WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1'954
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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THE SUBJECT OF THE purpose behind and the problems of modern
intercollegiate athletics is perhaps the mostrchallenging in the
sports world today. No less a group than the revered Ivy League,,
and individual educators like the University of Washington's Dean:
Harold W. Stoke have devoted great amounts of energy toward the
finding of a workable cure for the ills which plague the college;
athletic scene.
Thinking men in universities and colleges all across the land
have turned their attention toward solution of the problem of mis-I
directed goals, and none with more sincerity or greater perception
than the University of Pennsylvania's distinguished J. Kenneth
Doherty.
Holder of the degrees Master of Arts and Doctor of Philos-
ophy from the University of Michigan, Doherty, the author of
the recently published "Modern Track and Field," of which
Professor Phil Diamond has said, "The best book yet to appear
on the subject," has expressed certain interesting views on college
athletics in a recent letter to the Daily Sports department.
Drawing upon 25 years of experience Coach Doherty, who now3
handles Penn's track teams and formerly held a similar position at
Michigan comments: "A careful observation of practice in varsity
coaching leads to the conclusion that when a choice is forced between
the goods of the individual and winning the game, the incentives as
well as the pressures are almost exclusively on the beam of the
latter."
Experienced Veteran Paulus AlphaDelts, Work Begun White Sox Bolster Lead
Holds Key to Tennis Hopes Betas Take On Nine-Hole With Win Over Yankees
By DICK CRAMER
With three victories in his four
matches on the southern tour,
Pete Paulus, second man on the
Michigan tennis squad, is being
counted on heavily in Coach Bill
Murphy's hopes for a successful
net season this year.
Pauiuz tennis experience dates
back for over eight years and in-
cludes the past two years with the
Michigan team. Unplaced on the
1952 squad, Paulus held one of
the top two spots during the 1953
season. After being replaced by
Al Mann in the number one posi-
tion, Paulus proceeded to win six
of eight matches as number two.{
man, during the remainder of the
'53 season.
This year the junior has heldI
the number two position from the'
beginning behind Mann.
I-M Contests
Trailing by six runs after two
and a half innings, Alpha Delta
Phi scored seven times in their,
last three times at bat to upset
Phi Delta Theta, 7-6. in an excit-
ing Intra-mural softball encoun-
ter yesterday at South Ferry Field.
The Alpha Delts climaxed their
uphill battle by scoring the tying
and winning runs in the home
half of the final inning. Two walks,,
The Chicago White Sox streng-
G olf A ddition thened their hold on first place in
the American League yesterday af-
University of Michigan students ternoon as they downed the New!
will be able to have a greater par- York Yankees, 4-3, for their eighth
ticipation on the golf links next triumph in nine games.
year with the addition of a new Minnie Minoso's fifth-inning
nine-hole "pitch and putt" course. home run was the big blow for the
White Sox.
This course will be open in addi- . * .
tion to the present 18-hole chan- THE ST. LOUIS Cardinals, ef-}
pionship University golf course. fectively bunching their hits with
In the National League, the
home-run happy Cincinnati Red-
legs gave up four round trippers
last night, but their three were
morebpotent andethey downed the
Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-7.
THE WIN, coupled with Brook-
lyn's loss at St. Louis, pushed Cin-
cinnati into the league lead by a
half-game.
* * *
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, H. 0.
an error, and a fielder's choice set "Fritz" Crisler, announced yester-
the stage for Roger Mulier's long day. that preliminary work has al-
outfield fly which scored Foster ready begun on the course, which
Aschenbrenner with the game- is located southwest of the 18-
I winning run. hole course. The project is expect-
* * * ed to be completed next spring.
DEFENSE and offense combined!
effectively in another I-M game The nine-hole layout will be
to give Beta Theta Pi an impres- composed of only par three holes
sive 10-0 victory over Chi Psi. with the longest hole being No.
Gordie Tarrant scattered four hits 1 6.This will be 135 yards. The
the wildness of Brooklyn pitchers, In a late game. Milwaukee edg-
defeated the Dodgers, 7-3, at ed the New York Giants, 3-2, at
Busch Stadium last night. Milwaukee.
The Redbirds, collecting 10
blows off Preacher Roe and Bob
Milliken, gave Gerry Staley his
second victory against one de-
feat, though he needed help HOW'D YOU LIKE TO...
from Al Brazle and Stu Miller.
