WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FACAE TR VarsityRenews Track Rivalry With Buckeyes Ohio State Is Strengthened In Middle Distance Runs By Beethain's Eligibility Hurdlers In Feud, w' STAR *DUST Illinois Squad Picked To Win Baseball Title Except For Michigan Nine, Indians Face No StrongI Opposition In Future I Winners Of Grid Award Have j Become Stars In Later Years ART CARSTENS-- Owens-Ward Duel Will Outstanding Feature Saturday's Contest Be Of A repetition of the sensational Michigan-Ohio State indoor meet' here in March is promised Saturday in the dual meeting between the two teams on Ferry Field. Besides the featured duel between Willis Ward' and the Buckeyes' Jesse Owens, keen competition is expected in every track event, and in the jumps. The Buckeyes have reorganized since their 62-32 trimming indoors, with Charles Beetham, a sophomore middle distance star, forming a nu- cleus in the events above which Owens cares for. Beetham last week won the half mile from Notre Dame in the Buckeyes' opening meet outdoors in 1:57.5, ran anchor on the winning relay team and was edged out of a place in the quarter. Half To Be Dual Running in the half against Paul Gorman, Howard Davidson and Frank Aikens, Beetham is expected to fur- nish the best of the pre-Conference meet duals in that event. In the quarter Beetham, with Ed Gazdick and Bob Bleckle, will meet Stan Bir- leson and Harvey Patton. Patton last Saturday did :49.5 as Beetham was edged out of the money in :49.8. Another featured race is expected in the mile in which Don Renda will return to face Captain Harvey Smith, who is slowly rounding into peak condition, Clayton Brelsford, and Paul Pinkerton. Renda did 4:25.7 against the Irish Saturday, slightly slower than Brelsford's winning time against Minnesota. Osgood Meets Rivals In the hurdles events Bob Osgood ivill be renewing a six-year rivalry with Ken Seitz which has extended through four years of high school competition. For three years Seitz was a consistent winner over Osgood until their senior year when Osgood emerged to win in the highs. Seitz has a best mark of :15.4 in the highs in which Osgood is expected to break 15 seconds, and of :24.6 in the lows, a mark which Michigan's sophomore ace has already broken. Moreau Hunt, showing sensational improvement in two successive meets, will also be expected to extend the competition. Although George Neal and John Schwartz are expected to take two places in the shot put for the Buck- eyes, neither have shown sufficient form to give them places in the two other field events. The Buckeye en- tries finished behind wins by Irish in the javelin at 174 feet and in the discus at 130 feet. DEAR ART: Wonder Just What Eddie Lowrey t Does when all the ice is gone?1 When the fields are fair and floweryi Does he sit and smoke and yawn? 1 Does he trek to North Alaskaa Or. to Greenland's icy bays? Or does he just sit and bask awhile Beneath the sun's hot rays? Kipke has a banquet season, Hoyt has. football in the fall,' Is there any earthly reason Why Eddie has no work at all? Rather than just keep him waiting, Give him something to intrigue. Get a team for roller skating, Organize a Big Ten League! Then we'll keep o1' Eddie busy, And the sun won't get him dizzy. .-W.T.C. DEAR W.T.C. Coach Eddie Lowrey, so they say, Is a builder on Greenland Bay. It is he who builds the igloos, (Don't laugh you stinking gigoloos) For the wily Eskimoos. Though he coaches winning puck teams He can whip a gurgling And put the slimy mo spot. Like as not, like as not. g trout stream onsters on the He can drive nails and sew a tidy seam Put on a roof and install the beams He can pick young hockeyors Before they leave perambulators He is a contractor. -STAR DUST Benefit Meet Nets Alix $330; Star Doing Nicely Neree Alix, Michigan's two- mile star who is in the University of California infirmary recover- ing from a compound leg fracture incurred when Michigan met the Bears in a track meet last month, will receive about $330 as the re- sult of the benefit track meet held last week between the Varsity squad and Michigan State Normal. Business Manager Harry Tillot- son yesterday reported that $322 had been turned in, representing donations as well as proceeds from the meet, which will be turned over to- Alix for his own use, and that several blocks of tickets remained outstanding. Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, direc- tor of the Michigan Health Serv- ice said yesterday that he was in receipt of a letter from Dr. John Legge, director of the health serv- ice at California and that Alix was "doing very nicely," Chicago threw a bomb into Confer- ence baseball predictions yesterday by taking first place in the stand- ings away from the Illini with a sur- prising 7-4 victory over the Illinois nine at Champaign. The Maroons now have a record of three wins and one defeat. With a 1-0 victory over Michigan Saturday completing the hardest half of the University of Illinois nine's schedule, the Orange and Blue should have easy sailing to its second Big Ten title. Illinois, Michigan and Ohio State are the strongest teams in the Con- ference this year. Having already disposed of the Buckeyes twice, being deposed by them in a third game for their first defeat, the Illini have only one difficult contest remaining, the return Michigan game at Champaign, May 18, and the Conference title may well hang in the balance if the Wol- verines down Ohio State twice this week end. Two games with Northwestern and single encounters with Purdue and Chicago, the three weakest clubs in the league, are left on Coach Roet- tger's list.- With sufficient days of rest interspersed between games to allow Hale Swanson to pitch them all, neither of this trio should come close to the Illini. Michigan, Ohio State Next Michigan and Ohio State, panting along in the wake of the speeding Illinois nine, glean what satisfaction they can from the consoling words of Wally Stewart, Northwestern's coach. When the Wildcats were here three weeks ago to take a 10-4 drub- bing from Michigan he confidently stated that his club would take the Indians' scalp in one of their two games. The Wolverines and Buckeyes are hoping he has more up his sleeve than a hunch. Rivals Battle Here Michigan and Ohio State will tear at each other's throats in a two-game series here this week-end, that will eliminate one and possibly both teams as serious titular contenders. Should they split, both teams will have three defeats which is one more than Illinois is likely to suffer. If either team sweeps the series, it will be in a position to tie the Illini for the championship, pending another defeat of the Indians. Minnesota's Gophers, considered a pre-season possibility for rthe title, could do no better than split a double- header with Northwestern Saturday, in their opener, winning the first game 3 to 1, then losing by the same score. Minnesota will take on the ninth-place Wisconsin Badgers at Minneapolis this Saturday. By breaking even in a twin bill with Wisconsin last Saturday, 3 to 1 and 1 to 3, Iowa maintained its .500 per- centage to go into a four-way tie with Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio State for third place. By RAYMOND A. GOODMAN The 1935 winner of the Chicago Alumni award, who is to be named tonight, will be the eleventh man in what is fast becoming a lengthy and distinguished group of grid stars, se- lected in their freshman year's be- cause of their outstanding "improve- ment, attitude, attendance, and future promise as Varsity material." Because those players who run the ball are given a greater chance to gain the spotlight, five winners have been backfield men and three ends. This year the leading candidates fill these same positions. The first to be honored was Ray Baer. He proved a worthy starter being chosen as All-Conference guard and was deprived of a place on the All-American squad only because two other Wolverines, Benny Friedman and Benny Oosterbaan, were chosen for the mythical eleven, that year. f At the present time Baer is turning out some fine prep school players at Manual High of Louisville. Rich Coaching Denison George Rich, the 1926 selection, proved a good, dependable captain and fullback, although he played half his first year, and shortly after his graduation from the Law School, was appointed head coach at Deni- son College. Michigan was robbed of one of the brightest prospects that has come here in recent years when LaVerne Taylor, the winner in 1927, suffered a broken back in the Wisconsin game of his first year of Varsity competi- tion after he had scored the first touchdown ever made in the Stadium in the opening game against Mich- igan State. After slow recovery, Tay- lor returned to his alma mater, Ann Arbor High, where he coached until last year when he became mentor at a Hammond, Ind., school. Halfbacks caught the coaches fancy the next two years with Danny Holmes chosen in 1928 and Roy Hud- I sin in 1929. The latter proved a con- sistently good back, being chosen cap- tam in his senior year when Mich- igan won the Conference title. Estil Tessmer followed Hudson, but injuries and an excess of stars kept him from being a starter. Everhardus Outstanding In 1931 the outstanding player of the ten, Herman