Uailed May 3, 1963 For release upon receipt. ~ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS 14 "The Gophers" HINNEAPOLIS. - The performance may not be as polished as those in recent years, but l"men the young U1'liversity of Minnesota football squad :1chooses up sidesa and squares a",ay for the armual spring practice windup intra-squad game May 11 in Memorial Stadium, the head-knocking will be something to make the folks up in row 52 wince a bit. The football game will highlight the triple attraction Spring Sports Day at the University. First item on the day's full program is a double-header baseball game between Indiana and Minnesota starting at 11 a.m. The Gopher track.and field squad makes its only hane dual meet appearance of the season against Uisconsin starting at 12:30. The football game follows at 2:00 p.m. Because of the graduation of 20 lettennen, including 10 starters, fran the 1962 Big Ten runnerup.squad all positions excepting tackle are ltide open. At no time in l·iurray rlarmathts 10 seasons at Hinnesota has the competition for starting jobs and a place on th.. potential :ltravel squaduof 38 men been so keen. The result is a highly-spirited contest between the 11 lettering reserves participating in spring practice, a dozen non-lettering reserves, and about the same number of iigraduatesil of the 1962 freshman squad. The three-way battle at center between Frank Marchle\'lSki who played 50 minutes last fall as a sophanore, Joe Pung who clocked 83 minutes in relief of·Paul Benson, and Paul Faust who sat out the t 62 season because of injuries has particularly dralm Uarmathts attention. Despite the lack of experience here, Uarmath is confident that fran this three-way fight will cane a good solid, Big Ten type I I ~ f center with adequabe depth behind him. Faust, the formex- Edina high backfield sta:r, ~ I has made tremendous improvement this spring. Adult general admission tickets admitting to the baseball game, track meet, and r football game will be on sale at f;!l.OO at Cooke Hall, the Downtown Ticket Office r in the North sta:r Center, and the Field - Schlick ticket office, St. Paul until 4:00 p.m. Friday. f -0- .. Hailed l1ay 7, 1963 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS 14 "The Gophers" UINNEAPOLIS. - After a split in six successive road games, the University of Uinnesota baseball team enters its first home stand of the Big Ten campaign this weekend with a single contest against pac&-setting Ohio State Friday and a doubl&­ header against last-place Indiana Saturday. The Buckeye tilt starts at 3:30 p.m. while the Hoosier twin bill gets underway at 11 a.m. as a part of the University's annual Spring Sports Day. Both contests are to be played at Delta Field. Coach Dick Siebert is mildly encouraged by his team's performance in the first two l"1eeks of conference competition. tilTe play six of our remaining nine games at home ,"'hich should give US a pretty good crack at a first division finish, 'if he declares. '~I'm generally pleased with ,mat we've done so far. It's hard to complain too loudly ,,,,hen you break even in six strl4ght Big Ten road games.u Pitching and fielding have been the most encouraging aspects of Gopher conference play to date, batting the most disappointing. :llTe need more hitting, especially from our outfielders,1l Siebert warns. The Gopher outfield, as a unit, hit only .194 against Michigan State and Hichigan last weekend. The hurtling of Fulton 1feckman and Glen Holzemer featured Gopher victories over State and Michigan. Holzaner, in particular, "tas effective as he tossed a foU!"