WtDNESDAY, TAY 2- 1945 TC ICGIAN DAiY T --------- - - - Victorious Michigan Nine Beats Titans, 5-3 Thinclads Meet Purdue, Miami In Triangular Contest Saturday Encounter To Test Track Team's Strength Before Quadrangular Meet Here May 12 Intra-Mural Lea gue Teams Renew Rivalry Sixteen Teams Saw Action Last Saturday Five Errors Help Team To Win Over Detroiters Following their sterling showing in the Penn Relays last week-end when they won four of five possible first places, Michigan's thinclads will take the road again Saturday, meeting Purdue and Miami in a triangular affair at Lafayette, Ind. The meet will give Coach Ken Doh- erty some indication of his all- around team strength before the im- portant quadrangular meet, May 12 here, in which Illinois, Great Lakes, and Purdue will run against the Wolverines. Only 11 men from the squad saw action at the Penn Relays. Neither Purdue nor Miami is ex- pected to offer any serious threat to Michigan's chances of winning, but the combined strength of the two schools should provide a stiff test Purdue's squad is rated as the third! strongest in the Western Conference, behind Michigan and Illinois, wvhile Miami showed plenty of power in annexing top honors in the college division at the Purdue Relays. The Miamians rolled up a record point total in winning the team title and established a new meet record in their division in the sprint medley. Miami is strong in the hurdles and Iorter distances and may give the Aolverines some trouble. Purdue has several middle distance men who figure to cut into Michi- The Tr Are cornered duel scheduled for next week. The Illini, victors over Michi- BILLY MOORE of Western Michigan comes within one-sixteenth of an inch of equalling the all time Drake Relays record at Des Moines as he clears the bar at an even 14 feet. Record of 14 feet and 1/16 inch was set in 1940 by Beefus Bryan of the University of Texas. -A. P. Wirephoto RECORDS FALTERING: i t .Fortes-ee 4- inte il By MURRAY GRANT Track stars come and go, and with them the records that have been established by these cinder greats are continually being shattered. Years ago when races were based on' how long a runner could keep going instead of on how fast that man could cover a given distance, expert runners were those who could cover the marathon distance in under three hours. But during the ensuing years the distances to be covered were shortened and with this the times re- --------------------- gan in a dual meet during the indoor Swinging into its second week of competition, the Intra-Mural soft- ball league saw sixteen teams in ac- 4,. v<< ::',::".; tion Saturday, despite adverse wea- 4 ther conditions of high winds and t tgrounds. The outcomes of these contests are as follows: Western League-Alpha Tau Ome- ~y" ga 5, Ramblers 2; Robert Owen Co- op 9, Bartel's Nine 3; Eastern League -Xi Psi Phi 5, Lawyer's Club 3; Am- erican League-Delta Kappa Epsilon 16, Phi Sigma Delta 3. National League-Delta Tau Delta t , Sigma Phi Epsilon 2; 3rd Williams :< "21, Zeta Beta Tau 5. In a game play- ed during the week in the American Leagu~e, Phi Gamma Delta swamped Delta Kappa Epsilon, 24-6. I Two of last week's games were forfeited for infraction of the eli- gibility rules. Phi Sigma Delta lost its game to Sigma Alpha Mu, and Phi Delta Theta's victory was awarded to Sigma Phi Epsilon for breaking these I rules. Score sheets are furnished by the DICK BARNARD Intra-Mural and are to be used in season and losers by one point to the all games. The symbols on these Wolverines by a single point in the sheets should be employed by all Conference indoor meet, will have scorers so that accurate batting aver- ages and earned run averages may be calculated. At the end of the second week of ngrplay, Alpha Tau Omega leads the Western League as does Xi Psi Phi By BILL LAMBERT Michigan's title-bound baseball team had trouble defeating the Univer- sity of Detroit Titans 5-3 in a non-Conference tilt at Ferry Field yesterday. In an error-packed ballgame, the Wolverines nicked Chuck Cunning- ham, Titan hurler, for only five hits, taking advantage of five Detroit mis- plays eke out the victory. Three Michigan pitchers, Jack Peddy, Jack Hackstadt, and Ray "Red" Louthen, shared the mound duties allowing only four safeties. Michigan pushed across a run in the first inning as Walt Kell and Bill Gregor's singles combined with a base on balls, provided the tally. quired to cover these distances were considerably lessened. Paavo Nurmi Tried Take for instance, the mile run, which has been the most highly pub- licized of all races. Years ago run- ners like Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn, and other foreign runners were covering this distance in a little less than five minutes. Then came the era of Sidney Wood- erson, Glenn Cunningham, and oth- ers, and the mile record was obliter- ated. These great tracksters took the mark for the mile, down to slight- ly over four ntinutes. Cunningham established an American record of 4:04.6, which is still in effect. But track fans were yet to see even greater decreases in the time needed to cover those 5280 yards. Rice, Fenske, Venskes