AY, FEBRUARY 13, 1946 T'I' E ' ICIlI A N 1AlY PAG1 F TREE ____________ U ~ - SPORTS NEWS + VIEWS + COMMENT Ely DILL MULLENDORE, Sports Editor E MAY BE a bit premature, but it begins to look as if Michigan's record of having won at least three Western Conference championships every year since 1923 might be broken this season. Wolverine teams have been dominating the Big Ten now for two de- cades. Michigan's balance in its diversified athletic program has gained nation-wide renown. But .this year may be different. So far, only one Conference championship has come 'up for decision. That was the football title, and Michigan lost out to Indiana. The Wolverine hockey team won an "unofficial" crown by winning two and tying one in a four-game series with Minnesota, the only other school boasting a hockey team in the Big Ten, but can hardly lay claim to a cham- pionship, since none was sanctioned by Conference officials. Looking over the winter sports picture, we find nothing particularly encouraging. The basketball team is, of course, out of the running for titular honors. The wrestlers, with two decisive dual meet defeats already recorded against them, do not appear to be good champion- ship bets. That leaves swimming and indoor track. Michigan's swimming team is a good one, but not as good as Ohio State's on the basis of comparative times in meets to date. The Wolverines, on the basis of past performance, figure to take only two or three events from the Buckeyes. INDOOR TRACK seems to rate the best chance for Big Ten Honors. Even there, the Wolverines will have to contend with a strong Illinois squad, as well as several outstanding individuals from other schools, who will cut deeply into Michigan's point potential. Looking still farther ahead to the spring program, Michigan's biggest hope probably rests with the baseball team. Coach Ray Fisher has a flock of veterans back from the squad that breezed through the Big Ten without defeat last year, and may field an even stronger nine come spring. The fortunes of the outdoor track team appear even less certain than those of the indoor squad. Coach Ken Doherty will lose several of his top men when the outdoor season rolls around, including his best hurdler, Elmer Swanson, who will join the baseballers. There is also a strong possibility that Claude (Buddy) Young, Illinois' diminutive sprint ace, will be back with the Illini by, spring. The tennis and golf squads are still uncertain as to personnel, but both will be studded with newcomers. Most of last year's veterans have been lost by graduation or induction into the Armed Forces. A lot of things may still happen. If the indoor tracksters can come through, and the baseball team materializes as it should, Michigan can gain two Conference titles. That would leave only one more necessary to pre- serve the string unbroken. But prospects are as .incertain as they have ever been in recent years. PETE'S ON THE BALL: Elliott, Year-Round Athlete, :Participates in Four Sports THE DEAD HEAT TWINS-After having laid off track competition for mast of the current season, Rcss and Bob Hume, who are noted for crossing the mile finish line haid in hand, may return to action in the Illinois track meet to be held here February 23. ----o -- aySe - me Reur t TiekCoipeito Al Renfrew's Wrist Injuiry Heals Quickly Wing ni Chxalenges MdacMillan in Scorin High scoring winman Al Renfrew of the Wolverine hockey team is fast recuperating from the injury which kept him out of most of last Satur- day night's game with the Univer- sity of Toronto. Renfrew sustained a broken wrist in the second game of the series with the Gophers at Minneapolis. His arm at present is in a cast which will not be removed for two or three weeks. Informal Practice Held Although there was no oficial prac- tice Tuesday afternoon, Renfrew and three or four other members of the hockey squad carried out an infor- mal practice of their own. It ap- peared during this session that Ren- frew had regained much of the con- trol of his injured left arm,, and al- though the cast will continute to hIandicap him to a certain extent, it is safe t o assume that he will soon return to action on a considerable scale. Renfrew's position as second high point man on the Michigan hockey team was not jeopardized by his com- parative inactivity during the To- ronto series because top scorer, center Gord