SEPTE~MBER 15, 1959 FA DAL Tl SAN DAILY PAGESNE? ailing Club Provides Recreation SERVES STUDENTS, FACULTY: 34 Sports in I-M Program By PETER ANDERSON chance to relax and enjoy e good, healthful fun is what higan's sailing club offers to ents. he club not only offers ex- enced sailors a chance to sail also teaches the unexperienced .ce the fundamentals of the t. And the clubs activities are ed to suit every sailor, no ter what his experience. hie club owns a tract of land nearby Base Lake equipped . facilities for launching and ing boats. In addition to a , the site has a boathouse,; beach and sanitary facilities. The lake is located about 18 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. Eight Jet 14's, centerboard boats sloop rigged with about 100 square feet of sail, .have recently been purchased by the club. They are used both for sailing in meets with other schools and also for pleasure sailing. They are usually sailed by two people, a skipper and his crew of one. Holds Meeting The club usually holds a big or- ganizational. meeting every fall in which those interested are invited to come out and learn about the club. The meetings are held in the Union ballroom and the program includes the showing of slides taken at the meets. Refreshments are served after the meeting. Those novices interested in the club are quickly given a chance to sail. They usually serve as crew so that they can learn the funda- mentals of maneuvering the boats. In addition, a "shore school" is conducted every Thursday night after the regular business meet- ing. The school usually meets in the West Engineering building. Here students learn the funda- mentals and theory of sailing, as well as those things not learned from actual sailing experience. To become a skipper and ac- tually handle a boat several other skills are required. First, the pro- spective skipper must be able to swim and must know the proce- dure in case the boat should cap- size. Skippers must also know how to tie various knots used in sailing practice. Must Control Boat The most important thing for a skipper is for him to be able to control a boat and know the "rules of the road." Sailing, like driving a car has definite rules, and the violation of some rule while par- ticipating in a dual meet could result in the sailor's disqualifica- tion from the race. Once one has become a skipper sailing becomes less complicated and more enjoyable. Skippers in the club are privileged to take out boats at any time without super- vision. The club has an ingenious sys- tem for transporting its members to the lake. At the weekly meeting each man with a car signs his name on a board along with the time he is leaving. Then before he leaves he drives to the north door of the Michigan Union and picks; up anyone else who wants to go. The club pays the gas money of those providing the transporta- tion. During the fall and spring intra- club races are usually held on. Sunday mornings at the lake. In these meets novices and experi- enced hands alike can appreciate the enjoyment of a competitive race. The club also holds crew races in which novices skipper the boats themselves., Member of Sailing Group The club is a member of the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Asso- ciation, a group comprising about 20 schools, including seven Big Ten schools. The MCSA holds sail- ing championships every year and Michigan, one of the midwest sail- ing powers, has taken two firsts and two seconds in the last four years. The top two teams in the MCSA championships qualify for the na- tional championships, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Yacht Rac- ing Association of North America. In this meet the nation's best col- legiate sailors are brought to- gether. Last fall the Michigan team competed and took fourth place in a meet usually dominated by eastern schools. The Wolverines placed behind champion Harvard, Boston University and Princeton. Last fall the club competed in eight regattas and this year the club should be very active. Sept. 26-27 the squad will travel to Notre Dame for an invitational meet. Wayne State hosts a regatta which the locals will attend Oct. 3-4. After competing in meets at Notre Dame and Wisconsin the team will hold its own invitational regatta Oct. 24-25. Participation in invitational meets at Purdue and Indiana is also planned. Nov. 24-25 the team will compete in the eliminations for the Angston Memorial Regatta at Wayne State. The Angston classic will be held in Chicago Nov. 26-28. Highlighting the season will be a trip to Annapolis for the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing As.. sociation fall invitational regatta for the War Memorial Trophy. Through its active