1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PA.G 1956 PAGE Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Delts Win in I-M Softball Wolverine Nine Travels3 To e et Wayne Todayt Kappa Sigma, Sammies Also Record Triumphs With Best in Conference By BOB BOLTON With its first northern victory securely stored away, coach Ray Fisher's baseball squad will j urney to Detroit this afternoon to meet Wayne University. The contest 4ll be the season opener for the Tartars. Pitching Bothers Coach, Still worried about his mound corps, Fisher plans to give several men a chance to show their wares. Five pitchers are making the trip- Don Poloskey, Dean Finkbeiner, Jim Clark, Boyd Schertzer and Ed Westwood. The Tartars, who just recently have started outdoor practice, are as yet untested, but first baseman Ed Williams, who smacked the ball for a .383 average last year; and outfielder Don Halverson, who bat- ted .321, will be back to strengthen the team. A promising soph is catcher Ray Herndon., In 11 previous meetings between the two teams; the Wolverines have come away with 10 victories. Their lone defeat came in 1949. Fisher was pleased with the dut- come of Tuesday's game against Central Michigan, 8-5, but felt that the pitching was still not up to par. Tests Injured Wrist. w Finkbeiner tossed two scoreless innings in his first start since a Candidates for spring football practice should draw equipment this week. Please fill out ques- tioznaire with Henry Hatch be- fore Monday. --Bennie G. Oosterbaan cast was removed from his broken wrist. He will probably see quite a bit of action in the next few warm-uy games. Mark Ferrelli also looked good as he gave up only one run and two hits in his four inning stint. He also chalked up four strikeouts along the way. At third base, sophomore Steve Boros appears to have the situa- tion pretty well in hand, as he is now hitting the ball at a .452 clip, including two hits against Central Michigan. The team finished up yesterday with a heavy workout and will leave for Detroit this afternoon at 1:00. RAY HERNDON ... promising Wayne soph B riggs Wants To 'Justify' Proposed .Sale of Bengals DETROIT '(1P - The Detroit' Tigers, the lucrative baseball club currently carrying a price tag esti- mated at six million dollars, may not be sold after all, President Walter O. "Spike" Briggs, Jr., said yesterday. "We're not going to sell to just anybody with a lot of money," said Briggs. "We want to justify our sale to the people of Detroit." Since the proposed sale was an- nounced, a dozen prospective buy- ers have been pounding on Briggs' door. The latest offer was made by the Detroit Lions Football Co., which said yesterday it would like to buy the American League club fran- chise and Briggs Stadium; sell shares in the franchise to fans and. peddle the stadium to the City of Detroit. Sources close to the Tigers fig- ure since the Cleveland Indian franchise alone sold for $3,900,000 the Detroit team and ballpark ought to be worth six million. Detroit fans-over a million of them-poured into Briggs Stadium last year as the young team pro- vided considerable color despite its fifth place ending. It also is fig- ured for fith again this year. Giving heavy hitting support to the blazing one-hit pitching of Cal Atwood, Sigma Phi Epsilon pound- ed Sigma Chi, 13-1, yesterday as social fraternity softball entered its second day, Warm weather kept pitching arms limber and the eight winning hurlers gave up a meager total of 35 hits. Scratch Hit Spoils Bid Larry Lavercombe and Dutch Allen both delivered three-run homers for Sigma Phi Epsilon and pitcher Atwood aided his own win- ning cause with a two-run triple: Ron Kramer saved Sigma Chi from being blanked in the hit depart- ment with a scratch single. In the highest scoring game of the day, Tau Delta Phi edged Alpha Delta Phi 14-11. Pitcher Hanley Gurwin almost single- handedly woi for the Tau Delts as he drove in seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run homer. Kappa Sigma came up with 13 runs on four hits in a wild fourth inning to down Theta Xi, 16-1. Del Wright pitched brilliantly for the winners, giving up but two singles. 'The Delta Sigs collected one more hit than Sigma Alpha Mu, I-M Prepares First Practice Ini Lacrosse At four p.m. today, the first practice session for lacrosse players will get underway at Ferry Field. It is the purpose of the I-M De- partment to form: a league cc - posed of four teams under the direction of Dutch Allen. The cli- max of the season will be an exhi- bition contest to be held May 12. All students that are interested in playing lacrosse should meet at the I-M building today at four. Earl Riskey, director of I-M activi- ties, advises that experience is not necessary. but it did them no good as they bowed to last year's runner-ups 9-5. The Sammies' fire-balling Fred Gordon was tagged for eight safeties. Casey Fashions Two-Hitter Phi Sigma Kappa defeated Al- pha Sigma Phi 16-7 in the most loosely played contest of the day. Phi Sigma Kappa pushed over its 16 tallies on nine hits while Alpha Sigma Phi could only get two off winning hurler Chuck Casey. In other contests Pi Lambda Phi downed Phi Kappa Sigma, 13-6; Phi Sigma Delta beat Sigma' Nu, 9-5, behind the five-hit pitching of Larry Weiss; and Phi Gamma Delta crushed Chi Phi 12-4 on Gene Honeyman's four hitter. STEVE UZELAC JOHN SCHTUBECK ..two of five