CA M VCHaAM R. £ N b A U tpar4W ".""" . .: . MI... ' A EIA Vt 1 i7'1AI. L 1 ,l 1 AU L .1t Swim Team Aims At Fourth Consecutive Big Ten Crown f Grapple Squad In Conference MeetSaturday Boilermakers Given Edge; Deane And Kopel Rate Change To Take Titles By HOE SELTZER Yesterday we gave you a quickie on where the team strength in this week-end's Big Ten mat tourney is to be found. Today starts a concise con- sideration of the lads who will be bar- arming and cross-facing it out for the individual titles. There's room here to get a look at half the field, the rest follows tomorrow. In the 121 pound weight there are two good boys, and one of them is better. Purdue's Mickey McDonald isn't Conference champ yet, but that's only because the tournament has not been run off. This is of course only on paper and because Mickey did a very neat job in copping the Midwest A.A.U. title last December. Kopel Getting Primed Roy Pickett of Iowa and our own Dick Kopel however do not accept all this guff about McDonald being invincible. Pickett is undefeated this season and Dick has been recovering in the past few days his midseason fire and class and is daily getting increasingly primed for big doings Friday and Saturday in Chicago. One class up, at 128 pounds, it again looks like Purdue. It is not strange that Casey Fredericks is the Boilermaker captain. After three years of competition he has yet to lose his first varsity match. Russ Mil- lei of Iowa is also a very potent look- ing number in this bracket. The lightweight class is going to put on one mad scramble. Iowa's Loy Julius is last year's 128 pound Con- ference champ and he would be high- ly -ldkt' t~i except that he now sports a bunged up knee which has caused hini to d'op his last two matches. If Loy gets himself patched up in time he's going to be tough to beat, but even then Ohio State's Joe Stoia;,- the 'high-riding Illini's Alex A1ia and our own suddenly rejuven- ated Ray Deane are going to have a lot to say in the playoffs. Welterweight Division If the 136 pound division is a scramble the welterweight one is a just plain muddle. Nobody knows for siire just how go who js.. Bob Britt of Purdue is recognized as a distinct toughie. So is our own rapidly rising Johnny Johnson. 4d Kemp of Iowa has a high rating among the connoisseurs of the mat sport and still retains it even after being pinned by an upstart Illinois sophomore name of Rolly Rayburn. The time of this incredulous fall was a very curt 1:65, which may in- dicate that something freakish was Involved which Mr. Kemp is not likely to let recur in the big show this week- end. And then finally there's Min- nesota's George Culbertson, who took1 second in the National Collegiates two years ago and will attempt to' demonstrate in the Big Tens that he has not lost the touch.] I Present Records Sure'To Fall At Conference Swimming Meet By BUD HENDEL Michigan's heavily-favored swim- ming team may break as many as five Big Ten records, and appears almost certain of cracking at least three, when it defends its Western Confer- ence title in the Sports Building Pool Friday and Saturday. The Wolverines, who will be aiming for their fourth consecutive Confer- ence crown, have *already bettered three of the existing marks in dual ten. The junior distance ace has al- ready been clocked under the Big Ten 220 yard freestyle mark of 2:13.6, established by Wolverine Tom Haynie in 1938, four times in competition this season. To date his best time is 2:11.7, and he is expected to once again bet- ter the record in the finals Satur- day night. But the other two standards that Michigan is conceded a chance to smash may still be intact when the final count is taken Saturday night. Big Gus Sharemet, the handsome Wolverine freestyle star, will be one of the key figures in the attempt to erase these marks. National breast- stroke champion Jim Skinner will be the other. Gusto Out For Record The'Great Gusto will try to crack his own record of 52.1 for the 100 yard freestyle which he set two years ago. Against Yale °he did 52.2. At other times this season he has been as high as 54.6. But if his smooth stroke is under control Saturday night, Sharemet has a better than even chance of obliterating his own Conference record. Skinner, on the other hand, will be seeking to crack a mark that has stood since 1936-the 200 yard breaststroke record of 2:23.9 which was established by another Wolver- ine, Jack Kasley. To