THE MICHIGAN DAILY Mann Worried About Freestyle Relay Positions Patten Is Question Mark; Burton, Kivi, Sharemet Sure To Hold Places By BUD HENDEL Michigan's once-defeated swim- ming team took everything but a game Michigan State crew's trunks as it swept to a 59-25 triumph in East Lansing last Monday night, but Coach Matt Mann left .the scene of victory with as big a headache as he's ever had in his many years as Wol- verine tank mentor. For the cagey Michigan coach has a problem on his hands. And if it isn't solved by 'the time Michigan defends its Big Ten title in Ann Ar- bor next weekend, the mighy Wol- verines, perennial rulers of the West- ern Conference seas, may see them- selves dethroned. The perplexing problem revolves around one event, the 400 yard free- style relay which will be the last race on the Conference program. And Mann, for the first time within mem- ory, isn't sure he can enter a quar- tet that will breeze home the winner. Patten In Relay? Swimming for the Maize and Blue tankers on that relay team in most of the Wolverine dual meets to date have been Capt. Dobby Burton, Gus Sharemet, Lou Kivi and Jack Patten. Man is certain of one thing-Burton, Sharemet and Kivi will be there when the event is announced in the Big Ten Meet. But about Patten's husky frame drapes the big question mark, the uncertainty,-that his ordi- narily genial Matt scowling over his breakfast coffee these days. Not that Patten isn't good enough to fit in with the other lands. No, the problem is a far cry from that. In a nutshell it's this: Patten will swim the event preceding the wind- up, the 440 freestyle which he is favored to win; as well as the 220, and Mann is wondering if the Michigan ace will have enough left to go all out in the relay. Only one man in Wolverine history has been able to stand the gaff of all three grueling races, Tom Haynie, great distance star of 1938. Fast Leg Against Yale Patten, who didn't swim the 440 agasint Yale, turned in a lightning 52 second 100 for his leg on the quartet that fateful night. But he was rela- tivel§ fresh then. Against Ohio State, when he had previously won the 220 and 440 events, he gave his all in relay but the best he could do was 56 seconds flat. If Mann feels that Patten won't be able to get under 54 after swimming the 220 and 440 in the Conference Meet, he will then be face to face with his toughest problem of the year. Only two other Michigan free- stylers are under consideration for the open berth, juniors Bob West and Bruce Allen. The best that either has done for the 100 is 54.3. But if one of them can show enough stuff in practice sessions, Mann may take a chance and enter him as the fourth relayer. Riedl In Experiment And if the Wolverine mentor feels that his freestylers won't make the grade, he may conceivably turn to backstroker Dick Riedl. In an experi- ment, Mann put Riedl in the relay against Michigan State last night, and the dorsal star responded with a surprise 53.4 performance. But he had only been in one other event, and in the Conference battle he, like Pat- ten, will have to swim $wo others- the medley relay and the 150 yard backstroke. In the National Collegiates, Mann's problem will be alleviated because Patten will have a day's rest before the relay. In the Big Tens, he'll have to climb out of the pool and jump right back in. All Matt can do is experiment and hope. Ninet iger Players Remain Dissenters In Payroll Slash LAKELAND, Fla., March 3.-(P)- The Detroit Tigers, currently en- gaged in their bitterest holdout battle on record, today admitted ingenuity on the part of some of the dissenters, but the club is standing firm in itst take-it-or-leave-it mandate. General Manager Jack Zeller dis- closed today that one of the bargain- ing ball players has a personal man- ager, while another's correspondence is attended to by an attorney. There are nine unsigned players. "The trouble is," declared Zeller, "that these players do not seem to realize the country is at war." Zeller, the big Texan who has full authority in Detroit's baseball affairs while club owner Walter 0. Briggs devotes his attention to war indus- tries, made it clear today that a lighter pay roll was made necessary by the prospect of a decline in base- ball revenue because of the war. "Mr. Briggs did not go into base- ball to make money," Zeller declared. i z IT WAS BACK IN 193 Daily's front page had such as "Capone Offers Ai For Lindbergh Baby," a Hindenburg Says Re-Ele Prevent War" A hatles Berman professor named mond sauntered down to House that March day anc gan tradition was born. For Phil, you see, took hand and announced t by his calculations a lI garded Indiana cinder squ edge Michigan's overwheli orites in