FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1041 ............. Hockey Team, ery'Much In Red Last Year, Has Hopes This Season I,.. By ART HILL You can't blame Eddie Lowrey for being just a little discouraged. Down in Champaign, Ill., on March 15, his Varsity hockey team fell before a great Illinois aggregation by a 4-1 score, thus completing the most dis- astrous season a Michigan puck squad has suffered through since Eddie first came to Ann Arbor, some 13 years ago. This wasn't the first bad year Lowrey's lads have had but it was the worst. To get down to cases, they played 17 games, winning two, tying one and dropping . . . well, figure it out for yourself. The Wolverines did manage to sal- vage one shred of glory from the 1940-41 season, however. The two victories which they sandwiched in were both over Michigan College of Mines and, since this is the only other school in Michigan supporting a Varsity hockey team, they gave the locals the state championship. Did Poorly In Conference In Big Ten competition, the Wol- verines fared very poorly, however. For the third consecutive year, they dropped four contests to the peren- nially strong Minnesota club, tally- ing only four goals in the series as compared with 21 for the Gophers. Against Illinois; the only other team in the Western Conference, the Michigan pucksters were similar- ly unsuccessful. During the 1930-40 season, Illinois had been an easy mark and had won only one encount- er from Michigan while dropping, three so no one was quite prepared for the fine team which the Illini iced last season. It was truly great, too. Display- ing passing and stick-handling abil- ity superior to anything seen in the Big Ten in the past few years, the boys from Champaign swept over the Wolverines with little trouble in two contests on Michigan ice. Wolverines Surprise The following week, the two teams, clashed again, this time in Illinois, and to everyone's surprise, the Maize and Blue clad lads proceeded to give the powerful Illini two real battles. Michigan didn't win, that would have been asking too much, but they did show enough to give Lowrey hope that next year may be his year. There is possibility that it may, too. While graduation losses will be severe, Eddie has a pretty fair crop of sophomores coming up and re- turning letter-men will all be im- proved by experience. Missing from next year's squada will be Capt. Charley Ross, hard-1 checking defenseman or speedy wing, as the situation required; Bert Stod- den, fiery little back-liner who dearly loved bodily contact of the rougher sort; Jimmy Lovett, fast and a great play-maker; Gil Samuelson, who made up in fight what he lacked in finesse; and Fred Heddle, depend- able center man. On the other side of the ledger, returning lettermen, may be listed such worthies as Captain-elect Paul Goldsmith, a hockey stylist of the first order; Bob Collins, the posses- sor of a blistering shot; and Bob Fife. Starting Front Line These three will probably make up the starting front line unless Lowrey can find someone among his sopho- mores who rates one of the wing positions. Fife was ineligible the first half of last season but showed enough during his short term with the squad to earn a letter and clinch a start- ing berth. Collins, a senior next year, improved tremendously during his junior campaign and may be the man needed to team With Goldsmith and provide a little of that much- needed scoring punch. One spot where Michigan will un- doubtedly be strong is in the goal. Here, they have a returning veteran in the person of Hank Loud who, in spite of his. many- defeats, was un- toubtedly the best net-minder in the Big Ten. Hank will be a junior next season and so will be around for two years, a factor which bodes ill for Wolverine opponents if the little goalie gets a good team in front of him. more year fooling around with Matt Mann's swimmers, being a member of a record-breaking relay team, but last year he gave up the water sport for hockey and Mann's loss was Low- rey'A gain. Johnny will definitely do. The Wolverine mentor's job now is to find someone to pair with him on defense. This problem may be solved by Ed Reichert, a lad who was with the squad all last year but never broke into the lineup. Ed is a good defen- sive player and may get the starting berth next fall. To See Service Another player who will see plenty of service is Max Bahrych, speedy sophomore from Syracuse, N.Y. Max played in every game last season and scored a respectable number of goals. If he doesn't make the start- ing front line, he will surely hold down a regular position on the sec- ond combination. Other returning veterans are Roy Bradley and John Corson, wings, and Hugh McVeigh, goalie. Two freshmen