)AY, MAY 17, 1945 THE MICHIGAN DAILY --0600-it Michigan Nine ** * By MARY LU HEATH Hampered by rainy weather all week, Michigan's baseball squad to- day completes its preparation for the all-important series with Indiana, tomorrow and Saturday, which will at least temporarily break the tie between the two teams for first place in the Western Conference race. The possibility of a one-game post- ponement and a substitute double- header Saturday, if the rain con- tinues today, presented itself yester- day, owing to the condition of the playing field. Both teams will be risking perfect Conference records, if rain does not force cancellation of the entire series as it did two weeks ago when the Wolverines were sched- uled to play Minnesota twice. Wolverine Lineup Unchanged The Michigan lineup for the con- tests will remain the same as usual, but the Hoosiers may decide to switch their Saturday list, according to the result of the first game. Walter Kell will lead off at third for the Wol- verines, followed by Jack Weisen- burger at short, Bill Gregor in left, Golfers Seek Fifth Win of 1945 Season Buckeyes To Furnish Opposition Saturday Aiming for their second Conference win and their fifth victory of the season, Michigan's linksmen will en- counter Ohio State Saturday, in the second home match of the year, at the University golf course. A six man squad will tee off against the Buckeye opposition, coach Bill Barclay announced yesterday. Cap- tain Paul O'Hara, Phil Marcellus, John Jenswold, John Tews, Bob Ernst, and Ken Morey have been selected to represent the Maize and Blue as thegolfersseektheir fourth straight triumph. Wolverines Seek Revenge These same six players faced the Ohioans on April 28, at Columbus, when the Wolverines dropped a hard- fought contest, 15-12, and Barclay's men will be out for revenge in Sat- urday's tilt. The bulwark of Michi- gar's squad has been the four var- sity letterwinners from last year's team O'Hara, Tews, Marcellus, and Jenswold. Ernst and Morey are the two first- year men on the club, and so far this season Ernst has only missed one match which was the contest with Western Michigan. Morey has par- ticipated in two matches having seen action against two Conference op- ponents, Ohio State and Northwest- ern. OSU Wins Nine Ohio's linksters have attained a record to date of nine straight wins. Last weekend in a triangular contest, the Buckeyes trounced the Univer- sity of Detroit 11%X2-re and held Michigan State scoreless by carding a 12-0 shutout. ,Before coming to Ann Arbor Saturday, the Ohio golfers will play a return engagement with the Titans at Detroit. Mi---g- Starting Today- Granid Mystery Show. ""MURDER MY SWEET"1 also SPORT CARTOON NEW Defends Don Lund in center, Bill Nelson in right, Tom Rosema at first, Dom Tomasi at second, Bob Stevenson behind the plate, and Bo Bowman and Ray Louthen doing the pitching. Bowman, Louthen Lead Conference Bowman and Louthen are at pres- ent tied for first place in Conference pitching with perfect records of one victory and no defeat. In all games to date, Bowman's record included four wins against one loss, while Louthen has registered four straight victories. Opposing the Michigan duo will be Mike Modak and Don DeArmond. Medak also has a perfect record in the Big Ten, with an all-season rec- ord of four wins and one loss. Al- though DeArmond has not won a contest, he has yielded only 13 hits in 20 innings. Tomorrow's Indiana lineup will probably include Robert Miller at third, Ed Zabels at short, Mike Linko in left, Ted Kluszewski in center, Al Kralovansky on first, Ed Murray in right, George Cherry at second, Ed Top Big Ten Record Tomorrow Cohen catching, and Modak on the mound. The Hoosier lineup for Saturday will remain the same, except pos- sibly at two spots. Tom McConnell may sub for Linko in left, while John Lescak may replace Murray in right. Hoosier Reserves Among the reserve hurlers which Indiana can call into action are Wil- lard Kops, Al Williams, and Don Leaky. Kops and Leaky have similar records, with two wins apiece, while Williams has registered one victory. The Wolverines will find the Indi- ana team particularly formidable at the plate. Boasting six batsmen whose averages top the .300 mark, the Hoosiers have managed to send 32 runs across the plate in four Con- ference games. Hitting over .300 are Kluszewski, Linko, Kralovansky, Za- bels, Miller, and Murray, all regu- lars. On the other hand, the Wolverine second base combination of short- stop Jack Weisenburger and second baseman Dom Tomasi picked up con- siderably at the plate in Friday's 12-3 MIKE MODAK . ..Indiana pitcher. ED ZABELS . 