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8 THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SATURDAY, MARCH 25. 1944 ackenzie, Northwestern Oust East Siders in Prep Playoffs Tigers Wind Up Drills for Exhibition Opener i On the Inside Ray Fisher Makes Most of Baseball Talent at U-M -With Dizzv Trout and Rookies Face Cliisox Joe Wood's Induction Postponed 2 Months tuny 1 smm in numu nu ununw miifmrnimmmt, mum nmu pwww jn-Miinrwim J-i i TO APPRECIATE FULLY the coaching deeds of Ray Fisher, you must keep one item uppermost in mind. Fisher has one of the choicest coaching averages in collegiate baseball. You wouldn't think so from talking to Fisher. He never mentions his accomplishments.

But you dig down a bit and discover why Fisher is now in his twenty-fourth year as baseball coach at the University of Michigan. Possibly the highest compliment to be paid Fisher is a negative one. There never has been mention of replacing Ray as Michigan baseball boss since he came to Ann Arbor in 1921. 'Unaccustomed as Michigan Is WE WERE TALKING about Fisher the other day in checking the Michigan baseball prospects for 1944. The Wolverines are having tneir trouDies.

iney nave seven xv-s DETROITER LV WHITE SOX UNIFORM Third Baseman Cass Kwietniewski will be remembered by Detroit sandlot fans as the infielder who played at St. Josaphat's High School and Johnny Adams Is Set Down for Rough Riding in Dead Heat By the Aisociatfd Prrsi CORAL GABLES, March 24 Johnny Adams, leading jockey last year, was fined 5200 and suspended for the rest of the meeting by Tropical Park stewards today. Adams was accused of rough riding astride Jamoke in Thursday's seventh race. The horse ran a dead heat with Dandy Jim for first position, and a foul was claimed. Racing experts could not recall a dead heat and foul combination in previous turf history.

John N. Saho returning lettermen but not a single pitcher of collegiate experience. This is the first time since Fisher arrived in Ann Arbor that he is faced with this problem. Still the fifty-six-vcar-old coach says nothing and goes about the job of trying to make pitchers out of infielders, outfielders or what have you. Fisher knows more than a little about He was a hurler for the New York Yankees for eight years and for the Cincinnati Reds for two before taking over at Michigan.

Fisher's record at Michigan speaks for itself. Since 1921. Michigan has had an edge on every other team in the Big Ten. The Wolverines' closest rival during the Fisher regime has been Illinois. Michigan has a 23-22 edge in victories over the IHini.

Fisher teams in 23 seasons have a .690 winninsr percentace in recovering the form which made him a twenty-game winner for Syracuse, in 1939. It was after that great record the Pirates completed their historic S75.000 deal, paying 510,000 each for four plavcis and pceiing off $35,000 for Gee. The following spring, in Pan Bernardino, G-e was welcomed into camp in the morning and had lost the effectiveness of his arm by afternoon. Observers said that the misery set in when he opened up by throwing curves. Special to the Free Press EVANSVILLE.

March 24 The Tigers and Chicago White Sox will get the jump on other major-league baseball clubs by meeting tomorrow in the first exhibition game of the 1944 season. After a final workout today In warm sunshine, Manager Steve O'Neill said that Paul Trout and Rookies Emery Hres-ko and William Kasepehuk would pitch in three-inning shifts against the Sox, regarded by Lou Boudreau of Cleveland and others as the team to beat in the American League race. Trout, whose arm is in excellent condition, had hoped to work five or six innings tomorrow, but O'Neill vetoed that idea. Hresko is a seventeen-year-old graduate of the Flint American Legion League, and Kasepehuk is a strong-armed Windsor (Ont.) boy who is under contract to Buffalo of the International League. All three are right-handers.

JUST ONE VETERAN Orval Grove is the only veteran of a nine-man mound staff Manager Jimmy Dykes is taking along from the Sox camp at French Lick, Ind. His selections for tomorrow and Sunday haven't been made known, but Hal Newhouser, Frank Overmire and Walter (Boom Boom) Beck will pitch for Detroit in the second game of the series. In the opener of a fourteen-game exhibition schedule O'Neill will start Bob Swift as catcher, Rudy York at first base, Edward (Red) Borom at second, Eddie Mayo at shortstop and Charley Metro at third base. Jimmy Outlaw, thirty eight year old Chuck Hostetler and Pitcher Zeb Eaton will patrol the outfield. Borom is a former shortstop of the Fort Riley (Kan.) team who recently received a medical discharge from the Army.

