SATURDAY, TVARCHI 22,11940 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE -ITM .M."Nommummom Records May Fall At Michigan A.A.U. Relays Here Tonight Last Chance 1 > Officials Deny Charoes Made . Against Maki Local Paper Claims Finns Turned Temperamental During Good Will Tour By HERM EPSTEIN Charges in a local paper yesterday to the effect that Taisto Maki and Paavo Nurmi had turned tempera- mental and "although they were sup- posed to be on a good-will tour of the U.S. they have spread anything but goodwill since their arrival in Michigan" were vigorously denied last night by A.A.U. officials. The denials came to The Daily from Lloyd Olds, president of the Michigan A.A.U., Naylor Stone, Pub- licity man for the Nurmi-Maki tour and George Heideman, Finnish vice- consul in Detroit. "It's all the result of their (Nurmi's and Maki's) being asked to appear at social functions when they had been promised that there would be no such demands on them, and the con- flicting directions given them by local and national A.A.U. officials," de- clared Olds. The charges that Nurmi had re- fused to leave East Lansing to come to Ann Arbor arose from the fact that while their original itinerary called for their being here yesterday, Charles Brennan, secretary of the Michigan A.A.U., informed Nurmi that he and his protege might re- main in Lansing as long as they wished, and Nurmi thought it best to stay there until this morning. After having this confirmed by Brennan by phone yesterday morning, Nurmi was phoned at 10 o'lock by Olds who asked why they hadn't come to Ann Arbor as scheduled. After being told that Brennan had given permission for them to remain in Lansing, Olds requested that the Finns come here as soon as they could, and Nurmi said it was too late to get there in the morning, but they would arrive about 3 or 4 o'clock in Galaxy Of 120 Trackmen To Display Talents At Finns 'Relief Benefit Meet Dye Hogan, varsity half-miler, will get his last crack at the Yost Field house and Michigan var- sity indoor records tonight in the special 880 in the Michigan Re- lays. Hogan has shown great im- provement in his running this year, and has several times bettered the records, but not on the Michigan track. Tonight he intends to do it officially. the afternoon. They were here at 3:50 p.m. Heideman was astonished at re- ports that he had been cooly greeted by Nurmi at the airport in Detroit, saying "I wasn't even at the airport!" And Stone, referring to charges that he and Nurmi weren't even on speak- ing terms, referred the matter to Olds who said they had been Joking all the way to Ann Arbor yesterday after- noon. The statement that Nurmi had de- manded that tonight's two-mile run. be changed to 2/2 miles was also de- clared ill-founded. "In fact," said Capt. Ralph Schwarzkopf To Face Taisto Maki' In Duel At Two Miles (Continued from Page 1) that still another Field House record is in great danger. The shot put is another event which threatens a new standard. Michi- gan's former captain Bill Watson, who holds the mark, will meet up with Pennsylvania's giant Ed Beetem, whose performances in his first year of varsity competition stamp him as one of the best in the country. Watson May Break Record In practice this week, Watson has been flirting with the 52-foot mark, which is seven inches above his pres- ent Field House record. Beetem, com- peting in the East this season, has also heaved the iron ball approxi- mately that far. And, it takes only one heave to break the record. The one-mile relay, which will close the program, has everything neces- sary to provide a fitting climax to the greatest track carnival in recent Michigan history. The Wolverines' record-holding quartet will be fresh from this event for the first time this season, since none of the team is en- tered in a special event,. With Pittsburg, which came with- in a hair of upsetting the Michigan team at the Butler Relays, and Mar- Stone, "when I told Nurmi that it was two miles as had been agreed upon in New York, Nurmi said, 'We want two miles-in New York, 'too,' and Maki is scheduled to run three miles in the New York meet. I asked Bren- nan to change it to 2'/2 miles myself and Brennan told me it wasn't pos- sible, so I said it was all right, but Paavo didn't even mention changing the distance." "We can't imagine how such stories could have been printed as the truth," was the common assertion. quette both sending their