SATURDAY, MARCH 26,~1949 THE MICH IAN iiAw :' my Wi Conference Gym Meet Opens Today Potential Starters Win First; Intrasquad TltBaseball m Tilt, 5- Seven Teams Entered: 1M' Among Cotene Coach Ray Fisher took advant- age of the best weather of the spring yesterday afternoon to take the Michigan baseball team out- doors for a 12 inning intrasquad game. A team which the veteran dia- mond mentor termed as a pos- sible first string blanked the re- serves, 5-0. FISHER appeared pleased with the appearance of his charges on their first day out of the confines of Yost Field House. He com- mented that the hitting was par- ticularly good and that the field- ing was also of high calibre. All was not bright at the two- and a half hour session though, as two of the brightest sopho- more prospects sustained injur- ies. Leo Koceski, playing in the outfield for the second team, suffered a pulled muscle in slid- ing practice and was unable to participate in most of the game. Pete Palmer, number two catch- er behind Captain Hal Raymond, received a deep spike wound above the knee while blocking the plate. His injury required several stitch- es, but it is expected that he will be available for action toward the end of next week. * * * WITH THE first game of the season scheduled Friday against Georgetown at Washington, D.C., All candidates for freshman baseball should report to Don{ Robinson at Ferry Field on Monday, April 11. All candi- dates should bring their own equipment. -Don Robinson. Fisher hopes to be able td get his team outdoors as often as possible next week. Three veterans with some ex- perience-Vic Fryling, Ted Berce and Willard Baker-formed the starting outfield yesterday. Fry-} lingt was particularly impressive afield pulling down several long flies from his centerfield berth. Fisher used nine pitchers in the intrasquad game including Bud Rankin and Dick Smith of his first three hurlers. By HERB MUNZEL Today is a big day for youngish Newt Loken, the high flying gym- nastics missionary who coaches Michigan's gym team. Thanks to Loken, Ann Arbor, a gymnastic wilderness three years ado, is host to the Western Con- ference meet today at the I-M Building as Newt's neophyte's try to take the title away from Min- nesota, his alma mater. WHEN LOKEN FIRST came to Ann Arbor, the chances of Mich- igan ever having a gymnastics team were about as great as an all-Chicago World Series. But he Daily-Ohlinger TAKES SECOND-Michigan's 400-yard relay team which finished second last night in the NCAA swimming meet. From left to right they are Charlie Moss, Matt Mann III, Dick Weinberg and Bill Kogan. dI Michigan will be represented in the annual Purdue Relays at Lafayette tonight by a seven man task force. The Wolverines are sending their two mile relay team, against a strong field paced by Ohio State, Michigan State and Illinois. Individual performers for Michigan will be Tom Dolan in the high jump and Pete Den- drinos in the shot-put. | I by b. s. brown, sports editor to represent Michigan in Big Nine competition by the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Ath- letics. IN THEIR FIRST season of competition last year, the 'Mich- igan tumblers took third place behind Minnesota and Illinois in the Big Nine meet. Today Coach Loken's athletes, winner of six out of seven matches this year, and showing improvement each week, are ready for an all-out effort for the title. The largest meet in the history of the sport, with fifty gymnasts entered from seven schools, will find ten men wearing the Maize and Blue, as the largest entry from one school. * * * MICHIGAN'S HOPES largely depend upon the showing of Lok- en's trampoline experts, Bob Schoendube, NAAU and Confer- ence champion, Ed Buchanan and Gordon Levenson. If this trio can come through --and their chances are livened by the absence of Bruce Har- lan and Hobart Billingsley of Ohio State - the Wolverines stand a good chance. Harlan and Billingsley, OSU'S diving aces, are competing in the NCAA swimming champion- ships. Today's meet, to be run in split sessions, at 2:00 and 7:30, will be the twentieth Western Conference gymnastic meeting. Chicago, which dominated the sport in the early days, and still a power al- though the Maroons no longer compete in the circuit, have won the title eight times, Minnesota and Illinois have each won five championships while Iowa holds one title. Tickets are now on sale at the Sports Administration Building and will be available before each session at the I-M Building for fifty cents for students and one dollar for admission of the general public. There will be flying rings, side horse and trampoline in the afternoon, with high and parallel bars and