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DETROIT TIMES, MARCH 21,1942 PAGE 11 Underdogs Win Prep Cage Semifinals SPORTS Ecorse Carries CASS LOOKED. LIKE CHAMPS ON THIS PLAY Hamtramck, NO FIGHTS? By LEO MACDONELL Hopes Veteran Umpire Finds Bill Summers Started District’s Central Stage Milder Now Diamond Career With HbJ' -c.:^H (yThan 20 Years Ago Six Fights in a Year For Cage Title Double Upset KO WON HIM RESPECT Downriver Five Meets Cosmos Defeat LAKELAND, Fla., March 21. —Bill Summers. 22 years an Niles Tonight in Southwestern, 25-23; umpire in professional baseball though only lb, says players Class B Final Cass Bows, 35-28 are different today than in the old days. “Boy, they were pretty rough in the old days," Summers . EAST LANSING. March 21. , Rv .JAKE BERSOV mused here before one of the Tiger exhibition games. “You Ecorse High School will carry the Hamtramck and Central brought' had to he brave to he an umpire. If they didn’t try to smack colors of metropolitan Detroitj their higb school basketball teams ('lass tires.” against Niles in R tonight into Olympia last night mentally you on the kisser they let the air out of your at Jenison Field House as eight victory, they, not Summers, w’ho did a bit of professional fighting before turn- teams, all survivors in their re- tuned for and 'sjiective classes after three weeks |Southwestern and Cass Tech, will ing umpire, says his ring background only made matters worse. of rl.initiation rounds, battle for fight it out for the Metropolitan, “They picked on *ne more because I hail been a tighter,” the four state high school basket-! League championship next week. JACK ADAMS championships hall ... peace . Summers recalled. “They used to say, ‘Oh, you were, a lighter, Southwestern, previously un-j nil for Ecorse was the only one of three! beaten, fell before an aggressive, were you—well, just how good were you?* Then *mack. I got downriver teams to get by the; jsurprising Hamtramck five in an< night. W\ It. I had six fights the first year I umpired. That wa* in the semifinals last In a Glass 1 !exciting battle, 25-23, and Central A encounter. Wyandotte bowed 35-28, Iteil Wings league. Then one day I turned on a big catcher and eliminated Cass. as fi.139 Rqgtern. out, 30-27. to Muskegon, and in howling fans looked on. knocked him down. He beat himself because he knew nothing ('lass 1) Wyandotte-Smith dropped Hamtramck and Central were about boxing. It wasn’t that I was so good. Anyway, I never by the wayside. 29-19. to Inland ,the "hungry’’ teams in the semi-l To Play. had any trouble after that.” Ecorse withstood the stiff test finals. They had barely squeezed provided by the powerful outstate j into the playoffs, while Southwest-! teams, trimming Traverse City. ern and Cass Tech were coasting 24-22. to sectional titles. But it was Not Fight was never behind. asr pr JBbBBbBI the Ecorse The underdogs who possessed the * \ fire! score was tied several times, onee §!¦ r i and carried the attack until Bv LEWIS H. WALTER 15-15 at half time, hut some great jraHSHB v vie-' 1 I ¦ tory was won. though the losers! They punched each other dizzy - * scoring efforts by Victor Audia. „ <* did not go down ' renter, gave a without fighting. over week-end, Ecorse his team There was little doubt that Ham- 1 the last but the margin to work on again in the tramck and Central were ambitious Red Wings and Mont- second half. Audia led the scor- the bet- : ter teams last night. real Canadiens will deride their H|iE ing for Ecorse with five field goals playoff battle here tomorrow night and one free throw for 11 point*. REASON FOR SORROW on hockey alone. That is, if Man- Traverse City, the 1910 Class R After Cass and Southwestern ager Jack Adams has anything to . hampion. in the l threatened play a preliminary to the say about it. losing minutes, hut the rally fell cham- I AW m y-m mm :pionship game next Friday at; “We have Mime rather fair -hort. I A Olympia, sit fighter* in our crowd just Niles. Ecorse'* foe tonight, they will on the side- lines and watch the title starting with Jack Stewart, Ed- stopped Marshall, 11-31. to reach contest a Rush, Jimmy bit ruefully. During the regular die Orlando nnd the final The winners were never Byd Howe, but we're trying for in season Cass Tech beat Hamtramck trouble. 