Thursday, March 28, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Thursday, March 28, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine read this all together... by Dave, Weir AL. see what happens of cabba eheads and kings Six Favored in NCAA Swim In a few weeks, a series of elimination bouts will deter- mine the alleged "heavyweight boxing champion of the world." A look at the list of participants in the playoff is dis- couraging: the only man deserving the crown is not included. Nevertheless, the bouts will be fought and the winner will be crowned . .. and officially recognized by the majority of the boxing world. This is an extremely unfortunate situation.} For the real world champion, Muhammad Ali, doesn't wear a crown and doesn't hold a title. In fact he doesn't even fight. Due to the World Boxing Association's decision on April 28, 1967 to strip him of his championship, Muhammed Ali is wasting away the greatest years of his boxing career outside of the ring. Due to the dictates of a rigid selective service system within a militarily-oriented government, Muhammed Ali faces up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. This is the reward he gets for= refusing to violate his religion and _his conscience. This is his future after a career of unparal- leled success in the ring. Enough has been written about Muhammed Ali's humanitarian beliefs and religious convictions. That need not be repeated here. It Is apparent that he is sincere: in his pacifism, and in his prac- tice of the Muslim religion. r"<:. The point to be made here is that the boxing commission's cur- rent playoffs are meaningless. . The new heavyweight crown« will be totally without signifi-: cance. The true crown was retired the day it was illegally taken off "THE GREATEST" Muhammed Ali's head. For the boxing commission's decision to remove his title served in ac- tuality to entrench the name of Muhammed Ali interminably and inextricably as the eternal heavyweight champ. The long list of former champs-Louis, Dempsey, Marciano, Liston-is not the heritage of the new crown. The new heavyweight championship, born in a lie, will remain a meaningless paper title. The real champ was never defeated - not even by his draft board. The only crown that counts - the one that rested on the heads of Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey - will stay where it belongs : with Muhammed Ali. He remains, in his own words, "the greatest" fighter alive. The boxing world will never miss him so much as on the night when they crown a new "champion". By DOUG HELLER Associate Sports Editor Six perennial swimming powers are expected to lead the pack as the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships get underway to- day in Hanover, New Hampshire. The squads-Indiana, USC, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, and Michigan- comprised the top six without ex- ception a year ago. Wolverine coach Gus Stager hopes the above order won't come true after the meet ends Satur- day. However, he acknowledges that it's all too likely to be the end result. "This is the first time in a long while that we're worried about finishing higher than sixth," says the coach. "Usually we are more formidable. Now, we even have to worry about a school like Southern Methodist, which has enough depth to threaten us.'' Last Time The last time Michigan finished sixth or lower was in 1956, when they were an unbelievably hor- rible eleventh, but they made up for it by taking the National Championship the very next year. Actually, the Wolverines have finished lower than fifth only three times since they began swim- ming in 1926. They were fourth last year. Michigan's problems can be seen by naming a few of the contestants in a sampling of events. In the 500-yard free-style, Gary Kinkead and Mike O'Con- nor, second and third in the Big Ten meet, will both have trouble qualifying for the finals in the NCAA's. First of all, Indiana's Charles Southward, the Big Ten winner, will be there. Then, little old Don Schollander of Yale who won four gold medals in the 1964 Olympics, should show up. And he has a teammate named John Nelson, who finished second in 1964 to Schollander in this event. Out West Meanwhile, from out West comes sophomore Greg Charlton of USC. In addition, UCLA has Mike SBurton, possibly the school's best swimmer ever. Stanford will be stuck with Mike Wall, who could take it all. The 50-yard freestyle was won by Zac Zorn of UCLA last year. But this season, competition -is so close he could end up anywhere between first and twenty-third. One-meter diving will be totally meet Indiana qualified four men and Michigan two. The 400-yard medley relay, will be a major scramble with any of the top teams likely to win it. From these few events, it can be seen that predicting the win- ner of any event is nearly impos- sible, with very few exceptions. The unreal thing about this sample is that the events described were not selected because they will be extremely close; they are just the five events that will be held the first day. Six are sched- uled for Friday and seven for Saturday. Competition like this could be a disheartening fact to Michigan fans, who may find that some of the team's top swimmers will get lost in the crowd. It is quite true that this will happen to the other top teams also, to a degree, but Coach Stager notes that the other squads have more depth than the Wolverines. Stager's-own view, in advance of the NCAA's is, "Sometimes it's best not to know what you may run up against." 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