-hitter against the defending Big Ten and NCAA champion ~"olverines. He didn't yield a single earned run and gave up just one base on balls. Reliefers Jerry Johnson and John Stephena also shoered to geod advantage. Even more encouraging has been the Gophers' generally excellent defensive play. :Z:Ie've been a little better in the field than I'd expected,·l Siebert admits. Third •I baseman Hike Mulligan and shortstop Duane I·1arkus" both considered question marks before the Big Ten season got undeI'\"lay, have held up well defensively" and second baseman Jon Andresen made his first error of the year last Saturday after 22 straight games without a miscue. Steve Hally continues to lead the Gophers in hitting i'lith a .356 mark despite a recent slump. Andresen and Jim Botten follow with .342 and .304 respectively. Holzemer (4-2) has the best earned run average among the pitchers with 1.90. Heckman (4-0) has 2.25 and Ron Buhrt (4-2) 2.70. 1#1# . ... , '--~....,...--- ~ UNIVERSITY OF tfiNNESarA 1963 BASEBALL STATISTICS (26 Games) HITTING: FIEIDING: G AB R i-I AVG 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO SB SH SF lIP PO A E PeT I'lally, Steve 18 59 15 21 .356 2 0 4 35 10 14 13 7 0 0 1 101 9 2 .982 Andresen, Jon 23 73 16 25 .342 4 1 6 49 23 8 19 2 0 1 1 54 59 1 .990 Botten, Jim. 17 56 6 17 .304 2 1 1 24 7 8 7 2 0 0 1 11 1 2 .857 Raasch, Gary 19 51 10 15 .294 4 1 1 24 10 9 7 2 1 0 1 17 2 3 .864 Oster, John 22 79 10 23 .291 2 1 2 33 11 6 18 2 0 0 0 40 0 1 .976 Harkus, Duane 22 64 23 18 .2$1 3 2 2 31 11 23 12 9 1 0 3 28 52 5 .941 Davis, Bill 24 85 10 22 .259 2 1 2 32 12 9 7 3 0 0 0 190 10 2 .990 Uojciak, Ron 11 31 8 8 .258 2 0 0 10 3 4 4 1 1 0 0 43 1 1 .978 Uulligan, Hike 16 48 9 12 .250 3 0 2 21 10 9 14 1 0 0 0 11 38 6 .891 Druskin, Alan 19 35 9 l3 .229 2 1 1 15 3 10 4 3 1 0 1 23 0 1 .958 Southard, Dick 10 22 3 5 .225 1 1 1 11 4 7 8 2 0 0 2 3 0 1 .750 l-lcCullough, Dick 10 25 5 5 .200 1 0 0 6 1 3 6 2 0 0 1 13 20 3 .917 Gnetz, Ray 2 7 1 1 .143 0 0 1 4 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 23 2 0 1.000 Anderson, Dick 6 15 0 2 .133 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 2 0 0 1 9 10 0 1.000 Cawley, Jerry 8 25 1 2 .080 0 0 0 2 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 6 18 5 .828 Herness, Bob II 10 3 0 .000 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 6 0 0 1.000 Pfannenstein, Jerr,y 3 7 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1.000 Howard, Dan 1 4 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 PITCHERS Pollack, Joe 5 14 2 6 .429 2 1 1 13 4 2 4 0 0 0 0 4 6 0 1.000 Holzaner, Glen 6 18 0 3 .167 0 0 0 3 1 0 11 0 0 1 0 5 14 0 1.000 Buhrt, Ron 7 14 1 2 .143 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 0 1 0 1 1 15 2 .889 Stephens, John 7 12 0 1 .083 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 3 8 1 .917 Heclanan, Fulton 5 14 2 1 .071 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 6 2 .778 Eich, Louis 2 3 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Ames, Bradford 1 2 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1.000 Osborn, Dave 2 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 Johnson, Gerald .J .-..Q .-..Q ...Q .000 ...Q ...Q ...Q ...Q ....Q...Q...Q...Q...Q...Q...Q .J .J .J 1~ TO'"i'AIS 26 773 134 197 .254 30 10 24 319 115 l2S 158 40 5 3 14 595 275 39 .957 ............-------------_...------------------------------....------------------.......----....------.-- . - ------.,------ -----.-~ Baseball Statistics -- Page 2 PITCHING: G CG H L PCT IP H R ER BB SO HP vIP BK ERA Johnson, Gerald 1 0 0 0 .000 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0.00 Ames, Bradford 1 1 1 0 10000 7 2 2 1 8 8 0 1 0 1029 Holzemer, Glen 6 6 4 2 .667 42.2 29 17 9 14 28 2 1 0 1.90 lJ'eclanan, Fulton 5 4 4 0 1.000 36 26 12 9 16 22 1 2 0 2.25 Buhrt, Ron 7 3 4 2 .667 4301 43 22 13 16 24 1 2 0 2.70 Pollack, Joe 4 1 2 0 1.000 24 21 17 11 13 23 2 2 0 4.12 Stephens, John 7 3 3 2 .600 3001 25 18 15 22 19 2 1 0 4.46 Osborn, Dave 2 0 0 1 0000 302 6 3 3 2 4 0 1 0 7.36 Eich, Louis ...z ..1 ...Q ...l .000 ~ 10 ...,g ~ ..2 ...li ....Q ....Q ...Q L1l:5 TOTAIB 26 19 18 8 19802 163 99 69 96 133 9 10 0 3.47 Hailed May 7, 1963 For release upon receipt.