THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAf.YE }making the ane1 o 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. 1 _________________________________ tiroe mm these 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. 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