tumbling slated for the evening. III - 7 --e old folks can't hold a candle to our smart new line of -. p. shirts, neckwear, pajamas, sportshirts, handkerchiefs, { underwear and beachwear. TICE'S MEN'S SHOPA 1107 South University (Around the corner from Ulrich's) { s ...... ;?;e Il", III i A FEW WEEKS AGO, Red Rolfe was a mighty optimistic guy. He not only figured his Tigers as a shoo-in for the junior loop first di- vision come next September, but was talking seriously of bringing the flag to the Motor City, for the first time since 1945. But the old redhead has abandoned all dreams. He knows he's in a rough spot without the services of Art Houtteman. Red never claimed Houtteman to be the tonic the Bengals need, but the handsome flinger would have been an important factor in the Tigers' first division drive. Art might be ready for hurling chores by June 15, according to the ex-Yankee third-sacker, but the dam- age may very well be done by that time. And though it's only spring training and may not mean a thing, the Tiger batting percentages look like the lifetime average of Lefty Gomez. Only three men with more than 25 at-bats--Groth, Evers and Kell-are over the .300 mark. And none of the other regulars are over .261. The Wolverine ex, Dick Wakefield, is out-doing himself in the spring session with a fancy .161 on five bingles in 31 attempts. BUT IF ROLFE is in for rough sledding, Jack Adams' Red Wings seem well on their way to the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Though the Canadiens edged the Wings the other night, 4-3, to even up the series, the Detroiters have been playing a brand of hockey that should carry them into the finals where they'll be slugging it out for top honors. Montreal coach Dick Irvin would certainly use the word 'slugging', grimacing at the same time. The Canadiens' star cen- ter, Elmer Lach, was sidelined- on doctbr's order the other day because of jaw injuries. When he announced Lach's retirement from the scene-perhaps for the remainder of the playoff games --Irvin noted the part the Wings had to play in forcing the cen- ter's withdrawal. "Elmer doesn't carry the puck in his teeth," the Montreal pilot said, "but that is where they have been checking him." AND AS LONG AS hockey is the topic, on to a letter from an Ann Arbor puck fan. Though the writer of the letter claims to be an avid Michigan fan, he admits that his sentiments might be influenced by the fact that he is a Dartmouth alum. His argument is that I never should have classed the Michigan-Indian game out at Colorado Springs last week as an upset. As far as I am concerned, when a team is favored to win and loses, it's an upset. And there was no question but that the Wol- verines were on the tall end of the odds. It wasn't unusual. Michi- gan had a team that surpassed, in skill and in the records, the team of a year before which had dumped the Hanover sextet in the NCAA final match for the crown. Though playing far inferior teams, Dartmouth lost five games in the past season. Michigan dropped a single contest, that one to Michi- gan Tech. I'm not saying Dartmouth doesn't have the better club. The one game we have to go by indicates the Indians are the better. But that doesn't say the game wasn't an upset. Pre-tourney dopesters had the Wolverines figured a safe bet to repeat. Boston College was seeded in the number two spot. All of which brings up the final remark in the critic's letter. "Did you note that the team that beat Michigan was beaten by B.C. Upset too?" he asks. Not at all. I have said that the Eagles were rated above the Indians. The two eastern clubs had battled it out twice in seasonal play, with an even split resulting. Boston topped Dartmouth, 7-4, late in the sea- son while the Injuns won out earlier in the campaign, 4-2. The results of the tourney indicated that Michigan was the num- ber three collegiate hockey squad in the country, behind B.C. and Dart- mouth. But the final score of the Michigan-Dartmouth game was a surprise. More than that, it was an upset, BASED ONLY ON PRE- GAME ODDS. got things rolling in a hurry. Newt gathered a small group of agile workers about him and started drilling them, meanwhile drumming up interest. Because of the Navy V-12 program, there happened to be a trampoline on campus. Loken used it to good advantage by working out a routine on it in which he appeared with his boys in an outlandish striped Gay Nineties' bathing suit. While his men went gracefully through their maneuvers, Newt stumbled and clowned around, concluding. the exhibition with forty or fifty consecutive flips accompanied by the counting of the crowd. 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