THE -,MICHMAN -DAMY PAGE- TWENTY-TNRFr. -TIlE ~MICHTGAN -DAIT.V A AIW T T IVP\R~V-,;. - a1 Y .. a 1 ,xa ",a a ..A La*L', i hilgan Swimmers Outstanding In Meet Swimming Coach With Nipponese 1 rysdale And Kasley Star In Officials' Ruling Cancel rysdales Second Wit And Costs Meet "Wolverines Swim Jn Medley Victory =Kasley Makes Sensationa Time In Breast-Stroke Leg Of Relay In a meet that gave internationa observers an inkling of the struggle that will be waged for the swimmin supremacy of the world in the 193( Olympic games, Japan defeated ar all-star squad from the United State in a three-day meet at Tokio during the past summer 36 to 27, with Michi- gan stars of past and present giving outstanding performances as mem- bers of the American team. The meet was decided only after Taylor Drysdale, co-captain of the 1934-35 Wolverine swimming team, was disqualified for rolling too far on a turn in winning the 200-meter back-stroke race in the final day's events. Decision Protested This decision of the officials, which brogght a storm of protests particu- larly from the Japanese, gave the Nipponese natators enough points to take the meet. Drysdale, who won the National Collegiate back-stroke title three times under Varsity Coach Matt Mann and who holds the American and intercollegiate records for the 300-yrd individual medey swim, took a first place from the Japanese in the 100-meter back-stroke event, and started the winning American medley relay trio off with a good lead in the back-stroke leg. Jack Kasley, who as a Michigan sophomore last .winter set new rec- ords in winning the National Col- legiate and Big Ten breast-stroke titles, swam the second 100 meters in the medley race for the United States in the phenomenal time of 1:12.2. Peter Fick of the New York A. C. completed the winning trio. Kasley Edged Out The Wolverine star was beaten by Koike of the Nipponese in the 100- meter individual event in a race that saw both swimmers slap the finish together. Dick Degener, who won the Na- tional and Western Conference div- ing championships for Michigan twice and three times respectively be- fore he graduated, in 1934, accom- panied the American squad to the Far East as an exhibition perform- er. Diving was not a part of the dual meet with the Japanese as the United States divers are developed far be- yond those of any other, country. Degener today is undoubtedly the world's finest springboard and plat- form artist. Swimming Call To Find Four StarsMissing Despite the loss of a three-time national backstroke champion and three of the first four ranking free- style swimmers on last season's Var- sity, Coach Matt Mann's Michigan swimming team is counted upon to retain both their Western Confer- ence and National Collegiate titles during the coming year. Led by Captain-elect Frank Feb- senfeld, National high and low-board diving champion, thirteen out of the seventeen letter-winners on last year's championship squad are returning to the fold this winter. Mann Not Too Sure Coach Mann is not too optimistic about his chances in the National meet, but promises to have his boys in the thick of the battle, with a good possibility of Michigan's sensational divers piling up enough points to swing the championship to the Wol- verines. Der Johnston, Ned Diefendorf, and Ben Grady round out the veteran quartet of spring board artists who (Continued on Page 24) TUBB-S Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing WELCOMES FRESHMEN and SAYS Tex Robertson Is Now Full-Fledged Coach At Texas U. The Western Conference eligibili- ty ruling which cost Michigan's Na- tional championship swimming teai the services of Tex Robertson for the coming season, has given the University of Texas the best coach it has ever had. Robertson, who swam for Coach Matt Mann's natators only two sea- sons due to a year's freshman com- petition at Los Angeles Junior Col- lege, has transferred to Texas and, although not eligible as a swimmer, will coach the Mustang tankmen. though receiving no pay. The ex- Wolverine wishes to retain his ama- tuer standing in order to be eligible for the Olympic tryouts next sum- mer. This is not the first attempt Tex has made at the coaching game. Last year he led University High School to a successful season, developing Juliard Carr, state interscholastic free-style champion at 100 yards. His greatest coaching feat, however, was the discovery and development of Adolph Kiefer, Chicago schoolboy holder of various world records in the back-stroke events. Robertson still guides the swimming destinies of Kiefer by means of regular letters. Although only a junior last year, Robertson often took charge of the Michigan swimmers when Coach Mann was called away from Ann' Arbor. As a free-style performer at all distances from 100 yards upward, the Stillwater, Tex., product was picked on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's All-American team in 1934 and 1935. Last winter he won the Big Ten 440 and 220-yard titles, the former in record time, and swam on the na- tional championship Wolverine sprint relay quartet. NEVERS RETURNS TO SCHOOL Ernie Nevers, former All-American back from Southern California, will complete his college education at Breast-Stroke Star Natators Again On Top During 1934-35 Season Wolverines Overwhelm All Foes To Keep National And Big Ten Titles Michigan's football team may have crashed from its title heights last year, but Coach Matt Mann's swim- mers, characterized by their coach as "the best swimming team ever