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Fisr Launches 26th
Year at Baseball Helm
Wolverine Nines Have Toured U. S., Japan;
Have Taken 10 Rig Ten Titles Since 1921
By WALT KLEE
When the shout "play ball" opens
the 1946 baseball season on April 19,
Coach Ray Fisher will begin his 26th
year at the helm of -the Michigan
team.
Fisher, who first cane to Ann Ar-
bor in 1921, holds the distinction of
having the longest reign of any Wol-
verine coach and one of the longest
in the entire country.
In his first quarter of a century,
Fisher has given Michigan baseball
teams that are respected from coast
to coast and across the Pacific in
Japan. His teams have played in every.
section of the country and in 1929
journeyed across the far off Pacific
to Japan.
It was principally due to the won-
ders the coach has done to teams
that has earned Michigan the honor
accorded it when Esquire magazine
named the school as the second out-
standing college team in the national
pastime.
A look into the record book more
than justifies the honor that has
been heaped on the Maize and Blue
coach. In 25 years Michigan has won
10 Big Ten championships and fin-
ished in second or third almost 10
more time$
His all-time record of 421 victories
against 185 defeats is truly amazing
testimony to the ability of the dean
of Michigan coaches to create great
teams. His teams have only had three,
seasons in which they finished be-
low the .500 mark.
Some of the players who have
starred for the Wolverines have gone
on to play professional ball. Dick
Wakefield, Don Lund and Pete Ap-1
pleton the three Michigan men who
are now in the big time. Others have
given a year or two to the play forE
pay ranks and given it up for the
business world.
Coach Fisher rates the team that
he celebrated his silver anniversary
with as the outstanding one in his1
first quarter of a century as a coach.
That aggregation won all but one
game in a 21-game schedule. It lostl
the season opener to Western Michi-
gan and then settled down to take
20 in a row, and the Conference title:1
The second'team in Fisher's heartl
is the team he took to Japan in 1929.
This team had a 15 and 6 won lostJ
record, but had two wins over Meiji
University in the Land of the Rising
Sun, both by the score of 3-2.
Back in his college days at Middle-
burg College in New England, the
Michigan coach played both football
and baseball. He filled the fullbackj
Irish List Nine
Grid Foes on
1946 Schedule
USC, Purdue Among
Five Home Contests
SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 16-
(f)--Notre Dame's 1946 football sche-
dule, listing nine games and Southern
California and Purdue as new oppo-
nents, was announced today by Coach
Frank Leahy.
The Fighting Irish, preparing for
their 58th grid season, will encounter
Southern California's Trojans for the
first time since 1942. The Trojans
will close the Irish season here on
Nov. 30. Purdue will be played here
Oct. 12. The schedule includes five
home games and an open date on
Oct. 19.
Georgia Tech, Dartmouth, and
Great Lakes, which has closed its
second wartime era, are 1945 oppo-
nents missing from next fall's Irishj
card. Navy is booked Nov. 2 at Bal-
timore, and Army again will be en-
countered at New York on Nov. 9.
THE SCHEDULE
Sept. 28, Illinois at Champaign;
Oct. 5, Pittsburgh here; Oct. 12,
Purdue, here; Oct. 19, open; Oct.
26, Iowa, at Iowa City; Nov. 2, Na-
vy at Baltimore; Nov. 9, Army at
New York Nov. 16, Northwestern,
here; Nov. .2 3, Tulane, at New Or-
leans; and Nov. 30, Southern Cal-
ifornia, here.
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Sports Building - Scene of Wednesday's Gala Open House
By DICK BURTON
Wednesday's Open House at the Sports Building will hold particular in-
terest for boxing fans who like to see the best in amateur pugilists mix it up
i the ring.
Ed Cochrane, intramural boxing instructor, stated yesterday that five1
bouts have been scheduled for the super sports show. They will be the ama-
teur regulation bouts of three two-minute rounds each.
Two welterweights from Waterman Gym, Dick McClure and Morrie Kob-
lenz, will be matched in the first exhibition startng at 8:30 p.m. Following
them in the ring will be middleweights Don Ayers of the Navy and Ed Burns.
In the light-heavyweight division Ronald Soble will meet S. L. Setomer.
Both Soble and Setomer can boast previous boxing laurels, Soble having won
the 1945 city middleweight Golden Gloves title (novice class) at Chicago,
and Setomer copping the crown at North Carolina Pre-Flight School. A sec-t
ond light-heavyweight bout will be staged by Larry Hetrick and Gil West.
