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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1955
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Depth Aids
Track Squad
r In Relay Win
Michigan's flashy triumph in
the mile relay at the Ohio Relays
can be attributed primarily to
team balance and the brilliant 440
legs run by sophomore Dick Flo-
din and senior Grant Scruggs.
The outstanding 3:14.7 time was
climaxed by Wolverine anchor
man Scruggs, who barely nipping
speedy Pittsburgh sophomore Ar-
nie Sowell at the tape. Scruggs'
"photo finish" win, however, was
actually set up by the third leg of
the grueling race.
With Indiana, Pitt, and Michi-
gan running almost abreast after
the first half mile, Flodin took the
baton from Dave Hessler and was
able to forge ahead. Flodin man-
aged to pick up 10-12 yards on the
third lap, just enough margin to
enable Scruggs to win on the
stretch drive.
The whole meet seemed to sat-
isfy Coach Elmer Swanson. The
Michigan victory in the distance
medley relay with John Moule
running a fine final lap was timed
in a quite good 10:09.5. Michigan
should prove to be a constant
threat in this event all spring, al-
e though the time recorded was far
off the world record set by Michi-
gan in 1952 of just under 10 min-
utes.
Owen Oustanding
Dave Owen was particularly out-
standing at Columbus when he
heaved the shot for his best throw
r of 54'4% ", a foot over his best,
previous toss. Owen was able to
ygrab a third behind some of the
best in the country-NCAA champ
Tom Jones from Miami (Ohio) and
Penn State's Roosevelt Greer.
'M's' John Johnson managed to
capture a. fifth place in the 100
yard dash with a time of :09.7,
while Ron Wallingford turned in
a credible second place in the un-
familiar mile-and-one-half run.
Diamondmen Tied for First;
Pitchers Praised by Fisher
Golfers Play Well at OSU;
Eight To Face MSC Today
By JIM BAAD
Defeating a weakened Wiscon-
sin team twice last Saturday plus
Friday's win over Northwestern
placed Michigan at the top of the
Big Ten baseball heap, tied with
Minnesota.
The defeat of Wisconsin at full
strength should have opened up
the highest optimistic hopes for!
Michigan title chances for the
Badgers had been rated "the team
to beat" in the Western Confer-
ence at the beginning of the sea-
son.
Tninrv Riddled I
A helpful addition to Michigan's
second game, run-filled sixth inn-
ing was Tony Branoff's pinch-hit
homer. Branoff is due to see ac-
tion against left-handed pitching
in place of Howie Tommelein in
left field.
Stole Bases
The Wolverines continued their
policy of moving on the basepaths
as well as possible Saturday
against the strong throwing arm
of Wisconsin's catcher, Carl Wag-
ner. An attempted steal and a rare
bad throw by Wagner combined
a. to help give Michigan their first
Wisconsin has suffered from in- run of the day.
juries since this forecast, however.
They have lost both their regular
JOHN SCHUBECK
.. . steady play
-Daily-Dick Gaskill
STOLEN BASE-Michigan left fielder Howie Tommelein slides
into third safely in the second inning of the first game of the
doubleheader with Wisconsin Saturday. Tommelein, who led
off the inning with a hit, stole second and went to third on the
overthrow at second base. He later scored the first Michigan
run.
shortstop and second baseman be-
cause of broken bones.
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New York .... 7
Boston ....... 7
Cleveland ..... 6
Detroit ....... 5
Washington .. 5
Kansas City .. 3
Baltimore .... 3
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Tau Delts Win
Second Table
Tennis Crown
Tau Delta Phi garnered its sec-
ond successive table tennis title as
it defeated Sigma Alpha Mu, 4-1,
at the Michigan Union Sunday
evening.
Over a two year period, the Tau
Delts have run up a winning string
of 12 straight.
The most exciting individual
match was Lenny Schreier's great
comeback to defeat Al Rein in the
fourth singles slot, 11-21, 11-21,
21-19, 21-13, 21-14. Alan Eisenberg,
playing at number five, also had to
come from behind. Eisenberg
stopped Freddy Gordon, 18-21, 21-
17, 21-18, 21-16.
In the first position Chuck Ba-
raf humbled Nate Greene, 21-14,
21-10, 21-12.
These factors do not take any-
thing away from Michigan's per-
formance Saturday, however, as
they won both games with a fine
display of hitting and heads-up
baseball. Michigan collected 23
hits off a parade of Wisconsin
hurlers.
"The boys hit a lot of good
ones," said coach Ray Fisher,
"but then I didn't 'feel that Wis-
consin's pitching was as strong
as we faced against Northwestern,
or as strong as what we'll find at
Illinois and Purdue."
Wisniewski Sparkles 3
Marv Wisniewski's pitching
really sparkled in the first game
of Saturday's double header, as
he went the whole distance, al-
lowing only five hits and one run.
