PAGE TEN THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, AUGUST 1% 1944 _.._.........N D A1L1 SATURDAY. AUGUST 10. 1940 R Track Squad To Be Strong Next Season Thinclads Won First Place In Big Ten Competition Last Year Under Doherty (Continued from Page 7) frosh team are a host of good 880 men. Four yearlings ran better than two minutes indoors, and two, Ufer and Matthews, ran under the old frosh mark. John Purdue and Buck Dawson were the other two. The mile finds Ed Barrett and Jack Dobson back for more running. Stackhouse sends up, in addition to the above-mentioned quintet, John Purdue, Willis Glas, and Rene Hall. Some of these men will be shifted to the two-mile with Glas, Matthews, Purdue especially promising for the lin r rFl' vt - h, Bnnmmnrp'Rill Ar Wolverine 's 1939-4OAthletic Record Reveals Successful Year In Sports Swimmers Expected To Retain Championships __ .. . ... .e.. .... .w .o- s. . . '!/ wr V . 1r/ t.! r.../ r i, i ' . ..../ 7L, V/ (Continued from Page 7) from Germany that the Olympics probably would have to be cancelled in 1940. Nov. 18: Harmon clinched an All- American berth with a prodigious 64 yard gallop in the 19-17 victory over Penn. Nov. 26: Ohio State's Conference champions were humbled here as Fred Trosko breezed to pay dirt on a last minute2fake placekick to give Michigan a 21-14, triumph in the season's finale. r Dec. 2: The hockey team opened its schedule with a 3-1 loss to On- tario. Jan. 6: In their donference open- er, Michigan's cagers upset the strong Ohio five, 40-35. Jan. 11: The Wolverine hockey team gained its first Conference de- cision by taking Illinois into camp, angel eve . rt[. oopnomore t ACU Ae r- 3-1, man should come through with many Jan. 16: Yale went down before points for the Wolverines in the the Michigan swimming powerhouse, two-mile. 46-29, as the Eastern papers cried Good Frosh Hurdlers out the "luck of the Wolverines.". The best group of hurdlers the Jan. 20: Minnesota handed the frosh team has had will come up Lowery pucksters their second set- to reinforce Jeff Hall, Ray Gau- back in three days, and two more were still to come. thier, and Sherm Olmsted. Neil Mac- Feb. 16: Wolverine athletes spent Intyre and Bud Byerly tied the high the day in mourning as news came and low hurdle records indoors, and from Avery Brundage's office that after only one week outdoors, Maci the Finnish Olympics would probably Intyre set a new all-time Michigan have to be cancelled. yearling high-hurdle mark of :15 Feb. 17: Michigan's basketball seconds. Frank McCarthy is another forces broke their three-game Con- excellent prospect. In the lows, ference losing streak with a victory Norm Elson has equalled the indoor over Chicago in a game that was as record, and, with Byerly and Maci exciting as a lassie's marble tourney. Intyre, will help hold the fort in the Feb. 24: Wrestlers sunk the Navy event. forces here as track team trounced Strong In Weight Events Ohio, cagers lost to Illinois and puck- The weight events find Michigan sters took another Gopher whipping. well-fortified with both quality and March 4: Jim Rae led his squad quantity. The best prospect since to a 43-32 win over Minnesota in Bill Watson, sophomore George Os- season's final basketball game. The troot has shown well since becoming win palced Michigan sixth in the eligible. He should do even better Conference. next year, especially in the discus. March 9: Track and swimming Bob Hook, a 49-foot shot-putter, and teams capture Big Ten titles as wrest- Tommy Lawton, who can do 47 feet, lers wind up only one point behind are also returning. The freshmen championship Hoosier outfit. send up Rudy Sengel, Bill Steele, March 16: Briedenbach's amazing Gene Hirsch and Dave Eldridge to final lap in mile relay race gave support the veterans. Michigan the Butler relay team title. March 23: Ramblin' Ralph Schwarz- kopf left Maki planted to the Yost Field House cinders when he turned on the final lap steam to win the two-mile feature of the Michigan Relays. March 30. Gus Sharemet set the