program the club is offering Michigan students an excellent chance to participate in sailing. The club provides students weary from exams and studies with a chance to get out and en- joy one of America's most popular outdoor sports. By DAVE LYON Associate Sports Editor Western Conference rules pro- hibit freshmen from intercollegiate competition, but first-year men at Michigan can usually find some spot in the extensive intramural sport program to suit their ath- letic ambitions. The Michigan I-M program, hailed as one of the most exten- sive among the nation's colleges, offers competition in 34 different team and individual sports to all the University's students. Nerve center for this year-round activity is the large Intramural Sports building on Hoover, just west of the Athletic Administra- tion building. Constructed in 1928, the I-M building provides facilities for all the indoor sports in the I-M program. Now in their 48th year, intra- mural athletics, under the guid- ance of director Earl Riskey and assistant Rodney Grambeau, have grown to the point where existing I-M facilities are now being uti- lized to capacity. Most of the competitive intra- mural action centers about eight divisions, or leagues. In each league teams compete against each other in a number of sports throughout the year, and points are awarded on the basis of how each team finishes in each sport. At the end of the year, these points are totaled, determining the all-year champion. Social Fraternities Biggest Group The largest division consists of the 42 social fraternities on cam- pus. After competing in a 23- sport program ranging from out- door track and touch football in the fall to horseshoes and tennis in the spring, Sigma Alpha Mu won its first all-year title in 31 years. The determined Sammies edged out Sigma Phi Epsilon by a handful of points, and thus broke Sig Ep's three-year domi- nation of the all-year award. Second largest division is com- posed of the University's 21 un- dergraduate men's residence halls. Its teams compete in the same 23 sports as the fraternities. Gom- berg of South Quad had little trouble rolling to its fifth all-year crown in six years. Two dozen professional frater- nities compete in one dozen sports through the school year. Nu Sig- ma Nu, medical fraternity which has won 12 all-year titles in 21 years, added its fifth straight with comparative ease last year. Independents Compete Apartment dwellers form the bulk of the personnel competing in the 14-sport Independent team competition. Gomberg Older Ele- ment was the 1959 champion. Students living on North Cam- pus organized a league in 1956. Last year they participated in a 11-sport program, and within a few years it will become more ex- tensive. I-M officials and the Interna- tional Center have cooperated in providing a 10-sport program for the campus' international, stu- dents. Teams are organized on the basis of countries. The eighth division, called "all- campus," consists mainly of tour- naments in individual sports, open to all students. Even the faculty can participate in I-M activity, in the form of an 18-sport program. Riskey says that no other collegiate I-M depart- ment in the country offers such a program to faculty members. Student-faculty competition in various sports over a two-week span highlights the winter period. Because of its superiority in vol- leyball, the faculty has beaten the students consistently since the competition was begun in 1952-53. A weekly feature is the Friday night co - recreational program. The I-M year is climaxed in the spring with the awarding of The Michigan Daily trophy to the out- standing intramural athlete of the year. Last spring Larry Laver- combe of Sigma Phi Epsilon was so honored for his degree of par- ticipation and his skill in the I-M sports. U ENGLISH 3-SPEED BI KES I --,m 1 --:2 $3 95 WOY SAILING-Sailing Club members enjoy these Jet 14's irchased only last year by the organization. Easily handled and ird to swamp, they are an ideal all-round craft. BEAVE'S BKE'&HOBB 605 Church Street NO 5-5607 r 1 1848 1959 THEY'RE OFF-Sails filled, boats start in a regatta held at Base Lake by the Sailing Club. The club sponsors many regattas each year in addition to travelling extensively to other meet. I. y Join The Daily Sports Staff Try FOLLETT'S First USED BOOKS at BARGAIN PRICES ---___ New Books If You Prefer T STATE STREET ot NORTH UNIVERSITY LOWEST PRICES Welcome to Wagner's I U "Buying your clothes from Wagner's" a MICHIGAN Tradition for 111 years. Esquire fashions for young men who are beyond the junior college fads - fashions of good taste around OFFICER'S SHOES U.S. Army-Navy Type I the world. 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