MARCH 15, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THE MICHa vaWm .tAN fLl'A1T rro- tl9X~ tvnm .I PAE~ 41 THE MORNING LINE By TED PAPES Daily Sports Editor Illinois Takes I. of C. Two Mile Relay i Y i TYRUS RAYMOND COBB, the biggest name in baseball history, has come to the rescue of American baseball writers. All over the Grapefruit Circuit this week, the scribes have ,been digging up and down the baselines looking for 'angle' stories on the major league teams in training. «"The usual line of routine, optimistic reports have been spilling out over the teletypes for ever-hopeful baseball fans, but it remained -for Cobb to manufacture a big propaganda number and toss it into the laps of sportswriters, helping them to fill their pages with some Spring diamond lore. The Georgia Peach came out of retirement long enough to enter a ten page feature story in Life magazine this week entitled "They Don't Play Baseball Any More." In it he rips the current version of the great game apart and takes special pains to extol the play of the Cobb era. Ballplayers Turning Soft? ON THE FACE OF THINGS it would appear that he and equally legendary 'Honus Wagner have found a fine opportunity for slap- ping r ^ other on the back at the expense of latter day players. (Wa' oncurred with Cobb in an Associated Press report yester- .- ihe only baseball heroes our generation knows, Joe DiMaggio, 'ed Williams, etc., are described as men with unrealized talents who cannot be ranked with the old time sluggers because they have been molley-coddled. We'll have to agree that the Yankee Clipper lived a short life in baseball and probably his lack of hard training helped to shorten his magnificent career. And Cobb is right that many of our' ballplayers are part-time athletes with off-season' occupations which allow them to get out of shape. But times have changed since Cobb and his rough-and-ready colleagues were tearing up infields with reckless abandon. Today's stars are educated men who know that their baseball talents are not a permanent asset. They cultivate occupations off the field as insurance against their becoming bums after their legs give out. Modern life for them is more than just eating, sleeping and playing baseball as Cobb seems to imply was the case in his day. He even criticizes the players for going home to their families and friends after the game instead of sitting around all evening as a team and mqaning over the day's misfortunes. And somehow I just can't convince myself that the old timers could steal "over 100 bases" in a season against catchers like Yogi Berra and Roy Campanella as Cobb claims. Not only that, he says our Minoso and Robinson couldn't pilfer as many sacks against the oldster backstops.- Cobb' 'Sicientific' Game IN ONE BREATH COBB says that science has been eliminated from the game, and in the next he criticizes managerial strategy which he maintains "loses more games than it wins." Then he goes on to Aescribe some of the old time 'science.' Wilt Winner In Mile Run AtCleveland Special to The Daily CLEVELAND -- The University of Illinois' two mile relay team came from behind to edge the Wolverines quartet in the Cleve- land Arena here last night. Both anchor men were touched off together, but Illinois anchor man Henry Cryer nipped Wolver- ine sophomore John Ross by a stride. For Georgetown, which ran third, it was the first defeat in 17 consecutive starts. * * * THE TIMES in all events were generally slow due to the small size of the track. The Arena's board track runs twelve laps to the mile. George Lynch, Michigan transfer student runing unat- tached, finished second in the 1,000-ard run to Georgetown's Carl Joyce in another thrilling race. The winning time was 2:16.2. Mal Whitfield, Olympic half mile champ, again demonstrated his mastery over Wolverine Jack Carroll. Whitfield, the only man ever to beat Carroll, was clocked in 1:11.7 for 600 yards. HARRISON DILLARD, Olympic sprinter, romped to victory in the 45 yard high hurdles. He was fol- lowed across the tape by Illinois' Joel McNulty and Michigan's Van Bruner in that order. In the absence of Don Gehr- man, Fred Wilt, speedy FBI man, paced the mile run field. Meet officials are protesting Gehrmann's absence to the Am- ateur Athletic Union. The slim miler pleaded that his wife was sick and refused to participate in the meet. Bill Mack, former Michigan State star, was passed by Wilt in the final lap and lost by five yards. Wilt's time was a respectable 4:10.8. In the pole vault both Don Laz and Bob Richards cleared the bar at 15 feet and a fraction, but the event was awarded to Laz on the basis of fewer jumps. Curtis Stone of the New York Athletic Club led the two mile field with the fine time of 9:04.1. He was followed by George Capozzoli of Georgetown and Bob Kelly of Loyola. Willie Williams of IIinois took the 45 yard dash' in the good time of 4.8. Daily Classifieds Bring Quic Results REPEAT PERFORMANCE?-George Chin left) and Pat Cooney, were two of the leading scorers in Michigan's 9-3 victory over St. Lawrence, Chin scored a goal and two assists, making him top point-getter on the puck squad, and Cooney netted two goals! Indiana lops Big Ten Scoring; Skala Chief M' Point Maker T igers H and IBosox Sixth Loss in Row By The Associated Press SARASOTA, FLA.-The Boston Red Sox suffered their sixth straight defeat in the grapefruit league yesterday as the Detroit Tigers counted clusters of three, runs in the sixth and seventh innings for a 7-5 victory. Boston outhit the Tigers, 13 to 12, but all the Sox hits were singles while the visitors smacked doubles against loser Bill Wight and Rookie Al Curtis, each a victim of Detroit's big innings. PHOENIX, ARIZ. - The New York Giants, receiving top-notch pitching from 23-game winner Larry Jansen and bullpen ace High School Mermen Battle in State Meet The finals of the Michigan High School Class 'A" Swim- ming Championship will be held tonight in the Intramural Pool. Twenty-one schools from all parts of the state are entered in the meet, including defend- ing champion Battle Creek. In the diving preliminaries last night six men qualified for the finals, with Herb Schmidt of Saginaw Arthur Hills turn- ing in the best score, 179.9. George Spencer, won their second straight game yesterday, turning, back Rogers Hornsby's St. Louis] Browns, 6-1, in the opener of aI three-game weekend series. * *, * ST. PETERSBURG,"FLA.