SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1951
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THE MORNING LINE
By TED PAPES
TELEPHONES ON THE CITY DESK rang incessantly Friday evening
and through the early hours of yesterday morning, as one anxious
fan after another apprehensively inquired about Michigan's spring
showdown performances at Evanston.
The inquiries, of course, revolved around the Western Conference
meets in track, golf and tennis, with some scattered concern over the
fortunes of the Wolverine baseball team which played a twin bill at
Columbus against Ohio State.
Hardly anyone was happy as results began to trickle in by
special wire from five Daily reporters who were at the various scenes
of action. As it turned out Michigan hit the victory column only once-
in the baseball nightcap.
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Netmen Top Expectations
T>HERE CAN BE NO COMPLAINTS directed at tennis coach Bill
Murphy who carried a team rated third at best into the Big Ten
wars, emerging in second place just four points behind the highly
favored Spartans of Michigan State, who had routed the Wolverines
in a regular season match, 8-1.
An even split with the potential league champion Buckeyes
was certainly a creditable performance for Ray Fisher's diamond
squad. Michigan now has a 4-7 record with one to play.
Most local followers of sport had that puzzled look yesterday when
the conversation shifted into the realm of golf and track. Wolverine
thinclads and golfers entered the Evanston blue-chip carnivals as
popular favorites.
Bulletins coming out of Chicago during the past fortnight had
Michigan tabbed as probable winner in both sports. The most recent
form chart from the Western Conference Service Bureau emphasized
the fact that the Ann Arbor school's cinder attack would be spear-
headed by Don McEwen in the one and two mile runs, but there was a
strong likelihood that the Wolverines would be bidding for points in
virtually every event on the program.
McEwen Lonely in Battle
McEWEN WENT THROUGH with his spearheading assignment but
when he looked over his shoulder he was shocked to see that his
teammates were not following the prescribed plan. The resulting gen-
eral letdown sent Michigan tumbling into fourth place behind the co-
favored Illini as well as Michigan State and Indiana.
The Spartan team which closed a strong second was the same outfit
which the Wolverines ran into the Ferry Field cinders two weeks ago
by an overwhelming 84;/z-471/2 margin, and in the results of that dual
meet might lie the solution to the mystery of Michigan's poor Confer-
ence showing.
" If the trackmen had approached their peak of three Saturdays
ago, they probably would have returned with the Big Ten laurel.
It would appear that they were keyed too soon, and possibly al-
lowed to lose some of their fine edges in the arc-light circus at
Ypsilanti a week ago, in which they clowned their way to a simple
triangular decision over Purdue and Michigan Normal.
Effects of the adverse weather conditions and George Jacobi's
heartbreaking loss of a shoe cannot be overlooked as factors in the
Michigan demise, however.
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Golfers Falter in Clutch
ON THE GOLF COURSE the Wolverine failure is even mare difficult
to explain away. Coach Bert Katzenmeyer was piloting a sextet
which he claimed had better balance than any group he had handled
previously, yet the golf team was unable to fire up all its cylinders
for the big test.
Michigan's links policy has always relegated regular spring
meets to an experimental statis in anticipation of the big Con-
ference medal play tourney at season's end. Such was the case
this year as evidenced by two defeats at the hands of the perennial-
ly weak University of Detroit club.
But whatever Katzenmeyer was saving failed to materialize. The
Wolverines had averaged 71.5 over the Northwestern course in an early
dual meet, only to skyrocket to a 77.15 mark in the big show.
None of the responsibility for defeat can be placed upon the
shoulders of Bob Olson who logged his final hole for Michigan
Friday. The Grosse Pointe swinger played brilliantly even though
his teammates were faltering. He pushed himself right up into the
top three individual golfers and almost came away with the medal
championship.
Few people knew that Olson has been fighting a terrific battle
with himself the past month to break a severe slump. His number one
team rating was in serious jeopardy, but he came on to prove to him-
self and golf observers that he still rules the Michigan fairways.
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Ottawa Hills
Takes Track
Title inUpset
UHS Cops Class C;
Cadillac, Otisville Win
By The Associated Press
Ottawa Hills scored an upset
victory over Saginaw's Arthur Hill
yesterday on a wind and rain swept
track at East Lansing to take the
MHSAA class A high school track
title.
In class B competition, run with
the D division at Ann Arbor, Cadil-
lac took top honors followed by
Mt. Pleasant, Ecorse, Ludington
and Battle Creek Lakeview.
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THE CLASS C crown fell to Ann
Arbor's University High with 30
points, over runner-up Algonac's
22. Lansing Everett took third with
21.
Otisville took class D honors,
with Benton Harbor's St. John
second, Norman Dickson Breth-
ern, third, and Michigan School
for the Deaf, fourth.
In class A, Bob Brown, dash ex-
pert for the Grand Rapids school,
took firsts in the 100 and 220 yard
dashes to lead the furniture city
entry to its surprise victory.
