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Cage Prospects
For
Next
Year
Hinge On Doubtfu
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Return Of Rae
And Experience
Are Necessary
Oosterbaan Loses Three
Lettermen From Last
Year's Dismal Squad
Faced with the loss of three letter-
men and haunted by the memories of
one hard luck season, basketball
Coach Bennie Oosterbaan is pinning
his 193940 hopes on two factors:a.
1. The return to health of Capt.
Jim Rae, brilliant Wolverine center,
who was troubled continually last
year with a very bad back, and 2. the
blossoming out of several of last sea-
son's likely-looking sophomores who
received very little opportunity to
prove their worth.
Hope To Improve
Given these two blessings, Bennie
will be ready to face all comers in
an ecort to improve on the disap-
pointing seventh place finish which
marked his first year as head basket-
ball mentor.
Michigan, last fall, opened the
campaign in aggressive fashion and
with a do-or-die spirit which pro-
duced a run of six consecutive vic-
tories during the pre-season compe-
tition before Toledo University stop-
ped the parade. It was this game
too which aggrevated Jim Rae's old
high school back injury-a double
loss.
Going Gets Rocky
Thereafter the going was rocky.
Veteran 'forward Danny Smick was
injured three times during the Big
Ten campaign, Leo Beebe, captain
and guard, forward Charley Pink
and Rae also graced the list of non-
combatants and the result was a
final Conference record of four games
won and eight lost. The only re-
deeming feature was the Wolverines
,upset victory over the high-flying In-
iana quintet at the end of the sea-
son-a win which not only knocked
the Hoosiers out of the champion-
ship but produced some of the most
amazing basketball ever turned in by
a Maize and Blue quintet. They were
hot and couldn't do anything wrong.
It was Jim Rae's 19 points which
turned the tide.
If Rae, a slender six foot four inch
Toledo boy, has fully recovered from
his ailing sacroiliac trouble he can
blossom into the league's number one
pivot man this next season. His
shooting is accurate and his ball-
handling reminiscent of the work of
the great John Townsend two years
ago.
Harmon May Star
Sophomore Tom Harmon, grid star
who set the court afire with his play
and pushed Indiana's Bill Menke for
soph scoring honors, also plays a
large part in Oosterbaan's plans. If
his teamwork can be improved and
he learns to click with the regular
combination, Harmon may well be a
truly outstanding star on the court
as well as the gridiron.{
He will team with diminutive Char-
ley Pink, left-handed forward in that
front line. Pink's favorite one-hand-
ed shot from the foul circle was poison
to the opposition on numerous oc-
casions last year and his floor play
makes him a valuable performer.
Gone are guards Leo Beebe and
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Six Wolverine Athletes Gain National
Recognition For Sports Achievements
By NORM MILLER
That familiar catch-phrase "Cham-
pions of the West" from Michigan's
famed song "The Victors" appears as
a rash understatement after a peru-
sal of the long list of national ath-
(9
the Michigan "Parade of Champions"
last Jhly, when, stopping off for the
Hibernian Knight's track and field
meet at Randall's Island, N.Y., be-
fore a tour of Europe, he put the
eight-pound shot a distance of 70
feet, one-half inch to set a national
record in that event.
Then, at the National Intercolleg-
iate Wrestling Meet, which took place.
at Franklin and Marshall College,
A&M, "Tireless Tom" re-annexed the
220- and 440-yard free style cham-
pionships that he had won two years
previous as a sophomore.
Free-Stylers TM
"Good Time Charley" Barker also
covered himself and alma mater With
glory at the same meet by paddling
to victory 'in the 50-yard free-style
a touch ahead of teammate Walt
Tomski, and then tying for first place
in the 100-yard free-style distance
with Olympic swimmer Paul Wolf
of Southern California.
The last title was captured by Matt
Mann's prize 400-yard relay team of
Tomski, Barker, Ed Hutchens and
Captain Haynie, who wound up the
Michigan Men
Smash Marks
Swimmers And Trackmen
Better 49 Records
Michigan's victorious track and
swimming squads left a total of 49
smashed records in their wake dur-
ing the winter season as they took
the Big Ten crowns in their respec-
tive fields and the swimmers cap-
tured the National Collegiate cham-
pionship as well.
