THE THICIliGAN I-J IL- .,. . . Michigan Favorite in Three Conference Distance FEvents u, Ufer, Matthews Possible Contenders in 880, Mile With the entry of Captain Dave Matthews in the mile a strong possi- bility Michigan loomed as a strong favorite to capture the three middle distance events Saturday night at Chicago in the indoor Conference, track meet. Matthews rates as the second best miler in the Big Ten on the basis of his 4:20.5 time in the Michigan State meet. The only better clocking turned in by a Conference miler is that of Illinois' Seib who was timed in 4:18.9 recently. 4:15 Clocking Possible The Wolverine captain appears capable of 4:15 clocking, and may conceivably run the distance in that time, if he is to defeat Seib, With Matthews concentrating on' the mile Bob Ufer, the Wolverines' national indoor titlist, may be called on to run the half, assuring a Michi- gan victory. Ufer's 1:53.9 880-yard Varsity, 11lini Imperil Purdlue Wrestling Title Looking over the material that other wrestling coaches have on hand to enter in the Big Ten champion- ships this coming Friday and Satur- day, we find that the Orange and Blue squad from Illinois is going to give Varsity Coach Ray Courtright's lads the most amount of trouble. The Illini team, which some sports- writers pick as favorites to dethrone Purdue, the defending titleholder, is built around four lettermen. Captain Alex Agase, who placed third in last year's meet, leads the group and should give heavyweight Frank Rug- geri, defending champ from Purdue, a real battle in the finals. Illini Have Veterans Pete Lukas, 175 pounds; Kirk Perry, 155 pounds; and Roland Ray- burn, 145 pounds are the other veter- ans who make the Champion aggre- gation look good. The Illini also have a sophomore star in Bob Hughes, 128- pounder, who has yet to lose a match this year. The Hoosiers from Indiana should not be ruled out as a possible con- tender for the crown, and will enter the meet as the darkhorse outfit. dash here recently tied Charlie Horn- bostel's 1933 mark which now stands as a Big Ten record. If Ufer doubles in the quarter and half, he may not run in the mile re- lay. This would endanger Michi- gan's chances of defeating the pow- erful Ohio State quartet. Ufer Has a Job A glance at the time in which the three events involving Ufer are run indicates that the bespectacled "bul- let" has a job on hi.s hands. The 440-yard finals are slated for 8:45 p.m. The half-mile comes at 9:20 and the mile relay at 9:40. Whether or not Ufer can win a quarter; come back 35 minutes later and take the half-mile; and then anchor the mile relay team 20 minutes afterwards is a "question." Even with Matthews out of the 880-yard run Michigan still has an- other runner, John Roxborough, who has turned in better clocking than any other half-miler in the Confer- ence. His time of 1:55.1 is endan- gered only by the 1:57.1 clocking of Minnesota's Pohland and the 1:57.4 of Illinois' Kelley. Hockey Mite's Fight Makes Up For Smallness The smallest man on the squad, the gamest player on the squad, is the way to describe Jack Athens, the center of the second line on Michi- gan's hockey team. I Thehsextet'sacaptain and goalie, Hank Loud said of the'mighty mite's play in the disastrous Illinois series last week, "Athens' guts alone ought to place him on any All-Conference team. He was sensational in both games." Athens is the player on the Wol- verine puck team'that never gives up hope, and keeps trying to the very end, no matter what thetscore is. His First Season This is his first season under Coach Eddie Lowrey and already he is the favorite of all the fans. His spirit is ever present. He never slows up when sending his small body into a man twice his size, and often his enough force behind his check to knock the man off his feet. It was Amo Bessone's hard check- ing of Johnny that set off the fire- works that started last week in Champaign and will reach a climax here tomorrow and Saturday.' SOFT-HEARTED:C City Fathers Defeat New Sidewalk Bill Ann Arbor's kind-hearted Common Council drew the strong ire of Mayor Leigh J. Young Monday night by voting down an amendment to put teeth into their recently invoked side- walk cleaning ordinance. They squelched the amendment by a 7 to 4 vote after Alderman Cecil Creal opposed a provision to arrest delinquents in shoveling snow be- cause "it wouldn't be fair to old wo- men who could neither clear their walks nor hire anyone to do the work." Mayor Young rebuked the lawmak- ers, and said "apparently the council I doesn't want the ordinance enforced and the walks kept free of ice and snow." The ordinance came up for discus- sion after a row of fraternities and sororities on Washtenaw Avenue were hailed into court for failure to shovel their walks, then let go scot-, free when officials discovered the ruling was too hazily worded to be enforced. Favreau To Lecture Today "La Jeunesse d'Alphonse Daudet, "The Youth of Alphonse Daudet," will be the topic for the lecture by Alphonse Favreau of the Depart- ment of Romance Languages at 4:15 p.m. today in Room D, Alumni Me- morial Hall. Dr. Favreau, who has done exten- sive research work on the life of Daudet, will discuss the influence of poverty and education on the works of the French author. Daudet, often called the "French Dickens," was ed- ucated in southern France, Lyon, and Paris.