SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1935 THE..N. ... ~.1UN M C IA N.C .'L. TTV. U.. "' 111 I W .TC1V'AN1\1AITV gL. I4i~a VEX ,. rAU v n Michigan Wins 4 Big Ten Titles In 1934-35 MAKES SURE Newark to New York City until after Jesse Hill, Yankee outfielder, re- May 15 this year, wishing to be sure fused to move his residence from he wouldn't be farmed out. F __ _._ Maize And Blue Is Either First Or Near Bottom Swimmers Take National Crown For Sixth Time In Nine Years . Is Worst Grid Year Golfers Rout Opposition, Prepare For Defense Of National Team Title Michigan athletic efforts either suc- ceeded this year or fell far short as the Wolverines' won four Big Ten titles - in .track, hockey, golf and swimming - and finished low in the Conference in five other sports: Foot- ball, basketball, baseball, wrestling, aind tennis. Here are brief summaries of what each team did during 1934-35: FOOTBALL No season in Michigan footballwas more disastrous than last fall's. Only one game was won, and that over a weak team, Georgia Tech. Michigan finished at the bottom of the Conference, losing every Big Ten game. Michigan State, Chicago, Xllinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Northwesterndefeated the Wolverines in that order. The nucleus of next fall's team must be found in Matt Patanelli, Bill Renner, John Viergever, and a' strong freshman group led by Bob Cooper, Stark Ritchie, and George Highlight Of The Michigan Sport Season II The HOT STOVE ---- By BILL REED III '! : WILLIS WARD, who has begun ac-I tive preparation for competition in the 1936 Olympic decathlon, has All the qualifications of a record breaker, according to Ken Doherty, freshman track coach here and a former Olympic decathlon champion. No other man has ever had the outstanding qualifications which Ward possesses, Doherty says, with his speed and strength, and no man ever began training with the advantage which Ward has in four events, the dash, high hurdles, high jump, and broad jump. The decathlon is a con- test in 10 track and field events: the 100-meter dash, 400-meter run, 1,500- meter run, 110-meter high hurdles, high jump, broad jump, discus, shot put, javelin and pole, vault. Points are scored on the basis of winning times and distances in the individual competition in the 1912 Olympic games. One thousand points are awarded for equalling the 1912, standard, and adjusted point sched- ules provide for decathlon perform- ances better or below the standard. A revised method of scoring has recently been released, but it is un- derstood that it would effect only point totals and not the 1912 basis. The present world's record is something over 8,700 points, es- tablished this year by Hans Sie- vert of Germany, in breaking the mark set by Jim Bausch of the United States in winning the 1932 Olympics. petitive spirit, Ward has often been made the subj ct of such speculation as "a certain world- beater if he would concentrate in this event," and various indivi- duals 'ame their own events. ONE LOCAL SUPPORTER would like to see him concentrate in the high hurdles, one says he could break all records in the dash, and I suspect that Coach Chuck Hoyt might have liked to see Willis jump up to seven feet in the high jump. Personally, I would like to see him run the quar- ter-mile, which happens to be my fa- vorite event, although there is possibly less chance of his going to the top there. At any rate, Willis Ward stands out as one of the greatest athletes of all time, or even as Phil Diamond often has put it, "The greatest athlete who ever stepped on the track." Whatever he does he will have the great body of Michigan behind him, as a partial reward for the great things which he has done and will do in her name. COMMENT in this column yesterday of vacation pursuits has brought to light a summer vacation which arouses my sincere envy. Ken Do- herty will conduct a two months tour for college freshmen and sophomores into the Lake Superior regionona 60-foot power schooner, with a month to be spent in canoeing into =the in- terior wilds of Northern Ontario, the greatest fisherman's paradise in the world. About six berths are still open on his tour, Ken adds. When Stan Birkron, anchor man on the Wolverine relay team, crossed the finish line in the Big Ten outdoor track meet at Ferry Field, giving Michigan a victory in the relay and the Conference title, the climax of a Maize and Blue season that knew both surprising successes and disappointments was reached. Ghesquire. SWIMMING Submerging all opponents beneath a flurry of record-breaking perfor- mances, Coach Matt Mann's 1935 Varsity tank squad established itself as the "best swimming team ever assembled under one roof" by setting new scoring reords in taking the national collegiate title for the sixth time in nine years and the Western Conference crown for the eighth time in nine seasons. Co-Capt. Taylor Drysdale took his third national back-stroke title, Jacl Kasley set a new record in winning the brast-stroke, Capt.