SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1944 T IlE MICIIFGA N DA ILY PAGE SEVEN 'M' hinclads Whip Illinois, Purdue in F Triangular A STRANGLER ON THE LOOSE: Meet <. - Unknown Power In Field Events Provides TrackstersWithVictory ll LOWdown on Sports sps by BUD LOW Associate Sports Editor Pensive Comes from Behind In Stretch To Win Preakness By BILL LAMBERTI In a meet that was full of sur- prises, upsets, and real cinderpath excitement, Michigan's track squad, through their team balance and new- found strength in the field events, enmassed a total of 71 points to cop first place in the triangular contest between Illinois and Purdue on the Ferry Field track yesterday. Although they grabbed seven firsts to Michigan's six, the Illini finished up second with 54 points, and were followed by Purdue with 27. Be- cause of the high wind which swept down the track, the times on the whole were comparitively slow, and the one time, that of :9.5 which Claude "Buddy" Young turned in for the 100-yard dash, which would have meant a new meet record, will not officially be krecognized because of this fact. Young was easily the meet's out-1 standing performer, as he took first in both the century run and the 220-yard dash, finished second in the broadjump, and helped the Il- lini mile relay team to vict the Wolverines. The field events netted tl and Blue 32 points, or alm of their entire total, and this added power, they mig easily gone down to defeat. Kraeger showed new form ning the shot put with a heave of 48 feet, 10" inches, followed by Bob Richards, comer to the Wolverine squ finished third. Michigan s points in the high jump, Dale, Conference champ, lea 1 in., to cop first and Tom D Paton tied for second. Elro won first place honors in th jump when he hit the boar feet, 2% inches. The "dead-heat" twins, F Bob Hume, tied for first in mile and two-mile runs. in a strong wind, the duo ste in front at the gun in the r held that position througi race. Bob Kelley, the Illin ory over filled in at third place, and although he challenged the twins, he was no he Maize match for their lengthy strides. In lost half the two mile grind, the Humes stayed without back for the first five laps while Fred ght have Stoliker and Charlie Birdsall, two George more Wolverines, set the pace. They in in soon made their bid, and although winning Bill Exler of Purdue made a game and was a new- stand, they forged ahead on the last' uad, who turn to tie for first. cored 10 Jack Martin, who always ran be- as Bill hind Elmer Swanson and who never ped 6 ft., really starred in the sprints, came )olan and into his own yesterday in the 220- y Hirsch yard low hurdles when he out-class- e broad- ed the field to finish first. d for 24 Bob Kelley, the versatile Illinois runner, outlasted both Bob Ufer and Ross and Dick Barnard, who were running for both the Michigan, and finished first in the Running 880. Kelley stayed on Ufer's heels, pped out and then put on a kick to forge mile, and ahead of the field. Barnard and hout the Ufer finished second and third re- iois star, spectively. Elmer Swanson showed that the old saying, "Practice makes perfect", still goes, as he lost his stride in the 120-yard high hurdles and finished far back in the field. Dave Eisley, a new member of the Michigan squad, showed very well in this event, while placing second to Bob Ruther of Illinois. The mile relay was one of the finest exhibitions of running shown in the midwest this season. Illinois who ran Marce Gonzalez, Dick Young, Buddy Young, and Kelley, took top honors with a time of 3:21.7, but only after a close race. Michi- gan's quartet, composed of Jim Pierce, Ufer, Dick Forrestel, and Will Glas, held the lead at the end of Ufer's leg, and was always a threat until the' anchor leg, when Illinois' ace, Kelley, finished strong to come in 15 yards ahead of Glas. I -I JE SE OWENS, holder of four world's track records, returned to Ferry Field yesterday to witness the triangular track meet between Illinois, Purdue and Michigan. It was just nine years ago, on May 25, 1935, that the Chio State Flash broke three world's records and tied a fourth on this same track. He tied Frank Wykoff's century record of :9.4, ran the 220- yard dash in :20.3, stepped over the 220 low hurles in :22.6, and broad jumped 26 feet, 8 f inches to climax the greatest one-man performance in track history. We had a short talk with Jesse, who doesn't impress you