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NATIONAL CHAMPS:
Baseball Team Starts Outdoor Practice
Gymnasts
Try for
NCAA Title
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By BILL BULLARD
While the college baseball teams
an the southland have had a
chance to get into shape by play-
ing outdoors, Coach Moby Bene-
dict has had his Wolverines work-
ing out in Yost Field House.'
Yesterday was only the second
complete day that the Wolverines
have practiced outside. Asked what
kind of condition his players were
in after the limited opportunity
to practice outdoors, Benedict said,
"They're in condition alright. But
they're in condition to play in-
doors.
Came Outdoors-
"When we first came outdoors,
the ball looked like an aspirin to
the players. But after awhile they
adjusted. I guess if they can hit
the ball inside, they can see and
hit it anywhere. I'm grateful for
the weather we've been having re-
cently."
Benedict reported that before
Wednesday the team had only
been able to go outside sporadical-
ly. The practice outside was most-
ly confined to fungo practice for
the outfielders and some running.
"We're practicing a little bit of
everything now," said Benedict.
"You have to do everything well
to win. That's why you'll see us
practicing such things as our run-
downs, and defense as well as our
hitting."
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next Thursday night for nine
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schedule includes two games with
Grand Canyon College, one with
Phoenix College, and six with Ari-
zona.
Last season the Wolverines went
down to Arizona and came back
with a 4-6 record. Michigan then
went on to finish second in the
Big Ten and win the NCAA base-
ball championship.
One reason for the Wolverines'
slow start was that the weather
around Ann Arbor just wasn't any-
where near as favorable to baseball
as in Arizona. The same situation
exists this season. On April 8
when Michigan plays its first
game with Arizona, the Wildcats
will be playing their 27th game
of the season.
Play To Win
"We'll play all our games in Ari-
zona to win," said Benedict. "We'll
play 'em as though they were reg-
ular season games. The team then
should be ready to open the Big
Ten season.
"Actually, we have a aual pur-
pose in going to Arizona. First,
we want to win the games. But
also we'll go to Arizona for the
same reason that the Tigers and
the other major league teams go
to Florida.' I've got some sopho-
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St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 0
Cincinnati 3, New York (A) 2
Houston 12, Boston 4
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mores I want to look at besides the
veterans. We want to get into
shape and get the kinks out of
our play."
After returning from Arizona,
the team plays non-league games
with Eastern Michigan on April 18
at home, Central Michigan on
April 20 away, and Western Mich-
igan on April 23 at home. The Big
Ten season starts with a road trip
to Illinois and Purdue on April 26
and 27.
Benedict, who is in his first year
as head coach after serving as an
assistant to Don Lund for four
years, has inherited an NCAA and
world championship team. The
only members of the team that
graduated were starting catcher
Joe Merullo, pitcher Jim Kerr,
and Captain Ed Hood.
"They won the whole ball of
wax last season," commented Ben-
edict. "I've been trying to tell
them that just because they're the
national champions, they can't re-
lax. If they don't go all out and
use their ability, we'll be in trou-
ble. Every opposing team wants to
take a nip at Michigan.
Player Pride
"But I think we'll be okay. The
players have pride in their repu-
tation. They're a hustling bunch
and if they give 100 pe'r cent.and
have the same attitude like they
did last season we'll be okay."
Benedict has veteran starting
infields and outfields. In the out-
field, Jim Steckley, Dennis Spal-
la,, and Ron. Tate return.; Dave
Campbell is back at first base and
Harvey Chapman is still at third.
The combination of Captain Joe
Jones at second base and Dick
Honig at shortstop that teamed up
for 22 double plays together last
season returns.
Utility Men
Utility outfielders from last sea-
sonare Chuck Heavenrich and
Dick Post. Reserve infielder Jim
Newman is being converted into an
outfielder. An outstanding sopho-
more is Earl Myers.
In the infield, sophomore George
Skaff will give Chapman a battle
for the third place job. Bob Can-
trell, captain-elect of the basket-
ball team, is also an infield pros-
pect.
The only partially experienced
catcher is senior Ron Lauterbach.
He will have to beat out sopho-
mores Chuck and Pete Adams (no
relation). Sophomore Wayne Par-
sons is also on tnp roster.
The pitciing staff is again
strong. Veterans Jim Bobel, Fritz
Fisher, Dave Roebuck, Wayne
Slusher, and Bob Dunston are
back.
By MIKE BLOCK
Special To The Daily
PITTSBURGH-The moment of
truth has finally arrived for Mich-
igan's gymnastics team.