the weekend's in ference meet, 28-27. THE CHUCKLES of m other experts grew into guffaws after the first nig in which the Wolverines qualifiers, while Indiar Thoved five into the finals 24 hours later the Hoosiers with one mighty evening both Michigan's vaunted premacy and Diamond's standing. from that time dope sheets have been emir cessful and annually go mium to Detroit papers an national news services. Phil has missed just tW doping the last 18 C clashes, iii the outdoor ments in 1936 and 1940. all by way of a leadup to I lar prognostications on th ence Indoor clash this Phil foresees an Ohio S by 16 points over Illinois, AND the Frank McCarthy verines, Diamond predi no better than 27% points If the injured Frank recov to compete, Phil declares,1 total will rise, but still not overtake the Buckeyes. He Varsity Sextet SShades Frosh In 54 Thriller * Phil Diamond Predicts Loud, Gillis Are Standouts; * Buckeyes In A Breeze Freshman Front Line By HAL WILSON Forces Play In Game Daily Sports Editor By HALE CHAMPION In one of the most hotly-contested * * * * games played on Coliseum ice this 2 and the Diamond selections, straight from year, a cocky Varsity sextet had to headlines the professorial feedbag: scrap every inch of the way as it id In Hunt - a -nosed out a well-balanced frosh out- d In s H t 60-Yard Dash-, Hammond, Ohio; fit, 5-4, last night. and "Pres.2, Farmer, Ohio; 3, Thomas, Michi- The freshmen, led by their classy ction will gan; 4, Wright, Ohio; 5, Piel, Michi- first line of Wilf Ahonen, Tack Hobbs ss, smiling gan' and Bob Opland, threatened the Var- Phil Dia- 440-Yard Dash-1, Ufer, Michigan; sity goal time and again only to be 2, Rehberg, Illinois; 3, Owen, Ohio; turned back by net-minder Hank the Fieldi 4, Collins, Ohio; 5, Anthony, Purdue. Loud, who weathered a real storm Y a Michi-Kof frosh-propelled rubber as he 880-Yard Run-, Kane, Indiana; turned in the game's outstanding pencl in 2, Matthews, Michigan; 3, Kendall, promne pencil in Indiana; 4, Rehberg, Illinois; 5 performance. , a all that Y a; 4, RJohn Corson, assisted by Bob Col- ightly-re- Yates, Ohio lins and Warner Forsythe, gave the uad would Mile Run,-1, Kane, indiana; 2, regulars their first goal and a lead ming fav- Mitchell, Indiana; 3, Kendall, Indi- which they never relinquished despite door Con- ana; 4, Gill, Minnesota; 5, Seib, Illi- the fact that most of the game was nois. inside the Varsity blue line. . M ,Ahonen, who turned in the coveted ost of the Two-Mile iun-, Mitchell, Indi- 'hat trick' for the frosh, tied up the fullfledged ana; 2, Gladding, Illinois; 3, Dunn, battle with ,his first goal on a pass ght's trials nis; 4, Kiracofe, Ohio; 5, Leo- from Hobbs and Opland, and the placed 15 iardi, Michigan. first period ended with no more scor- na barely 70-Yard Low Hurdles-1, Wright, ing. . But just Ohio; 2, Olsen, Illinois; 3, Thomas, Kemp got the Varsity's second shattered, Michigan; 4, Pinney, Michigan; 5, marker as the going got hotter, but of work, Vollenweider, Iowa. Ahonen came right back to deadlock cinder su- 70-Yard High lurdles-1, Wright, it as the kid line sailed past the de- amateur Ohio; 2, Olsen, Illinois, 3, Vollen- fense to beat Loud, who didn't have on, Phil's weider, Iowa; 4, Hoeflinger, Ohio; 5, a chance. ently suc- Kron, Purdue. Johnny Gillis, stellar defenseman, at a pre- took things in hand as he rifled home d even the Shot Put-I, Bierle, Wisconsin; 2, two unassisted goals in quick succes- Firth, Minnesota; 3, Sinmond, Ohio; sion, one of which frosh goalie Phil vice while 4, Ostroot, Michigan; 5, Hirsch, Mich- Montgomery never saw as it shot into igan. a corner of the net. eengage- Pole Vault-, Defield, Minnesota Rudy Reichert chipped in one of Which is and Williams, Wisconsin (tie); 3, his rare goals at the beginning of the his oracu Schmidt, Ohio; 4, Kincheloe, Chi- third- period to end the Varsity scor- e Confer- cago; 5, Segula, Michigan, and An- ing, but the fireworks were still to weekend. derson, Wisconsin (tie). * come. tate win Broad Jumnpe-1, Dupre, Ohio; 2, 1 Led by Hobbs, the frosh put five 48 to 32. Faymer, Iowa; 3, Lewis, Illinois; 4, forwards on the ice and slam-banged Gould, Illinois; 5, McFadzean, Wis- away for the last fifteen minutes, -less Wol- consin. sending two shots home in the close- cts will do ing minutes. on paper. High Jump-1, Hoeflinger, Ohio; 2, Capt. Paul Goldsmith, unable to ers in time ith, Northwestern Edwars play because of a knee injured in a linois; 4, Starck, Illinois; Crable, fall during the last Minnesota battle, Michigan's Ohio, Johnston, Ohio (three way tie). will probably be missing from the enough to Mile Relay-1, Michigan; 2, Ohio; Wolverines' line-up tomorrow night re are the 3, Purdue; 