FRIDAY, MARCILH7, 193C THE MICHIGAN DAILY . . ..... .. . ....... .. ........... .... . ... .. .. .. .. ... Swimmers Start Defnse Of National TiLie It . ( Michigan Pins Chances For Win On Divers Jack Kasley, Medley And Free-Style Relay Teams Are Defending Crowns NEW HAVEN, March 27-(Spe- cial) -Michigan's 13-man Varsity swimming team goes into the 13th Annual National Collegiate cham- pionships here today only an even bet to defend its title and become winner for the seventh time in the ten years. Preliminaries ard finals in the 1500-meter, 50-yard and 220-yard free-styles, the 150-yard back-stroke, the 300-yard medley relay and the one-meter or low-board diving events will constitute the program for today; with the 100-yard free-style, the 200-yard breast-stroke ,the 440-yard free-style, the three-meter or high- board diving and the 400-yard free- style relay on the card for tomorrow. Wolverines Depend On Divers Michigan will stand or fall on her divers, with Capt. Frank Fehsenfeld as defending champion in both events aided by Ned Diefendorf, Ben Grady and Der Johnston. If this All-Ameri- can quartet can pile up about 12 points off the two' boards, the Wol- verines will return to Ann Arbor champions for the third year in a row, something they have never suc- ceeded in being. Jack Kasley in the 200-yard breast- stroke and the medley and free-style relay teams complete Michigan's de- fending ,title-holders, with only the free-style team expected to lose. Michigan's greatest opposition will come from Iowa, recent conquerors of the Wolverines in the Big Ten champions, Yale, champions of the East, and Harvard. Jack Medica, if he comes through for the third year in a row with three first places, will put Washington in the running. Varsity Sure Of Other Points With the difference between first place and defeat resting on the per- formances of Michigan divers, the1 remainder of the Wolverine points are more or less sure. Kasley will win the breast-stroke and break his own record, and the medley-relay trio of Kasley, Harry Rieke, and either Bob Mowerson or Frank Barnard should win after a hard fight with Harvard and North- western. Rieke in the back-stroke is due for at least a third, the free-style relay quartet of Barnard, Mowerson, Erwin, McCarty, and either Ed Drew, Dick Blake or Paul Keeler should be good for a third or fourth, and Barnard should take a second in the 1500 be- hind Medica. Relay Trophies Are Placed On Exhibit The Michigan track team's But- ler Relay trophies, won by the Wolverines in the 1934, 1935, and 1936 Relays will be exhibited this week in the windows of George J. Moe sporting goods company, at 711 North University Street. The ten trophies include the Gov. Paul V. McNutt cup, three Herf-Jones team trophies, and six relay trophies. Permanent pos- session of the McNutt trophy, sig- nificant of team victory in the carnival, was won by the Varsity last week in the fourth annual Relays at the spacious Butler Field House in Indianapolis. No trophieswere awarded at the Big Ten indoor championships which the Michigan team won two weeks ago. I TheOT STOVE By BILL REED "COME say there is and some say there isn't," so says "Sports and the American Golfer" in its March issue in introducing an article by G. H. Brande on "Athlete's Heart." And Mr. Brande is one who says there isn't as he quotes heart specialists to disprove the existence of that tra- ditional heritage of the "did for dear old alma mater." Mr. Brande quotes Dr. I. L. Smith, of the celebrated Mayo Clinic, who denies that any such thing as abnormal cardiac hy- pertrophy (enlargement of the heart) has ever been observed, saying "the normal heart is not more likely to be injured by strenuous exercises than is any other organ of the body, and participation in athletic sports ,will not produce an athletic heart, for such an entity does not exist." Observations, including tests with competitors in the gruelling twenty- five mile Boston Marathon have never disclosed an expanded heart, but that on the contrary, "the hearts tended to be smaller at the end of a hard race than at the beginning." Utter exhaustion there may be, with undue breathlessness which is one of the indications of "heart trouble," giving rise to the summary classification of "athlete's heart," but actual heart dilation there is none. Emphasis in all cases, however, is upon the normal heart as be- ing immune from injury, for over-exercise may be highly in- jurious to persons suffering from rheumatic infection or organic heart disease. This, according to the view expressed at the Mayo Clinic, "is the sole rational basis for apprehension about athlete's heart." What about the sudden deaths of athletes, then, the proof of athlete's heart according to "them as say there is. Mr. Brande has his answer for that: "We all love the dramtic, not to say the paradoxical. One case of sudden death remains in our minds, and we forget about all the thousands of other athletes who keep on turning up at reunions until far beyond the normal span. "As a matter of fact the Met- ropolitan Life InsurancegCom- pany has shown that college ath- letes live longer, not merely than average people, but longer than the expectancy for insured men. Freshman Sprint Relay Mark Falls. A freshman relay team composed of Frank Wilkinson, Ralph Rosen- berg, Alan Smith and Roy Heath clip- ped 1.6 seconds from the old fresh- man indoor 880 yard relay record of 1:35.1 as they negotiated the Field House track in 1:33.5 yesterday af- ternoon. The old record was held by Waldo Abbott, Harvey Clark, Ted Grace and Alan Smith and was also set this sea-, son. The team ran without compe- tition or practice in baton passing or the time would undoubtedly have been faster according to Coach Ken Doherty. TUTORED THEMSELVES Allen Hall, three-cushion billiards ace, and George Kelly, national pocket billiards chaampion are the only two contenders in any title competition who tutored themselves on home bil- liard tables. Regular Nine Mile Relay Team Responsible Wins Opening For Many Of Track Victories P a~ ti~d G ' ~_______ Captain Larson And Gee Lead Teammates To 7-5 Victory In Six Innings .Taking advantage