Meanwhile, Traveling Secretary Clair J. Berry, who stage-manages the promotion of exhibition games, hoped for a continuation of warm weather for the week-end series. The Tigers drew 14,000 paying guests at five games here in 1943, and if the weather is favorable, there may be 5,000 spectators this week-end. SAVING MAXPOWER The Sox are taking along only 24 players of their well-stocked squad, leaving the others at home to drill under Coaches Bing Miller and Mule Haas. At that, they will have six more players on hand than the Tigers.

Meanwhile, Outfielder Joe (J. Wood notified the Tigers tonight that his Houston (Tex.) draft board had postponed his induction two months and that he would return to camp immediately. Wood left a week ajjo to take a pre-induction physical scheduled for tomorrow. The Detroit squad was also increased by the arrival of Pitcher Rufus Gentry from his winter home at Daisy Station. N.

C. Gentry was accompanied by his wife and a child. Because of the housing shortage here, the club had requested that wives remain away from camp this season. The only principal absentees now are Pitcher Joe Orrell and Infielder Don Heffner. RAY FISHER the Conference.

In games against all opposition the percentage is Eight times during this stretch Michigan has won or tied for the title. Pitchers: Handle with Care AS FOR THE 1944 season Fisher has 50 of the original 90 candidates still on the squad. He had one experienced pitcher, Dick Drury. until two weeks ago. Then Drury, enlisted in the Navy, was shifted to Great Lakes.

So Fisher is giving every pitching candidate plenty of attention. A couple of left-handers, Don Smitke and Ralph Strrm. might come through. But there are others. Fisher even is trying out a couple of all-around athletes.

Elroy Hirsch and Bob Wiose. During his high school days in Wausau, Hirsch played both in the infield and outfield but did not pitch. Wiese, another lefthander, was a regular outfielder last season. In the other positions Fisher is pretty well set. He has a veteran catcher in Elmer Swanson, the Detroiter from Northeastern High School.

His infield includes three veterans, Bruce Blanchard, Charley Ketterer and Mike Farnyk. As returning outfielders he Ins Don Lund and Bob Nussbaumer, not to mention Bob Rennebohm, the regular right fielder at Wisconsin a yf ago. Wanted: Co-operation of Weatherman MICHIGAN" HAS 20 games scheduled, 10 of them with Big Ten foes. Four games will be played with both Notre Dame and Western Michigan. The season will open April 22 at Fort Sheridan.

Fisher's chief worry besides the pitching one is the weather. He remembers 1943. Last spring Michigan had 25 games sched DAY FOR VETERANS Wood and Hines Leave Durham Field in Wake as They Deadlock ivith 67s By the Associated Press DURHAM, S. March 24 The veterans Craig Wood and Jimmy Hines rapped out four-under-par 67s over the short, muddy Hillandale Golf Course today to lead the field at the end of the first eighteen-hole-round of the 55,000 Durham Open tournament. AssoriatPd Press Wirfrhrto Now he's a leading candidate Here Manager Jimmy Dykes camp in French Lick, Ind.

Charity Card at Olympia Amateur Stars Meet in 14 All-Star Bouts Detroifs best amateur boxers will go into action at the Olympia Saturday night in the Invitational Amateur Boxing Championships to be staged by the Wayne County Council CIO for the benefit of the Wayne County Chapter of the Infantile Paralysis Fund. They will be pitted against amateur boxing stars from other cities in a 14-bout program arranged by Charles II. Brennan, secretary of the Michigan association of the Amateur Athletic Union. Boxers from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Chicago will furnish the competition for the lads from Michigan and the Windsor area, Saturday night's show was originally scheduled for Feb. 23 but was postponed.

Those in charge announce that tickets sold for the Feb. 23 show will be honored Saturday night. Suffrin Downs Dearborn Five The race for the Detroit Basketball Association championship was thrown into a three-day tie Friday night after Suffrin defeated Dearborn. 51 to 33, at St. Mary's gym.

Dearborn, Suffrin and Jaglowicz have each won two and lost one in the playoff series. A defeat for any of the teams now will mean elimination from the championship chase. Jaglowicz will play Dear-bom at 9 p. m. at Hackett Field-house Sunday night.