date this year; Skinner's best time has been 2:26.8. But last season the Maize and Blue star unofficially smashed every existing record when he streaked the distance in the light- ning time of 2:21.8. And on one other occasion he bettered Kasley's mark. Saturday night he may do it again. Baseball Team To Take Usual Southern Trip Wolverines Schedule Four Games In South; Cancel Series With California By MYRON DANN Despite the University's revised academic calendar eliminating spring vacation, the Michigan baseball team will make its annual Southern trip again this year, Coach Ray Fisher announced yesterday. In their jaunt south the Wolver- ines will be limited to a four-game schedule which includes Navy, Mary- land, Virginia and Georgetown. "I would have liked to have ar- ranged for double the number of i I I i i I I E'IN W FO I O illl 0 ew Thinclad Sensation 0 Uf er Does It Again ,ma HAL WILSON Daily Sports Editor * * * * . :: . . JOHN SHAREMET ... may help medley relay team set a new record in Big Ten meet here Saturday. meet competition this year. But since the records have to be smashed in the championship meet, the perfor- mances of the Maize and Blue tank- ers cannot yet be listed in the official archives. Only one Big Ten standard does not belong to Michigan. The lone exception i the 300 yard medley re- lay mark of 2:56.8 established by Ohio State in 1939. But, if past performances present an adequate basis of conjecture, the Wolverines will shove the Buckeye record by the boards this Saturday night. This season, Michigan has chalked up a 2:55.6 time in the event; and with Dick Riedl, John Sharemet and Gus Sharemet out to better it, the Scarlet and Gray mermen will likely find themselves minus one, Big Ten record. Relay Mark May Fall Two years ago a crack Michigan freestyle quartet set the existing Con- ference 400 yard freestyle relay mark of 3:32.4. This year, a Maize and Blue relay team composed of Capt. Dobby Burton, Lou Kivi, Jack Patten and Gus Sharemet was clocked in 3:29.4, against Yale. Coach Matt Mann will send the same crew, with the exception of Bob West for Pat- ten, after a new standard Saturday night, and if the Wolverines can paddle as fast as they did in the ill- fated Yale meet, a new mark will be in the books to stay. Other record - breaking honors, however, are being reserved for Pat- Tigers Anni-ounce Probable Batting Order For Season LAKELAND, Fla., March 10.-(A1)- While talk of a possible player deal between the Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators died down to- day, Manager Del Baker turned his attention to selection of a batting lineup for the Tigers' first Grape- fruit League game here Friday with the St. Louis Cardinals. Allowing for last minute substitu- tions, it appeared that this might be the Detroit batting order not only, for the exhibition series but for thej American League season : Billy Hitchcock, ss, or Jimmy Bloodworth, 2b. Roger Cramer, of Barney McCosky, If Rudy York or Rip Radcliff, l1 Pinky Higgins, 3bj Don Ross or Bob Patrick. rf Hitchcock or Bloodworth Birdie Tebbetts, c Paul Trout and Hal Newhouser, p (for Friday's game). If Baker follows this plan, there would be four new Tigers in the line- up in Hitchcock, Bloodworth, Cramer and the right fielder, Patrick or Ross. Providing York agrees to salary terms, the Tigers would have the same power hitting trio of McCosky, York and Higgins in the center of the lineup.- But York still had not signed his contract, along with holdouts Bobo Newsom, Johnny Gorsica, Luther Thomas and Billy Sullivan, although the first sacker participated in a long practice session today in preparation for the final intrasquad game to- morrow between teams headed by coaches Charley Gehringer and Mer- vyn Shea. The other four holdouts are absentees. games that we now have, but the boys can't afford to miss that .much school," Fisher pointed out.