THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1RT)AlI . . .. ..... .. M'Icemen Clash ith Nort Dakota Six Tonighot TALKING SHOP with Bud Weidenthal Associate Sports Editor The baby of the Big Ten, Michigan State's Spartans provided Western Conference coaches and their respective supporters with a rafher rude awakening this past Saturday eve on the occasion of the 27th annual State relays at massive Jenison Field House . . . The Spartans, who won't be on hand in Champaign for the Conference set-to come March 4-5 because they are not yet officially members of the league, completely dominated the affair and ran their opposition into the cinder paths . . . Most of the topflight trackmen of the Big Ten were on hand, but this didn't seem to bother the State boys . . . they won nine of the fifteen events and were only shut out in one, an amazing demonstration of strength.' Seasoned observers expressed little doubt that the speedy Spar- tans could win the forthcoming Conference meet hands down. Their prowess in the hurdles and middle distances is astounding. They have two of the nation's top hurdlers in Fred Johsnon and Horace Smith and a third, Paige Christenson who's almost as good ... and in the middle distances Jack Dianetti and Bill Mack are as good as any in this part of the country. And they have more, many more in all events both track and field with the possible exception of the shot . . . depth as well as individual standouts is the key to State's supremacy .. . from our perch in the press box they looked like a good bet for the national championship ... they've got what it takes. While Michiganders are currently looking to Lansing for track and field supremacy, Don Canham, the new Michigan mentor is qui- etly building an aggregation that could well rival the great Wolverine squads of the early forties. Although no Ufers, Breidenbachs or Humes yet appear to be developing on the Yost Field House cinders, a line group of freshmen and sophomores make Michigan track prospects look mighty bright. Among them is Art Henri, a fine all-around athlete who special- izes in the sprints and the high jump. He's the first real sprint pros- pect the Wolverines have had since the war. Another good looking boy, is Eck Koutenan who placed first last summer in the Olympic trials and was one of the two Michigan trackmen to represent the United States in London. Filling a big gap in the hurdles department (one that has long been a source of embarrassment to Michigan track en- thusiasts) are sophomores Jim Mitchell and Don hoover. Both boys are carning along rapidly. Around this nucleus and some outstanding freshmen, Canham is building a team that may prove a real challenge to Spartan suprem- acy when they take the long jump into Western Conference com- petition next year. There has been a good bit of disapproval voiced in and around Ann Arbor recently concerning the proposed addition to the Michigan stadium. It appears that much of the University's athletic plant is so badly in need of repair and expansion that the vast expenditure in- volved in enlarging the bowl (already the largest college football stad- ium in the country) should be well down the list in importance. It has been pointed out that facilities for hockey, swinuning and basketball are at present inadequate both for spectators and participants while our gridiron is among the nation's best. On the surface the plan for the stadium would seem short sighted under the circumstances, especially to those old enough to remember the thousands of empty seats which graced many of the Maize and' Blue encounters of the thirties. d'Nodaks Bringin Impiroved Natators Face Powerful MISC Team " qo t or I Si ual To F e Ef Volve inl f After basking in the spotlight ilness but hy last week liewas beter his 5W3 tininn lurned added ~ IlaTr+ "f . ' 1 ( r-% T-:. Itr i WS v T i 'a.r.a 7 %-i A JLJL ForRoberts By PLS HOLMES Last fall Michi'an's football team was paced by two men who probably wouldn't have had the chance to play regularly if theyr hadn't gotten a couple of break.;. When All-American Dump El- liott was declared ineligible andI Gene Derricotte was injured in' the first game of the season, soph- omores Leo Koceski and ChuckI Ortmann were thrown in to try to fill the gap. They did more tlhan an adequate job of "filling-in." THE WOLVERINE cage squad was suddenly faced with the same situation when Captain Bill Rob-1 erts, who had centered on the team for three years, was forcedt a drop basketball because of a seri- ous knee injury. Again the lot has fallen to a sophomore, this one six-foot- five Leo VanderKuy, to try to fill the shoes of his suddenly eliminated predecessor. Leo realizes that a tremendous weight has been shifted onto his shoulders. "But," he said, l okin fora piece of wood to knock on., "we've managed to do all right so far," and they have! MICHIGAN hasn't lost a game that Leo has started, which in- cludes Pittsburgh and Colorado as well as OSU, Michigan State, aid Wisconsin. His defensive work, reboud - ing in particular, is already good, and as soon as he sharp-C ens up his shooting eye he ought to spearhead the Wolver_ ine attack. The lanky Dutch lad's best iigdt this year was against the Wild- cats at Evanston when he dumped Coach Bennie Oosterbaan{ will be honored tonight by the local chapter of his fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi, at a banquetj to be held at the University Club of Detroit. Attending will be many Iam- onus alums of M-ichiganu and or Alpha Sig including Edward J. Jeffries, ex-mayor of Detroit, Dr. William R. Flora who play- ed end on the '24-'25 and '26 teams and Arthur B. M(Wood former basketball star for the maize and blue. B-y HERB RUSKIN Secking revenge for two earlier drubbing s.a constantly improving North Dakota hockey squad in- vades the Coliseum tonight for the first of a two game series with the Wolverines. The game will begin at 8 p.m. <;;;><;;;>;;;><;;;>< o;;;>o;;> ;;; o ;;;;> 'M' side of the score board. *NAt ANNOUNCING THE OPENING I LOOK()I~NG KlI 'the distanice events, we fin( BruceVre land !n 1( Jini Stoliker entered in theOf urNl,1 Stw) mile, with Shel Capp partici-U gating in the ilo Vreeland is new to Michiganf Itrack fans as is Capp, who areo both running in their first varsity dual meet. Stoliker is a returning letter- DE PA RT MENT man who has been absent from competition while serving in the i 8ared forces. Exper! cusotm fraining . French Lined THE 88IS monopolized with Mat s.. Hand-Carved . mes a specialty. new faces with the entry list read- ing: Garth Kirkendall, John Lind- You 'fv41 be 1leaSed wiii our exclnsive quist and Ron Soble. Both Lind- p"', , oui" dlomas and (Ioist and Kirkendall are wearing the maize and blue for the first c'ci Iiju 'rs. time. Soble, like Stoliker, has just returned from duty in the service in time to dust off his 'M" sweat- I ., er and step into a track uniform again. The shot put will see harry p Allis and Ozzie Clark taking off 'their, football uniforms to take a 330 MAYNARD STREET crack at the 16 pound weight and " th ei 'fo tb al u ni or m s 'to a kellis a n d z ie C lar ta k n g o f3 0 MA ST- sophomore polevaulters Russ Os- - terman and Tom Elmblad will An early visit will convince you of the greater values and finer syliug in /the new spring look. 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