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Major Leagues
Shop for Sites
Four Chibq A feady
Have Picked Camps
NEW YORK, Jan. 6. -()-) New
York's baseball clubs began an in-
dustrious search for nearby training
sites today with the Yankees favor-
ing New Jersey and the Giants look-
ing toward New England or upstate
New York.
Branch Rickey, president of the
Dodgers, said he was hoping that
the Army would decide that it does
not need the field house when it
Moves into Yale next week and added
he would not disclose possible alter-
natives before the Army has made its
decision.
Four major league clubs already
have definitely located their train-
ing sites. The Detroit Tigers an-
nounced today they would work at
Evansville, Ind., the Chicago Cubs
and White Sox previously selected
French Lick Springs, Ind., and the
Boston Red Sox chose Tufts Univer-
sity at Medford, Mass.
President Clark Griffith of the
Washington Senators said he was
anxious to cooperate in every way
,possible in splving the transportation
.problem but hadn't decided yet on a
training site.
William E. Benswanger, president
of the Pittsburgh Pirates, said the
club would train "not far from home"
and that he was trying hard to select
a site.
Officials of both the St. Louis
Browns and world champion Cardi-
nals have decided definitely' against
training in St. Louis, but are consid-
ering various cities in Missouri.
Cincinnati Red officials, stuck
right on the southern boundary, ex-
pressed hope that the team wouldn't
have to train on its own field and in-
dicated they would -try for a site
closer to other major league compe-
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MEET THE ADMIRAL:
John Patten Mixes Ability with
(ieteRsi ii ued ig Meri en
By JOE McHALE1
Seeing a quiet swimmer in the
midst of Matt Mann's boisterous crew
makes an observer take notice. See-
ing a good swimmer is a commonplace
occurrence in the pool of the Sports
Building, so only the better-than-
good call the attention of an onlooker.
Michigan has a merman who quali-
fies on both counts: his name is
Johnny Patten, and he happens to be
the Admiral of the whole Wolverine
fleet.
When Johnny was elected captain
of the team last spring, everyone was
in agreement. They nodded their
heads and said, "I told you so!" when
just a week later Johnny nipped
Yale's mighty Howie Johnson for the
National Collegiate 220-yard freestyle
championship, cutting nearly two sec-
The Michigan State A.A.U. meet,
originally scheduled for Friday,
January 15, has been set back one
day to Saturday, January 16 in
order to avoid a conflict with the
Victory Vanities.
onds from his best time during the
year. And that from a guy who had
never swum a race in his life until
he came to Michigan!
He didn't swim a lick in high school
and splashed only for fun in his year
at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston,
Pennsylvania, where he used to cleave
the water from both dorsal and ven-
tral positions.
Upon coming to Michigan Johnny
was restricted to freestyle churning
by Chief of the Board of Naval Strat-
egy Matt Mann, who thereby started
our Admiral on his way to the top.
As a mere , sophomore Patten
stroked his way to second place in the
Big Ten 220 and 440-yard freestyle
events and copped a third in the Na-
tional Collegiate 220-yard race.
The dual meet season of last year
found Johnny plugging away again
for more points for the Wolverines.
Four times he unofficially broke the
Conference 220-yard record of 2:13.8,
his best time for the event being a
2:11.7 performance-before he sunk
Johnson in the Nationals. He also
swam the 440 very creditably indeed,
Physical Fitness Institute Opens
Clinic in Sports Building Today
Johnny Patten ... who already
holds the National and Conference
titles in the 220-yard freestyle, is.
expected to add to his impressive
list of laurels. John will captain
Matt Mann's Mermen this season.
covering the distance against Ohio
State in a fine 4:55.2. John grabbed
the Big Ten 220-yard title in 2:14.8.
Then came the Collegiates and his
aforesaid great effort. However, that
did not end his great swimming for
the contest. Swimming on the 400-
yard relay team against the Yale crew
that had set a new world record in
the meeting between the two schools
earlier in the year, Patten flew like
a Gold Cup power boat through the
water to turn in aremarkable 51.6
effort to aid the Wolverines in re-
versing the count on the Eli's. Michi-
gan fell one-tenth of a second short
of tieing the still-wet mark of 3:27.7.