as- sembled under one roof," stayed on the top of the heap, capturing their fifth consecutive Western Confer- ence championship and winning the National Collegiate title for the sec- ond time in a row. The 1934-35 natators more than tripled the points of the second place teams in taking their sixth Nationall Collegiate title in the past nine years,l amassing a new record total of 49 counters to 15 for Yale and Wash- ington. A bit of derisive humor was1 attached to this tie for second place as Jack Medica of Washington single- handedly won as many points as the1 eleven-man Eli squad, earlier rated by1 Eastern writers as the best swimmingt team in the United States, and coach- ed by Bob Kiputh, much publicised for leading his team to over 100 con-r secutive dual victories.1 Wolverines, On Top The decisive manner in which theE ;Wolverine tankmen triumphed inf this meet, as well as in the WesternE Conference championships, estab-k lished once and for all Michigan'sf supremacy in the pool, and right- fully placed Matt Mann at the topr of the heap of American swimmingc coaches.I In the National meet at Boston,1 Co-Captain Taylor Drysdale won his third backstroke title, Captain-electt Fehsenfeld caine through with de-t cisive wins in both diving events,a sophomore Jack Kasley set a newv record in winning the 200-yard breast-stroke, the sprint-relay quar-r tet of Drysdale, Co-Captain Bob Ren-y ner, Ogden Dalrymple, and Tex Rob-v ertson won with ease, as did the med-a TROPHIES GO ON DISPLAY Several of the trophies which Taylor Drysdale, Jack Kasley, and Dick Degener, -Michigan stars of past and present, brought back from Japan, where they competed against the Nipponese as mem- bers of the American swimming team, will soon go on display in a window at Van-Boven's. 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Divers Make Sweep Aside from the first places gar- nered in the National meet, Ned Diefendorf, Ben Grady, and Der Johnston collaborated with Captain- elect Fehsenfeld to take eight out the first eleven places in the diving events Fred Cody took third in the back-stroke; Frank Barnard placed fifth in the 440-yard free-style, third in the 220, and fourth in the 1500- meter events; while Robertson was colecting a fifth in the furlong and Dalrymple was taking third in the 100-yard free-style. In the Conference championships the proteges of Coach Mann took their fifth consecutive Big Ten title, annexing 59 points to 25 for Illinois, who took second. This meet saw every Conference record with the execption of the 220- yard free-style broken with the Wol- verines grabbing four individual titles and the medley relay trophy. Drys- dale won the back-stroke for the third time, breaking his own record; Kas- ley set up a new mark in the breast- stroke; and Robertson won both the quarter-mile and the 220 free-style, the former event in record time. The Wolverines' dual meet record in 1934-35 was marked by over-whelm- ing victories over Michigan State, Indiana, Ohio State, Iowa, and the Ontario All-State, champions of the British Empire. ,. - i A Stanford University. Nevers entered the pro ranks before receiving his degree. Coach Mann Saws Japanese Olympic Swimming Win Will Not Be Repeated Japan's swimming victory over the United States of the last Olympics will not be repeated in 1936, accord- ing to Matt Mann, coach of Mich- igan's national championship tank squad and a member of the Olympic swimming committee. "We will hold them even at least in the swimming events, and then take the first three places in both the high and low-board diving events to cinch the victory," Coach Mann de- clared. In 1932 at Los Angeles, Buster Crabbe's win in the 400-meter free- style race was the only victory out- side of the diving the American forces could capture. The Japanese took first and second places in all of the other individual events, added a third, a fourth, and two sixths, and then proceeded to run away with the relay. Record In Japan Good Coach Mann bases his confident statement on comparative times and on the showing made in Japan this summer by the American team picked at the conclusion of the National A.A.U. meet held last July in Detroit.f In competition that did not include diving, the Americans were nosed out 36 to 27 only after the 200-meter 4' Mack-stroke victory of Michigan's Taylor Drysdale was not allowed. The natators from the United States were handicapped by the ab- sence of Adolph Kiefer, who nosed out Drysdale in the national cham- pionships, and by the illness in Japan of Jimmy Gilhula, star free-style performer. Ralph Flanagan, distance star, also was below form due to an indisposition. With all hands in condition, and with the lesson of 1932 fresh in their minds, the American swimmers should hold the Nipponese better than even in the water, and then sail to victory off the diving boards. To Copy Degener "The Japanese will develop divers by next summer," Coach Mann said, "but they won't be good enough to keep us from taking the first three places in both events. They made sure that Dick Degener, former Mich- JEWISH NEW YEAR CARDS A Large and Choice Selection at 0. MORRILL'S 314 South State Street igan ace and now the world's best springboard and platform artist, went to Japan with the American team to give exhibitions. They watched him with movie cameras and will do their best to learn his style perfectly." Next s'ummer's Olympic swimmers will again be coached by Bob Kiputh. 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