THE MICHIGAN DAILY__
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Elect Neisch
1951
Wolverine Tennis Players
Battle for Team Positions
Junior Star Sparked Relay
Squad to Conference Victory
By BILL BRENTON
Michigan's tennis team took
the green outdoor courts of Fer-
ry Field for the first time in a
week yesterday to open round
robin play for team positions.
Co-captains Al Hetzeck and
IDon MacKay led the 12-man con-
tingent vieing for the six singles
posts and three doubles combina-
tions. .
DICK LINCOLN, named the
most improved player on the squad
by Coach, Bill Murphy, joined
Hetzeck and MacKay in battling
r for the coveted number one posi-
tion. Graduation of diminutive
Andy Paton vacated the top post.
Steve Bromberg, ranking jun-
ior player and member of the
Detroit Junior Davis Cup squad
this summer, is a fixture at the
number four post, with senior
Len Brumm slated for number
five singles play.
Bromberg, sophomore flash
from Detroit's Northwestern High
Washed Out
Rain forced postponement on
two Wolverine athletic fronts
yesterday, as the Michigan-No-
tre Dame baseball contest was
set back indefinitely and the
Detroit University golf team
was foiled in its second invasion
of the Maize and Blue links
stronghold.
School, broke into the veteran
line-up with his skidding flat
shots.
TWO sophomores, a pair of
juniors and three seniors have the
chips down in pre-season activity,
matching rackets in round robin
playoffs for the number six slot.
Heading the group is senior
Ross Herron, Grosse Pointe net-
ter, with four years practice ex-
perience. Junior Bob Stahl, of
Wyandotte High School fame,
has been playing three years,
but sophomores Dave Barrett
and Erhard Rothe have showed
promise.
Others fighting to make the
squad are seniors Bob Hesse and
Doren Russler and junior Jack
Griffith.
* * *
COACH MURPHY ranks the
Bromberg-Brumm doubles com-
bination on a par with the high-
ly-touted Hetzeck-MacKay duo.
Hetzeck and MacKay copped the
Conference respective number two
and number five singles champ-
ionships last year, and give the
Wolverines a strong nucleus.
Position play will continue all
this weekn ointin fnr the n + ehsn
Dave Neisch, junior sprinter
from Detroit, was elected captain
of the 1951 Wolverine swimming
team at the natators' annual ban-
quet, held last night at the Mich-
igan Union.
Concurrent with the election of
Neisch came three awards, made
by the team members to their out-
going captain and Coaches Matt
Mann and Bill Kogen. Matt Mann
III, the 1950 captain, and Kogen
received sweaters, while Coach
Mann was presented with a golf
bag-carrier.
* * *
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Detroit Saturday on the Ferry DON MACKAY a consistent performer at the 100-
Field courts . leads title bid yard distance and on relay squads
F * l , * , during the past season. His peak
MACKAY SUCCESS STORY:
One T ime Gridder Gains Net- Stardom
achievement was an anchor leg on
the 400-yard free style relay team
that won the Big Ten title.
A hard-working swimmer with
a style which caused one observ-
er to remark that "he swims for-
ty strokes in one," Neisch swam
consistently in the low 53's
through the 1950 season. He was
rated as one of the most im-
proved swimmers on the Maize
and Blue squad.
"Dave should make a great lead-
er-I'm sure he'll follow along in
the tradition of all the great Mich-
igan captains," Coach Mann stat-
ed last night after the selection
of the lanky Detroit performer.
Neisch had been under Mann's
tutelage for seven years at Camp
Chikopi, so as the genial Michigan
mentor said, "He's one of my
boys."
American League
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Detroit 5, St. Louis 2 (night)
New York 6, Philadelphia 3
Boston at Washington (rain)
Cleveland at Chicago (rain)
TODAY'S GAMES
Detroit at St. Louis-Rogovin
(0-0) vs. Fannin (0-0).
Boston at New York-McDer-
mott (1-0) vs. Lopat (1-0).
Cleveland at Chicago--Garcia
(0-0) vs. Cain (0-0).
Washington at Philadelphia
(night) - Hudson (0-1) v9.
Shanz (1-0).
National League
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Brooklyn 3, Boston 0
New York 8, Philadelphia 4
Chicago at Pittsburgh (rain)
Only games scheduled
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By DAVE PRESTON
The overabundance of Wolver-
ine football material during the
1946 season became a blessing in
disguise for Don MacKay, co-cap-
tain of this year's Michigan ten-
nis squad.
