Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

Baseball Ebert wins seven; Gannon, Hein, Leonard, hit over .300; team has mediocre season. The Ohio State baseball nine, which pulled a big sur- prise in winning the Big Ten championship in 1951, found it too difficult to repeat last year, finishing with a 7-7 league record and 17 wins and 13 losses for the entire season. It was evident after Coach Marty Karow ' s diamond figures had returned from their annual spring tour with a 4-4 record, that they would be in for plenty of trouble as the spring progressed. Although the team appeared to have just as strong a pitching staff as the previous cam- paign, lack of experience was due to catch up with the Karowmen. With the season underway back north, Ohio promptly started a winning skein that was to reach five games. It was during this stretch that basketballer Paul Ebert proved that he was as equally adept on the diamond as the hardwood, turning in an impressive 12-3 mound appear- ance over Miami. After losing a doubleheader to Notre Dame, Ebert and Captain Stu Hein put Ohio State back on the right track by pacing a 4-1 victory Michigan State in the Western Conference opener. The former hurled a four-hitter while Hein provided the offensive punch with a home run over the centerfield fence. State ' s title hopes were cooled considerably the next day, however, when the Bucks bitterly tasted defeat twice at the hands of Michigan. Any final chances of continuing to wear the conference crown another year were erased on the varsity diamond when the home forces dropped the final two tilts of a three-game series to Illinois. TOP ROW; Ciminello. Koontz, Finn. Rutenschroder, Ernst, Wisler, Ir Dobbi. Scutt. Bechtal. Sachs, Ebert. Burns. Roland. Seif, Busenber.g. Ka Z.mmer. Hein, Bohnslav. Gannon. Leonhard. FRONT: Morgan.