of erratic field- ing, the Regulars on Coach Ray Fish- er's baseball squad yesterday won the first practice game of the sea- son, 7-5, from the Yannigans, in six innings. Although both teams performed raggedly in the field, the one pleas- ing note in the affair was the mound work of Capt. Berger Larson and Ierm Fishman. Fishman, pitching for the reserve nine, restricted the Regulars to two hits in the three in- nings he worked, but yielded four rins due to faulty play behind him. Larson Effective Larson and Gee divided the pitching duties for the Varsity and the former justified Coach Fisher's recent state- ment that he was already fit to pitch a full game. Gee, however, must definitely improve before working nine innings. Ed Andronik started for the Yannigans but was not par- ticularly effective. Larson took it easy in the first frame and bore down in the next two following Fisher's instructions, and the results were as expected. The Yannigans got two hits in the first inning and thanks to severalserrors scored all five of their runs. Les Brauser, reserve catcher, drove in three men when he doubled down the right field foul line with the bases loaded. Larson then proceeded to fan Radford and Andronik to end the scoring spree and prove to the re- serves that he was in full control of the situation. The Regulars shoved over three runs in their half of the first, touch- ing Andronik for three hits. Don Brewer got the first one, a single to center, and because of Manny Slavin's missing a shoe-string catch, managed to circle the bases on the blow. Go Out In Order The Yannigans were retired in order in the second and had a man on first in the third by virtue of a walk. Otherwise they did not threat- en Larson. The Regulars collected a hit in each of the next two innings but couldn't score again until the fourth. Gee went to the hill for the Reg- ulars in the fourth and pitched the last three innings. He gave one hit in each frame. The Regulars scored their four other runs in the fourth with Larson and Brewer getting hits. A walk and a pair of errors helped the Regulars' cause and put the year's first practice tilt on ice. Fishman exhibited fine control in the fifth and sixth innings and did not give any hits in that time. With another week and a half of practice before the spring trip Fisher expects the Varsity to round into winning fo'rm. The team he used as Regulars yesterday is considered like- ly to be in the main the team that will start the-opener. Jablonski was behind the plate with Joe Lerner, Don Brewer, Steve Uricek and Carl Fer- ner forming the infield. In the out- field, Kremer was in left, Rudness center and Heyliger in right. Of these men Lerner, Ferner, Rudness and Heyliger are the only veterans. RATED ONE OF BEST Bill Bevan, Tulane's new football, line coach, is considered bysmost ex- perts as the greatest linesman de- veloped at Minnesota under the re- gime of Bernie Bierman. Four times in the last year the Michigan track team has gone into the final event of its four most im- portant meets b hind in points an every time the Varsity one-mile re- lay eam as come through to win its specialty and "give" the meet to the Wolverines. SAlthough Coach Charlie Hoyt has used five diflerent combinations this year in the Michigan A.A.U. meet. Indiana, Ohio State, Big Ten, and Butler Relays, Michigan has yet to be beaten and the times have been below 3:25 minutes in all five meets. To say that this is an exceptional record is an understatement of fact. It was in the last meet of the 1935 season, the Big Ten outdoor cham- pionships ,that the quartet began its winning tradition. Trailing Jesse Owens and the Ohio State squad by a half point, Fred Stiles, Harvey Pat- ton, Frank Aikens, and Stan Birle- son not only finished ahead of the Buckeyes to win the meet, but ran the event in 3:15.2 for the fastest mile relay time ever recorded east of the Pacific coast. This season the same quartet, with Bob Osgood and Steve Mason run- ning when needed, came back to eclipse the 1935 performance. Be- ginning with the Michigan A.A.U. carnival in February, when it bested the Pittsburgh relay team in 3:24.4, the Wolverines have come through regularily every week. Behind with but the relay to go, the Michigan team left the Hoosiers far behind with a time of 3:24.4 to win the event and meet. The next week the quartet, with Bob Osgood run- Record Crowd Is Expected For Louis, SchmelingSlugfest NEW YORK, March 26. - (R) - The time and the place have yet to be named definitely for the forth- coming heavyweight joust between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, but Michael Strauss Jacobs, the Twen- tieth Century Club promoter, already had slightly over $50,000 in cash from ticket seekers and orders involving nearly $100,000 more from fistic fol- lowers who do their spring shopping early. This development, virtually three months in advance of a bout that probably will be held in the Yankee Stadium, New York, June 17 or 18, prompted Jacobs to become extra- ordinarily optimistic today and pre- dict the "gate" will go well over the $1,000,000 mark. Unless there's a bearish reaction along Cauliflower Row some time in the next three months, the fight probably will set an all-time high for New York, exceed- ing the "gate" of $1,188,000 for the Dempsy-Firpo match in 1923 at the Polo Grounds. Jacobs is not in the habit of over- estimating. He scaled his "house" for the Louis-Baer fight last Sep- tember for a "top" of about $600,- 000. It drew total receipts in excess of $1,000,000 and established the Brown Bomber as the biggest fistic card since Jack Dempsey. LOUISVILLE REPRESENTED For 10 years Louisville, Kentucky's metropolis had no representative on the State University's basketball team. Now there are five on the squad, three on the first quintet. Ziingrin Stile's nposition. bro~kethe' LI 1 . _ _ . - - - - _ I - - - - MARQUPIRDT CLOTHES 4 I FOUNTAIN SPECIALS Heavy Malted Milks 1Oc Delicious Sodas 1 Oc Rich Milk Shakes 10c Fruit Sundaes 10c Hot Chocolate 10c (with Wafers) Hot Fudge Sundaes 10c I I I Get a Move On, Cabby It's Time For ' . . I I I I1 I MMIM E'. 61-. AhA A -hb.TM ~ AhAam Ii