THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946 TH RE 11CMI CIA NJ) A I IJ PAGE THREE RIVER ROUGE RELAYS: 750 High School Thinclads Vie in Meet Here Saturday PRESENTING FISHER'$ FOUR B-MEN: Bodycornbe, Bowman, Block, Boim Are Best on Wolverines'/F'onnd Staffj I Dave Barclay Cops Tourney To Grab Number One Golf Slot By JACK MARTIN Sixty-seven high school track teams will converge on Ann Arbor this Sat- urday to stage the seventh annual River Rouge Invitational Relays on the cinders of Yost Field House. Over 750 -f the state's schoolboy track stars- are expected to be on hand for the affair, which has rapidly become one of the most outstanding high school indoor track carnivals in the country. It is recognized generally as the meet which determines unof- ficially the Michigan inter-scolastic indoor championship. Two Classes of Entries The entries are divided into two classes of competition, based on the official state classification system. Class A schools will be in the upper bracket, while Class B, C, D will run in the second. Saginaw Eastern is the defending champion. In last year's relays they staved off a late rally by Saginaw Arthur Hill to capture the title by one point, 28 to 27. Judson Was High Scorer Individual scoring honors went, however, to a local speedster from Ann Arbor High. Ted Judson captur- ed three second places in the high and low hurdles and the high jump, racking up a total of fifteen points. The Ann Arbor squad as a whole placed a close third in the team standings with 23 points. Battle Creek, Flint Central, and Wyandotte followed the three leaders in that order. The closest thing to a meet record came in the high jump when George Osborn of Arthur Hill leaped 5 ft. 11/4 in. Meet Began in 1938 The River Rouge Invitational Re- lays were initiated in 1938 by Coach McDonald of River Rouge High. Re- cognizing the need for an indoor track meet which brought together all the leading thinclads of the state just as the official state champion- ships do outdoors, he secured the cooperation of the coaching staff of the University and sent out invita- tions to schools in this area to com- pete in a relay meet in Yost Field House. Fifteen schools answered this first call, and River Rouge won the first championship. Since then the annual affair has steadily grown in size and importarce until it has become one of the most popular events in Michi- gan. River Rouge Holds Two Titles River Rouge is the only team which has been able to capture the relay championship more than once. After their victory in the initial-meet, they repeated to grab the second title in 1939. Wyandotte dethroned the host squad in 1940, and in 1941 Ann Ar- bor routed all opposition to score 301/ points for a landslide triumph. During the war years of 1942-43 the relays were cancelled due to transportation headaches. They were renewed in 1944, and Saginaw Hill thundered to the championship with 37%/ points. They came near repeat- ing last year, but their cross-town rivals from Eastern slipped by with the one point victory. This Meet To Be Best This year's event promises to over- shadow all the previous meets by a large margin. The number of entrants has more than doubled in the one year period. In fact, the meet has entirely shoved aside one of the fea- tures which used to dominate the af- ternon, a track clinic staged by mem- bers of the Michigan cinder squad. The clinic will not be held this Sat- urday. The preliminary races get under way Saturday afternoon at 1:00. If the weather permits, some of the trials will be held on the outdoor track to enable the events to be com- pleted on time. All the races in the evening will be final events, begin- ning at 7:30. An admission price of 25 cents will be charged. Court Declares Horse Racing Legal in State LANSING, April 10 - (AP) - Horse racing and pari-mutuel betting are legal in Michigan, the State Supreme Court ruled today, and in Detroit the Racing Association immediately an- nounced a 49-day Spring Meeting at the State Fair Grounds. The races will open May 25 and run through July 20. In its decision, the high court voided the lease between the Detroit Racing Association and the State Department of Agriculture for use of the Fair Grounds, but officials said they thought a new rental con- tract could be negotiated. George W. Lewis, General Man- ager of the Detroit Track, said the Association interpreted the decision to mean racing will be permitted pending agreement on a new lease. Pari-mutuel betting, the high court ruled, is not a lottery and therefore is not prohibited by the State Con- ttitution. Its decision overruled a Wayne County Circuit Court