TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER, 12,1961 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1961 TilE MICHIGAN DAILY w"#f N' R'; Four Veterans Bolster 'M' Golf Hopes ...,I By JAMES BERGER The climax of the golf team's season was its most disappointing performance, the Western Con- ference meet. After strolling through the reg- ular season of dual, triangular and quadrangular meets without a loss, the team fell apart at Indiana and sank to a seventh place finish. It was discouraging and almost unbelievable, as this Two juniors, Mike Goode and Tom Ahern, plus sophomore ChuckJ Newton completed the squad. I Brisson and Youngberg have graduated, leaving a noticeable void in the two top slots. With' four returning veterans, Katzen- meyer has an experienced team, but the ability of that quartet to; fill in at the top for the two, graduates is uncertain. Bad Season Brisson definitely had a bad season. Katzenmeyer had counted on him to lead the Wolverines to a successful season. Brisson had finished in the top ten in the in- dividual competition for two years in a row. He had conquered for- mer National Amateur champ and National Open runner-up Jack Nicklaus in a dual meet with OSU. But he hit a slump and was able to recover only for the last two meets of the season. His per- formance in the conference meet was one of the major reasons for the team's poor showing. Youngberg, second longest hit- ter on the team, had finished in the individual top ten in his soph- omore year. During the year, he played some good golf but the conference bugaboo hit him as well, Frustrating End Although Michiganwon three Big Ten championships on the' weekend of May 19-20, it was a frustrating ending for the golfers. The Wolverines started strong- ly, leading the pack at the end of 18 holes, but then the bottom fell out. They sank to fourth after 36 holes and seventh after 72 holes. Katzenmeyer pointed to the in- experience of three of his players1 in conference play, unable to ad-1 just to the grueling 72 holes in two days with the constant pres- sure. These three will have gained the valuable experience for theJ next year. And the seventh man on this spring's team, Bill Hal- leck, will be around as a junior. Frosh Hopefuls The lettermen don't necessarily have places on the team wrapped up, because there are eight fresh- men who move up in the ranks. They are Bill Valuck from Muske- gon, Gary Mouw, Dave Cameron, Ray Levandowski, all from De- troit, Tom Clark and Jim Flipiak of Ann Arbor, Jeff Ferries of Mid- land, and football quarterback "Frosty" Evashevski of Iowa City. If they are able to come through, the Michigan squad should be extremely strong. Of course, it looked that way last spring. After losing two meets to Duke and North Carolina on the south- ern spring vacation tour, the M sextet began to burn up the course. They trounced Detroit, 17- 1 and the potential became more apparent to Coach Katzenmeyer. Quad Meet The next encounter was the an- nual quadrangular meet at Ohior State's tough Scarlet course with the competition consisting of P u r d u e, defendingconference champions; Ohio State, third in the Conference; and Indiana, fifth in the conference. When these teams were compared to the Wol- verines, eighth in the conference, it is quite evident that Michigan had its work cut out for them. The weather was cold, windy, stormy, but out of the rain emerg- ed a winning Michigan team. A triangular meet with North- western and Illinois added further encouragement, as the M squad averaged less than 75 strokes a man. The Wolverines again met powerful Ohio State and Michigan State and beat them. The conference meet is history and should provide added incen- tive to the veterans as well as a lesson for the varsity neophytes. The Buckeys' Nicklaus went on to take the NCAA title and during the summer participated in many of the tournaments on the regular pro circuit, including the National Open at Birmingham, Michigan. A spring trip is on tap for Katzenmeyer's charges this year, probably to the south where the weather is better than the cold, wet Michigan springs. Although the schedule isn't of- ficially drawn up, and won't be until early spring, the Wolverines'1 opponents will be made up mostly of Big Ten representatives. Katzenmeyer predicts a close race this year, and of course feels his Wolverines will do better than their 1961 seventh place finish. Ohio State, which went on to take the NCAA team title, will be favored to repeat its Big Ten sweep. MIKE GOODE ... going for top Wolverine sextet had conquered six Big Ten opponents in the regular season. Ohio State, the team which eventually won the conference title, had fallen twice to the Michigan linksmen. De- fending champion Purdue had also tasted defeat at Walverine hands. Looks Forward With this disaster now in the past, Golf Coach Bert Katzen- meyer looks forward to the next year with a spirit of optimism. Whether this attitude is well- founded in material is the ques- tion. This spring's squad was com- posed of three returning letter- ien--Captain Joe Brisson, Dick Youngberg and 1962 captain-elect Bill Newcomb. TRAP SHOT-Captain-elect Bill Newcomb shows how it's done as he executes a blast out of a sandtrap on the eighth hole in a prac- tice round over the rugged Blue Course. Newcomb will probably be playing the top spot for the team this year. I NI { III r' I. GOOD CLOTHES! What do youmean.? It is easy to write nonsense about clothes. GOOD FABRICS - how would you know? STYLE CORRECTNESS - against whose stand- ards? PROPER FIT - whose opinion would you accept? What can you rely on, then? At Van Boven, we do our best to have only the finest - Oxxford clothes among them. 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