4 TRUU§DAY MAY 16,1957 THE MICHIGAN DAILY, PAGE TEMEE ' THURSDAY, MAY 16,1957 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE 0 This morning on STATE STREET .by steve heilpern Fisher Stresses Ba iting Pra ctice Wolverine Diamond Squad Trains For 'Make-or-Break' Weekend Tests Assignment: Say Good-By ASSIGNMENT: say good-by in about a thousand words. And not in front of a women's dorm on Saturday night. Tradition. says that each retiring senior editor should write a farewell column. Getting things off your chest, you might say. Not a bad assignment; most people, have to pay their psychiatrists for getting things off their chest; I'll begin with .a statement that would never help me get elected to SGC. You Michigan fans are hard to please. On one hand you cry for de-emphasis, on the othex, you cry for train rides to California. Very often it's the same guy crying for both things. No wonder they call this place the Water Wonderland. Without getting into the many arguments for and against big- time collegiate athletics - this would take approximately two tons of costly Canadian newsprint - I'd like to give a few of my impres- sions on the subject. The Guy Across The Street . . START- OFF with the American kid, aged 10. Somebody buys him a ball and a bat and he tries to figure out which hits which. Even- tually he gets the idea. He can play now, but not as good as the guy across the street. So he tries to play better. It's only natural. Every- body in this country tries to do something better than the next guy, whether it be playing baseball, taking a test, or building the proverb- ,iai mousetrap. That's it. It's called competition, and whether you like it or not, it's gonna be around for quite a while. Not just in sports; but in auto- mobile manufacturing, dress designing, salmon canning. Everything. Maybe it's good, maybe it isn't.: I'm not going to argue the point. ~Here's one thing I will say: collegiate sports gets big only because it follows the formula used by all walks, of life in this country. The formula is competition. Don't blame sports. If you want to blame something, start higher up. Sometimes things get out of hand. That's an understatement. Kids make money for playing on college teams. Or they get paid $10 for turning o f the gymnasium lights after a basketball game. Or they get a diploma because of their high average - in batting. These things 'hapen all' the time. I've seen them happen. But I've also seeni star athletes scrub pots in a 'fraternity house kitchen, just so they can get a decent education. i'd like to see. college sports cleaned up, but I'd also like to see It emphasized. You're crazy, you'll tell me, it can't be done. I think It can be done. It can be accomplished by enforcing a strict, uniform :code on every college in the nation.'Every conference, every school would have to accept and enforce this code for it to be effective. rut INo Impossible.. HOW CAN HARVARD and Oklahoma be expected to abide by the- same code? Good question. The code will have to overcome many obstaclesi before It is accepted. Difficult? -Yes. Impossible? No, at 4east not if a reasonably coordinated effort Is made by the many col- leges and conferences in the country. There will have to be comprom- ise, which, our European friends tell us, we Americans are noted for. This nationwide code would recognize that,the emphasis of col- legiate sports, is a natural phenomenon, but that these sports must be strictly regulated. Strangely enough, the Big Ten, long a whipping boy for the frequent misbehavior of collegiate athletics,- has been mak- ing great strides In this direction. The Western Conference, while not as pure-minded as the Ivy League, has been far nore truthful, far more practical in recent years. Nevertheless, the Big Ten' suffers from lack of uniformity among its members, and most of its planning is' still in the talking stage. Michigan has been doing a pretty good job of encouraging sports, and regulating them effectively at the same time. "Pretty good" means that there's still some work to be done in the area immediately south-east of State Street ... :. . and that's about it . . . which, in newspaper jargon, means 30. SPORT SHORTS: 'Get in Shape To Play,' Doctor Tells Kluszewski CINCINNATI (M "-- Ted Klus- zewski, Cincinnati Redlegs'' big run the annual Penn Relays, Ath- first baseman, was told yesterday letic Director Jeiry Ford an- nounced yesterday. to make like a "burleycue dancer" Richard Morcom, present fresh- to rid himself of his miseries. He was released from Lahey man mentor, will succeed Doherty Clinic in Boston and told by Dr. as head track coach, effective July James L. Poppen to forget about 'o . Ford said that Doherty re- an operation at this time for a quested the change to free his slipped disc, and to "get in shape time for more intensive planning and play ball." of the relays. He will continue in Dr. Poppen said in releasing track as an associate of