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By HANK MANTIiO
Daily Sports Editor
Top-Notch College Swim Teams To MichiganT hinclads Picked for
Appear Here in Annual NCAA Meet Annual Purdue Relays Clash
SOME 12,000 fans saw the world famous track star, Gundar Haegg,
once again lose to Jimmy Rafferty, this time in the Bankers' Mile
championships of the Chicago Relays last Saturday, which makes the+
third straight time the little Irishman has defeated Haegg so far this+
season.
Although many fans are beginning to doubt Haegg's ability now,
his defeats are summed up aptly by Gil Dodds, holder of the 4:06.4
world indoor mile track record, when he stated, "What Haegg has
done on the indoor boards to date is just about what one should expect
after 23 days on a boat." This, plus the fact that the "Flying Swede"
is not yet accustomed to a board track, can easily explain his losing
form.
That these defeats should discredit Haegg in any way is preposterous
to assume, for one has only to look at the record books and all such doubts
as to his ability will be dispelled.
As I recall, the Finnish sensation, Paavo Nurmi, holder of 12 world's;
distance records, was acclaimed by all experts as the world's greatest
running machine. The critics said that it would be many years before
his running feats were equalled, and Haegg has already wiped out but
five of Nurmi's marks.
At present, Haegg holds six accepted world's records which range
at almost every distance from 1,500 to 5000 meters, and in a one
hundred day session in 1942, he ran 33 races, won 32 of them and
broke no less than 10 world records.
THEY ARE NOW calling Haegg the world's greatest runner and the
arguments are raging hot and heavy as to which of the two Scandina
vian greats is the best.
Nevertheless, it will have to be conceded that figures give Haegg the
nod up to and including 5,000 meters, and firmly entrench Nurmi as the
champ in any distance above 5,000 meters.
However, even in his recent defeat at the Chicago Relays, which
must have been heartbreaking to Haegg, he managed to salvage some
victory. It seems that several scribes asked laegg if he intended
to run a 4:10 mile in the Chicago Relays, to which he promptly replied
that he would run a 4:15 mile.
Coming into the finish line in second place without his famous
"kick," which usually climaxes even his most gruelling runs, Haegg
immediately asked for his time. When the announcer told him it was
4:14.5, five-tenths of a second better than even Haegg had figured, a faint
smile could be seen on the loser's face, and this gradual confidence and
improvement is a fair indication that Haegg will once more hit the victory
trail and he will more than atone for his recent defeats.
KEEP PITCHIN', 'LEFTY':
Bo Bowmnu, Ace Ihurler, l0
Star for Maize andl Blue, Nie
By BILL LAMBERT'
"Lefty Bo Bowman" . . . this nick-name and several other titles are
the rewards of Bliss Bowman, who last year helped pitch Coach Ray Fisher's
baseball squad to the Big Ten championship.
"Bo," as he is invariably called is a 21 year old junior, and is on his
way to law school. He prepped at the DeVilbiss High School in Toledo,
Ohio, where he pitched for the team that the year, before won the city
title three years straight.
The 5'8" hurler also played basketball. in high school, and captained the
squad in his senior year. Last summer he played sandlot baseball in
Detroit, pitching for the Autoclub team, which went on to capture the
National Amateur tourney.
- -- ---- Last spring saw Bowman rack up
150 Teams Invited
For Championships
By HANK KEISER
Michigan's. Big Ten swimming
champions will play host to a bevy
of top-notch college teams in the
22nd annual National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association title meet, March
30-31, at the Varsity Pool.
Entry blanks for this two-day
sportsrcarnivalkhave been mailed to
150 colleges and universities through-
out the country, according to Coach
Matt Mann, Wolverine swimming
mentor. Although wartime travel
restrictions may discourage some
squads from participating, Coach
Mann expects an outstanding entry
list.
Nine Races Scheduled
The program will consist of nine
races and two diving events. Five
freestyle tilts, the 50, 100, 220, and
440-yard, plus the 1,500-meter make
up the body of the card. In addition
two relays, the 300-yard medley and
the 400 freestyle, are scheduled, and
a 150-yard backstroke and 200-yard
breaststroke clash will be run off.
The diving championships will be
held from a one and three-meter
board.
