PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953 scoreboard ... by Dick Lewis Baseball Haynan's Base Hit Drives Tally Across in Ninth Inning, Team Edges Irish, 3-2 * * * Conference Athletic Trophy Presented Golf Squads To Maloney at West Quad mu " 'T COACH DON CANHAM has lots of excuses but few Big Ten cham- pionships to show for his five years as Michigan track mentor. Since the youthful Canham took over from Ken Doherty in 1948, Wol- verine runners have failed to garner a single conference title (either indoor or outdoor variety) while finishing in the unenviable runner- up spot on six different occasion. Almost every year that Canham's charges were beaten out of the title, some excuses could be offered by the high jumper turned track coach. One year it was lack of depth, another it was non-existent pole vault talent. Then there were the disappointing flops before the finish line and loss of a shoe that cost the Maize and Blue entry two other crowns. But behind almost every Michigan setback in the competition for the blue chips there's been a well-equipped, widely-recruited ,Illinois outfit that has completely stolen the thunder from the once-dominant Wolverines. Last time Michigan annexed the in- door championship was in 1945 while a year before marked the final of 20 outdoor titles for the Maize and Blue. Since those golden years the Illini trackmen have put away ten trophies symbolic of league honors and have topped a Michigan team on 13 of 15 title meetings. The predominant Illini success in the last decade coupled with the repeated Michigan failure to reach the top is to say the least frus- trating, and causes many a local track enthusiast to wonder just what's wrong on the local track scene. Certainly the top-notch talent necessary for a winner has been present at the Ferry Field and Yost Field House Athletic plants. Evidently more and better talent has been flocking to ace conditioner Leo Johnson down at Champaign. Even in dual and triangular meets, Johnson is one better than Canham, his bitter adversary. In the last six Michigan-Illinois dual clashes, Johnson has a 4-2 edge and threatens to make it five vic- tories when the Illini roll into Ann Arbor tomorrow. Once again the contest has all the earmarks of being nip and tuck all the way, but somehow the Illini have the knack of winning the close ones-witness the 67 3/5 to 65 1/10 squeaker for the conference 1952 outdoor laurels. * , . . Repeated Indoor Success .. . THAT TRIUMPH CAME on the last Illini visit to this city almost a year ago, the sole recent encounter between the two rivals save the conference indoor meet earlier this year when Illinois repeated its 1952 indoor success with a convincing 56% to.46 1/6. All told, in- cluding dual and conference meets, Canham has sent teams against Illinois 14 times, but almost without exception the Canham forces have been the victim of bad breaks, lack of depth, and at times just plain inferiority. Initiation to Illinois power for Canham was a triangular meet early in the 1949 winter campaign with the Illini and Purdue. Even though the Michigan mile relay foursome nipped the Orange and Blue entry at the tape, the Boilermakers finished 10 yards in front of the Wolverines in the day's final race to deprive the Wolverines of the points necessary to top rival Illinois. In the 1949 Big Ten indoor cavalcade, Michigan faded to a miserable seventh place finish, its worst showing in years, as Coach Johnson's combine moved into the third position. Again the breaks were telling. Herb Barten, conference half mile champ for three straight years previously, had to drop out of his favorite event with two laps remaining with a sprained foot. Just about four years ago, May 15, 1949, Michigan fell into the good graces of Dame Fortune long enough to hand Illinois its first dual meet defeat in five years, a 672-64/2 setback on Ferry Field. Hidden strength in the field events and mile relay gave Michigan that one, but in the outdoor championships the Maize and Blue slid to sixth, while Illinois came home fourth. Despite the fact that the fabulous Scot, Don McEwen, set four new distance records, Michigan lost another dual test to Illinois a couple of weeks before the Big Ten indoor meet in 1950. Then seem- ingly with the league title in their grasp, Canham's hopefuls nosed out Illinois for the second spot in the championships but lost to the same Ohio State team that they had beaten by 10 points the weekend before. The Buckeyes took their only first in the mile relay but still had the distribution necessary to win. * * * * Mile Relay Jinx... NEXT TUSSLE WITH ILLINOIS that season was a triangular out- door meet at Champaign with Northwestern as the third party. Illinois gained a 73-66 victory over the Wolverines as it won the mile relay, often Michigan's jinx, by two feet to sew up the crown again on the final event. A major upset in a widely-publicized meeting at Champaign was engineered by Michigan in 1951 when the Wolverines won over John- son's forces, 60 /2-53, in the Champaign Armory. Two unexpected performances by football tackle Tom Johnson, winner of the