Morcom's. Kluszewski that he thought cer- Doherty came to Penn in 1948 tain exercises would help, but did from Michigan where his teams not close the door to an eventual h won 11 of a possible 18 Big Ten track championsips in nine The. all-time home-run king of years. Doherty's son Lynn is pres- T ently Michigan's freshman track the Redlegs, who currently is coach. fighting for the National League lead, will not get back .into the 4 lineup, however, before June 10. Distinctive Hairstyling He was placed on the disabled list for those who care! ! May 11, and must remain out of the lineup for 30 days. We specialize in: e PERSONALITY-CUTS Doherty Quits ! COLLEGIATE PHILADELPHIA (P) - Dr. Ken 11 Barbers - No waiting Doherty has resigned as head The Dascola Barbers track coach at the University of Near Michigan Theatre Pennsylvania, but will remain to _____________ B a MEN'S t, FISHER PRESCRIBES REMEDY-Baseball Coach Ray Fisher is working toward some degree of perfection and is putting his team through some heavy batting practice in order to be fully prepared for this weekend's crucial series with Minnesota and the league- leading Iowa Hawkeyes. I-M $OFTBALL: LCA. Defeats SAM, 24 By FRED KATZ If practice doesn't lead to some degree of perfection, then Coach Ray Fisher will be sorely disap- pointed in this weekend's diamond activity, as Michigan plays host to both Minnesota and Iowa. ' Fisher has prescribed the only remedy known for a hitting slump -plenty of batting practice-and the-Wolverines have been getting as much as possible in the brief time which they have to prepare for the "make-or-break" series. Yesterday the entire first team faced the offerings of every available hurler on the squad in an effort to regain their collec- tively sharp eye which carried them to victory in five of their first six conference tilts before disaster struck at Illinois last week. Brings in Freshmen Today Fisher is bringing in his top freshman pitchers, upon whom much will depend next year, so that his hitters will be in full preparedness when they face the Western Conference's leading moundsman, Don Dobrino, Satur- day. The Iowa Iron Man is slated to start tomorrow for the Hawkeyes against Michigan State, but in all probability will appear on the hill at Ferry Field, also. Dobrino possesses four victories against Big Ten opposition, in- cluding a five-hit, ten-strikeout performance against Minnesota which he won, 3-2. In regard to the caliber of this weekend's opponents, Fisher says, "They're better than what we've been playing," making it no secret that he wasn't very impressed with the Illinois ball club. "This Klaus (Bobby Klaus, Il- lini shortstop) is a fine fielder with plenty of speed, but he has poor form at the plate," Fisher stated. Klaus had been leading Il- linois' batting attack up to last week. Hitting Prevents Win "Our pitching was good enough to win most ball games, but the hitting prevented this," lamented the sage of Michigan baseball. No lineup changes are contem- plated by' Fisher, who plans to pitch Jim Clark tomorrow and John Herrnstein and Glenn Gir- ardin in the doubleheader Satur- day. Bruce Fox and Don Poloskey will most likely be used in relief. Gene Snider, still troubled by a sore arm, will share the catching chores with Jim Dickey, COLLEGE BASEBALL Notre Dame 6, Northwestern 2 WASHABLE OXFORDS Bill Burd tiand Fred Gordon clashed in a tremendous pitching duel yesterday in the I-M social fraternity "A" softball league, with Burd and his Lambda Chi Al- pha teammates gaining the nod over Sigma Alpha Mu, 2-1. The victory put the Lambda chi's in the first-place champion- ship semi-finals against Delta Tau Delta. Kerry Johnson of the winners broke up the scoreless contest in the fourth inning with a home run, after. Gerry Merritt had singled. Those were two of the three hits allowed by Gordon, and they proved disastrous. The Sammies got their lone hit and run in the final inning when Tom Pliner walked and was brought home on a single by Art Friedman coupled with a two-base error. Theta Chi Wins In another thrilling contest, ThetaChi came from behind to nose -out the Triangles, 6-5. Trail ing 5-4 going into the sixth and final stanza, Theta Chi scored the winning margin on a walk, an er- ror and a single. Bucky Tyus picked up the three-hit victory. In other "A" playoff games, Phi Sigma Delta swept past Delta Chi, 7-2, while Zeta Beta Tau and Alpha Epsilon Pi were engaged in a slugging contest. After the smoke cleared, ZBT was declared the winner by an 18-11 count. Phi Kappa Tau also displayed its pow- er, clobbering Trigon, 11-4. Psi Upsilon had an easy time of it, winning on a forfeit from Phi Sigma, Kappa. In the professional fraternity league, Phi Alpha Delta and Al- pha Chi Sigma produced a score, reminiscent of football, 21-7, with the former coming out on top. I Major League Standings i AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. 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