The upset by a school that has
barely enough enrollment to sneak
into the A class ended a seven year
domination of the event by the
e Saginaw Valley schools.
stering Pace
New Yorkers Take Sixth,
Pale Hose Ninth Straight
Braves Batter Brooklyn in Slugfest, 12-10;
Tigers Tamed by Browns' Kenned, 3-2
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Paul Richards
and his Chicago White Sox won-
ders streaked to their ninth
straight victory yesterday as vet-
eran Ken Holcombe turned back
the Cleveland Indians, 6-0, on five
singles.
The Sox, however, failed to gain
ground on the pace-setting New
York Yankees. The Yanks tacked
up their sixth strakht triumph as
Vic Raschi, turned back the Phila-
delphia Athletics, 8-5, for his
eighth triumph of the season com-
pared to one defeat.
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BOSTON'S powerful Red Sox re-
mained in third place, five games
off the pace, by trouncing the
Washington Senators, 11-1. The
victory was the fifth stragiht for
the slugging Sox. The St. Louis
Browns made it two straight over
the fourth-place Tigers, beating
Detroit, 3-2.
Holcombe, the last, Chicago
pitcher to taste defeat, walked
four and fanned twe in posting
his fourth victory and second
shutout.
The Sox supported Holcombe's
classy pitching with a 12-hit at-
tack that included five doubles.
The Sox wrapped up the game
with three runs in the third in-
ning against Mike Garcia.
-Irving Stewart
WOLVERINE DON McEWEN ON WAY TO TAKING TWO MILE AFTER BREAKING MILE RECORD
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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE:
Oddities Stud Conference Track Meet
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ROOKIE Mickey Mantle paced
the Yanks to victory by driving in
four runs on a.single and a triple.
Mantle tripled with then bases
loaded to feature a six-run second-
inning uprising. Bob Brown and
Johnny Hopp homered to account
for three of the four remaining
Yank runs.
Willard Nixon coasted to his
third victory without a loss as
he stopped the Senators on eight
hits. Nixon also shared batting
honors with Dom DiMaggio. The
two led Boston's 1l-hit attack,
collecting three hits apiece. Di-
Maggio drove home three runs
on a double and two singles.
Lefty Bill Kennedy started his
second game of the season and
went the distance for the Browns
at Detroit.
THE BOSTON BRAVES stag-
gered to a 12-10 triumph over the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago
Cubs edged the Pittsburgh Pirates,
5-4, in ten innings in National
League day games.
Brooklyn scared the life out
of the Braves by scoring five
runs after two were out in the
ninth inning and had_ the: po-
tential tying runs on base when
Cal Abrams lined out to Bob
Elliott to end the game. -
The New York Giants, who lost
11 straight games earlier in the
season, reached the .500 mark as
Larry Jansen turned back the
Phils, 2-0, in a night game at
Philadelphia.
The Cincinnati Reds downed
the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 before
9,523 fans last night wtih an ex-
tra-base attack led by Connie Rye
an, Ted Kluszewski and John Wy-
rostek. Ryan and Kluszewski each
hit homers. Stan Musial drove in
the two Cardinal rums with a ho-
mer.
IT'S COLLEGIATE
STYLES I
By JACK SOTHERLAND
The fifty-first annual confer-
ence track and field meet may
not have been the greatest ever,
but in some respects it certainly
was the oddest.
Aside from the weather, which
was miserable at best, there was
the odd 5:30 p.m. starting time,
a finish after ten p.m., an outdoor
record set indoors, a Michigan
State team which probably held
the lead longer than any other
squad in history without winning
the title, a surprising crowd of
about 4,000, plus various unex-
pected performances, both good
and in the meet itself.
ORIGINALLY scheduled as a
daylight affair, the finals wererre-
scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in order
to draw a larger crowd. If they
had been run as first planned,
under the sunny skies that pre-
vailed in the afternoon, many of
the difficulties encountered would
have been eliminated.
As soon as the first entrants
in the pole vault began to make
their qualifying jumps, the black
clouds broke loose, turning the
field into a muddy quagmire and
flooding the track with several
inches of water.
OFFICIALS and spectators had
all but given up any ideas they
might have had about any records
being broken when the first event,
the mile, was announced.
Don McEwen was carrying
Michigan's colors, and he bested
Ohio State's top mniler, Len
Truex in a thrilling stretch duel
to take first in 4:09, a new con-
ference record. McEwen's rec-
ord-breaking time would have
been excellent under any cir-
cumstances, but considering the
condition of the track, it was
nothing short of remarkable.
The experts were further con-
founded, when in the next race,
the 440, Illini Cirilo McSween nip-
ped the defending champion, Bad-
ger LeRoy Collins for a first place
in :47.4, a new conference record
for a two-turn quarter-mile.
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WOLVERINE performances in
several events helped shed a littl
light on Coach Don Canham's
gloomy weekend.
Tops, of course, was McEwen's
double win in the mile and two-
mile. But several MichigaA men
who weren't in the limelight
came through with stellar per-
formances.
Ron Soble's leap of 23' 73/4",
though not his best effort to date;
was just 14" short of Illini Dor
Laz's winning distance; pole vault.