Colts Hand DenbyFive First Set jack Stags Vliip Northern in West Side Sweep BT BOB LATSHAW The City High School League's basketball championship final will be an all-West Side affair next Friday when the title game is played at Central High's gym. Mackenzie and Northwestern won the right to meet in the championship game when they trimmed Northern and Denby, respectively, Friday night in the semifinals. Mackenzie had a comparatively easv time with the Eskimos, 41 to 22. Paced by Dick Hall, the Stags galloped into a 23-10 lead at the intermission and were never headed. Chuck Fran-kel, the high-scoring Eskimo sharpshooter who had averaged 18 points a game until Friday night, collected only three markers.

Hall led the scorers with 14 points. The Denby Northwestern tilt was a close one all the way. with Northwestern winning, 31 to 28. The Colts held a 12-11 edge at the half and increased that margin to 23-19 at the end of the third quarter. The defeat was Denby's first of the season.

Al Wieland, of Denby, was the chief point-getter in this tilt, collecting 10. Roland Teasley was high man for the Colts, getting nine. Northern and Denby will play next Friday night at Mackenzie to decide third and fourth place in the standings. Both games next week will start at 8 p. m.

Old Detroit Club Star Dies at 76 Robert Glenalvin, who was captain and second baseman of the Detroit baseball club back in the old Western League days, died Friday at Henry Ford Hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 76 years of age. Glenalvin was with the Detroit team after Detroit had withdrawn from the National League and before the organization of the American League. He was regarded as a fast fielder, and although he was sixth in the batting order, he finished with an average of .308 in 1894, a season in which the Detroit entry finished next to last place. Hold Positions with Sweeps BY W.

W. EDGAR The battle for first place in the Greater Detroit League between ana isirons apparently is going to be carried right to the finish of the schedule before it is decided. i Both teams scored sweeps on the Olympic Recreation alleys Friday night and thus maintained its one-game margin at the top. The leaders blanked Fife Electric, 3011-2711. as Strohs, with Cass Grygier hitting 654- and Wallv Reppenhagen 64S, routed the Olympics.

3104-2699. Ken Haviland won individual honors with a 658 as Palm Beach took three from Mercuries. 29S1- In other matches Bergers won twice from De Luxe Welding. 2806-2661: Paris won three from' Pepsi-Cola. 2940-2776: Murdock dropped three to Kraetke, 2732-2844: Chene Trombly took the odd game from De Luxe Die.

2756-2S70: and Jerry McCarthy's won a pair from Standard, 2939-2S13. Marie Shamlock, who bowls in the lead-off position for the Gears by Enterprise team, paced the field in the All-Star Classic Friday night at Emma Hill's Winter Garden with a 742 series that included a 210 game. Right behind her came Evelyn Armstrong with a 213 in 732. Others who bettered the 700 mark were Elvira Heir.s. 719; Esther Poorman, 716, and Gladys Demp-sey, 709.

Dave Berger and his bowling team will try to perform a ten-pin miracle over the week end at Palace Recreation when they engage Strohs in the final half of the battle for the State match-game championship. In the first 'nine games bowled a week ago Strohs took an 818-pin Uad and are on the way to setting an all-time record if they can continue the pace. Three blocks are scheduled over the week-end with the first Saturday night at 8 o'clock, the second Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the final Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Moran Fund Robert E. Howell is principally a golfer.

For five years, from 1936 through 1940. he was chair-nan of the Detroit District Golf Association's tournament committee. But Friday Howell was not talking golf. He was talking baseball and Shorty Moran. "I just wanted to drop in and do my bit for the Moran Memorial Fund," Howell said as he stopped at the Free Press Sports Department.

"I don't follow baseball too closely, but I know what Shorty Moran did for those Detroit boys who played sandlot baseball and I believe Detroit should be proud to erect a memorial for a man like Moran." Howell's contribution was $30 or, as he put it, "a dollar for every year Moran gave to the Ietroit Amateur Baseball Federation." The move to provide a memorial fountain at Northwestern Field in honor of the late president and co-founder of the DABF is fast uled. Thirteen were rained out. Of the others, Michigan won eight and lost four. As Publicist Fred DeLano puts it, "If it's not the weather, it's the pitching problem." But one problem or the other, you can wager a United States War Bond against a Yugoslavian dinar that Fisher will offer no advance alibi. Join Geex $35,000 Investment of Pirates Rid of Arm Misery By the Associated Pre MUNCIE, March 24 Pitcher Johnny Gee, the six-foot nine-inch southpaw, picked up by the Pittsburgh Pirates four years ago for $35,000 only to wreck his arm on the first day in spring camp, now appeal ready to begin paying dividends.

