THE MICHIGAN DAILY FR DAY, INIATICH °25, °1927 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCh '26, '1927 t= I R+Mw r r , .w. u,,.,...... . . .. rrr""""" .,,w..r...rrr x .... .....r WOLVERINE TANKMEN FAORITESIN CONFERENCE MEET 'WOLVERINES ENTER PRELIMINARIES TONIGHT IDETERMNUED TO AVENGE PREVIOUS DEFEATS 1 I '1 3 tti 1 i S American League President Is Rapidly Regaining Strength At Health ResortR Ly [ R MN Red And White Stars Hold Time Trials And Drills In Preparation For Coiing Meet Here ..BENSON WINS IN MILE Coadh la'nn Announces Entries With futility of attempting to heat either Eye To -0taining Highest Samson or Wagner in the 440, and it! Ninber Of Points is therefore expected that Moody or S. Hill will represent the Gophers inI A the 220 with Bjornberg in the longer MAWYMAK IN DANGER! 1'1 'M RKS 1event. Wagner's speed in the 440 is un- Favorites for the first time since! questioned, but the Northmen are cer- their entrance -into the Conference in tain to 'press him in the furlong icon- 1923 Coach Matt Mann's Wolverines test. Davenport and juss, of Pur-' will enter the preliminaries of the Big due and Illinois, are other possibn- Ten swim meet tonight at Urbana]ities, but third and fourth places are; determined to revenge their treatment all that any splasher may expect with f t t Y t i i i t College Presidents Strongly Oppose Suggested Changes In Football Rules The football changes recently pro- table material by.one-third and double posed by President Ernest M. Hop- the need for such material. The effect kifis of Dartmouth college have met would be a demand for a larger sup- with strong opposition throughout the ply of varsity material and the temp- east from authorities of nearly all the tation to secure such by competitive colleges. proselyting. Boston university is the only school to express complete approval of the Dr. Kennedy feels that it would put suggested changes. President Marsh I the smaller schools at a disadvantage. said he was ready to "recommend Also he does not think the under- complete acceptance" as the proposals graduates capable of assuming the re- tend to reduce the commercial aspect sponsibility of coaching as was sug- of the game." gested. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy, chairman Head Coach Lou Young of Pennsyl- of the Princeton athletic board, takes vania said, "Football as it is played issue with each of the changes pro- today is entirely satisfactory. T'here posed by Dr. Hopkins. He said that has been entirely too much tinkering the plan to allow .only sophomores with the game and the sooner it stops and juniors play and develop two the better. It is not far to keep a Varsity teams would cut down avail- senior out of college competition." at the hands of other Conference .schools in former years. Michigan has won only four firstl places in Conference competition and has scored only 71 points as compar- ed with 41, 33, 26, 18, and 14 first places and 458, 323, 243, 281, and 1331 points for Northwestern; Chicago, fl-1 linois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, re- spectively. Definite announcement was finally3 made by Coach Mann concerning the exact entries of his star natators. Conference and national intercol- legiate rules pfohibit one swiinmer from competing in more than two in- dividual events and one relay, and coaches always are in the habit of Jockeying their nominations in ac- cordance with the expected strength or weakness of the opposition. SMann Announces Entries With the most possible points as the goal the free style Wolverines are entered as follows: Watson, Seager, Darnall, and Samson in the 200 yard' straight relay; Darna'l 'and' Seager in the 50 and 100 yard free style, with Batter and Beient added in the sprint and only the latter in the 100; Sam- son and Wagner in the 220 and 440; and Watson as anchor leg on the med- ley relay trio. Samson holds the season mark in the 50 at :23,9, 2-10 better than Hirsh- berger's Conference record but is' sZved for the 220 and 440 events inl which he is expected to lower his own national intercollegiate records of. j:17 1-5 and 5:1 3-5 in the long pool. Michigan's entries in the 50, even without Captain- Samson, are the strongest pair, as shown by Darnall's recent practice trials at :23 3-5 andI 23 4-5, equalling Bronson's intercol- legiate record, .and his official season mark of :24 1-5 which is. second only to Samsn's in the Conference. Seager should; place with any sort of a start against Oker, Chicago's sophomore credited with :25.1, Hirsch- berger, Wisconsin record holden whose best time this season has been :25.4, and Manovitz, Northwestern captain undefeated except by Samson. Other speedy sprint stars include S. Hill and Moody, Minnesota; Ritten- flouse, Chicago; and Clark, Wisconsin. Darnall Favorite In 100 With the same field in the 100, Dar- nall should again defeat the defend- ing champion, Moody, and should crack the