'Indiana shortstop. ED COHEN ... Indiana, catcher. Maize and Blue Faces Purdue in Dual Meet Boilermakers Here Saturday In Final Dual Clash Of Season Michigan Favored To Repeat Rout of Purdue Before Entering Western Conference Meet By MURRAY GRANT Miehi aan's ne-beaten track sauaed will wind uo its meet comipetition 1 ums' Winning Ways Have Fans, fin Puzzled Joy Writers Also Anrmzed At Brooklyn's Streak ljtakzing the IRutd By HANK MANTHO Daily Sports Editor before the Western Conference meet it engages Purdue in a dual meet Sat Purdue and Michigan have met o lar meet, May 5. In that meet the W 40 and Miami's 32. Thus, the schedu installed as heavy favorite. The 100 yard dash will be a duel between Boris "Babe" Dimancheff, stocky footballer and Julian With- erspoon, Wolverine ace dash man. Dimancheff beat "Spoon" on a slow track at Lafayette in :10.6, but, last week Witherspoon ran a :10.2 against strong opposition, on' a very muddy track, to cop the 100 yard dash. In the 220, Ben Harvey, outstand- ing during the indoor season, will attempt to defeat Michigan's "fly- ing twosome" Val Johnson and With- erspoon. Harvey ran the distance in :23.3 two weeks ago, but both Wolverine thinclads have done bet- ter than this since then. Johnson pulled a leg muscle last week in the quadrangular meet and was unable to participate in the 100 or the 220. He is, however, expected to be able to run Saturday.] The 440 should be one of the out- SLA SSIFIEA HELP WANTED WANTED: (1) assistant cook and (2) dish washer for boy's summer camp in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 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AssCiated Press columnist urday ery iead.g NEW YORK, May 16 - The nce before this season in a triangu- much - puzzled folks hereabouts olverines scored 80 points to Purdue's are sure there must be some trick led meet Saturday will find Michigan about it, so in the absence of visible -- - evidence they are thinking of pass- standing races of the afternoon if ing a hoop around the Brooklyn Boilermaker Wallace Desterhaft, Dodgers to find out what really is crack quarter-miler, is able to run. holding them up. Even the scribes who studied the Desterhaft, a veteran of the Pacific Bums in their training at Bear Moun- war, will hook up with Dick For- tain are amazed, as most of them restel, who finished third last week- were pretty well convinced the team end, after-losing one of his shoes. couldn't win in the Tri-County League. Even in the middle-distance Early Wins Please Fans runs, which are reputed to be Yet here they are, well up toward Michigan's specialties, the Wolver- the front and with an early-season ines may experience some threat. winning streak that made the rabid Bob Hawk, Purdue distance man, fans think of last year as a horrible has shown great improvement and ( nightmare. They'll even consider will give the Hume twins and their putting up a monument to Branch cohortsa race in the ialf-mile and Rickey if the prosperity continues. the mile. They did last year, too. only they wanted him under it. The mile relay will bring together Everything from invisible Mae two highly improved teams. The Wests to hidden wires has been men- Wolverines defeated all opposition tioned as responsible for the seeming last week to win the relay, while non-support of the soaring Dodgers. Purdue paced by Dimancheff and It even was hinted that the winning Harvey will provide a serious threat. streak was a plot to boost the sale of Frank Graham's book on the Bums. } Not meaning it is a bum book. It is great reading. I They're Puzzled Actually, the fans realize the team has been going well because it has I been playing good baseball. What puzzles them is why it has been play- LOST AND FOUND ing good baseball, as everyone knows what keeps a balloon aloft but can't 'T help wondering where all the hot air W HEN ED McKEEVER, formerly head football coach at Notre Dame, left his duration post to accept a job at Cornell, one of his most startling changes occurred when he moved Paul Robeson, Jr., an end last year, into the backfield, and thus broke a tradition started by Paul, Sr. when he was proclaimed an All-American end at Rutgers in 1918. McKeever's reason for moving the veteran end to a halfback post is that he plans to install the "T" formation at Cornell this fall, and such a system necessitates plenty of speed, so it is here that Robeson, Jr. figures largely in the plans of the new coach. Robeson can spot any man on the Big Red team five yards and still outsprint him in a 50 yard dash. McKeever needed to see this speed just once before he made up his mind that the shifty Robeson's talents could best be utilized by carrying the pigskin for Cornell next October. However, Robeson has adapted himself to his backfield duties quite easily and McKeever attributed this to the fact that Coach Carl " Snavely used the elusive runner on end-around plays frequently last year, and usually referred to him as his "fifth back." Although the change in position of his son will appear odd to Paul R obeson. Sr., who is on a theatre tour as the Moor in the play "Othello," the