which held the 1933 horse racing law un- constitutional By WALT KLEE It almost seems that to be a pitch- er on Coach Ray Fisher's baseball team this season, one has to have a last name beginning with the letter "B", for the top five hurlers on the staff are Bowman, Boim, Bodycombe, Block and Wise. Two B-Men Have Letters Two of the four "B-Men" have won letters in years gone by for"their skill on the rubber, while one has played freshman ball and was a member of a summer Wolverine nine, while the fourth is a newcomer to the Michigan baseball scene. Bliss Bowman heads the list of the four moundsmen. The diminutive portsider was the second hurler on last year's squad with an 8-1 won and lost record, and a two-year rec- ord of eight straight victories against Big Ten competition. "Bo" Develops Curve Ball For two seasons "Bo" has relied chiefly on his fast ball, only rarely using his curve and a change of pace. But during the winter, he developed a fine assortment of curve balls which have shown up to great advantage in practice and against Pepsi-Cola last Saturday.. Bowman's only loss last year was in the first game of the season when he lost to Western Michigan by a 5-4 count in 10 innings. Of the loss the Maize and Blue coach says, "It was bad baseball on the team's part, not any fault of Bo's." "Pro" Boasts 4-1 Record The second veteran among the B- men will be Irving "Pro" Boim, who is one of the most colorful "charac- ters" in the annals of Michigan base- ball. Boim had a 4-1 record in the Conference and a 7-3 record for the entire 1942 season. Boim, a right hander, has an ef- fective fast ball and perhaps the best curve on the squad when it is under control. IHs effectiveness is proven by his earned run average for the 1942 season, which was a mere 1.4 runs a game. Boim Loses to Great Lakes Among the three defeats suffered by the big right hander was one by Tigers Squeeze By Reds 24 on Mullin's Homer TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 10- (P)--Right fielder Pat Mullin's fourth inning home run, scoring Dick Wake- field who had walked, brought the Detroit Tigers from behind today for a 2 to 1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in the-opener of a four-game exhibition series. The triumph was the first for the Tigers this spring over a Cincinnati club which licked Detroit three straight times in Florida. Mullin's big blow clinched the vic- tory for Paul (Dizzy) Trout, who had pitched the first five innings for De- troit and allowed three hits and one run. Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinna- ti's double-no-hit lefthander, gave up all seven of Detroit's hits in his five-inning turn. O'Neill Releases McCoy Benny McCoy, released this spring by the Philadelphia Athletics, failed to make the grade in his week's try- out for a Detroit infield berth, Mana- ger Steve O'Neill announced today. McCoy joined the Tigers in Ala- bama on their northward swing and played second base in three exhi- bition games against the Boston Braves without impressing O'Neill favorably. In 1940, McCoy received a $45,000 bonus for signing with the Athletics after the late Baseball Commission Kenesaw M. Landis had declared him a free agent. Prior to that time he had played parts of two seasons with the Tigers. Three Bengals To Rest Although the Tigers are scheduled for four more exhibition games in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky this week, O'Neill sent three of his stars home to Detroit today to rest up for the opening of the American League season next Tuesday against the St. Louis Browns. Leaving the club in Terre Haute were infielders Hank Greenberg and Eddie Mayo and Pitcher Virgil Trucks. Greenberg and Mayo have been complaining of sore muscles and Trucks has a cold. the big league star-studded Great Lakes nine. Boim was behind 3-1 when lie was removed in the eighth inning for a pinch hitter after yield- i LEADS B-MEN. . . Bliss Bowman, southpaw hurler, who will seek to keep his eight game winning streak over Big Ten competition intact this season. ing but four hits, the lowest total for the sailors that year. Dick Bodycombe, another left han- der, is the third of the quartet that will share most of the pitching for the Michigan team this year. He Highiolits- froii n the SportsWorl 1 By 'Tie Associated Pres Exhibition Bsebll At Columbus, Ohio Brooklyn (N) 010 000 000-1 3 0 New York (A) 611 000 00x-8 11 2 Hlatten, Lombardi (2), Roy and An- derson, Howell (7); Marshall and Silvestri. At Oklahoma City, Okla. St. Louis (N) 321 010 001-8 9 1 Okda. City (TL) 000 001 000-1.5.4 Brecheen, Grodzicki (6) and Rice, Burmeister (6); Stroupe, Iatley (4), Piercy (7) and Evling. 