THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE I --i AN SLAMMING SOPHI: Johnson Makes Fourth Rockford Golfer for 'M' Wolrine ine To Meet Irish od c'i " By HANLEY GURWIN Rockford, Illinois seems to be a training ground for University of Michigan golfers. In recent years, Rockford has supplied the Maize and Blue with three top notch golfers, including Phil Marcellus and Dave Barkley, National Collegiate Champion in 1949. The most recent .of the Illi- nois linksmen is Captain Dean Lind of this year's squad. * * * NOW A FOURTH man from the golf-crazy town has joined the team. He Is Russ Johnson, a soph- omore who shows great promise of equaling the greatness which his predecessors from home have shown while playing as Wolver- ines. When Russ was a sophomore playing golf for East Rockford High School, Lind was a senior on the squad. In fact, it ws Lind that persuaded him to come to Michigan. Unlike Lind, who has walked off with major events at several tournaments, Johnson hasnever won a major event. However, he does state with pride that he has qualified in every tournament that he has entered. QNE OF Johnson's golfing ac- complishments was placing third from Illinois in the National Junior Chamber of Commerce 'Tournament held at Houston,' Texas, a few years ago. Incidental- ly, first place from Illinois was captured by Lind. Johnson started playing the game of golf when he'was eight years old. This was partly due{ to the great opportunity for playing golf which Rockford of- fered its young athletes. John- son recalls that for a small sum paid at the beginning of the summer, a kid could play golf on any of three good local courses every morning during the sum- mer. The Rockford linkster claims that his biggest thrill in golf came when he was sixteen years old, while he was playing in the Chi- cago District Junior Tournament. He was paired against Roger Kess- ler, a member of the University of Michigan golf team and captain for the following year. * * * BY SHOOTING a two-under par 68, he defeated Kessler five up with four holes to play. The fact that Russ was defeated in what he terms his "Jinx second round" does not distract from the big thrill of turning back the Michigan star. The Rockford sophomore does not consider that his best round of golf however. Johnson. gives that distinction to the two suc- cessive rounds of 69 which he carded in practice on the tough 2'par University course last fall. Coach Bert' Katzenmeyer's con- fidence in Johnson's ability to pro- vide Michigan with a sound golfer is shown by the fact that he has installed the short, but powerful Johnson as a regular starter in varsity matches. * * * HIS BEST performances this year were a 72 which he turned in against Duke during the southern tour and a one-over par 73 which he carded against Ohio State and Purdue in a triangular meet at Columbus. Johnson states that he hasn't had more of these low rounds due to a loss of his usuall- sure. putting eye. Despite this temporary lag in putting, Johnson feels that his play on the green, which he con- siders the best part of his game, is definitely coming around. He has been dropping quite a few'of the long putts lately which has led him to believe that his scores will improve. Johnson is the fourth from Rockford, but he may not be the last. Both he and Lind are now trying to convince another prom- ising golfer from the hometown to come to school at Michigan. If they succeed, Rockford may claim a permanent spot of the varsity team. Read Daily Classifieds Wildcats, Badgers Provide Crucial Weekend Contests i McEwen Favored to Retain Two Mile Conference Title Michigan Aces To Face Big Ten Opponents In Attempt To Capture Conference Crown r; RUSS JOHNSON ... Rockford's latest 12I1 Chooses Wst Quad's Top Athlete Earl Kauffman, a second semes- ter freshman from Washington, D.C., was named as the outstand- ing athlete in the West Quad yes- terday at the anual banquet hon- oring the quad's sports partici- pants. Kauffman took part in fourteen sports for Williams House and was named all-IM in water polo. In the residence halls track meet, he took a first in the 880 yard run and he was nominated for all- campus honors in football and softball. He is enrolled in the Natural Resources school and intends to go into forestry after graduation. In other presentations Williams House was awarded the Wagner Centennial Trophy for the house in the quad with the highest ath- letc standing. The trophy is given annually but was retired this year after Williams won it for the third year in a row. Second in the West Quad standings was Allen-Rumsey House, while Wenley House took third. A crucial weekend looms for the Wolverine Baseball squad. With a little smile from "lady- luck" and an assist from Iowa or Minnesota, the Michigan nine may bring back the Conference base- ball crown when it returns to Ann Arbor after a four game road trip. COACH Ray Fisher's charges play Notre Dame today, tackle Northwestern in a single game to- morrow, and then face Wisconsin in a double-header Saturday. Garbi Tadian will start against the Irish today with Dick Lirkosky, Jack Corbett, and Mary Wisniewski to face North- western and Wisconsin. Michigan with a 7-3 record trails the "Fighting Illini," who stand at the top of the heap regis- tering nine wins against three losses. * * * ILLINOIS also has three Big Ten games to play, facing Minne- sota once and Iowa twice this Fri- day and Saturday at Champaign. Three Michigan victories cou- pled with one Illinois loss will enable the Wolverine squad to capture its 20th baseball crown, the 15th under Coach Fisher. The Maize and Blue must come from behind because a double header was rained out with Pur- due last Saturday. If everything goes as Michigan rooters hope for, the