crack relay teams, the outcome is unpredictable, but the time should be extremely fast. The former Michigan star, Sam High Jump And Mile Run Marks Are In Danger; Star Hurdlers To Run Stoller, returns to Field House com- petition in the special 50-.yard dash in which he will compete with Michi- gan State's 1939 IC4A king, Wilbur Greer, Al Tolmich, Bill Carter and Harold Stickle of Pittsburg, and Michigan's present dash ace, Al Smith. Stoller is co-holder of the international 60-yard dash standard with Jesse Owens. Quinn Favored In Half Mile The half-mile run finds Michigan Normal's Tommy Quinn heading a list of men who make up the best 880 field since the Conference Meet last year. Michigan's Dye Hogan and Johnny Kautz, and Capt. Roy Fehr and Bud Lautenschlager of Michigan State, are all very capable half-milers, and the field looks ready to smash Abe Rosenkrantz's Field House mark. In addition to these special events, there will be such novelties as a one-1 mile walk, with four of the United States' last Olympic team competing, and a 35-pound weight throw for height, with four Detroit policemen attacking the record of about 21% feet. Then, there will be four special col- lege relay races and several high school relays. Also, a number of spe- cial events for both colleges and high schools. I-M Sports. . Phi. Beta Delta Wins FCou l Throwing Title Phi Beta Delta won the Fraternity Foul Thro;iing Contest yesterday, as their 10 man team flipped in 189 out of a possible 250 foul tosses. Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Theta tied for second with 184 buckets apiece. Delta Tau Delta, and Chi Psi were close behind with 178 and 177.points respectively. The individual cham- pionship is still in the process of be- ing run off. * * * In the semi-final round of the resi- dence hall handball tournament Michigan House eliminated Williams House last night, 2-1. Michigan House willface Fletcher Hall in the final match for the championship next Tuesday. Coach Fisher's B Has Plenty ( By NORM MILLER A coach's lamentations over the lack of material is by no means un- common in the athletic world, but when he complains because of an abundance of good prospects, it's a decided anomaly. Yet that's the situation in which baseball coach Ray Fisher finds him- self these days. "I don't know what to make of this squad," Ray mused yesterday to the accompaniment of the sharp cracks of batted balls in the Field House cage. Anxious To Get Outside "There aren't any star ballplay- ers in the group, but it's been a long aseball Squad If Good Prosp Quarter-Mile King time since I've had so many fairly good ones. I'm anxious to get out- side so that I can tell just what these newcomers really can do. I'm going to hate to cut this squad." And the early season form dis- played by several of his diamond hopefuls seem to bear out Fisher's contention. Ruehle and Tinker Improve Veterans Charlie Pink, Fred Tros- ko, Bill Steppon, Mike Sofiak and Forest Evashevski have been hitting especially well and appear fairly cer- tain of their jobs. But behind them come a host of capa fle performers who are due to stage a dog fight for the remaining positions when the team moves outdoors. George Ruehle and Hora/e Tinker have shown a wealth of improvement over last year; the sophomore crop, paced by Bob Hasseltine and Bud Chamberlain, looks better every day, and catchers George Harms and Bob Westfall, teamed with Evashevski, comprise one of the best backstop- ping brigades the Wolverines have had in a long time. Goldsmith Only Casiaity The pitchers haven't cut loose yet, but holdover aces Jack Barry, Russ Dobson and Lyle Bond appear to be in fine mettle. The ony casualty on the squad is Paul Goldsmith, promising sopho- more pitching candidate, who will have to undergo an operation for a torn muscle in his throwing arm, an injury sustained during the hoc- key season. Hank Leiber Ends Long Holdout Siege And Signs CHICAGO, March 22.-(AP)-Hank Leiber, hard hitting outfielder with the Chicago Cubs, signed today after holding out for 22 days, according to word received by Cub officials from the training camp base at Los Angeles. The terms were not revealed. Lei- ber, however, had been holding out for $17,500. The signing ended the Cubs' list of holdouts as pitcher "Dizzy" Dean came to terms Sunday. Leiber will start working out tomor- row. ~ets f IN THIS CORNER SAM STOLLER -. returns to local scene Croticher Paces Tigers To Victory PLANT CITY, Fla., March 22.