THE MICHIGAN DAILY sUNAY, m LAY 24, 1936 Northwestern's Tennis Team Captures Conference Laurels , , Lower Bracket Doubles Match Decides Title Miller Sherwood Defeated By Leavens In Second Division Final CHICAGO, May 23.- (') - North- western university's courageous ten-. nis team captured the Western con- ference tennis championship from Chicago today when George Ball and Don Leavens of the Wildcats defeat- ed John Shostrom and Herbert Mertz of the Maroons in a second bracket doubles match, the final duel of the three-day tournament. In the second bracket match, Don Leavens, Northwestern, defeated Mil- ler Sherwood, Michigan, 6-3, 6-1. The final point score between the schools, which dominated play, was Northwestern 14, Chicago 13. Michigan placed third with five points. Wisconsin had four and Il- linois, Ohio State and Iowa two each, Minnesota did not score. The Maroons, while they lost the team title, captured the singles and doubles championships. bapt. Nor- man Bickel downed Bob Niehousen of Ohio State 11-9, 6-1, while Bickel teamed with Norbert Burgess to beat Russ Ball and Dick Rugg, Northwest- ern, 6-0, 6-2, for the doubles crown. Tied at 13 points, the team title was decided on Leavens and George Ball's three set victory in the final match. The scores were 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Summaries First bracket: Norman Bickel, Chi- cago, defeated Robert Niehousen, Ohio State, 11-9, 6-1. Second bracket: Don Leavens,; Northwestern, defeated Miller Sher- wood, Michigan, 6-3, 6-1. Third bracket: George Ball, North- western,, defeated Herbert Mertz, Chicago, 6-2, 7-5. - Fourth bracket: Dick Rugg, North- western, defeated John Shostrom, Chicago, 8-6, 6-2. Nine More Qualify For Speed Classie INDIANAPOLIS, May 23.- (I)- Fear, not of the hazardous turns but of the gasoline their motors might consume, governed drivers in qualify- ing trials today for the 500-mile au- tohobile race to be run here at the speedway next Saturday. Nine made the grade in the 25- mile tests today, bringing the total of speedsters eligible to start to 25. Thirty-three cars will be permitted to compete. The Week's Sports BASEBALL Tuesday: Western State Teach- ers College, here. Game starts at' 4 p.m. Wednesday: Toledo University, there. Games starts at 8:30 p.m. Friday: Michigan State College, here. Game starts at 4 p.m. Saturday: Michigan State Col- lege, there. Game starts at 2:30 p.m.e Big Ten Rules Out 6 Gopher Gridders MINNEAPOLIS, May 23. - P)- Four regulars and two promising freshman candidates are among Go- pher football players enrolled in the University of Minnesota's general col- lege, students of which were ruled out of athletic competition by the Big Ten faculty committee unless they can produce certain scholastic credentials. The regulars are Andy Uram and Rudy Gmitro, backfielders; Lew Mid- ler, tackle, and Charley Schult/ guard. Two outstanding frosh prospects in the college are Wilbur Moore, half- back, and Eldred Miller, tackle. Julius Alfonse, Cumberland, Wis., co-captain of the 1936 team, is in the college at present, Coach Bernie Bierman said, but will have trans- efrred to the college of education by fall. Fair Grounds Feature Goes To Stand Pat DETROIT, May 23. - (UP) -Stand Pat, E. F. Seagram's big chestnut horse, galloped to an easy victory to- day in the $5,000 Wolverine handi- cap, feature race of the opening day program at the Fair Grounds track. A crowd of 20,000 ,the largest in- augural day turnout in the history of the track, saw Stand Pat rush to the front in the upperturn and drive ahead under energetic urging by Charley McTague to finish two and a half lengths ahead of Marynell, the favorite. The chestnut ran the mile and one sixteenth in the good time of 1:45/5 over a lightning fast track. He paid $7.60 for a $2 ticket, and his victory was worth $4,200 net to his owner. Woodlander finished third, a half length behind the filly, Marynell. Azucar, owned by Fred M. Alger, Jr., of Detroit, disappointed the crowd by finishing last in the field of nine. Grand Slam was the only scratch. The "electric eye" Was used for the first time at the track and was brought into play in both the first and second races. McTague scored a double victory by bringing Chastity in ahead by five lengths in the seventh race after she had faltered in the upper turn. Brevity Trounced By White Cockade NEW YORK, May 23.- (/!') - Leav- ing no room for arguments, Ogden Phipps' White Cockade. soundly whipped the great Brevity in the 61st running of the Withers Mile at Belmont Park today. A distant last in his only previous race this year, White Cockade held a two-length advantage over Brevity, owned by J. E. Widener, as he flashed past the judges stand with his jockey, Eddie Litzenberger, looking back at the nine other three-year-olds. The Wheatley stable's Teufel, run- ning a surprisingly good race follow- ing his failures in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness was third. 'Osgood Equals High Hurdles World Record Patton Finishes Second To Ellinwood In 440; Skip Etchells Wins Discus (Continued from Page l) rier beat Michigan's Bob Osgood by less than a yard in 23.5. Osgood ran the best race of his career in the 120-yard highs to win easily in 14.2, equalling the world record held by Percy Beard with less than the maximum three mile wind at his back. Dan Caldemyer of Indiana took the lead away from Osgood at the fourth hurdles but fell on his face over the sixth barrier just as Osgood regained the lead and failed to fin- ish. Patton Ends Career Patton ended his Conference career in glorious fashion by outsprinting teammate Birleson down the home stretch to take second in the 440 be- hind the great Ray Ellinwood of Chi- cago. Birleson was a good third. Patton, with his small statureand light frame, was at .a definite disad- vantage as the race was started around a turn. Skip Etchells maintained his su- premacy in the discus for the second straight year, his throw of 146 feet 9%/ inches besting Bill Friemuth of Minnesota by more than four feet, as John Townsend gave Michigan another point in fifth place. Town- send was the only one of the shot put qualifiers to better his throw of