SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PA'E T ite Hot' Sox, Yanks C ontinuing Bli ____ __..,1..,1.___.________"." .5:.:___t"-'__'____"5_________..........___...___.. .......... 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. 4 * * * * 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. * * . *. 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. chgnfiwy. 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. * * * 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. * * * 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 * * * *' * * * * * WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE: Oddities Stud Conference Track Meet 7' ____________________________ 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. * * * 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. S t r 5 1 II Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE I New York Chicago Boston Detroit Washington Cleveland St. Louis Ph ladelphia w 25 21 19 16 15 15 10 9 L 9 9 13 15 17 17 25 25 Pet. .735 .700 .594 .516 .469 .469 .286 .265 GB 2. 5 9 9 151/ 16 Brooklyn Chicago St. Louis Boston New York Cincinnati Philadelphia Pittsburgh' W L Pct. 21 14 .600 18 16 .529 18 17 .514 19 18 .514 19 19 .500 17 19 .472 16 20 .444 15 20 .429 GB 21/ 3 3 3 %2 4% 5 6 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) by Courteous Skilled Personnel 9 Barbers-No Waiting The Dascola Barber Liberty, near State __ 411r 11 _, i. 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