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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Baseball
Team To Play
Four Contests
Over Week-End
First Stringers Pound
Three Hurlers in Long
Batting Practice Drill
By BILL LAMBERT
With the 1945 season opener only
two days away, coach Ray Fisher was
placing 'emphasis on base-running
and defensive fielding as he attempt-
ed to smooth over the rough spots for
Friday's meeting with Western Mich-
igan,
"Although the boys need a lot of
work, I'm sure that some game ex-
perience will do more good than all
our drills," the veteran mentor com-
mented, while watching his char-
ges go through their paces.
With his hard-hitting outfield cor-
posed of Don Lund, Bill Gregor, and
Bill Nelson, leading the attack, Coach
Fisher held an intensive batting and
base-running drill.
Doubles and triples were being
cracked out consistently, as pitch-
ers Bob Morrison, George Sup, and
Jack Markword laid the ball down
the groove.
The Bronco games on Friday and
Saturday start out what promises to
be one of the busiest weekends the
Wolverines will encounter this seas-
on. On Sunday the squad will travel
to Grosse Ile where they will play
two different Navy nines in a double-
header.
Jack Weisenburger, freshman
shortstop, who sprained his ankle
Saturday in practice, will definitely be
ready to take to the field against
the Broncos. Joe Soboleski again
took over the shortfielding duties for
the first stringers in Weisenburger's
absence.
Then with only a day lay-off,
the Maize and Blue crew will play
their third home encounter Tues-
day with a University of Detroit
nine. The Titans are reported to
have a well rounded club built
around ball players from the De-
troit Baseball Federation's sand
lot nines.
The opening pitching assignment
is still an unsettled issue, but Bo
Bowman, veteran left-hander, and
Ray Louthen, ex-Bronco star, are the
logical- choices. Hackstadt, Tom
Rosema, and Joe Ponsetto are still
waging a three-cornered fight for
the first base slot, and Coach Fisher
has not definitely named his first
sacker.
Squad
Gets
Hard
Workout
for
Opener
Friday
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River Rouge Invitational Meet
Draws 350 PrepThinelads
Track Coaches Set
Clinic for Saturday
With approximately 350 entries
expected, the River Rouge Depart-
ment of Physical Education will
sponsor its sixth annual Invitational
High School Track Meet, Saturday,
April 15, at Yost Field House.
The meet will be preceded by a
track clinic Saturday under the sup-
ervision of Coaches Ken Doherty and
Chester Stackhouse which will fea-
ture movies in the University High
School auditorium at 10:30 am.
EWT (9:30 a.m. CWT) and a dem-
onstration by members of the Michi-
gan track team at 1:45 p.m. EWT
(12:45 CWT). A competitive two-
mile relay has been scheduled for the
demonstration, pitting Charlie Bird-
sall, Walt Fairservis, Dick Barnard,
and Ross Hume against Dick Gehr-
ing, Bob Thomason, Archie Parsons,
and Bob Hume.
Members of the track team will
also act as officials at the meet. The
preliminary events will start at 3
p.m. EWT (2 p.m. CWT) and the
finals are slated for 7:30 p.m. EWT
(6:30 p.m. CWT).
Teams entered for this year's com-
petition include last year's top three
aggregations, Saginaw Arthur Hill,
Monroe, and Ann Arbor High. Among
the other entries are University High
of Ann Arbor, Saginaw Eastern and
Flint Northern.
Trophies will be awarded to the
top two teams,- the contestant win-
ning, the most points, and to the
individual event winners.
Browns Defeat Cardinals
Again in City Series Tilt
ST. LOUIS, April 10.--(P')--Thir-
teen hits including a brace of homers
by George McQuinn and Mike Kree-
vich produced seven runs for the St.
Louis Browns today ,in their second
triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals,
7 to 2.
"MIGHT BE FAMOUS"--This is the photograph about which Track Coach Ken Doherty remarked, "That picture might be famous five
years from now." From left to right: GEORGE VETTER, CHARLES BIRDSALL, DICK BARNARD, ROSS HUME, BOB HUME, ARCHIE
PARSONS, BOB THOMASON, and ROSS WILLARD, all middle distance runners.
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Doherty Illkes Prediction
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By BILL MULLENDORE
"That picture may be famous five
years from now-if the war breaks
right."
Such was Track Coach Ken Doh-{
erty's comment on the above photo-
graph portraying the eight men who,
collectively, picked up 37 of Michi-
gan's winning total of 54 1/10 points
in the Western Conference Indoor
track meet two months ago.
"With the exception of the two
Humes, all .of those men are young
runners, who ai'e just developing,"
Doherty explained., "With added age
and experience, they can all be ex-
pected to show a lot of improvement."
Doherty's refernce to the war was
the only sour note in the bright out-
look. Already, George Vetter has
been claimed by the Army, and sev-
eral of the others may be inducted
in the future, depending on develop-
ments. "But if they could all come
along normally," he .pointed out,
"they might easily become great run-
ners."
"Take Bob Thomason and Archie
Parsons, for example," Doherty con-
tinued. "Those two boys are al-
ready as good as the Humes were at
the same stage. Given time, there.
is no telling what they might do."
The records show that both Thom-
ason and Parsons have already done
plenty on the cinderpaths. At 16
years of age, Thomason has been a
consistent point-winner in all Mich-
igan indoor meets, including the Con-
ference clash, and recently tied the
Hal Newhouser
Defeats Chicago
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 1.-
(P)-Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tiger
pitcher who won the American
League's most valuable player award
in 1944 off his 29. victories, proved
today that he was ready for another
banner year as he pitched the Tigers
to a 7 to 2 exhibition victory over the
Chicago White Sox.
Newhouser, going nine full innings
for the first time this season, gave
eight hits, struck out ten and walked
five men. The victory was Detroit's'
third in five exhibition games with
the Sox.
freshman half mile record.. Parsons,
a transfer from New York Univer-
sity, has a similar string of triumphs
behind him.
"Or take Charles Birdsall," Doh-
erty went on. "He is only a sopho-
more and is running the two-mile
down around 9:45. He's bound to get
better as time goes on. And that
same statement can be made about
the rest of them," he summed up.
The Wolverine mentor also pointed
out that the 37 points scored by the
eight men in three events-the mile,
half mile, and two-mile-represent
the largest three-event total ever
marked up in a Conference meet. The
15-point slam in the mile run was
also a Big Ten record.
Of the eight men, Bob and Ross
Hume have the best cinder reputa-
tion, having competed and won
against the best distance runners the
Conference has had to offer over the
past three years. As a pair, the
"dead heat twins" have been Mich-
igan's most consistent point-grab-
bers.
But those who predict lean years
at Michigan after the Humes' de-
parture might well look at the pic-
ture. Somewhere in that group are
the successors to the Humes, men who
will carry on in the best Wolverine
distance running tradition. And, if
Doherty is correct, they won't suf-
fer anything by corparison.
Correction!
Subsequent information has
discredited the report in Sunday's
Daily that Bob Chappuis is a
prisoner in Germany. Chappuis,
according to the latest reports, is
still listed as "missing in action".
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