THE MICHIGAN DAILY.- WE] atators Look for cure of uckeyitis * * * ike Second in Big Ten, urth in NCAA Meet Neisch To Captain Squad, Swim Sprints; Tankmen Lose Mann, Stager in Distances Champion Golfers Return to Line-up Evans, Lind, Olson Spearhead Team, Aim for Seventh Title in 10 Years HERE'S YOUR FIRST LESSON IN ECONOMICS at the "Biggest little store in the world" I By GEORGE FLINT /att Mann's swimmers were >ng the several victims of a ous disease called Buckeyitis winter. 'or the Michigan natators, as many athletic teams, nemesis spelled O-H-I-O S-T-A-T-E season, as the Buckeyes cap- ed both the Big Ten and NCAA rn meets. The Wolverines fin- ed second in the Conference nival, but tumbled to fourth NCAA competition. * * * . 'HERE WERE bright spots in Wolverine picture, though. On- two dual meet losses marred eason which included wins over a, Purdue, Minnesota, and thwestern. Last season's graduating stars cluded the brilliant distance ndem, Matt Mann III and Gus ager; Charlie Moss, an Amer- in record-holder in the breast- roke, and sprint star Dave ttle. Mann and Stager former the st consistent point-making ma- me for the Maize and Blue. ie had a top time of 4:48 in 440 and 2:11.4 in the 220, le the reliable Stager steamed a 4:50.5 in the conference 440 1 had a 2:12 furlong time to credit. /oss, versatile string bean from st Virginia, holds the Ameri- 20-yard course record for the -yard breaststroke, a 2:00.4 ef- t established in Detroit last ruary. Moss was also the n's top individual medley man, ing won the event in the Con- mce -meet in 1:21.7. 'ITTLE, WHO performed on ,higan's 1948 medley relay n, which held the American ord in that event, saw duty on h relay squads this year. Con- ently around the 52 mark for leg of the relay, Tittle was a iable man to the Wolverines. y won the 400-yard free style at in the Big Ten free-for-all a Tittle an important factor he triumph. These seniors were instru- ental in the generally good quittal the Mannmen made themselves last season. ,As for this year with the wily Mann back at the helm for his 26th season, the Maize and Blue can't be figured as pushovers for any tank team. Leading the Michigan squad this year will be Dave Neisch, a free- style sprinter from Detroit who was called the most improved swimmer on the Wolverine squad last season. * * a* NEISCH, ELECTED captain by his mates last spring, is a hard- working swimmer who's been one of Mann's proteges for seven years. The genial mentor worked with Neisch while the young dash star was attending Mann's Camp Chikopi during the summer. Since those days Dave has de- veloped amazingly and swam in the low 53's last season for his specialty, the century swim. He will bolster a sprint corps which may cause Mann some worries this season. Along with Neisch, only one re- turning sprint veteran, junior Dick Martin, can be expected to do big things for the Wolverines. Martin, with one of the longest starting dives in the business, was a consistent pointwinner in the 50-yard free style and swam oc- casionally on relay teams. His top time for the 50 was 23.6. IN THE BACKSTROKE, Bernie' Kahn will once again be top man on the Maize and Blue totem pole. His 1:38 time was the best a Wol- verine couldmdo last season in the 150-yard race. Also returning will be a promising junior, Dick Howell, who swam backstroke and indi- vidual medley last winter, and Tom Keenan, another junior whose improvement this season would boost Wolverine hopes to end the BIuckeye dominance in that swimming style. A freshman last season who may add some strength in the backstroke is Chaflie Peterson, most promising among the year- ling men in that event. In the distance races, a pair of sophomores are expected to carry the load Stager and Mann bore bore last season. They are Luis Childs, a short but speedy Colom- bian who went to the Olympics in TWO OUT OF THREE-Dave Neisch, Charlie Moss, and Bernie Kahn were spearheads on the 1950 Michigan swim squad. Neisch, who swims the sprints, is next year's captain, while Kahn holds forth in the backstroke. Moss was top individual medley man on the Wolverine team this year, and holds the American 20-yard course record for the 100-yard breaststroke. Moss, however, is one of the losses Matt Mann's tank squad suffered through gradu- ation last June. '* *a * 1948, and Wallie Jeffries, Evans- ville, Ind., star who held the Na- tional AAU junior 220 title three years ago. Childs has gone 19:37 for the 1500 meters and 4:52 for the 440. Jeffries has times of 19:43 in the 1500, 4:51.2 in the quarter-mile, and 2:16 in the 220. *~ * * IN THE breastroke, Mann can count on Stew Elliott, giant jun- ior who improved