1~6 1949 THE MI-CHIGAN L D L ' .5,7ATI.5..5. 5 IP 8 d4m +...a.. E M 1anTC..U.t,1TTAN l L LV tb A" l HRE f ~A& tCOND GUESSING By CLARK BAKER Daily Sports Editor WHAT PROMISES to be baseball's greatest season in history opens today with President Truman slated to starton the mound at Washington and all 16 Major League clubs set to blast the lid off a five-month campaign for diamond honors. The cry of "Play Ball" today will stir America's millions as it has in no other season. For three war-torn summers baseball has had to struggle along as best it could, relying on fuzz-faced kids and bearded old-timers to keep the diamond dust whirling. Now the Williamses, the Dimaggios, the Greenbergs and the Fellers, idols of the millions, are back to spearhead America's first post-war summer. Just how good the old favorites will be is a question for time alone. How many wartime youngsters will be able to hold their jobs likewise poses an enigma which won't be settled until next September. But we'd like to delve into the future long enough to make a running guess at the standings as they'll look when the World Series rolls around in Octo- ber. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE is first. It's hard to see anybody beating the St. Louis Cardinals out. They've got the Majors' best pitching, a strong de- fensive array and plenty of power to burn. In our book the Chicago Cubs, good all around, will give the Cards' a brief fight, before losing out around mid-season. New York will have a contender in Mel Ott's Giants. A good catching staff plus power will bring the New Yorkers a third place. To round out the first division we'll string along with Leo Duro- cher's Brooklyn Club. The Dodgers have just enough of everything plus a good trio of outer gardeners to squeeze into the top foursome. Pitts- burgh may beat out the Durocher squad, but at present the Pirates have too many question marks. The rest of the line-up will see the Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Blue-Jays finishing in that order. 'HE AMERICAN LEAGUE presents a little more of a problem. The first- place battle will center around New York, Detroit and Boston with Cleveland holding an outside chance. The Yankees will base their hones on the League's best defense, explosive power and Joe McCarthy. We think that McCarthy's handling of his hurlers will give the New York club the edge after a close fight. Steve O'Neill's Tigers are ticketed for second place. Their pitching corps will make it hot for the Yankees but the infield is too big a question mark. The Red Sox have plently of long-ball hitters and we expect Ted Williams to walk off with slugging honors, but we can't see any better than third for the Bosox. Joe Cronin has yet to prove himself a better-than-average mana-' ger. The fight for first division spots will be a wide-open one but we can't see Washington, Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia getting any higher than fifth. And there it is. The Yankees and Cardinals to clash in 4he World Series next October. We'll wait until then before picking the 1946 World Champion. Because this is going to be a season full of surprises we would not advise laying much money on the line. Following the. Yanks will be Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia. Behind the Cards will be Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston, Cincinnati and Philadelphia. U~ Id Detroit Opposes Browns in Season Opener Hal Newbouser to Face Potter As Title Defense Begins Today "# ' I Tigers Out to Slop Opening Day Jinx By The Associated Press DETROIT, April 15-The World Champion Detroit Tigers, with a line- up bearing only slight resemblance to that with which they nosed out the Chicago Cubs in the 1945 World Series, open defense of their Ameri-' can League Baseball Championshipt Potter, the Browns' 15-game winnel of a year ago. Newhouser Named As Starter Strangely enough, Newhouser goes to the mound facing a two-way jinx in seven years of processional base- ball Hal never has won the first game he's pitched in any season. The Tig- ers, likewise, haven't taken an open- ing game victory since 1939. St. Louis beat Newhouser 7 to 1 in the 1945 season opener. Only four veterans of the World Golfers Face ' Spartans Here r On Saturday With the season opener against Michigan State coming up Saturday, s Coach Bill Barclay has finally suc- ceeded in cutting the golf squad down to the 13 members he expects to re- tain through the approaching sea- son. After putting the squad through a ssecond round of play-offs over the week-end,uBarclay also has a pretty good idea of the six men he Will use against the Spartans Saturday on the University links. Freshman Dave Barclay who has been playing a con- sistently good brand of golf since the start