AUGUST 15, 1935v
T H MICHIGAN DAILY,
PAGE FIFTEEN
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Michigan Offers One Of Finest Athletics
For AlW Programs
32 Sports Are
Offered; 7,500
In Competition
Activities Are Financed By
FootballRevenue; Sports
BuildingIs Center
By THOMAS E. GROEHN
This University is one of the few
large educational institutions in this
country which cannot be accused of
over-emphasizing intercollegiate ath-
letics at the expense of intramural
sports and which can undoubtedly
boast one of the finest "athletics for
all" programs in the United States.
According to Elmer D. Mitchell, di-
rector of Intramural athletics here,
more than 300,000 students use the fa-
cilities of the huge new Intramural
Sports Building, erected in 1928,
during the course of a school year,
and on an average of 1,000 to 15,000
use the building every day.
Mitchell said that 7,500 men stu-
dents in the. University enrolled in
some form of competitive intramural
sport during the last school. year,
which is approximately 70 per cent
of the student body, while 5,000 more
were registered in more informal
types of contests.
A total of 32 sports are offered:
the students and the entire intra-
mural program at Michigan is wholly,
supported, with the exception of the
instructor's scalaries, by proceeds col-
lected from intercollegiate football;
games. The salaries of teachers and
instructors in the department are
paid from the University budget.
The football season showed a net
profit of $145,070.72 last year, and
according to Mitchell, a good share
of this money goes for the mainten-
ance of indoor and outdoor intramu-
ral athletic programs.
The erection of Yost Field Housej
in 1924, dedicated to the real "Grand
Old Man" of Michigan Athletics,
Fielding H. Yost, gave great impetus1
to the intramural sports program
by removing all varsity practices and
games from Waterman gymnasium,I
which building was at that time the
focal point for all indoor intramuralt
athletics.
Center Of Intramural Sports Activities
Brooklyn Eagle Sports
Editor Taken Suddenly
BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 14. - (R)
- Frank E. Mairney, night sports ed-
itor of the Broklyn Eagle, died of aI
heart attack last night while on his
way to work. He was 55 years old.
Marney had been a newspaperman
for 30 years. He was at one time
night sports editor of the Evening
World and was on the sports copy
desk of the World when the two
World papers were merged with the-
Telegram in 1931.
Ward's Showing Feature
Of Natiouial Decathalon
"The most outstanding feature"
of the National A.A.U. Decathlon
championships was the showing of
Willis Ward, Michigan's colored
star, in the words of the A.A.U.
official publication.
Although finishing fourth. the
publication contir.ues. Ward estab-
lished an overwhelming lead at the
end of the first day's tests,;hut
dropped when he failed to com-
pcte in three of the latter events.
THE BLIMP LEADS HOOSIERS
Reed Kelso, captain of the 1935 In-
diana football team, carries the ele-
gant title of "Blimp." Weighing 225
pounds and standing an even 6 feet,
Kelso plays at center and is the out-
standing man on the Hoosier squad.
Last season ne alternated at guard
and center with Capt. Spauer. He
also is a capable place-kicker.
FINISHED THEM O.K.
Fred Marberry pitched in 55 games
for Waishington in 1925, but did not
pitch one complete game.
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of which are organized under the de-
partment and others which are of the
more informal nature.
The University of Michigan boasts
the finest 18-hole golf course of any
college or university in the country.
It is a testing layout, affording the
expert keen competition, yet at the
same time it is fair enough to allow
the average "dub" an opportunity for
a good score if said "dub" is fairly
hot. The course is situated south of
town, about a mile from the campus
proper, in an exceedingly hilly terri-
tory, and it is said that one of the
finest thrills to be offered on the
course is the view of the entire cam-
put among the huge oaks and maples
in the valley below from the sever-
teenth tee.
Besides the excellent golfing facili-
ties the University boasts 30 tennis
courts at Ferry Field for the men
students and 12 more at Palmer Field;
reserved for the use of women stu-
dents. Those at Ferry Field are prin-
cipally clay, although there are a few
cement courts, while those of Palmer
Field are one-half asphalt.
The facilities of South Ferry Field
provide opportunity for touch foot-
ball and soft ball in season.
Women on the campus have their
separate intramural program which,
although not as extensive as that of
the men, is nevertheless inclusive
enough to take care of the athlet-
ically-minded girl enrolled here.
They too have had a new building
erected for their personal sports
use. The Palmer Field House being
listed among the best of its kind in
the country. In it there are facilities
for tennis, archery, golf, bowling,
basketball and volleyball, while the
beautifully clipped grass of the Pal-
mer field is used in the fall for field
hockey.
