""III MICHIGAN O IIY rAGET . ..........T H E .M I ...... .... .......AN.... ............ ..... ... PAGE TI Opponents' Power, Bad Breaks Whipped Trackmen At Butler By BOB STAHL Besieged for the past eight yearsI by a score of mid-western track squads, the Wolverine cinder crew finally succumbed at Indianapolis last Saturday, relinquishing the But-I ler Relays crown it has held almost perpetually and winding up in fifth place in the meet. It was just a case of too muchI power from the opposition coupled -with a few bad breaks for the Wol- verines that pried the Michigan team loose from its death-grip on the title. Notre Dame's powerful aggregation furnished the major part of the op- position but it was a combination of factors that furnished the bad breaks. Ackerman Sets Hot Pace In the university four-mile relay, for example, the Wolverine baton- passers were very much in, the run- ning all the way. Will Ackerman led Puck Seniors Close Careers Quartet Game Starred Against In Finial Illinois By STAN CLAMAGE The hockey season has ended, and with the final results already record- ed, we now draw finis to reporting the exploits of Captain Paul Gold-I smith, Johnny Gillis, Bob Collins and John Corson. These four seniors have donned, their skates as Wolverines for the last time, and against the Big Ten cham- pions from Illinois, the quartet main- tained a high brand of hockey de- spite a most disastrous season. They were the best fighters on the Illini ice for the Maize and Blue sextet-- you can ask no more. Along with junior Max Bahrych, Corson and Collins made up the en- tire offensive punch for Michigan. In the Thursday night 6-2 loss, each of them banged in a goal; in the finale on Saturday (Illinois 9, Michi- gan 4), they both cashed in on un- assisted markers. Add Gillis, and there is the backbone of the Wolver- ine defense. The big Michigan de- fenseman became a member of the sextet at the start of the second sem- ester, and has been one of the prin- ciple guns in Coach Eddie Lowrey's attempt to regain heights which were Michigan's not too many years ago. . Goldie was a real inspiration to the squad. Playing on the front line, the captain time and time again proved his worth. And particularly last Sat- urday. He wasn't able to see action in the first game of the concluding series, but not even a back injury could pr'event him from starting his last game. It appears rather pointless to make a complete round-up of the season. The Wolverines came 'through an 18-game schedule in no "red hot" fashion. Playing one more game than last year, Michigan won but two, tied the same number and came out sec- ond best in the remaining 14. That makes the record comparable to last year's when they won two and tied one. It has been a season of up-and- down hockey, with the Maize and Blue outfit failing to reach high enough in a great majority of the contests. On many occasions, par- ticularly in the present semester, Michigan was not out-played in every respect. Where they missed was where it counted-marking up in the scoring column. off for the Michigan quartet and, running a beautiful race, handed the baton to Ernie Leonardi well out in front. Leonardi, turning -in the best mile run of his career, relinquished the lead to Illinois, however, and was in second place when Dave Matthews took over. Matthews ran his leg in good time and finished third, handing the baton to John Ingersoll for the sprint on the anchor leg. But Don Gladding, running the third leg for Illinois, did not pass his baton to the Illinois an- chor man, Bob Rehberg, until he had run an extra lap, which should have disqualified the Illini immediately. . Illinois Wins On Fluke The judges, however, figured dif- ferently, declaring that Illinois had suffered more of a disadvantage than an advantage through Gladding's er- ror, and so awarded first place to them. Michigan finished second, ahead of Ntre Dame, and had the judges adhered strictly to the rules, would have won the event. In the mile relay, which the Wol- verines were favored to win, it was again a case of the breaks turning in the wrong direction. Competing in a field of eight teams, all running at the same time. Michigan's lead-off man, Buel Morley, was pocketed at the very start, and lost so much ground that George Pettersen, Al Thomas, and Bob Ufer, the other members of the Wolverine quartet, never succeeded in working them- selves out of the pack and into the lead. INTRAMURAL Sport Shots By BAT' JENKS Tomorow night is Open House at the Intramural Building. In a three hour period from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. visitors will see 500 athletes compete in 25 sports in one of the largest one night athletic exhibitions in the country. For the Intramural Depart- ment it will climax the winter season and provide the biggest single day in the year. Started 13 years ago with the pur- pose of showing the public what the I-M program was all about it has become an event enjoyed annually by several thousand people. A glance at the program is guarantee that this year's program will offer as fine a program as ever before and also a little something new, Headlining the events are the three basketbaill