elder Robeson has already made plans to attend most of the games carded on the 1945 schedule of Cornell to watch his giant son in action. WILLIAM BEE BEE of Washington is reputed to be the busiest boxer in the District of Columbia, as this 21-year-old lad has partici- pated in 36 fights from October, 1943 to November, 1944, and he has come out victorious in 32 of his fistic encounters. His prowess in the ring comes natural to him as he is following in the steps of his father i and at present has his eye on the middleweight boxing title of the world. l'RANK PARKER, long a top-flight tennis player and present singles tennis champion of the United States, had to surmount one diffi- cult obstacle before he could really achieve the greatness that is now' in store for him. While playing in various tournaments in 1939, Parker's forehand drive didn't have the speed or timing that was necessary to make him a definite contender for the United States tennis crown. At his wife's suggestion, Parker started using a heavier racquet, and although it took three years for the desired results to materialize and meant losing more tournaments until he got used to his new racquet, he stayed with his experiment and is now reaping the rewards. WE HAVE IT EASY: Daily Rains Have Little Effect On Panamanian Sporting Life LOSiT: Woman's small gold wrist watch, black band, "Challenger," Wednesday between N. S. and Bar- bour. Engraved "Pat, June '44." Reward 2-2591. Rm. 105. BROWN PLAID SUIT SKIRT lost between S. University and E. Uni- versity. Call 2-1146. Reward. MISCELLANEOUS DON'T LET SATURDAY. NIGHT be the loneliest night in the week. Take in Soph Music Bar. comes from. For one thing, the hitting has been timely, with Dixie Walker knocking the ball egg-shaped. Opposing pitchers who last year considered games with the Dodgers as some- thing of an open date have been get- ting their ears pinned back this year. Stanky Takes Second A sturdy, peppery little guy named Ed Stanky was shoved in at second base when skipper Leo Durocher vot- ed himself out of the lineup after a couple of games, and he and short- stop Ed Basinski have been working together like Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers, only speaking to each other. Stanky also has been getting on base more than a little as leadoff man. The pitching has been very, very good on the whole. The latest find is Pfund-Leroy Pfund, a young fel- low from the suburbs of Chicago who won't play Sunday baseball on reli- gious grounds. I "f i, , l z . .,i I r 111 .} 7 "Fritz" Crisler swung around in his swivel-chair, turning away froml the window, and said, "You might not believe it but it rains- more than this down in Panama." 180 Inches a Year Commenting on the weather, which seems to be the main topic of dis- cussion around these parts. the fam- ed Wolverine football coach revealed that in the Panamanian Command Area, from which he recently re- turned after eight weeks on a gov- ernment athletic mission, the troops see 180 inches of rain a year. "It drizzles every day without fail," he commented, "but this has no effect on the athletic activities of the men. The boys wait until the daily shower has subsided, then pitch into a spirited baseball or touch-football game." Natives Sports-Minded sports very closely and even have their own baseball leagues and "World Series" competition. In Pan- ama there are two leagues, one of four teams, the other consisting of eight squads. American Terms Adopted At Balboa, on the Pacific side of the Canal, is situated the largest stadium in the area. There one can watch "besbol" games, (as the na- tives call them), and hear our enthu- siastic neighbors from the south (south Brooklyn it would seem) yell for "jeets", "rons" and -"jom rons", (The Spanish "j" is pronounced like hard "h"). Coach Crisler, deeply tanned by the sun, has resumed his duties as Athletic Director after two days in Ann Arbor. 1 RULY BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS PARK LANE STUDIOS Major Lcagt4 Stagin i gs e 11i AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago ............... New York .......... . . . DETROIT ............ St. Louis . . . . .. .. ... . W ashington .. .. .. .. . .. Philadelphia .......... Boston XV L .12 6 .13 7 .11 7 . 99 .10 12 . 9 12 . 8 12 613 E '-.-.,.-,.....-.. .. - Adverse weather conditiolls huve little effect on the s orting life of the native po uli on, Michigan sAth- PEt. letic Director coniinued. The Pana- .667 manians, and citizens of the neigh- .650 boring South and Central American .611 countries, which Crisler visited on .540 "good will" tours, are all rabid sports .455 fans. .429 These Latin-Americans follow U.S. 400- .P4 727 ~~ee I HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO: Voice ... Piano .. Instrumental i NA'IIONL EA~GUE Ne'w York Brooklynl Chicago., }M(} L 11 11 I I 1 11 7 NAI IkICIr'AI (CI R~T 11