41-24, a hockey championship—not a In the A battle tonight. and Southwestern trounced 54-35. pugilistic crown,” said Adams Muskegon conqueror of Wyan- Central. today. From late in the first quarter will fare the favored Sagi- to' “I’ve noticed that the team Mm the the final whistle Hamtramck never J naw five Despite 12-point that concentrates on fighting scoring Wyandotte's jtrailed Southwestern, but no more efforts of usually winds up at the short Dan Roberts. Muskegon con- ;than three points separated the y end of the score,” said Jack. A ¦ ~ teams until the closing of trolled the ball enough 10 win the i i seconds “I'p at Montreal last Saturday game the third period. The Cosmos’ pass- handily. night our hoys laid a little too game Lansing ing w’as more sure they In its with Hast- and re- much on fighting, and so peatedly broke- fast to get stress (Continued on Page inside! closing I'D the Prospectors’ defense, a great comeback wont but their for nothing. Sunday night here shooting inaccurate. was often the Canadiens had a little Hamtramck led 9-6 at the end more ofi of the chip on their shoulder—- IKoliiiisoii the first quarter, and 12-10 at the Midway and they lost. half. in the third period "I dubs feel two field goals by George think both the Moora- same way now. Of course, if the BILL SI AIMERS 81/)\VING I P CHEST PROTEC TOR dian tied the score at 15-all and a WinsTKO; 'moment later was Frenchmen want to play rough it 17-17. Then we’ll go—but we're not after baskets by VVoj-l It ift much different nowadays, according to Summers, who Matysiak and Art any cheap penalties.” Ending a beautiful passing play, LOU at Olympia. Unfortunately for Cass, they gave the Cosmos a 21-17 rates as one of the best umpires in the majors. The players like The Wings are reported in good Fans 800 Tech and laid margin when the period ended. and respect Bill. SMITH of Cass swooped up failed to work the play often enough, shape for the start of the playoffs, in an easy field goal against High were defeated LAST-MINUTE FAILURE only sporting "Big league umpire* try and go along with a player. I NEW YORK. March 21 HNS) Central 35-28. In other game with Adam Brown night prep some adhesive tape after the fi-4 usually warn a player before taking any disciplinary action. Sugar Ray Robinson was still last in the basketball finals Cosmos beat Southwestern 25-23. Hamtramck lifted the lead to rolling along Ilcinski victory over Chicago. And the on the victory trail 23-17 and again to 25-19. It stayed The thing that gri|w*s an umpire more than thing is obscene Wings giving an> today after scoring a seven-round that way until three minutes were were still hackslaps language—calling an umpire name*. Plajers do nos e» t<> technical knockout over Norman Goiml Start left to play, and then Southwest- to Don Grosso for his two goals in eight seconds. grudges as much these days. There are some players >»ii Rubio of Albanv N Y. before ern ramo to life. In the next min- about 8.000 fans at Madison Square Seek Successor to Run Detroit ute can always on more for an argument. But they Joe Varda sank a free throw' count night. Garden last John Crimnnins Christens and intercepted a pass to drive in don’t call you \ile names and next day when you meet it’s fight After the it was announced for a basket on a pretty play to all forgotten.” that Robinson would meet IfaAey New Alleys With 731 make it 25-22. Dubs, Detroit sensational, in the SIO,OOO Snead-Wehrle To Shaughnessy 2 Races The clock showed only a minute Motor A Good Word for President Harridge City, April 17 and a half to go when Capt. Suren Rubio, his right eye John Crimmia*. first bowler to ripped oficn 2 1 track, Srabian drew two throws, Summers boost Will Harridge. president of and the PALO ALTO Cal March the newly opened A. C. The Detroit rare which free and tossed in a for bleeding badly, - use R. suffered (INS) Stantoid set 85,000 the crowd was in an uproar. lust kayo of his professional University's ¦alleys at 17221 Burgess avenue last year a ceiling on He the American League. board of athletic control was to its purses, sank first, Golf feature will tun the then chose to take Lead Field boxing in Bedford, has a series of 731 two “Ilarridge is hut strict.” Summers re- career when the state com- hold an emergency meeting today the hall out mild-mannered today to show for his house warm- 810.000 races to head its list of of bounds rather than miMon chairman, Gen. John J. to pick a successor to ('lark ported. “He doesn’t believe in theatricals and he will go a long Phelan, ing may endure 8123.0C0 in stakes and feature shoot the second.