Everhardus won the trophy. During his junior and senioi years, the Wolverines won the Na- tional title with Herm leading the Big Ten scorers in 1933 and being chosen as a member of the All- American squad. In the last three years Gerald Ford t Michael Maleshevich (now known as Mike Savage), and Matt Patanelli Freshman Nine Defeats Varsity Reserves, 8-4 Showing definite improvement over their early season form, the freshman baseball squad yesterday avenged a previous defeat at the hands of the Reserves by the score of 8-4. Lefty Harnden and Herman Fishman hurled for the winners while Milt Melzer, Berger Larson, and Lefty Settle were on the mound for the Re- serves. have been picked by the board of football strategy. Ford was kept in the shadows for two seasons by the great Chuck Bernard and then whenS he finally was taken off the bench, a poor team obscured him. Savage and Patanelli, the present Varsity ends, look to be one of the best pair in the country with a good chance to make the Alumni trophy an even more highly valued prize. sT ke 5-3 Win From Macks DETROIT, May 7-Tommy Bridges allowed the Philadelphia Athletics but scattered hits and the Tigers extended their winning streak to five straight with a 5-3 victory. Lefty Gomez suffered his third loss of the season when the league-leading Chicago White Sox beat the Yanks, 4- 3. The Washington Senators won from the St. Louis Browns, 7-3. Cleveland and Boston were rained WRESTLERS MEET All members of the freshman and Varsity wrestling squads are to meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union for an important eligibility discussion. Coach Cliff Keen. BASEBALL PIONEERS The University of Pennsylvania was playing baseball in 1874, two years before the National League was start- ed. out. Cold stopped the National League. "A unty sleeps more soundly since you got a FORD V-8" I1 1 SPring Clothi ng of V a e and i isinctiao Broken Leg Results In Johnny Rodriguez Becoming Net Star TO AW All footbal ing those wh for Spring P be at a mee 8 p.m. today Chicago will Alumni Trop VARD TROPHY By MARJORIE WESTERN Since weather in Puerto Rico is not like what we have here, even in the spring, tennis is one of the most generally played and important games on any of the Island sports sched- ules, according to Johnny Rodriguez, one of Coach Johnstone's most prom- ising luminaries on the tennis squad and holder of various Puerto Rican net titles. The only school to have a tennis team is the University of Puerto Rico, where Johnny played his freshman year. Most of the organized team playing is done in private clubs. Few women play, and according to Mr. Rodriguez's insinuations, those who do are not too good. Johnny himself is a tennis star more or less by accident. He broke his leg when he was about 15 years old, and when he recovered, he thought he'd take up tennis on the assumption that it was easier than most anything else he could do. After that, he says, "It got to be a fever." Beat A Roosevelt In his first tournament match, Johnny drew young Teddy Roosevelt as an opponent, and was so scaredl he "saw spots all around the ball." He dropped the first set, but after that decided that after all a Roose- velt was only a politician, and took the next two sets, winning the match. Having set himself to the art of be- coming a tennis player, the young Puerto Rican did not stop part way. Before hie came up here he had won his club title, and the crown for his class in the southern part of the Island. Then, he says, he decided that the University of Puerto Rico was too good for him (Which state- ment he refuses to explain) and came up here in 1932. Took Up Wrestling As a freshman on the campus, Rod- riguez went out for- wrestling as more his present teammates Bob Ander- son, the No. 1 player of the Varsity, Miller Sherwood, and Jarvis Dean. "Of course, those were lucky days," he averred in a reassuring tone. For all the nonchalance of his atti- tude, Rodriguez is one of the most conscientious and hard-working of the tennis players. His debut in Con- ference net circles last week-end was marked by a victory over his oppo- nent, Duhl of Chicago, which he won in straight sets, 7-5, 6-0. He and Milton Eskowitz accounted for the only doubles victory over Chi- cago, which they took from Mertz, No. 2 Maroon player, and Duhl, again in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. And Coach Johnstone, in a week in which he has plenty to be annoyed about, says of Johnny, "I'm proud of that boy. He did very well, and deserves credit for a straight set victory in his first match play." 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