IMMA'!L, MAY 21, "54 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAV".V, iCT."RTrV FRIDAY, MAY 21,1954 THEyM4P Calms. DA1.L J.. @~T~ rA"rl ZMVEIN I M Nine To Meet OSU In Crucial Game Today By STEVE HEILPERN A game but weary Michigan baseball team may lose its chance to enter the National Collegiate Athletic Association's playoffs to- day. Michigan must defeat Ohio State here or it will be eliminated from the Big Ten race and lose ' the right to defend its national baseball championship. The same situation holds true for tomorrow's twin-bill with In- diana at Ferry Field, since one defeat for the Wolverines in this final weekend of conference acti- vity will deny them any possibil- ity of gaining Big Ten laurels. Today's contest will begin at 3:30 p.m. and tomorrow's after- noon's doubleheader is scheduled to start at 1:30. Chances Slim Coach Ray Fisher admits that Michigan's chances are exceeding- ly slim. Even if the Maize-an- Blue wins its three games, first- place Michigan State will have to lose two of three, Ohio must drop two of three, and third-place Wis- consin must bow in one of its weekend games. It appears doubtful that the above combination will follow, since MSC plays seventh-place In- diana today while Michigan is 1 combating the runner-up Buck- eyes. O;U and Michigan State meet tomorrow at East Lansing, and this twin-bill could very well decide the outcome of the stand- ings. Wisconsin, playing a dark horse role with Michigan, could complicate matters by outscoring y Iowa and Minnesota. Fisher has not committed him- self as to today's starting pitcher, - but soph Dick Peterjohn is a like- ly choice. The southpaw's two ex- cellent relief stints against the Spartans last week may have earn- ed him a starting role. Ebert Faces MSC Since the Buckeyes will save star hurler Paul Ebert for one of to- morrw's games' at East Lansing, Hal Northrop or Dick Finn will draw, the, starting assignment for Cindermen Face MSC Here Today Two-Mile Relay Tean Competing In Los Angeles Meet This Evening DICK PETERJOHN .. . pitches today today's contest. OSU boasts the league's leading hitter, first sacker Don Kelly. Gene Longbrake, Bill Wisler and Charley Ellis are also counted on by coach Marty Karow to give Wolverine hurlers trouble. Indiana, although mired in sev- enth place, will be no pushover in tomorrow's games. Coach Ernie Andres has a sophomore-studded aggregation which has been con- stantly improving since the start of the season. Outfielder Jim Rob- ertson is leading the Hoosiers at the plate with a .378 average. Art Herring, who doubles as a hurler and outfielder, is hitting confer- ence hurlers at a .333 clip. Andres has not disclosed tomor- row's starters, his choices hinging on the treatment of the Hoosier mound corps by Michigan State today. If Michigan is still in the race by then, Fisher is likely to use his whole staff in an effort to gain a playoff berth. DID YOU KNOW THAT Michi- gan participated in America's first intersectional football games back in 1881, when it played Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in that order. By BOB JONES While Michigan's crack two- mile relay travels to Los Angeles for an attempt at the world rec- ord in that event this evening, Michigan State trackmen will as- sault a weakened Wolverine squad here in the 'M'-MSC Relay Dual Meet. The two-mile relay team will be competing in the Coliseum Re- lays in L.A., and is expected to receive close competition. It is hoped that they will be pushed hard enough to break the world record in that event. The record stands at 7:29.4, and was set after the last Olympic Games by an all-star tea mof Horace Ashen- felter, John Barnes, Mal Whitfield, and Reggie Pearman. Against this, Michigan coach Don Canham is pitting half-milers John Moule (1:58.4), Roy Christ- iansen (1:53.4), John Ross (1:52.3) and Pete Gray (1:52.1). Their total time, minus 1.5 seconds for a run- ning start,* would shade the old standard by three tenths of a second. There are two drawbacks how- ever. One: the times listed are the fastest the men have ever run, and these performances may not be repeated at Los Angeles, and two: anchor man Pete Gray suf- fered a pulled muscle last week which may slow him considerably, although trainers say he should have no difficulty running. Should Down Spartans In the relays meet in Ann Ar- bor, the Michigan squad, though weakened by the absense of Moule, Christiansen, Ross and Gray, should not have too difficult a~ time handling Michigan State. The Wolverine team, which cap- tured five titles in the Big Ten Relays May 8, expects trouble only in the 440 yard relay, the hurdles, the 150 yard dash, and the two- mile relay. The Spartan quarter-mile relay too kthird in the Conference Re- lays, while the M' squad failed to place. MSC hurdlers John Cor- belli and John Savoldi have both gone 14.5 over the highs, and Sa- voldi has done 23.7 for the lows. In the 150 yard dash, Spartan sprinter Ed Brabham should have it all his own way, should he run. He will be running the 440 relay, however, and may also compete in the 880 relay. Brabham would go against Wolverines Bob Rudi- SWITCHING LINEUP: Netters Challenge U of D Squad Here sell, Bill Barton, and Pete Sut-f ton. With Michigan's number-one two-mile relay out on the Westl Coast, MSC should have an easy time taking first in that event. They finished only two-tenths of a second behind the Wolverines in the Big Ten Relays, turning