Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, March 28, 1970 gi II CHERCHEZ LA FEMME A LA MAISON FRANCAISE MEN-Do you want to live in a French atmosphere? If you speak some French come join us at the French Co-op (Oxford Housing) next fall. CALL MARCELLE this weekend 764-2147 EXTRA TALL, SUITS and SPORT COATS At 211 S. Main St. Netmen seek noth er By RANDY PHILLIPS At the first break of warm, weather, out came the guitars and singing on the Diag. Simultane- ously, and in the spirit of spring, out came the tennis rackets as well. But unfortunately, the warmth lasted only two days and the ten- nis rackets were put away in anti- cipation of the permanent arrival Iof spring. Meanwhile, a group of more serious players, the Wolverine ten- nis team, was busy practicing within the consistently warm and FREE U FESTIVAL with the "Leaves of Grass" and "Cat's Cradle" Union Ballroom March 28-8-1 Tables to buy or sell crafts. Bring your toys, your friends, or anything you want! FREE ! hDr 1 TOAUTO I.NSURANCE FOR EVERYONE CANCELLED REJECTED 0 DECLINED INSURANCE CERTIFICATES IMMEDIATELY FOR 1970 LICENSE PLATES SPECIALIZING IN FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY I L o Motl ayments I dry shelter of the IM Bldg. Not once did they venture outdoors; as Coach Brian Eisner explained, "We'll wait until the weather breaks." Eisner wants to be sure that his team will be able to play outdoors everyday before he makes the switch. BEING RESTRICTED as they have been by Ann Arbor's usually terrible weather, Michigan's po- tential as a team has not even been approached. But the season Baseball c ag dgn complaint BOSTON (A) - The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint yesterday against the American Baseball League, charg- ing federal labor laws were vio- lated in the dismissal of umpires Al Salerno and Bill Valentine. Joe Cronin, the A.L. president, said the men were being fired Sept. 16, 1968 for incompetency. A trial examiner will hear the case May 18, according to Albert J. Hoban, NLRB regional director, who issued the complaint. Cronin said Thursday that the league made a "generous offer" to reconcile the situation with the umpires; but that Salerno had not accepted. Jack Sheehan, a league spokes- man, said "both had to accept to- gether-let it go at that." At the time of their dismissal, the umpires were active in estab- lishing an umpires' union. "At this hearing," Cronin said in a statement, "evidence will be produced to prove that the dis- missal . . . was in no way related to their union activities." , Salerno, an umpire for seven years, and Valentine, a six-year veteran, filed multi-million dollar damage suits in connection with their dismissals, but the cases were dismissed. AUSTIN \' G° 6°a 010 0 - I 1209 S. University 663-7151 has already opened as the Wol- verine netters traveled to the west coast to play four top flight teams. Michigan only managed one win out of the four matches against a Berkeley team, 5112-3%12. Losses came to UCLA, USC, and Stan- ford. UCLA was NCAA champions last year while USC was runner- up. But all four California squads had had the advantage of prac- ticing outdoors nearly all year long. However, according to Coach Eisner, the Wolverines took the losses in stride. "It (the spring trip west) had a positive effect. It showed us how close we could come to these teams." Last year the Michigan squad emergedas Big Ten Champions and ranked 15th in the NCAA. But three starters have been lost from last season's team. In addition, the new freshmen eligibility rule puts the team in the position of having two year's worth of players to choose from. Last year's freshmen as well as this year's new crop must be evalu- ated and this brings in an uncer- tainty factor to Michigan's team as well as all of its opponents. EISNER FEELS that "we have a good chance of winning (the Big Ten Crown)." But he also warns that "we're the team they're shooting for." And this year the Big Ten is stronger than ever. Minnesota, MSU, and Indiana are rated as extremely tough. North- western, Wisconsin, Iowa and Il- linois should also be battling for top honors. In addition to the conference teams, Michigan plays a tough non-conference schedule including the four California teams and a top-rate University of -Miami squad which to date has an 8-1 victory over highly touted SMU. The seeded positions on Michi- gan's squad have not been perm- anently determined. All through practice the Wolverine players have been participating in chal- lenge matches to evaluate indi- vidual performances. As a result there has been a lot of variation in positions. Coach Eisner expects to tabu- late all the results from these matches and analyze them to de- termine the final seeded spots. This is expected just prior to the start of the Big Ten season. At this point a 11 positions will be "locked" and are not subject to change. The reason for locking in the positions is to channel the energy previously used to com- pete within the squad towards the job of defeating opponents. MICHIGAN OPENS its h o m e. season against the Wisconsin State Titans Monday at 1 p.m. in t h e IM Building. Wisconsin State has won the Wisconsin State Conference championship for four straight years. However, the Titans lost last week 9-0 to Wisconsin. They have no excep- tionally strong players but are tough depthwise. Michigan is also a deep team, rown with most of its players pretty evenly matched. As it stands now the top four seeded players will be Junior Mark Conti, No. 1; Sen- ior John Hainline, No. 2; Sopho- more Joel Ross, No. 3; and fresh- man Jim Ott, No. 4. Conti and Ott look to pair up in No. 1 dou- bles. Hainline is expecting to chal- lenge Conti for the first position prior to the Wisconsin State match. In the match Eisner hopes to play all of his squad, so Conti may not play doubles if the chal- lenge match lasts too long. All four of the top four seeds have improved greatly to fill the vacancy left by last year's grad- uation. Ross has shown marked improvement over last season while Hainline has been condi- tioning all fall and winter and keeps improving every week. OTHER PLAYERS who should help out this year are Freshman Dick Raverby who has a lot of experience in national competi- tion and has the ability to over- powr opponents, Dan McLaugh- lin, a Senior transfer student from San Diego State Jr. Coll., who didn't lose a match in 1969, and a Junior, 1Doug McClaury, whose