TI 1z I A l AII ' TUESDAY, SEPT. 20 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPT. ~O rr. . .. Track Squad Favored To Capture '39 Title Last Season's Champs Gain AddedPower Soph Sprint Stars Bolster Team; Losses Felt Only In Two Field Events Loaded for bear in every event but two, Michigan's varsity track squad ranks as the odds-on favorite to cap-. ture its third straight conference title and the 17th to be brought to Ann Arbor since the turn of the century. Coach Charlie Hoyt's optimism bodes no good for other Big Ten foes. "We should have a very fine year," admits Hoyt. "Ours was a young team last year but we got to work and turned out perhaps the best team we've had so far. I don't know about the championships but we will be the team to beat." To which the ex- perts murmur amen. Bolstered by an influx of promis- ing sophomores in the sprints and middle distances, last year's champ- ions appear to have been weakened only in the pole vault and javelin where the graduation of Jim Kings- ley and Fred Martin has left a gap yet to be filled. But elsewhere? Power and plenty of it. Watson Outstanding Michigan would take plenty of points even if Capt. Bill Watson had to perform alone. The husky Saginaw record-smasher who is conference champion in his three favorite events, shot put, discus and broad jump, and also rates high in the high jump, will again prove to be the terror of the turf as far as his opponents are concerned.. Big Bill set a new Big Ten record in the shot last year with a mark of 52 feet 11/2 inches, bettered 154 feet with the discus, broad jumped 24 feeet 11% inches and took a third place in the , high jump event at Columbus clearing 6 feet 5 inches. Other individual champions who' are returning to competition include Elmer Gedeon, king of the high hurdles who may again bide his time between track and baseball, and Wes Allen who high jumped 6 feeet 7/4 inches in the National Intercollegiates to break the old Michigan mark and. stamp himself as the man to take over Dave Albritton's crown. Sprints Stronger Last year's weakness in the sprints should be' eliminated by the return to competition of Allan Smith with the able assistance of the Culver twins, Norm Purucker and freshmen Jim Monahan, Bob Barnard, Paul Kromer anad Tom Harmon. Those freshen have all done under :10 flat in high school. Stan Kelley will reopen his rivalry with Gedeon in the high and low hurdles with Kutsche and Olmstead the other returning veterans. The addition of three brilliant per- formers from last year's freshman team will give MWichiigan a very tough 440 aggregation. Jack Leutritz, War- ren Breidenbach and Phil Balyeat all helped lower freshmen marks in this event and Balyeat won the National Junior A. A. U. championship. They will augment the veteran corps com- posed of Ross Faulkner who placed second in the conference meet, Doug Hayes, Waldo Abbott and Jim Rae. Bill Dobson and Ed MacDonald will also be in there. Distance Men Plentiful Tom Jester, Harvey Clark, Dye Ho- gan, Bill Buchanan, Art Cline, Oliver Starr and Howard Egert are ex- pected to take care of the half mile event in good style while in the mile and two mile events such boys as Schwartzkopf, Davidson, W i s n e r, Staehle and half a dozen more look like class. Of course Ramblin' Ralph .Schwartzkopf is the outstanding dis- tance man of the team. MHe first crashed the headlinesawhen he licked, Deon Lash last. year and inz the Big Ten meet Ralph chased Mehl to a new record in the two-mile event. This may be his year, In the shot put and discus Bill Watson will again reign supreme with sophomores Bob Hook, Bill Cochrane and Tonm Lawton helping out. Allen and Watson again in the high jump will be joined by soph onCanham whop did 6 feet 4 inches last year. Watson, Smith and Paul Kromer are scheduled for the broad jump pit. That leaves the pole vault and jave- lin where replacements have yet to be found. Dave Cushing is the lone vet- eran in the former event while Tex Stanton must recover from a shoulder injury to help out with the javelin. Hoyt has hopes of inducing gridder Dave Strong to try his hand here. 50c si BARBASOL Leads Track Team Rebuilding Job Confronts New Cage M entor Oosterbaan's Big Problem Is Replacing Townsend; 'Jake' Helps Coach (continued from Page 9) and dropping those long shots with amazing regularity, and Manny Slav- in, a reserve player who was good under the basket.. With these execeptions however, Oosterbaan can take consolation in the fact that the remainder of last season's squad will return intact. Capt. Leo Beebe succeeds Townsend as team leader and will hold down his spot on the backline with the same steadiness and passing ability that made him a most valuable man during the '37, '38 campaign. Thomas, Pink, Return Other candidates for the backline include the veteran Eddie Thomas, a long shot artist who was a bit erratic on defense last year but is improving, and Charley Pink who was the most improved man on the team at the end of last season, and may force his way into the starting lineup. Freddie Tros- ko is another of last year's sophs who will be fighting for a regular job. Jim Rae, last season's sophomore center, is expected to be faster this year because of his work on the track team and Coach Oosterbaan expects him to have overcome his hesitancy to take shots. If Jim had shot oftener last year he would have been even more successful. Smick Succeeds Townsend Danny Smick is the logical man to take Townsend's forward position. Danny was Jake's understudy last season and his height comes in handy. Russ Dobson, John Nicholson and Daver Wood are among the returning veterans. Last year's freshman team is not expected to help out very much this year. The only two boys who have a chance to see much action with the varsity are Herb Brogan and Mike Sofiak. Brogan is one of the best long shot artists to grace the frosh squad in quite a while and Sofiak is a small, shifty player who has shown some promise. Last year's Michigan squad finished in a tie for fifth with Iowa in the Big Ten race Kocsis Foresahes Big Time Golf Charles Kocsis, he curly-headed ,bers of the United States Walker cup Wolverine golf ace of several years back has forsaken big time compe- titive golf, for the present at least, in order to devote his best efforts to his new job with a large automobile plant in the Motor City. Kocsis and Johnny Fischer, 1937 National Amateur champion, lead the Wolverines to two National In- tercollegiate crowns, and several Conference titles besides copping most of the individual collegiate tournaments. This year, both of the "Wolverine birdie twins" were selected as mem- team which successfully turned back the English bid for possession of that treasured trophy. Outside of this trip to England, Kocsis confined most of his competi- tive golf to in and around the De- troit District. He did return to the Syracuse Invitational where he un- successfully attempted to repeat his win of the previous season. Apparently Kocsis' decision was a sudden one for several weeks previous to his announcement he had quali- fied to play in the National Amateur championship completed last week. r ---- Welcome to The M11en- f 194 .. . When downtown drop in and give us a visit - always a pleasure to show you our f - M- 1 :;,., ~., -~ - *,,. «.$ .5 .' 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