Gee is one of eight hurlers, half of whom are 4-Fs, training with the Bucs at the Muncie camp and has shown signs of later on the Beaudry Post team. for a job with the White Sox. instructs his rookie in sliding at The forty-two-year-old Wood. last winner of the National Open, put together nine-hole scores of 32 and 35, and Hines, thirty-eight-year-old chip-shot artist from Amsterdam, N. went out in 35 and streaked home in- 32.

The par 37 first nine proved easy for the touring pros, but the back side, 13 yards longer, hut with par only 34, stood up well except for the 32 by Hines. Hard on the heels of the leaders came Byron Nelson, the pre-tourna-ment favorite, with a 68 that included five birdies. It was strictly a clay for the experienced circuit players, as no one else in the field of 41 pros and 35 amateurs was able to better standard figures. Skip Alexander, a Durham boy now in the Army, gave the hometown fans a treat by knocking out a 34 to stick close to Nelson, his playing partner, on the front nine, but skidded to a 37 coming back and was deadlocked at 71 with five other players. They were Bob Hamilton of Evansville, recent winner of the North and South at Pine-hurst; Johnny Revolta, of Evan-ston, winner of the Texas Open last month; Frank Straz-za, of Greenwich, Willie Goggin, of White Plains, X.

and Jimmy Johnston, of Detroit. Jug McSpaden, the leading winner of the winter swing, headed a list of another six players bracketed at 72, including Ed Furgol, of Detroit, who paced the amateurs. George McAllister, an amateur from Spartanburg, S. knocked in a hole-in-one on No. 4, but wound up with a big 80 just the same.

Jimmr Hines. Amsterdam, X. I raiK Wood, Miimarnnerk. N. Y.

Sut. Alexander. Durham Ron Hamilton, Kvansville. Ind. Johnny Kevolta.

Kvanston. III. Frank Strarza, tireenwlrh. Conn. Willie GoKKin.

White 1'lnins. X.V. Jimmy Johnston. Detroit Harold Juc Mr.Npaden. Thila.

Kd Furcnl, Detroit Johnny Bulla. Atlanta Tony Fenna. Dayton, Ohio I.eonard Dodson. Kana Citr Kalph Ilutrliinon, Beth'hem. Fa.

Joe Zardhardt, N'orriMtnwn. Fa. Lefty Starkhou.se, Seguin, Tex. 'Amateur 7 71 7 1 71 7 1 71 7 i 7 7- 7- 7- 7-: 35-37 7- 3X-3; 71 38-36 71 Jaglowicz, Briggs Reach AAU Final The Briggs Bomber basketball team came from behind to edge out Ford Local 400, 43 to 42, Friday night in the semifinals of State AAU basketball tournament at the Boys Club. Wilbur King, of Local 400.

took individual scoring honors with 13 points. In the other game, Jaglowicz Shoes downed Justice All-Stars, 45 to 39, with Bob Henry pacing the winners with 12 points. Jaglowicz will meet Briggs Saturday night for the championship. Basketball FRIDAY'S RESULTS CITY LEAGUE Mackenzie 41 Northern Northwestern 31 DnbT NCAA TOURXAMEXT Dartmouth 63 Catholl Kan-tan Citr 4 Missouri Ohio State ST Temple AAU TOURNAMENT Phillips Ti Army All-Mars is Us SS 47 48" Ford Takes Pair of Titles He Sets the Pace in NCAA Swim Meet By tlif A-soriated Tre NEW HAVEN, March 24 Rusty-haired Alan Ford, Yale's Balboa Bullet, tonight captured two titles within 10 minutes of each other in a spectacular performance which featured the inaugural of the twenty-first annual National Collegiate AA swims in the Elis' Natatorium. The 168-pound Ford, barely recovered from a cold, nabbed the 50-yard free style sprint by two yards, and then, hardly recovering his breath, went on to lick a classy field in the 150-yard backstroke, winning by four yards.