-4 A number of anecdotes from the life of the writer will be included in this sixth lecture in the French ser- ies. Sciola IShi)s In Engineering Are Offered Eligible Students May Compete for Ginniel, Boyer, Donovan Funds Application blanks for any of the five scholarships announced for engi- neering students may be obtained from the office of the Assistant Dean, 359 West Engineering Building, and are due at noon April 3. To be eligible for any of the schol- arships students must be wholly or partially self-supporting and must be American citizens. The Gimmes and Boyer Scholar- ships, each of which offers $100, re- quire the completion of at least 15 units of work at the University with a minimum academic 3. average. The Mandelbaum, Donovan and Hunt scholarships, offering more than $400 each to be paid in two installments, require at least 45 hours of work completed with a 2.5 average, and at least one year at the Univer- sity of Michigan. The maximum total amount which may be awarded to any one student' from the latter three scholarship funds in two successive years is $600. Recipients of the scholarships will be announced on or after May 1. RAF Conducts Huge Raid On German Capital (Continued from Page 1) wigsdom Cathedral, one of Berlin's most noted churches, was destroyed. "Berlin never saw an attack like this one," the dispatch said. The night attack was the sixth in a row in the non-stop aerial offensive concentrated on German holdings in preliminaries to an officially prom- ised Allied invasion of Europe. Around 900 tons of bombs were cascaded on Berlin, including two and four-ton blockbusters-twice the weight of bombs dropped by the Ger- mans on London in any single night of the 1940-41 raids. Keeping up the 'round-the-clock offensive, RAF planes attacked tar- gets in Northern France and Belgium today and one squadron damaged 16 freight locomotives, canal barges, lock gates and railroad bridges. By DON EPSTEIN Future pilots for the American Naval air force are being trained in ever-increasing numbers on this campus under the War Training Service program, recently revised by the Navy Department. F. R. Steinbach, Coordinator and administrative leader of the pro- gram at Michigan, said yesterday that "more than 80 trainees are now ,tationed here receiving their basic flying and ground instructions." .Formerly operating under the title of the Civilian Pilot Training pro- gram, the new curriculum was adopt- ed last December when the Navy de- cided to put all its potential pilots on active duty. The men now receive regular Navy pay and live under mili- tary restrictions. Their green uni forms will be replaced in the near fu ture by the standard blue Navy garb Michigan was among the first five schools selected by the Navy in the spring of 1939 to teach this War Training program. "Since its exist ence here 465 men have graduate under it and gone to pre-fligh schools," according to Mr. Stein bach. In addition to this program fo men on active service, the Navy ha been offering for the past year sid courses to those V-1 and V-5 Uni t(J" AIRMEN TO 111T AXIS: Navy Trains 80 Future Pilots Here Under Revised Program versity students who are still on in- active duty. These students volun- tarily attend Saturday night classes and study important fundamentals of ground crew work. However, this extra-curricular pro- gram will be abolished April 1 when the last 20 men under it will finish their courses. It is being stopped since all available facilities will be needed for the great influx of train- ees which is expected later this month. e Miss Lois Fischthal, chief secretary - of the War Training Program, em- phasized that the remodeled curricu- - I lum consists of two separate groups sof studies. An elementary course is' e available for those students who have - had no previous air training what- - soever, while a secondary course is - offered to the men who had some . experience in flying before startingw e their training. Both programs con- e tinue from eight to ten weeks, de- r pending on weather conditions suit- - able for flying. d Students in either group receive t from 35-40 hours of flying experi- - ence. After completing their courses here they go to a pre-flight school r for twelve weeks, from which they s go immediately to regular bases e where they get final instructions for - combat service. ANOTHER MICHIGAN FAVORITE: Mattmen Count on Church For First in Big Ten Battle I By JOE McRALE From the ranks of the unusually large crop of fine Michigan freestyle sprinters has recently emerged a sophomore who, on the basis of his latest efforts, must