Despite the vast number of projects
in athletics carried out by both the
women's and men's divisions of in-
tramural athletics, close attention
is paid by both departments to the
physical condition of stduents par-
ticipating in the more strenuous
sports.
The men are requirect, in all sports
requiring extended physical exer-
tion, to undergo a physical examina-
tion, and every competitor in cross-
country, boxing, wrestling, and long-
distance running are given a pre-
scribed course of training so that he
will be in proper condition before
entering these events.
A recent innovation in the depart-
ment's policy is to give individual
instruction in sports where there is
sufficient demand. The regular in-
tramural activity supervisors are as-
sisted in this phase of the program,
by the varsity coaches and student
teachers. Instructions are now given
in archery, codeball, badminton, box-
ing, fencing, golf, handball, squash,
and Sigma Delta Psi, swimming, ten-
nis, and wrestling.
Besides the directly supervised ac-
tivities mentioned before each season,
there are a great many sports and
impromptu games which are direct-
ly or indirectly stimulated by the
formally organized intramural pro-
gram. The better teams in the va-
rious sports usually hold many prac-
tices and unscheduled games in ad-
dition to their regular schedule of
contests.
The tournament, organized by the
Intramural Department include only
a portion of those playing tennis, bas-
ketball, playground ball, baseball,
handball, and horseshoes, as well as
those engaged in bowling, wrestling,
boxing, ice hockey anid swimming.
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An even greater boon to the "ath-
letics for all" program, was the erec-
tion of the huge Intramural Sports
Building.
Housing almost every conceivable
type of facility for the advancement
of intramural sports, the erection
of this building, of course greatly
facilitated the program in a number
of sports which heretofore had been
partially neglected on the sports pro-
gram because of inadequate facilities.
. Chief among the new additions
were: swimming, basketball, boxing,
wrestling, handball, squash, indoor
baseball, volley ball, indoor golf, water
polo, badminton, and tennis.
Another great improvement which
was brought about by the construction
of the new building was the enlarge-
ment of the dressing room facilities,
there now being locker-space for some
4,000 men in the undergraduate body,
graduates and faculty.
Besides the large number of in-
door athletic facilities of the Intra-
mural Department, there are a great
many outdoor sports available, some
It All Started 0. K.
But Then It Got Rough
SPINGFIELD, Mo., Aug._ 14. - O/P)
- It started out as a wrestling match
but from that point on the going was
rough.
Martino Angelo, Buffalo, N. Y.,
Greek, was awarded a fall when he
pinned Frankie Taylor local wrestler,
with a hammerlock.
Angelo refused to release Taylor
and the.referee awarded the latter a
fail.
The crowd surged toward the ring
and began burning Angelo with
lighted cigars and cigarettes.
Angelo took a swing at Byron
Baker, a youthful customer. The
police took Angelo to jail.
One-Game Letter Man
Francis Cantwell of De Pue, is a
football letterman at Illinois although
he played in only one game as a soph-
omore last year. That was the clos-
ing contest against Chicago in which
he played.end for the entire 60 min-
utes, fulfilling the requirement for a
letter.
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Haelett Quits
JobAs Big Ten
F ootball 'U mp'
DETROIT, Aug. 14. - (A') - Col. H.
B. Hackett, who has been refereeing
Western conference football games
for 31 years, will watch the game from
the stands this season.
"I looked at that letter of resigna-
tion a long time before I signed it,
but I figured I had better quit," Col.
Hackett said yesterday.
He is assistant administrator of
the PWA under Secretary of the In-
terior Ickes and was in Detroit on
government business.
Col. Hackett officiated in the Chi-
cago-Michigan game of 1905, which
broke a five-year winning streak for
Coach Fielding H. oYst's teams. He
called the safety which provided the
Marons with their 2 to 0 margin of
victory in that contest.
"Yost always said I was wrong,"
Col. Hackett said, "but Coach Stagg
said I was right, so I've always got a
50 per cent break out of the deal.
"That was some football game. I'll
never forget what Tom Hammond
(Michigan fullback) said to Walter
Eckersall (Chicago quarterback)
when Eckie lay down and pretended
to be hurt after Curtis touched him on
a punt. It was the field judge who
put Curtis out of the game, but I led
him off the field, so Michigan fans
always blame me, I suppose."
The colonel said he always felt
he was "on the spot" in Ann Arbor,
but added that it would seem "queer".
not to be on the field with the Wol-
verine team this year. He gave no
reason for his decision to give up of-
ficiating.
Drake University (Des Moines,
Iowa) definition of a blind date-It's
like a bee, either you get stung or
you get a honey.
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