DAY, MAY,2T, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Track Team Eases Off To Reach Peak. For Big Willis Ward Is D~istance I Fvoi te ll In Top Shape For Last Meet Gorman And Hunt May Be Forced To Watch Meet From Stands. With only two more days before the opening of the Big Ten track meet, Coach Chuck Hoyt has been letting the Michigan team taper off that it may be in perfect condition for its bid to regain the title that it' lost to the well balanced Illinois squad of 1934. Willis Ward showed himself to be back in. shape again adding to his fine Monday's performance another encouraging workout yesterday. He took the hurdles easily and cleared the bar in the high jump at 5 feet 10 inches with the form that made him one of the outstanding jumpers in the country. The complete recovery of the Wol- verine star makes the hosts definite favorites to win over the high scor- ing Ohio State team lead by the rec- ord-breaking Jesse Owens. Gorman, Hunt Out Only two members of the Michigan squad originally scheduled to run are doubtful starters. Paul Gorman, suf- fering from a severe cold, and Moreau Hunt, who was injured on a hurdle at the Illinois meet last week, may be in the stands when the title events begin. Gorman, who had turned in a fast half mile in 1:55.7, was counted on to score in his race, and Hunt was also on the dope sheets to place in the hurdles. His improvement in the last weeks had brought him up among the leaders. Captain Harvey Smith, who after a successful indoor season had slowed up outdoors, has fully recovered the form that he showed in the Yost Field House and will be an outstanding threat in the mile and 880-yard run. Many experts pick him to finish ahead of Lash in the longer event. Qualifying Heats Today The meet will open at 3 p.m. Fri- day and qualifying heats in the 120- yard high hurdle, 100-yard dash, 440- yard run, half mile run, shot put, discus throw, running broad jump, and the javelin throw will be run off that day. The Friday schedule should end about 4:45 p.m. The saturday program will open at 1:45 p.m. when the-pole vault begins, and will continue until about 4:30 p.m. when the ceremony for the win- ning team will close the meet. Don Lash, Indiana distance star and one of the large number of stars here for the Big Ten meet Friday and Saturday, will be the outstand- ing favorite to win the two-mile title. The Hoosier sophomore; won the Na- tional cross-country crown and the Conference indoor two-mile early this season. Major League Scores American League Chicago 3, New York 2. Boston 7, Cleveland 2. National League New York 9, Pittsburgh 4. Brooklyn 9, Cincinnati 1. Boston 4, Chicago 1. Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 6. (Only games played). The HOT STOVE - - By BILL REED - - Chuck Hoyt and Ken Doherty, re- sponsible for the success of the Big Ten Track meet, have taken to step- ping off curbs with their left foot, refusing to look at the moon through screen doors and many other devices of their own and traditional origin, and have issued a blanket request that residents of Southeastern Mich- igan refrain from washing their cars for the remainder of the week all with the hope of keeping rain away for Friday and Saturday. Having done everything humanly possible to insure a great success for the meet, they are now resorting to exhortations of the gods that they cooperate. The most recent device toward in- suringsthe unqualified success of the meet is the installation of an anemo- meter, to measure wind velocities in order that any claims to world's rec- ords may officially be made. Official rules for the acceptance of record claims declare such claims in the sprints and broad jump will be in- validated by the presence of a tail- wind greater than three miles per hour, and suggest the installation of an anemometer to record existing wind conditions. Track conditions were pronounced j almost perfect yesterday by Coach Hoyt and Lorenzo Thomas, who has charge of the field. The cinder track has been watered and rolled daily and is now considered to be as fast as any track in the Middle West, and one of the fastest in the country. Although the broad jump pit has been moved to a place directly in front of the stands, abandoning the cinder runway for a grass runway, athletes and observers here say that the