4, Minnesota; 5, Indiana. against Michigan Tech. Galles In Three Years Of Dual Competition BY JACK FLAGLER many other of Keen's boys whc There's a young fellow who's been needed a little more polish tO put working out down at the Field House them in the dangerous contender most winter afternoons for the past class. four years. Spends his time on the y .Jim started his winning ways back iin Clark High of Hammond, Ind., wrestling mats up over the training where Kip Taylor, now Ann Arbor rooms and it seems that his workouts High mentor, was then coaching. In have been pretty successful as far his junior year at Clark. Galles won as Michigan's athletic record is con- the state 145 crown and after adding cerned. a few more pounds, copped the 155 This young fellow has lost only one title as a senior. match in dual competition in the Won AAU Title past three years and he now holds While biding time before getting the 175 pound Big Ten title with lit- into collegiate varsity competition tle likelihood that it will be taken Jim took a first in the Michigan AAU away from him in the Conference meet at 165 pounds in his freshman meet scheduled at Chicago Univer- year. Then as a sophomore he com- sity a week from Friday. pleted the season with second place The Name Is Galles }: in the 165 division under his bell Need we go further before we tell and only one defeat, to McDaniel you that this exceptional grappler is of Indiana who was Conference our own Captain Jim Galles and a champ at that weight, tougher and trickier mat technician This defeat was the only blemisr would be hard to find today in col- h on an otherwise spotless college grap- legiate competition. Jim is a good " pling career. Last season Jim weni natured, perfectly proportioned spec- through undefeated and ended ui imen of 175 pounds. He knows every wearing the 175 pound crown. trick of the wrestling trade so well sg h i i now that Coach Keen uses him to Galles gives the credit for his ma teach many of his aspiring tryouts CAPT. JIM GALES achievements to Cliff and ort Rob. the right and wrong of mat tech- ertson, assistant coach last year. nique. Wolverine grappling hopes as Johnny "I thought I knew a lot about In fact, Galles is greatly respons- Greene and Al Wistert who is shape wrestling when I came up here," Jim ible for the rise of such erstwhile ing up better every meet, besides said last week, "but I found out that Wolverine Cagers Finish Campaign With Oosterbaan S Poorest Record By DICK SIMON "All's well that ends well" so the saying goes, but all didn't end well for the Wolverine cagers who have just finished their worst season un- der Bennie Oosterbaan since the gen- ial mentor took over the coaching reins in 1939. In fact the Maize and Blue ended a very disastrous campaign as far as victories and defeats go, winning only six games and dropping 14. But tak- ing a look at the record book, one finds that the season wasn't as dis- mal as all that. It had its bright spots as well as its dark ones. The opening game of the year here at Ann Arbor with the Wolverines'l traditional rivals, the Spartans of Michigan State, provided the fans with their first glimpse of the 1942 edition of the basketball team and they left the Field House with a good impression. Michigan had won with- out much difficulty, 37-20, and fol- lowers of the cage sport thought that the Wolverines might go some place this year. They did, but not where everybody hoped they would. Four Losses During Vacation What happened next is put on the losing side of the ledger. Michigan met fourquintets during the Christ- mas vacation, and came home empty handed. Notre Dame won; Butler won, Marquette won, and Iowa won. Then as school resumed, the Var- sity five met Purdue, with its sharp- shooting team, and'took a 36-18 lac- ing. Illinois was next on the docket, and although the Wolverines fought like a pack of victory-hungry wolves -they were still seeking their first Conference win-they lost by a mere four points, 44-40. The Illini's sophomores were no myth and Fred Vance, Andy Phillip, Ken Menke and Jack Smiley-Vance and Phillip, the two guards, in particular-were too much for the Wolverines to cope with. Top Wildcats, 34-32 But victory at last came to Michi- gan's basketball charges as they up- set the pre-game dope by beating Northwestern's Wildcats on their own court at Evanston, 34-32. In this I game, Oosterbaan uncovered a stellar player in sophomore Ralph Gibert. In the next two games against Minnesota and Wisconsin, the Maize and Blue cagers dropped back into their lethargic type of play and lost both contests by big margins, The losing streak was short-lived, however, as the quintet came back to its home court and soundly trounced