juniors Tigers Battle Milwaukee To Scoreless Deadlock Relative strengths of the Big Ten golf teams this spring indicate a potentially well-balanced Con- ference. It appears that some of the previously in-between squads may be right near the top and in title contention. On paper, defending- champion Purdue and Ohio State must again be ranked as the lead- ers, but both Michigan and Wis- consin have veteran teams re-' turning. Three Badgers Return Wisconsin, for example has been tagged with "the brightest pros- pects in years" with its three top lettermen back. The Badgers fin- ished third last year behind Pur- due and Ohio State, while Michi- gan was a solid fourth., Wolverine Coach Bert Katzen- meyer doesn't hesitate to mention that some of the other schools, such as Iowa and Minnesota, could be stronger and might be breath- ing down the necks of the pace- setters at the Conference cham- pionships in late May. \ Veterans Balance Wolverines Katzenmeyer is plagued this season by a remarkably balanced team-so even-balanced that he could almost flip a coin to see who should be shooting where in the six match positions., On any one day, senior Captain Bob McMasters and juniors John By The Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee Braves played 14.scoreless innings yesterday without either ,team getting a runner past second base and then gave up. The game was called by agree- ment between Managers Charlie Grimm and Bucky Harris. It was a pitchers' battle from the start with the Braves getting only six hits off Virgil Trucks, Dick Marlowe and Pete Wojey and the Tigers collecting 10 off Lew Bur- dette, Red Murff and Humberto Robinson. All the hits were singles. 'p * 'p Harvey Cleared DETROIT - The prosecutor's office ruled yesterday there was insufficient evidence to justify an assault warrant against Doug Har- vey, Montreal Canadiens hockey player, accused of hitting a spec- tator at a game here last Thurs- day. Steve Kemeny, 37, of Wyandotte, Mich., complained that Harvey hit Schubeck, Steve Uzelac, Hank Loeb, Skip MacMichael or Fred Micklow can be low man. Katzen- meyer will spend most of the spring shifting his players around to find the best combinations. Face Michigan State Some indications of just how good the Wolverines may be comes a week from Saturday, when Michigan will host MichiganState. Both squads will use eight men with Stan Kwasiborski and Dave Wakely probably also seeing action L for Michigan. EXHIBITION BASEBALL New York N 5, Cleveland 1 St. Louis 5, Chicago A 3 Pittsburgh 5, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 5, Chicago N 4 Detroit 0, Milwaukee 0 (called at end of 14 innings by agreement.) Washington 2, Brooklyn 1 Cincinnati 7, New York A 5 SPECIALTY CUTS FOR SPRINGS Let us create a New-Look for you . .. Today! The Daseola Barbers near Michigan Theatre him below the left eye with a hockey stick. Barlick Ailing CINCINNATI - Al Barlick, an umpire in the National League since 1940, is under treatment for a heart condition and will not be ready for work when the baseball season opens next Tuesday, it was announced yesterday. Warren C. Giles, league presi- dent, said Barlick is in St. Johns Hospital, Spring, Ill. He said he understood Barlick's heart is only mildly affected. GOLFERS PRACTICE I =wmwKuwAwmw HILLEL ROSH CHODESH DINNER Friday, April 13... 6 P.M. BIG TEN FAVORITES: Track SquadPicked to Retain Crown RANGE NOW OPEN 23 and Packard Rd. Reservations due by 5:00 P.M. Call NO 3 -412 9 this evening (First of two articles previewing Michigan's 1956 outdoor track and field season. This article covers the track prospects.) By JOHN HILLYER Unless some startling develop- ments occur, it looks like Michigan will successfully defend Its Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field. Cham- pionships on May 25-26 at Min- neapolis. , List spring saw the Wolverines come within a fraction of a point of doubling runner-up Illinois' score in the Conference meet at Columbus and, although it prob- ably won't be as one-sided this year, the Blue still look good, at least on paper. Other Meets. Slated But not all of the strong compe- tition will be encountered' in the Minneapolis test. There are several interesting' dual and invitational meets scheduled, including Ann Arbor appearances for Indiana, Marquette and the Chicago Track Club and a trip up to Lansing for a duel with the Spartans. The relays should prove one of Michigan's, stronger points, as usual, especially after. last week- end's amazing' wading exhibition in the mud at Quantico, Va. The relay corps can be picked from an extensive list of competent ath- letes, including Bob Rudesill, Laird Sloan, Dick Flodin, Pete Gray, George Gluppe, Bob. Brown, Robin j Varian and Dkon Matheson. Wallingford, Keilstrup in Mile In the mile, Captain Ron Wall- ingford and soph Gert Keilstrup should both improve, with Wall- SPORTS ingford an almost sure thing in the two-mile. Brown, who last year took fourth in both the 100 and 220, returns in the sprints, and joins Flodin, second to Jim Golliday in toe 220, and Jimmy Pace, who will report for spring football drills, remains a question mark. The Wolverines look exception- ally strong in the 440. Sloan and Rudesill have both done :48.6 while Flodin was once clocked in :47.7. Matheson's best time is :50 flat, but this should be lowered. 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