SUNDAY, J NTI 28, 1942 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FAGE SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1942 PAGE p I Large Turnout For Diamond Posts Expected Michigan's First Summer Baseball Season Gets Under Way Tomorrow By JACK FLAGLER Michigan's first official summer baseball season gets under way to- morrow in cooperation with the new physical education program when Ray Fisher looks over tryouts for the squad. A big turnout is expected due to the complete relaxing of all former eligibility rules. The summer diamond setup will provide valuable experience for freshman and transfer students who formerly had no .opportunity to ap- pear in actual competition. With games expected to be scheduled with industrial and commercial loop out- fits and local schools as well as any other colleges who may want games, everyone should have plenty of chance to see action they would for- merly have been left out of com- pletely. Large Turnout Fisher expects a large opening week candidate turnout, but says he will probably cut the squad down to about 30 players eventually. All those making the team are exempted from the regular four and a half hour weekly physical hardening sessions, but must report for practice each day for at least two hours, so the diamond program must not be con- sidered merely an "out" from the reg- ular P.E.M. 21 schedule. Those not making the squad must go into phys- ical hardening once again. Although there is a scarcity of re- turning Varsity timber this summer, Fisher is looking for a good squad with such a large field to choose from. Ray is considered one of the finest college coaches in the business. No team of his finished in the second division in 23 years of diamond men- toring. Last year's outfit tied for the Big Ten championship with Iowa, while the 1941 squad split the crown with none but themselves. Regulars Scarce Probably the only returning Varsity man from this spring will be Tommy Higgins, fast-moving second base- man. Several good frosh players will probably make up the bulk of the team, led by Pitcher George Renin- ger and Catcher Bob Chappius, who is slated to take over veteran Capt. George Harms' spot at backstop for the summer. The baseball program is integrated into the overall compulsory training plan under the heading of P.E.M. 31. Fisher is in charge of this phase of the program which will probably be continued for other sports after this semester. The Cracker Brrel By Mike Daun Daily Sports Editor * Michigan Loses Its Pro . . . MICHIGAN lost one of its leading~not try and kill the ball by always athletes yesterday when it was I trying to hit a home run." 3 aaa n.aa r+rsr !ir sf ;.riria"ccr Rniari a9tam _ a41noueet t at Lcfving Iomm,] her one pitcher ond the varsity1 ball team, had withdrawn school because of scholastic culties. num- base- from diffi- This came as a severe blow not only to the Wolverine nine but also to the many snort fans who con- idered Boim Michigan's most color- ful athlete. To those who knew him, Boim was never referred to as Michigan's 'ice hurler but always as the "Pro." For every school has a star pitcher but only Michigan had the Pro. One lock at the husky sophomore would. help. explain. Pro's. crowd- attracting qualities. He had arms that dangled practically below his knees, a crew haircut that made his face look like an over-sized pump- kin and a perpetual shuffle that he called a walk. The more one got to know Pro the more one liked him. Pro'had a good word for everyone, even himself. He said he liked "jokey" people, because he himself was a very ,"jokey" guy. And there is no doubt about that; Pro was a very "jokey" guy. Whether it was in a hotel lobby or in the mid- dle of a crucial game he always had something funny to say. Mostly his talk was about his gang back in Chicago, the "South Side Boys." Pro said "I love them like they were my very own." . The boys on the team learned to know every one of Pro's gang as well as the big fellow did himself because of the constant stories about the "South Side Boys." There was Sam Finestein, alias Warren Lansing Shelby; Nate Gold- berg, alias Montang Sinclair; and last but not least Hymie Caplan, who went by the name of Wayne Dickey. When Pro was asked why Hymie called himself Wayne Dickey, he dog- matically answered: "The reason is ajbvious; he liked the name Wayne and Dickey was his favorite catch- er." Finestein (Warren Lansing Shel- by) was the one who got so excited in a high school game when he socked a double that he tried for third even though he didn't have a chance in the world to make it and was tagged out. Your columnist will never forget the time that Coach Ray Fisher was talking to the squad before an im- portant game. Fisher said, "Let's "Yeah," Pro interrupted, "that's right fellows, just try for triples." Right before the crucial Illinois game this spring Fisher spied the Pro sitting on the bench with half a Powerhouse candy bar in his hand and the other half in his mouth. Fisher stormed over and said, you know you aren't supposed to eat right before you're going in to pitch." Pro moaned and said, "My God, coach, you don't want me to faint away from hunger while I'm on the mound." Fewpeople knew it but Pro was active in a club in Chicago . that helped train delinquent or under- privileged children. Pro was mighty proud of his social work in this or- ganization and never failed to point out its motto-"Your best friend is your mother." When asked why they chose it, Pro smilingly pointed out, "Who cares, it sounds nice, don't it?" On road trips, Pro would never take with him anything but a. tooth- brush. When the boys cornered him one day and demanded a reason for his taking the toothbrush Boim an- swered, "It would look funny if I didn't have any baggage at all." Cin Ne' Ch Pit Boy Ph Ne Bo Cle De St. Ch Ph Wa ookiyn... Louis ...... ncinnati....... w York .,.... icago......... tsburgh..... ston ........ iladelphia .... Saturday's Results Boston 4, Chicago 0 New York 5, Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 3, Brooklyn 1 St. Louis at Philadelphia, weather. * , AMERICAN LEAGUE Vajor League Standing NATIONAL LEAGUE Wv L 46 18 36" 26 37 31 36 33 35 36 30 35 31 42 18 48 Pet, .7i9 .581 .544 .522 .493 .462 .425 .273 GE 11 122 141/2 16 M2 191 / 281 ligers Tied For Third After 13th Inning Victory On 0r Associated Press Summaries) A smashing double by Roger Cram- in the sixth routed De er with two out in the 13th inning land scored Billy Hitchcock from first a. inte es base, beat the hapless Athletics 6-5 Mayhem in the pers and coupled with Cleveland's defea hitter Ray Lamanno an of Boston put the Tigers back into ing home run threw a virtualtieforthid place-wh Flatbush last night as t .t tcCincinnati Reds trimm for them is swell going. tional League Champion Johnny Gorsica who relieved Brid- to a mere nine games. ges in the tenth gained his third vic- The Dodger's Curt Da tory against one defeat, while Fowler a fine pitching job f lost his fifth after winning two. nings but folded in the In Chicago, a real ball club stopped the Reds scored three tantalizing the rest of the League as the game, 3-1. Johnny the New York Yankees behind Spud showed shades of his o Chandler whipped the White Sox, limited the Brooklynites 7-3. Although the Sox had 10 hits tered hits. to the Yankees' nine off young Oral Elden Auker, the St. Grove, it was the old story of the submarine hurler, beat. Champions making them when they ton Senators -5 to bec wanted them. American League pite Kendall Chase stepped out of the every other club in th mothballs to pitch one-hit ball for Al Javery, with only4 seven innings, smack a triple and pthdhsscn h give the Red Soxstheir second straight pitched his second shu win over Cleveland, 6-3. Boston days as the Boston Br started the game off with a bang, righthaCnder, never in T Dom Di Maggio, the first man up igthA'nderVrint er A's an of Cleve- on of pinch- d a ninth in- gloom over he audacious ned the Na-- ns' lead down .vis turned in or eight in- ninth when runs to win Vander Meer ld self as he to four scat- Louis Browns' the Washing- ome the first her to beat e circuit. 48 hours rest, tout in eight aves beat the e big Boston rouble, regis- Bob, Lyle Fife Lead Red Run Fater, Seon 'eamH Pace Invitational Colf Meet DETROIT, June 27.--IP)-A fath- er-and-son combination of Lyle Fife and his son Bob, senior linksman from the University of Michigan golf team, stole the play today in the Red Run Invitational Golf Tourna- ment as four two-man teams sur- vived the first two rounds of match play. The Fife pair ousted a former champion team of Dave Ward and Bob Montague of Saginaw, 1 up, in the second round after eliminating Ed Seymour and Art Pomy, 2 up, this morning. Chuck Kocsis and Dr. W. G. Cole- man. one of the pre-tourney favor- ites, also moved into the semi-finals, as did the medalists, Earl Christen- son and Arnold Minkley. Ward and Montague downed Har- vey Olson and Kent Zimmerman, 3 and 2, in the first round as another Saginaw pair, Russ Mann and Dick McCreary, lost to Ed Ervasti and Carl Daniels, 3 and 2. w York ...... ston ........ veland ...... troit ........ Louis........ icago......... iladelphia .... ashington .... W L 46 20 39 26 38 32 40 34 33 37 28 37 28 46 24 44 Pct. .697 .600 .543 .541 .471 .431 .378 .358 GB 6% ' 10 10 15 17% r. 22 23 Saturday's Results Detroit 6, Philadelphia 5 (13 innings). New York 7, Chicago 3 St. Louis 8, Washington -3 Boston 6, Cleveland 3 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I I Despite his very trying efforts to be "jokey," Boim worked hard on the diamond to make himself a better pitcher. He was always the first one out for practice and the last one to leaveathe locker room. He loved base- ball and the fellows -he played with. Above all, he wanted to make the "gang" back home proud of their Pro. And he did. He improved as the season went along, and fin- ished the'schedule in fine fashion by limiting the star-studded Great Lakes nine to six hits. If he had stayed on, Boim had every chance in the world of becoming a+ truly great college pitcher. He had+ the ability, the strength, the brains and most of all, the spirit. But Michigan would never remem- ber Boim for these qualities no mat- ter how successful a career he might have had. To the people who knew him, the guy from the South Side of Chicago will always be remembered for being the "Pro." We can't say now what the future of'"the "Pro" will be but we can say now that he has left the imprint of his personality on all who knew him. Cracker Crumbs: Michigan ath- letic teams will have to do without the services of a fine doctor and l l 9 (Continued from Page 4) the duration of the war or six months thereafter. Minimum age for appli- cants is 18, but no maximum age. Ap- plicants must be physically capable of performing the duties, and free from such defects or diseases as would constitute danger to themselves or fellow workers. Amendment to Announcement No. 224: Junior Stenographer, $1,440. Junior Typist, $1,260. Applications will be accepted until the needs of the service have been met. Applications may be immedi- ately accepted from persons who have not reached their eighteenth birth- day, but will reach that birthday by October 1, 1942. Further information may be ob- tained from the notices which are on file at the office of the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, of- fice hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a Christian pacifist group, meets at Lane Hall, Monday, 7:15 p.m. Inter- ested students are coardially invited. William Fuson (~47CY Y I 1:rr-..'\ t 91 Col lectors' Pieces treu nis su.wivictory. in Old Coin Silver Costume Jewelry SUMMER Cearance S ale Our Entire Stock Reduced for Quick Clearance! Nationally Advertised $6.95 "VITALITY" SHOES . .. $ 88" i friend for the rest of the war. Dr. George Hammond, team physician for the past six years, left with the University Base Hospital Unit for active service. If Hammond, who is now a major, does half as good a job in the Army as he did at Michigan, our soldiers won't have much to worry about as far as proper medical care is con- cerned. Wolverine coaches can" thank Hammond for winning many a game. Time and again, Dr. George (as the athletes called him) fixedup an ail- ing Wolverine player in time for an important contest. 'Snuff, 'snuff. 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