on whom Lowrey is counting for plenty of action are Johnny Braidford and Bill Dance. Both are speedy forwards who will give the Wolverine lineup a little of the hustle it lacked last season. If they can get by the Old Man of the Dean's Office, they will positively make the squad. Other promising yearlings are Jim Claypool, Warner Forsythe, Doug Hillman, Jim Hull and Keith Nicolls. When You Meet Her Dad f or the First Time: IqT CRSE I5 On have Gillis9 Gillis On Defense the back line, Michigan will one returning veteran. John is a junior who spent his sopho- Swimmers Face Next Season Minus Three Stellar Mermen (Continued from Page 1) stroke titles, will be another to re- ceive a diploma. As if that weren't enough havoc created in the backstroke ranks, Bill Beebe, captain last season, will also take leave of Ann Arbor via the grad- uation route. Then there's rJack Wolin, Michi- gan's dependable diver, and Blake Thaxter, distance man who could al- ways be counted on for points. These two form another pair of Michigan stalwarts who will depart from the tankers in the traditional cap and gown. But Mann has another source of depletion to contend with-the Unit- ed States Army. Three men are slat- ed to wear the khaki of Uncle Sam before the Wolverines take to the water. John Sharemet, number two breast- stroker on the Maize and Blue crew, Tommy Williams, " ace utility man, and T-Bone Martin, flashy diver, are the three who, in all probability, will Typical Michigan Track Squad Is Forecast For Next Season be shouldering muskets instead of treading water when Mann sends his team ino action. Yet there are some bright spots in the swimming future, for Mann has two ace sophomores to form the nucleus of his aggregation. Up from the sophomore ranks will be Jim Skinner, sensational breast- stroker. National Collegiate, Na- tional AAU, and Big Ten 200 yard breaststroke king, Skinner is the greatest in the nation in his event. Last year he came within 5-10 of a second of tying the world's record, and during the coming campaign he will probably shatter it. The other half of last season's great sophomore duo is Jack Patten. Forced to take'a back seat because of Welsh's brilliance, Patten still shone. Now, with a year's experience behind him, Jack should be ready to fill Welsh's suit. Other Point-Getters Although the Michigan team will be formed around these two men, Mann still has some other paddlers who will take many points for the Wolverines. In the backstroke he will have Dick Riedl, junior ace, and sophomore Ted Horlenko. Reidl will take over Heydt's number one spot while Horlenko will swim in the number two slot. And then Matt can call upon free- stylers Bruce Allen, Claire Morse, and Bob West. All of these men will be juniors, and their potentiali- ties are vast. Capt. Dobby Burton, the smallest man on the squad, will naturally see duty for the Maize and Blue. Burton isn't the best swimmer on the team, but his fight and spirit more than make up for it. Last, but not least, stands the "Great Gusto," Gus Sharemet. He was terrific as a sophomore, a terrific flop as a junior, and will be a ques- tion mark as a senior. Potentially one of the greatest swimmers of all time, it will be up to Gus to live up to the promise of his sophomore year. Frosh Squad Weak Mann can look for little aid from this year's yearling crop. Among the freshmen there are no red hot swim- mers, with two freestylers, Lewis Kivi and Dan Felski, being the best of the lot. The diving will be the weakest de- partment of all. With Wolin and Martin gone, Mann will be forced to turn to two freshmen about whom little is known, Lou Haughey and Al Canja. f YOUR KNEES MAY GO WEAK and your heart may pound - but no- I body will know it from the way you look on the outside. It takes moments like this to teach you how important the right kind of clothes can be. J (Continued from Page 1) The mile relay team last season was the winner of both the indoor and outdoor championships in the West- ern Conference while the two mile squad led the field home at the Mel- rose, Butler and Chicago Relays. Both teams lost only at California and then they ran second and forced their opponents to set world's records to come out on top. Nex season's sprint duties will be handled by Captain-elect Bud Piel, an outstanding Wolverine star, and Leonard Alkon, who has been labeled by Dettoit sports writers as one of the best prospects in the country. The quarter mile will be taken care of by Ufer, Thomas and Bill Dobson while Kautz, Mathews and Bill Ackerman, a converted two-miler, are scheduled for the half mile. Probably the most glaring weakness of the.Michigan squad will be its lack of good distance men. 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