Climaxing the program is the heavyweight clash between Ed Cochrane
and Lee Woodruff. Woodruff is another Golden Gloves champion having
won the Michigan state heavyweight crown (novice class) at Grand Rapids
last year.
All bouts will be purely exhibitions with no decisions. being rendered but
enthusiasts of the cauliflower industry are assured of some thrill-packed
battles.
Also included on the evening's card will be tennis; badminton, wrestling,
swimming, diving, handball, volley ball, squash, basketball, fencing, weight-
lifting, tumbling and gymnastics.
The Open House was an annual feature before the war but was dropped
in 1943 when the campus military and naval units took, over the facilities of
the Sports Building for their training programs.
DEAN OF COACHES . .. Ray Fish-
er, who will start his 26th season at
the helm of the Michigan nine this
year.
slot in the fall sport then when
spring rolled around took over the
mound duties for the baseball squad.
While still in school, Fisher played
for Hartford in the Connecticut
League. Then the New York High-
landers, forerunners of the Yankees
signed him to pitch in the Big
Leagues. During this period Fisher
earned the nickname of the Ver-
mont school teacher because he
doubled teaching Latin during the
off season.
The first World War interrupted
Fisher's baseball career, when the
Wolverine coach served in the Army
Air Forces. In 1919, upon discharge,
Fisher began a two year career with
the Cincinnati Reds which ended in
1921 when he took up the job he
holds today, head coach of the Michi-
gan baseball team.-
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Boim's Return Gives
boost to Title Hopes
Michigan's chances for its third
straight baseball crown were en-
hanced yesterday when it was learii-
ed that Irv "Pro" Boim had unex-
pectedly enrolled in the University
and would report for practice next
week.
Boim was one of the two main-
stays on the moundstaff on the 1942
Championship squad. He will join
Cliff Wise, from the 1941 team, and
Bo Bowman, last year's standout pit-
cher, as the top three pitchers on the
squad.
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Hivghlights
from the
Sports World
Segiira iefeais McNeil
NEW YORK, March 16---W 'Pan-
cho Segura, the tightly-wound little
Ecuadorian who swings a tennis rac-
quet with both hands, captured the
United States Indoor Singles Cham-
pionship today with a four-set vic-
tory over former titleholder Don Mc-
Neill, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
The South American parlayed a su-
perb passing shot and an uncanny
defensive game into the triumph
which took the title out of the Unit-
ed States for the first time since Jean
Borotra carted it to France in 1931.
Morris Given Award
CHICAGO, March 16-(IP)-Max
Morris, Northwestern University's
most versatile athlete in a decade,
tonight was named the Big Ten's
most valuable basketball player of
the 1945-46 season.
Paul Huston, Guard on Ohio
State's Championship team, and
Tony Jaros, Minnesota, tied for
second place in the balloting.
Behind them, also tied, were Herb
Wilkinson of Iowa; John Wallace,
Indiana, and Bob Cook, Wisconsin.
Snead Leads Jax Open
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 16
-(/P)-Sam Snead, who concedes
"playing pretty good golf these days,"
fired a six-under-par 66 today to pull
vix strokes ahead at the half-way
mark of the $10,000 Jacksonville Open
Golf Tournament.
The long-driving pro from Hot
Springs, Va., defending champion in
the local meet, went out in 31 and
took a 35 coming back, to put his 36-'
hole total at 130.
Baseball cores
Washington "B" 4, Detroit 3
New York (A) "A" 3, St. Louis (N) 2
New York (A) "B" 6, Cincinnati 0
Boston (A) 11, Cleveland 8
Pittsburgh "A" 8, St. Louis (A) "A" 7
Boston (N) 6, New York (N) 4
Philadelphia (N) 4, Baltimore 0
Washington "A" 8, Cuban All-Stars 3.
Pittsburgh 'B," St. Louis (A) "B" 1
Chicago (A) 6, Chicago (N) 2
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Trout, Newhouser,
r ucks Top Hurlers
By FRANK KENESSON
LAKELAND, Fla., March 16-GP-
As a tipoff on the times, Manager
Steve O'Neill will open the American
League baseball campaign this year
with only about 15 holdovers on
hand from the Detroit Tiger club that
struggled through to the 1945 Ameri-
can League Campionship and outlast-
ed the Chicago Cubs to win the World
Series.
Nearly half of those retained from a
year ago are pitchers, seven of them
from a Detroit mound staff that
yielded fewer than three earned runs
a game.
