The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-28
University's Big Four Win
From Normal by S to 4 Score

The Big Four OF the University
OF Michigan pitching stan collab.
GRATED Tuesday to hold the Michi.
gan Normal baseball team TO five
hits and thus enable the Wolyer.
ines. current leaders OF the West.
ern Conference, to score an unim.
pressiys So triumph. at Briggs
Field.
Coach Ray Fisher. undecided as
to the order IN which TO work
his hurlers in games this week end,
sent Mason Gould. Mickey Stod.
dard. Neil Mui- and Ciiff Wise into
the contest for a few innings Of
action apiece.
Wise, a sophomore. had a din.
cult time with the stubborn HUI
rons, who threatened dangerously
to erase Michigan's scanty adyant-
age In the eighth and ninth in
nings. Normal cut its deficit to
one run in the eighth as Mike
Drusbacky scored on pair OF
errors and Chuck Oxley's long
fly TO right field.
After Chuck Nemeth and Cas-
Wojcicki. Huron pinch.hltters in.
serted by Coach Ray Sites in hnal
frame, had been declared out,
Pitcher Ray Dennis received a
base on balls to open a short lived
rally.
This was the spot for Walt sierra.
who had gone hitless in his four
previous appearances at the plate,
to smash a single into right center
field, sending Dennis to third
Wise frightened up in the emergen.
cy. however, TO strike out Andy
Newlands.
Michigan Normal held the lead
only once during the game and
then only because the Wolverine
defense took a fielding holiday.
By counting in the first and fourth
innings. Michigan pushed in front
by 20 score before the Hurons
could break the ice.
An error by First Baseman
George Ruehle on Newlands'
Srounder raised the curtain on the
comic fourth inning. Drusbacky
followed with a shorp double into
centerheld to advance Newlands
to third base.
Stiles considered conditions ideal
for a squeeze play, and he ordered
Oxley TO lay down a bunt in front
OF the plate. He followed instruc-
tions perfectly. the result being
that Newlands Tailed just ahead
OF the toss from Stoddard. pitch.
ing at that moment for Michigan.
10 Catcher George Harms.
During all this maneuvoring,
Drusbacky had quietly slipped 20
third. When Oxley became trap.
ped between second and first. Mike
swooped toward the plate. Wayne
Christenson's throw home arrived
a split second too late, and both
Oxley and Drusbacky reached their
goals safely.
The Hurons' third run came
about on Johnny Shada's bounder
to third. Oxley came running
down from second as Francis
Chamberlain threw to Ruehle. The
latter rifled the ball badly on n
return toss, and Oxley trotted In
| as Chamberlain chased desperate.
ly after the bouncing pellet
Ray Dennis took the mound
for Normal although he had not
fully recovered from the attack oil
influenza which forced him 10
leave school Monday. Dennis was
touched for nine blows, including
a home run over the centerfield
fence by Ruehle in the fourth in.
ming.
Dick Wakefield tailed for the
Wolverines in the fifth to tie the
score and in the seventh to send
them ahead again. Bill Cartmill,
who replaced Davey Nelson as
base runner in the eighth. scored
the winning run when Newlands
dropped Wakefield's fly in center.
Gould, who started for Michigan,
left the game in the third. Stod.
dard followed him on the mound,
and Muir came in at the begin
ming OF the NTH. Wise relieved
Muir two innings later
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