WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE - 0 Better Times Coming for Swimmers, hinc lads * * s Natators Count on Younger Contingent for 1952 Spark Depth in Distances, Weak Spots in Field in Prospect By GEORGE FLINT After the bumper years of 1933- 48, Coach Matt Mann's swimmers have been in the midst of a re- building process which may reach its culmination during the 1952 season. The Michigan tankmen, who won four and lost three in regu- larly-scheduled dual meets in 19- 51, were not the Wolverines of old last season. But the emergence of sophomore stars and good pros- pects among the eligible freshmen this winter indicates that Mann may be on the way back toward the top of the ladder. LOSSES WERE not great from last season's team. Dave Neisch, the captain, and Bob Byberg, both sprinters, and divers Jim Hart- man and Frank Heller were the chief pointmakers to graduate. But the nucleus of the team returns. The co-captains, Stew Elliott and John Davies, were Big Ten champions in the 100 and 200-yard breast stroke, and both were consistent pointwin- ners throughout the season. In the distances, veterans Wally Jeffries and Luis Childs will have support from the high school won- der, Burwell (Bumpy) Jones, who swims just about every event on the program and does very well in each. Jones may be used in the 440 and backstroke, while Jeffries concentrates on the 220 and sprints and Childs swims the 440 and 1500. * * * ALSO RETURNING is Dick Martin, who is counted on for re- lay duty and points in the 50- yard free style. And the veteran Bernie Kahn will be back to dis- play his backstroke proclivities. The season will be a rough one, however. As usual, Ohio State holds the balance of pow- er in the Big Ten, with Yale the top team nationally on the basis of last year's performance. The Buckeyes were one of the three teams to trip Michigan in dual meet competition. They did so soundly, 55-29, as the all- around strength of Mike Peppe's men in the backstroke, relays and diving was too much for the Mannmen. * * * MICHIGAN STATE, active in conference competition for the first time last season, also troun- ced the Wolverines by an identical 55-29 count. The Spartans were led by Bert McLachlan, an excel- lent sophomore distanceman, and Clark Scholes, NCAA champion in the sprints. Iowa also defeated the Maize and Blue in dual meet compe- tition, but their victory was of a much closer variety. It hinged upon a Michigan disqualifica- tion in the medley relay, giving the Hawkeyes a 48-43 win in the meet. Michigan defeated Purdue, Min- nesota, Bowling Green, and La- Salle in the 1951 season. Though no single victory was particularly impressive, the natators showed marked improvement by season's end. PARTICULARLY encouraging were the efforts of Elliott and Da- vies, the breasthstroke tandem. Davies lowered his time in the 200-yard event to 2:18.4 in tak- ing the conference title in the event, and also placed second in the century. Elliott won that event in 60.1, having turned in aone-minute flat effort earlier in the season. The 1952 possibilities are good, but once again the Buckeyes and Spartans are loaded. Ohio State has the great Jack Taylor back in the backstroke and distances, in addition to a great diving aggre- gation which includes Al Coffey, Bob Clotworthy, Joe Marino, and sophomore Fletcher Gilders. Michigan State will have Mc- Lachlan again, plus Dave Norman, Glen Omans, Jim Quigley, and other luminaries. IN NATIONAL competition, no relief is in site for the deluge of power which Yale's Bulldogs have been loosing upon the swimming world these past two years. Aside from John Marshall, world's record-holder in practi- cally every distance event ex- cept the 1500-meters, Bob Kip- huth has a motley crew includ- ing Ray Blum, Bill Farnsworth, Jimmy McLane, and Ray Moore. So the future is a perilous one for the Wolverine swimmers. But the possibility that such freshmen as Don Hill and Bob Brenner along with Jones will develop gives the Michigan men a brighter out- look for 1952. For Matt Mann, the year is a particularly eventful one. After having led several of his swim- mers in an exhibition t o u r through the British Isles the past summer. DON CANHAM .. .the future in mind * * * By HERB NEIL Michigan trackmen look for- ward to a promising track and cross country year after finishing a rather disappointing fourth in the Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships in May. Led by Don McEwen, captain of the 1951-52 team, the Wolverine track squad boasts strength in all the running events for the com- ing season. Coach Don Canham finds that his weak spot will again be in the field events, where the Maize and Blue was able to garner only seven points in the 1951 Big Ten outdoor meet. * * * MICHIGAN TRACK teams have dominated the cinder paths of the Big Ten down through the years, having won 15 Conference indoor titles since indoor competition be- gan in 1911, and 20 outdoor titles in 51 years of competition. The Wolverines won seven consecutive indoor crowns from 1934 through 1940. Both the indoor and outdoor championships are tops for Big Ten schools, although Michigan has not annexed an indoor crown since 1945 or an out-door title since 1944. C o a c h Canham begins his fourth year at the helm of Wol- verine track teams. His indoor squads have fared better thandhis outdoor teams, in Conference meets, finishing second - for the past two years and seventh in 1949, while the outdoor squads were sixth in both 1949 and 1950 and fourth this year. CANHAM, assistant track men- tor from 1946-48, was Michigan's greatest high jumper in his col- lege days, being captain of the 1941 team. He was Big Ten high jump champion four times and national champion in 1940. The Michigan coach holds both the indoor and outdoor varsity high jump records, a mark of 6' 634" indoors and 6'7/" outdoors. Michigan's assistant t r a c k coach, Elmer Swanson, has his share of college athletic honors also. Swanson won both the Con- ference high and low hurdles in 1944 and served as a utility in- fielder on the baseball team, which also won a Big Ten cham- pionship, in the same year. ** * took over the reins, won six let- ters while a Michigan athlete, three coming in track and the other three coming in baseball. For the past two years Wol- verine track teams have gained nation-wide recognition largely through the running of Mc- Ewen, Michigan's distance star. The Michigan captain, who hails from Ottawa, Ontario, holds the United States record of 19:34.1 for a four-mile cross- country course and the Big Ten outdoor mile and two-mile in- dividual crowns, as well as the indoor two-mile title. McEwen set his cross country record last fall in the Conference Cross-CountryChampionships in Chicago, defending the title he had won in 1949. In winning he shattered by 10.4 seconds the Big Ten record he had set the year before. T H E MICHIGAN Harriers, competing as a full team for the first time in 20 years finished fourth in the team championship, as Wisconsin won the title with Michigan State second. The Wol- verines had not entered a full team in 1949 when McEwen won his first Big Ten Cross-Country title. The Maize and Blue's only dual competition in cross country last fall resulted in a 19-36 victory over Illinois. 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