% "There are quite a few Southern schools that Michigan has built up a rather colorful rivalry with, but the elimination of the spring vacation makes it necessary to have to forget about .them for awhile." Aside from a shortened spring pro- gram the Varsity will be' able to play its regular number of games with Big Ten and other Midwestern schools. The California-Wolverine series, which usually ends the season, will not be played because the Bears can not be in Ann Arbor until a week after the second semester ends. Michigan had the rare fortune last year of not having a single game called off on account of improper weather conditions. According to Fisher, that's the first time in 22 years with the Wolverines that his teams have been able to play every scheduled game. a l t t t t l t i t 'HIS isn't the Point With Pride or View With Alarm department. You'll find that back on page four, But just this once we'd like to take excep- tion to current opinion in some New York athletic circles and chip in with a little argument. A fellow named Gil Dodds-slim, wiry, bespectacled, and a Divinity student all rolled up in 135-pounds of running talent-is the latest sensation on the board tracks in the East. He pushed Greg Rice to an 8:53.7 clocking in the two mile run a couple weeks back, the second fastest ever run. Then last week he edged NYU's Les MacMitchell in the fourth fastest mile in history, 4:08.7. '[HIS, from a track unknown, was cnoi'h to seid the New York journal- ists scurrying for the files. They came up with a story to the effect that one windy day last autumn the 23-year-old proacher's son from Falls City, Nebraska, presented himself to Jack Ryder, cinder coach of Boston College, with little more background than a burning ambition to run and a correspondence course via Uncle Sam's postal service on "How to Run." Which sounds fine-- -but strays from the straight and true more than a little. On the face of what has thus far been piresented, the moral might be to stock up with three-cent stamps and just start in pounding the cinders. But investigation a little deeper than the metropolitan journ- alists care to indulge in-for that would weaken their story--shows that Dodds merely had some technical correspondence with a fellow Nebras- kan, Lloyd hahn, and that he has had considerable track background before surprising the East. So much background, in fact, that lie was a national champion. 1IICHIGAN'S German professor, Phil Diamond, watched Gil win the Na- tional Collegiate cross-country run up in East Lansing last fall. And he had to out-distance some pretty fair runners to do it. Earl Mitchell, for instance, who easily nabbed the Western Conference two-mile crown last weekend. Dodds is good, sure, amazingly good. But all the type and ink in the world couldn't make him the runner lie is today. He had o back up his natural talent with plenty of work, training, conditioning and he had to acquire finesse, pace and experience. His running talent definitely was not born overnight out of a mail-course method. And just what does this prove? Perhaps an anti-climactical moral will suffice: don't believe half you read in the newspapers, and discount 90 per cent of the resty,. SPORTS HASH: In a practice match the other day Michigan's Western Conference championship tennis team lost a 5-4 decision to a crew of Detroit stars led by Gene Russell, Michigan State titlist, Jim Tobin, last year's Wolverine captain, and other net standouts, WORLD CHAMPION Bob Ufer, newly crowned, came within three-tenths of a second of shattering another world record yesterday in Wolverine time trials . . . he powered his way 600 yards around the Michigan track in 1:11.1, which approaches Jimmy Herbert's mark of 1:10.8 made under stiff competition . . . Ufer's clocking is a new Varsity, and Field House record, bettering Warren Breidenbach's former standard of 1:12.2. Frosh Hockey Squad Downs Regulars,'7-5 By BART JENKS One of the finest freshman hockey teams in Michigan history handed a surprised varsity a 7-5 licking at the Coliseum last night. Paced by the brilliant kid line of Jack Hobbs. Will Ahonen, and Bob Opland. the year- ling team held the lead throughout the game, with the exception of a few minutes in the second period, and took a well-earned victory. Play started slowly and it wasn't until after the turn of the first pe- riod at 13:05 that Ahonen banged in a 20 footer to set the yearlings in the lead. Hardly giving the varsity ,time to recover, Hobbs followed this shot up with a sizzling poke into the left corner of the net at 14:16. Reichert Scores Then two minutes later just as it was beginning to look like a bad night for the upperclassmen Rudy Reichert took advantage of a struggle for the puck in front of the net to send it bouncing into the net for the final score of the period. The first half of the second period saw the varsity play its best of the evening. At 6:00 Bob Kemp grabbed the puck in a mixup and rammed it home. 