existing record of :55 2-5 by more thon one full second. Noyes and McClintock, of Chicago and Iowa arq'other possible scorers., Although the 220 Is not listed in dual meet competition it is included in the championship meet. Entries in this event are as yet unknown but the field will undoubtedly consist of some of the 100 yard swimmers including in this group Noyes, Moody, Zaiser, of Indiana, and Druiding, of North- western. Minnesota will not enter her strongest swimmers because of the it ia the stellar Wolverines entered. Outside of the free style events Michigan does not so completely dom- inate the field and it is not expected to tally any first places with the pos-1 sible exception of the back stroke, where the feature duel of the meet should take place between J. Hill, Minnsota's national champion, and the star Wolverine trio composed of' Spindle, Hubbell, and J Halsted. Expect Duel In Back Stroke Spindle and J. Hill hold the sea-i son's mark of 1:45.3 jointly, 5 3-51 seconds better than Hill's, Conference, mark. Hubbell is Michigan's other sophomore star who must be reckoned with, while J. Halsted,. runnerup last year, may return to old form to de- feat Omar Miller, Northwestern, and Oker, Chicago. In the 200 yard breast stroke therel are six men who have gone under the 1 2:50 standard which divides the good swimmers from the others. Merlin Carter, defending champion and rec- ord holder at 2:47.7 has been unde- feated duirng the past season and un- til recently was credited with the fastest time of the season for the l event, 2:44 1-5. Miller, of Indiana, de- feated early in the season by both R. Halsted and Shorr, of the Wol-l verine squad, recently was timed forI the distance in the excellent time of1 2:44. ' Halsted has been victorious over! Purdy, Minnesota, in 2:49 1-5, ,but the! Gopher has done the distance in bet- ter time on other occasions. Shorr,t who finished in fourth place last year, ranks fourth again according to. sea-1 -son performances, with 2:46.2, Kratz,I of Wisconsin, having been timed ati ITHACA, March 24. - Time trials held Saturday, and several practice workouts since that day, indicate that the Cornell track team will pre-.. sent a powerful and well trained1 team when they meet the Wolverines in a meet Saturday night in Ann Ar- bor. Coach Moakley put his men through several hard workouts prior to his announcement that 34 men would nmake the trip, and several fine per- formances were turned in. The races were not run over the regular com- petition distances, however, being re- stricted to a certain number of laps si by the coach. Orthman, Moor, Frincke, and Day- ton ran an especially close race in a six lap run, with Frincke coming from behind in the last few yards to overtake Dayton and Orthman, who had set the pace. The time of 1:57.2 established a new record for the year on a board track. Goodwillie proved his superiority in the 50 yard dash by winning in the final race from Young and Auerbach, who had each won one heat in the rather slow time of 5.8. In the hur- gles Cassebaum was the most out- standing man. He won the 65 highs ,.rom Carruthers and Wells, and then placed second to Young in the 65 yard lows. The 18 lap run was an easy race for Pond.. Levering held with the leader for seven laps, but weakened as Pond settled into a fast stride, and the latter finally won by half a lap. Benson, star jsophomore distance man, ran away from Willets, his nearest competitor, to set a new mark in the 12 lap race, a distance of 100 yards less than a mile. BerI- son's time of 4:13 is one of the fast- est performances ever turned in here. Senior Canes' Ban B. Johnson, who is technical- ly on a leave of absence, because of] ill health, but practically relieved from his position as president of the American league, is shown on the right, after returning from a walk 2:45. Colbath, Northwestern's sophomore, central A. A. P. fancy diving chain- pion and Grol, Illinois, are among the best divers in the Conference. J Others who should show well areI Ratcliffe, Wisconsin, Barnacle, Min- I nesota, and Starrett and Bailey, Mich- igan. 1 Michigan should encounter little dif-; ficulty in the 200 yard straight relayc and should lower Minnesota's markt of 1:40 1-5 by at least four seconds. l Chicago's great team composed of Oker, Rittenhouse, Noyes, and Green- burg and Northwestern, with Colbath Miller, McDonald, and ManovitzI should earn places. . with his physician, Dr. Leonard El-j lis, at Hot Springs, Ark. Only -a few months ago Johnson aroused nation-wide interest in the baseball world by opposing the re- naming of Judge Landis as baseball's high commissioner, but failed utterly in his attempt In fact, so complete was his fail- ure that the American league mag- nates put a more forceful curb on his powers than they did a few years ago, when the fiery prexy first chose to oppose the will of Landis. 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