shotput, and football end Lowell Perry, who annexed te high jump, provided the deciding counters. -That set the stage for the 1951 indoor championships where -bad breaks again hampered Michigan into a second place finish behind the Illini. On that occasion, Chuck Whiteaker, a sure point- getter, was disqualified in the 880 and Van Bruner tripped on the last hurdle of the low hurdle semifinals and also failed to qualify. Following a triangular meet scuttling at the hands of Southern Cal and Illinois at Los Angeles, the Maize and Blue could do no better than fourth in the 1951 outdoor renewal. And they're still talking about the race in that meet where Michigan's George Jacobi, leading the pack into the final turn of the qualifying round of the 880, lost his left shoe, faltered ten yards from the finish line, and finished fourth. Three men qualified; Illinois copped the title. In 1952 and 1953 it was much the same story. Illinois swept to two conference indoor and one outdoor crown. Michigan placed second In all three meets, excuses being lack of depth, another Bruner stumble, and a pulled leg muscle of a star sprinter. The wheel keeps turning, and Michigan keeps missing by ever so little. Who was it that said a winning team makes its own breaks? GRADUATE ENGIN EERS By BOB MARGOLIN I Special to The Daily SOUTH BEND-Michigan's off- again on-again baseball team came from behind twice yesterday to nip Notre Dame, 3-2, in a non- conference clash. A single run in the ninth inn- ing, resulting from a walk to Dick Leach, a balk by Notre Dame pitcher Jim Gibbons and Bruce Haynam's line single sealed the win for the victors. THIS AFTERNOON Michigan returns to Big Ten action, meeting the Purdue Boilermakers in Laf- ayette. Jack Corbett, possessing two conference decisions, will hurl for the Wolverines. Coach Ray Fisher used four pitchers against the Fighting Irish, including Ralph Fagge, GarbyaTadian, Bob Woschitz Iand Jack Ritter. Woschitz who tossed scoreless ball in the sev- enth and eighth innings receiv- ed credit for the decision. Performing in 40 degree weather, Michigan almost fumbled away the ball game. The infield made six errors during. the afternoon's fes- tivities, including three by short- stop Haynam. * * * IN THE LAST half of the ninth inning, errors by Gil Sabuco and Haynam threatened to dis- solve the Wolverines thin one run lead. After Sabuco fumbled Len LaRose's leadoff grounder. Dick Colloton's sacrifice moved the run- ner to second with one out. Dick Rosenthal's single to deep short put runners on first and second. Then Ritter, pitching for Michigan, fanned Stan Konopka. George Kolasa followed with a grounder to Haynam which was promptly booted, but when La- Rose rounded third, a snap throw by Haynam picked him off to end the contest. Notre Dame opened the scoring in the third inning when Fagge hit a batter to force in a run. Michigan, however, tied the score in the top of the fourth on Paul Lepley's double and Sabuco's line smash to center. A WALK to Rosenthal sand- wiched between errors by Tadian * * * BOX SCORE and Haynam put Notre Dame back into a one run lead in the fifth stanza. The score remained 2-1 until the eighth when Bill Mogk led off for the Wolverines and reach- ed first on shortstop Hal Reil- ley's error. Then Howell singled moving Mogk along to third. After Don Eaddy popped up, Lepley lashed one back at pitcher Gibbons who made a good stop. He temporarily lost his bearings and when he threw to first Mogk breezed home with the tying run. This set the stage for the ninth inning winning tally off tiring Fighting Irish hurler, Gibbons. 7EAUL LEPLEY . . . clutch hitter Michigan, Illinois Track Meet Highlights 1953 Cinder Action ByHANLEY GURWIN Local track fans will have the opportunity of witnessing the top dual track meet of 1953 when the Orange and Blue of Illinois invade Ferry Field tomorrow for an out- door meet with the Wolverine trackmen. Michigan and Illinois, who along with Southern California, com- prise the Big Three of collegiate track, are by far the class of the Big Ten, as well as the rest of the country. Among the list of top performances in the Big Ten this year are the names of six Wolver- ines and five Illini. CAPTAIN Jack Carroll, Wolver- ine quarter-miler, has run the 440- yard dash in the fleet time of 48.1 this season to lead in that depart- ment in conference. However, Illini Ralph Fessen- den has been clocked in 48.2 for the distance, only an eyelash be- hind Carroll's time. Geoff Doo- ley and Grant Scruggs, Michi- gan cindermen, have the fourth and fifth best conference times of 49.2 and 49.3 respectively. In the mile, Michigan's John Ross and John Moule have turned in the best times to date. Ross has toured a mile course in 4:13.9 while Moule has the second best effort with a 4:14.6. Despite these two pace-setting times, the mile run is far from in the bag, for Illini WalthJewsbury, two-mile king, has the. third best 'mile to Scruggs, Bill Barton, Dan Hick- man, and Carroll is expected to run off with the win. The Illini seem to be sure win- ners in the 100 and 220-yard dashes as well as the high and low hurdles. Willie