,GE SIX
THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY APF
THROUGH THE
BULL'S EYE
by Bill Bullard
Tankers Elect Bartsch as Captain
AT OHIO STATE:
Thinclads Show Depth
Despite Rain at Relays.
Rickover Blasts
'Overemphasized' Athletics
There has been some talk lately about the future of student
activities at the University what with increasing academic pressures,
the advent of the trimester, and so forth. Now along comes Vice
Adm. Hyman G. Rickover to suggest that a specialized kind of student
activity-varsity athletics-is damaging the education of students at
the U.S. Naval Academy.
Rickover testified recently before a congressional subcommittee
that "over organized varsity athletics" at the academy are, a waste of
time and energy "which should be devoted to the more important
aspects of education."
lHe went on to say that, "Often midshipmen with'good initial
academic potential graduate as mediocre students because of ex-
cessive participation in sports activities to the detriment of intellec-
tual development.
An End in Itself . . .
"The belief that 'big league' athletics at the academy fosters
good leadership development is a fallacy. Much of the organized ath-
letic program has become an end in itself rather than a means to
promote a sound body, sound mind concept."
Rickover stressed that'he did not want to end all varsity ath-
letics. He merely opposed the "overemphasis" on varsity athletics
which he saw at the academy.
If Rickover's argument is taken to be a general criticism of
athletics in American higher education, then it sounds fairly remi-
niscent of arguments that any outside interest is detrimental to a
student's formal education. Facts at the academy refute this part of
Rickover's statement.
A recent 10-year survey at the academy demonstrated that re-
cruited athletes hold their own academically with the rest of the
brigade. The study also stated that
they furnish a higher percentage
of its officer's in proportion to
the rest of the student body, and.
are more inclined to make the
service a career than is the aver-
age midshipman.
It is my suspicion, although I
can offer no concrete proof, that'
this same situation would be true
at most schools around the coun-
try and certainly at the Univer-
sity. The image of the dumb ath-
lete, if it ever was true, is very
much out of date now.
Rickover says he would like to
get away from the type of varsity
athletics, where forced by the
pressures of producing a "big
HYMAN RICKOVER league" team, it becomes an end
in itself. Here Rickover is mis-
taken in assuming that any benefits can be derived from varsity
athletics under some type of "deemphasized" program.
The admiral's position seems to be that varsity athletics are a
necessary evil that are worthwhile only, because of other advantages
to be derived from them. Such advantages, usually labeled leadership
training or character building, Rickover thinks can be retained with-
out any large-scale effort to maintain a top-rate athletic program.
But the crucial point is that all the benefits to be derived from
varsity athletics must come from a determined effort to win and be
the best. And being the best means a "big league" athletic program.
Leadership or any other worthwhile characteristic can not be
developed in an athletic program where it doesn't matter if the
team wins or loses. The individual benefits from athletics can only
be gleaned from the effort which aiming at the winning objective
takes. Practice and sacrifice are worthwhile only if there is a sig-
nificant objective in view.
Benefits Without Effort . .
Rickover and others like him would, in effect, extract the bene-
fits from athletics without making the effort which produces the
benefits.
The fact is that winning in top-flight collegiate circles takes
a great deal of emphasis. This is not only true in football and basket-
ball, where coaches at major schools find themselves with a 12-month
a year job, but in the so-called minor sports as well.
Winning is not easy in college athletics today. But if the bene-
fits of athletics are thought worthwhile, the price of all-out effort
must be paid. A deemphasized, half-hearted program will always fail
to produce the kind of results intended.
College athletics are under fire today and they will have to seek
justification for their existence. But at least Rickover's assertions
that varsity athletics take too much time and effort and are empha-
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Ed Bartsch was the choice ofY
his teammates to captain the1
1965 edition of the Michiganf
swimming team.
Elected at the team's banquet
last night, the junior backstroker1
expressed great confidence in nextt
year's squad.I
"We have the potential to gor
all the way," he said. "We lack
depth, but if our big guns comec
through with firsts, we can beat
Indiana .and Southern Cal. We'll
need the best possible perform-1
ances all around. Guys who aren't
even expected to place will have
to come through with fifths and
sixths."
As for Bartsch himself, it's been
a fine year with a great finish.
Most of the season it appeared
that the 1963 NCAA champion
couldn't get started. "Gus (coach
Gus Stager) said I had 'juniori-
tis.' That's when a swimmer has.
a good sophomore year, but does
not pan out as a junior, and us-
ually comes back strong in his
senior year.
"I was working hard but Gus
didn't think I was working hard
enough. But that's just the way he
is," he said laughingly as Stager
walked by.
Of the NCAA meet Bartsch said,
"I knew I had to swim my fastest
possible to even qualify for the
finals in the 100, I did qualify
and it gave me confidence which
carried over to the AAU meet in
Bartlesville, Okla."
In the 100-yard race in the
NCAA's his time was good enough
to get him into a three-way swim-
off with Indiana's Tom Stock and
Yale's Roger Goettsche to fill two
places in the finals. He won the
swimoff.