Wolverines will edge Illinois for first place .769 to .733. The two top pitchers in the Big Ten will clash when Illinois meets Minnesota. Illini Gerry Smith and Gopher Paul Giel each have a 4-0 record in four complete games. * * * GARBI TADIAN will start against Notre Dame today. Tadi- an has a 1-0 record, notching his lone win against the Universilty of Detroit. Senior Milt Heath and Freshman Ralph Fagg may also see some action ongthe yound to- day. Madison. The Badgers have a chance to climb into second place if they take both games from the Wolverines. Shortstop Harvey Kuenn, third- baseman Ten Baumgarten, and outfielders Gust Vergetis are all batting over the .300 mark for Wisconsin. Coach "Dynie" Mansfield will probably name sophomore Harold Raether and Gene Radke to face the Michigan nine. DON McEWEN .. . another record? Phi Sigs Defeat Phi Delts, 7-6,ToR ahI Sft llFn s Teac * l Sotbl Fal (Second in a series of articles dealing with the Western Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships to be held in Ann Arbor May 30-31. Today the two mile is spotlighted.) By DAVE LIVINGSTON Don McEwen, who ran the sec- ond fastest collegiate two mile in history last Saturday, will be odds- on favorite to cop the two mile title for the third straight year in next week's Big Ten Track and Field Championships. Rich Ferguson of Iowa and Illi- nois' Ocie Trimble, a couple of better than average distance men, should provide McEwen with the stiffest competition he's faced all season, but the Wolverine Captain is still the best two-miler in the country and the all-time great in Western Conference annals. * * * THE MEET will mark the final Ferry Field appearance for Mc- Ewen, one of the most colorful athletes ever to roam the Wolver- ine cinder trails. The Canadian speedster, who last year set a conference mile record in addition to winning the longer distance, will be en- dangering the two mile mark of 9:10.4 established by Walter Mehl of Wisconsin in 1938, even though he will again double in both events. McEwen has sped the longer distance under 9:05 eight times during his collegiate career, and holds the distinction of running more mile and two mile races in record, or near record, time than any other athlete in Western Con- ference history. * * * HIS CHIEF competition in the Big Ten meet appears to be Fer- guson, a fellow Canadian who, like McEwen, will be seeking a spot on his country's Olympic team. Ferguson, whose best time at two miles is an excellent 9:09.9, finished second to the Wolverine in last winter's conference in- door meet with a 9:19.5 clocking. Illinois' Trimble and Lawton Lamb, who finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the indoor affair, will be strong contenders inthe Ferry Field extravaganza. Trimble is capable of breaking 9:20. Michigan mentor Don Canham will pin his hopes for a second Wolverine finishing among the top five on Bill Hickman, a senior who has been improving rapidly. Other strong two-milers include George Branam of Indiana, Jim Kepford of Michigan State, and Minnesota's Bill Torp. STUDENT SUPPLIES Typewriters Repaired Rented Sold Bought Webster-Chicago Tape and Wire Recorders Fountain Pens Repaired by a Factory Trained Man MORRILL'S 314 S. State Ph. 7177 STAR CLEANERS 1213 South University 3 for the price of 2 Dry Cleaning Sale Phi Sigma Delta edged out Phi Delta Theta yesterday, 7-6, in a thrilling extra inning softball en- counter to move into the finals of the first-place fraternity playoffs. Larry Sperling stole the show as he drove in six out of the Phi Sig's seven runs with a homerun and two triples. S * * PHI DELT went into the bottom of the fifth leading 3-2, but the Phi Sigs soon erased that lead as Sperling hit his second triple of the day with two aboard to give them a one run cushion. The Phi Delts knotted the score in the top of the sixth when Doug Lawerence scored Larry Wegienka from third with a fly ball to move the game into extra innings. The score remained tied until the top of the eighth when Bob Kunz broke the deadlock with a two run bingle to center. Scoring on the play was Wegienka with his third marker of the game. * * * THE STAGE was set. Sperling came to bat with two men on and delivered with a clutch homerun to win the game. Sperling's homer not only won the game but also enables Phi Sigma Delta to meet the winner of today's Kappa Sig- ma-Delta Sigma Delta game for the fraternity championship. In other fraternity play, Phi Kappa Sigma was defeated by Pi Lamba Phi, Tau Delta Phi bowled over Chi Psi 15-6, and Phi Gamma Delta beat Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2-0. In the feature game among the Independents, Hayden knocked off Hinsdale behind the three hit pitching 'of Dick Weinberg in a semi-final match. Ralph and Har- old Keifer paced the Haydenmen by both polling out decisive home- runs. In other independent play Greene smothered Scott by the tremendous score of 18-6. Cooley rapped Allen Rumsey 12-3 in the third place playoffs. Horseshoe play found Phi Sig- ma Kappa winning out over Kappa Sigma, 2-1, Alpha Sigma Phi de- feating Theta Chi 2-1, and Delta Sigma Phi beat Phi Kappa Psi, 2-1. Brooklyn Sets Major League Scoring Mark BROOKLYN -(i)--- Brooklyn set a new modern major league record by scoring 15 runs in the first inning of last night's game with Cincinnati. Twenty-one' Dodgers faced four Cincy pitchers in the inning, also a new modern record. The old record for runs scored in an inning was 14, held joint- ly by the 1920 New York Yanks, 1922 Chicago Cubs, 1948 Boston Red Sox and the 1950 Cleve- land Indians. Both the Chicago Cubs of 1922 and the Boston Red Sox of 1948 sent 19 men to the plate in one inning, the previous modern rec- ord. 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