PAGE BMX THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 -AE IXIIIIIIII THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAYl APRIL 18. 1957lllllllllllllllll|| IlI .1. | -- __ p je . .. ELMER SWANSON Cleveland Must Give Up Pan-Am Games of 1959 By BOB BOLTON As a rule, assistant t r a c k coaches have few claims to fame. But to every rule there is an exception and Michigan's assist- ant track coach, Elmer Swanson, jokingly says he has at least one claim to fame. It seems as though there is more than one Elmer Swanson in this country; in fact, there are several Elmer Swansons and Michigan's version, the way he tells it, is re- lated to all of them. To start off, Swanson's father's name is Elmer, nis father-in-law's name is Elmer Swanson; there are several miscellaneous other rela- tives named Elmer Swanson and his mother-in-law's maiden name was Swanson he thinks; but he says he looses track and after a few minutes we also lost track. However, Swanson is not prim- arily known for the coincidence of names that appears in his an- cestry. He is better known as a former all-time great Michigan athlete and as a "right hand man" who has helped head Coach Don Canham produce winning track teams since 1948. 'M' Man Since 1942 Swanson has been a Michigan man since 1942, with time out for a brief hitch in the Marines and a two year fling at professional base- ball in 1946-48. In '48 Canham became head track coach and he asked Swan- son, who was then playing with Williamsport, a Tiger farm teamns in the Eastern League, to be his assistant. Swanson accepted Canham's of- fer and has been here for the last nine years and, despite having re- ceived other coaching offers, in- tends to stay at Michigan "as long as they want me" simply because "I like it here." Won Six Letters As an athlete at Michigan Swanson won six letters, three each in baseball and track. He competed on the cinder paths as a hurdler in the winter and the base piths as a catcher-first baseman in the spring. During the scholastic year of 1943-44 Swanson played an im- portant part in the Wolverines greatest sports year -Michigan won eight out of 10 titles that year - as he helped both the track and baseball squads win conference championships. At the Big Ten indoor finals Swanson added 10 points to the Michigan cause by winning both the high and low hurdles. In the lows Swanson scored a surprising victory o v e r Buddy Young, the great All - American halfback from Illinois. After the track season, Swan- son turned to baseball and helped the Wolverines capture the Big Ten title by hitting over the .300 mark for the season. Enters Marines After the close of the '44 school year Swanson entered the Marines, delaying the completion of his senior year until the winter of '46. He wound up his remaining ath- letic eligibility uring the spring of that year by smashing six home runs in six consecutive games. """""""""""" I- -Daily-Leonard Cyr ELMER SWANSON-Michigan's assistant track coach since 1948 is pictured on the job at Ferry Field. Swanson was six letter man in his undergraduate days. I-M Spring Sports To Begin Fr International Students BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL JUNE 24 - AUGUST 2 -Coeducational --For Graduate and qualified Undergraduate students -Credit transferable Institutes, courses and special conferences on: AMERICAN LITERATURE AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ARCHAEOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY THEORETICAL PHYSICS For further information clip and mail to: Brandeis Summer School, Hayden B - 49, Waltham, Massachusetts DETROIT (AP) - The city of Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday an- nounced it would not be able to hold the Pan American Games in 1959 and the program was im- mediately switched to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Cleveland Mayor Ant'-'ny J. Celebreeze explained that his city could not be the site of the 1959 games without a five million dollar appropriation from Congress. This is a great disappointment to Ohio's state auditor, James A. Rhodes, who was the originator of the plan to get the games for Cleveland. In 1955 he approached Celebreeze with his plan and the Mayor gave Rhodes a letter of authorization to make a bid on the city's behalf. Bid Surprise When word was received that Cleveland had won the bid, much to the surprise of Celebreeze, a committee was set up to draw up plans for the huge undertaking. The first step the committee took was to authorize the donation of a half-million dollars worth of land for the site of the spectacular. With state and county aid they would raise seven million dollars of the twelve million dollars need- ed to stage the games. The rest of the five million