. Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, May 29, 1969 STATE SECOND: Athletic Department makes it official- ,i ta ts take all-sports title "r " "" Y Y ti+. wY .s v Stadium to have synthetic turf by fall By LEE KIRK The Athletic Department made it official yesterday. Michigan Stadium, the largest football arena in the country, will have an artificial carpet in time for this fall's first foot- ball game. Athletic Director Don Canham announced plans for in- stalling Tartan Turf from wall to wall in the 101,001 seat edifice after the formality of approval by the Board in Con- trol of Intercollegiate Athletics. Canham also hopes to put Tartan Turf down on one of the practice fields on Ferry Field. Canham feels that it isr essential to- have this practice area so that the players will sports NIGHT EDITOR PHIL HERTZ ~M'signs New York prep s tar By PHIL HERTZ The fortunes of University of Michigan basketball may be on the rise. The athletic department an- nounced yesterday that one of the truly outstanding high school cage prospects in the country would be attending Michigan this fall. Henry Wilmore, a six-foot four senior at Rockwood Academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, has official- ly announced his intention to en- ter Michigan this fall. Wolverine cage mentor Johnny Orr said yesterday that "Wilmore is one of the best high school players in the country. Henry can play anywhere, but we'll probably use him in the corner." During the past season at Rock- wood Wilmore averaged 33 points and 23 rebounds a game. His single game highs were 47 points against Milford Academy of Con- necticut and 39 rebounds against De Witt Clinton High School of New York City. This past season The Boston Globe named Wilmore to the All- New England Prep School Team and prior to entering Rockwood, Wilmore had been named to the P.S.A.L. All New York City Team, first team in 1968 and had received Honorable Mention in 1967. Wilmore's exploits were not con- fined to the basketball court. The 200-pounder also excelled in cross- country, baseball and tennis as well as in the classroom. The New York City native had an average of 88 and was third in a graduating class of 19. Wilmore is only the second bas- ketball player to be successfully recruited for the 1969-1970 fresh- man.basketball team. John Lock- ard, a six-foot-seven cager from Detroit Pershing, announced in January his intention of attending' Michigan. Orr said yesterday that the Wol- verines were close to adding sev- eral other athletes. "We've got our eyes on a few boys, but we don't like to announce anything until it's official. I think we'll have a real good team." Other players, who could be considering Michigan, are Ron King, a Kentucky all-stater, and Melvin Davis, who played for Brooklyn's Boys' High. Both visit- ed Ann Arbor with Wilmore last month. adjust to the synthetic grass. W The money for the practice field turf would come from the Intra- mural Advisory Board. Because the Boards gets their money from gen- eral funds, this project will need Regental approval. Canham is optimistic that the Regents will approve the field at their June meeting. The Intramural Advisory has already funded money to be used for the installation of lights on the practice area, allowing this field to be used at night by club sport and Intramural groups. Both the stadium and the practice fieldM will be open for use by these groups when they are not .in use . by the football team. c i Canham estimates that the sta- dium, used only about ten times t each year for games and scrim- mages, could now be used at least H 100 times annually. - "The advantages of this instal- lation are just too numerous to ignore," Canham said. "The manu- facturers agreed to install it at their original price. Increasing de-S mand for Tartan Turf also made Hu] it imperative for us to act now. I ped believe very major institutions will exp be playing on artificial turf within roll the next five years." tor Maintenance costs will also be yesi drastically reduced. Unlike regular D grass, synthetic turf are impervi- vict ous to wear and weather. The Hia University, however, does not plan oft to cast out the old stadium grass S entirely out the door. Hia The extisting turf will be strip- and ped and relaid on Ferry and South La Ferry Fields to replace badly worn surfaces on these areas. cor Perhaps the biggest advantage eig] of Tartan Tu'f is the reduction of trie injuries that seems to accompany Ke its use. Michigan head coach Bo Hu Schembechler noted that "studies Hia have shown that football injuries are really cut