WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1947
THE AMICHIGAN DAIIA
PAGE THRIEE
. Chi Psi Five
Advances in
IM Play-offs
Goosers Tie for First
Place with Phys. Eds
By BEV BUSSEY
A smaller, but fiery Chi Psi
quintet outplayed Sigma Chi,
30-21, last night to advance to the
next round of the championship
play-offs in the Intramural fra-
ternity tourney.
Chi Psi gained control of both
backboards throughout the game
and scored most of their field'
goals on rebounds. The scoring
percentage of both teams sagged'
as the ball bounced continuously
off the rims and hurried shots
caromed wildly off the back-
boards. Although the referees were
in a charitable mood, Sigma Chi
S only made three out of fourteen
free throws, while Chi Psi sunk
four out of seventeen attempts.
McKay High Scorer
First half play was very close
with Chi Psi pulling into a 10-7
lead. Lanky Bill McKay, top
pointmaker with 16, started a
scoring barrage in the third quar-
ter. He hit with a short one which
was counteracted by Newell
Wright's basket for Sigma Chi.
McKay then followed with three
baskets and a charity toss to run
the lead up to 20-9 at the end of
the third period.
S.A.M. Advances
S.A.M. defeated Pi Lambda Phi,
15-13, to move up in the second
place teams' championship play-
koffs.,
A three-way knot was loosened
into a two team tie for the title of
the second independent league as
the Goosers routed the Foul Balls,
29-21, and earned the right to meet
the Phys. Ed. quintet Thursday.
At halftime the Goosers held a
one point lead, but Don Kane, a
fast breaking artist, connected for
.eght points on short shots in the
last period to salt the game away
for the winners. Kane amassed
twelve markers, all on baskets, to
gain top scoring honors with Len
Spandorfer of the Goosers netting
nine.
Play-offs for All Places
As in the past, the basketball
tournament play-offs will be run
on a divisional basis. The teams
finishing second, third, fourth,
fifth; and sixth will meet in a sin-
gle game elimination series for the
championship of that place in the
standings. Points for the different
title winners will be awarded on a
graduated scale from the first di-
vjpion down to the sixth.
This system holds true for the
four independent leagues as well
as the residence halls circuits
w1 ich have one moae round to go
before their regular campaign is
completed.
Pirates Clout A's, 6-2
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,
March 11 -(P)- Pittsburgh's re-
juvenated Pirates shelled Bob
Savage for five runs in two in-
nings today and went on to cap-
ture a 6-2 decision from the Phila-
delphia Athletics.
Netters Open Friday;
Hurlers Flock to Nine
ennitis Team Faces
Kalamazoo College
rHurler Cliff Wise
Only Sure Starter
After nearly a week of playoff
matches, Coach Bob Dixon has
announced a tentative starting
singles lineup for Michigan's in-
door tennis match with Kalama-
zoo College on Friday afternoon.
In a match for the number
one singles position Andy Paton
took over the top berth from
Fred Otto, with a 6-4, 7-5 win.
Otto will face the Kalamazoo
number two man, while team
captain, Bill Mikulich will play
in number three.
Dean McClusky successfully
defended his number four rank-
ing by winning from Fred Zie-
man, 6-0, 6-2. Zieman is still in
number five by virtue of a 6-2,
6-0 victory over Mickey Dayton.
Hal Cook, number six on last
year's squad, moved back into
his old position when he
squeezed past Dayton, 9-7, 6-4,
to nail down the last starting
berth.
The Kalamazoo match will
provide Dixon's squad with its
only outside competition before
the beginning of the southern tour
of April 4.
Big League
Roundup
Giants Stop Indians, 8-3
TUCSON, Ariz., March 11 -_W)
-In a costly exhibition game in
which two players were injured,
the New York Giants defeated theJ
Cleveland Indians. 8-3, today to
even the rivals' spring series at
2-2.
Right fielder Hank Edwards,
the Tribe's leading hitter, dislo-
cated a bone in his right arm in
the third inning when he fell try-
ing to catch a pop fly.
Larry Jansen, promising rookie
hurler of the Giants, was hospital-
ized with a possible skull fracture
when struck by a line drive from
Bob Feller's bat in the second
inning.
Braves Bow to Browns
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-(/P)
-A home run by Jerry Witte in
the fourth inning proved to be
the victory margin today as the
St. Louis Browns defeated the
Boston Braves 4-3 in an exhibition
game.