finals which will be played off in the course of the evening. In addition to these three will be finals in tennis, squash, handball, badmin- tion, and in dormitory wrestling and swimming.. Nor will exhibitions be lacking. Varsity and freshman divers will show their wares and experts will be on hand to demonstrate archery, badminton, bag punching, boxing, carballo, codeball, dart baseball, fencing, gymnastics, golf, handball, juggling, lacrosse, paddleball, soccer, squash, table tennis, volleyball, water polo, anl weight lifting. Keeping in spirit with the times a special mili- tary physical fitness drill will also be shown. Those desiring to receive in- struction in these sports will be aided as much as time and circumstances permit. A detailed article telling exact times and places as well as partici- pants will appear in tomorrow's Daily. THE Intramural Department's Fourteenth Annual Open House slated for the Sports Building tomor- row night takes on new significance this year. Overshadowed this time are the usual galaxy of playoff games in various sports. Secondary now are the clashes between the Phi Psoftly fraternities and the Delta Jerk hous- es. Moving into front-line promi- nence are mass physical education drills stressing fitness for everyone. One of the outstanding features of tomorrow night's gigantic 25-sport program, in which the turnstile traffic is expected to approximate 4,000 spectators, is an exhibition drill of physical fitness which will be staged by freshman physical ed- ucation students. 'HIS GROUP will illustrate the military camp physical and ath- letic program through a series of cal- isthenics and mass exhibition con- tests. This type of activity-of the utmost value in a nation at war-will keynote tomorrow's Open House in its Fourteenth, and by far the most important, public performance. In previous years the value of the In- tramural Department has been wide- ly acknowledged. Today its well-co- ordinated and complete program of athletics-for-all is not only valuable, it is vital. Michigan's Intramural De- partment is doing a fine job, con-I tributing wisely and heavily to the nation's war effort. * 4' * SPORTS 11ASH: Michigan's grid) coaches live football twelvel months a year . . . thus it was no surprise to find line coach Clarence Munn and backfield mentor Earl Martineau re-running the game shots of last year's Ohio State clash at the Athletic Administration Building yesterday . .. Biggy diagrammed uhe Buck's third scoring play of that 20-20 classic for freshman coach Wallie Weber. That was the one on which the Bucks scored on a flat pass to the left from fullback Jack Graf to Dick Fisher who streaked a goodly distance to the goal line for the score... behind the actual toss and run, which is what the 85,000 fans noticed, was a beautiful piece of execution by the Buckeyes . . their right end went straight down the field deep to hold Michigan's safe- SPORTFOLIO ' New, Vital Open House 0 Defense Is Keynote By HAL WILSON Daily Sports Editor * * . * ty man Tom Kuzma, while the right half hustled into Capt. Bob Westfall's territory . . . the Scarlet left end went straight forward, then cut in to the right, drawing defending right halfback Tippy Lockard with him ... and to clinch the play one Wolverine line-backer, George Ceithaml, was cross-block- ed, while the other, Bob Ingalls, rushed the play on a virtual seven man line . . . that left Fisher free in the flat on the left. . . he snared a short forward, eutfeinted Leck- ard who came over fast after guarding the Buck left flankman, then faked Kuzma and outraced Westfall to the goal. MOST FUTILE FEELING PRIZE of the week goes to shot-putter Al Blozis who easily won the Knights of Columbus tossing contest last weekend . . . at the request of pho- tographers he stripped off his sweat suit after the meet and lofted an iron apple 57 feet, 9%l2 inches-an effort that would have wiped out every known record had it been made in competition. The American flag which hung at the Sports Building pool at the Conference swim championships last weekend contained only 44 stars . .. somebody suggested that Ohio wasn't represented . . .every- one at the pool Saturday night re- alized just how much Capt. Dobby Burton meant to the Wolverine title effort . . , they would never have won it without the fighting little Pocket Battleship whose un- quenchable spirit and team leader- ship gave him the best times of his tank career in the 50 and 100- yard freestyle sprints and eight all-important Michigan points. "JHEN, with the. entire meet hing- ing on the final relay, Dobby whipped his tired body through the leadoff leg of the 400-yard freestyle in amazing time to hand his team- mates a lead which they barely held through the final three places for the crown.., as Matt Mann said: "I was proud of the team performance in general, and especially proud of my captain." YORK SIGNS WITH TIGERS LAKELAND, Fla., March 16.