.. iw ,t + e y .t . :. s a rs. a. as, a.4! v..i A r 3l"L"EIF J:1 f Coach e1r Announces 19444 ennis Best Amateurs Will Enter AA U Tank Meet Net Season Will Open __ __ _--April 29 in Windy City Bill Srnith Alan Ford Will Be Starters i11 Small but Select Company of Contestants Great Lakes Favored To Shade Wolverines By HANK MANTHO When entries for the NAAU swimn- ming meet, which will be held March 31 and April 1 at the Intramural Building, close this Friday, the entry lists will contain some of the greatest amateur swimming stars ever to as- semble in one pool. 1iany boys are now in the service and the meet will be smaller than usual because of this, but the caliber swimming meet in which so many record holders competed at one time, and most of these men will be in the best shape of their careers, making it more than likely that they may break their own marks. 100-Yard Freestyle Highlights Meet The highlight event of the meet should be the 100-yard freestyle, which will find Alan Ford, Bill Prew, Bill Smith, Jerry Kerschner, Merton Church and Chuck Fries, six out- standing swimmers pitted against each other. Ford now holds the world record at :50.1 seconds, while Bill Smith of Great Lakes, who now holds world records in every distance from 200 to 800 meters, will swim the shorter distance for the first time in actual competition, and will be out for his eighth world title. Although Smith has never traveled the dash in com- petition, he has swum 100 yards on the last leg of a relay team in :50 seconds flat several times this year. Prew, formerly of Wayne, held the NAAU record at :51 seconds in 1942. He is in the Air Corps and stationed at Panama; but is on leave and will swim in the 100. Merton Church and Chuck Fries will represent Michigan, with Church holding the Big Ten crown. These boys placed one-two in the Conference finals at Evanston earlier in the year. Record May Fall Neither of these swimmers has ever been against such competition and that may result in a 100-yard record under :50 seconds flat, which is nothing short of sensational. Newsweek terms this one event as the "century swim of the century." Last year Ford beat Church in the NAAU 100-yard freestyle meet by only two feet, whereas Church beat out Bill Smith, who was then swim' ming for Ohio State. This should give all swimming fans some idea of how close this race will be. Old Mark Set Here The last time that the 100-yard swim record was established, it was done by Johnny Weissmuller at the Michigan Union in 1927. This record weathered the years until Ford broke (RN TIRE IrEBOUNI) 'JITH BASK(ETBALL WELL out of the way for the season, and most of the Big Ten coaches and teams quite satisfied with this year's showing, it is interesting to note that the post-season criticism of the winter's games is directed at the coaches of Big Ten Basketball. In their reports of the season all the coaches praised the men who played on their squads this year. Many of them alluded to the fact that the boys were younger than in previous years, and in some cases showed their lack of maturity in play. All of them, however, were unanimous in stating that the playe'rs showed commendable spirit and made a definite contribution this season, which might well have been a grim one for basketball. Everyone seems agreed that the players were satisfactory and main- tained a high degree of sportsmanship. Not so the coaches. The Chicago Daily News in Francis Powers' column The Score Card, printed a story to the effect that Western Conference basketball coaches "must mind their manne~s, biecomne students of .Emily Post-or e1lse By DAVE LOEWENBERG Head Tennis Coach Leroy Weir last night announced Michigan's net schedule for the 1944 campaign. The Wolverines will open their season April 29 against Chicago onI, the University of Chicago courts. This match should be a good test for I the Maize and Blue racqueteers, as the Maroons have always been near the top in the Western Conference net standings.nC Following the Chicago engage- ment, the team will travel to South. Bend on May 6 for a match with Notre Dame. Last year Michigan _ _ _ M ._ -_ Early home tOpeniers Trj he Played Against Defending Champions, Nortbwestern in May alw aa.l , G~V1G U ia~ ,71 .'tily . a ° V C t. COWERS went on to say that the behavior of several of the Big Ten * coaches during the season had been serious enough to concern Big Ten directors when they met last week. ie