THE MICHIGAN DAILY__ 1 atatt)rs, 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. * * * { openerWGCL1 aga ui g s Uivesity of -NEISCH, the captain-elect, was. opeer gaist he Univriyo osset efre tte10 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 i 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. Vote Today SPALDING DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 4) Qu urr SHUT LP! 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