FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945 ~TE M11CAfTGA1A ,iiA4Tf Conference Baseball Powers Clash Here Thinclads Meet Purdue Tomorrow Underdog Boilermakers Will Seek Upset over Wolverines Isaki the t#u d4 By HANK MANIIIO Daily Sports Editor Doherty Indicate States Team's Performance Will Showing in Coming Big Ten Meet An underdog Purdue track team will be seeking to upset the Michigan thinclads in what promises to be another battle in the mud on the Perry Field track at 1:30 (EWT) to- morrow. The Wolverines won an easy vic- tory over Purdue and Miami in a triangular meet at Lafayette two weeks ago, amassing 80 points against 40 for the Boilermakers. Although the score indicates a sound trounc- ing, Michigan was not at full strength, Ross and Bob Hume being confined to Ann Arbor by Medical School' responsibilities. Purdue is generally conceded little chance of winning but Coach Ken Doherty says that the efforts of his charges Saturday will be indicative of what they will do at the Confer- ence Championships, May 26, and the team morale should be high. Purdue Conceded Five Points The Boilermakers are conceded a chance to win at least five events. With Boris Dirnancheff, the all-Con- ference halfback who won the 100- yard dash at the Lafayette meet, and Ben Harvey, the Boilermakers may take the first two places in the 100. Dimancheff and Harvey are also expected to place in the 220, with Val Johnson confined to the sidelines by an injury sustained ini Michigan's quadrangular meet last week. Dick Kilpatrick, the Drake Relay champion should finish first or second in the high jump and Diiman - cheff, who also took first in the broad jump in the triangular mcct, may take that event. Purdue's mile relay team of Di- mancheff, Harvey, Larry Niclsen, and Don Weber also stands a chance of beating Michigan's entry which has yet to lose an outdoor race. The middle distances, Michigan's specialty, might well prove Purdue's downfall. The Hume twins, Ned Birdsall, Archie Parsons, and Dick Barnard should bring the Wolverines the majority of places in the 880, the mile and the two mile. Golfers To Face Ohio State on Michigan Links With only a few members of the team able to practice this week due to the very heavy Ann Arbor "dew", Michigan's linksmen will encounter Ohio State tomorrow at the Univer- sity golf course. For the Wolverines' second home match of the season, Coach Bill Barclay has named a six-man squad to tee off against the Buckeyes. Lead- ing the golfers will be Captain Paul O'Hara, followed by Phil Marcellus' John Tews, John Jenswold, Bob Ernst, and Ken Morey. These same players faced the Ohio club April 2° at Columbus, dropping a tight contest, 15-12. Tomorrow, Barclay's charges will be out for re- venge, rain or shine so says the Maize and Blue golf mentor, hoping to balance their previous setbackI with their fourth straight triumph. To date the Michigan linksters have a record of four wins against onw lone defeat. Coach Bob Kepler's squad boasts a pcrfect record so far this season with nine straight victories, The Buckeyes' last two opponents, who fell by the wayside, were the Univer- sity of Detroit, whom the Ohioans took 111'-,/, and the Michigan State golfers who were shut out, 12-0. F OLD JUP PLUVIUS can hold back his torrents long enough for the baseball diamond to dry, Michigan's contending Big Ten champions will start their most important series of the year today as they play host to the Hoosiers of Indiana. That this game is "a natural," to quote Wolverine mentor Ray Fisher's statement of the game, can easily be discerned by various factors. At present, Michigan and Indiana: are tied for first place in the Conference race. Michigan has won two games while dropping none, and Indiana has copped three tilts and lost none, so the final outcome of this tussle may easily determine the future champions. Although both teams are highly-geared for this contest, Indiana will come here with a chip on its shoulder, since last year's Michigan nine drubbed the Hoosiers twice in their own lair. Coinciding with this added incentive of revenge is their lust to defeat a Michigan team, and a double triumph over Michigan this week-end would suffice to make their season a successful one whether they won the Big Ten title or not. HOWEVER, THE Wolverines will also be inspired, for this will be their last Big Ten game of the year on their home grounds, and these last four week-ends, which are billed with Conference opponents, will decide if Michigan can retain its Conference crown. Should Indiana defeat Michigan in both games and split with Minnesota, they will undoubtedly win the title as no other team is strong enough to beat them. The improvement of Wolverine infielders Donn Tomasi, Jack Weis- enburger and Tom Rosema is termed 100% by Coach Fisher since the start of