pointed out that "there were complaits that some coaches permitted their teams to play an unnecessarily ,rough type of game; that some attempted to intimidate officials and, in general, comported themselves in a manner unbecoming representatives of the conference and foreign to the code of ethics of their own national association. Powers suggests that penalties should be imposed on guilty coaches and if this fails to bring Lhe desired result other universities should refuse to schedule games with the guilty parties. lie puts it strongly when he says, "Umpires in professional baseball would not tolerate for an instant some of the language and actions heard and seen on college benches dur-ing the past season. And college basketball is an amateur game, presumed to develop sportsmanship and fair, clean play. Officials should be encouraged to call moinr technical iouls on guilty coaches and, as a last resort, eject them from the court." It is true that players who are guilty of misconduct on the court are dismissed from the game but little attention is paid to coaches. who are often to blame for the actions of their own players. isErsY __E___ It would seem that if Big Ten basketball is to retain any vestige of the prestige that it has held previously, the offending coaches might I crda 5-4 victory over the Irish. take a cue from their players, who have been so whole-heartedly applauded owever this year Notre Dame will for their sportsmanship, and add a touch of the gentlemanly attitude bse wi t ty servis fr itseat their nconduct, tar, Jimmy Evse, hon fo ther to own threelow years hasc been one of Amen-a, e total rnore: MERT CHURCHs it in 1943. And now the chances for establishing a new record are good and the scene again is Ann Arbor. Great Lakes, which has gone un- defeated this season, and the only ones to defeat the Wolverines this season, will be the heavy favorite to win the meet, with the Maize and Blue squad trailing them in the run- ner-up spot. S_ _rtsNews E Dodd's Record Mile CHUCK FRIES DetoitFavredRequested by To Cop Home ~U.S. Marimes f Sparks Chicago Relays I i t a ca's leading junior players. Evert, a nember of the Navy V-12 program, heas been transferred to an easter~n university. MTeetBuckeyes, Wildcats Here The following weqk-end Michigan travels to Northwestern, where they will meet Illinois and Wisconsin on of the competitors will more than -offset the smaller number of contes- tants. This meet may well be the greatest in AAU history, or one of the greatest swimming events ever to be held as is indicated by the entry list which shows that seven world record hold- ers will be swimming to defend their prestige. There has never been a Oosterbaan To Be Assistant Baseball Coach Former All-American Was Star Batsmanr. Bennie Oosterbaan, head basket- bal coach and end coach of the foot- ball team, was today named to assist baseball head Coach Ray Fisher for the 1944 season. Oosterbaan will succeed Ernie Mc- Cay who is now in the Navy after as- sisting Fisher for the past three sea- sons. Prior to this year, Oosterbaan has had charge of the freshman baseball squad, but the new Big Ten ruling permitting freshman competi- tion in varsity sports for the dura- tion of the war has done away with all freshman athletic teams. Oosterbaan is well qualified in his new role, having been a star in Westein Conference baseball cir- cles during the seasons of 1926, '2"., and '28. Bennie did his work ;t first base, establishing a reputation for himself as oe of the finest per.- formers at the initial sack in Big Ten history. In addition to his fine fielding abil- ity, Oosterbaan became one of the most feared hitters in the loop as he batted above .400 in all three seasons as the Wolverine first sacker. In 1928, his last season at Michigan, he burn- ed up the league with the fancy .426 to establish himself as one of the fin- est players ever to don Wolverine spikes. Oosterbaan, Michigan's only three-time All-American. football- er and also a star performer on the basketball floor for three years, has written several entries into the Maize and Blue record books. One of the lesser known of these is his record of hitting safely in 22 suc- cessive games, a mark which still stands in Big Ten circles. Chooses to Coach , Following graduation from Michi- aan Oosterbaan r1eceived several of- Red Wings Must Gai I Lead in Cup Series DETROIT, March 20.