IVED SDAT', ArRIT AI, 1945 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .PAGE -ED ES A- AP RIJg1 ___5 _ _. 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 & _ _ 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. .;. 'S~ ~ ~ - long Doherty Illkes Prediction V 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! 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