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Chicago (A) 000 010 010-2 6 1 Pittsburgh (N) 000 020 001-3 7 2 Rigney, Caldwell (7) and Fernan- dez; Albosta, Lanning (7) and Smith. Keep A-head of Your oair We specialize in crew-cuts, scalp Treatments, Personality Styling. Seven Barbers - No Waiting THE DASCOLA BARBERS Between State & Michigan Theater played on the 1942 freshmnanil teami, and played On the sunmmer team that year before going into the service. Bodycombe ', on tst anding game so far was as abbreviated seven-inning affair against the King-Seeley ama- teur team in which he didn't allow a single safety. Block May Be Top Hurler The last of the pitchers will be Earl Block. vho may be the leading hurler on i!he team in his first year on the squad. Last year the big right hander had a 9-3 record, pitching for the Oberlin College nine. Block has looked the most impres- sive of the nurlers on the squad so far. His assortment of pitches in- cludes a fast ball, a variety of curves, a slow change of pace and, what is most important. almost perfect con- trol. His record at, the Ohio school in- cluded double victories over Baldwin Wallace College, while losing a 3-0 contest to Ohio State's Buckeyes. Last fall he pitched for the Bartunek Clothes nine in the National Ama- teur Championships held in Cleve- land, allowing one hit and no runs in six innings on the mound. His performances in practice so far this season indicates that he may repeat his record of having the most strikeouts on the team he pitched for last year, as he has fanned all of the Wolverine batters repeatedly in batting practice. Three Topfight Caitclhers Create Problerm at MSC' EAST LANSING, April 10 - (A") - Baseball Coac hJohn Kobs, of Michi- gan State College, with the finest crop of catchers in Spartan history at his disposal, feels that "A darn good receiver" should develop by the end of the season. Kobs is still undecided as to which one of a trio of hard hitting back- stops will get the nod when the Spar- tans open their season at home April 19 against Wisconsin, but the MSC diamond boss has no intentions of shifting any of the catchers to other positions to utilize their hitting power. In the receiving department, the Spartans boast Capt. Ben Hudenko, of Wyandotte, who paced the team in batting l.ast year with a .370 aver- agt, Bucky Walsh, of Buffalo, N. Y., a 1942 freshman receiver who hit a .313 clip during the recent southern tour, and Pete Fornari, a Detroiter who led MSC hitting in 1942 with a .303 average. Taly l'aslei'Seals! Don't be confused when the nate Barclay appeal's as the mainstay on the golf team, for it will be that of Dave Barclay, who bears the samej name as the team's Coach Bill Bar- clay. The young golfer, who has earned the right to play in the number one slot on this year's team by shooting a neat 36 in the last round of tour- nament competition, is no relation to his coach. Dave Tops Lettermen Dave will play in the first position above such lettermen as Duncan No- ble and Bill Courtright and Pete El- liot who played on last summer's links squad. Coach Barclay has said of player Barclay, "Dave is a fine -Mayer, and if he lives up to my expectations. he will be right up among the top Big Ten players at the end of the season. It is easy to see that the younger Barclay is no novice on the links. At the age of twelve he started touring the fairways and scooping out sand- traps. Most of his early golfing was done on the public courses of Rock- ford, Illinois, his home town. After five seasons of steady play, Barclay won the City Junior Championship two years in a row when he was sev- enteen ahd eighteen. Barclay Cards a 66 In high school he teamed with Phil Marcellus, later captain of the Wolverine '44 golf squad, and two future Big Ten stars from Illinois, Alex Welch and Johnny Holmstrom, to drive through an undefeated schedule. He carded his best score in 1939, a blazing six under par 66, which set a new record in the Illinois State Medal Tourney. This achieve- ment has been tied only once since then. During part of his stint in service, Barclay was stationed at the Boca Raton Air Base where he played on its golf squad. As in high school, his outfit didn't lose a match against Fraternity Results Swimming: Beta 36; Phi Delt 26 Water Polo: Beta 5; ATO 1 Delta Upsilon 8; Sigma Chi 2 . Open Weekdays 6 P.M. Open Sat.-Sun. 12 Noon :OPEN BOWLING 15 - ALLEYS -15 * Alleys always available for groups or individuals for practice or 0 * open bowling. Improve your average by getting in a few extra * ames each week. 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