dif- ference in jumping conditions would be negligible. Harvey Patton, Michigan's diminu- tive quater-miler, is bearing a red welt on his neck this week as a re- sult of winnng his event against Illi- nois Saturday. The tape, which would have been chest-high for Stan Birleson, caught the half-pint Pat- ton on the neck. "I thought it was a clothes-line," he says, "but I would just as soon hit it first Saturday if it's wire." *e *4 * Fielding H. Yost, director of athlet- ics, is a hearty supporter of the chain- letter. Without having signed his name to one, "The Old Man" has already received two grimy dollar bills by mail. Assistant Director Cap- pon is not such a hearty supporter; after something like a week he has just disposed of his and has had no glimmer of any return. Michigan Track Team After Fourteenth Win The Michigan track team will be trying for its fourteenth Western Conference outdoor champion- ships in the annual meet at Ferry Field Friday and Saturday. Although they have competed in only 23 of the 34 outdoor meets which have been held to date, the Wolverines have finished on top 13 times. Michigan was out of the Conference from 1906 to 1913. Two years ago Michigan won the meet by a wide margin although taking only two first places. In- diana scored eight firsts but fin- ished a poor second in the tehm scoring. All Seats For Track Meet To lBe Reserved Business Manager Harry Tillotson yesterday repeated his announcement with regard to tickets for the Big Ten track meet, to be held Friday and Saturday at Ferry Field. All tickets for the field events Sat- urday are to be reserved, Tillotson said, with the best seats to holders of the $1.10 tickets, which hold good for both days. General admission Friday will be 40 cents, and reserved seats in less favorable sections of the stands will be sold at the same price to students with athletic coupon books for the Saturday events. Meyers Will Pitch Against Western State Varsity baseball coach, Ray Fish- er, will probably start Earl Meyers as pitcher against the powerful Western State Teachers College nine at Kala- mazoo tomorrow. This will be Mey- ers' first start in intercollegiate com- petiton. The Varsity will leave at 11 a.m. to- morrow for Kalamazoo. After meet- ing the Teachers the Wolverines will move on to Evanston where North- western will be played on Friday. Fisher has indicated that he would start John Gee against the wildcats who were trounced by Michigan in their last meeting. From Northwestern the nine will travel to Madison to tackle Wisconsin in a double-header. The two big guns of the Wolverine staff will be thrown against the Badgers in the persons of Berger Larson and Art Patchin. Yesterday the team worked out against Benny Oosterbaan's fresh- man squad. Larson and Patchin divided the pitching duties and easily held the first year men in check. The regulars unleashed a batting attack which had the freshman fielders chasing the ball to all corners of the field and which led Fisher to remark that more runs were being scored in the practice than had come across the plate all season. 24 Freshmen Will Get Track Awards Coach Ken Doherty announced yes- terday that freshman track numer- als had been awarded to 24 men. Those who received the awards are: Howard Bratt, Lockport, N. Y.; An- thony Czeresco, Dearborn; Erwood Edgar, Curtice, Ohio; Sanford Farrell, Grand Rapids; Raymond Fink, Spen- cer, N. C.; Fred Geib, Grand Rapids; James Godfrey, Washington, Mich.; Conrad Hermsted, Bethlehem, Pa.; Ed Johnson, Oneida, N. Y.; Lloyd Mc- Kay, E. Tawas; Fred Martin, New York; Stephen Mason, Grosse Pointe; Morris Morgan, Youngstown, Ohio; Thomas Searles, Toledo, Ohio; Fred Smith, Highland Park; William Stae- hle, Rutherford, N. J.; Edward Stan- nard, Fair Haven, Vermont.; Harold Stein, Monroe; Harold Syverson, Staten Island, New York; John Town- send, Lndianapolis, Ind.; Sanford White, Barrington, Ill.; William Wikle, Ann Arbor; Orlin. Zahnow, Dearborn; Leonard Dworsky, Chicago. Chicago Tody' By RAYMOND GOODMAN In the middle distance and dis- Coah John Johnstoneandi f tance events, unlike the dashes and s most brilliant and reliable ns hurdles, only one man can be pointed Mays crs iiistart afd iell tem to as a sure winner this week-end at .m. today in an a t emut to b ri Ihe Conference track championships, .min the