rOUR THE MICHIGAN D ILY VVFDN°E DAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1952 POUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1952 olverines won Crowns in Two Spring Sports 6 REGULARS RETURN: Tennis Squad Loses Three Lettermen Golfers Earned Big Ten Honors for Twelfth Time . # # Michigan, Illinois Share 1952 Baseball Laurels : C>-'--- By NEIL BERNSTEIN The Michigan tennis squad has very good prospects for an out- standing season next spring, with all but three of its 1952 squad re- turning. The three men who will be lost to Coach Bill Murphy's netters are co-Captains Steve Bromberg and Mike Schwartz, and Gene Barrack. . * . BROMBERG SAW only limited action last season, his final year of eligibility, in the number two singles position and on the num- ber one doubles team. Due to the pressure of his Law School studies, Bromberg was forced to withdraw from the last three dual matches of the season and also from the consolation finals of his two posi- tions in the Big Ten Finals. Schwartz put in a good sea- son, playing regularly in the third singles slot and second doubles team, and filling in for Bromberg when he was forced to withdraw. A graduating sen- ior, Schwartz wound up with a season's average of three wins and five defeats, and was. de- feated in the Big Ten consola " tion finals. Barrack was the only 1951 cham- pion playing on the squad iast year. He won the Big Ten number five singles crown and was moved up this year to fourth division, be- hind Schwartz and also played first doubles with Bromberg. He plans to enroll in the dentistry I school of the University of Penn- sylvania this fall. up with a very creditable record THE SQUAD as a whole wound of five wins and three losses for the season and placed fifth in the Big Ten Meet. Their losses were to Conference champion Indiana, second-place Michigan State, and Notre Dame. The number one man on the team, Al Mann, will be back for another season. As a freshman from Gposse Pointe, Mich., Mann had the same identical record as the team, five and three. He 4also went ahead to win the num- ber one singles consolation title in the Conference finals. The only other consolation win- ner was Jim Stephens, in the fifth position. In his first year as a Michigan regular, he shows much promise in two remaining seasons. * * * By DICK BUCK Michigan's golfers finished off their 1952 season in high style by winning eight of their last nine meets and going on to capture Big Ten championship honors. In doing so, they became the only Michigan athletic team to hold an unshared Conference title this year, the victory being their' twelfth in thirty years of Big Ten competition. S M OO4T H- PLAYING Russ Johnson tied a course record as he came home with a 70 for the first 18 holes of the 72-hole marathon on Illinois' home course in the Conference meet. Conference play by trampling Purdue, 231-122, and Ohio State, 25%/-10,/2 in a triangular meet at Columbus. * * * FRASER TRAVELED the 36 holes in 73-77-150 but had to share the medalist's honors with Francis Cardi of OSU. Lind and Johnson were not far behind with 152 and 154. Firing a scorching one-under- par 71, Dick Evans stepped into the limelight in Michigan's 19-8 'triumph over the University of Dertoit in a non-conference tussle. In a warmup for the Big Ten meet late in May, the Illini fell victim to the Wolverines. Lind and Evans carried 72 and 71, respec- tively, to sweep eight of a possible nine points in the 181/2-8%/2 vic- tory. LOWELL LE CLAIRE and John Fraser came through with surpris- ingly good performances, enabling Michigan to eke out a 16-11 win over a weak Michigan State squad. Playing on a wet windy course, LeClaire shot a four- over-par 76 in the morning and came back with a 74 round in the afternoon to cop medalist honors. Fraser had the low round when he came home with a 72 in the morning but could manage only an 80 in the fol- lowin .ground. In the interim between the MSC meet and a quadrangular meet on the University course LeClaire. See GOLF, Page 10 RUSS JOHNSON .,. '53 golf captain Formula for a winning team: Take an eighth place ball club, graduate the four heaviest hit-I ters, and keep the rest to work with. Mix three pitchers of uncertaii ability, including a first semes- ter freshman. Be sure not to pro- vide an adequate relief hurler. ADD a starting lineup which includes three green rookies and no seniors. Lead them into a tough five- week, 15-game schedule against rugged competition. Cajole a little: cuss a little; sweat a lot. Pray hard. Result? Co-championship of the Big Ten baseball league. THAT IS THE success story for Coach Ray Fisher as he led his Wonder Boys to the first Bib Ten title earned by a Michigan Ath- letic team in the 1951-52 school year. Perhaps the biggest single fac- tor in the success of the squad was the unexpected fine pitch- ing received from sophomer Jack Corbett, junior Dick Yirko- sky, and 17-year old freshman Mary Wisniewski. Between them they accounted every decision in the Wolverine eight-won, four-list record. Corbett was the bellweather of the staff, garnering four league victories against two defeats. He hurled three shutouts during the spring and at one time had a streak of 34%/3 scoreless innings. * * * YIRKOSKY and Wisniewski each had 2-1 records, but young Wisniewski's pitching was more consistent. Both of his victories were shutouts, one of them being a one-hitter against Ohio State. An airtight defense was an- other big factor in the Wolver- ine rise to the top of the lad- der. Michigan led the Big Ten in team fielding and three men, first baseman Bill Mogk and outfielders Paul Lepley and Bill Billings, completed the sched- ule without making an error. Captain and shortstop Bruce Haynam teamed with second base- man Gil Sabuco to make one of the finest double play combina- tions in the league. The Wolver- ines accounted for 11 twin kill- ings in 12 games. OFFENSIVELY, the three rookies provided most of the bat- ting punch. Freshman Lepley pounded the ball at .a .343 clip while Don Eaddy, of football and basketball fame, had a .337 mark. Sophomore Dick Leach, able back- stop, was fifth with .299, one point under Mogk's .300. Haynam hit .306. Frankie Howell provided the home run punch with three round trippers, good enough to tie with Purdue's Harold Wal- lace for Big Ten honors in that department. See BASEBALL, Page 10 RAY FISHER . . . fashioned a Conference champion from a baseball team that was eighth in 1951. The title is his nineteenth for Mi- chigan. I l.:. 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