week end, and now has a record of eight wins and two losses, while the latter iakcomn- plete ly ouzt of the runnaing. Now Xll Mich~iigan ha~s to do to take .thec ndisputed crown is to split with the Boilermakers; but a double . loss would put it iin second laere, only percentage points ahead of the gophers. Coach Ray Fisher will thiow his two top hurlers Bo Bowman and EBioy Hirsch against the Boilermakers, and between them we think th ey aught to salvage at least one win. Purdue, however, did show that it would be tough in its last two games with Ohio State. A rainy day would enable Michigan to back into tkle title, for the championship is decided on a percentage basis. THE HUME TWINS, Bob and Ross, will be out to better their own record Saturday at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Milwaukee, but they will also be running against the clock. Seemingly the top of the collegiate crop, the brothers ran their fastest mile while winning at thie Central Collegiate Championships, being timed in 4:14.6, and finishing 20-yards ahead of Jerry Thompson, This week they should be push d even more, and if so, might achieve their goal of breaking 4:10. Whether or not they will compete in the NAAU meet in New York s week later is still undecided, but if they do their habit of finishing races with arms locked will undoubtedly be broken. Racing against the all nations top-flight stars, with the exception of Gil Dodds, they would probably have to go all out to win, and this question of family supremacy would, at least temporarily, be decided. One of the stars they would be sure to face is Bill Hulse, holder of a 4:06 mark, and for Hulse and Bob Hume the meeting would be a rubber match, each having beaten the other once indoors. Personally we would like to see such a meeting, for it would probably result in the lumes' best performance of the year. It is doubtful if any other Wolverines will enter the NAUU meet, but four others, Jack Martin, John Sisley, George Kraeger and Dick Barnard may run in the NCAA this week. GONE TOMORROWS: One of the track letter winners announced yesterday, Bob Nussbaumer, is a three sport man, while four others, Bruce Blanchard, George Kraeger, Fred Negus, and Elmer Swanson, have won monograms in two sports. Then there is always Elroy Hirsch , . . . Bill Cain, Wolverine pitcher in 1942 and 19'43, was the highest man in his graduating officers candidate class at Fort Benning. JACK MARTIN Moody, Oak Park, Illinois; Fred Negus, Martins Ferry, Ohio; Robert Nussbaumer, Oak Park, Illinois, Thomas Paton, Okemos, Michigan; James Pierce, Sault Ste. Marie; John Purdue, Ann Arbor; Carl Nichols; Robert Segula, Corunna, Michigan; Fred Stoliker, Detroit; Elmer Swan- son, Detroit; Robert Ufer, Pittsburg, Penn.; George Vetter, Detroit; Ju- lan Witherspoon, Detroit, and John Roxborough, Detroit. The minor award winners include Warren Bentz, Henry Dolan, Ralph Gibson, Sheldon Kavieff, Robert Thompson, Rex Wells and Ben Rich- ards. wilder wagering among team mem- bers of three and four pennies on individual hitting. Especially successful in the latter practice was second-string first base- man Tommy King, who cashed in on two hits. The cage star has been thwarted at the plate all season, but yesterday hit a dribbler that went for a base hit and a solid bngle about which there was never any question. King, whose winnings came largely as a result of transactions with regu- lar first sacker Elmer "The Great" Swanson, was unable to lure right- -fielder Bob Nussbaumer into any "deals." Perhaps the Oak Park Flash remembered an earlier day in which, to his great chagrin, King pulled the hidden ball trick on him in a practice game. The most surprising feat of the day, however, came when catcher Bob Stevenson, who usually has trouble getting down the line with any great speed, ambitiously tried to beat out a bunt that went foul. Then, making first on a slight overthrow of the bag. the intrepid "Stevie" took off for second while the first sacker fumbled for the ball. He arrived safely with a highly individual Stevenson slide on his-er-posterior. Athletic Commission Chairman, or- dering all Empire State rings to' remain dark tonight. An all-star soccer game at the Polo Grounds, where the entire gate receipts went to the Red Cross, was .played. Ray Schalk Signs uis Scout with Chcago x Cubs CHICAGO, June 6-(AP)-Ray Schalk, one of the greatest catchers of all time, today signed as a scout for the Chicago Cubs. Schalk, who started his major league career with the Chicago White Sox in 1912, managed the team in 1927 and 1928. He was the White Sox regular catcher for 15 years, playing in 100 games or more in each of 12 seasons. He was a famed battery mate for big Ed Walsh the iron man pitcher for the Sox. Of Athletics NEW YORK- (P)- Confidence note: Gene Sarazen, the gentleman ex-farmer, already has begun to fig- ure out how much income tax he'll have to pay if he wins that $13,500 worth of war bonds in Chicago's Tam O'Shanter open golf tourney Maj. Spec Moore, Army end coach, expects to be on active duty before the next football season and Sgt. Vic Hanson, ex-Syracuse coach, likely will assist Earl Blaik . . . 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