I MAY24, 1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE'1 .... DESTINATION OREGON: Trackmen To 3M' Nine Awaits NCAA Verdict _______________________________________________________i Take Trip , By DAVE GOOD Eugene, Ore., isn't usually re- garded as the Playground of the West, but that's where Michigan track Coach Don Canham is tak- ing part of his Big Ten champion- ship team to "kid around" next month. That's also where this year's NCAA track meet is scheduled on June 15-16, and it's no coinci- dence that Canham and his boys plan to be there at the same time But Canham is so relieved to have the conference meet behind him that he claims the Wolverines are just going to run for fun in the collegiate meet. (Another min- or factor is that Canham doesn't expect to win the team title.) "It'll be between (defending champion) Southern California and (host team) Oregon," ran- ham predicted. "All the rest of us are pretty even." Warriors To Frisco In' Big Sale' NEW YORK (RP)-The Philadel- phia Warriors, and Wilt Chamber- lain, finally moved to San Fran- cisco yesterday. After a month-long series of meetings the National Basketball Association's Board of Governors approved the sale of the franchise for $850,000 and the shift to San Francisco although the Boston and New York clubowners v o t e d against it. Only 19 days ago, the governors debated the possible sale and transfer in several long sessions. Despite the pleas of the Warriors' owner, Eddie Gottlieb, the pro- posal was rejected. "I wanted the deal," said Gott- lieb yesterday, "because I felt it was a good one. "I have put in many years in basketball and have begun to think of retirement and to get ready for it. Despite this, I made ,,!every effort to purchase a team to represent Philadelphia in the . NBA this coming year but without success. "I would like to see Philadel- phia return to the NBA in the near future. Until then I am mak- ing' every effort to line up some league games there so that pro basketball will be kept alive in Philadelphia this season."n Boston and New York wanted to keep the Warriors in Phila- delphia enabling them to have more games with the Philadel- phians and their box office mag- net, the 7-foot Chamberlain. Any improvement that Michi- gan makes over last year's finish, when it tied Abilene Christian for sixth with 18 points, wil come from two seniors who have already de-' cided that they're not going just for fun-Ergas Leps and Bennie McRae. They want to win their events, and if they do, the Wolverines will better last year's point total even without any help from the other two whom Canham is saure of tak- ing-Rod Denhart and Charlie Aquino. All four were winners for the Wolverines in the conference meet over the weekend, Leps in the mile, McRae in the 120-yd. highs and 220-yd. lows, Denhart in the pole vault and Aquino in the 660- yd. run. Canham will be entering Leps and Aquino in the 880, McRae in ithe highs and Denhart in the vault, but he also has the option of taking the three men who plac- ed second in their events, high jumper Steve Williams, discus thrower Ernst Soudek and shot putter Roger Schmitt. Time toTel But Canham says that their per- formance in practice the next week or so will decide whether or not they make the trip. Soudek will have to hit 170', about nine over his Big Ten mark, and Wil- liams will have .to maintain his status quo, about 6'6". Canham points out that the big weight men around the rest of the country are going so well that Schmitt, who weighs only 195, would have to hit some six feet over his best mark to make the trip. "H'll have to get up around 60'," Canham commented. Leps picks Fordham's Frank Tomeo and Oregon's Sig Ohle- mann and Archie San Romani as among his top opponents, and McRae named Oregon's Jerry Tarr (the defending champion) and Maryland State's Russ Rodgers as the men to beat in the hurdles. Wolverines Rate No. 14 By The Associated Press The Michigan baseball team rates as the nation's 14th best col- lege baseball team according to the nationally distributed maga- zine, Collegiate Baseball. Florida sporting a 25-6 record received 17 first place votes while Big Ten Champions Illinois had 16 first place votes and was only four votes behind. Florida had 231 points while Illinois had 227. Santa Clara, with 14 first place votes, was tvoted third with 219 points. Last year Leps placed third and McRae fourth when Michigan had to compete without sprinter Tom Robinson, who was held up by a property settlement in his native Bahamas. "He'd lDave won the 220 going away," remarked Canham. "They were lousy. And he probably would have been second in the 100 to (Villanova's Frank) Budd." With Robinson, the Wolver- ines would have had fourth place sewed up. But without him they By JOHN SCOCHIN If you can't win a nickel try for a dollar could be the new motto of the Michigan baseball team which lost the Big Ten championships last week in Wisconsin but may get a chance to try for the big one, the NCAA title. Still remembering the long homerun blast of Wisconsin's Pat Richter which knocked them from first place in the final conference standings the Wolverines must now stand around and wait pa- tiently for the decision of the NCAA selection committee which will meet Sunday to pick the teams in the district four elimi- nations. Western Michigan, the cham- pion of the Mid-America Confer- ence, is the only shoe-in, but Big Ten titleholder Illinois should be an almost unanimous choice for the second spot. The University of Detroit which finished its season with only two losses, at the hands of Michigan State and Bowling Green, looks like another front runner. Notre Dame or Michigan The other position will be be- tween Michigan and Notre Dame. The Wolverines should have the edge, since they battered the Irish 18-4 in one meeting and were leading 2-0 in another game be- fore it was called because of rain. "Assuming we are selected I be- lieve the teams that would be the toughest to beat would be Illinois or Western Michigan. Both have fine pitching and in a short se- ries like the NCAA, a couple of fine pitchers may mean victory," Lund said. "Western always has a good steady ballclub. It makes few mis- takes in the field so it doesn't beat itself, which is the mark of a successful unit," Lund stated. Detroit will place its fortune'in the hands of Pete Craig. Coach Lund will probably be without the services of ace short- stop Dick Honig if the Wolverines make the tourney. Honig, who had six stitches put into his hand because of an injury in the Wis- consin game would probably be replaced by dependable Jim New- man. Fritz May Go Unlucky Fritz Fisher, who hurl- ed the homerun ball to Wiscon- sin's Richter, with the best ERA on the squad, will probably start the first game for Michigan. The big winning duo of Dave Roebuck and John Kerr would pitch the If Michigan is selected, the choice of ballparks should be nar- rowed down to Michigan or West- ern Michigan. Detroit doesn't have the facilities for the tourney. Il- linois has a good diamond, but poor accommodations for both fans and the press. Both Western and Michigan, however, have the seating capacity, and fine field conditions to warrant serious con- sideration. The tourney will probably start Tuesday May 29 and continue through the 31. Coach Lund said, "All of the four competing schools have their final exam periods be- ginning around June 1, so we would want to have the tourney out of the way before then, so as not to conflict with exams. The winner of this two game knockout in the District Four playoffs will advance to the Col- lege World Series in Omaha, Neb. The series will also be a two game knockout.