The natators led the way, setting
42 new marks. Twenty of these were
American records, nine were Confer-
ence, seven National Intercollegiate,
and one a world mark. Capt. Tom
Haynie and Walt Tomski paced the
team with seven and five record
breaking performances to their credit,
respectively.
The trackmen, led by Capt. Bill
Watson, presented departing Coach
Charley Hoyt with seven new marks
as well as the Conference champion-
ship. Watson, who set a new Big Ten
Indoor record in the shot put at the
Conference Meet in Chicago, gave
promise that the assault on the record
book would continue during the out-
door season when he unoffically
smashed the Conference mark out-
doors at Illinois with a toss of 54
feet 134 inches.
Chicago's Grid Hopes
Rise As Squad Reports
Spring football practice at the Uni-
versity of Chicago is enjoying an un-
precedented boom.
Many afternoons this spring Coach
Clark Shaughnessy had enough men
on the field to form two complete
teams and once or twice he was even
fortunate enough to have three teams
practicing at the same time.
The present situation might be
termed as over-emphasis of football
when contrasted with last year's
spring practice when Shaughnessy,
by dint of extreme effort, often man-
aged to scrape together as many as
11 men at one time. I
L Factors
Gymnastic Team
Prospects Found
Elmer Townsley, coach of Michi-
gan's tumbling team, uncovered four
exceptionally fine prospects for his
1940 team after the all-campus gym-
nastic meet.
Thirty-three freshmen and novices
entered the competition with experi-
enced athletes being excluded. Work
on the horse, high bar, parallel bar
and tumbling comprised the events.
Richard Jones, '42, captured first
place and was followed in points total
by Charles Buell, William Harrselson,
J. McMaster and Sidney Weinberg,
all of the class of '42. Each man won
first place in at least one event.
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letic titles captured by Wolverine
athletes during the past year.
"Champions of the Nation," it
seems, would be more in keeping with
the distinguished accomplishments
that have gained six Maize and Blue
athletes each a niche in the collegiate
record books of the nation. Altogeth-
er, these men won six national crowns
and tied for still another by virtue
of their noteworthy track, wrestling
and swimming feats.
Track Captain Bill Watson started
Eddie Thomas, two reliable boys
whose absence will hurt and with
them goes forward and center Danny
Smick, tall nine letter man.
Sophomores Return,
To replace the departees are such
boys as Bill Cartmill, Harold Wester-
man, Herb Brogan, Mike Sofiak and
Milo Sukup from last year's sopho-
more contingent not to mention sev-
eral likely looking prospects from
the freshman squad.
Cartmill and Westerman, while not'
getting a real chance last year, seem
to be Oosterbaan's two dark horses.
Cartmill is a big six-footer who can
:play either forward or center and
who has developed his shooting a
great deal during the past year. Wes-
terman is a flashy ball-handling
guard who, although small, may
prove to be the answer to the prob-
lem of precision and teamwork. Bro-
gan is a long shot artist and Sofiak
an aggressive player who saw a lot of
action last season.
Tonight's the night
HAROLD NICHOLS
March 17 and 18, Capt. Harold Nich-
ols climaxed a stellar undefeated
season by decisioning Vernon Logan,
of Oklahoma A&M, to win for him-
self the national collegiate 145-pound
championship.
Swimming Team
But it was left to Coach Matt
Mann's crack natators in the Nation-
al Intercollegiate Swimming Meet,
held here at Michigan, March 24 and
25, to turn out titles in true mass
production style.
Capt. Tom Haynie set the pace
for his teammates. Pitted against
such ace tankmen as Michigan's
Jimmy Welsh, Billy Quayle of Ohio
State and Adolph Kiefer of Texas
BILL WATSON
Michigan-dominated swimming car-
nival by outdistancing the runner-up
Ohio State entry by a wide margin.
He Brings Them Home
Every team which Joe McCarthy,
present manager of the Yankees, has
managed in the majors for the last
twelve years has finished in the first
division. McCarthy was a second
baseman in the minors but was never
good enough to play major league
baseball. His Yankees won three con-
secutive World Series.
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