The Braves scored single runs in
the third, eighth and ninth inn-
ings while the Brownies added
two in the seventh and one in
the eighth.
Reds Stop Bo-Sox, 5-3
SARASOTA, Fla., March 11-
(/P)-Holding the Red Sox to two
hits, the Cincinnati Reds today
whipped the American League
champions 5-3 in an exhibition
game.
Ted Williams was held hitless
by the Reds who used the "tan-
dem to the right" defense against
the American League slugger.
Since the beginning of Decem-
ber, 22 hopeful hurlers have been
working out under the tutelage of
Coach Ray Fisher and Assistant
Athletic Director Ernie McCoy ev-
ery afternoon in Yost Field House.
The pitchers, with a three
month start on the hitters, have
been throwing their offerings to
the infield and outfield prospects'
for over a week in the batting'
cages rigged up in the south end
of the Field House.
With the opening game of the
season and the southern tour
three weeks away Coach Fisher
is sure of but one starter, Cliff
Wise, for the initial tilt with the
University of Maryland, April 4.
Recently elected captain of this
year's team, Wise was the top
twirler of the 1946 campaign. He
won seven games and didn't suf-
fer a loss to lead the Maize and
Blue to second place in the West-
ern Conference last spring.
One of the most promising re-,
cruits is freshman Bob Fancett,
who has shown great possibilities
but still has a lot to learn ac-
cording to Fisher.
Dick Bodycombe and John
Swainbank have had sore arms
and have been trying to work
them out during the past few
weeks. Bodycombe has done some
pitching for Michigan before and
is a proficient hitter.
The rest of the hurling corps is
a question mark, and there will be
wide open races for the top mound
positions from the other candi-
dates.
One Wolverine
To Another .. .
They say you learn some-
thing new every day. This is
particularly true in the case
of Pvt. Al Wahl, freshman
tackle and shot-put artist at
Michigan in 1945, now stationedr
at Camp Kilmer, N.J. Al is busy
acquiring those valuable point-
ers on the art of wrestling in
his spare time.
The instructor, by the way,
is none other than Pvt. George
Chiames, another ex-Wolver-
ine footballer and one of the
leading wrestlers in the Big
Nine during the 1945-46 cam-
paign.
The two inseparable soldiers
both enlisted in the army for
an 18-month stretch last fall
at Ft. Sheridan, ill.. and were
immediately shipped to Camp
Lee, Va., where they played
first-string ball on the same
eleven with Walt Teninga, the
break-away wingback for Fritz
Crisler in 1945.
Pupil and teacher expect or-
ders any day for overseas as-
signment in Europe.
Tigers Blast
CLEARWATER, Fli., March 111
-(A')-Rattling out 17 hits for a
total of 28 bases. the Detroit Tig-
ers hammered the Philadelphia
Phils 13 to 1 here today in their
second exhibition baseball game
of the year.
The Tigers ganged up on right-'
hander Charley Stanceau of the
Phils for seven hits and six runs
in the seventh inning to treat tha
crowd of 3,000 fans to a protractei1
batting spree.
Paul (Dizzy) Trout pitched the
first three innings for the Tigers,
gave only one hit and retired the
opposition on 16 pitches. Freddie
Hutchinson allowed three hits and
Philadelphia's only run in his
three-inning turn. and Hal White
pitched hitless ball the last three
frames.
Roy Cullenbine's homer, Hoot
Evers' triple and doubles by Eddie
Mayo, Ben Steiner, George Vico,
Earl Rapp, George Kell and Har-
vey Riebe were the big blows of
the Tigers' batting rampage as
Kell, Rapp and Vico had two hits
apiece.
Maize and Blue linksters won
their first Western Conference'
championship in 1932.
. .
know : ..
Herb Barten, Wolverine miiddlc-
distance man, opened up in the1
last lap of the half-mile eventc
to pass Illinois' Bob Rehberg I
and Mal Whitfield of Ohio in
capturing the Big-Nine crown
last Saturday at Champaign. £
'I le [l)lly'rs have h11i ) heir
i LIS, I he keeers have storedI
axxfay Yost Field House's basket-
hail court, and now all that re-1
mains of the '46-'47 Woverine cage
ea 3.tii uisLhe annual interview
with the coach.
Not wnting the season to go
unfiished. the Daily caught
Coach Ozzie Cowles leaving for
parts unknown last night in time
to secure the precious interview.