down with the use u of this artificial surface. Other ard coaches who have played on this the type of surface are unanimous in ing their approval." - the Research into rugby injuries has pin conclusively shown that there is a pin impressive drop in leg injuries on one an artificial surface. Rugby's con- str tinuous. play usually completely Str' decimates a normal grass surface len in one or two games, but it would run not even fare a'sythetic surface. left The Daily has learned from re- liable sources that the Grand Ex Rapids Alumni Association is con-M sidering making a sizeable gift to tere the Athletic Department to help dro finance the project. Canham, and when questioned by The Daily, said Do that he had as yet received no of- nig ficial mention of any such project stre from any group. Canham went on to explain that the gift had been mentioned in an extremely off-hand manner and that the offer was not now con- sidered either binding or assured. A past president of the alumni group said that he had not heard mention of specific sums and that the group had not met formally to consider the proposal. By JOHN GLAUSER For the fourteenth time in twenty years, Michigan has won the overall Big Ten athletics championship with an average of 7.71 points per sport out of a pos- sible ten. The Michigan State Spartans, perenially second place finishers, followed with 7.04, with Indiana and Minnesota next, each with 6.46 points. First place finishes in gym- nastics, hockey, and tennis pulled the Wolverine average up. State managed to top the league in cross country, wrestling, and golf. Each first place finish means ten points for that school; there are nine points awarded for second, and so on down. No school can possibly average under one point per sport. Other firsts were Indiana in swimming, Minnesota in baseball, Ohio State in football and fencing, Purdue in basketball, and Wiscon- sin in outdoor track and indoor track. The averages took into account thirteen sports, although a school's average is not affected by not en- tering the competition in a cer- tain sport. Michigan did not com- pete in fencing, for example, and only three teams, Michigan State,' Ohio State and Wisconsin par- ticipated in all thirteen sports. The Wolverines' first place fin- ish was weakly contested by Mich- igan State. Even though MSU matched the Wolverines in first place finishes, poor showings in football, baseball, tennis, and bas- Twins' Martin says Williams played for self, niot for team 1 By The Associated Press * WASHINGTON - Rookie Minnesota manager Billy Martin, jumping from one controversy to another, yesterday tempered critical remarks he made about Ted Williams, the Hall-of-Famer and last man to hit .400. Martin- denied saying Williams was one of the worst players he ever saw but indicated strongly he did not believe the former Boston Red Sox great, now Washington manager, was much of a team player. "I never played with him on the same team but he never did slide into me as. long as I was playing second base," Martin said before the Twins-Senators game. "As a second baseman you expect to be taken out into left field. He used to run out of the baseline. "Everybody judges players a little different. I judge a player by what he does for his ball club and not what he does for himself. I think the name of the game is self-sacrifice." Williams, who came out of eight years of retirement to manage the Senators this season, said he had not seen the story on Martin's comments, "so I won't say anything." He did, however, take exception to remarks about this base running. "I was on base an awful lot," Williams said, "and I led the league in scoring six times, so I must have gone around second quite a bit. I must have done some sliding somewhere." ketball hurt the Spartans severely in their futile attempt to overtake the 'M' total. As expected the Wol-F verines topped State's total mainly because of their consistency in other sports. These included foot- ball, swimming, wrestling, and in- door and outdoor track, in all of which Michigan scored at least a third place finish. So, thanks to the minor sports, Michigan pulled out another suc- cessful year. Perhaps we should show more support for those sports like tennis and gymnastics, and less for baseball, basketball, and football. So forget Rudy Tom- janovich and Ron Johnson, sports fans. Our real heroes are stars like Dick Dell, Ron Rapper, and Pete Cornell, on whom 'M' sports fans can depend on each year for strong showings when we fail at the major sports. 