I Ohio State, 53-39. Michigan had one of its good nights and the Buckeyes were lielnless before the Wolverine its second victory of the season over the Wolverines, but with a little more added punch in its offense, Michigan could have won. Iowa won again, and Michigan went to Chicago in game of the year, but the team could- n't outlast Purdue's sharp-shooters. The Wolverines fought with every- thing they had, but victory just was- n't in the books. And out of that 20-game schedule, what did the Wolverines salvage? First of all, Jim Mandler, junior cen- ter, set a new Conference scoring record of 164 points for a Michigan player during one season. The old mark of 135 points was set by Jake Townsend back in 1938. The new record is over a period of 15 games while Townsend's mark was during a 12-game season. Oosterbaan will lose only Capt. Bill Cartmill, Bob Antle, a reserve who saw much action during the latter part of the season, and Don Holman, who sparked the team during the last six games of the campaign. Returning will be Mandler, Leo' Doyle, a classy ball-handler, Mel Comin, as good a shot as anybody on the team, Gibert, who was kayoed by old man ineligibility before the sea- son was over, Morrie Bikoff, a sopho- more good at either guard or forward who was plagued by injuries all sea- son long, Bill MacConnachie, a husky sophomore guard, and Bob Shemky, a rangy forward. With one year's experience behind them, the sophomores should be im- proved, and with Mandler, Doyle, and Comin forming the nucleus of an experienced squad, bigger and better things should be in store for the Wol- verine cagers next season. Powerful Buckeye Track Team Favored II Confere1nce y BOB STAHL to keep his laurels this year, alti Down at Yost Field House, on the he will face some very capable track team's bulletin board, is a clip- sition, including Michigan's ping .-from a Detroit paper of 1935, Matthews and Rehberg of Il in which is related a very interesting who defeated the Hoosier ace i account of how the Michigan cinder Boston A. A. meet's half-mile squad of that year came from be- earlier in the season. hind in the Western Conference out- Kane's biggest threat in the door meet to sweep to another Big run will come from his own t Ten track title by erasing a tremen- mates, Earl Mitchell and Paul dous lead which Ohio State had es- dall. In the two-mile run, Mit tablished in the first events of the the Hoosier sophomore, appea day. hold the top hand, with Illinois Led by the great Jesse Owens, who Dunn expected to force him t in that meet established three world limit. records, tied another, and set new Big Ten marks in four events, the Buckeyes were making the most con- certed attempt in their history to capture their first Western Confer-;fA ence track crown. It was the Wolver- :y ines who' foiled them on that day .. back in 1935,6[ Wright Paces Buckeyes This year, for the first time since then, the Ohio State team is making another concerted attempt to win a Conference meet. Paced by their sensational hurdler and dash star, Bob Wright, the Buckeyes are out v '(X to do willful mayhem on any other team in the Conference who threat- ens their bid. And, from the looks of things, it's going to take plenty of history's repeating itself for the C Wolverines, or any other track squad, to foil Ohio State's designs in the Big Ten meet at Chicago this Friday $ and Saturday. With very probable points in every event on the card, the Buckeyes are favored by almost every fan who at- tempts to dope .the meet. In fact, THE DOWNTOWN the biggest contest will probably come in the fight for second place, with Illinois expected to be battling tooth-and-nail with the Wolverines for the runner-up spot. Hammond In Sprints Ohio State holds most of its power W9e Serve in the sprints and hurdles, with Ralph Hammond picked to take the 30O SOUT 60-yard dash and Wright getting the nod in both hurdle events. Com- petition is expected to be a little - - closer in the middle distance races, however, with the points probably being more widespread. Bob Ufer, ace Wolverine quarter- miler, is almost a certainty to gain a first place for Michigan in the 440-yard run. With a best time to date of 48.8 seconds, the wing-footed Ufer is at least two seconds better than his closest competitor, who will probably be Illinois' outstanding sophomore, Bob Rehberg. Campbell Kane, present Big Ten half-mile and'mile king, is expected I, a BENNIE OOSTERBAAN hopes of getting back in the win col- umn at the expense of the hapless Maroons. They won in Chicago and then re- turned home and beat the Chicago- ans again on the Yost Field House court. Michigan ended the season last Monday night by playing its best lea