swimming world talking as he car- ried the Wolverines to their seventh straight Collegiate title. Don Nich- ols won the 175-pound National Col- legiate mat crown. April 19: Ray Fisher's ball hawks open their home season with a 5-2 victory over Wisconsin. April 28: Schwarzkopf, Don Can- ham, one and two mile relay teams take Drake relay titles. May 4: Michigan defeated Illinois in baseball, 816. Losers forced in 5 Michigan runs with 6 straight walks. May 5: Capt. Sam Durst turned in a tennis upset over Charles Shostrum to lead the Wolverines to a victory over Chicago. The thinclads opened up their season with a 73-44 victory over Illinois in a meet which set no new records. Coach Ray Fisher's charges were practically eliminated from the Conference race, when Jack Barry was knocked out of the box and Michigan ended on the short side of a 10-6 score. May 7: The linksmen defeated Northwestern, the defending Big Ten Champions on the University course, 161/2-1012 to register their fifth Con- ference victory. The net team swamped Toledo U., 9-0, at Ferry Field. May 8: The rejuvenated Wolver- ine baseballers suffered a 4-2 de- feat while Coach Weir's tennis team won its fourth victory in a row with a 9-0 win over Ypsilanti. May 10: Seymour Greenberg led Northwestern's powerful tennis in a whitewash of the Wolverine netmen, 9-0. May 11: Jack Barry stood back the Ohio State batsmen on their ears and led Michigan to 4-1 victory. May 12: The baseball team beat Ohio State, 5-2, while the trackmen and tennis team chalked up victories over Ohio State and Notre Dame respectively. May 14: Michigan's golfers won m -M v- w V n - w7 their eleventh consecutive victory with an impressive 23-13 win over Illinois. May 15: Playing their best home tennis of the year, Michigan netmen defeated Western State, 6-3. May 16: The Wolverines suffered their second defeat at the hands of Michigan Normal, 7-6. May 17: Coach Ray Courtright's golfers tied a stubborn Michigan State team, 9-9, to end their most successful season since 1933 with eleven victories and one tie. May 18: Michigan's baseball team went into a third place tie with Iowa by a 6-5 11 inning victory over Pur- due. At the same time the netmen defeated a strong Wayne U. squad. May 19: Michigan's track team four year win streak was shattered by Pittsburgh in a 67-64 defeat. Coach Fisher's baseballers kept in the running for the Big Ten cham- pionship with a 7-1 victory over Pur- due. May 21: The Wolverine netmen closed their dual meet season with 6-3 victory over Michigan State and broughttheir record to ten wins and six losses. May 22: Illinois beat out Michi- gan for the Big Ten golf champion- ship as Capt. Bob Palmer was edged out for the individual title by Ohio State's Bill Gilbert on the final hole. The baseball team coasted to an easy 11-5 victory over Western State Teachers' College. May 25: A gallant Michigan base- ball team ,saw its Conference title hopes sink into oblivion with a 2-1 defeat by Minnesota. May 26: Michigan won its fourth consecutive Big Ten outdoor track championship while the netmen fin- ished fourth. A favored Michigan nine lost to Minnesota, 5-4. May 28: Don Canham, Wolverine high jumping ace, was chosen track Captain for 1941. May 29: Sophomore Goodwin Clark, Jr., of Hinsdale, Ill., was selected to lead next year's golf squad. May 31: Bill Steppon and Jim Tobin were elected to captain the baseball and tennis teams respect- ively. (Continued from Page 7) who recently defended his outdoor AAU crown at Santa Barbara, Cal. Also in the running, however, for this spot is junior John Sheremet, Michigan's ace of the past season and a performer capable of keeping up with the best of them. Hutchens Is Gone And for the final freestyle lap, Matt has phenomenal Gus Sharemet to breeze along in his graceful, amaz- ing style. While a sophomore last year, the husky Detroit lad grabbed the century titles in the Western Conference and National Collegiate warfare. In the recent outdoor AAU meet, he finished third to Otto Jar- etz. the speedy Chie