-(A)- Rudy York,. Detroit Tiger first base- man, ended his long holdout siege today by signing his 1942 contract. Now about that Big Ten wrestle meet in Chicago last Saturday night. Purdue won the thing right enough, and placed four champions to our on-- Johnny Johnson he is, by the way, and many's the person on cam- pus 'who doesn't seem to know the lad but hang around till tomorrow and you'll find out-and the Boiler-I makers snatche'd the gravy with 33 points while we were tied with Illi- nois with 18 counters apiece. But additional information which has filtered in during the past two days indicates that the Wolverines put up a much mightier fight than the bald score indicates. Deane Drops Close Onei For instance, the simple news item states that Ray Deane lost the 136 pound title to Purdue's Mark Mato- vina on a referee's decision. But, friends, the story behind that state- ment, you should hear it. At the end of the regulation three periods the score was 6-6. Ray had unleashed a fury on his man which }seemed to have been conserved the, whole season for this one match, and in desperation Matovina had scam- pered off the mat time and again. He had in tact sc often lo'ne it that the ref eventually penalized the Pur- due man two points. In the overtime the match slowed down to a stalemate because Ray had poured it all out those first nine minutes. Still he had 52 seconds' time advantage. But when it was all over the ref gave Matovina the nod and Purdue five points. There were those present who strongly dissented with the official's judgment. Corky Barely Edged In the 165 pound semi-finals Bill Courtright was barely nosed out by Indiana's Harry Traster, who had come down from his customary light- heavy spot. The score was 4-3 for Corky up until the last 10 seconds, but in those last clock-ticks Traster pulled a quickie and reversed on Bill to get the brace of points which spelled triumph, 5-4. But it was that close. Chamtpion .Tin Galles was beaten i i i Close Decisions Wrecked Varsity' Hopes For Conference Mat Crown by Champion Johnny Roberts of Wis- consin in the 175 finals. Last year Roberts was 165 pound Conference title winner. This year he was heavi- er-and better. The match was close, the score reversed its ,-f con tinually throughout the nine minutes of battle, but Roberts' last period rush swept him through to an 8-5 victory and a new title, Golf (ioa hi Reveals Nine Meet Selledule Coach Ray Courtright, University golf coach, announced yesterday that his team will compete in nine dual meets and the annual Big Ten cham- pionships. The Wolverines will face five oppo- nents on the road and four at home on the University golf course, The Schedule: April 18, Kentucky at Lexington; April 20. Ohio State at Columbius; Alril 25, Michigan State at East Lansing;; May 2, Purdue at Lafayette; May 4, Indiana at Indi- anapolis; May 9. Northwestern here; May 11, Ohio State here; May 13, Michiga, State l"ere; May 16, Illinos here; May 18-19, Big Ten meet here; June 22-27, National Intercollegiate meet at South Bend. Matt Mann's All Wet, Loves It: Signifies Triumph Of His Boys r By BUD HENDEL C(oach Matt Mann, dripping wet and grinning like a condemned man just proved innocent, climbed out of the Sports Building Pool Saturday night last and exclaimed to one and all, "That was the most enjoyable ducking I ever took." For the boys on Mann's Michigan swimming team, the same boys who just a few minutes earlier had won their fourth straight Big Ten cham- pionship, had picked up their genial mentor and bodily tossed him into the deep end of the pool as a fitting tribute to the coach of the winning crew. Mann loved it, and with good rea- son. Because for a while it seemed that Coach Mike Peppe of Ohio State was going to be the recipient of the traditional ducking. Peppe's Buckeye band, boiling mad because everybody had already conceded the crown to Michigan, mustered all its strength, turned in its best performance of the year and clung to the favored Wol- verines right down to the last event. But it was in the books that Peppe would have to look elsewhere for his Saturday night bath. Michigan's 400 yard freestyle relay team won that final event and the 10 points that went with it, while Ohio State was only able to take the six tallies given for third place. Since the score had been tied at 44-44 going into the re- lay, the title went to the Wolverines with 54 points to Ohio State's 50 and Mann once again was on the re- ceiving end of a mighty heave pool- ward. The Wolverine relayers, Capt. Dobby Burton, Bob West, Lou Kivi and Gus Sharemet, posted a time of 3:35.7 in their crown-clinching effort. A Maize and Blue 300 yard med- ley relay trio of Dick Riedl, John Sharemet and Gus Sharemet won their event in 2:59.1, but besides the two relays Michigan was only able to garner first place in two other races on the program. Jack Patten gained the individual title in the 220 yard freestyle, swimming the distance in 2:14.8, while Jim Skinner retained his 200 yard breaststroke laurels with a 2:27.7 clocking. Eight Cagers Awarded Varsity Monograms Coach Bennie Oosterbaan yester- day announced the varsity letterwin- ners for the season just completed: Captain Bill Cartmill, Verona, N. J.; Bob Antle, Saginaw; Morrie Bi- koff, Flint; Leo Doyle, Pequaming; Don Holman, Detroit; Bill MacCon- nachie, Montclair, N. J.; Jim Mand- ler .and Mel Comin, Chicago. 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