Newhouser Leads Hurlers
Hal Newhouser, 24-year-old left-
hander who led the league in every
pitching department worth men-
tioning, again is expected to be the
mainstay of a Tiger hurling corps
for which he bagged 54 victories in
the last two years. Paul (Dizzy)
Trout, without the back ailment that
had him on the shelf for more than
a month a year ago, hopes to exceed
his 1945 victory output of 18 games.
Virgil Trucks, World Series winner
who brought his blazing fast ball
back from the Pacific in time to pitch
the Tiger' pennant clincher, rounds
out the "Big Three" among the hold-
overs. Still around are such 1945
Tiger winners as Al Benton, Stubby
Overmire, Les Mueller and relief
man George Caster.
Ex-Servicemen on Roster
Service discharges have dumped
Detroit Loses Sixth
Straight to Senators
LAKELAND, Fla., March 16-(P)-
The Detroit Tigers lost their sixth
straight exhibition game today, 4 to
3, to Washington's "B" team - the
third time the World Champions
have been whipped by Clark Grif-
fith's seconds.
The Tigers filled the bases in four
different innings but 'their only runs
were realized when right fielder Gil
Coan dropped a fly ball to permit
two scores in the first frame and
John Niggeling passed Ned Harris
with the sacks loaded in the third.
Trucks Is Loser
The Bengals garnered nine hits,
received five walks and had the help
of five Washington errors, three by
Coan on fly balls. Detroit had 12
runners stranded.
Virgil Trucks worked the first five
innings for Detroit and gave up all
the Washington runs. He was beaten
in the fifth when Jake Early tripled
home a pair and scored himself on
Glenn Myatt's fly. Stubby Overmire
didn't allow Washington a hit in
the last four innings. ,
Wash. (AL) 010 030 000-4 7 5
Detroit (AL) 201 000 000-3 9 1
Niggeling, Scarborough (4), Cur-
tis (7) and Early, Evans (6);
Trucks, Overmire (6) and Rich-
ards, Tabacheck (6).
;oast
aditional pitching talent onto the
Tiger hurling roster in the persons
of Freddie Hutchinson, the $50,000
minor league sensation of a few years
back who tightened'his control play-
year-old Hank Greenberg will oper-
ate at first base, 36-year-old Pinky
Higgins at third, 33-year-old Eddie
Mayo at second and, Eddie Lake will
be installed as the No. 1 shortstop.
Bill Hitchcock and Jim Outlaw
stand behind Higgins at third, Skeet-
er Webb behind Lake at short and
Murray Franklin backs up Mayo at
second. Cullenbine is available for re-
lief to Greenberg at first but the rest
of the infield depth is in untried
rookies-Neal Berry, Johnny Lipon,
Anse Moore, Johnny McHale.
Batting power and speed in the
outfield, brains in the catching staff,
experience in the infield and a first
rate pitching staff constitute the
combination the Detroit Tigers will
send out in search of their eighth
American League pennant.
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BATTLES FOR JOB - Tiger Out-
fielder Doc Cramer, who led the
American League in fielding in 1945
will have to scramble for a start-
ing post this year.
ing service baseball, Hal White, Hal
Manders and Rookie Louis Kretlow,
who hooked on with Detroit last win-
ter for a reported $25,000 bonus.
Tommy Bridges, going great in
early spring appearances in train-
ing camp, hopes to stay around long
enough to pitch his 200th Major
League victory, a figure he's 17 games1
away from.
22 Pitchers On Staff
With 22 pitchers in spring train-
ing, the Tigers count that department
along with the outfield as the least
of their troubles.
Three .300 hitters of pre-war cal-
ibre, Dick Wakefield, Barney Mc-
Cosky and Pat Mullin, are engaged
in a six-way fight for outfield jobs
with the sizzling rookie Walter (Hoot)
Evers and two 1945 Tiger regulars,
Roger (Doc) Cramer, who led Ameri-
can League in fielding a year ago, and
Roy Cullenbine, who topped Tiger
hitters in the runs batted-in depart-
ment.
With that spread of talent the De-
troit outfield is set. O'Neil's only
problem is selecting the three he'll
send trotting out to play opening day
April 16 against St. Louis.
Tigers Have Three Catchers
Detroit's catching situation is more
cut and dried than that, with George
(Birdie) Tebbetts back from service
as the No. 1 backstop and Paul Rich-
ards and Bob Swift filling out the
three-man staff.
Any weakness the Tigers can be
expected to have this season probab-
ly will be in the infield, where 35-1
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