'Max Bahrych followed this up 45 seconds later with a goal un- assisted. A couple of minutes later after the frosh had powered their way down the ice, Bahrych inter- cepted the puck and the senior line raced the length of the ice and passed through the helpless defensemen to score, Bahrych from Reichert, at 8:19. Yearlings Take Over From then on it was all yearling. Opland scored on a pass from Aho- nen at 12:08. At 14:24 Ahonen out- guessed Hank Loud to score unassis- ted. Opland also soloed three minutes later Leading 5-4 at the beginning of the third period, the frosh kept up their pace as Hobbs sent two shots in the net on passes from Opland, the second as pretty as has ever been seen on Coliseum ice. Bob Col- lins, who played a hard game all evening, then sent in a final marker assisted by Johnny Corson as the varsity fought in vain to close the gap. Following the game Coach Lowrey named the traveling squad which will leave this afternoon for the final two games of the season with Illi- nois. They are Capt. Paul Goldsmith (unable to play in last night's game), Johnny Gillis, Kemp, Bahrych, Rei- chert, Bill Dance, Loud, Collins, Roy Bradley, and Corson. * * w I April Apri April April April April April April April May May May May May May May May May May . THE SChEDULE: 1 15-Navy at Annapolis, Md. 116-Maryl'd at College Pk, Md. I 17-Virginia at Charlottesville, Va. 1 18-Georgetown at Wash'gton. l 21-Western Michigan at Kal- amazoo. 1 24, 25-Purdue at Ann Arbor. 27-Mich. Normal at Ypsilanti. [28-Mich. State at Ann Arbor. 1 29-Notre Dame at Ann Arbor. 1, 2-Indiana at Bloomington. 4-Notre Dame at South Bend. 5-West'n Mich. at Ann Arbor. 8, 9-Northwest'n at Ann Arbor. 11-Michigan Normal at Ann Arbor. 12-Wayne at Detroit. 15, 16-Illinois at Champaign. 18-Chicago at Chicago (Dou- bleheader). 28-Mich. State at E. Lansing. 29, 30 - Ohio State at Ann Arbor. i Trakmen Seek linth Straight Title At Butler Relays Saturday By BOB STAHL Unsuccessful in its attempt to re- capture the Western Conference in- door track titl at Chicago last week- end, the Wolverine thinclad crew will set out for Indianapolis Friday to compete in the famous Butler Relays in an attempt to win its ninth con- secutive crown in the annual mid- western track carnival. With such powerhouse aggrega- tions as Ohio State, new Big Ten in- door champion, and Notre Dame en- tered in the meet, the Wolverines are conceded only a very slight chance of bringing the cup back to Ann Ar- bor. Despite their victory in the Western Conference meet, the Buck- eyes are rated slightly beneath the Irish as favorites to cop the title. Wolverine Chances But if the results of last year's But- ler Relays can be taken as any sdrt of criterion, the Wolverines' chances might be much greater than they ap- pear on paper. For last year, too, the Wolverines had been nosed out of the Big Ten meet, that time by Indiana, and went to Butler in the role of un- derdog to the Hoosiers' power-stack- ed squad. Running second to Indiana up un- til the final event of the night, the mile relay, the Wolverines put one of the best baton-passing crews in their history into that race in a final des- perate effort to overtake the Hoos- iers' lead. Paced by Warren Breiden- . . - . ,. f _- __ But with the Buckeyes and the Irish taking points away from each other, Michigan might edge its way up be- tween the two favorites and eke out another win. And if, as last year, the ultimate outcome of the meet depends on the winner of the mile relay, the Wolver- ines have just as good a chance of coining through with a victory as they had last year. For the present Wolverine mile relay team has de- feated both Ohio State and Notre Dame in previous meets this year and paced by Bobby Ufer, the new world champion in the 440 yard run, the Michigan baton-passers should be able to hang up another win over their two arch-rivals. The Wolverines will compete against many of the outstanding track stars in the country at Butler, including such record holders as Buckeye Bob Wright in the high and low hurdles, Hoosier Campbell Kane in the half-mile and mile, Pitt's Bill Carter and Ohio State's Ralph Ham- mond in the 60 yard dash, and In- diana's Earl Mitchell in the two-mile run. R EAD MOR E!y TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IFO L ETT'S ID rke A I 110D nA ®A Areyouwalking ot SFLAT TIR&ES? Do your feet let you down around 4 p.m.? 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