as being the sports celebrity that he is because of his modest, yet congenial manner. Owens told us that he had come out from the Ford River Rouge Plant where he works to see his friend, Duddy Young run. Al- though he and Young have been corresnonding regularly, yesterday was the first chance that the great Olymnic star had to see the Illinois freshman compete. Owens has been helping Buddy (by correspondence, and yesterday at the meet) to perfect his form and stride, ELROY HIRSCH, Michigan's most versatile athlete, leaped 24 feet, 2% inches on his first try to take the broad jump, and avenge the defeat that he suffered at the hands of Young in the indoor Conference meet this year. Hirsch then went over to the diamond and pitched the Wolverines to a 5-0 win over the Buckeyes, allowing only one hit-a single in the first inning. Hirsch, who won letters in football and basketball this year, has already earned his letters in track and baseball to become the first man to win four "M's" in a single year. Despite the fact that the first game he ever pitched was the Notre Dame tilt two weeks ago, the "Ghost" has three wins and no losses to his credit. Add to this his .333 batting average and you have a great competitor and a great athlete. The Kelley-Ufer battle in the 880 only partially materialized as the "Hose" faded in the stretch to finish third behind Illinois' Kelley and Dick Barnard, Maize and Blue half-miler. This is the seventh time that the two middle distance stars have met in the last three years-although each of the other times they ran the quarter. Ufer has won the four times they hake met indoors, while Kelley has beaten the former each of the three outdoor meetings. Ufer ran second on the mile relay and turned in a very creditable perform ice - :47.8 with a running start-and it may be that a mental hazard is preventing Bob from beating Kelley outdoors. Possibly ithis is the reason that Coach Ken Doherty switched .Ufer from his usual anchor spot and replaced him with Will Glas. THE Humes twins-Bob and Ross-went into their uisual bro(her act yesterday by finishing both the mile and the two mile in a dead lxat for first. These two lads make a habit of winning the middle distance and distance events in a photo finish and are well on their way to surpassing the feats of Wayne and Blaine Rideout-another twin track combination of several years back. Elmer Swanson had a bit of tough luck in the high hurdles when he lose his stride and ran through one of 'the barriers. At the time he was well on his way to victory. Had he won, he would have repeated the feat of Elmer Gedeon, who several years back, walked away with the highs and played first base for the ball club in the same"afternoon. Swanson, who is indoor Conference champ in both the lows and highs, has had prac- tically no chance to run since the indoor season, spending most of his time playing baseball. After the track meet, Elmer held down first base. Sox Take Measure of Tigers In First of Three-Game Series } PIMLICO RACE COURSE, Balti- more, May 13.-(/I)-Striking from behind in the stretch as he did a week ago in the Kentucky Derby, Pensive today won the 54th and richest Preakness to take a strangle hold on the three-year-old turf champion- ship. Far back in the early running, the! chestnut son of the English Derby winner, Hyperion, from Warren Wright's Calumet Farm hit the wire at the end of the mile and three- sixteenths three-quarters of a length ahead of George D. Widener's Plat- ter. Mrs. Payne Whitney's Stir Up, third in the Derby, was beaten by two and one-half lengths after set- ting a burning pace through the first mile. In travelling the distance in 1:59- 1-5, two and one-fifth seconds off Alsab's stake record, Pensive earned $60,075 of the gross purse of $80,075 and ran his owner's earnings for the year to $250,840. Of this Pensive has accounted for $139,475. This was only about $17,000 shbrt of the figure compiled by the master of the Calu- met Farm in topping the list of money winning owners int1943. The sweltering crowd of 33,011 made Pensive the choice in a wager- ing spree that broke all records for the race. They poured $332,108 through the machines, compared to the previous high of $254,000 when Man 0' War won in 1920. With the shirt-sleeved fans beating out a steady tune on the machines, Pensive returnedb$5.30, $3.10 and $2.20 across the board. 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