PAGE six ff HE MICHIG.A.N DAILY PAGJ~ SIX TilE MICHIGAIN DAILY I iP'Baseball Team Won National Championship ;, ** * Trackmen Try for Title Excellent Pitching Was Key Factor in Michigan Victory' Wolverine Basketball Team To Be Stronger This Year (Continued from Page 5) IlliniL haided the Michigan squad a 79%-523 setback, in a meet fea- tured by the setting of six, new, records. Milt Mead, Wolverine cage star who didn't don a track out- fit -until after the hoop sport was finished for the year, es-. tablished new meet, Ferry Field and Varsity records as he high- jumped 6 feet, 8. 9inches to thrill the several thousand spec- tators on hand for the meet. Nilsson set a meet record in the discus when he hurled the saucer 158 feet 51 /ainches. He hurled the shot 54 feet 10 inches to establish a new meet record in that depart- ment also. The same situation that exist- ect in the Indoor 'championshis was present again a few weeks later as Champaign was the scene of the Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Illinois was first, Michigan was second and rest of the Big Ten was far behind. Illinois had an- nexed its sixth straight crown and the Wolverines, though possessing a great team, returned to Ann Ar- bor with the accustomed feeling of being only second best.. t- 'THE T aYl o-M'ade S:HOE. E I' I National Champions - that isr the record of the 1953 Michigan baseball team. , The first Wolverine team everf to enter the post-season playoffs.r at Omaha, Nebraska walked off with top honors by stopping a favored University of Texas outfit in the final game of the tourna- ment, 7-5. * * * RAY FISHER, who has guided the diamond destinies of the Maize and Blue for the past 32 years, tookl his team through the rugged Western Conference sched- ule in good style, experiencing serious difficulty only with thek Iowa Hawkeyes and Michigan State. The Iowa nine caught thet Wolverines on their bad day and whipped them twice. Mich-{ igan State beat the Maize andt Blue by a score of 6-5 in extra innings when Spartan catcher Ton Yewcic hit a home run. Ink the return game however, Mich-r igan took revenge with a 20-21 drubbing of the East Lansing team. Michigan beat Illinois twice at' Champaign, but the Illini re- bounded from the losses and came on with a rush to tie the Wolver- ines for the conference title. IT IS USUALLY standard pro- cedure when two teams tie for a championship and a representa-t tive to some tournament must be named to pick the team which had the better record against itsk co-champion. In this case, the: two games Michigan took from the Illini were the veason's for Fisher's team getting the chance to play against Ohio University for the right to represent the Mid-f west at the N.C.A.A. tourney. The Wolverines made short work of Ohio, winning both games with comparative ease.f Throughout the season and at the N.C.A.A. tournament, Mich- igan's great strength was its pitching staff. Fisher, an expert when it comes to developing good hurlers, had a top-notch mound corps which included Jack Corbett, Marv Wisniewski, Dick Yirkosky and Jack Ritter. Ritter was the hero of the N.C.A.A. final against the Texas Longhorns. He came into the1 game as a relief pitcher in thel last half of the ninth inning with the score 7-5 in favor of Michigan, but with the bases jammed with Texans and Paul Mohr, a .388 hitter in the batter's box. Ritter threw three fast strikes past Mohr, and got the next man on a ground- er to Captain Bill Mogk at first and Michigan had a national base- ball crown. IN ADDITION to the stalwart mound corps, the rest of the team supplied sufficient batting punch to carry the team along on the! few days when the pitchers were not clicking. Particularly impressive was Michigan's great little shortstop Bruce Haynam. He was named to the All-America Baseball squad and following the Omaha. tournament he was acknoivledg- ed to have been its outstanding individual performer. Playing next to Haynam in the Michigan infield was one of the finest all-round athletes in the school, Don Eaddy. Eaddy com- bined some powerful hitting with steady defensive work at third base. He will be on the baseball squad for two more seasons, and Coach Fisher can accordingly cross third base off his list of trouble spots for next season. * * a * GRADUATION will take second baseman Gil Sabuco, first base- man Bill Mogk, and outfielders Frank Howell, Bill Billings .and. Gerry Harrington. As severe as are these losses, there will still be a strong team representing Michigan on the diamond next spring. A talented freshman team is ex- pected to yield several infielders and outfielders to help fill vacan- cies, and most important of 'all, the