21, 1941 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wolverine Trackmen Meet Pitt In First HomeAppearance Decker Duels Pitt' Rhodes In Pole Vault Mile Relay Likely To Be Deciding Factor; Piel Faces Stickel, Carter (Continued from Page 1) in last spring's battle, copping firsts in three races. In tonight's 60-yard dash Bud Piel is Michigan's best bet against the Panther duo. Piel ran very well at the Illinois Relays last week, turn- ing in an excellent 7.6 performance for the 75-yard dash, and he is cer- tain to press the Pittmen closely. A Pittsburgh lad himself, sopho- more Bob Ufer, Michigan's promis- ing quarter-miler, will make his home debut in his specialty under stiff com- petitive conditions, then will double inhthe all-important mile relay. Ufer, who broke or tied all freshman rec- ords from the 50 to the 880 last year, will renew an old-time rivalry with Stickel in the 440 with the outcome' a toss-up.t Barnard May Not Run j Michigan's little Bob Barnard de- velopeda sore throat last night and may be forced to forgo }both the quarter and the mile relay. In this case, it is probable that Doherty will1 let Al Thomas pair with Ufer in the' quarter, and shove Buck Dayson in- to the relay quartet, joining Bill Dobson, Thomas and anchorman Ufer. And so closely are the two teams' strength matched, according to pre- nieet dope, the flying spikes of this Contrary to usual curcom, the Michigan-Pitt dual meet clash will begin a half-hour later to- night, at 8 p.m., because of the Panthers' late arrival. New Players Add Strength To Ice Teakn Two new players and two familiar faces in new positions will be seen by local hockey fans when the Michigan pucksters take the ice tomorrow against the powerful Brantford A.C. Capt. Charley Ross will trade po- sitions with his roommate, Johnny Gillis, for the encounter with thef Canadians, Ross moving up to the right wing post on the first line while Gillis drops back to handle the de- fense duties with the aid of Bert Stodden.- "Ross and Stodden are our lead- ing offensive threats, anyway," Coach Eddie-Lowrey points out, "so we might as well have one of them up in front where he will be able to take more shots. The defense won't be weakened appreciably since Gillis is a rugged boy who deals out plenty of good hard checks and also a pretty good poke-checker." Sophomore Bob Fife, who was kept out of action the first semester by ineligibility, will take over the left wing job on the starting forward line with veteran Paul Goldsmith j playing center. Fife is a husky boy,I and a fast, clever skater. He shouldl add considerable scoring punch to the Wolverine lineup. The other newcomer is diminutive Johnny Petritz who will team upI with Max Bahrych and Roy Brad- ley on the third line. Petritz is small Meets Sprint Kings llermen Retain Perfect Mark; BeatIowa, 50-34 jiveity Skiinne'r Defeated By Povilaitis; Jim Welsh Wins Both 220 And 440' Famous Renaissance Basketball Team To Play Here Next Week (outinued from Page ) six feet, six inches of showman; Zack Clayton, pantomine artist who man- ages to turn in an excellent game (Special To The Daily) IOWA CITY, Feb. 20. - Iowa's swimming team threw a scare into Michigan's National intercollegiate champions here tonight before a near capacity crowd of 2,500 fans but the Wolverines came from behind and Iroppzd the Hawkeyes 50 to 34 for ,heir 24th consecutive dual triumph. The meet started out to be a typi- cal Michigan walk-away but the Iowans scored two slams before the half-way mark and were leading the invading mermen 23 to 22 with but four events left on the schedule. Welsh, Thaxter Take 440 Michigan did not :lave the victory clinched until Jim Welsh and Blake Thaxter came one-two in the 440- yard free style race to put their club ahead 42 to 30 with but the 400-yard free style relay left on the program. Much to the disappointment of the fans who crowded the pool, no national collegitae records were marked up. Al Povilaitis, Hawkeye sophcmore, cracked the Iowa pool record in the 200-yard breast stroke when he upset Jim Skinner, twice the AAU champion in this event, with a time of 2:33.3, just one second over the NCAA mark. Povilaitis, whc has never been beaten in his life. out-distanced Skinner by a good five yards. ,.. and the diving events to go into aj 22 to 14 lead. The Wolverines then . reversed the procedure in the 100- yard free style and the 150-yard. backstroke and copped second and third in the 200-yard breast stroke to go into a safe lead. It was the first defeat of the sea-: son for Iowa, the Hawkeyes having beaten Chicago and Illinois in pre-1 vious Big Ten dual affairs. SWIM SUMMARIES 300 yard medley relay: Won by Micl. (Beebe, Skinner, G. Share- met). Time 3:05.4. j 220 yard free style: Won by Walsh . (Mich.); Ahlgreen, Iowa, second; Williams (Mich.) third. Time 2:21.5. 50 yard free style: Won by. Wen- strom (Iowa); Loping (Iowa) second West, (Mich.) third. Time :24.6. Low board fancy diving: Won by Vargon (Iowa). Biedryzycki (Iowa)j second, 385.1; Wolin (Mich) third 370.5., 100-yard free style: Won by Bur- ton (Mich.); Patten (Mich.) second:; Wenstrom (Iowa) third. Time 54.2. ."''' , 150 yard backstroke: Won, by Riedl 3Mich.); Beebe (Mich), second, Ma- 4 = -.a. honey (Iowa) third. Time 1:45.6. JIM RAE 200 yard breaststroke: Won by Po-_ vilaitis (Iowa); Skinner (Mich) Se , n ny.nd +ia l grid star at Syracuse University two years ago. The team Townsend will send against the pros needs no introduc- tion to those who have followed Mich- igan cage teams during the past five years. Townsend himself was admit- tedly the best passer in the nation while he played here, and 'broke Var- sity Coach Benny Oosterbaan's all time