His third-place performance in
the 200-yard event was achieved
with a time of 1:57.9-only one-
tenth of a second of the clocking
which won the event for him last
year. -
The confidence which he carried
over to Bartlesville came out when
he won the 200-yard backstroke
in his fastest time of 1:56.5.
By MIKE MEYERS
-Associated Press
ED BARTSCH, Michigan's top backstroker, has been named
captain of the 1965 swimming team. The junior from Philadel-
phia was a Pan-American champion in 1962 and won the NCAA
240 yard title in his specialty last year. Just a few weeks age he
won the same event in AAU competition.
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To Western Michigan
"That time is a second-and-a-
half faster than I ever swam
before," he points out. "And it's
four seconds faster than what
I've been doing all year."
Bartsch echoed the often-stated
praises of the current freshman.
team. "We're losing a few fine
seniors, but the freshman should
more than make up for them.
These are the big guns we'll be
counting on next year. Robie,
Scheerer, Kinge . ..
He halted as he started to say
the name of Russ Kingery, fresh-
man backstroker. Kingery finished
third behind Bartsch in the AAU
200 and fourth ahead of his fifth
in the 100.
"Well, I hope that Kingery
comes through with second-place,
but I can't feel too safe. He's a
real good swimmer and could beat
me."
Bartsch is going to take it easy
the rest of the year. Then in June
he'll begin working out for the
Olympic trials in September. If he
makes the team he will -ske off
the first semester to go to Tokyo.
He is now the holder of the 1963
national college title and the 1964
American championship. Add this
to the 100-meter Pan American
Games crown which he won in
1962. Could anything be more
poetic than adding a world title
in 1964?
Wings Win
In Crucial
Fifth Game
TORONTO (P)-Goals by Gordie
Howe and Ed Joyal and some out-
standing goaltending by Terry
Sawchuk gave the Detroit Red
Wings a 2-1 Stanley Cup playoff
victory and a 3-2 lead in thebest
of-seven hockey series last night.
George Armstrong scored Toron-
to's only goal late in the third
period with the Red Wings play-
ing two men short after successive
penalties to Bill Gadsby and Mar-
cel Pronovost.
Howe's goal at the 11-minute
mark of the first period put the
Wings in front. Detroit held its
slim edge until 7:50 of the third
period when Joyal slapped Andre
Pronovost's drop pass through
goalie Johnny Bower to open up
the advantage.
The sixth game of the series
will be played in Detroit Thurs-
day night with a seventh, if neces-
sary, in Toronto Saturday night.
Howe's goal came after Detroit
had held off Toronto's first power
play.
Marcel Pronovost had been
chased for tripping at 4:57. The
only good shot on the Detroit
goal came on Gerry Ehman's
backhander which Sawchuk block-
ed.
Soon after Pronovost returned
the Red Wings started their as-
sault on the Maple Leaf ne, and
had several opportunities but
could not control the puck.
By STEVE GALL
Even two of nature's perennial
obstacles to athletic performance,
the rain and the Achilles tendon,
didn't hamper Michigan from
showing its team balance on Sa-
turday at the 40th annual Ohio
Relays.
Track conditions were nearly'
impossible at Columbus as the
wind raged on all afternoon and
the rain poured periodically. Only
a new track surface called Grass-
Tex, a substance made up of as-
phalt, saved the day for the relays.
Half-miler Ted Kelly says, "This
surface absorbs the rain much
better than regular cinder." Kelly
had no complaints about the track
as he turned his anchor leg of
the winning two-mile relay in his
fastest time, 1:51.7.
Aggravated Tendon
Aggravation of the Achilles ten-
don bothered sprinter Dorie Reid
as Coach Canham scratched him
from the 100-yd. dash. However,
Reid came back to run the first
leg of the 440-yd. relay well
enough to give the Wolverines ar
start. to their eventual fourth-
place fimish.
The same injury kept miler Des
Ryan out of his specialty, but
Ryan still ran the anchor leg, a
mile, in the distance medley relay.
The junior from Ireland came
home with a 4:13.7, good enough
for another fourth place relay
finish.
Bernard Impressive
The mile relay, another of the
Wolverines three first place show-
ings, presented the most exciting
performance of the day by any
individual as Kent Bernard toured
his anchor 440 in a time of :46.4.
Canham was especially impressed
with Bernard's time as he com-
pared it to a :47.0 straight 440.
Another interesting performance
was that of football tackle Bill
Yearby, who took a fourth place
finish in the shot put. Yearby
tossed the shot 51'8", breaking 50
feet for the first time. The burly
sophomore was stalled at 49 feet
for most of the season.
In the 120-yd high hurdles the
Wolverines placed two men. Cliff
Nuttall and Roy Woodton, third
and fifth respectively. But the fea-
ture of this race was the win of
Willie May, of the ChicagoTrack
'Club in :13.9. May, a strong and
powerful runner was second in
this race at the Olympics at Rome
in 1960.