pitching staff which carried the Wolverines to the top of* the nation's college baseball teams will: return intact and will be bolstered by two outstanding freshman hurlers, Al Ferrelli and Dick Peter- John. So it is with anticipation that Ray Fisher, college baseball'sI "Coach of the Year" in 1953 looksI forward to another season. He has' coached ten conference champs, in the past dozen years and pros- pects are bright to make that figure 11 in 13 years. DID YOU KNOW: that Michi- gan has won 18 Western Confer-! ence Baseball titles? The 1953 varsity climaxed its brilliant sea- son by winning the national championship at Omaha. Ray Fisher has coached the Maize and Blue for the last 32 years, and during the past 12 seasons, his teams have won 10 Big Ten cham- pionships. THIS RUN DIDN'T SCORE-Michigan's Bill Mogk is out at the plate attempting to score from second on a single. Though the Wolverines failed to get this run, they got more than their share during the season and wound up on top of the college baseball world as National Champions. Michigan. Boasts America's Finest Facilites for Athletics "Race-horse basketball" moved into Yost Fieldhouse along with new cage coach Bill Perigo last season, and although first year, results were no better than the ninth place finish of the previous campaign, the new style of play is definitely here to stay. The varsity won six games and, lost 16 over the course of the season, but in Big Ten play the Wolverines could manage only three victories against 15 losses. * * * - COACH PERIGO, coming to Michigan from Western Michigan College, where he gave that school the championship of the Mid- America Basketball Conference, saw his team play its best game of the season against the na- tional champion Indiana Hoosiers. The Michigan squad fought val- iantly before yielding by a 91-88 score. It was one of Indiana's toughest games all season. Perigo brought Matt Patanel- li from Western Michigan to assist him with the basketball team. Patanelli, a former foot- ball and basketball star at Mich- igan in his undergraduate days in the mid-thirties, is also slated to coach the football ends on de- fensive maneuvers this fall. Perigo's high-scoring team was paced by sophomore center Paul Groffsky of Maplewood, New Jer- sey. Groffsky became the first Michigan basketball player to score over 300 points since Leo! Vanderkuy turned the trick with 329 in 1950-51. * * * GROFFSKY SCORED 106 field goals in 308 attempts and 89 free throws for a 301 point total. His shooting percentage of .344 was! .also high for the team. The Michigan team managed to score 1,551 points during the season for a 70.4 average per game. Both figures are records for basketball at the University. Sophomore guard Don Eaddy ranked a close 'second to Groffsky, pumping in 292 counters to add to his freshman output of 181. The resulting two-year aggregate of 473 gives Eaddy a good chance of coming close to All-American Mack Suprunowicz's four-year to- tal on the local hoop scene. * h JUMPING John Codwell finish-I ed a point ahead of 6-7 Milt Mead in the Wolverine scoring race. Set-shooting Doug Lawrence whistled through 168 scores, most of them on long shots, to run his career record to 332. The hustling captain of last season's cagers delighted fans through- out the year with his aggressive style of play. At the end of the season the team elected Ray Pavichevich, a ball-hawking Hoosier from East Chicago, Indiana, to the captaincy of the 1953-54 squad. Pavichevich has scored 233 points in his two years on the team, and like Law- rence is a hustling, heads-up play- er and a natural team leader. * * * THE TEAM named Groffsky as its most valuable player of the 1952-53 season. In addition to his point-getting ability, Groffsky was an excellent rebounder and was highly instrumental in all of Michigan's victories. He scored 15 points In the opening ,win over Marquette, 16 in the victory over Pittsburgh, and reached his peak with 25 against Purdue as Michigan roll- edover the Boilermakers. In Michigan's second Big Ten. win, a 66-61 conquest of Iowa, Groffsky was red-hot with 18 points in the first half and a game total of 19. He was high point man for both teams that evening. Groff sky also got 19 points when Michigan beat Washington of St. Louis. He was much in evidence with 15 points the night Michigan broke *the Yost Fieldhouse scoring record with a 99-81 victory over Purdue. With a talented group of fresh- men moving up to the varsity, and with the only serious loss being that of Lawrence, prospects are bright for an improved finish this season. FINE FOOTWEAR ...for Men. 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