MacMillan, also failed to add to his paint total. CHICAGO, Feb. 12-(P)--Defend- ing Champion Max Morris, North- western University's one-man gang, today was in hot pursuit of the Big Ten basketball scoring title with a nine-game total of 147 points. Morris, who grabbed the 1945 title with a 12-game bag of 189 points, last week amassed 49 markers in two games. in Champaign despite their defeat by a much more experienced MC T Hol C.nd rMe andj EAST LANSING, Feb. lMiktren Seek Third Win In Meet with Ohio State Kt'eei To UJ1 e Samelic A 1inein Against OSU; Stark Remia ins Oti ly tJiAUde Ieatedl Wrestler Still smarting from.the 19-9 de- skillful team. Keen also indicated feat suffered last weekend at the that he would probably start the hands of the Illinois wrestling squad, same lineup against Ohio State that Michigan's grapplers are looking for- he used in the last two meets. ward to meeting Ohio State's Buck- Captain Bill Courtright, who was eyes this Friday night in Yost Field pinned by Dave Shapiro, Illini 165- House. pounder, last Saturday night for his Keen Proud of Team first defeat of the season, has been e1f since the Illinois meet and will Coach Cliff Keen suated he was miss most of the practice sessions proud of the showing of his charges this week, but Keen expects the 12- .4/P) 1 f~~t HiiI(4(I By WALT ILEE When the Michigan track team meets a powerful group of thinclads the Conference meet are greatly en- hanced.j Michigan's three veteran hurdlers will also have their reputations at stake. Elmer Swanson, Neil MacIn- tyre, and Hack Coplin are all having slightltroublestwith their leg;muscles. , l r eeaso at latw from the University of Illinois on y d Febn. 23 in the Yost Field House, the yearzs in service it mnay be lhard for Feb.23 n th Yot d use lethem to return to their pro-war form. Wolverines will meet up with theirthmoreunoteipr-afr. firsW;ealvinestwof tme eason.te Swanson's chances at regaining his first real test of the season. title in the hurdle events rests 0n Ilim Provides Major Opposition his ability to beat Illinois' star, The Maize and Blue cindermen George Walker, who is one of the will encounter the majority of the I bcst performers on the Illini squad. opposition to its defense of the Inz- As Coach Leo Johnson will bring door Championship from the vet- better men in almost all events than eran studded Illini team. The dual the Wolverines have had to face all meet will also give the Michigan season, Michigan will be meeting the team some basis of determining just stronigest opposition of the season.j what they will have to face on March 9 when they put their crown on the' block in Chicago.Ar .4. A t .' . * RaUN r T.. S S Al.. Because thenumber of entries is still below prewar levels, the 19th annual;" Central Collegiate Conference track meet will again be a one-da .y affair. it was announced today. ile meet is scheduled for March 9 at Michi- gan State College. Before the war, the meet always lasted two days, preliminar"y elimi- nations one day and finals the next. It was originally planned to return; to a normal basis this year, but en- tries have been light and M.S.C. coach Karl A. Schlademan, in charge of the meet, said it can be run off in one day. Eliminations will be in the afternoon and finals at night. The C.C.C. swimming meet will also be held at State the same (day, it was announced. Tank eliminations" will be in the morning and finals in the afternoon. Drake is the de- fending C.C.C. track champion while Michigan State has won the tank title all three times the meet has been held. n , . . . wre'tlers' captain to be ready to go again on Friday. Stark Undefeated As a result of his victory over Ills- nois' lightweight, Bill Tomaras, Jim Stark. Wolverine 121-pounder, ex- tfended his winning streak to four triumphs to remain the only unde- feated member of the squad. Bernard (Spike)'Mooney, Ohio State mentor who recently returned to his coaching duties after service in tle Coast Guard, brings a team to Ann Arbor mostly composed of ex- ervicemen and including one vet- eran of last year's aggregation, George (Dreadnaught) Bollas, the "Grecian strongman," who was the 1945 Big Ten Heavyweight chafl- .ion. Bollas, a 335-pound grappler, j eas undefeated. in all of his confer- ence bouts last season, and the only blemish on his record was a decision he lost in the national AAU finals in