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Gene from the
SIDELI NES
by Dick Cramer
Two Big Ten Linksters
Take Early NCAA Lead'
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THLETIC ACTIVITY at Michigan-the greatest sports school in
the Sig Ten-is naturally at a minimum around this time of year.
A limited intramural program is the extent of the organized
athletics offered to those who return or who first come to Michigan
during the summer session. Of course, there are plenty of available
facilities for tennis, golf, and swimming, but team sports action for
the spectator or the participator is generally reserved for the non-
summer months of the regular school year.
The purpose of this article, then, is merely to show the normal
place of athletics at Michigan. A brief review of the past school year
will be useful in serving this purpose.
In 1955-56 the Wolverines had a typical year, capturing four Big
Ten titles and a national championship in varsity sports.
During the winter the wrestling and indoor track teans copped
Conference crowns for the second straight year. The hockey squad
not only finished first in the Western Intercollegiate Hockey League,
but also became the sixth Michigan puck squad in nine years to win
the NCAA hockey tournament at Colorado Springs.
This past spring the outdoor track and tennis teams also re-
tained their Big Ten titles for the second year in a row.
With second places in Big Ten swimming, golf and gymnastics, a
third place in football and a fourth place in baseball, the Wolverines
finished in the Conference's first division in all but one of the sports
in which they competed. Only the ninth place in basketball was below
the standard of acceptable performance.
AillAround Excellence .. ,
THE RESULT of such all around excellence was the unofficial Big
Ten championship for the entire year. On the basis of 10 points for
a first place, nine for a. second and so on, Michigan scored 84 points to
u1 for runnerup Iowa.
It was stated before that the past season's performances were
typical for the Wolverines. Proof of this lies in the fact that in its first
50 years in the Big Ten, Michigan has won~the most team champion-
ships in 21 of those years. In seven other school terms, the Wolverines
has tied for the lead in this department.
Michigan stands fourth in the United States in the number of
national championships won. Its total of 16 NCAA crowns trails only
Yale's 25, Southern California's 24 and Oklahoma A&M's 22.
However, the Wolverines have shown greater versatility in spread-
ing their titles over five sports while the other three schools have
confined their championships to two or three sports. In fact, Michigan
i the only school to have copped crowns in as many as five different
sports.
Try for Aor ...
THI WEEK the Wolverines are trying to add to their number of
championships. They are competing in the NCAA tennis tourna-
ment at Kalamazoo and the golf tournament at Ohio State.
That's a great recdrd that Michigan has compiled. Yet, it isn't
confined to varsity athletics. Rifle, bowling and sailing teams have
also been active in gaining Big Ten and national titles.
And we shouldn't forget the I-M program. There are 35 intra-
mural sports at Michigan-six more than any other school in the
country can claim.
Ranging all the way from touch football to archery and weight
lifting, every one of these sports can be found on the regular school
year schedule of at least one of the seven divisions of I-M competition.
The social fraternities and the residence halls engage in 21
sports the faculty and independents, in 15; the professional frater-
nities, in 12; the international students, in 10. Fully 32 sports are
played in the final division, that of the open tournaments for indi-
vidual and team all-campus championships.
All in all, Michigan students have much reason for pride. Even
durlng the summer's relative inactivity, we can still look to the regular
school year to boast of the Wolverines' great tradition of leadership
In all phases of organized sports.
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For 'M'Shot
By MiedKow
COLUMBUS, o. (P-Two Big
Ten sharpshooters, senior Rudy
Boyd of Northwestern and junior
Bill Redding of Purdue, yesterday
paced the first half of the quali-
fiers for the 59th National Inter-
collegiate Golf Championship at
Ohio State's 7,120 yard par 72
course.
Today the field of 246 linksmen
from 65 schools will complete the
two-day qualifying competition.
Players with the best 64 scores
will then be able to continue into
the four-day match play from
which the NCAA champion will
emerge Saturday.
Boyd, a native of LaPorte, Ind,
scored a 34-38-72 early in the
day. Redding, also from Indiana-
Loganport-stormed through th
dusk several hours later to tie
Boyd as darkness left several golf-
ers stranded on the course.
Michigan's Fred Micklow was
the only Wolverine to remain in
close contention for qualifying
round medalist honors. The Hills-
dale, Mich. athlete tied with six
others at 74. only two strokes be-
hind the leaders. He carded iden-
tical 37's on the out-going and in-
coming nines.
Six men shot 73's in the tightly
bunched field which saw 95 col-
legians score 78 or better.
Boyd and Redding were the only'
ones able to match par over the
tree-dotted layout, thevlakes,
streams and heavy rough taking
a terrific toll of shots.
With about half the huge start-
ing field having scores in the 70's,
it was indicated that 36 hole totals
of 153 or 154 would be necessary,
to qualify for match play starting,
tomorrow.
Award Won
By Herrnsteiii
John Herrnstein, a star of Mich-
igan's freshman football squad
last year, has been awarded the
first John F. Maulbetsch scholar-
ship of $200 by the University.