The NCAA Gymnasitcs Cham-
pionships, to which Coach Newt
Loken and his Wolverines have
been pointing all year, begins here
today in Fitzgerald Fieldhouse at
the University of Pittsburgh. The
preliminaries begin this afternoon
and continue through this evening,
and the meet culminates with the
finals tomorrow night.
Only the final placing in the
all-around will be decided today,
based on the preliminary scores in
the other eight events. These are
the same as in the Big Ten Meet,
namely the floor exercise, high
bar, parallel bars, sidehorse, long-
horse vault, still rings, Trampoline,
and tumbling.
On the basis of their undefeat-
ed dual meet season, and their
resounding Big Ten showing three
weeks ago at East Lansing, the
Wolverines go into the tourney as
slight favorites among a field of
42 competing schools. However,
one of these, Southern Illinois,
bested Michigan inthe Chigago
Open last December, 1291/2 to 115.
Since that time, SIU has lost
two key men, all-arounder Jim
Simms and tumbler-Trampolinist
Hugh Blaney, through mid-year
graduation. But the Salukis are
still rated, as the Wolverines' big-
gest threat, largely on the strength
of all-arounder Fred Orlofsky and
tumbler Rusty Mitchell, who was
good enough last year to top Illi-
nois' Hal Holmes for the national
crown.
Gym Group
.Blasts AAU
PITTSBURGH (PThe U. S.
Gymnastics Federation recom-
mended last night that all of its
members withdraw from open
competition not sanctioned by the
USGF.
Frank Bare, executive director
of the organization, said the ac-
tion was in direct rebuttal to a
recent Amateur Athletic Union
directive concerning the lengthy
battle between the AAU and the
NCAA for control of amateur ath-
letics.
Bare noted that AAU has said
that unless a gymnast competes
in a meet sanctioned only by the
AAU, he no longer is eligible for
international competition.
OUTDOOR SEASON:
New Events Help Cindermen
In last year's meet at Albuquer-
que, N.M., Southern California
emerged victorious with 951 /
points, followed by SIU with 75.
Michigan barely came in third,
edgingj Illinois 55-5412.
USC Weaker
The Trojans don't figure to be
much more than an outside con-
tender this year due to losses by
graduation and injuries, especial-
ly in tumbling and the Tramp.
Replacing USC as AAWU cham-
pion is Washington, which is ex-
pected to finish somewhere in the
top four this time around. The
Huskies, who tied for 18th with
Washington State, Arizona, and
Army at Albuquerque, held a 50-
point lead over the Trojans and
California in this year's AAWU
tourney.
As for Illinois, Holmes is all
they have left, and even the four-
time AAU titlist won't put the Il-
lini anywhere near the top.
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* By CHARLIE TOWLE
Track and field differs from the
other nine varsity sports in that
it extends through two of the three
"sports seasons."
While fall is for football, win-
ter for basketball, wrestling, swim-
ming, hockey and gymnastics. and
spring for golf, tennis and base-
ball; track has regularly sched-
uled meets throughout the winter
and spring.
Even fall is not an off time, for
many trackmen spend the autumn
hours circling the University golf
course both to keep' in shape and
to compete in cross country meets.
It might be thought that all this
running might get tedious for the
trackmen but such is not the case.
No Layoff
"We wanted them to lay off
after the Big Ten Meet but they
didn't even slow down," said track
Coach Don Canham. "They know
the outdoor Big Ten Meet is go-
ing to be really tough and they
want to be ready," added the ob-
viously pleased Canham.
Despite the fact that Iowa and
Michigan split the Big Ten indoor
crown, many feel it would have
been a different story if Wisconsin
had not been badly crippled by
injuries. It is this thought which
may be the answ'er to what makes
'M' run.
The remaining aspirant to the
throne is Syracuse, who came on
strong this year to capture the
Eastern Intercollegiate champion-
ship this year, after placing 13th
in last year's NCAA's.
Returning Champs
Besides Mitchell, the only de-
fending champion in the meet will
be ringman Dale Cooper of Mich-
igan State. A fierce battle looms
in the all-around between Orlof-
sky and Wolverines Gil Larose and
Arno Lascari, with Lascari being
given the pre-tourney edge. Loken
figures Michigan to have the best
Tramp squad in the land, in the
persons of Fred Sanders, Gary Er-
win, and Johnny Hamilton, who
finished 1-2-4 in the Big Tens.
No school is allowed to enter
more than 10 men in the meet,
and Michigan will submit the le-
gal limit. Besides Larose, Lascari,
Sanders, Erwin, and Hamilton, the
entrants are Jim Hynds, Paul Levy,
Barry Spicer, Fred Bolton, and
Mike Henderson. All 10 participat-
ed in the rout at East Lansing.