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NET NOTES:
Curhan Suffers Appendicitis
After Big Ten Tennis Finals
By ED WHIPPLE
Net notes from behind the base-
lines at the Big Ten's forty-first
annual tennis meet held last Wed-
nesday, Thursday, and Friday in
Evanston :
Bob Curhan, Michigan's num-
ber six man, underwent an emer-
gency appendectomy yesterday
in Evanston after playing in the
meet Wednesday and Thursday.
Curhan appeared to be all right
as he watched the meet finals
Friday, but he was stricken: early
yesterday morning.
His condition was reported good.
Michigan's sophomore Gene
Barrack rates praise for his cham-
pionship in number five singles.
The Bayone, N.J. lad bested top-
seeded Keith Kimble of MSC, 2-6,
6-3, 9-7 to help boost the Wolver-
ines to their second place total of
13.... ..
The Conference system of
seeding two top players in each
division worked best in number
one singles. Len Brose of MSC's
team champs was rated tops,
with Michigan's Al Hetzeck
ranked second. Brose outlasted
the game Wolverine Captain for
the Conference singles title Fri-
day afternoon, 6-4, 12-10......
Wolverine coach Bill Murphy
must not be neglected when hand-
ing out plaudits. The Maize and
Blue mentor parlayed veterans
Hetzeck and Steve Bromberg, plus
two energetic sophomores (Barrack
and Curhan) and two juniors
(Mike Schwartz and Jack Smart)
without varsity experience into a
unit that finished second to power-
laden MSC.
During Friday's finals, Brom-
berg, as conscientious and hard-
working as tennis players come,
summed up Murphy's work this
year, saying simply, "Bill cer-
tainly has done a tremendous
job with us this season." ......
Bromberg, incidentally, although
he has another year of eligibility
left, may not wield his racket next
year. He feels that studies may
press him too much to allow time
for tennis..... .-
Murphy stated in Evanston that
the team will elect a captain for
1952 sometime this week......-
Although rain hampered the
golf and track meets, the netters
enjoyed ideal weather, especially
during Thursday's semi-final
rounds. The temperature was
close to 70 degrees, and the sky
was clear...... .
The clear weather prevailed most
of Friday also, but a rather stiff
wind toward Lake Michigan ham-
pered the finalists, particularly on
lobs.
Tug Retained
EVANSTON -- (A') - The Big
Ten yesterday renewed Coi-
missioner K. L. ( Tug) Wilson's
contract for five more years
and gave him an undisclosed
pay raise.
Wilson's old contract which
ends this month was for six
years.
The contract renewal and
pay hike were recommended by
the athletic directors and ap-
proved by the faculty represen-
tatives at the closing session of
a three-day business meeting.
er Tom Emblad came up with his
best vault of the season, doing
better than 13%2' to tie for third.
JOE LaRUE, Michigan's top
quarter-miler, took a fourth in
that event, turning in one of his
fastest times this year. LaRue
had been sick the night before
and it was questionable up until
race time whether he would be
able to run.
Several mishaps and assorted
troubles in Thursday's qualify-
ing trials prevented the Wolver-
ines from making a better
showing.
George Jacobi, one of Michi-
gan's two hopefuls in the 880, lost
his shoe on the last lap after
leading his trial heat most of the
way. Jacobi managed to finish
the race, bpt failed to finish with-
in the qualifying three.
CHUCK Whiteaker, the Wolver-
ines' other entrant in the half
mile, held a comfortable third in
his heat coming into the last
straightaway. Twenty yards from
the finish, Whiteaker glanced over
his left shoulder to check on the
rest of the field, and while he was
checking the pack, Indiana's Roy
Whiteman whipped past him, edg-
ing the Wolverine for third.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Chicago 6, Cleveland 0
New York 8, Philadelphia 5
Boston 11, Washington 1
St. Louis 3, Detroit 2
TODAY'S GAMES
Philadelphia at New York-(2)--
Martin (1-0) and Shantz (2-4) vs.
Shea (1-1) and Sanford (0-1)
Chicago at Cleveland -2-Dob-
son (3-0) and Judson (0-0) vs. Wynn
(3-4) and Chakales (1-0)
St. Louis at Detroit-(2)-Garver
(5-3) and Overmire (0-3) vs. Hutch-
inson(2-1) and Trucks(0-0)
Washington at Boston-(2)-Mor-
eno (1-1) and Sima (1-4) vs. Taylor
(2-3) and McDermott (2-1)
YESTERDAY'S.RESULTS
Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 2
New York 2, Philadelphia 0
Boston 12, Brooklyn 10
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 4
TODAY'S GAMES
Boston at Brooklyn--Spahn (4-3)
vs. Newcombe (4-2)
New York at Philadelphia-Maglie
(6-2) vs. Meyer (3-1)
Cincinnati at St. Louis--Ramsdell
(3-4) or Wehmeier (1-3) vs. Staley
(6-3)
Pittsburgh at Chicago-(2)--Queen
(3-3) and Friend (0-1) or La Palm
(0-0) vs. Rush (2-1) and McLish
(1-2)
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