Michigan scoring record with a total of 135 in his last Conference season, six points better than Ooster- baan's 1929 record. Townsend is at present attending law school here while serving as assistant to Ooster- baan. Jim Rae, Toledo boy who led the Wolverines last season, started his ,areer in Townsend's shadow at the .enter spot, and overcame an injury n his senior year to come into his )wn last year as a worthy successor to Jake. He is an excellent ball-hand- ler, and shows flashes of passing abil- ty second only to Townsend's. Fishman, stocky little guard, was a zember of the Michigan five while Townsend was gaining his fame, and was on the receiving end of many of J ke 's passes from the ,foul circle. Thomas played on the same team with Townsend and Fishman in his junior year, and was a standout guard and a regular on Oosterbaan's first Wolverine squad. Harmon, who has devoted most of his time, and profitably, to foot- ball at Michigan, took one shot at the cage game while here, and that was enough to show that he was a top-flight player. He turned out for -he sport in his sophomore year, and led the team in scoring. - - Bud Piel, junior on Michigan's track t-an, faces Pitt'F Hap Stickel and Bill Carter, two of the nation's best, in the 66 yard dash tonight.j Intramural I Angles By Gene Gribbroek THE ANNUAL INTRAMURAL relay r atiti nl lwa , one of the bi-- I relay quartet are quite likely to churn out the cifference between de- feat and victory. Wolverine Capt. Don Canham will be out to better his own Field House record of 6 feet 6 3-8 inches in the high jump, and Pitt's Dave McDow- ell will push him hard. Canham, National Collegiate champion, leaped 6 feet 6 inhees last week at Cham- paign, while McDowell has cleared 6 feet 4 inches already this season. Michigan's second entry in the high jump is sophomore Frank Mc- Carthy, who will be a busy young man, having entered the broad jump and both hurdles as well. In the broad jump McCarthy can do about 23 feet and will be favored over Pitt- men Bill Carter and Robert Norton. In the low hurdles once again it is Stickel who will cause the Maize and Blue the most trouble. Veteran Jeff Hall, McCarthy, and Thomas will strive to match his skill over the low barriers for Michigan. The high hurdles will see Hall and Mc Carthy joined by Andrew Watson against Pitt's senior Joe Newman, Bill Cooper and Henry Sulkowski. Wisner In Mile Expected to score heavily in the distance events where the Panthers are weakest, Michigan will send long- striding Bill Ackerman into the two- mile against Marcus Allias, while a quartet of good runners, Karl Wis- ner, Jack Dobson, John Purdue and Herb Leake will carry Wolverine hopes in the mile against Bob Davies and Walter Sterner. Wisner has bettered 4:19 and looks like the class of the -fild. In the *half mile Dave Matthews, steady sophomore, Johnny Kautz and Howie Egert are slated to face Pitt's ace 880-man, Del Anderson, who may also double in the mile as well as performing on the relay quartet. Michigan's top three weight men, Bob Hook, Tommy Lawton and Gene Hirsch, will be up against some husky Panther gridmen in the persons of Bill Benghouser, Ted Konetsky, and Jim Medloch, with Hook rating best from past performances. If the meet reaches the final relay event with the result still hanging fire, Pitt will probably pin its hopes on Capt. Larry Tregoning, Anderson, Stickel, and either Bud Graf or soph- omore Regis Larkin. but fast and a good stick-handler. compe oI x a Uli, aY sy I . He was out of school last semester gest events on the schedule, will be Relay Team Wins end; Sharemet (Mich) third. Timer t and so is not in the best of shape but held next week, with the fraternity Jim Welsh was the only double 2::3.3. (New pool record. Formerid his play in practice sessions thus winner of the meet, coing home mark of 2:36.7 set by Haign of Mich- far has indicated that he will be a and residence halls finals slated to the 220 and 440-yard free style races igan in 1939). valuable addition to the team. be -run off at the Ohio State varsity by sizeable margins. I 440 yard free 'style: Won by Welsh The second line will be composed meet Saturday, March 1. The Wolverine medley and free (Mich.): Thaxter (Mich.) second;' of Bob Collins, Jimmy Lovett and The preliminaries in three di- style relay teams both scored wins. Ahigren (Iowa) third. Time 5:13.7. Fred Heddle. Promotion of, Collins Theon ineluiinarte indtepeit 1After leading, 12 to 6 with two events 440 yard free style relay: Won by and Heddle, thinks Lowrey, will give visions, including the idependents, gone, Iowa came back to score first Michigan (Morse, Burton, Patten, G. the team the best offense possible will take place from 7:30 to 8:30 and second in the 50-yard free style Sharemet). Time 3:41.3. to attain without Bob Kemp, sopho- p.m. Tuesday, ani four fraternity ~ - more wing who was knocked out of and four dorm teams turning in 1TFB action by Economics 53. the best times for the half-mile 7ra p er0 distance will get their chance at CagrsReur til~Wo i~t e~r y hi Tomorrow In Final Home Meet Ca yers Return the titles wan last ere by -Chi " 0 ' Psi and Wenley House between Hom e To Play events on Saturday. The Indepen- By STAN CLAMAGE of three weights. Deane, Paup and! dents will finish Tuesday or on It's high time to forget the unhap Barnett have all wrestled this year, I]l]n *~ ul eL ncie .te>r date, deending on the py disaster against the Indiani while Bind is a sophomore who has - lln ois eunt t11n.tries, -wrestlers, for tomorrow afternoon t yt o e atin Wolverine grapplers will tackle ayet see action. r ' ,tEW:) MOIj; a l-coiiuiu1s eveDts rcod team from Ohio State. Paul} and Art Faddy