In another hurdle perofmance
Norm Kohns set a varsity record
in the 330-yd intermediate hurdles
with a time of :38.7. However,
this was not good enough to place
him in the finals.
Washed Away
Sophomore Bob Densham had
his usual leg trouble as he failed
to place in the high jump. Den-
sham, who could clear only 6 feet,
said, "I was washed away with the
rain at 6' 2". Seriously speaking,
the leaper from Columbus claims
he has a new style of jumping
and he thinks he will be tough to
beat in the future if his leg holds
out.
The meet also saw two unique
events held. One was the 3000-
meter steeplechase, a test of en-
durance and guts. Each lap is
lined with obstacles such as fences,
hurdles and water hazards. The
other was a 440-yd. dash for wom-
en in which Sue Knott, defending
national champion, won easily in
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Michigan's netmen journey to
,lamazoo today to take on West-
n Michigan in the Wolverines
rd match in six days.
This past weekend the Maize
d Blue split at the Ohio State
adrangular meet. After beating
sconsin by an identical score
last year, 7-2, on Friday, the
olverines fell to the Hoosiers of
diana 7-2.
Thus far this season the Wol-
rines have been victorious in
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two of their five matches, with
losses to Miami (2) and Indiana,
and victories over Princeton and
the Badgers. The schedule that
Michigan has aranged for the
season appears to be by no means
an easy one. In six days the Wol-
verines will be on the road again
to take on the fighting Irish of
Notre Dame at South Bend, In-
diana.
Hedrick Scores
This past weekend proved to be
a good one for soph Karl Hedrick
who played well enough to pick
up three victories in a pair of
singles and double matches. His
only loss was to Dave Power and
Rod McNerty when he teamed up
with John Fraser in first doubles
against Indiana.
Coach Murphy will start the
same lineup against Western Mich-
igan as he did this weekend, with
the sixth singles spot still in doubt.
Jim Swift played and won against
Wisconsin, and Bill Dixon did like-
wise against Indiana at number
six.
In the other singles positions
Harry Fauquier will play numbei
one, Hedrick at two, Fraser at
three, Hal Lowe at fourth, Brian
Flood at five, and either Swift or
Dixon at six. In the doubles
Murphy will play Hedrick and
Fraser, Lowe and Fauquier, anc
Swift and Dixon in that order.
The Wolverines beat the Bron-
cos, 8-1, last year.
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian
national basketball team, using a
tight zone defense, defeated a
somewhat disorganized United
States AAU team 82-65 yesterday
in the opening game of the Ameri-
can's eight-game tour of the So-
viet Union.
It was the first time an Amer-
ican team had lost on Soviet soil
since Russian-American competi-
tion began in 1959. The U.S. play-
ers, who had been together for
only two games in Poland before
coming here, lacked cohesion and
were unable to score on shots
from the outside.
During and after the game the
Americans complained about the
officiating of referees Elio Lug-
lini of Italy and Hubert Jacobs
of East Germany.
Leonard Buck of Denver, head
of the U.S. delegation, declared:
"This is the worst officiated game
I have ever seen. The fouls called
on us were fouls, but they missed
a lot of fouls the other team com-
mitted."
Although the game was tele-
vised, several hundredpeople were
turned away after the Palace of
Sports, which seats 16,000 was
filled to capacity. Among the spec-
tators were spacemen Pavel Popo-
vich and Valery Bykovsky.
The Americans were unable to
penetrate the Soviet zone defense
to score from short range but the.
Russians fouled frequently in
holding them off.
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Baseball Game'
Postponed by
April Showers
Wet grounds forced the cancel-
lation of yesterday's baseball game
between Michigan and Eastern
Michigan.
The contest, originally set for
Apr. 18, was also rained out on
that occasion. No date has been
set for a replay.
The Wolverine nine leaves for
South Bend, Ind., tomorrow for
the first game of a hectic road
trip. They play Notre Dame there
tomorrow, skip to Madison to play
Wisconsin on Friday and hop down
to Evanston to face Northwestern,
Saturday.
The next scheduled home game
will be against Notre Dame next
Tuesday, Apr. 28, at 3:30 p.m.
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APRIL 24, 1964
from 9:00 to 5:00
to discuss the training offered at
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the job opportunities open to
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE and
Major League
Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
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Baltimore 4 i.800
Minnesota 4 2 .667
Cleveland 2 1 .667
x-Detroit 3 2 .600
Boston 3 2 .600
x-Los Angeles 2 2 .500
Chicago 2 3 .400
Washington 2 4 .333
Kansas City 1 3 .250
New York 1 4 .200
x-Incomplete.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Washington at Minnesota (rain)
Cleveland 5, Kansas City 3
Detroit at Los Angeles (nc)
Only games scheduled.
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Pittsburgh 8, Chicago 5
Cincinnati 10, Houston 5
Philadelphia at New York (rain)
Only games scheduled
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