American runners then took over the mile picture and runners likeI Greg Rice, Gene Fenske, and the Venske twins pushed the mile records still further toward the four minute mark. Then, track fans began to hear about the accomplishments of the Flying Swedes, Arne Andersen and Gunder Haegg. These milers were continually breaking one anothers records for the middle-distance events. Haegg made two trips to the United States, and in the first he and Gil Dodds, the Flying Parson, established individual records all over the country. At the same time Andersen was busy setting a record for the mile i that some experts said could neverI have been set. His time for the dis- tance was 4:01.2. Experts gasped in admiration and sports fans again brought up the age old question of a four minute mile. Cunningham's Coach Predicted ! This question has long lived in the minds of track coaches, trainers, and track authorities. Could it be possi- ble for a runner to cover a mile in four minutes? Cunningham's coach said it could be done if the runner covered his quarters in 57,61,63, and 59 seconds respectively. But Cun- ningham failed in his attempt non- theless. Thus with the establishment of a new mile record, people are again pondering and figuring on a way to run a four minute mile. Maybe, in our lifetime, it will be done, but even if it is never accomplished it will serve as a goal for those track greats yet to come who will follow in the footsteps of Nurmi, Cunningham,, Haegg, Dodds, and Andersen; trackI immortals past and present. Progyram for 1 Fitness Advised By Old Coach WASHINGTON, May 1-(1P --Tad Wieman, former Michigan and Princeton coach, spoke up emphatic- ally today for not only universal mili- tary training but a nation-wide physi- cal fitness program as well. "One program without the other would be unsatisfactory in improving physical standards, found shockingly low in this war," he told a reporter. 1 1 LANSING, May 1-(A)-The opening of the trout fishing season Saturday bore out pre-season predictions that fishing would be "only fair," F. A. Westerman, chief of the Conservation Department's Fish Division, reported today. gan's point total, being especially their first chance for an outdoor strong 'in the 440-yard dash and the crack at their arch rivals. half-mile. The Boilermakers also The Great Lakes contingent will have some able competitors in the be headed by distance man Les Eis- field events, Michigan's weakest de- enhart and quarter-miler Grover partment. Klemmer, both nationally known Following the triangular meet Sat- cinder stars who have a string of urday, the Wolverines have their victories to their credit in their spe- work cut out for them in the four- cialties. Major Leagtyue Standin~gs AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAMS Won Lost Pet. Gb. TEAMS Won Lost Pet. Gb. Chicago ........6 2 .750 New York .......8 4 .667 New York ...... ; 4 .636 A Chicago ........7 4 .636 1% Detroit........6 4 .600 1 St. Louis ..... .5 4 .556 1! Philadelphia ... 6 5 .545 1!> Boston.....6 5 .545 1 sr Washington .. ..6 6 .500N 2 Brooklyn......5 5 .500 2 St. Louis.......4 5 .444 21/2 Cincinnati ..... a 6 .455 21, -otn ~. ~...- -.33 4 Pittsburgh.....4 .7 .364 3'/ Cleveland.....2 7 .2 2 412 Philadelphia . . .3 8 .273 4?12 TUESDAY'S RESULTS TUESDAY'S RESULTS Chicago 5, Detroit 0. Boston at Brooklyn, rain. Boston 5, Washington 4. Philadelphia at New York, rain. New York at Philadelphia, cold. Cleveland at St. Louis, postponed, St. Louis at Pittsburgh, cold. rain. Only games scheduled. WEDNESDAY'S GAMES WEDNESDAY'S GAMES Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louis, night Boston at Brooklyn. game. New York at Philadelphia. Washington at Boston. St. Louis at Pittsburgh (2). Philadelphia at New York. Cincinnati at Chicago. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING LOST AND FOUND WANTED LOST: Gold top Shaeffer fountain WANTED: Girl to share 3-room pen, near chemistry building. Sen- apartment. Campus location, reas- timental value. Reward. Call 3004 onable. Call Winnie Bowles, 2- Stockwell. 5685. Extension 18. LOST: Eversharp pen, navy blue with-- in the Eastern League. Delta Kappa Epsilon is on top in the American League, and the National League leader is the 3rd Williams team. All games are played in conjunc- tion with the Women's Athletic De- partment with the use of Palmer Field. This week's games are as follows: EASTERN LEAGUE - Phi Rho Sigma vs. Xi Psi Phi. WESTERN LEAGUE-Robert Ow- en Co-op vs. Orioles, Bartel's Nine vs. Alpha Tau Omega. AMERICAN LEAGUE-Sigma Al- pha Mu vs. Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Sigma Delta vs. Sigma Chi. NATIONAL LEAGUE-Delta Tau Delta vs. Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Phi Epsilon vs. 3rd Williams. 'Batting Leaders PLAYER, CLUB g ab r h. pc. Stephens, Browns .. . .7 23 8 10 .435 Ott, Giants ........12 37 15 16 .432 Holmes, Braves . . . . 11 47 10 20 .426 Kreevich, Browns .. .7 23 3 9 .391 Ross, Tigers-Indians 8 29 3 11 .379 O'Brien, Pirates .... 10 38 3 14 .368 Runs batted in AMERICAN LEAGUE Derry ........ . 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