Friday and finished third in the 16-pound event with a push of 47 feet 45/ inches, less than two inches out of second. Beetham Breaks Record Howdy Davidson and Ben Starr gave Michigan a third and a fifth in the 880-yard run as Ohio's Beetham broke a Conference record with a 1:52.9 effort. Lash andrtenske battled it for two laps in the mile, the former winning by a step in 4:10.8 to break his own Conference record of 4:14.4. Lash's 9:19.9 in the two-mile was also a new Big Ten mark, the old record being 9:21.9 made by Wright of Wisconsin in 1931. Staehle was second in the two-mile for four laps, but Deckard and Smith passed him going into the fifth lap and Paul Benner of Ohio did the same at a mile and three-fourths. Stone came from the ruck in the last three laps to pass Staehle on the seventh, but could not batch Benner. Clayt Brelsford reached fifth place in the third lap of the mile, but could not withstand George O'Brien of Oho on the last turn. Fink never threat- ened. O'Brien finished in fifth in 4:15, and was forced to scratch in the half after making the best time, 1:54, yesterday. '1 Engraved $ 0 Cards & Plates9. THE ATHENS PRESS Printers City's Lowest Prices on Printing. 308 North Main Street - Dial 2-1013 'The PRESS ANGLE By GEORGE J. ANDROS Coaches And Conference ARE COACHES effected by the fortunes of the game in the same manner as their athletes? Perhaps the reactions of coaches and players are not exactly the same but they certainly resemble each other in a variety of ways. Our example is Franklin C. Cappon of the basketball team. Cappon suffered through a number of bad crops of cage players before the opening of the 1935-36 schedule. The beatings that his teams took prior to the advent of the Townsends were beginning to show in his attitude toward the game. Somehow he didn't seem as interested in hardwood floors and twine nets as he once might have been. Whether this had any harmful effect on his teams is a question which we cannot answer accurately, and we doubt whether anyone else can do so either. As the last season progressed, however, one could see the success of his team making a difference in Cappon. Gradually he became quieter en the bench and more confident. Cappy has never been a member of what might be termed the "Piggy Lambert school of bench warmers," but still has become quite hot under the collar at times. He even began to look at basketball as an acceptable subject for general conversation and his strategy became more evidently clever in every game. The basketball squad, including both the players and the coaches reached their peak when the last two weeks of the campaign came into sight. It wasn't that there was any noticeable increase in enthusiasm, but somehow a confidence that hadn't been evident around Yost Field House for some time came into being - and with good reason. During those final two weeks Michigan's "giants" took Iowa into camp, whipped a capable Illinois team twice, and then played inspired ball for 30 of the regulation 40 minutes against a Purdue five that was not to be denied the Conference title by the Wolverines or anyone else. Genuine confidence, of course, is a hard thing to define -even harder to recognize. In a man actually competing, one can put his finger on it with a reasonable amount of assurance. In a coach it is most difficult to be sure. It shows up in the tone of a suggestion or order, or maybe just in a casual conversation.- At the end of the season Cappon had it. Cagers Do Their Best INCIDENTALLY the basketball team is doing its bit to keep the University of Michigan up in the running this spring. John Townsend, all-Conference center, turned in an excellent per- formance for the track team yesterday winning a third in the shot put and a fifth in the discus. Bill Barclay is a member of the Varsity golf squad and in the fall does his bit with Patanelli on the football team. On the baseball team are George Rudness, John Jablonski, erstwhile "'letterless wonder," captain-elect John Gee, Herm Fishman, Don Brewer, Manny Slavin, Bill Lane and Matt Patanelli. Ten of the thirteen award winners are competing this spring with only ex-Captain Chelso Tamagno, Dick Evans, and Earl Townsend spending these final months in the background. We Suggest WITH the championship games of the Intramural softball tournaments scheduled for the coming week and with more campus interest evidenced than in many years, we tunk that it might be a good idea to play these final tilts at Palmer Field, back of the Mosher-Jordan dorms. The Palmer Field diamonds are in much better condition than South Ferry Field's, and with their excellent location would enable a greater number to view the games. -R.A.G. Baseball Crown To Be Decided By June Michigan -Iowa Series By FRED DE LANO The 1936 Western Conference base- ball championship will be decided .Wednesday afternoon, June 3, on the Ferry Field diamond when Michigan and Iowa meet in the second game of their two game series. It cannot be otherwise. The fickle weather man caused the cancelling of the Wolverine-Wiscon- sin game yesterday and also the nightcap of the scheduled double header between Iowa and Minnesota. Iowa won the opener, 3-0, although it was, cut to five innings by rain. One of three teams, Michigan, Iowa or Illinois, will be the new, champion, taking Minnesota's place on the throne. The Gophers, by los- ing three times this year to the Hawkeyes, are mathematically out of the running for the 1936 crown. Illini Campaign Ended Illinois has finished its Conference campaign with 10 victories and two losses for a percentage of .833. Iowa and Michigan have both won eight and lost one for an .889 mark. These two clubs play here Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2 and 3, and if advance indications mean anything,' at least 5,000 people will be in the stands both days. Unless either the Wolverines or Iowa sweep the two game series, Il- linois will be the new champion, for a split in the games would leave both teams with a final average of .818. If one club wins both tilts, it will have a final percentage of .909 with 10 wins in 11 starts. 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