f PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MAY1, 1953 r AS , I Ir Michigan Netters Defeat Western Michigan, 6-3 Squad Takes Five of Six Singles Matches Faces Badgers In Big Ten Opener Today PURDUE SQUAD WE AKEiNED: Northwestern Baseball Team Bolstered by Veterans by Paul Greenberg WE WERE VISITING with Ray Fisher the other day as the venerable Michigan baseball coach put his charges through a half intra- squad game, half batting practice preparatory to this weekend's Big Ten festivities at the Ferry Field ball yard. Fisher sat perched on top of the first base dugout, holding court with alumni and reporters while keeping a watchful eye on his 33rd Michigan ball squad cavorting out on the diamond. The Wolverines hiave been pretty hard to figure out this year-they have the potential of world-beaters but their performance has been up-and-down like1 a yo-yo. Luckily, the "up" days have come at the right time, and despite an unimpressive over-all record, they rest in first place; in the Western Conference with a 3-0 mark. With three decades of collegiate coaching and a successful major league career behindi him Fisher is inclined to be philospohic about the breaks of theI game and he takes defeat with some of the wry good-humor that'sI native to his home state of Vermont. But there's nothing that Fisher enjoys more than winning-he's taken nine Big Ten crowns in the last 11 years and with the retire- ment of Jack Coombs of Duke last year, the rules the collegiate dia- mond business practically unchallenged. Empty Park Blues.. . ONE THING THAT irritates the usually genial Fisher, and one thing that he just can't *e philisophic about is the poor attend- ance at baseball games in recent years. "I can remember," he says "when fans waited hours to see us play Harvard back in 1928"-10,000 loyal Wolverine supporters jammed the Ferry Field park that day to see Michigan beat the Crimson, 3-1, as Lou Weintraub belted a long1 home run to win the game with two out in the last half of the nine inning. Recently, the Wolverines have seldom performed to over 500 fans-and it isn't that their brand of ball has declined. Fisher will be the first to tell you that this year's squad is a match for any he's ever had, including the two that he took on tours of Japan in 1929 and 1932. The Wolverines will be up against some mighty stiff opposi- tion today and tomorrow when Minnesota and Iowa invade Ann Arbor for a set of three games. The big trouble will stem from a pair of rhymning righthanders, Gopher Paul Giel and Bob Diehl of the Hawkeyes-two of the finest hurlers in the Big Ten. Giel, probably started in this afternoon's single game, gave up only two earned runs all last year and although he's been hit fairly hard a couple of times this year, he's still got the same fast ball that beat Michigan 2-1 at Minneapolis last season. The burly Minnesotan gave upfive hits to the Wolverines thatday, and his mound opponent Jack Corbett limited the Ski-U-Mah club to three-but two came at the wrong time. Giel Hits Too .. . T WICE CORBETT GAVE up doubles with a man on for runs and the second time it was brother Giel (a .450 hitter by the way) who smacked in the winning tally. Experts liken Giel to Joe Black, mound mainstay of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The brawny junior, who was a popular choice for All-American grid honors last fall, relies almost entirely on his fast ball, his curve being little more than a "wrinkle" used mainly as a waste pitch. Diehl, a probable starter in Saturdays twin-bill with Iowa, is more the stuff pitcher. The loose-limbed 6-4 sidewheeler had a 2.25 earned run average last year while building a 4-1 conference record. Fisher has been readying his charges for the onslaught of mound talent by moving up the practice rubber about four feet-figuring that Giel and Diehl can throw as hard from 60 feet as the practice pitchers can from 56. Michigan is pretty close to top form for the weekend wet-to, and the improvement of Bruce Haynam's ailing leg may have the fine shortstop ready to play all three games at top speed. If the Wolverines can duplicate their performance of last weekend at Columbus and Champaign, it'll be hard to stop them in their pursuit of Michigans 21st Western Conference diamond title. Captain Bill Mogk, had his own views on the Big Ten pen- nant chase for 1953, saying "I figure that if a team can go through its schedule with only two losses n loop play, they're pretty sure to take the championship." Coach Fisher sees each team dropping "at least three or four" during its 15 game schedule and feels that any club in the league with the possible exception of Indiana has a good chance for the num- ber one spot. From this corner it looks like you can add Michigan State to the list of "weak sitsters" and place Purdue and Ohio State pretty well out of it. We'll Stick With Ray.. . MINNESOTA IS HARD to stop when Giel is hurling, but the con- frnehas been going in for three-game weekends and Giel can only go in one out of those. Unless Gopher mentor Dick Siebert comes up with some good reserve hurlers, his team will have a tough time staying up with the stronger clubs. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and North- western all are top-ranked-but Michigan has already taken care of the Illini. But there's one thing that always looms up when you're picking a champion, that imponderable called "winning tradition." The New York Yankees have been copping pennants for years with a make-shift lineup, adhesive tape and a pin-stripe uniform. Michigan has a win- ning tradition of its own-and if you doubt me, you can ask that fel- low who'll be out in right field for Minnesota tomorrow. Ken Yackel was one of the Gopher hockey players down at the NCAA playoffs at Colorado Springs last March, blowing off about how they were going to beat Michigan. Minnesota had all the odds in its favor, but when the game was over the scoreboard showed the Gophers on the short end of a 7-3 count. Maybe it was tradition, maybe not, but one thing for sure, it al- ways pays to stick with a proven champion-as for me, I'll string along with Ray. Special to The Daily KALAMAZOO - Playing under rain-laden skies the Michigan ten- nic squad copped its second non- conference win in as many starts by downing Western Michigan Col- lege,.6-3. This served as a sharpener for today's conference opener with the Badgers at Madison. The Wolverines grabbed five of six match triumphs in the singles competition but took it on the nose in doubles play with losses in the number one and number three matches. WESTERN'S agile Jack Vrede- velt completely outplayed Pete Paulus, 6-0, 6-0, to handaMichigan its lone singles defeat and leave it without a number one singles win thus far this campaign. In the other singles matches it was the Maize and Blue coming through with easy two set vic- tories. Number two and three men Dave Mills 'and Al Mann both chalked up 6-1, 6-1 triumphs with no ap- parent trouble. Mills trounced Mid- American title holder Dick Hen- dershott while Mann took Chuck Church to task. Church recently ascended to the third slot, displac- ing another Battle Creek product, Bob Nuding. * * * NUDING, PLAYING in the num- ber four spot, gave Wolverine Maury Pelto a close battle, ceding by a 6-4 margin in both sets. The only change made by Coach Bill Murphy in his origi- nal singles lineup was when he moved Bob Russell into the num- ber six slot in place of Bob Ned- erlander. In his first appearance in this capacity Russell came through with a 6-3, 6-3 besting of Bronco Dick Laurent. WOLVERINE Bob Paley round- ed out the win column by virtue of his downing George Carpenter in another 6-3, 6-3 contest. Mann suffered a slight shoulder injury in his singles match and was withdrawn from the doubles lineup as Murphy shifted things completely. Replacing Mann and Bob Cur- han as number one doubles com- bination were Mills and Pelto, in number two it was Paulus and Paleyshuffled in with Russell and Bob Dunbar moving down to the third spot. Vredevelt and Hendershott play- ed as a smooth working machine trouncing Pelto and Mills, 6-3, 6-0. * * * THE PAULUS-PALEY combo clicked for the Murphymen with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Church and Nuding. Russell and Dunbar drop- ped their first set 1-6 but came back strong in the second for a 7-5 edge against Broncos Carpen- ter and Lee Cox. Western clinched the match in the thir dset, how- ever, winning, 6-3. Today Michigan will seek its third straight win and its first conference success, facing Wis- consin at Madison in the Wol- verines' conference opener.. Wisconsin has seasoned netters in number one star Jack Vincent, JackbSchmiettan, anddBillB