- ~i~tT~b~t MAY 5 194~ THi MI CHIGAN DAILY . ....... ........ . . ........... . ... . .................... . ..... .......... . ....... . .... . ......... . inksren IL AW 1 r it Golfers * * * * * * 4 Track, Baseball, Net SquadsActive Today Thinclads in Triangular at Purdue; Nine, Tennis Team To Play at Homne r. Purdue, Miami Arej Foes at Lafayette Doubleheader with Minnesota Carded In its first meet after a smashing triumph at the Penn Relays, Michi- gan's track squad invades Lafayette, Ind., this afternoon to compete a- gainst Purdue and Miami in its first outdoor competition of the season. Coach Ken Doherty will be without the services of his ace middle-dis- tance men, the Hume twins, and will place Archie Parsons and Bob Thom- ason in the mile to replace them. Dick Barnard is Coach Doherty's selection to run in the two-mile in' place of the Humes. Barnard has been improving steadily and is ex- pected to perform well Purdue, Miami Enigmas Purdue and Miami are unknown quantities as far as power is con- cerned. The Boilermakers have been reinforced by new additions and are stronger than they were during the indoor season. Miami, which did so well in the recent Drake Relays, is expected to provide stiff competition. The south- ern team also annexed the Purdue Relay collegiate title a short time ago. Fisher To Hurdle Miami has produced one of the outstanding hurdlers in the Midwest this season in the person of Harold "Whitey" Fisher. Fisher ran the 12-yard high hurdles last week at the Drake Relays in :15.1, one-tenth of a second slower than his tiime in the same event last year. To counteract this threat, Coach Doherty is depending on the perf or- mance of Ted Balogh, who has done fine work during the indoor season. This will be Balogh's first outdoor appearance of the season and may prove to Coach Doherty how serious the loss of Bill Marcoux, ace hurdler, was. Marcoux entered the armed for- ces shortly after the indoor season closed. RaiiCancels First Tigers-Browns Tilt DETROIT, May 4 - (AP) - The weatherman put the damp finger on the Detroit Tigers again today, rain- ing out the opener of their three- game series with the St. Louis Browns and forcing the Bengals to spend their sixth washout day of the young American League season in idleness. Acting, manager Paul Richards named lefthander Hal Newhouser to twirl for Detroit Saturday against Jack Kramer of the Browns. New- houser was slated to work today against Sig Jakucki. Continuous showers yesterday caus- ed the postponement of a contest with Minnesota's baseball squad and an announcement that the Wolver- ines and Gophers will tangle in a doubleheader instead of a single game at 11:45 a. m. CWT (12:45 EWT) to- day on Ferry Field. The field will probably be in con- dition for play, according to Mich- igan Coach Ray Fisher, who stated yesterday that if the evening was clear and no more fell, the two tearns would be able to meet today: The outfield is in fair shape, Fisher said, although the base-paths must drain considerably before they are ready for use. The pitching mound and batter's box are protected by a tarpaulin. If the doubleheader, which looms as an important game in deciding the eventual winner of this spring's Big Ten baseball race, is played, Fisher will use Ray (Red) Louthen, who has a perfect record with three wins against no losses, against Jack Verby, Minnesota ace, in one of the games. Bo Bowman, who has been successful in two starts out of three, will face either Gene Kelly or Matthew (Mutsy-) Nolan in the other tilt.. The Wolverine nine plans to take on Romulus Air Base Sunday in a single game at Romulus. Fisher will pitch Jack Peddy against a squad which beat the University of Detroit decisively a week ago. Major League Standings V acquet-Wie1ders Meet Notre Dame With three victories under its belt, Michigan's undefeated tennis squad' is scheduled to meet a highly-touted Notre Dame crew at 1 p. m. CWTj (2 p. m. EWT) today on the I-Mf courts. Wolverine coach LeRoy Weir has not yet revealed his starting lineup, but it is believed that Michigan will be represented by the same men which handed a decisive 6-' defeat to Wayne University Monday. Lewis Plays No. 1 Roger Lewis, Maize and Blue cap- tain, who pulled a surprising early season upset by beating Tartar Bob Ryland, Chicago singles champion, 6-2, 6-4, in Monday's encounter, will play in the number one spot. Num- ber two man is Alden "Jinx" Johnson, rated as one of the steadiest men on the squad. The three and four berths will be handled by Jack Hirsch and Gordon Nauggle respectively. Both scored easy wins over their Tartar opponents and are looked to by Weir to show up well against the Irish today. Doubles Doubtful Wolverine Dave Post is rated as the team's number five man, while Bill Haymes will probably face Notre Dame's sixth singles- entrant. In the doubles division, there is still some doubt as to the three combina- tions that willtake the court for Michigan. Lewis and Hirsch formed the top team against Wayne, but suffered a hard-fought 9-7, 6-2 de- feat at the hands of Ryland and Del Russel. Irish Won Last Year Johnson and Post composed the second pair in the Tartar match and notched an easy 6-2, 6-3 triumph, while Nauggle and Roy Boucher set down Wayne's Plotkin and Butten- miller, 6-0, 6-1, in the third match. Last year, the Irish set the Wol- verines back in a nip and tuck 5-4 battle. Taking the C'ut By DAVE LOEWENBERG Associate Sports Editor TIGER FANS get rather aggravated at the mention of last year's pennant race, but how many of you loyal Detroiters realize that for the third straight year, the Tigers grabbed top. honors in the most important league of them all. Uncle Sam's League"? Detroit's total of 38 players in the Armed Services is one more than Washington's total of 37 and two m6re than the 36 players contributed by the Philadelphia Athletics. There must be something patriotic about the interior of Briggs Stadium, for back in World War I the