Last year's meet saw eighteen col-
leges competing, all eastern or mid-
western schools. Alan Ford, Yale
Navy trainee, was the outstanding
performer of the championship tour-
nament. Ford, the "Balboa Bullet,"
MacPhail Gets
Publicity from
Missing Player
Owner Innocent iii
Snatch or No Snatch
Case of Lost Player
NEW YORK, Mar. 20.-(A)-Larry
MacPhail's past was bound to catch
up with him sooner or later so when
a ball player who had been working
out with the Washington Senators
mysteriously disappeared and a
snatchwas suspected it was only
natural to put the finger on the guy
who tried to kidnap the Kaiser, par-
ticularly as the player was found in
MacPhail's possession, so to speak.
The player involved was no ordi-
nary player, and it developed the
suspected snatch was no snatch at
all and MacPhail was as innocent
as the suspect in any who-done-it
who has the fingeraof suspicion
poing at him from all directions
while the real culprit turns out to
be the man in the green hat.
MacPhail just happened to be the
president of the New York Yankees
the club with which the player turn-
ed up, and he just happened to
hitchhike a ride on the government
official's plane which carried the
player from Washington to Atlantic
City, and he just happened to chap-
erone the young man around the
Yankee diggings. In fact, MacPhail
is just one of the happeness boys.
The government explained the
situation quite lucidly. The player
concerned is courageous Lt. Bert R.
Shepard, who lost a leg in action
as a fighter pilot and is determined
that misfortune shall not interfere
with his ambition to be a baseball
player.
He had been working out with the
Senators, had expressed a desire tc
work out with the Yankees, an
presto, it was arranged, transporta;
tion and all. Apparently nobody
thought to tell Clark Griffith whal
was going on and he was left to draw
his own conclusions. The Old Fo
was quick on the draw, too.
Anyway, the whole incident was
a match in a cavern. It subsided
after one brief headline flare, but
if it did nothing else it showed
MacPhail's magnetism when it
comes to publicity. Hedoesn'thave
to do anything and 0it comes to
him, following him around like a
pup follows a butcher's boy. Or
did follow him when the butchers
needed a boy. Now the boys need
a butcher.
MacPhail stirred up the Nationa]
League by doing everything fromr
challenging the whole Cardinal tean
to come out and fight, you, to win-
ning a pennant for Brooklyn. He's
been in the American League a mat-
ter of weeks and already is cracking
the headlines without even trying.
But, as mentioned, when Lt.
S he pard, whose determination
should prove an inspiration to oth-
er maimed veterans, disappeared
and then turned up in the Yankee
camp and a snatch was suspected,
who else could be suspected but
MacPhail, who tried to kidnap the
Kaiser and came back with an ash
tray.
captured the 100-yard freestyle event
in :49.7, equalling his own world's
record.
Yale Won in 1944
Michigan's crew finished second to
the powerful Yale aggregation in
the 1944 NCAA encounter. The Wol-
verines were nosed out by a single
point, 39-38, in the Elis' home pool
at New Haven, Conn.
This year, Coach Mann believes,
when Wolverine, Heini Kessler, and'
Minnesota's Vern Ojampa, co-holders
of the Big Ten breaststroke crown,
battle each other in that tilt. Entries
from other schools have not yet
been returned, so it is impossible to
speculate upon the chances of a
"dark horse" beating out both of
these stalwarts for first place honors.
In addition, the Michigan line-up
will consist of such veteran perform-
ers as Bob Munson, runner-up in the
Conference backstroke clash; Bob
Mowerson, South Pacific veteran
whose specialty is the freestyle, and
Gordon' Pulford, proficient in both
the backstroke and freestyle divi-
sions.
'45 Schedule.
Eases Strain
On Railroads
NEW YORK, March 20-(/P)-A
154-game schedule for 1945 that will
involve approximately 3,500,000 few-
er passenger miles than a similar
program in 1941 was announced to-
day by the National League.
Ford Frick, president of the Na-
tional loop, says his athletes tra-
veled 6,485,395 passenger miles dur-
ing the campaign that closed a few
months before Pearl Harbor. This
year he estimates they will occupy
railroad seats for not more than
3,000,000. Neither year includes
World Series mileage.
In addition, Frick is preparing let-
ters .to his club owners, urging them
to compress the remaining four in-
tra-sectional visits into the three al-
lowed for inter-sectional trips.
The New York Giants already have
arranged for only three trips to Bos-
ton and to Philadelphia.
Barnard, Forrestel, Hume Twins Named as
Quartet To Compete in Distance Medley Relay
By MURRAY GRANT
Nineteen men have been chosen by Coach Ken Doherty to make the
last trip of a very highly successful indoor track season to Lafayette,
Indiana for the annual Purdue Relays.