-elect Frank Fehsenfeld won the high and low- board diving contests. In dual meets the champions swamped Michigan State, Indiana, Ohio State, Iowa, and the Ontario All-Stars, champions of the British Empire. HOCKEY With but six men to: assume the burden, Michigan's hockey team gave the most heroic performance of the. year when it defeated Minnesota in the second of a two-game series here to take the Conference hockey crown, for the first time in five years. Aside from the thrills of the second, Wolverine-Gopher meeting here, the, pucksters finished with a percentage of .800 to win the first title of the year. They finished the season with 60 goals in 17 games, exactly twice the number of their opponents. Larry David, captain-elect, bore much of the team's burden as he met all threats at a defense along withi the veteran Don MacCollum.1 WRESTLING Injuries and ineligibility hit a Wol- verine wrestling team which started the season with high hopes and sent it to sixth place in the Conference meet after breaking even in Big Ten dial meets. Injuries to Captain Jack Harrod, Frank Bissell, and Abe Levine and the ineligibility of Harry Wright in Feb- ruary broke up a potentially strong squad. A nucleus of sophomores from the 1935 team and several out- standing freshmen promise a better season next year. BASKETBALL The basketball season turned in3o a debacle, although an encouraging side of the year was the fact that a large part of the squad was made up i of underclassmen while a few out-' standing freshmen are looked to bring the Wolverines out of the cellar next season. After winning six of seven pre- Conference season games, the Wolver- ines gathered but two wins against Big Ten teams. TRACK In a successfai season climaxed by the sensational Conference track and field meet here last week, the track team scored its first siam under Coach Charlie Hoyt, winning both indoor and outdoor team titles and sweeping 'all Big Ten dual competition. Led by the seniors, Wiliis Ward and Harvey Smith, a band of fighting and distinguished sophomores swept through all competition. The Big Ten outdoor meet proved to be one of the most thrilling in the1 history of modern track, compared by veteran observers with the 1932 Olympic games. In that meet Jesse Owens of Ohio State broke loose to three world's records and tied another as a valiant Michigan relay team came back in the final event to win the team title. GOLF With defense of its national inter- collegiate title still ahead, Michigan's golf team has victories in the West- ern Conference tournament, and five dual meets out of six behind. Johnny Fischer won the Conference individual title with Chuck Kocsis runner-up. Woody Malloy and Al Saunders were third and fifth. Michigan broke the team record in Big Ten competition by 57 strokes, while Fischer's total in winning his third championship was also a record low. i 1 E I ment may not have been unparalled I DOHERTY figures Ward should in the annals of Michigan's tennis be able to score 8,000 points al- history, but the dual meet record will most at will, and without extended stand as one of the best of recent training. Consistent work for the years. Captain Seymour Siegel, year, not necessarily hard work, would benched for a while in the middle of put the great Michigan star in shape the season, piloted a team that won to break the mark, he says. Ward ten engagements, suffered but two would have to concentrate in the fall defeats, and tied one, on the distance runs and perfection Howie Kahn, elected captain of next of his form in the field events, Do- year's aggregation, was perhaps the I herty adds. most consistent winner in the upper The 1912 Olympic marks are: 110- bracket. Miller Sherwood, the only meter run, :10.8; 400-meters run, sophomore to be ranked among the :48.2; 1,500-meter run, 3:56.8; high first four, was responsible for the two hurdles, :15.1; high jump, 1.93 meters points garnered by Michigan in the (6,3304 feet); broad jump, 7.60 met- Conference meet. ers (24.929 feet); discus, 45.21 me- BASEBALL ters (148.2888 feet); javelin, 60.64 me- Although Michigan broke even dur- ters (198.8992 feet) ; shot put, 15.34 ing the season's play and finished meters (50.3152 feet); pole vault, 3.95 ahead with an average better than meters (12.956 feet). .500 in the Conference, Coach Ray Ward has competed actively in but Fisher has said that he was disap- four events, and occasionally in an- pointed in the record of the 1935 Var- other. He has a mark of 9.6 seconds sity baseball team, in the dash which corresponds roughly to a mark of 100 meters of :10.5; this "After the spring trip I thought year he has run hurdles at the metric they were going to do very well," he distance in :14.5; he high jumped at said, "but inability to hit stopped the Conference meet about 6 feet, 4 them all season." - inches, and is expected to improve On the spring road trip, Michigan there; and broad jumped 25 feet, 1% won two out of five games. In the inches in his first test with a revised Big Ten, six games were won and jumping form. Occasional efforts in five lost. Eleven victories balanced the shot put brought a best throw of 11 defeats for the season as a whole. about 43 feet, although Doherty has Michigan had one of its strongest often remarked that Ward has all the infields of all time in George Ford, qualifications of a perfect weight Jack Teitelbaum, Clayt Paulson, and prospect. Capt. Russ Oliver. 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