._FRUDAY, -MAY A -1947
THE- MICHII3AN AILY
SPORTSCRIBBLES
By ARCHIE PARSONS
QUESTION which has been traipsing around in the minds of
many of us finally came out into the open last Wednesday night
when Jim Brieske, as a member of the Student Legislature and not as
Coach "Fritz" Crisler's point-after-touchdown specialist, gave a re-
port on "Alleged Discrimination on Athletic Teams at the University of
Michigan."
For some time now, a lot of people have been wondering why
Negro athletes are found in representative numbers on the foot-
ba11 and track teams, while they are completely absent from the
rosters of others, most notably basketball, baseball, and tennis.
This has not only been evident at Michigan, but throughout the
Big Nine Conference.
FOR INSTANCE, there was one Negro letterman on the Wolverine
baseball team in the early '20's, none since, and none whatever in
basketball and tennis.
Indeed, there has been much conjecture as to whether or not
there is some sort of "gentleman's agreement" in the Conference,
barring Negroes from participation in some phases of athletic en-
deavor:
BRIESKE'S REPORT emphatically denied this. It quotes Mr. Crisler
as saying, "There is no discrimination, either legislative or through
a gentleman's agreement with other schools, and a Negro may become
a 'candidate for any athletic team with equal consideration with all
otlers."
Now while I would like to take Mr. Crisler's word for it, be-
lieving him to be an honest man, a look at the past rosters of these
Wolverine teams prevents me from accepting this word as final.
One could hardly expect him to say, "Yes, we have been discrim-
inating against Negroes for the past 20 years in this matter."
TAE REPORT, of course, gives reasons for the limited participation
of Negroes in some sports, and their complete absence from others.
These are listed as follows:
(1) Most promising Negro athletes are not usually in a finan-
cial position to attend college. Discrimination in campus board
Jobs and 'the lack of athletic scholarships at Michigan further pre-
vent their attendance.
(2) Certain sports seem to be limited to people who have
leisure and money to foster them, such as golf and tennis.
(3) Historical background indicates that the Negro seldom
becomes proficient in certain phases of athletics, although why
Is difficult to say. Many people would attribute it to the physical
makeup of the legro, but anthropologists would tend to disagree,
A d the answer is probably in the realm of environment. Sports
included here are swimming, distance running, golf, tennis and
wrestling.
T E FIRST REASON has limited validity. While it limits all par-
ticipation to some extent, it does not explain why Negroes are
prevalent in some sports and absent completely from others.
The second reason is also limited in validity. While the "time
and money" theory is a factor in golf and tennis, a big reason is
that no Negro youngster considers going into a sport where none
of his heroes are. This is not peculiar to the Negro. It is human
nature..
ASEBALL, BASKTBALL, and. to some extent tennis, pose special
problems which I will take up, tomorrow.
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Baseball,
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Wise T o Pitch in Opener'
Of Twin Bill at Purdue
If old man weather gives them
a chance, Michigan's baseball team
will open a weekend double-header
this afternoon, against the Purdue
Boilermakers at Lafayette, Indi-
ana.
Coming on top of the Maize and
Blue's twin victory over the Iowa
Hawkeyes last weekend, a similar
accomplishment against the Rive-
ters would put the Wolverines
right back in the Conference race
again.
Claseman Faces Wise
Michigan's ace moundsman,
Cliff Wise, is expected to start to-
day against Purdue's number one
hurler Irv Claseman, both men
having turned in some excellent
performances this year. In Wise's
last Conference appearance hei
held Iowa to one run and four
hits.
While Purdue is buried deep in
the cellar in the Big Nine stand-
ings, they have a very impressive
6-0 record in non-conference play.
Infielder Johnny Galvin is liter-
ally tearing the cover off the ball
as he leads the Conference hitters
with a .470 mark.
Southpaw Pitching Next
In the second game of the series
Saturday, Michigan will face the
portside slants of Erv Noel. This
is the third consecutive Saturday
game in which the Wolverines will
swing against a southpaw, and
they have a 1-1 record for their
efforts.
In other games around the
league, the Illinois-Minnesota
clash takes the limelight. The
Gophers have dropped all three of
their Conference games, while the
Illini boast a 6-2 record. A week-
end double victory for Illinois
would give them a strong footholdI
on the top rung of the Big Nine
ladder.
Northwestern Still Roaring
The Northwestern Wildcats can't
be counted out yet, though. They
face Wisconsin at the Badger
home field, and carry a 4-1 Con-
ference record with them into theI
weekend tilts.
In the final Conference games,
the Buckeyes of Ohio State tangle
with Iowa, and only a double vic-
tory for the Buckeyes combined
with a double loss for Illinois
could bring the Staters within
shouting distance of the Confer-
ence title.
JayVees Vs. Varsity
Weather permitting, ten var-
sity golfers will match strokes
with an eager junior varsity
squad this afternoon on the
University links.
In the number one position
Dave Barclay will oppose jayvee
ace Ken Berke, who has been
burning up the course in re-
cent rounds. The match will
get under way at 1:30.
Cag ers ToPlay USC
Coach Ozzie Cowles an-
nounced that he had signed a
contract with the University of
Southern California for a home
and home series of basketball
games. The first contest will
be December 22 this year on the
Wolverines' home court, while
the other game will be played
in California in 1948 or 1949.