Small wonder it is that Matt is
leaning heavily on his Admiral for
success this year; and it would be a
great wonder if Johnny Patten didn't
come through.
LARRY FRENCH JOINS NAVY
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.-(A')-Lar-
ry French, Brooklyn Dodger south-
paw, will do his pitching for the
Navy until the war's over.
Host to some 300 high school prin-
cipals and physical education instruc-
tors, the Physical Fitness Institute, a
clinic to facilitate the introduction of
physical hardening programs into
high schools in this locale, will open
at 2:30 this afternoon in the Sports
building. It will be followed by an
evening program in the Rackham
1uilding Amphitheatre starting at
'1:00.
Although the clinic is open to the
public, its main benefits are meant to
be derived by visiting high school
teachers and principals who, learning
the requisites of a sound body con-
ditioning program, are expected to
return to their respective schools and
set up programs of their own.
V What these visitors will see among
tither things is this: the activities of
'a University PEM class picked at ran-
domn. This class will be visited at 1:15,
prior to the opening of the institute
proper; a swimming demonstration
of military maneuvers and safety by
one of the University's PEM sections
'under the direction of Coaches Matt
Mann and John Johnstone at 3:15; a
discussion-demonstration of the Uni-
versity's physical fitness activities for
both men and women at 4:15; movies
of the Navy's physical fitness pro-
grnam at 5:00; a discussion of the re-
' s; and importance of physical fit-
ness tests by Dr. Byron O. Hughes,
Research Associate in the School of
Education. Dr. Hughes has kept an
accurate record of all tests given in
the University's PEM sections and
has issued a pamphlet on his find-
ings; a talk by Lieutenant Comman-
der Charles E. Forsythe of the Navy's
Bureau of Personnel, who at 8:15 will
speak of his experiences as assistant
to Lieutenant Commander Gene Tun-
ney, director of the Navy's physical
hardening program; and colored mo-
tion pictures of the University of
Michigan physical conditioning pro-
gram at 9:00.
This clinic is but one of many of
its kind being nationally conducted
in an effort to inject effective physi-
cal conditioning programs for men
and women into high schools all over
the country. The United States Of-
fice of Education, publishing a pam-
phlet, "Physical Fitness through'Phy-
sical Education", originated the
movement. As a result regional insti-
tutes were set up which fully instruct-
ed their participants in the funda-
mentals of a good physical program.
Those who received the benefits of
these regional institutes are now aid-
ing in the organization of state wide
institutes or clinics. Just such a one
is the clinic conducted on campus to-
day.
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Refresher Courses in Mathematics:
The following refresher courses will
be offered by the Department of
Mathematics beginning today and
continuing until the opening of the
spring term: Trigonometry, Tuesday,
4-5:30 p.m.; School and College Alge-
bra, Thursday, 4-5:30 p.m.; and
Plane Analytic Geometry, Saturday,
4-5:30 p.m.; all these courses will
meet in Room 3010 Angell Hall. These
courses are intended for members of
the faculty who expect to be available
to assist the Department of Mathe-
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mathematics in the spring term. It
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Applications in Support of Re-
search Projects: To give Research
Committees and the Executive Board
adequate time to study all proposals,
it is requested that faculty members
having projects needing support dur-
ing 1942-1943 file their proposals in
the Office of the Graduate School by
Friday, February 19. Those wishing to
renew previous requests whether now
receiving support or not should so
indicate. Application forms will be
mailed or can be obtained at Secre-
tary's Office, Room 1006 Rackham
Building, Telephone 372.
- C. S. Yoakum
Notice to Men Students: Men stu-
dents living in approved rooming
houses who intend to move to differ-
ent quarters for the Spring Term, or
who expect to leave the University at
the end of this Term, must give no-
tice in writing to the Dean of Stu-
dents before 11:00 a.m. on Saturday,
January 9, 1943. Students should also
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