PETE PAULUS
.. .number two netter
Standings
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Emphasis on Record-Breaking .. .
TRUEAMATEURISM," Doherty goes on, "and surely that includes
college athletics, implies that other aspects of living are primary
and should take precedence over sports participation. This statement
implies limitation; limitation in the rewards that can be accepted
and limitation in the time and energy that can be devoted to perfect-
ing skills or in gaining additional competition."
"Yet today, winning and certainly record-breaking in such sports
as swimming and track demand more and more time and energy.
Today the core of training methods in every sport is exemplified by
the statement, 'The secret of better running lies in more running.'
This applies not only to more work in less time, but also to more
hours per day and more days per year. To be a great athlete today
means to adopt that certain activity as a continuous part of one's
way of living, without regard for sport season or more primary
considerations. To do less than this is to make failure, in the present-
day meaning of the word, certain."
Coach Doherty found that even in England, where the
sentiment of "the game for the game's sake" had been a cher-
ished guide to amateur sports, the emphasis on winning now
becomes evident in the hiring of professional coaches at Oxford
and cambridge. The great runner Gordon Pirie summed up the
steady rise in emphasis on winning when he said after giving up
his job in a bank for that of a salesman, "I shall let nothing
interfere with my avocation." Thus the problem of misplaced
goals appears in another land, whose orientation is markedly
different from our own.
NOW THAT THE tennis squad that he has since enjoyed both over the six-inning route and Tot
has taken to the outdoors for with the Wolverine and in in- Raisor distinguished himself at
home practice, Paulus expects to dividual competition. shortstop with eleven flawless:
improve the style which has al- Last summer Paulus participat- fielding plays to back up Beta
ready won him three matches in. ed in several tournaments in the Theta Pi's potent scoring attack.
the South. He feels that his lone Chicago-Michigan area. In the In other games, Sigma Nu re-
loss, in the Tulane meet, might Michigan State Touranment he pelled a late rally by Theta Chi
have been averted had weather in was eliminated by the titlist, Stan to squeeze through to a 6-5 vic-
Michigan permitted earlier out- Drobac of Michigan State College. tory: Sigma Phi Epsilon trounc-j
door practice. In another tourney, the San Jo ed Chi Phi, 16-0; Alpha Tau One-I
Paulus had a distinguished Valley, he reached the quarter- ga downed Zeta Psi, 12-3; Lambda
net career in his Chicago high finals before being stopped. Chi Alpha smashed Delta Chi, 18-
school days. As a sophomore, he This summer the six-foot tall 1: Kappa Alpha Sigma edged Al-
won the Chicago Juniors Tour- net star plans to make an even pha Epsilon Pi, 6-5: and Triangle
nament, and two years later, in, greater tour of the tennis circuit topped Alpha Sigma Phi. 14-11.:
his senior year, Paulus took the in order to maintain his success- Phi Sigma Kappa and Acacia for-
city high school title. Both ful play for next year's season, his feited to Pi Lambda Phi and Phi
crowns pointed to the success last with the Maize and Blue. Kappa Psi.
'JACK'-OF-ALL-TRADES:
andy-man Corbett Leads Michigan Nine
others are, in order: No. 1, 110
yards; No. 2, 100 yards; No. 3,
95 yards; No. 4, 95 yards; No. 5,
120 yards; No. 7, 80 yards; No. 8
65 yards; and No. 9, 105 yards.
There are 36 shallow sand traps
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AMERICAN
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iaid out over course. These will
be concentrated around the greens.
The greens will range in size from
2,800 to 3,200 square feet, about
half the size of a green on the
championship course.
The entire project is being fi-
nanced from receipts of the ath-'
letic department.
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TIlE BUILDING of this course
is part of the general sports ex-
pansion program by tte Board in
Control of Intercollegiate Athlet-
ics. Crisler noted that the increas-
ed links facilities should help to
relieve the present load on the 18-
hole course, where more than 33,-
000 rounds of golf are played an-
nually by Wolverine students and
alumni.