-'P)-On a basis of season records, the Detroit Red Wings go into their Stanley Cup hockey playoff series tomorrow night at Olympia with a sharply defined prospect of getting off on the right foot against the fourth place Chicago Blackhawks. The advantage of home icerarely has been better demonstrate, in hockey than this season, when De- troit swept its five meetings with Chicago at Olympia and the cham- pion Montreal Canadiens went through their entire card without losing at home. After games with the Blackhawks here tomorrow and Thursday, the Wings will resume their best-of- seven playoff set with the Black- hawks Saturday at Chicago. And there, the records would .indicate Detroit is due for a trimming, for Chicago ice has been so much poison this year for the Wings, beaten five times in the stadium. Record Favors Wings The jinx of unfamiliar surround- ings goes back much farther than that, however, and would tend to favor the Wings in the Chicago series. The Hawks have not won a NIIL contest at Olympia over a 19- game stretch dating back more than; four years. If the rivals battle the seven-game limit, four of the clashes will be played here. Sellout crowds were indicated for the first .two playoff games as Mana-; ger Jack Adams of the cup-defend- ing Red Wings announced that the7 club would be at full strength for the Chicago invasion. Cripples Ready Modere (Mud) Bruneteau, whoE missed the last two regular seasonI games, was listed as a probable start- er. He has been out with a groin; injury. Bill Quackenbush and Joe Carveth of the Wings, who have been nursing leg injuries, also will be in uniform. Featuring the Detroit-Chicago set is a clash of two of the league's top forward lines-the Wings' veteran trio of Bruneteau, Carl Liscombe and Syd Howe with a record collection of 103 goals for the season and Chica- go's Doug Bentley, Bill Mosienko and Clint Smith with a high of 219 scor- ing points. Leathernecks iss Reports of Athletics Editor's Note: This story was written by a former Associated Press staff mem- ber now serving in the South Pacific area as a Marine combat correspondent. SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC- (Delayed)- What the Marine out here needs is not a good five-cent cigar. It's sport news from home. Radio broadcasts bring him front- page news, with some football scores on autumn Saturdays and an occa- sional sports paragraph. The sports pages he read so avidly back home are denied him.j We discovered his desires when1 Staff Sgt. Oscar A. Imer of Potts- town, Pa., and I tried a nightly news broadcast for thousands of Marines. Before our unit went into action on Bougainville; someone brought up a two-weeks old newspaper listing some football scores. The major games had been covered in the radio broadcast, but we used the scores anyway and the reaction was really surprising. The mere mention of the names of home state and favorite colleges brought cheers. Resuming the program later, we hit upon a better plan. At our re- quest, the Associated Press region- al sports editors at San Francisco and Atlanta arranged to airmail semi-weekly batches of sports items from the Associated Press report. Tulane to play Notre Dame this fall . . Iowa drubs Chicago by frightening score . . Basketball scores ten days old (practically red hot in our league) . . . all hold atten- tion. Hockey, for example, rates no space on a national news broad- cast. But hockey fans in our Ma- rine Corps audience cheered news that Detroit was in second place. We have our share of big time sports stars in this unit-Capt. Jack Wallen of Tennessee and Rose Bowl fame; First Lt. Bob Barnett of Duke, First Lt. Jack West of Iowa State- but most of the men were sandlot athletes-fans rather than stars. By BILL MULLENIIORE With Gil Dodds' record-smashing 4:06:4 mile stealing the spotlight in the annual Chicago Relays last Sat- urday, Michigan's Conference cham- pionship indoor track team was forc- ed into obscurity for the first time this season. It was Dodds' second record mile within a week as on the previous Saturday he had galloped to a 4:07.3 triumph to eclipse the former mark of 4:07.4 set by Glenn Cunningham several years ago. Dodds' latest per- formance still does not measure up to Cunningham's 4:04.6 effort in a paced event which was accomplished on the huge Harvard oval and is therefore not recognized as a com- petitive mark. Only Relay Quartet Stars Of the ten-man Wolverine squad which carried the Maize and