Of the four pitchers used in the
second game, Fisher picked out
Jim Clark as "looking espec-
ially good." He also mentioned
Don Poloskey's efforts as fair, and
said that Poloskey would have es-
caped his three-run first inning
with only one of them scoring
had it not been for a bad break
on a double play. (None of the
runs were charged to Poloskey, as
he had relieved Dick Peterjohn
with three on and nobody out.)
By LYNN TOWLE
Cold weather and drizzling rain
were on the agenda for the Resi-
dence Hall softball games yester-
day afternoon at South Ferry
Field.
Reeves, Taylor Sluggers
!Win I-M Softball Games
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Brooklyn .....11
Milwaukee ..... 7
St. Louis ...... 6
Chicago 7
Philadelphia .. 6
New York ..... 4
Cincinnati .... 2
Pittsburgh . ... 1
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By JUDY CANTOR
Michigan's golf team journeys to
East Lansing today where it will
face the Spartan linksters for the
second time this season.
Michigan easily defeated MSC
last Wednesday when the two
teams met at Ann Arbor. The
Spartans did not show too much
power at that time, although they
should be stronger in their own
backyard. Michigan has improved
somewhat since then and is slight-
ly favored to take the meet. -
Off to MSC
Coach Bert Katzenmeyer is tak-
ing eight men with him to the
East Lansing campus, and will use
two different line-ups for the 18-
hole rounds. In the morning
round Fred Micklow will play in
'the number one spot and Ken
Meyers will follow in the second
slot, while in the afternoon these
two positions will be taken by Bob
McCasters and John Schubeck, re-
spectively.
The remaining four positions
will be unchanged for both rounds,
and will be played by Skip Mac-
Michael, Andy Andrews, Henry
Loeb, and Steve Uzelac, in that
order.
Katzenmeyer again stated that
he was well satisfied with his
team's performance last Saturday
in the quadrangular meet at Co-
lumbus, and feels that the boys
played somewhat to the best of
their capabilities.
Schubek Praised
He stressed the performance
turned in by John Schubeck,
praising him for steady play and a
cool head. Running second in his
estimation was McMasters who,
although not hitting well, showed
very good mental attitude and ad-
justed very well to the game. He
could have been extremely high,
but mentally applied himself and
scored much better than he ac-
tually hit.
Katzenmeyer also commented on
the game played by MacMichael,
Loeb, Meyers and Micklow. "Their
main trouble," he said, "is the
short games in and around the
greens, and in their drives, but
they are slowly ironing out the
kinks, and I expect fairly smooth
performances before too long.
MacMichael's main trouble is his
mental approach to the game, and
he needs a great deal of work in
that area."
Shuffles Line-up
Katzenmeyer has been contin-
ually reshuffling the team line-up
since the season opened, in an ef-
fort to strike the right combina-
PittChamp
The all campus bowling tour-
ney was won yesterday by Char-
les Barnhart of Theta Chi. He
knocked down 1169 pins in six
games to become this year's
champ.
tion of men. He is starting with
a new, young team, and is trying
to give the sophomores as much
experience as possible to bank on
next year. This is the reason that
veteran Andy Andrews 'has not
seen much action this year, and
probably will not until his scoring
is better than that of the sophs on
the squad.
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One of the biggest free-for-allsf
of the day was the Reeves-Allen
Rumsey game in which Reeves
won by an 11-3 margin. The game
was tied 2-2 until the fourth inn-
ing when nine runs crossed the
plate for Reeves House. -
Home runs were hit by Wally
Roeser, Stan Zax, and Andy Cas-
garea in that power-packed inn-
ing. Reeves pitcher Jim McClurg
held Allen-Rumsey to only two
hits.
Taylor Edges Michigan
Taylor House defeated Michi-
gan 'House, the Residence Hall de-:
fending champion, 10-9, in an ac-
tion-packed final inning. Going
into the last inning, Michigan
House was leading 9-4. Then Tay-
lor House loaded the bases and
scored a run with no men out.
The next batter lined into a dou-
ble play. Five more runs crossed
the plate to tie the score. A single
by Donald Scherer sent home the
winning run.
Gomberg House edged Williams
House by a 3-2 count. Gomberg
scored two runs in the second
inning on a base on balls, a single
by Robert Gardner, and a double
off the bat of Erle Kauffman
which cleared the bases.
In their half of the inning, Wil-
liams House scored a run on a
base on balls and a triple by John
Potter. A home run by Ed Godfrey
provided the game's winning run.
Van Tyne easily defeated Greene
10-1 in a poorly played game by
both teams due to poor weather
conditions. Greene House played
the game with only seven men.