greatly during the course of the 1950 season, and Johnny Davies, smooth-stroking Australian who placed fourth in the 200 meters race at the last Olympics. Also up from the freshman squad is Rusty Carlisle, a breast- stroker from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., who is rated as an excel- lent prospect in that event. For utility duty, the Wolverines can call on sprinter Jim Dicker- son, distanceman Bob Weggener, and free-styler Jim White. The outlook for the 1951 sea- son can't be classed as an al- together bright one, despite the depth in the distance and breast- stroke events. Mann will count on Jack Hart- man and Frank Keller to improve * * * their 1950 form in the diving events, where the Maize and Blue have had to bow to Peppe's Buck- eyes for several years. THOSE SAME old Buckeyes will be heading toward the conference crown again, and it should take considerable improvement from every quarter to put the Wolverines back in their accustomed spot on top of the Big Ten heap again. Ohio State will field a host of juniors who made a shambles of last year's meet, with Jack Taylor, toothpick-sized distance- man and backstroker, leading the way for the Peppemen. In NCAA competition, the Yale Bulldogs, with world-record shat- terer John Marshall in the van- guard, will be the team to beat. So it won't be an easy year for the Mann-coached Wolverines. But the usual improvement be- tween the natators' Florida trip in December and the conference meet. in March may solve a few unan- swered problems and provide enough punch to give the Buck- eyes and the rest of the top teams considerable trouble. By TED PAPES In the last nine years Michigan has failed to win the Western Conference Golf Championship only three times. Last season was one of those times as the Wolverines finished third behind Purdue's phenomenal Boilermakers and the Buckeyes of Ohio State. * * * THE "BLUE CHIPS" tourney was staged in Columbus over Ohio State's Scarlet Course, and per- fect weather conditions helped to produce the finest golfing exhibi- tion in the history of the event if not in college golf itself. Purdue shattered the team scoring record by 35 strokes as five Boilermakers compiled an amazing 72-hole total of 1,464 swings, which means that the squad as a whole was only 24 over par for the meet. That performance completely overshadowed the best previous effort, 1,499 by the Wolverines one year earlier. * *a * BOILERMAKER mastery car- ried over to the individual compe- tition also as Purdue's ace, Fred Wampler, became the first play- er in the league's history to win three individual titles. He had captured the medal in 1948 and tied for it with Ed Schalon of Michigan the following year at Ann Arbor. Last spring he scored with a four-round mark of 284 which is four under standard figures for the course. He whipped run- ner-up Tom Nieperte of the Buckeyes by three strokes in a dramaticduel down the stretch. Michigan's lowest competitor was Dick Evans, the captain- elect for the coming season, who. fired three 74's and an even par 72 for 294 and sixth place. Wampler emphasized his claim to the throne room of college golf a month later by winning the gruelling NCAA match play test at Albuquerque against the sharp- est young golfers in the country. No Wolverines were entered. * * * THE BIG TEN MEET tossed some straw on the fire of an old argument as to which is the loop's most difficult course, Ohio's Scarlet or Michigan's University layout. Many links experts ex- pressed the opinion that the low scores recorded at Columbus would have been impossible here. They pointed out that Michi- gan's finest golfing combina- tion, the 1949 unit, could not have been 35 strokes worse than team. Further evidence was the fact that Wampler required 297 strokes to gain his tie for the medal crown at Ann Arbor, and 13 strokes less to win at Colum- bus just one year later. On the Ohio side, golfers point out that the Scarlet fairways stretch over a 7,120 yard route in championship play while Michi- gan's course covers 6,660. Then too, thereare water hazards pre- sent on the former and none at Ann Arbor. AT ANY RATE, both are diffi- cult to negotiate successfully, as players at both schools well know. The Michigan layout is maintain- ed in exceptional shape through- out the season with a near-perfec- tion standard for the greens. Wolverine coach Bert Katzen- meyer, highly successful in de- veloping winning golf. teams, has lost three men from his most recent squad, Keith LeClair, Leo Hauser and Captain Chuck Mac- Callum. Still in the fold are three of the game's bright young stars. 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