in a time of 7:39.2. The half-mile relay could prove to be a tight race. The Michigan quartet of John Vallortigara, Dave Hessler, Bob Brown, and Grant Scruggs beat the Spartan half-mile crew in the Big Ten Relays by a margin of four yards, but this isn't enough to guarantee complete immunity. The mile re- lay team, however, is almost a cinch to take that event. The foursome of Rudisell, Hessler, Scruggs, and anchor-man Jack PETE GRAY ... slowed down? Eleven Horses To Compete. In Preakuess BALTIMORE - () - Eleven 3-year-olds were entered yesterday for the 78th and richest of all Preakness Stakes as rain blown in on a nor'-easter pelted ancient By DAVE GREY AftEc beating Michigan State on Tuesday, 6-3, to gain "sweet revenge," of an earlier 8-1 defeat, the Michigan tennis team will be pitted against a comparatively weaker University of Detroit squad this afternoon on the Varsity ten- nis courts. In the words of captain Al Mann, "Things are looking up." The State match came as quite a The University Golf Course will be closed all day Saturday, May 22, and Sunday, May 23, until 8:30 A.M. due to the I-M tournaments. --Henry Kaseberg surprise, especially to the los- er's coach Frank Beeman who throughout the match felt the tide would have to turn soon. But it never did. Mann played the best match that he has played all season in licking Jim Pore, 6-3, 7-5. He made fewer errors and seemed to have recaptured the spirited drive that he is capable of showing. Number two man Pete Paulus also had to be in top form, as he ral- lied strongly to win his singles from Spartan Dick Menzel, 1-6, 6-1, and 6-4. Downed Again Bob "Pancho" Paley, in the midst of a losing streak, again was up against one of the Big Ten's best in the person of soph- omore Dave Brogan. Brogan man- aged to wear down Paley, 6-2, 6-2, after losing the first set, 6-1. The rest of the squad's perform- ance was particularly encouraging. Bob Nederlander and Bob Sassone both won, while Bob Mitchell gave further indication that he has a good chance to walk off with the Big Ten number five singles championship in the Conference meet a week from this Saturday as he whipped John Brogan, 6-4, 6-2. Wolverine doubles play was weak with only Mann and Neder- lander able to win in the number two slot. Pore and Menzel took the measure of Paulus and Paley to the tune of a 7-5, 6-3 count, GOLFERS' PRACTICE RANGE 4 miles east of Ann Arbor on U.S. 23 - Near Packard Rd. We Furnish Clubs Free - Open 12 Noon till 11 P.M. For the best buy on clubs and bags - SEE US. Liberal trade-in allowance on clubs and bags. while Mitchell and Ron Morgan bowed before Dave Brogan and Jim Beechum. Coach Bill Murphy knows little of what the University of Detroit has to offer in the matoh that will start here at 2:30. Detroit has lost to both Michigan State and Western Michigan by 9-0 scores. Murphy intends to rest some of his top men by using Morgan, a junior from Mason, Michigan, in the number five position and sen- ior Bob Moore, hailing from Mus- kegon Heights, in the last slot. This is Moore's first year on the team and his first chance to play this season. Mitchell and Sassone will be moved up to play number three and four with probably Mann and either Paulus, Paley or Nederlander gettig a day's rest. Carroll have the third fastest time Pimlico and left the track re- in the conference to date with a sembling a one mile oval of good 3:15.6 clocking, old Maryland crab soup. This second jewel of the Ken- j tucky Derby - Preakness - Belmont triple crown lacks the presence of Determine, the derby winner three Standingsvweeks ago, but the classic has ~ Ukflt~fl~Sturned into a whale of a horse race. NATIONAL LEAGUE Correlation, the long-legged W L Pet. GB California Colt who was the 3-1 St. Louis. .19 14 .576 - derby favorite but got banged Philadelphia .16 14 .533 1/, around in that roughhouse at Brooklyn .....16 14 .533 11 Louisville and finished sixth, is ex- Milwaukee . ..15 14 .517 2 pected to be the favorite of a New York .,..16 15 .516 2 crowd of some 35,000 at the 3:45 Cincinnati ...17 16 .515 2 p.m., tomorrow, postime. Chicago......14 14 .500 212 Hasty Road, who finished sec- Pittsburgh ...11 23 .323 8/ ond in the derby, and the next four finishers in the Churchill YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Downs gallop, are here for the St. Louis 17, Pittsburgh 4 Preakuess along with six horses. New York at Philadelphia, rain Hasty Road is expected to be the 5-2 second choice, TODAY'S GAMES Two others given a good chance Milwaukee at Chicago to haul down the 4ravy are the Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, night Geyamo, fourth in the derby, and New York at Philadelphia, night Jet Action-one of the newcomers Cincinnati at St. Louis, night to the 3-year-old classics. * * T h e field is com p leted w ith R in g AMERIAN LAGUEKing, Hasseyampa, Galdar, Nirgal AMERIAN LAGUELad, Gigantic, For Free, and Ad- WV L Pet. GB miral Porter. Cleveland .. .20 10 .667 -- If all 11 horses start, the raceC New York . .. .19 11 .6 3," 1 will have a gross. value of $140,- Detroit ...., .16 10 .615 2 150, compared with the 1947 rec-' Chicago .....19 13 .594 2 ord of $138,140, Baltimore ,...12 15 .444 61,x, _____ Washington . .10 18 .357 9 Philadelphia .10 19 .345 91/2 I YOU ARE SO SMART Boston .......7 17 .292 10 :1TO USE A TODAY'S GAMES I"6GENTLEMAN'S -4! 7fl . 4... . A 4 'f ht S_ v r ~ . 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