-)P) --Frankie Croucher, possible heir tot Charley Gehringer's second base job, tripled in two runs in the eighth and then scored himself to lead the De- troit Tigers to a 7 to 5 verdict over the Buffalo Bisons today. Slapping out a single and double in addition to the three-bagger and scoring twice, Croucher was the big show in turning back the Interna- tional Leaguers after they had rap- ped Lynn (Line Drive) Nelson for a 4 to 0 lead early in play. Figuring prominently in two ral- lies, Dick Bartell again helped De- troit to a Grapefruit League victory and, with Croucher, shared a major place in today's performance. Michigan's outdoor Conference quarter-mile king, Warren Breid- enbach will anchor the Wolverine mile relay team in a race against Pittsburg and Marquette as the closing event of the Michigan Re- lays tonight in Yost Field House. By MEL FINEBERG Pens - Typewriters - Supplies "Writers Trade With Rider's" RIDE R'S 302 South State St. The Hard Way . . . Irish- THEY looked like a pair of men as they walked in the Field House door at 4 o'clock yesterday. Completely impervious to the stares of the twenty-odd people assembled there, the pair walked about. First the elder stepped gingerly on the cinders, his dead pan registering less than a minimum of emotion. Then the other one, a hand- some sort of a chap with gay eyes and a quick smile, went through the same routine and seemed to find everything to his satisfaction. The pair was Taisto Maki and Paavo Nurmi, Flying Finns II and I in that order. For the first ten minutes there was no opportunity to talk with ei- ther and if such a moment had pre- sented itself it would have made lit- le difference; Maki knows but two English words (okay and some oth- er we weren't able to distinguish) and Nurmi, though more conversant with the language, is on the taci- turn side. The two emissaries of Fin- nish good-will slipped. into the locker room and the next thing anyone knew, Maki was being rubbed down by trainer Steve Bronson and Nurmi was urging the rubber to press harder, hard- er, harder. "Move over," he said (or at least whatever its Fin- nish equivalent is) and suiting his actions to his words, edged Bronson over and began prod- ding the youngster's (age 29) legs as tle onlookers gasped. According to Nurmi, there is a fundamental difference in the way Americans and Finns train. The difference was apparent when Ralph Schwarzkopf came into. the room, stripped and sat himself down under a pair of lamps. Nurmi shook his head and looked exceedingly sol- emn. We asked him if he thought there was something wrong with the lamps and with owl-like wisdom hey grunted, "Lamps okay but not goodI enough. Train hard and make mus- sce (Finnish pronunciation of mus- cle) hard. Get tough. Run hard. Get mussce (see parenthesis above for explanation) hard." In the meantime Bronson was digging into Maki's legs for all he was worth and Nurmi was telling him "harder." Schwarz- kopf looked on in admiration, said he'd stick to the lamps. The Finn didn't work out here,j having already run twice in East Lansing that morning. And he's ac- quired sore shins from running on the board tracks in this country. fTHEN the world's two greatest dis- tance runners in the last 20 years walked in, someone asked Coach Ken Doherty if he had met Nurmi yet. "Why yes," replied Doherty, "I met him in Amsterdam in 1928." "Oh, that's right," retorted his interrogator. "You were in the decathlon in that ,Olympi(1, weren't you?" Nurmi heard that and perked up. "Jah", he gutteralled, "Yrgola (pro- nounce it and you can have it) and Jaarvinnen." P. S. They finished one-two and Doherty was third. Two world-record holders, Maki and Allan Tolmich, will compete to- night. Tolmich probably holds more records than any other man. In The Grapefruit League Detroit (A).000 012 031-7 11 0 Buffalo (IL) . 013 000 001-5 8 3 Nelson, Pippin, Giebell and Teb- betts; Roche, Maglie, Ogiegoa and 1olton, Zubek. At Los Angeles, Calif. Pittsburgh (N) . 00 003 030-6 7 0 Chicago (N) .. 010 004 011-7 14 2 Bowman, Bauers, Sewell, Heintzel- man and Mueller, Berres; Bonetti, Epperly, Bertram. Campbell and Todd, Collins. At Ontario, Calif. Chicago (A) .. 010 000 100-2 9 3 Los Angeles (P) 100 000 02x-3 5 1 Brown, Dobernic, Boyles and Tur- ner, Silvestri; Prim. Kush and Her- nandez, Holm. At San Francisco, Calif. 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