Blue colors in the meet only one group, the crack mile relay quartet compos- ed of Jim Pierce, Will Glas, Fred Negus and Bob Ufer, was able to break the tape in front. Bob Ufer, favored to take the 600-yard dash, was beaten out in the final stages by Jimmy Herbert of New York City. Michigan's two entrants in the 1,000-yard run, Ross Hume and Dick Barnard, finished third and fifth respectively, while Bob Hume cap- tured third behind Dodds and Bill Hulse in the mile event. Other Wol- verines entries, Elmer Swanson in the high hurdles, Bill Dale in the high jump, and Julian Witherspoon in the 50-yard dash, failed to place. Vanquish Illini Although the mile relay team was the only Wolverine victor, the high- light of the meet from a Michigan point of view was the 600 in which Ufer was barely nosed out by Herbert in the final few yards of the race. Ufer led the New York Negro for al- most the entire distance, but Herbertj finished with a strong burst of speed to break the tape inches ahead of his rival. The relay team, running only against Illinois in a matched event, turned back the Illini in another thrilling affair after losing the lead during the third leg of the race. How- ever, a bad pass of the baton from Bob Kelley of Illinois to his team- mnate, Buddy Young, enabled WUCol- verine anchorman Ufer to take the lead. Ufer promptly increased the margin and from then on the issue was never in doubt. The MVichigan team was running on aboard track for the first time this season and turned in a time three seconds slow- er than their year's best. In the 1,000-yard run Michigan placed two men in the five-man field. Ross Hume made a strong bid for second position, finishingj right at the heels of Al Daily of New York, while Barnard brought up the rear. Les Eisenhart of Columbus, 0., an overwhelming favorite, was an easy victor.. Bob Hume Scores Running in such fast company against Dodds, Hulse and Rudy Simms of NYU, Bob Hume made an excellent showing in beating out Simms in the final stages of the mile. Hume was not expected to break the tape in front of such star performers. In the high hurdles Swanson got off to a slow start in his heat and could not make up the distance. Sincej only the winners of the heats werej eligible for the finals, Swanson au- tomatically lost any chance of adding to his laurels. Witherspoon suffered' a similar fate in the 50-yard dash, being barely nosed out in his heat': Dale could not measure up to the sparkling display of high jump-t ing put on by Dave Albritton, former- ly of Ohio State, who tied the Relay record with a leap of 6 ft.-7 in. the Wildcat courts. This is one of the I Other possibilities arc Wandel oddities in the conference schedule, Mosser, 24-year-old southpaw whio due of course to present transporta- looked impressive in the club's try- tion difficulties. out school, and six foot-11 inch Ralph May 19 and 20 will find the Wol- Siewert of Mt. Clemens, the Tigers' verines in their first home matches new batting practice pitcher. of the season against Ohio State and - ~- Northwestern respec tively. The WA t BONUS Buckeyes are defending champions ISSUED ER(E! and are expected to make a strong Ibid in defense of their title. North- Coin usfm1P.. western finished second while Michi- Continuous from 1 P M gan wound up in fifth place last year. Michigan will have three lettermen returning from last season's tennis squad. Heading the list is Jinx Johnson, who was captain and num- ber one man on the 1943 team.The Playing other two veterans are Roger Lewis" and Roy Boucher, who played in he * * * * * * * * : N OW I.T CA N Chicago Cuhs Lose BE T OLD Two Ace Pitchers THE SCREEN'S GREATEST FRENCH LICK, Ind., March 20- GLORYSTORY! (P)-The pitching staff of the Chi- WA L T E R WA N G E R cago Cubs received two staggering blows today. Claude Passeau, who has averaged 17 victories a year for the Cubs for the past four seasons, advised Mana- ger Jimmy Wilson that he had de- cided to remain on his Mississippi tung-oil farm for the duration. It required no longer than 30 min- utes of the Cubs' first limbering up drill to produce their first casualty of 1944. He is pitcher Paul Derringer who severely wrenched, or possibly fractured, his right ankle when he stepped on a rock. CLASSIFIED ADVrulTIsiNG CLASSIFIED $ .4{ per 15-word insertion for one or two days. (In- crease of 10c for each additional 5 words.) 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