Cowles, you'll remember is the
va e tutor who came here from
Dartmouth last fall. While schools
all over the Conference were rev-I
eling in a back-log of war mater-
ial, he was handed only two reg-
ulars from previous seasons and
told to go to work.
Best Season Since 1937
What he did with "nothing" in
his first year is history. Not only
did Michigan finish higher in Big
Ten standings than it has at any
time since 1937, but it became rec-
ognized as a coming power in fu-
ture Big Nine basketball wars.
In Mack Suprunowicz, Cowles
came up with a player who was
good enough to score 163 points in
his first varsity season and be
rated among the top ten perform-
ers in a league studded with stars.
Few observers who have seen the
Schenectady Kid in action doubt
that he will rate with Jake Town-
send and iBennyO osterban be-E
fore calliin his career quits.
Cowles Is Pleased#
Cowles, himself, was well satis-I
Pied with his first campaign. In}
fact, the Maize and Blue pilot be-
liev es I iat had the Wolverines
been able to stave off Wisconsin
in its heart-breaking defeat here.
they could have :one to reg-
irter an 8-4 record for the season.
"That game was the turning
point of the season and the boys
just veren't the same after it. Had
we been able to take that one. we
would have been right up there
at the end," he said.
Ozzie Praises Selbo
"Speaking of Wisconsin, I think
if I had my choice of one player
in the Big Nine this year, I'd takeI
Glen Selbo. He busted that ball
game up here wide open in the
second half and was more respon-
sible for the Badgers winning the
crown this year than anyone," he
added.
Ralph Hamilton of Indiana was
Cowles second choice as the most
valuable man in the league, and
the Hoosiers and Illinois potenti-
ally the best teams.
Optimistic Outlook
Nor did he forget plaudits for
his own boys. "They were a great
defensive outfit," he said, "and the
jobs they did in stopping Minne-
sota, Purdue and Illinois (for
Cmv les1 iev Seasont a Success;
Ci les T'ol uer iies' IDefeasire Pla
three quarters) were nothing
short of phenomenal. I think
w' l be a much improved ball
club next year and you can ex-
pect to see us right up there in the
thick of the fight.
Comparing the Western Con-
ference with the Ivy League,
Cowles stated that the best teams
of each loop were about even, but
there were more good teams in
the Big Nine.
He pointed out that the teams
are a little bigger and more con-
sistent here and the competition
a little more even.
There will be an important
meeting of the "M" Club to-
night at the Union at 7:30.
Barten Eyes Track Records
For*CoinngOutdo or Season7
By BUD WEIDENTIIAL
Firmly established as one of
Michigan's all-time track stars,
Herb Barten, Western Conference,
indoor half-mile king looks to
even greater feats on the cinders
as this year's outdoor season ap-
proaches.
While 5,000 fans looked on Sat-
urday night at Champaign, Bar-
ten put on a terrific final spurt to
win the Big Nine half mile title
and equal a record that had stood
for fourteen years.
The Wolverine thinclad's rec-
ord-equaling performance of
1:53.9 was as fast as any Michi-
gan trackman has ever run that
distance indoors, and established
him as a definite contender for
the outdoor title which is now
held by Illinois' Bob Rehberg.
Barten is a product of Chicago's,
Shurz High School and calls
suburban Des Plaines, Ill., his
home town. In high school Herb
was city indoor and outdoor mile
champ and also was king of Chi-
cago's cross -country iunners.
Barten gained nation-wide no-
tice last year when he upset all
predictions by winning the con-
ference indoor half-mile crown
while only a freshman. In last
year's outdoor meet he was nosed
out by Rehberg, but last week's
performance indicates that the
Wolverines may reverse that deci-
sion this year.
Versatility is one of Herb's out-
standing attributes. He is not
only a capable half miler, but has
turned in some excellent perform-
ances in the mile and "440." As a
member of this year's mile relay
team. Barten has been clocked in
49.6 seconds, and in his other
specialty, the mile he broke the
tape in 4.:109.9, which is among
the best times in the conference,
Hie has been concentrating
this season cn(te mile and ran
the half only once prior to the
conferencec meet.
When asked whether he was
shooting at a record Saturday
night, Barten replied, "I was just
out to win. I didn't hear the time
at the quarter and I had no idea
that I was near the record."
If past performances are any
indica tion of things to come, it is
certain tha t Hferlb Bai.ten will pro-
vide ma ny mo"re geat 1 rperotrm-
ances, such as the one lie turned
at Champaign last Saturday, be-
fore he is throug running f'or
Michigan.
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