Conference n, ti t oi which are being run-off at the Ferry Michigan this Cek-enfd in lie an Field stadium Friday and Saturday. hual Big Ten tournaent. Dn Lash. Indiana's sophomore ace, can be rated a sure first in the two- Johnstone has chosen Captain Sey- mile. His time of 9:17.6 is the best mour Siegel, Bob Anderson, Howie in the Big Ten by a large margin and Kahn and Miller Sherwood to go as only a heart-breaking race in the his regular entrants in the tourney, mile, which is scheduled an hour and while Jarvie Dean and Ted Thorward three quarters before the longer event, will make the trip as alternates. in a hot sun can make the two- Captain Siegel, who last year mile a close race. ranked second in Big Ten circles, will However, the other places are not be the Maize and Blue No. 1 repre- so sure. Walter Stone of Michigan, sentative. Bob Anderson, No. 1 play- Wayne Slocum of Minnesota, and er on the Wolverine squad during a Glen Price of Ohio State will all be great part of the season, will rank battling for the other positions. Stone second on the week-end's expedition. has the best time of the trio, but he Tournament play will start at 9 was beaten by Slocum when they a.m. Thursday, and as the Wolver- met. Many still think that he wil ines do not get intosChicago. until finish ahead of the Gopher runner late this evening, they will not have in the title race. a chance to practice on the courts Mile To Be Close before they play their first matches. The mile will be close, if past per- That the title will be a difficult one formances mean anything, with Lash to decide this year is obvious from a slight favorite. However, Captai the unusually high records of the Harvey Smith and Clayton Brelsfor schools. Bill Chambers of Ohio State, of the Wolverines, Dominic Renda Schommer of Minnesota, George and Ohio State flash, George Farley o: Russell Ball of Northwestern, and Northwestern, and perhaps Hobbs McInnich of Illinois are the chief ob- Indiana or Kleinschmidt, Wisconsin stacles in the path of Siegel and will all be bunched up in front. Anderson on the way to the top of Renda, who ran such a fine rac the 1935 heap. against Michigan two weeks ag, broke down last Saturday and los to Farley in the comparatively slo Varsity Aces To Meet time of 4:25.1. This inconsistenc makes it hard to predict his perform Pro Golfers Thursday ance this week-end. Smith is round Iing back into his old form and wit Johnny Fischer and Chuck Kocsis Brelsford makes a dangerous hra who yesterday placed one and two, and sure points for the home team respectively in the Big Ten golf meet adusuit al, s H obbrcntehtrusted. at Evanston will arrive back in Ann usual, Hobbs can't be trusted Arbor. in time to engage Olin Dutra, Beetham Favored In Half national open champion, and Jimmy Charles Beetham gets the call i Thompson, one of the longest drivers the half mile with Howard Davidso in golf, in an eighteen hole best ball as well as Smith close behind him foursome over the University course The Buckeye runner showed his bes Thursday afternoon.' form against Michigan, running i Dutra will arrive at the course in the impressive time of 1:53.8, bu time to give an exhibition of trick has been erratic and can't be counte and' fancy shots before the com- on as can his Wolverine opponent mencement of the match at 3:15 Jack Fleming of Northwestern is th p.m. The admission charge for stu- same type. He has 1:55 to his credi dents will be 40 cents, for all out- but has been above that so often tha siders, 75 cents. I-M Sports SENIOR In order to cooperate with the Con- C A N E S ference officials in handling the crowd for the Big Ten Track Meet the In- May Now Be Carried tramural Building will be closed Fri- day and Saturday afternoons, May 24 and 25 between 12:30 and 4:30. Made of Finest Kentucky Hickory- with a Sterling The semi-final fraternity baseball Silver Block M mounted on playoff will be held tomorrow after- ,a solid silver band- a cor- noon and the finals will be held next rect stick for lifetime use. Monday, May 27. S* Hermitage won the title in frater- nity horseshoe tournament defeatingB r Psi Upsilon 2-1. The semi-finals for the all-campus tourney in horseshoesaD will be held tomorrow and the finals aterson next Monday. & fluid CAUGHT BALL FROM PLANE Otto Miller, veteran Brooklyn 603 Church