strength is his power game. Overall Michigan should per- form well in d u a l meets and could very. well repeat as Big Ten Champs. Despite lacking the spec- tacular one-two punch of some teams Michigan looks for an im- provement on their 1 a s t year's 15th place NCAA finish. -Daily-Jim Judkis Mark Conti rifles a serve ,O I I* on this and that Sports,, the strike and questions of relevance eric siegel IT'S BEEN STRANGE sitting around here the past couple of days, watcPing sports stories come over the AP and waiting for reports to come in from around the country on how the various Wolverine teams have done. Somehow, sports has seemed just a little irrelevant in light of the strike and the BAM dmands. Sports, of course, is seldom thought of in terms of relevancy. All sports are basically a diversion, a chance to get away from it all, to have some fun. It's easy to take pride in the achievements of your favorite team but, when you come right down to it, whether that team wins or loses or whether Mr. X sets his record doesn't mean much in the long run. Recently, however, there have been discussions between leaders of BAM and athletic director Don Canham in an attempt to make the athletic program more relevant to the demands for increased minority admissions in particular and the black com- munity of the state in general. "We've talked about the possibility of holding an alumni- varsity game, with the proceeds going to the Martin Luther King scholarship fund," Canham told me over phone yesterday. According to Canham, the athletic department would try to bring such former Michiganstars as Cazzie Russell and bring Rudy Tomjanovich back from San Diego. There is even a pos- sibility that some alumni from other sports, such as Ron John- son, might participate in the game. "This Is really nothing new," Canham said. "Ron (Johnson) and I have talked about a game like that before. Canham also said that the athletic department is going to try to recruit more blacks from Detroit and other nearby ciies for the summer athletic program run by the depart- ment. The athletic department has run a summer program for the past two years for high school and junior high stu- dents, with several of the coaches running clinics. Last year, the athletic department began to bus students in from the inner-city, and Canham said the effort will be stepped up this year. "We want to help in every way we can," Canham said. The concern of the athletic department with the BAMde- mands is most welcome, especially in light of the department's image as a socially unaware and unconcerned institution. But the concern of the athletic department should not end with the programs mentioned above. In the last weeks, several members of the University community have been questioning the relevancy and desira- bility of spending huge sums of money, part of which comes out of the University's general fund monies, to finance an elaborate and expensive program of intercollegiate athletics for a large number of non-money making sports. The reaction to these questions by several members of the athletic department has been sharp; the points raised have been rejected out of hand. This type of reaction seems inappropriate. M[any people as- sociated with the athletic program here are fond of pointing out that athletic scholarships have financed the education of many underprivileged and minority students for years. The are also fond of pointing out that the Phys. Ed. departmen- presently has a black enrollment that is far above the 10 pe cent demanded by BAM for,1973-74. These points (which are essentially valid although not foolproof) do not, however, diminish the responsibility of the athletic department to re-evaluate its budget and, if necessary, re-order its priorities to see that the BAM de- mands are assured on a University-wide level. All other departments of -the University are being called upon to undertake such a re-ordering and re-evaluation, and the athletic department should be no exception. 482-9533, 214 E. MICHIGAN, YPSILANTI ARLAN'S DEPT. STORES 483-8524 234 W MICHIGAN DOWNTOWN YPSI. 665-3789 2456 STADIUM BLVD. ANN ARBOR WESTGATE SHOPPING CENTER -Daily-Jim Jirakis John Hainline lunges ,for a backhand return JACKSONVILLE COACH Joe Williams goes to Furman I GREENVILLE, S.C. (A') - Joe Williams, whose Jacksonville State University Dolphins were runners up to UCLA for the NCAA national basketball championship this year, was named head coach at Furman University yesterday. Both Williams, 36, and Dr. Gor- don Blackwell, Furman president, stressed at a news conference that he was not leaving Jacksonville for financial gain, but because of his attachment to Furman acquired in the 1963-64 season when he was an assistant coach it the Baptist supported school. Howe'er, Williams said another reason for his decision to leave Jacksonville was that he was re- quired to do too many things be-* side coaching, "pounding pave- ments, raising money, selling tickets and handling equipment. "I wanted to get back to Fur- man where I can be strictly a coach,". said Williams. Williams and Dr. Blackwell de- clined to discuss terms of his con- tract, which was signed about noon. Jacksonville had a 27-2 record under Williams' this past season, and he predicted the Florida1 school will continue to have a suc- cessful basketball program. Williams was named to succeed m Frank Selvy, who resigned at the end of the past season after four years as head coach. Williams said he had several boys in mind who might be re- cruited to Furman but "those boys already lined up for Jacksonville University will attend Jacksonville University. They have a great team and I want to see the suc- cessful program at Jacksonville continued." BRITISH SOCCER RESULTS English League Division 1 Burnley 1, Stoke 1, tie Manchester City 0, Derby 1 Sunderland 1, Newcastle 1, tie Tottenham 4, Nottingham Forest 1 Division 2 Bristol City 2, Bolton 2, tie Oxford 0, Leicester 1 Queen's Park Rangers 0, Carlisle 0, tie Watford 2, Middlebrough 3 Division 3 Barrow 2, Shrewsbury 0 Bournemouth 2, Walsall 2, tie Brighton 2, Reading 1 Gillingham 1, Bradford City 1, tie Luton 2, Rotherma 1 Orient 4, Plymouth 1 Southport 0, Barnsley 1 Torquay 1, Fulham 1, tie Tranmere 0, Rochidale 0, tie A' TOUR By EUROPE CAR' i Subscribe to The Michigan Daily See Europe as you want to see it, with the freedom and flexibility of your own car. 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