Dallas, Tex. Ohio's contingent comes fresh from a 28-10 triumph over Purdue's Boilermakers last weekend. Michigan also previously beat the boys from Lafayette with the score being 17-11. -M CAGE RESULTS In a closely contested basketball game, Sigma Phi Epsilon downed Sigmi .Chi, 39-?l to become the champions of the "A" fraternity bas- ;: tlball league in intramural athletics. I OCK W[IH WPAG I A fellow who makes a year-round hobby of athletics is Pete Elliott, red- headed Navy athlete. With football and golfing honors already under his belt, Elliott turned his talents to the basketball floor for the winter and has earned a guard position on the starting. five. Al- though primarily a good "floor man," he also demonstrated his shooting ability in the Northwestern and Chi- cago games by scoring thirteen points. In the second Illinois game, Elliott reached his peak as he poured 21 points through the hoop. Triple Threat Back A triple-threat halfback on the gridiron last fall, Elliott has been a member of the cage squad since the close of the football season. Although jumping right from one sport into another, Elliott seemed to experience little difficulty in readjusting from the bruising, contact play of football to the quicker, more adroit maneuvers of the hardwood. He has played in every game since the opener, even appearing briefly in the first Michi- gan State contest after only five days of practice. A junior, soft-spoken, well-liked, Elliott seems to have the knack of catching on to almost anything quickly, if his athletic exploits are any indication. The six foot, 190 pound red-head arrived at Michigan last July from Park College, in Missouri, where he was stationed as a member of the Navy V-12 unit. One season of basketball at the small Missouri col- lege constituted Elliott's only expe- rience in collegiate athletics before coming to Michigan. But lack of ex- perience has not hindered Pete. Won Trueblood -i-ophy In his short stay here, however, lie has already made a name for himself! as an outstanding, all-round athlete, His honors won on the gridiron are too recent to need repeating. An accomplished golfer, Elliott further demonstrated his versatility last sum- mer by walking off with the True- blood Trophy in the annual golf tour- nament. He is probably one of the schools leading golfers. He won all-state football honors in high school in his home-town, Bloom- ington, Illinois, and also starred in baseball and basketball. Athletic ability seems to run in Pete's family as his father was one of the athletic greats at Illinois Wesleyan, and his older brother, Chalmers "Bump" El- liott, played three years of football for Purdue. The11ini opened their season Last fU F Saturday with a convincing victory over Minnesota. In spite of the one--' sidedness of the score the true strength of the Illini wasn't shown1 as the pposition was of mediocre calibre. The first real test for the Illini also will be the meet here in Ann Arbor. Humes May Run From the standpoint of the Wolv- erines two questions may be an- swered. The first concerns the poss- ible return of the Hume twins, Ross and Bob, to competition on the cin- derpaths. Bob appeared for the first" time when he ran the anchor 880 in the two-mile relay last Saturday. , Ross has been unable to engage in regular practice sessions and is not in the best of shape. Bob, previous I to his appearance in the Jenisen -Field House had been out but 5 times. Short May Be In Shape The second question which may be answered is the possible appearance of Hugh Short in the quarter-mile. Short, an outstanding star at that distance at Georgetown a few years back, has now enrolled at Michigan, and may have rounded into shape by that time. If he does the Wolverines' chances for a repeat performance in DETROIT, Feb. 12-.A"---The Great Lakes swimming team won both re- lays and five of seven individuaz:I ; e'ventls he're tonzi;t ti; rtoc~' i, t Wayine, 53 toa 31. Bill Prow, of Wa yin', splashed t Jo yard free style in 22.4 to clip one-. tenth of a second off the mark he set in 1941 and Wally Ris of the Blue- jackets shaved an equal amount from Prew's five-year-old mark of 52.2 sec- onds in the 100-yard free style. Tommy Gastineau of Great Lake was the only double winner, apti~uring both the 220-yard and 440-yard free style events. !. ...e_ . _ _ _ . 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