Street Dodger coach, once caught a baseball CANE SUNDAY, MAY 19th dropped from an airplane 450 feet above the ground. he must be considered a doubtful quantity. Sickness makes Paul Gor- man an improbable starter and Mar- maduke Hobbs, Hoosier star, is in- consistent. The 440-yard event is probably the most difficult of the fifteen to pick. A large group of runners have turned in performances around the 49 sec- ond mark and it can almost be said that the men in the favored positions around the curve will finish ahead. Winslow Heg of Northwestern ran a 48.6 quarter against Indiana to rate firsts in some dope sheets, but Carel- ton Crowell defeated him in the quad- rangular meet held in Chicago last week In :48.9. The Michigan pair, Harvey Pattor and Stan Birleson, must be counted in despite slower times. Their per- formances have been far more con- sistent and their dependableness makes them as important as the Il others. Bernard Page, indoor win- n ner, and GeneaSkinner, Iowa candi- dates, and Dave McQueen of Purdu will also probably be among the scorers. h d Chi Psi, Delts, Win In Softball Quarter-Final fs Chi Psi advanced to the semi-fin , als in the fraternity' softball play offs by defeating Alpha Tau Omega e 19-14, yesterday. Dick Evans, Ch ) Psi pitcher, struck out nine men , and Louis Westover batted out thre wt hits for the winners. y Hamilton Doxey pitched Delta Ta - Delta to a 14-7 victory over Delt - Upsilon in the other quarter-fina h1 match. George Bolas, Delta Upsilon t hurler and Varsity football playe L. struck out 13 Delt batters and mad two hits in three trips to the platE The semi-finals will be played tc h morrow with Chi Psi opposing Delt n Sigma Delta, and Phi Kappa Psi pla3 n. ing Delta Tau Delta. t in t The Lowest Price Ever d Named for Certain Quality! s. e itrSP IG Tennis Team I Firsts In Middle Distance And To Leave For Distance Events Uncertain Now M, bhian Steamroller Runs Over Conference Golf Field By FRED BUESSER Not only did Michigan successfully defend its Big Ten golf title over the Killdeer Country Club course Mon-' day and Tuesday, but the Wolver- ines set some sort of a record in so doing that is likely to stand for some time to come. Every school in the Western Con- ference was represented in the Evans- ton meet, which means that the 40 best golfers in the Big Ten were at- tempting to stop Michigan and the members of the Michigan team from repeating their victory of the last three years. In the face of this tre- mendous pressure, the Wolverines made a show of the field as they fin- ished with a record low score of 1163 strokes, just 60 shots better than their nearest rival, Northwestern. In fact when the Michigan golf team left Evanston after the conclu- sion of the meet, the only thing they left for the thirty-six golfers of the nine other teams was fourth place in the individual scoring. Bill Flynn of Northwestern just managed to get that. Johnny Fischer first, 281; Chuck Kocsis second, 284; Woody Malloy third, 297; and Allan Saunders fifth, 301, is a list of individual scores that looks a good deal more like the final results of the National Open than the scores of one team in a college golf meet. Not only did it mark the third time that Fischer has won the title, a rec- ord that needs little comment, but it also was the second year in suc- cession that Michigan has placed one- two in the low medal scoring. Fischer won the title as a sopho- more and as a junior, and when he failed to defend it last year due to his, Walker Cup sojourn in England, Chuck Kocsis had little difficulty in annexing it. Woody Malloy, who fin- ished third this year, was second to Kocsis in 1934. Of the seven medals that the Con- ference yearly offers to competitors in the Big Ten meet, Michigan left not a one, taking the entire seven for the third consecutive year, and making an almost unapproachable four-year record of 27 out of a pos- sible 28 medals. Fischer walked off with three med- als this year; one for low medalist, one for low individualist, and the third for being a member of the championship team. Kocsis got two medals; one for second low individ- ualist, and one for being on the win- ning team, and Woody Malloy and Al Saunders both got one medal each for membership on the title team. 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