In other games Wenley House
defeated Scott House 5-3 and
Strauss House topped Hayden
House 6-4.
Big Ten Bans
Two Indiana
Cage Hopefuls
CHICAGO (AP)-Two star In-
diana University freshmen bas-
ketball players Monday were ban-
ned by the Big Ten for one var-
sity season because of outside
play.
A Hoosier plea for re-instate-
ment was expected.
Paxton Lumpkin and Charles
Brown, both of Chicagoband for-
mer stars of. DuSable High
School's 1954 Illinois state meet
finalists, were declared ineligible
for a year because they played in
an Amateur Athletic Union-spon-
sored tourney here earlier this
month.
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By ED SALEM
It was just 88 years ago, that
Michigan's baseball team, clad in
blue turtleneck sweaters with large
yellow numerals, whipped the De-
troit professionals, 70-17.
One year earlier, in 1866, they
had proceeded to knock off Ann
Arbor and Jackson by scores of
33-11 and 61-41, respectively.
It was incredible games like
these in the primitive days of
baseball, from which the Wolver-
ines rose to capture 22 conference
titles, and then reach their peak
in 1953 by capturing the National
Intercollegiate championships.
So it was that the efforts of two
Michigan cricket players, who, in
the spring of 1863 set up a crude
baseball diamond behind the old
Medical Building, paid off. Stu-
dent support grew rapidly, and
with the backing of the Michigan
Chronicle, the "Gran'daddy" of
the Daily, new uniforms were pur-'
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As the quality of the team im-
proved, t he Wolverines, playing
their home games on the field'
which now houses Waterman and
Barbour gyms, could find little
suitable competition in the mid-
west. Thus, in 1885, the Maize and
Blue withdrew from the Western
Intercollegiate Baseball Associa-
tion so it could play the top east-
ern professional and college teams.
Journeying each year to the Atlan-
tic Coast, Michigan compiled a re-
spectable 11-6 record against the
eastern powerhouses.
With the formation of the Big
Ten in the 1890's, Michigan re-
turned to the league under its
first hired coach; Pete Conway.
1910 began a colorful era in
Michigan baseball. Although, they
failed to win a conference title un-
til 1918, the team was coached by
Today's Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York at Chicago-Turley
(2-0) vs. Fornieles (2-0).
Boston at Kansas City (N)-
Brewer (0-2) or Sullivan (2-1)
vs. Portocarrero (0-3).
Baltimore at Detroit - Palica
(1-1) vs. Garver (1-2).
Washington at Cleveland-Mc-
Dermott (1-1) vs. Lemon (3-0)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati at Brooklyn (N)-
Valentine (0-0) vs. Meyer
(1-0).
Malwaukee at New York (N)-
Buhl (1-0) vs. Antonelli (0-2)
or Gomez (0-1).
Chicago at Pittsburgh (N) -An-
dre (0-0) vs. Littlefield (0-1).
St. Louis at Philadelphia (N)
--Haddix (1-0) vs. Roberts
(2-1).
the famous Branch Rickey, who
was destined to achieve fame with
the Brooklyn, St. Louis, and Pitts-
burgh organizations. It was underc
his reign, that the immortal:
George Sisler carme to Michigan.
Sisler Fan's Ideal
Leading the team in hitting and
pitching, Sisler became the idol of
the Wolverine fans. This was
clearly emphasized in an account1
of the Michigan-Kalamazoo game
which appeared in the Daily on
April 29, 1915.
"When George Sisler, the great-
est player in Michigan's history,
made his first appearance on the
mound, the crowd greeted the
leader of last year's team with
cheer after cheer. He immediately
proceded to show his appreciation1
of the ovation by pitching nine
strikes to the first three men who
faced him, retiring the sides with-
out so much as a hit ball."
Fisher Arrives
In 1921, Ray Fisher arrived on
the Michigan campus. With him
came the greatest era in the his-
tory of Michigan baseball. In the
34 year span Fisher has coached
here, he has given us 15 confer-
ence titles.
During his reign, Fisher has!
coached such players as Dick
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Wakfield, Don Lund, "Crazy Legs"
Hirsch, and Bennie Oosterbaan. It
was while developing such out-
standing players as these, that
Fisher was invited to take the
team on a tour of Japan. However
the pinnacle of Michigan baseball
was yet to come.
In June of 1953, Michigan was
playing the University of Texas in
Omaha, Nebraska. Behind 7-5, in
the ninth inning, the Longhorns
proceeded to load the bases with
none out. Coming in to relieve,
Jack Corbett promptly struck out
the next two batters. Coach Fisher
then called on Jack Ritter to
pitch the situation that every
schoolboy dreams of. Calmly step-
ping to the mound before the
hushed crowd, Ritter struck out
the final batter.
Michigan had won the National
Collegiate Baseball championship.
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