4 -4 ICIIGAN STADIUM, the nation's largest, will be carpeted with a synthetic turf by this fall. The niversity also hopes to have a portion of Ferry Field,, seen in this picture behind the stadium, overed and lighted for club sport and intramural use as well as for football practice. Wisconsin nstalled it last season and was pleased with the results, and Michigan State will also have it by his fall. UNDLEY HITS GRAND SLAM: Cubs outslug Giants; Nats veto Twins AN FRANCISCO - Randy Staked to a 2-0 first-inning lead ndley's grand slam homer cap- on triples by Willie Davis and Tom a seven-run, second-inning Haller around Kosco's RBI single. losion, and the Chicago Cubs Sutton breezed to his sixth victory, ed to a free-swinging 9-8 vie- in 10 decisions. He struck out five y over the San Francisco Giants and walked one. terday.* * Jon Kessinger saved the Cubs'' tory when he threw out Jack Mets squeak byj att at the plate for the last out the game. NEW YORK - Bud Harrelson ingles by Willie McCovey and followed an intentional walk with att put runners at first and sec- a bases-loaded, one-out single, with two out in the ninth, driving in an unearned run in the d Davenport came to bat for Hal 11th inning as the New York Mets nier. outlasted the San Diego Padres le doubled to the left field 1-0 last night. SMA JOR LEAGUE STANDINGS .":..^..:..:'......:.....^:::._'.':_''. _::......._ ... ..i::... r.e;. 695 g;v5:v: :{ }i3?F.":-0 }A#N#Er,":"'S{.' iit '% "vh's"isiss s :!:": YR'"'"'":fi:'::"ssmessa AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pet. xBaltimnore 32 14 .696 Boston 27 15 .643 Detroit 22 18 .550 Washington 22 26 .458 New York 21 25 .457 xCleveland 10 27 .270 West Division Minnesota 24 18 .571 Oakland 22 18 .550 Kansas City 21 22 .488 xSeattle 20 21 .488 li II 317 11" NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L - Pet. Chicago 30 16 .652 Pittsburgh 22 21 .512 St. Louis 21 23 .477 New York 19 23 .452 Philadelphia 17 23 .425 Montreal 11 29 .275 GB 6h S 9 10 16 0 NEW YORK - Dave Stallworth, a 6-foot-7 forward whose basketball career was believed ended by a heart attack two years ago, will resume playing with the New York Knickerbockers next season. Stallworth, one of the Knicks' top draft choices in 1965, suffered a myocardial infraction during a series at San Francisco in March, 1967. He has been under treatment since. ,, * * * * ANAHEIM - Slugging first baseman Dick Stuart, whose pro- fessional baseball career since 1951 ranged through 13 cities, with stops in Mexico City and Tokyo, was given his outright release by the California Angels yesterday. * * * * " TORONTO - The dream of seeing top National Hockey League stars playing for Canada in the world hockey championship died officially yesterday. Hap Emms, managing director of Canada's national team, said, "I don't think that we are in a position or should be in a position to touch the protected NHL professionals-that is the 20 players they protect." Emms made the statement during a news conference following a day-long meeting of Hockey Canada, the government-supported group of sportsmen. and businessmen charged with fielding a strong team to represent the country during the world championships in Montreal and Winnipeg next spring. -4 e ner, driving in the Giants' Cleon Jones opened the inning hth run, but Billy Williams re- by reaching first base on shortstop ved the ball, fired to shortstop Tommy Dean's throwing error. ssinger and Kessinger threw to Ofter Ed Kranepool struck out. indley at the plate, who tagged Frank Reberger relieved loser Bil- att. ly McCool, 1-1, and Ron Swo- boda singled Jones to third. Jerry WASHINGTON - Frank How- Grote was walked and Harrelson laced a run-scoring single in followed with his line drive hit ninth inning, giving the Wash- to left field, ending the Mets' five- ton Senators a 4-3 victory over game losing streak. Minnesota Twins last night. J eft-hander Jim Kaat walked Jerry Koosman baffled the ch hitter Mike Epstein with Padres for the first 10 innings, out in the ninth. Ed Brinkman yielding only four hits and striking ukout, ntheinhEdrnkmanout 15, a Mets' record and the oud raced to third on Hank Al- hightest total in the National s single and scored the winning League this season. on Howard's single down the field line. * PAUL CAMELET MASTER TAILOR epos plundered for Men and Women alterations and remodeler IONTREAL-Don Sutton scat- specialties in shortening ladies ed five hits and Andy Kosco coats, slacks, and skirts. ye in two runs with a single No longer with Camelet Bros. in business for himself dghomer as the Los Angeles1 I 03 S. 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