reign as favorite in the 50-yard dash this week-end at the Big Ten swimming meet. His name is Mert Church. This big blond merman is no Johnny-come-lately to the swimming picture. While at Pontiac High, Mert won the state championship for the 100-yard freestyle and fin- ished second in the 50 behind Ann Arbor's Chuck Fries, who will be the other Michigan entry in the Confer- ence sprint. Last year Mert was one of the best members of the exceptionally talent- ed freshman squad that is now the single largest component of Coach Matt Mann's latest championship- bound aggregation. Church has only lately really roun- ded into title-winning form. He won the short dash in the Mich- igan AAU's with a time of 24.3 sec- onds. Fries and Harry Holiday cap- ably handled the duties in the first meet with Ohio State, tying for first, but Mert returned to the scene in the Spartan contest when he won the 50-yard event in 24 seconds. He also was a. winner at Iowa City, finishing first in the 60-yard sprint. It was in the last Wolverine-Buck- eye engagement that Mert really 'found himself.' In this meet he swam the distance in 23.4 seconds, his best time and the fastest turned in by anyone in the Big Ten this year. Since then he has consistently. looked good in practice, good enough to show that his effort in Columbus was no once-in-a-lifetime affair. Thus it is that Matt is counting heav- ily on the Pontiac soph to furnish a first place in. the 50 toward Michi- gan's total this week-end. Also, Mert will probably be called on to swim on the favored Wolverine foursome in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Cagers Given 1943 Awards Eight members of the 1942-43 Wol- verine quintet which concluded the Big Ten campaign here Monday night with an upset victory over Northwestern, were awarded their Michigan letters. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's Varsity cagers who received the block "M," were Captain Jim Mandler, '43, of Chicago, Ill.; Mel Comin, '43, of Chi- cago; Gerry Mullaney, '45, of Mil- How about a CAREER on the CIVILIAN FRON? As a student, you've doubtless asked yourself miany times what you ought to do to help win this war. What can you 'study that will be of practical assistance? The Retail Bureau at the University of Pittsburgh is offering a new opportunity to college upperclassmen to be trained for a successful career in retailing while gaining actual working expe- rience at a steady weekly salary. You will receive regular under- graduate credit for your work at the Bureau, you'll earn a weekly income in a Pittsburgh department store, you'll be making a definite contribution to civilian wartime morale-at the same time piling up experience toward a career. Pitt's Retail Bureau came into being during World War I to help retailers replace executives and junior executives lost to the armed forces and government services. In this war, we're bringing 24 years of successful store service to the problem of training new people. And we believe opportunities in retailing have never been greater than they are right now. NEW SEMESTERS BEGIN MONDAY, JUNE 28, AND SEPTEMBER 27, 1943 Application blanks will be furnished on request. RESEARCH BUREAU FOR RETAIL' TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH * Pittsburgh, Pa. ...-am mmmmlmmm . r 9 L A tryout meeting for the 'Ensian editorial staff will be held tomor- row at 4:30 p.m. in the Publica- tions Building. Eligible freshmen and sophomores are invited to attend. 'I a ,l . . ';., >"' :' :w w" : " . M" ATTENTION CAGERS! All Michigan basketball letter- men will meet at Rentschler's Studio, 319 E. Huron, at 12:15 to- day to elect next year's captain, and to have their pictures taken. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan waukee, Wis.; Ralph Gibert, '44, of Flint; Bob Wiese, '45, of Jamestown, N.D.; Leo Doyle, '43, of Pequaming; Don Lund, '45, of Detroit; and Fred Gipson, '43, of Toledo, 0., senior manager. Secondary awards went to Merv Pregulman, '44, of Lansing; Bill Mc- Connachie, '44, of Upper Montclair, N.J.; Walt Spreen, '45, of Highland Park; Charlie Ketterer, '45, of De- troit; and Harold Anderson, '45, of Stambaugh. New under-arm t, Cream Deodorant safely Stops Perspiration 1. Does not rot dresses or men's shirts. Does not irritate skin. 2. No waiting to dry. Can be used tight after shaving. 3. Instantly stops perspiration for 1 to 3 days. Prevents odor. ctrage for Qirdlc$ Belle-Sharmeer Stocking's IN THOSE FAMOUS L.EG SIZES All's well on the -garter line for the lady who teams our fit- ting Belle-Sharneer rayons with her wartime girdle. They're sized exactly right far your legs in length-and width, too- so there's never a slip-up in gartering-even though your garters have less elastic than before. In Brev for little legs, Modite for middlings, Duchess for tall, curvaceous legs. Here exclusively. Belle-Shartneer Stockings in all leg sizes4 SUITS... SEEN INVOGUE C Navy Blue! 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