Coach Doherty, commenting on the showing of the six men he took
to the Chicago Relays, stated, "Although on the surface the showing
made by the boys did not look too good, the fact that they were running
against such outstanding competition as Gundar Haegg, Jim Rafferty,
Elmore Harris; Jim Herbert, and Bob Kelley, must be taken into considera-
tion."
When asked who the men that
would run the two mile relay would
be, Coach Doherty said that he
would not use the Humes, but
would save them for the distance
medley relay. Instead he planned
to use Chuck Birdsall, Bob Thoma-
son,eArchie Parsons, and George
Vetter.
Continuing with the list of the men
that he plans to take to the car-
nival, Coach Doherty said that his
mile relay team would consist of
Val Johnson, running the first 440,
Bill McConnell and Bob Mann. Run-
ning the anchor laps will be Dick
Forrestal, who placed third to El-
more Harris, National AAU champ,
and Jim Herbert, veteran middle-
distance runner, in the 600 yard
dash last week at the Chicago Re-
lays.
Running in the novel sprint med-
ley relay will be Parsons, McCon-
nell, Johnson and Vetter. Par-
sons will run the first part of the
relay which will be three-tenths of
a i mile.- He will be 'followed by
McConnell and Johnson, who will
each run one lap around the ten
lap-to-a-mile track, and Vetter
will conclude the mile by running
the last five laps. This will be a
new kind of relay to the Michi-
gan track squad.
The final relay team will be the
distance medley relay, which will be
made up of a half mile, a 440 yard
dash, and three-quarter mile run
and a mile run. Starting this quar-
tet of thinclads will be Dick Barnard,
who will run the half mile. Barnard
finished third to Les Eisenhart, Great
Lakes star, and Bob Kelley, Illinois
speedster, at the Relays.
Next in the distance medley relay
will be Forrestal who will run the
440. The Hume twins, Captain Ross
and Bob, will make their appearance
next, with Ross running the three-
quarter mile and Bob following in the
mile.
COACH MATT MANN
the chances for a Maize and Blue
victory are mighty good. Led by
captain Mert Church, who recently
captured the 50 and 100-yard West-
ern Conference championships, and
Chuck Fries, another veteran free-
styler, the Michigan colors are fav-
ored to be right up front.
Kessler Faces Ojampa
The spectators will witness what
promises to be a hotly-contested duel
The other men listed by Coach
Doherty to make the trip were
Julian Witherspoon and Henry
Fonde competing in the sixty yard
dash and Ted Balogh running in
the hurdle events.
Five men, rounding out the squad
that will make the trip, will be en-
tered in the field events. Charles
Lauritsen, who tied for third last
week at the Chicago Relays, and
Warren Bentz will vie for honors in
the pole vault. Clem Baumann, Bob
Grandy, and Al McNab will throw the
shot. McNab will double up and
compete in the high jump also.
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MARSHALLS and WITHAMS
First Practice Sees
Four Newcomers
Train With Tigers
EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 20-
(/P)-The Detroit Tigers spring train-
ing squad took on a more balanced
appearance today with shortstop Joe
Hoover and James (Skeeter) Webb,
second baseman Eddie (Red) Borom,
and outfielder Roger Cramer in camp.
Hoover and Cramer arrived on the
same train from the north this after-
noon and a short time later rookie
outfielder Ed. Mierkowicz, Wyandotte,
Mich., prospect, rolled in by bus.
Mierkowicz was the 20th Tiger in
camp-half of them pitchers. A half
dozen other players, including out-
fielder Chuck Hostetler, were expect-
ed tonight.
Webb reported at the Tiger park
this afternoon after arriving last
night from Cleveland. Borom and
pitcher Ralph Ruthstron also ar-
rived yesterday.
the best percentage in the Big Ten,
winning six and losing two. He had
two shutouts to his credit as he
blanked both Western Michigan and
Iowa.
In the first four games Bo took the
mound, the opposition went down
without an earned run, collecting
only 12 hits in the quartet of con-
tests. The list of teams which failed
to solve the mighty mite's delivery
includes Notre Dame, Western Mich-
igan, Indiana, Ohio State, Purdue,
and Iowa.
In the Western Michigan game
here at Ferry Field, a quirk of fate
robbed Bo of a no-hitter. After
pitching flawless ball for 8 2/3 in-
nings, and with only that last man
to retire, a Bronco stepped to the
plate and dumped a single over the
second baseman's head.
The next man was retired, and Bo
won the game 9-0, but -that one
crack of the bat spoiled for him
what -every pitcher aims at-a per-
fect game, a no-hitter.
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