dollars which was needed was to come from Congressional appro- priations. Ohio's former Senator G. Bender succeeded in getting the resolution authorizing the federal funds through the Senate Con- gresswoman Frances Bolton got the resolution through the House. Twenty or Else ... MONTREAL (M)-Twenty goals a season, a target a lot of National Hockey League players never real- ize, has been set by Maurice Rocket Richard of the Montreal Canadiens as the key to his retirement plans. The Rocket, at 35 the NHL's eldest performer, said after the Canadiens had won the Stanley Cup against Boston that he'll quit the year he doesn't score 20 goals. The spring I-M season is rap- idly moving into full swing, with a variety of events and tourna- ments lined up. Students representing all the foreign nations will once again compete in a soccer league. Among the returning teams, is last year's winner, International, composed The bill suffered a serious set- back when Bender lost in his bid for re-election to the Senate. The new Senator, Frank Lausche, dis- approved the use of federal funds for the games. The State Depart- ment whose budget the money was to come from backed Laus- che's stand. The final blow came in the now famous budget fight which is still in full swing on the floor of Con- gress. In an effort to cut the budget the House appropriations subcom- mittee vote down the bill to give Cleveland the five million dollars they needed to stage the games. They did this in spite of the fact that Presient Dwight D. Eisenhow- er had spoke up for the Pan Amer- ican games in one of his press con- ferences last month. 'M' Nine Early Pioneer In Foreign Excursions, *1 'I * Expert Tailoring and Repair *Shirt Collars Turned * Individual Attention Given to Dry Cleaning and Shirts in our Plant. &a4d /kx C lea)nfe1' 629 East University (near South University and East Quad I of students from all parts of the world. Also participating will be the strongly rated Turkey team, which seems to always come up with a first class club. Toward the end of the soccer season, a cricket league will re- sume its play from last spring. Among the teams in this league are the Indians, Pakistanis, and a group of men from the British Empire. Another International Center event will be a round robin bas- ketball league in which Turkey, Latvia, Hawaii and china will try to take top honors. Next week will mark the opening of this bi-an- nual event, during which Turkey plays Latvia, and Hawaii plays China in the opening round. Sports Building hours for the current spring season will be as follows: Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. and on Sat- urdays from 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (This is the first of two articles concerning a trip to Japan made by the Michigan baseball team in 1929.) By FRED KATZ Expeditions to foreign lands for the primary purpose of playing baseball has become a fairly com- mon occurrence during the past decade, with such clubs as the New York Yankees and Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers lead- ing the way. College teams, notably Ohio State, have also followed suit, dis- playing their talents overseas. It is a relatively obscure fact, hidden by the dust on the record books, that Michigan was one of the forerunners of this post-season activity,-fielding teams on Japan- ese soil in the summers of 1929 and 1932. , First Trip Best Ray Fisher, Michigan baseball coach in those years, as well as today, preferred to discuss his 1929 trip since he feels that that team was one of his very best. Indeed, the records bear him out for the Wolverines not only captured the Big Ten championship but also won 20 of their 23 games during the summer months. The plans for the trip were first originated when the University of Meiji, touring the United States during the spring of that year, came to Ann Arbor. Then, with the assistance of Michigan alum- ni living in Tokyo, an invitation was extended to the Maize and Blue. And what an invitation it was! All expenses paid, including round-trip passage on a Japanese luxury liner, and one month's stay in Tokyo's finest hotel, The Im- perial. The 14-man team left Ann Ar- bor on July 29, traveling by train to the West Coast, and playing home town squads along the way. The Wolverines took a rather in- direct route, stopping at such places as Aberdeen, South Dakota, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, and Bel- lingham, Washington, and Van- couver, B.C. They were beaten only by Everett. Catching their ship, the Shin- yo Maru, on August 14 at San Francisco, they made a stop six days later at Hawaii. The pur- pose of the stopover? To play baseball, of course. 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