of practice will certainly be one of the six, along with Pete El- liot, another standout in pre-season play. The balance of the team will probably be comprised of Ed Schal- oon, Dunc Noble, Roger Kessler, and Bill Ramsey. Topping the varsity golfers in the week-end competition was a 77 by De Vries. Closely following were Dave Courtright with a 78, Doug Beath, Noble, Schalon, and Ramsey with 79, and Elliot with an 80. Kessler and John Bennett, both freshmen, wound up with 81. Next Saturday's match will be the first for both teams, and Barclay has little idea of what to expect from the Spartans. The competition will. be "stiff enough," he predicted. No. 2 man on the State squad is Dale Ott- mar, former Ann Arbor High star. It, is rumored that Coach Ben Van Al. styne has at least six men on his squad capable of breaking 80, but to natch these Barclay has about ten men who have broken 80 in practice rounds. The week-end play-off tourney al- so established several men on the freshman squad. They are: John Bezverkov, Howard McDonald, John- Olson, Bob Muir, Gordon Rosencrans, and Bennett. NROTC Rifle Team Beats Irish, Purdue, Michigan's NROTC rifle team de- feated Notre Dame and Purdue Sat- urday in a triangular match at Notre1 Dame. The match was close until the off- hand firing which the Wolverine quintet under Lt. Neal won easily to walk off with top honors. The Michigan team with their scores: Jim Timidaiski, 170; John Blank, 175; Galen Gilbert, 170; George Lind- gren, 170; and Jim Erickson, 172. Nine Faces Wayne Here Friday With Winning Streak at Stake Tern' Tops Normal a In Practice Tilt With a 20 game winning streak and its third straight Big Ten crown at stake, the Michigan baseball team will open its 1946 season Friday against 4the Wayne University nine on the Ferry Field diamond. Following the contest on Friday the two teams will square off in the re- tnmatch of the season Saturday in Detroit. Nine Wins In Ninth Coach Ray liisher's charges ended their pre-season practice game sched- .oc BATTING STAR .Bob Nuss- baumer, one of the leading Michi- gan batsmen in four pre-season games, will be seen as the center- fielder against Wayne on Friday. ule yesterday as they defeated the Michigan State Normal team for the second time since Friday by a 4-3 margin with a run after two were out in the last half of the ninth inning. The Hurons got to Dick Body- combe, one of the four B-Men, for three runs in the first three innings. The feature of the visitors' rally was a home run with the bases empty in the third inning by Andy Newlands, the Huron's first sacker. The Wolverines pushed three runs; across the plate in their half of the third and the score remained tied at three all until the Wolverines came to bat in their half of the ninth. -A trio of second string hurlers, Bud Rankin, "Bo" Bogart, and Bob Mac- Intyre held the Hurons to two safeties for the last six frames while the Wolverines played perfect ball afield. Elmer Swanson led off the last inning by popping up. MacIntyre got on base when shortsop Bill Nuse threw wide of first. Jiny Brown, playing for the injured Don Robin- son at short, went out on an infield play. Bob Nussbaumer walked setting the stage for Bliss Bowman's game w inning single through the right side of the infield scoring Maclntyre. Bowman played in left field in yester- day's practice tilt. Friday's Starters Uncertain The starting team in tie week-end series against Wayne is still un- named due t.o the injury to Robinson and a possible inj;ury that nay bench Jack Weisenberger who wa slated to play the shortstop position Should Weisenberger fail to recov- er fromi a le tat has been boteriig him for the paist week, B3rown, will take over twm position. Brgn was the regular shotnstop on the Western Michigan team last season and has shown a good deal of ability afield but not too much power at the plate in practice so far this season. Keep A-head of Your Hair We specialize in Crew-cuts, Scalp Treatments, Personality Styling, Seven Barbers - No Waiting THE DASCOLA BARBERS Between State & Michigan Theater Diamonds Wedding SICE RINGS 7t7 North University Ave. e--y==o<-- o<-- o -ryo<--yoe... * TYPEWRITERS Bought, Rented Repaired STUDENT and OFFICE SUPPLIES 0. D. MORRIILL 314 S. State St. Phone 7177 Continuous from 1 P.M. Weekdays 30c to 5 P.M. NOW / A -OtA-HA -AFA MEET THE " <}SALESMEN! JACQUELINE DE WIT Also- "DAYS OF '76" WORLD NEWS Coming . "MISS SUSIE SLAG L E'S" Mann to Teach Swim Classes In Germany Swimming season may be over at Michigan but there'll be no let-up for Matt Mann, the Wolverines' genial tank coach. For the next six weeks Mann will head an Army Athletic Division in swmming instruction at Stuttgart, Germany. The school which opened yesterday expects to train 500 officers and enlisted men in