THE MICHWAN DAMY PAGE TIIE MICtHGAN J1~AILY PAGE Baseball Season To0 pen II 1 op m -Aff W -wr -r m fil m kt 11 MSC Visited by iig Nine Committee Wolverines Begin Title Defense Against Purdue Ux* By HERB RUSKIN Michigan's baseball team opens its defense of the Big Nine title today when it meets the Purdue Boilermakers in the first of a two game series at Lafayette. Both the Wolverines and Purdue are ranked high on the pre-season dopesheetsand although OSU has been given the favorite's spot, either team could wind up as Con- ference champ. COACH RAY FISHER indicated that he would send Dick Smith to the mound in an attempt to get the Wolverines off on the right foot, countering with big Bill Taft tomorrow. Opposing Smith is Mel Hen- son who was responsible for one of Michigan's two conference defeats last year, hurling a five hit, 5-2 victory in the nightcap of a doubleheader. Boilermaker coach Mel Taube has a strong squad back from the team that finished fourth in the Conference last year, including seven regulars. This could mean a lot of trouble for the aspiring Wol- verines. CAPTAIN Stan Aders, a steady receiver and consistent hitter, leads the list of veterans. This, along with the return of last yeai outfield and second sacker Bill Berberian has given Taube a powerful nucleus to work with. At third, Bill Sommer, a let- terman back from 1945 seems to have the inside track, while at short, it looks like Glen Omholt, with Bill Long on first.. Last year's outfield trio returns intact. John Chinewicz; who clouted the ball at a .373 clip in Conference play in 1948 is slated for centerfield. He will be flanked by Ken Gorgal in left and Norb Adams in right. FOR THE Wolverines, Fisher indicated he would string along with the team that he has used so far. That would have catcher Hal Raymond in the leadoff spot, followed by second sacker Bill Bucholz and either Leo Koceski or Willard Baker in left field. Batting in the clean-up spot is Ted Kobrin, ace Wolverine third sacker, ahead of Hal Morrill in right field, Jack McDonald at first and Bob Wolff at short. Rounding out the line *up are centerfielder Vic Fryling and pitcher Dick Smith. By The Associated Press CHICAGO-Michigan Baseball Coach Ray Fisher opens his 29th Western Conference campaign when he sends his defending co- champion Wolverines against Pur- due at Lafayette, Ind., today and tomorrow. THE ILLINI, who last season tied Michigan for the title with 10 wins and two defeats, got a jump on the Wolverines last week- end by sweeping a league series from Northwestern, 2-1 and 6-0. The championship campaign really gets underway the week- end of April 22-23 with Wiscon- sin at Ohio State, Indiana at Michigan and Illinois at Iowa. These will be the first Confer- ence battles for Ohio State, a strong title favorite, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. Fisher, who came to Michigan in the spring of 1921, has de- veloped 12 Conference champion- ship nines. Only three of his Wol- verine teams finished below the .500 mark and he has a lifetime average of .610 at the Ann Arbor school. By The Associated Press EAST LANSING--A Western Conference committee inspecting Michigan State College as a pre- lude to final Big Nine admission kept mum yesterday about its f indings. Chairman Kenneth Little of the University of Wisconsin said the only purpose of this visit is to give Michigan State College a chance to completely adjust it- self to Western Conference rules and regulations. Dr. Little said the committee would report to the next meeting of Conference faculty representa- tines at Evanston, Ill., the week- end of May 21. The committee will leave thel MSC campus tomorrow, Other members are Dr. Paul J. Bloomers of Iowa and Big Nine Commis- sioner Kenneth (Tug) Wilson. The chairman said the com- mittee's main fields of investiga- tion were the extent of faculty control of athletics at MSC, the program of financial aid avail- able to athletes and the college's academic standards. The committee members said the Spartans probably will not engage as a member team in any Conference championships until the indoor season of 1950-51. They will not be in the rnnin, fo any Conference title unxtil a full shd ule is played. Wilson s:id he expected the 1953 and 1954 footbaJ:ll .sche.tdutles to be made nxt Decembera;iif Michigan State is acepted into the Conference tley would plot the full football cours starting with the 1953 season. First Spartan participation likely would be in track, baeball golf and tennis next sorint, the committee said. Schedules in fenc- ing, swimming,. and gnmasics will be made at tlr My nct1tng. e _. HEfR Daily-Tyson CAPTAIN CONNECTS-Wolverine captain, backstop Hal Ray- mond takes a healthy swing during practice session. Doing the honors behind the plate is hard-hitting Pete Palmer. °i i TOPSY TOURNEY: High School Cindermen Battle at Yost Saturday By MERLE LEVIN Like Topsy the River Rouge track meet "just growed." The gigantic high school get- together-largest single-day in- door meet in the country-being run off at Yost Field House Sat- urday wasn't always of tremen- dous proportions. * * * IT ALL STARTED as an ob- scure four-way meet held at the Michigan field house in 1940. No- body connected with the meet had any idea of what was to come. But in 1941 a few more schools were invited to attend the meet and the great rush was under- way. The war, with its transporta- tion difficulties, held down the size of the meet which neverthe- less was soon attracting some.400 Michigan high school athletes by the time Jimmy Doolittle got around to dropping bombs on Tokyo. MEET OFFICIALS swear that the resultant headache to the Jap- anese was nothing compared to what happened to them when Uncle Sam ended gas rationing. In 1946 the number of ath- letes in attendance rose to 825, in 1947 it passed the 1,100 mark and last season the total attend- ance was figured at 1,340. Faced with the possibility of playing host to more than 2,000 eager thinclads this season the bigwigs threw up their arms in despair and ran for the rule- bdoks. * * * WHEN THEY finally paused for breath they had eliminated two events, the broad jump and the sprint medley relay, and had ruled that no school could enter more than one man in an event. The total effect of these changes was to cut the entry list to 850 boys from 99 schools which are divided into A, B, and C-D classifications. Michigan's varsity and freshman trackmen have been recruited to officiate in the meet which is being handled by assistant track coach, Elmer Swanson. 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BOSTON - Johnny Pesky's one-on homer in the fifth inning clinched the Boston Red Sox 6-2 win over the Braves in their fifth pre-season exhibition clash yesterday. * * * SAVANNAH, Ga.-The Phila- delphia Athletics broke out with 20 hits, 14 of them on extra bases, to defeat their Class A Savannah farm team 13-2 yesterday. MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Two homers accounted for all Chicago White Sox runs yesterday as the Ameri- can Leaguers defeated the Pitts- burgh Pirates 4-3. * * * TEXARKANA, Tex.-A five- hit pitching job by Ned Garver and five home runs by his mates gave the St. Louis Browns a 9-1 victory over Texarkana of the Big State League yesterday. * * * BALTIMORE - Joltin' Joe Di Maggio's heel bothers him and so do reporters trying to find out how he's coming along, the New York Yankee slugger said angrily yesterday upon leaving Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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