Williams, who has run the 100 in :09.4, will probably take both dashes while teammate Joel McNulty is ex- pected to take both the high and low hurdle events. Figuring these predictions - to materialize, both squads would have 20 points, inasmuch as the mile relay is worth 10 points for a first place. From that point on, however, the meet will be decided by the breaks. Unusually good showings, or conversely, poor show- ing by either squad will undoubt- edly determine the winner. Ikola Homers As Sigma Chi Downs Betas Sigma Chi, behind the two hit pitching of George and Don Rich- ardson, trounced Beta Theta- Pi, 11-5, in the social fraternity sec- ond place softball playoffs yes- terday afternoon. Willard Ikola, star goalie on the Wolverine hockey squad, hit one home run and two singles to lead the Sigma Chi hitting spree. * * * *- IN THE FOURTH place play- offs, Theta Delta Chi drubbed Tau Delta Phi, 6-0, with Phil Hogan pitching a three hitter. Don Landis ITangleiHiere Three Teams Out To Beat Michigan e aa By JACK HORWITZ The Wolverine linksters are' ready and waiting for the big quadrangular golf meet between Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan in Ann Ar- bor, tomorrow afternoon. After winning six straight con- ference matches, the Michigan linksmen are out to keep their record unblemished. Ohio State, with a 5-1 record so far this season, will be trying to get revenge for the drubbing handed then by the Wolverines in another quadrangular meet May 2. At that time Michigan also trounced Purdue and Illinois. The Buckeyes will have the third place finisher in last year's Big Ten meet, Francis Cardi, playing in their number one position. S * * OTHER returning lettermen in- clude Frank Guarasci, low scorer thus far this season, Mel Woelf- ling, George Frankenfeld, and George Smith. The Ohio State linksmen, who have been having trouble with the weatherman, have played only three conference matches this year. They downed Purdue, 23-13, and Illinois, 251-101, while losing to Michigan, 19/- 161. Purdue golfers have managed to play more matches than the Ohio Staters .They have compiled an 8-3 record, winning only two Big Ten matches while dropping three. They have beaten six non-confer- ence opponents. THE BOILERMAKERS have drubbed Indiana and Illinois and were beaten by the Wolverines, Ohio State and Illinois. On their spring trip the Purdue linksters The University Golf Course will be closed tomorrow, May 16, from 7 to 9 a.m. and in the afternoon from 12:30-2:00 p.m. dueto the Quadrangular golf match. --Harry Kaseberg defeated all seven of their oppo- nents, including Western Ken- tucky and the University of De- troit. The Spartans of Michigan State will .also be out to get revenge for the 191-161,, beat- ing they received at the hands of the Wolverine linksmen last Saturday. This was their first conference match. Michigan will be in top shape I for the meet. Regulars Jack Stumpfig, Bud Stevens, Lowell Le- Claire, Warren Gast, Hugh Wright and Tad Stanford will try to bring the Wolverines their eighth, ninth, and tenth conference victories. Dave Maloney of Allen-Rumsey House was presented with the out- standing quadrangle athlete award at the annual West Quadrangle sports banquet held last night. Featuring the presentation of championship trophies to. the var- ious houses, the banquet was held in honorof the 170 men in the quadrangle who 'participated in the intramural sports program. MALONEY also received* the Wagner Centennial Award for the quadrangle champions, Allen- Rumsey house. Other general awards were presented to individuals who were all-star choices in various sports. For their play in touch football Dale Ewart and Jim Gilmore of Michigan House were presented with all-star certifi- cates and for 'A' basketball Ivan Goldberg of Winchell House and Jack DeCou of Allen-Rumsey House were given awards. Williams House, defending Quad champions, received the trophy for copping the paddleball title. Allen-Rumsey House was awarded the trophies for wrestling, table tennis, relays and, indoor track. The water polo and foul shooting trophies were given to Chicago House, while Michigan House took the touch football and volleyball titles. EARL RISKEY, director of the intramural sports program, spoke briefly and thanked the men of West Quadrangle for their effort and participation it the program. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 7, New York 5 Boston 5, Cleveland 4 Philadelphia 5, Detroit 3 Washington 2, St. Louis 1 * * * NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 8, Brooklyn 3 Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 2 New York at Cincinnatti, post- poned Philadelphia at Chicago, post- poned. I - -r Glass CastingRod Value $7.95 with purchase of $10.00 or more of fishing tackle Friday and Saturday only FOX SPORTING GOODS STORE 624 S. Main Street Phone 2-4407 Open Monday and Friday Nights (I y! I MICHIGAN AB R 11 Haynam, sS 5 0 1 Mogk, 1b 2 1 -0 Howell, of 4 0 2 Eaddy, 3b 4 0 0 Lepley, if 4 1 ?- Cline, rf 4 0 0 Sabuco 2b 4 0 1 Leach, c 3 1 1 Fagge, p 1 0 U Tadian, p 1 01 0 Harrington* 1 0 0 Woschitz, p 1 0