Ford, who last week lowered his world record in the 100-yard free style to 0:49.7, won the 50-yard sprint in 0:22.2, a Yale and pool record, and the dorsal test in 1:36.8. While Ford was successful in grabbing two crowns, Keo Nakama, Ohio State's captain from Hawaii, who earlier in the day had won the 1500-meter brush, lost a 220-yard free-style thriller by a stroke to big Gene Rogers, of Columbia. The 205-pound Rogers, National AAU 440-yard and 880-yard free-style outdoor champ, led throughout and twat off a Mistering home stretch challenge by Nakama, Big Ten titiist. Rogers' time was 2:11. Charley Batterman, of Cohim-J bia.

a Naval trainee from Ohio State, won the one-meter diving title without too much exertion, compiling 122.4 points. Runner-up was Bob Stone, of Ohio State, with 90.5. followed by Vernon Ruot-salainem, of Minnesota, 85.4. The United States Naval Academy, an important factor throughout the day, captured the 300-yard medley relay in 8:01.2, beating favored Michigan by four yards and Yale by an additional yard. Consequently the Midshipmen wound up tonight with 18 points, six under Yale, the leader, and a co-favorite with Michigan.

20. for the team crown. Other team standings: Ohio State. 14: Columbia, 12; Williams. Penn State, United States Military Academy and Cornell, 4 each, and Rochester, 3.

Shapiro Registers First Over Ankrom Dave Shapiro handed Jake Ankrom his first defeat, 50 to 47 in 66 innings, in the State three-cushion billiard tournament Friday night at Detroit Recreation. Ankrom and Shapiro are now tied for first place and will piay for the championship Monday. Hears from nearing a close. The Moran Memorial Fund drive will end April 1, and men for all fields of sports continue to get behind the Fund. Among the late contributions were those from the U.

of D. bas- Baseball Can't Insure His Future BOSTON. March 23 (AP) Bill'Werber, who quit baseball in his prime in 1942 to sell insurance, today said that Owner Clark Griffith, of the Washington Senators, recently tried and failed to entice him to return to the fold. YVerber. former Boston.

Philadelphia and Cincinnati third baseman, while addressing the New England Sales Congress of Eastern Life Insurance Underwriters, said that he told Griffith he could not afford to quit insurance for baseball. Runner Sets World Record CLEVELAND, March 24 (AP) Ed Conwell, National Indoor dash champion from New York University, set a world indoor record in winning the forty-five-yard dash in 4.7 seconds in the Knights of Columbus Games at the Arena tonight. Conwell clipped one-tenth of a second from the mark set here last yer by Herb Thompson, of Jersey City. Claude (Buddy) Young, of the University of Illinois, also was clocked in 4.7 seconds in copping the second heat of the semifinals but finished second to Conwell in the finals. Thompson was third.

EATHORXE OX FURLOUGH Pfc. Jim Eathorne, formerly a member of the Free Press Sports arrived in Detroit on a surprise furlough Friday. He has been stationed at Camp Lee, Va. Eathorne was the seventh member of the Sports Dept. to join the armed forces.

Hockey XATIOXAL LEAGUE TLAYOFFS SERIES A Chiraio 1. DKTKOIT 1. DETKOIT 4. 1. SINPAVS GAME DETKOIT at hiraso.

SERIES Tnronto .7. Montreal 1. Montreal .1. Toronto 1. SATI DAY'S GAME Montreal at Toronto.

MERICAX LEAGUE PLAYOFFS SERIES A 4'leTeland 1, llershey O. Herhev Cleveland I. SATIKOWS GAME Cleveland at llerohey. SERIES Biiffsilo Indianapolis ti. Buffalo .1.

Indiaranolis I. SATI KIIAVS GAME Buffalo at Indianapolis. a Golfer ketball team and athletic staff, sent in by Athletic Director Lloyd Brazil, and from the Detroit Tech basketball squad. Both teams had several players who have competed on the Detroit sandlots. Other contributors included Leo Fischer, now a hotelman in Bronson, but connected with the Altes team back In 1938 and 1939, when that squaJ won the Detroit and X'ational sandlot titles, and two sandlot backers, Harry Suffrin and Square Deal Miller.

It is the aim of the Moran Memorial Fund to erect one of the finest memorials ever built in honor of an amateur sport official. If present plans materialize, this memorial will be completed early during the 1944 season between the No. 1 and No. 3 diamonds at Northwestern Field. Persons wishing to join in the drive can send their contributions to the Moran Memorial Fund In care of the Free Press Sports Department.

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