Sophs Hopeful
Larose and Lascari are the only
two members of the current squad
to score in last year's meet. How-
ever, Sanders, Erwin, \tHamilton
and Henderson, all sophomores,
didn't even have a chance, and
this soph strength may well push
Michigan over the top.
Lascari placed in four events,
finishing second in p-bars, his
specialty, fifth on the high bar
and sidehorse, and 10th in floor
ex. Captain Larose tied for sixth
in the exercise, coming in eighth
on the p-bars and 10th on the
rings.
Should the Wolverines win the
tournament, it would be the first
in their history, and climax their
most successful season ever. Pre-
viously, no Michigan team had
ever been undefeated and won a
Big Ten crown at the same time,
let alone the NCAA's.
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Despite the loss of Larry How-
ard, defending champion in the
high and low hurdles, and Elzie
Higginbottom, the favorite in the
440 yard dash, Wisconsin placed
only three points (the equivalent
of a single third place finish) be-
hind the Hawkeyes and Wolver-
ines.
Michigan, however, will be
stronger outdoors than it was in-
doors. The reason for this state-
ment lies not in any new addi-'
tions to the track team but in the
fact that the events change from
the indoor season.
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These changes will serve "to ac-
centuate the positive," as far as
Michigan is concerned..
The most important change, as
far as Michigan is concerned, is
the dropping of the 1000-yd. run
and tha addition of the discus.
At first glance this alteration in
the program would seem to be
disastrous for Michagan. After all,
their only Big Ten champion in-
doors was Charlie Aquino in the
1000.
However, the addition of the
discus, will almost insure Michi-
gan more points than they got in
the 1000. Besides the regular three
weight men, Roger Schmitt, Ernst
Soudek and George Puce, all adroit
at discus throwing, the Wolverines
pick up a fourth man who Canham
feels rates in the top six in the Big
Ten, Fred Lambert.
Frizbie, Anyone?
Ernst Soudek is wt heart pure-
ly a discus man. He puts the shot
in the winter just to get free ad-
mittance to the track meets.
After the Big Ten Indoor Meet,
the sight of the 16 lb. metal ball
was enough to make Soudek walk
the other way. "Shot put, ecchh!
Discus, ahhh!" is the way the na-
tive of Vienna, Austria says it.
Soudek says that he expects to be
around 190' this year, the Big Ten
record is 178'112".
Aquino will not be a total loss
either; the diminutive Michigan
captain is the defending champion
in the outdoor 660-yd. run, but
is equally good in all of the middle
distance events. He will more than
likely be seen competing in the
880-yd. run this year.
The addition of the longer hur-
dIe events to the outdoor roster
will also strengthen Michigan's
chances. Instead of running the
60-yd. low and high hurdles, the
outdoor season will have the newly
added intermediate length of 440-
yd. hurdles, and the traditional
120-yd. highs.
Can Catch Up
This should aid Cliff Nuttall,
the only Michigan hurdler to place
in the Big Ten Meet. Nuttall is.a
big man and for that reason he
cannot get off the blocks as fast
as some of his fellow competitors.
Indoors the start is half the race,
as exemplified by Hayes Jones,
but outdoors Nuttall should have
plenty of time for catching up.
In addition, Canham feels that
Joe Mason and Charlie IPeltz will
be better hurdlers outdoors.
An event which doesn't change,
but which Canham feels Michi-
gan has greatly improved in the
last few weeks is the mile run.
"Both (Des) Ryan and (Dave)
Hayes are capable of running 4:10
right now," he says.
Ryan Sick
The mentioin of Hayes' name in
connection with a 4:10 mile is no
surprise but Ryan, a mild disap-
pointment indoors, is. "He had the
flu two weeks before the Big Ten
Meet," Canham explains, "and was
still weak. The same thing happen-
ed to Hayes last year. Then he
had a great year outdoors."
Another distance man who Can-
ham feels has shown great im-
provement over the past few weeks
is Dorr Casto.
Casto, Hayes and Ryan plus a
fourth man will make up the four
mile relay team which in addition
to the already well manned two
mile and one mile relay teams
Canham will be using in the early
outdoor relay meets this year.
Those who are interested in get-
ting an early sneak look at this
year's outdoor model of the Mich-
igan track contingent will have a
chance Saturday, if the weather
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Canham is holding a time trials
at 2 p.m. Saturday to give the
cindermen a chance to break the
routine of practice.
For those worried about the re-
cent condemning by the fire mar-
shal of the track stands, condi-
tions should be okay Saturday.
Only the upper part of the stands
were officially banned.
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