--The St. Louis Cardinals and the Wash- ington Senators played 51/2 in- nings to a 6-6 tie.t Rain interrupted play in the third and fifth innings and thei third shower made the field' un-1 playable after Washington's sixth inning. * * * By JOHN JENKS George Jacobi just doesn't rate in Lady Luck's eyes. If a list of Michigan's tough luck athletes is ever published, the Wolverine cinder performer will probably rank high in the first five of the unfortunates. * * * IT ALL STARTED in the spring of last year. Jacobi, then a junior, had turned in the second fastest half mile in the country going into the Big Ten outdoor finals at Evanston, Illinois In the first 880 yard heat Jacobi was leading the pack when he received his first bad break-his shoelacesnapped, off came his shoe, and he finished out of the money. The misfortune' was one in a series of blows at Michigan's chances titlewise, as the Maize and Blue sunk from a contender to the number four spot. BECAUSE HE is a slow condi- tioner, -Jacobi started his training program early this year, his last season of eligibility. From middle fall on he worked out regularly to prepare for the indoor meets. Just as he began t to hit top form Lady Luck stepped in and cut hin down. As the lead man on the mile relay team, Jacobi was again setting the pace in the Ohio State meet when he pulled a leg muscle rounding a, turn and had to drop out of the race. When the conference meet rolled around the following week, the muscle was still pulled and he wasmunable to make the trip to Champaign. * * * JACOBI HAILS from Winnetka, Illinois, and is a senior in the School of Business Administration, majoring in marketing. Besides graduating in June, his chief con- cern is his track career. With the outdoor season fasti approaching, Jacobi hopes that+ he can stay clear of misfortune3 and make his last track term ai successful one. LUCKLESS GEORGE: Misfortune, Injury Trip Jacobi in Track Career By DICK LEWIS Michigan failed to place a single scorer in the Western Conference's top ten cagers, while fourth-place Indiana took major scoring hon- ors. Nearest to the top of the scor- ing parade was Captain Jim Skala, who clicked for 169 points and a 13th place finish. Center Milt Mead followed in 19th position with 144 markers in the 14 league starts. WITH FRESHMAN center Don Schlundt and forward Bob Leon- ard ranking fourth and eighth in point-getting, Indiana scored 1035 points for a new league standard. Michigan ranked last in team scoring with 787 scores. The Hoosiers were also tops in free throws, netting 281 for an- other circuit, mark, and they led in field goal percentage with a shooting average of .349. Coach Ernie McCoy's five also ranked last in this department as it meshed only .284 of its shots from the floor. Conference champion' Illinois salvaged one record with 300 field goals; three better than Iowa's season mark. Again the Wolver- ines were at the bottom of the heap as they found the range for 287 two-pointers and missed 725' others. IN THE DEFENSIVE ratings, Michigan moved up into the fifth slot, behind Minnesota, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Illinois. The Gophers allowed 792 points to their opponents for a 56 point average, while the Maize and Blue gave up 891. Iowa had the best free throw shooting average (.677) and again Michigan faded to the bottom spot in this department with a .592 percentage. The Hawkeyes also committed the fewest number of personal fouls, a total of 275, which was 34 less than Michigan's second-low to- tal. The Illini won their title with only one individual scorer in the top ten, and only three among the top twenty. SEASON'S . SCORING records fell in all directions, but surpris- ingly enough one-game records weathered the all-out assault. Chuck Darling, Iowa's ace pivot operator who rewrote the individual scoring record book, tied a one-game record with 16 free throws. Indiana and Northwestern with 96 and 85 points respectively, com- bined for a new two-team high of 181 points, and in the same con- test the Hoosiers sank 38 free throws for another standard. .In contrast, practically every season's scoring mark was erased. Darling accounted for individual high point total (364), high game average (26.0), most field goals (132), most free throws (100), and a three-year career record of 716 points. GEORGE JACOBI Union Matches Reach Finals Champions in the Union all- campus pool, billiards, ping pong and bowling tournaments will be decided beginning this afternoon at 1:30 at the Michigan Union during the Union's annual Open House. Lawrence Gray, national three cushion collegiate champ is seed- ed first in both the pool and bil- liard finals. He will take on Moe Wasserman in the pool semis, and Mill Pryor in the billiard semi- finals. Ed Wolven meets Tom Fabian in the other scheduled pool match, while Frank LaRoche tackles Karl Staubach in the second billiard contest. Indian student Suhrud Mehta will meet Al Magnus and Al Leary in the ping pong esemi-finals. Six kegglers will compete for individual bowling honors as John O'Keefe, Chuck Barnhard, Don Linden, Dick Goodwillie, Ken Rob- inson, and Doug Lawrence tangle at the Union alleys. His scientists used such equipment as emery paper, belt buckles and nutmeg graters to roughen the ball and mystify opposing batters with weird gyrations of pitches served up by crafty hurlers. Of course the 'spit ball' became a stock in trade and separated the men from the boys. 1 1 One ingenious pitcher went so far 's ,to pound a tiny BB shot into the seam of a baseball, and because he knew where the weight was, he could control his tosses and bewilder the hitters. But when the unsuspecting mound opponent took over on the hill he was unable to find the plate because 'science' was blocking his success. Maybe it's just as well that these shenanigans are over. We'll have to:do without Henry Fords so I guess we can get along without another Cobb-like hero. 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