THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGEI 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. 1, i _ 1 3 i t 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.- , * c 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. PART-TIME HELP WANTED $1.00 per hour. Unskilled job as pressman's helper, Hours: Approximately 1 :00 to 4:00 A.M: See K. L. Chatters, Student Publica- tions Bldg., 420 Maynard St. s Y e x a v s C C c s 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 Ulm0 lgers 13 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. 15 III Veterans Give to the Red Cross F8 Everyone's broadcasting about our delicious fresh salted nuts. They're wonderful for teas and parties. Take advan- tage of our 10% discount with orders of five pounds or more. CONFECTIONERY Fountain service and lunches Try a nice warm bath and use one of our new MARTEX BATH TOWELS-... These luscious towels come in rainbow colors and in all white with colored borders. For added bath-time glamour use one of our soft Martex wash cloths that come in matching colors. Our prescription for re- laxation is guaranteed. Why don't you try it? GAGE LINEN SHOP 11 NICKELS ARCADE - .. 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. 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