This year's contest will mark
the first time the two schools
have met on the basketball
court.
Favorer OSU
Neuers Play,
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TIGERS SNEAK IN:
Detroit In First As Red Sox
Tumble Chicago From Lead
By The Associated Press
DETROIT, May 8 - Idled for
the third time in four days by the
weather man, the Detroit Tigers
jacked into first place in the Am-
?rican League standings today as
the Boston Red Sox whipped the
Chicago White Sox 3 to 0 and
tumbled Chicago into second.
BOSTON, May 8 - A 13-hit
barrage against three Pittsburgh
pitchers, including rookie Earl
Torgeson's third homer in as
many games, today enabled John-
ny Beazley to win his first start
as a Boston Brave with a 12-5 de-
cision over the Pirates.
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CHICAGO, May 8 - The Bos-
ton Red Sox won their fourth
straight game by beating the Chi-
cago White Sox, 3-0, here today.
The lossltumbled the Chicagoans,
who collected only three hits off
Dave Ferris and Harry Dorish,
out of first place in the American
League standings.
BROOKLYN, May 8 - The St.
Louis Cardinals, behind the six-
hit pitching of Harry (The Cat)
Brecheen, scored an easy 5-1 vic-
tory over the Brooklyn Dodgers
tonight before a capacity crowd of
32,328 frost-bitten spectators.
NEW YORK, May 8 - The New
York Giants rallied with three
runs in the eighth inning to grab
a 7-4 decision from Cincinnati.
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Sq~uad Set for
'M' Thinelads
Michigan's track team will be
after its third win of the outdoor
campaign tomorrow when it
clashes with a favored Ohio State
squad on the Buckeye's home cin-
ders.
hile the Wolverines were out-
scoring Indiana and Purdue in a
triangular meet last weekend, the
Buckeyes lost their first outdoor
meet since the 1945 session when,
the Wisconsin thinclads pulled an
upset to win 66 1/6 to 62 5/6.
Earlier this season Ohio State
downed Purdue and Michigan
State in a triangular affair and
their shuttle hurdle relay team
took first place in record time
at the Drake Relays.
Since the Buckeyes handed
Michigan a 10 point defeat in their
indoor meeting, Coach Larry Sny-
der's squad has suffered a set-
back from old man eligibility. Four
Ohio State point-getters, including
smooth-striding Mal Whitfield,
who was runner-up to Illini Herb
McKenley in the indoor Conference
quarter mile, have been lost to
the Buckeye squad.
Also hindering the Ohio State
cause is the fact that their jack-
of-all-trades, Lloyd Duff, has
been hampered by a leg injury
that may sideline him at any
time.
In its indoor meeting with the
Buckeyes it was the ever-present
Duff who proved to be the nemesis
of the Wolverine squad. That eve-
ning he won four events and end-
ed the season as the leading scor-
er on the Ohio State squad with a
total of 70 points.
But against Wisconsin the best
that Duff could do was a first in
the high hurdles in the meet rec-
ord time of 14.7.
On the positive side, however,
the Buckeyes can once again call
on the services of Bill Clifford,
who placed second in the mile
and third inthe 880 at the out-
door Conference chiampionships
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After closing out a four match
home stand earlier this week.
Michigan's net team takes to the!
road today and tomorrow for a
double dose of weekend tennisl
against Western Michigan and the
University of Chicago.
The Broncos, paced by the
Stuckert brothers, Wally and Bill.
who used to play for Ozzie Cowles
at Dartmouth, are a far cry from
the weak aggregation that bowed
to Michigan, 9-0, last season.
Broncos Beat NorthwesternI
They turned in a 5-4 victory ov-
er a powerful Northwestern team
last Saturday and figure to make
things interesting for Coach Bob
Dixon's gang.
The Wolverine traveling squad
will consist of seven men: Andy
Paton, Fred Otto, Fred Ziemann,
Bill Mikulich, Hal Cook, Dick
Lincoln, and Gordon Naugle. The
first six will hold down the sin-
gles berths, and Naugle will team
dwith Cook in the number three
doubles.
Face Chicago Tomorrow
Chicago will provide the oppo-
sition for Michigan tomorrow, and
for the first time in Maroon-Wol-
verine athletic history the match
vill be strictly non-conference.
Chicago withdrew from the West-
ern Conference last year.
Maroon tennis stock was high
until yesterday when they suffer-
ed a stunning 8-1 defeat by North-
western. The Chicago team's num-
ber one man is Wally Theimer, the
same lad who disposed of Michi-
gan's Jack Hersh in the Big Nine
Tennis tourney at Evanston last
season.
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OlYv pi ri hilcaIs
Charlie Hoyt. former Michigan
track coach. is being touted as a
possible choice to take over the
head-coaching chores of Ameri-
ca's 1948 Olympic track and field
forces.
Hoyt was master-mind of Mich-
igan's cinder teams in what has
since been termed the Wolverine's'
"golden era." During his tenure,
from 1930 to 1939, his squads won
eight of a possible thirteen indoor
and outdoor Western Conference
championships.
Howard Wikel was elected
president; Pete Elliott, vice-
president; Bob Harrison, see-
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