T.. R_ ..,, . ----,- ,-P ..,. + THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ..T. .T.. - MT.CTT..Ta1aa vaN Das TY a s s.a.. r ei xr. a Titan Golfers ip ' in ome Debut, 15- 12 Veteran Olson Shoots 73 As Sophs Show Promise. RESCHEDULING DIFFICULT: & A -2 Weather Factor in Conference Baseball By BOB ROSENMAN The University of Detroit Titans spoiled Michigan's home golfing debut yesterday as they squeezed past a sophomore-laden squad of Wolverines, 15-12, over the Uni- versity links. Coach Bert Katzenmeyer had three sophomores and two juniors in the linup for Michigan. One of the sophs had never played a round of golf in college competition, and none had ever competed over the University's' course in a competi- tive match. BOB OLSON, who shot a fine one-over par 73, was the only vet- eran who saw action as Katzen- meyer sought to determine who would fill the open berths on the squad. Three Wolverine veterans, Dick Evans, Dean Lind, and John Fraser, took the day off as the "rookies" went through their paces. The overall score, 15-12, is not too important; poor golfing weather, lack of adequate prac- tice plus the earliness of the sea- son affected the scores of both teams. What is significant, however, is the scores recorded by the Michi- gan sophs and juniors. * * * SOPHOMORE Lowell LeClair, under the pressure of competition over the difficult layout of the University course, shot a good two- over par 74. His putting and short game was especially sharp. a Jim Dixon, who competed in a few meets for Michigan last year, shot a' 77, while Jack Stumpfig, another soph, fired a 78 in his first match for Michi-' gan. Hugh Wright, another second- year man, carded an 80 and War- ren Gast had an 84 for the Wol- verines. PLAYING IN the first foursome, Olson and LeClair were up against Detroit's two top linismen, veter- ans Sam Kocsis and Tony Novit- sky. The former shot a 74 while Novitsky tied Olson for medal hon- ors with 73. These two Titans came up with two of the best.shots of the day on the back nine holes. Novitsky birdied the 415-yard, par 4 13th when his 25-foot ap- proach from the edge of the green dropped into the cup. Kocsis, "old man" of the meet at 31, birdied the short 17th as" he dropped a 30-foot putt for a deuce. * * * THE WOLVERINES will get back into the golfing wars Satur- day at Columbus when they en- gage Purdue, last year's Big Ten champion, Indiana, and Ohio State in a quadrangular meet. This meet, pitting probably the top golf teams in the Big Ten should go a long way in determin- ing favorites in the Western Con- ference Meet next month. NEW SWIMMING CO-CAPTAINS-John Davies of Australia, (left) and Stew Elliott, who are both breast strokers, have been chosen to lead the Wolverine tank squad next season. * * * * Elliott, Davies Selected For Swim Co-Captaincy- By GEORGE FLINT O-- The Michigan swimming squad named a pair of point-producing breaststrokers, John Davies, '52, and Stew Elliott, '52, to captain the Mann-led natators next season. The tankmen made their selec- tion at the annual swimming ban- quet in the Michigan Union. * . * DAVIES, A LITHE splasher from Sidney, Australia, was the Big Ten and National AAU champion in the Lack of Outdoor Work Hinders Thinclads k_ r By BYRLE ABBIN That nasty old weatherman, whose antics have always bothered Michigan's spring sports, has re- ally spread his grief this year and in so doing has brought repercus- sions from such distant places as Illinois and California with it. All news coming out of the two midwestern cinder squads, Illinois and Michigan, has been anything but rosy as the champ and run- ner-up in the Big Ten Indoor meet prepare to challenge the cream of the West and the US track world, Southern California, in the top outdoor meet of the season at Los Angeles' coliseum this Saturday. AND THERE has been good reason, too, for Illini Coach Leo Johnson and Wolverine mentor Don Canham to be pessimistic about their squad's chances and in the same breath pass all the superlatives westward to USC's famous molder of top college cin- der aggregates, Jesse Hill. The midwestern c o a c h e s have had nothing but inclement weather to face in their spring training, which is so important to good outdoor track perform, ances, while.Hill has had noth- ing but warm California sun- shine to get his team into shape for the all-important meet. PIGSKIN BLUES: Knutson Injured in Practice; Out for Rest of Spring Drills Johnson has been saying over and over how he hates to think of what is going to happen to his cindermen out in California and Canham reiterates this to the full- est extent and-adds more yet to it. * * * BESIDES HAVING the oppor- tunity to practice outside every day since last fall, the USC Tro- jans have had the very important fortune of having three outdoor meets under their belt already. In each of these meets the National Champs looked power- ful, with the major wins being a 77-54 thumping of a very good Arizona State of Tempe team, and a resounding 102-28 rout of the University of California. Michigan and Illinois, in the meantime, were entering small contingents in scattered indoor meets, and attempting the tran- sition to outdoor work at the same time. Although doing well in the indoor meets, both squads could look for no solace in this, as their outdoor preparations were going to nought as the result of incessant rain, snow, and un- seasonably cold weather, MAINLY HURT by this bad weather are the hurdlers and dashmen, who have had little chance to train and get used to the much longer outdoor dis- tances. The rest of the squad was restrained too, in that no full ef- fort could be given in practice and trials for fear of the pulled muscles and other injuries that occur easily in cold weather. The Wolverine cindermen prac- ticed all spring vacation, trying to make use of what good days did show up, and wound up their Ann Arbor drills yesterday afternoon, This morning they will leave Wil- low Run at 8 a.m. on a chartered United Air Line plane. 