Finding too many players of the
quality of Ford, Mann, and Ma-
dar blocking his quest for a varsity
end position, Don turned all his
attention to his first love, tennis.
IE CAPTURED the number six
singles post in the spring of '47
under Coach Bob Dixon, and was
elevated to number five with the
advent of Bill Murphy as coach
last season.
Last June MacKay took the
number five singles crown in the
conference championships, but
the team fell victim to the Wild-
cats of Northwestern by one
point.
Needless to say, winning the
team title now ranks as his num-
ber one ambition. Don agrees with
Coach Murphy that this will be no
easy road to hoe, because Michi-
gan's squad will be definitely
weaker, but then so4 will the Wild-
cats, who have won the title two
years running.
* * *
DON HAS A good chance of
making the long jump to the num-
ber one singles spot, but the final
decision will probably rest on a
playoff between Co-captain Al Het-
zeck, Dick Lincoln, and MacKay.
Hetzeck and MacKay will form the
top doubles combination.
Don's tremendous improve-
ment in the last year may be at-
tributed to his own tireless ef-
forts. Murphy is quick to point
out that he is usually the first
player on the courts, and the
last one off.
Don credits his upward climb to
the assistance the coach has given
him, particularly in his volleying.
LAST SUMMER MacKay at-
tained considerable success in the
tournament circuit around De-
troit, taking two major tourna-
ments against top-flight competi-
tion.
He feels that his serve is his
best asset, and has been con-
centrating his efforts on raising
his backhand and overhead to
the same standards.
Back in grammar school Don's
first love was baseball, but after
taking on a paper route he found
no more time for the diamond
sport. Instead he began to devote
more and more of his spare time
to tennis, and soon it became his
primary interest.
* * *
AT HIGHLAND Park High
School MacKay competed for three
years, winning the East Side In-
terscholastic title in his final year.
His next three years were spent
in the Army Signal Corps, where
his athletic activity was limited to
a short stint on the Fort Mon-
mouth tennis squad.
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Doctoral Examination for Rich-
ard Weldon Larimore, Zoology;
thesis: "Life History of the War-
mouth, Chaenobryttus coronarius
(Bartram)", Thurs., April 27, 4101
Natural Science Bldg., 8:30 a.m.
Chairman, K. F. Lagler.
Doctoral Examination for Upton
Sinclair Palmer, Speech; thesis:
"An Edition of the Speeches of
Rutherford B. Hayes Including a
Study of his Rhetorical Back-
ground, Theory and Practice,"
Thurs., April 27, 3211 Angell Hall,
2 p.m. Chairman, W. M. Sattler.
Zoology Seminar: Thurs., April
27, 4:15 p.m., East Lecture Room,
Rackham Building. Andrew J. Ber-
ger will speak on "The compara-
tive functional morphology of the
pelvic appendage in three subfam-
ilies of Cuculiformes."
7:30 p.m., West Lecture Room,
Rackham Building. Herman Kleer-
ekoper will speak on "Life history
of the Peixe-Rey (Kingfish) in
Brazil." Richard W. Larimore will
speak on "Natural history of the
Warmouth."
Medical School Applicants:
Final notice to all persons who
will be applying for entrance to
Medical School in the fall of 1951.
Applications for the Medical Col-
lege Admission Test to be given
May 13, 1950 are due at Princeton,
New Jersey no later than April 29,
1950. Application blanks are avail-
able at the Bureau of Psychological
Services, 110 Rackham Building.
Engineering Mechanics Seminar:
Mr. Lawrence Talbot will continue
his discussion of "Elementary
Wave Characteristics." Wed., April
26, 4 p.m., 101 West Engineering
Building. All interested persons
welcome.
Concerts
Student Recital: Dolores DiLor-
enzo, pianist, will present a recital
at 8:30 p.m., Wed., April 26, Rack-
ham Assembly Hall, in partial ful-
fillment of the requirements for
the Master of Music degree. Pro-
gram: Compositions by Bach,
Schubert, Debussy, and Claude Al-
mand. Open to the public. Miss
DiLorenzo is a pupil of Joseph
Brinkman.
Student Recital: Virginia Houri-
gan, Clarinetist, will be heard in a
recital at 8:36 p.m., Thurs., April
27, Architecture Auditorium.
Works by Golestan, Brahms, Schu-
mann, and Mozart. Open to the
public. It is being played in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for
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