ude- lius but the Badgers did little to impress in an early meet with a powerful Indiana squad. They bowed to the Hoosiers by an 8-1 count. Murphy will use the same line- up as in yesterday's meet with one exception; Al Mann will probably return to the doubles ranks, in which case he will replace Pelto and team up with Mills in the top singles bracket. Diamondmen After Fourth 'Big Ten Win (Continued from Page 1) of exactly one whiff per inning. This season Giel, as well as the entire Gopher team, has not seen any conference competition. Last week-end, the scheduled double- header between the Gophers and Iowa had to be cancelled because of rain. Iowa, which opens its Big Ten play today with a game up at East Lansing with the Spartans, will in- vade the confines of Ferry Field in a double-header tomorrow, the first game getting under way at 1:30 p.m. Last season the Wolver- Line nine blasted the Hawkeyes, ninth place finishers in the con- ference standings, by a 10-3 score. Major League Standings (Fourth in a series) Northwestern's baseball team, coached by Fred Lindstrom, enters the 1953 season bolstered by 16 returning lettermen. Lindstrom, who has piloted the Wildcat team for the past four years, will attempt to pull his squad up from seventh place, where it finished in the Big Ten Conference last year. THE FIRST string infield is made up entirely of lettermen. FirstBasemanbDon Blaha, who sported a .400 batting average in Big Ten play last year, leads the list of infield talent. He was named to the All-American team of the NCAA Coaches association. Larry Kurka, second baseman; Jim Bragiel, shortstop; and Har- ry Stranski, third baseman, round out the infield assign- ments for Northwestern. George Barvinchak, rugged right hander, heads the mound corps. He had a 2-0 record on the south- ern excursion earlier this spring. Don Zitek, another righthander, who also won a pair of games in the south, should add to the depth of the Wildcat pitching staff. CAPTAIN Tom Woodworth holds down the catching position. In conference play he had a 1.000 fieldin gaverage and batted .357. Dick Ranicke, Larry Dellefield, and Jack Tosh are most likely to start in the outfield. The Purdue team has lost much of its former power at the plate. With the loss of Outfielder Harry Hanes and Catcher Har- old Wallace, who slammed out .450 and .404 averages respec- tively in conferenceplay, the Purdue squad will have to go some to retain its team batting crown. Last season it pounded the horsehide at a .282 clip in Big Ten competition. Two lettermen, Southpaw Ray Rosenbaum and Right hander Dennis Blind, are expected to car- ry most of the pitching load this spring. Bob Dobson and Tommy Tompson will add needed depth to the realitively inexperienced Boil- ermaker mound staff. VETERAN Norman Banas. who hit Big Ten pitching for a .318 av- erage, will hold down the first base position. At the shortstop spot will be Phil Mateja, who poked out a .302 average in conference play last year, and Ted Rokicki and Ted Server fighting it out for the Key stone sack. Ray Yurick's fine field- ing record of last year assures him of the starting position at third base. He made only one error in 38 chances for an average of .980, tops in the fieldingdepartment for Big Ten third baseman last sea- son. Roving the outfield for Pur- due will be Ron Nelson, Howard Rosenthal, and Bill Reps, alli lettermen. Joe Fox, Purdue's number one catcher, will be backstopping for the Boiler- makers again this spring. With but two letter earners re- turning from last year's squad, Coach Ernie Andres has a tough job ahead in attempting to pull the Hoosiers out of the Big Ten cellar. PHIL POTTS, firstbaseman, and Dick McQueen, second sacker, are the lone players with any amount of experience behind them. The rest of the infield will probably find Dick Porter at shortstop and Manahan Gar- ald at third base. Catchers Jack Conn and Danny Camplese are battling for the backstop post. Hurlers Bob Richards, Gene Michaelson, Eddie French, Jack Meyers, and Todd Crawford will share the mound duties for the Indiana ball club. All but Rich- ards are sophomores and should receive experience for the seasons ahead. Outfielders Pete Gappas, Jim Nagel, Dick Fleck, and Paul Un-- derwood will be roaming the outer gardens for the Hoosiers. 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