Tigers also had the enviable distinction of having more men in uniform than any other club in the American League. It's an old custom in athletics to give a team permanent possession of the trophy after winning it three consecutive times. This is one trophy which I am sure no team wants to retire. In case you're interested about the numerical figures for the other clubs the lineup is somewhat like this. Chicago has sent 35 players, New York, 29, Boston and Cleveland 28 apiece, and the championship Browns, 27, for a league total of 258. W HEN the 1943 season rolled around, the junior circuit had 147 players in the armed forces. Only 14 were inducted for service that season, while 45 joined up during the following winter. Last year, 22 players were called during the season. The figure 258 players stands up favorably when compared to the list of 264 active players now on the rosters of the eight American League clubs. Of this total of 258, 149 are Army, 89 Navy, 10 Coast Guard, 6 Marine Corps, three Canadian Armed Forces, and one in the Merchant Marine. A further breakdown of this list reveals there were 98 pitchers, 31 catchers, 81 infielders and 48 outfielders. Rosema Paces Wolverine Hitters As Team Average Slips Slightly TE NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAMS W L New Yerk .............. 9 4 Chicago ................7 4 Boston .................7 5 St. Louis ................6 5 Brooklyn .............5 6 Cincinnati ............. 5 6 Pittsburgh .............5 8 Philadelphia ............ 3 9 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS All games postponed. AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAMS W L Chicago ................6 New York .............8 4 Detroit...............7 4 Philadelphia ...........6 6 Washington ............6 7 St. Louis ...............4 5 Boston . ................5 8 Cleveland.............2 7 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS All games postponed. Pet. .692 .636 .583 .545 .455 .455 .385 .250 Pet. .667 .667 .636 .500 .462 .444 .385 .222 Tom Rosema, first baseman for the triumphant University of Michigan Wolverines, continued his batting leadership over the weekend to bring his average over the coveted .400 mark, as he blasted six hits in the series with Notre Dame to place him- self at .423. The team average slipped from .244 to .240, but this was due to the fact that six of the regulars dropped a few notches while only four gained ground. In nine games, Michigan has poled seventy hits, driving across fifty runs. The opposing batsmen in- creased their average slightly to .1361 while banging out a total of 37 singles.1 PLAYER Redmond, 2b1... Soboleski, ss-lb. Rosema, lb ... Hackstadt, P.... Kell, 3b...... Gregor, if ...... Peddy, p ....... Stevenson, e.... Nelson, rf ...... Louthen, p .... Lund, cf ....... TEAM AVERAGE .... AB . 1 . 1 .26 .11. .37 .36 .4 .30 .31 .10 .36 R 1 1 8 1 9 6 1 3 7 2 3 H 4 1 11 4 13 9 1 7 7 2 6 I Standing Pat Pet. 1.000 1.000, .423 .364 .351 .250 .250 .233 .226 .200 .167 292 50 70 .240 Spink Gives 'Blow-by-Blow' of Confab tit. -- -- W« unio $atur/ay ift4 By BILL MULLENDORE J. G. Taylor Spink, editor of "The Sporting News", baseball's "official" publication, has revealed in the May 3 issue of that paper the inside story of what went on at the recent meet- ing of the 16 major league baseball' presidents at which Senator A. B. (Happy) Chandler was named High Commissioner of Baseball to succeed the late Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. While Spink does not divulge the sources of his information, the story is a rather interesting yarn, especially since it now appears that the magnates gathered with no real intention of electing a perma- nent commissioner. The inside story of the many intrigues and com- promises, largely engineered by the irrepressible Larry MacPhail-new part-owner and general manager of the New York Yankees, is one of the more interesting documents in recent baseball history. According to Spink, the 16 presi- dents convened at Cleveland, after an attempt at postponement made' by Washington owner ,Clark Griffith had fallen through, with the idea of announcing either a six-months de- lay or the appointment of an interim commissioner. In either case, it was ap parent that majority opinion fav- ored deferment of a permanent choice until after the war. But the arrival of MacPhail on ti +' f ; the scene injected a new note into the proceedings. The Colonel had come to Cleveland intent on naming a commissioner, and announced to all and sundry that any other action would only serve to make baseball, and the club owners, look ridiculous. As the meeting got under way, Don Barnes, president of the St. Louis Browns and head of the nomi- nating committee, read off more than 100 names of possibilities for the post, but added it was the com- mittee's opinion that a temporary commissioner should be named. He also declined to place before the meeting the names of the six men picked from the larger list as the most likely candidates. At this point, Jack Zeller, general manager of the Detroit Tigers, put in a strong objection to the pro- ceduire, aind a lively debate ended with the resolution to table the tem- porary commissioner idea., Barnes then read the names of National League presiderit Ford Frick, Jim Farley, War Mobilizer Fred "Vinson, Under-Secretary of War Robert Pat- terson, National Democratic Com- mittee chairman Bob Hanne ran, and Governor Frank Lausche of Ohio, as the committee's nominees. Here, MacPhail took issue with the committee's choices, condemning sev- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING i A A PAP 004-14 po#~- 144 m oft Pl pq 1 Owa orm A A - i - p PIR - - -- 0 - --- --- , - ---- - - -04 ml O"R L" r "- T - -- LOST AND FOUND LOST: Silver friendship bracelet with 5 names on it, Monday night be- tween Michigan Theatre and State and Packard. Sentimental value. Call 2-6429. 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