Basis for awarding the scholar-
ship was announced as "need,
scholastic ability, togetherwith
capacity, promise, and desire for
leadership and scccess." It honors
the late Johnny Maulbetsch, aj
1914 football all-American at1
Michigan.1
The scholarship is made on the1
recommendation of a special "M"t
Club Committee, but is subject toI
the University Scholarship Com-N
mittee's regular aca'demic stand-
ards,
Herrnstein was co-winner of theE
Meyer W. Morton Award for show-1
ing the greatest improvement onI
the gridiron during this pastF
spring's football practice.a
Fullback Herrnstein's father and
his great uncle were regular half- -
backs when at Michigan.I^
Favorites
FRED MICKLOW
... Top 'M' Golfer
Cindermen
Run Eighth
At BerkeleyA
Five members of Michigan's Big
Ten champion track squad finish-
ed in the 'scoring ten days ago in
the NCAA Track and Field Cham-
pionships at Berkley, Calif.
With a team point total of
19 7/10, the Wolverines placed
eighth in the meet which was won
by UCLA with 55 7/10 points. This
marked an improvement over the
1955 Michigan squad which tied
for 11th.
Dave Owen was outstanding for
the Wolverines, bettering his Con-
ference title-winning shot put by
almost four feet as he finished
third at Berkeley with a- heave of
57'%".3
Geert Keilstrup added points for
the Wolverines by placing third in
the 3,000 meter steeplechase in
9:34.3. Captain Ron Wallingford
ran fifth in the 5,000 meter race
in 14:53.7.
Michigan's other points were
gathered by Eeles Landstrom and
Mark Booth in the pole vault and
high jump, respectively. Land-
strom tied for third in his special-
ty with a leap of 14'4", while
Booth repeated his 1955 tie for
fourth place by jumping 6'4".
WinNCAA
Net Matches
KALAMOZOO {P' - All seeded
players advanced without trouble
as 57 top collegiate tennis stars i
opened play yesterday in the NCAA
tournament at Kalamazoo Col-
lege's Stowe Stadium.
Brazil's Jose Aguero, defending
NCAA champion from Tulane and
the No. 1 seed, drew a first round
bye. Second seeded Alex Olmedo,
Southern California sophomore,
breezed past unranked Mike Field
of Indiana, 6-2, 6-2.
John Powless, 6-foot-4 entry
from Murray State (Ky.), provided
the day's top action when he ex-
tended John Lesch, former na-
tional and junior boys' champion
from UCLA, to three sets before
bowing, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5.
Third-seeded Mike Franks, an-
other member of UCLA's defend--
ing champion team, made a run-
away of his match with Ronnie
Sawyer of Houston, 6-0, 6-1. Pan-
cho Contreras of USC, seeded No.
4, won by default when his op-
ponent failed to appear and Mike
Green, UCLA, seeded No. 5, over-
powered Denny Telder of West-
ern Michigan, 6-1, 6-1.
No. 6 seed, Jon Douglas of Stan-
ford, drew a bye and teammate
Jack Frost, ranked No. 7, won be
default.
Bailey, Mantle
Lead Hitters
NEW YORK ()-Ed Bailey, Cin-
cinnati Redlegs catcher, is hot on
the trail of the National League
batting crown, latest figures dis-
close.
With a .347 average, Bailey had
a comfortable margin over third
baseman Ken Boyer of the Cards
who was hitting .338. Pittsburgh's
Dale Long had skidded to third at
.330.
Mickey Mantle continued his
batting superiority in the Ameri-
can League by swatting at a .376
clip with 27 home runs and 66 runs
batted in.
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Doctors Predict Quick Mend
For Patterson's Broken Hand
We Cater to Wheels ...
RENT and SELL.
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NEW YORK (IP)-The report of
four bone specialists on Floyd
Patterson's broken right hand
brightened hopes yesterday for a
possible heavyweight title fight
this fall between the 21-year-old
Brooklyn flash and light heavy-
weight champion Archie Moore.
The report, submitted Friday to
Julius Helfand, chairman of the
State Athletic Commission and re-
leased yesterday, said the fractured
hand could heal in about six weeks.
Another examination will be made
about Aug. 1.
Patterson broke the metacarpal
-the bone back of the knuckle of
his fourth finger-in outpointing
Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson inHANES 'T7ShIrtss 89c
their 12-round heavyweight tour-
nament elimination bout at Madi-
son Square Garden June 8.,
so q e ardn Jnpeo e toOpen Monday 'Til 8:30 P.M.
The winner was supposed toesM na 1 .
meet Moore at Yankee Stadium in
late September for almost univer-
sal recognition as successor to re-
tired Rocky Marciano.
The four specialists said the 122 East Washington 7
fracture should be healed in about
six weekss. They did not express
any opinion as to when they Sam J. Benjamin,,27 Lt-Owner
thought Patterson would be able
to fight,
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