athletic instruc- tion during the first five weeks. During the final week Mann will impart his tank wisdom to a group of WAC'S and Army nurses. All the classes in swimming will be held in the spacious Stuttgart Stadium pool. There are an estimated 250,000 American occupation troops in the Stuttgart-Frankfurt area. Mann left the United States April 4 making the 22-hour trip to Paris by plane across the North Atlantic George Wilson, physical education instructor at Northwestern, made the trip with Mann. All men interested in trying out for the position of baseball mana- ger can report to practice at Fer- ry Field any afternoon this week. STARTING HURLER ... Hal New- houser who will attempt to break a jinx today as he opens the 1946 season as the Tiger's pitcher. here tomorrow against the St. Louis Browns with forecasts of fair andE cooler weather presaging a record opening day throng of 55,000. Sunny But Cool Sunshine, notwithstanding temp-7 eratures expected to dip into the low 50's, stood certain to bring out a turn- out in excess of the record 51,000: which watched the Tigers open here in 1938. Briggs Stadium was pre- pared to entertain 56,000 fans-al-I most exactly twice the opening day" crowds of each of the last two years. Hal Newhouser, ace lefthander who won 25 games for the Tigers in the 1945 season and twice beat the Cubs' in the World Series, was Detroit's 3 pitching nominee, opposing Nelson NUMBER TWO PITCHER??? Paul "Dizzy" Trout who may be the number two hurler on the World's Champions this season. Series last October were in Detroit's starting line-up for tomorrow's game, including Newhouser and his battery- mate catcher Paul Richards, second baseman Eddie Mayo and first base- man Hank Greenberg, back in the in- field for the first time since 1940. THE BATTING ORDERS: St.nLouis Dillinger 3B Stevens 1B Laabs RF McQuillen LF Judnich CF Berardino 2B Christman SS Mancuso C Potter P Detroit Lake SS Mayo 2B McCosky CF Greenberg 1B Wakefield LF Mullin RF Higgins 3B Richards C Newhouser P 1 ... _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ - , - . . . _ _ Telephone 3008 We Deliver! Umpires: McGowan, Rue and Pas- sarella. Starting time 3 p.m. (EST). Open 1 1 :00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. 2x4 LUNCH DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Featuring Box Chicken HAMBURGS 0 HOT DOGS * GOOD COFFEE 50c BAR-B-Q's i i Ili 1319 South University Ave., Ann Arbor (Continued from Page 2) today at 4:15 in the Rackham Lec- ture Hall. Students will not be re- quired to present tickets or identifi- cation cards for this lecture. Freshman Health Lectures - Women - Section II (Tuesdays): Students enrolled in Section II who wish to attend Dr. Vincent's lecture on "Courtship and Marriage" may make up their required lecture by at- tending Section III, on Wednesday. Those students unable to make-up this period wil be expected to attend Tuesday's class as usual. Academic Notices Students, Spring Term, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Courses dropped after Saturday, April 20, by students other than freshmen will be recorded with the grade of "E". Exceptions to these regulations may be made only be- cause of extraordinary circumstances, such as serious illness.) History 50, mid-semester, April 16, 10:00 a.m., ADAMS to KATZ, Room B, Haven Hall; KAY to ZEEB, Room 1025 Angell Hall. Bacteriology Seminar will meet on Tuesday, April 16, at 8:30 a.m. in Room 1564 East Medical Building. Subject: "Recent Developments in the Application of Serological Tech- niques to the Study of Virus Disease." Seminar in Applied Mathematics and Special Functions: At the meet- ing at 3:00 p.m. today, in 312 West! Engineering, Professor Bartels will continue the discussion of Conical Flow of Gases. Analytic Functions Seminar will meet on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. in 3201 Angell Hall. Mr. Lee Thompson will speak on "Lindelof's Principle and the Picard Theorem". Seminar in physical chemistry will meet on Thursday, April 18, in Room 410 Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m. Professor E. F. Barker will speak on "Resonance Effect in Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide". All interested are invited. Concerts The University of Michigan Sym- phony Orchestra, William D. Revelli, Conductor, will present a program at 8:30 Thursday evening, April 18, in Hill Auditorium. Jeannette Haien, a graduate student in the School of Music, will appear with the orches- tra in Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, "The Emperor," for piano and orchestra. The public is invited. Exhibitions Michigan Historical Collections: "Early Ann Arbor." 160 Rackham. Open daily 8-12, 1:30-4:30, Saturdays 8-12. 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