The new course is being con-
structed for the average golfer
and while it will not be difficult,
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Chicago .....8
Detroit......6
Washington .6
Philadelphia .5
New York .....5
Cleveland ... .4
Boston......4
Baltimore ...4
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Cincinnati ...8
Brooklyn ....7
St. Louis ....6
New York ....6
Milwaukee .. .5
Philadelphia .5
Chicago......4
Pittsburgh ...5
LEAGUE
L Pet.
4 .667
4 .600
4 .600
5 .500
6 .455
6 .400
6 .400
7 .364
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LEAGUE
L Pet.
5 .615
5 .583
5 .545
6 .500
5 .500
6 .455
5 .444
9 .357
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By CORKY SMITH
Michigan baseball captain, Jack
Corbett, is the most versatile man}
on the squad.
Because of his stellar hitting:
performances, Coach Ray Fisher:
uses the 5' 10" righthander in the
outfield or at first base when he
isn't chucking from the mound.
er in his sophomore year when
he had a 7-2 overall won-lost
record, and a 4-2 Big Ten mark.
That year he pitched 27 straight
and Jack Ritter, who also won twor
games apiece. With his bat, Cor-
bett has hit at a steady pace with
a mid-season average of .328.
innings without giving up a run. * *
Winning the opener, LAST SATURDAY afternoon ini
Evanston, Ill., the 170-pounder#
On the trip South this spring, he pitched the second game of a dou-
picked up a pair of victories to tie bleheader against Northwestern
with teammates Marv Wisniewski and set down the Wildcats, 9-5,
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"The emphasis upon winning," writes Coach Doherty, "with only
secondary concern for the 'how' and the 'why', can no more be for BigBATTING aveiage of 53
separated from college athletics than can the emphasis upon material Icontributed largely to the team's
progress, with only secondary concern for its 'how' and 'why' be ;winning the NCAA title last spring,j
divorced from American Business, or, to go further, than can the as did his 4-1 Conference pitching
all-inclusive idea of 'service to society', with lesser concern for edu- record. On the hill he posted the
cation of the individual, be diverted from its inroads into modern lowest earned run mark of the reg-
University philosophy." ular Big Ten hurlers, giving up
* * * * an average of 1.40 runs per nine-
All men interested in play-
ing soccer with the Wolverine
Soccer Club this spring or next
fall, please phone NO 2-4481.
There will be a game with
Michigan State Saturday, May
8, at 2:30, at East Lansing.
Practice starts Thursday at the
field east of the Michigan Sta-
dium.
-Mike Barnard
In a game with the University
of Detroit earlier this season, Cor-
bett held the Titans to four hits
in the seven frames he hurled
while the Wolverines were scoring
a 6-1 rout. His control was excel-
lent as he allowed just one free
pass.
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Two Aspects of a Single Whole .. .
"THE PRESENCE OF 'winning' athletics at Michigan," continues
Doherty, "is neither worse nor better than the presence of the
Business Administration School on the University campus. They are
simply different aspects of a single whole."
"To recognize the limitations in time, energy, and reward implied
p by the amateur ideal," he concludes, "is to recognize similar limita-
tions in all aspects of living, both good and bad. Even the academic
departments of the University must recognize that they cannot con-
tinue indefinitely to increase their own demands upon the time and
energy of their studnets, without regard for other requirements. Their
practice over the past 25 years has matched that of varsity coaches
in this respect. If they view with alarm the mote in the eye of the
coach, they must necessarily recognize its presence in their own."
Coach Doherty questions the statement we mare in September
regarding the necessity of changing the whole of scIety in order
to bring sanity to our athletic programs. He w'ites, "There is
much of truth in the idea that we can hope to change parts such
as athletics only by changing the whole of society. But if parts
have no entities in and of themselves and, properly viewed, are
merely processes or aspects of wholes, then only a holistic view
is tenable. But contrarily, can we not state with equal truth that
changes in wholes or in the whole occur primarily through new
pressures developed in certain aspects of the whole?"
We think that among coaches Ken Doherty is a rarity. We see
that in a profession too often known for its lack of sensitivity there
is here a man of deep conviction, endowed richly with the ability to
express himself in the most eloquent of terms. We pass some of the
more important ,aspects of his letter on to our readers because we
feel that it is highly enlightening to read the ideas of a distinguished
and scholarly coach who draws upon a quarter century, of experience
in the field of intercollegiate athletics.
Coach Doherty's views may not meet with universal acceptance,
but we feel that they will most certainly meet with universal respect.
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