200 and 220-yard breaststroke races, respectively. He also placed second to for- mer Wolverine star Charley Moss in the 100-yard event at the AAU meet in Columbus. His top time in the 200 this sea- son was 2:18.4, clocked at the Big Ten championships. He had a 2:34.7 for the 220-yard race. Dav- ies was a member of the Austral- ian team at the 1948 Olympic games and placed fourth in the 200-meter breast stroke. ELLIOTT, ONE OF the most im- proved members of this season's squad, won the 100-yard title in the Big Ten meet and swam on the medley relay team in most of the 1951 dual meets. King-sized for a swimmer, the Dousman, Wisconsin athlete pla- ced third in the 100 at the NCAA championships at Austin. His top time in that event in the big meets was the 60.4 mark he achieved in the conference championships. Davies and Elliott suceed sprint- er Dave Neisch, '51, the captain during the past season. MICHIGAN HAD co-captains in the sport in 1948, when Bob Sohl and Dick Weinberg led the Maize and Blue to the Big Ten and NCAA championships. Davies and Elliott only hope that is a good omen for their tenure at the top of the Wolverine tank By JIM PARKER Old man Weather, the culprit that caused Michigan's home base- ball season to be moved up to a Big Ten opening with Illinois here tomorrow afternoon, could turn out to be a major factor in deter- mining the Western Conference champ this year. The same weatherman that caused the cancellation of the scheduled opener with Wayne Tuesday, may interfere with the diamond proceedings this week- end-and with a result that could either help bring another Confer- ence crown to Michigan or just as easily put a possible title out of the range of the Wolverines. IT ALL STEMS from a Big Ten ruling that prevents the re-sched- uling of games that are rained out on their scheduled dates. Thus, if the weather were to interfere agai pnthis weekend to cause the cancellation of the Illinois series, Michigan could possibly be benefitted by having its Big Ten schedule moved up to next weekend and two games with Iowa. This would give the Wolverines a much-needed chance next week to sharpen their claws on two strong non-conference foes, West- ern Michigan and Detroit, both of which are much higher caliber opponents than the six Michigan faced on its southern training trip, ** ON THE OTHER hand, the can- cellation of the Illinois series could prove a hindrance if the LATE SPORTS: Knicks Even NBA Playoffs NEW YORK-(A) - The New York Knicks evened the final NBA playoff series at three gaines apiece last night by beating the Rochester Royals, 80 to 73, for the third straight time. The de- ciding game in the best-of-seven series will be played at Rochester Saturday night. SENATORS 6, ATHLETICS 4 PHILADELPHIA - (P) - The Washington Senators staged a three run ninth inning rally for a 6-4tvictory over Philadelphia's Athletics last night. SOFTBALL Sigma Chi 9, Kappa Nu 0 Theta Chi defeated Alpha Phi Alpha (forfeit) Beta Theta Phi 5, Kappa Sigma 3 Sigma Phi Epsilon 3, Delta Upsilon 0 Phi Kappa Psi 6, Delta Chi 0, Sigma Phi 6, Triangle 1 Phi Sigma Delta 10, Acacia 0 Theta Chi defeated Omega Psi Phi (forfeit) Phi Gamma Delta 21, Psi Upsilon 0 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 8, Chi Phi 7 Pi Lambda Phi 4, Phi Kappa Psi 1 (correction) WATER POLO Phi Delta Theta 2, Alpha Tau Omega 0 Conference flag winner were to be decided on the basis of games played, This happened to Iowa last year. The Hawkeyes finished their Big Ten schedule with an 8-3 record, lacking just one vic- tory of sharing the crown with Michigan and Wisconsin, both with 9-3 records, And Iowa's "other game," a'can- cellation with Purdue, was one that the Hawkeyes should have won, considering that the Boiler- makers finished just one notch above the Conference cellar, * * * SO EVEN IF tomorrow's game were to be rained out, forcing a double header on Saturday, and foul weather should claim one or both of these, Michigan could end up in the same boat as Iowa last year-just out of the running. There is one condition under which a Conference game may be rescheduled, but this is rare- ly resorted to. If the home team coach arrang- es for a rescheduling of the series before the visiting team arrives at the game site, Big Ten rules permit the change-but only if drastic weather conditions force this move and then only if both teams can arrange an open date for rescheduling. THE DOWNTOWN STORE FOR MICHIGAN MEN ". e erve to Serve adEt 309 SOUTH MAINy STREET I I-M Scores I In Michigan's c a s e neither seems likely. And Coach Ray Fisher himself is not too concerned with this angle-he's too busy readying the squad for Illinois, good weather or bad. Pitching again received Fisher's special attention yesterday as he sent Duane Hegedorn, Dick Yirk- owski, Bill DenHouter, John Schu- ett and Earl Keim to the mound to face their teammates in the team's second straight outdoor in- tra-squad game. crew. l 1 r 7 1 t t Y n I One of the coaches' worst ene- terbaan and his cohorts are put- mies, the injury jinx, struck the ting the lads mostly through fun- Wolverine spring football camp damentals. The Michigan mentor this week, plans no changes in position of any The victim is Gene Knutson, who of his players as yet. suffered a broken right leg. The* * Beloit, Wisconsin gridder was ONE OF THE many rebuilding deemed the outstanding frosh end jobs facing Oosterbaan is the find- prospect by Coach Bennie Ooster- ing of a place kicker to replace baan. He will miss the remaining Harry Allis, who held forth on the five weeks of practice. place kicking department for the * * * past three years. KNUTSON DIDN'T realize he When asked who would replace bad broken a limb in practice al- the Flint extra point specialist, though the leg pained him. In fact Oosterbaan mentioned three fel- he didn't know it until he stepped lows, Don Peterson, Dick Stro- off a curb and the leg gave out, zewski and Bill Billings. Peter- Enutson is now confined to the son will be a senior in September health service with a cast on the and the latter two will be jun- limb. iors. 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