the present campaign. This is attributed to the experience these men have already gained, and their performances will be supple- mented by the fielding and timely hitting of veteran third-sacker, Walt Kell. _NIICHIGAN'S OUTFIELD is rated as the fastest, hardest-hitting and best fielding trio in the Big Ten. according to figures just released. It consists of Bill Nelson, who has been hitting the ball hard in practices, but who didn't pull out of his slump until the Notre Dame fracas; Don Lund, a three-year veteran, and Bill Gregor, who is in his second campaign, both of whom have been pounding the ball hard. Pitchers Ray "Red" Louthen and Bo Bowman will carry Michigan's lipes on their shoulders as both hurlers will start chukking to catchers Bob Stevenson, who sports a .400 batting average, with unblemished records in Big 'en dual meets. That Coach Pouch Harrell of Indiana, embarrrassed by last year's double setback, will have his Hoosiers aroused and ready to demonstrate a lot of fight and hustle through both games is a foregone conclusion. And Coach Fisher's statement that Michigan got more well-hit balls in the Notre Dame game than he has seen in his 25 years of coaching collegiate ball, should be enough to induce the largest crowd of the year to witness one of the best, if not the best series, of the current season. Tennis Squad T o Buck Rain At Columbus Trriangullar A]iat li Se for To orow With six victories beneath their belts despite the torrential spring season, Coach Le Roy Weir's racket- wielders, will engage in a triangular tennis meet, Saturday at Columbus, with the Buckeyes of Ohio State and the Wildcats of Northwestern. The men who will make the trip are not yet determined, but the list will doubtless include practically the same men that went to Evanston last week-end, when the Wolverines de- feated Minnesota and Wisconsin, 7-2, and 8-1, respectively. Squad Forced Indoors Captain Roger Lewis, Jinx John- son, Gordon Naugle, Jack Hersh, Dave Post, Bill Haynes, and Roy Boucher, have taken to the shelter of the I-M Building for the week, and have been getting their practice on the fast indoor courts. Facing the Maize and Blue at Columbus, will be a comparatively rugged Ohio State aggregation, and an unpredictable Northwestern squad. The Bucks have defeated Oberlin, Miami, Purdue, and Illinois so far this seo :ou. massing a total of 26 points to their opponents' seven.- They were extreimely lucky at the beginning of the season to have had seven returning lettermen. Ohio Lists Starters Among their probable starters are: the expert Vcnezua,1an, Jose Coriat Bob Bowen, Tom Cantwell, Al Frank- lin, and Aris Franklin. Buckeye Coach Herman Wirthwein got off to a rather atte st rt at th bevinning of the *asi i, #. r(oorIts tHmt hip chargecs are miaking ul for it now. Northwestern, wi th ooe letterman Dave White, left over from last Ica- ron, and carrying an extreinely large squad, is amite lunipredictable. Coach Bennet has not had too much cppor- tunity to see hiis men in intra-squad competition dle to the elements, and accordingly has had to pick his team on the basis of reputation rather than actual playing ability. By BILL LAMBERT With any sort of break in the weather, the clash between the two leading Conference baseball powers will get underway today at 4:00 (EWT) when the Michigan nine takes the field against a hard-hitting Indiana club at Ferry Field. The Hoosiers will arrive in Ann Arbor today, but in case rain or wet grounds makes it impossible to play, a doubleheader is slated for tomor- row. The series will have a direct bearing on the title race as both teams go in the two games with a perfect 1.000 average. Fisher Thinks Back Coach Ray Fisher in commenting on the heavy spring rains said, "In all my years of coaching, I've never before been unable to merely go out on the grass and workout my club. Although we've had plenty of games rained out in previous years, this seems to be the most continuous stretch of bad weather I can re- inember." The Wolverine catchers and pitch- ers have been working out all week in the Field House, but the rest of the squad has been idle, meaning that if the game is played today, it will be the first workout for the ma- jority of the squad since last Fri- day's game with Notre Dame. Hoosier Bats Are Strong Indiana brings a crew of six men who are batting over .300, with third Cubs' Roy ftinghes Or t Weeks NEW YORK, May 17. -(/P)-Short- stop Roy Hughes of the Chicago Cubs will be lost to the club for at least two weeks because of a badly wrench- ed left knee sustained in today's game with the New York Giants. Hughes was taking a throw from second baseman Don Johnson who had fielded Johnny Rucker's groun- der in the eighth inning when base- runner Billy Jurges crashed into him. 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