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, f .fete TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1946 THE DAILY TAR PAGE THREE - f V ' 1 J f ir ' 1. it ! 4 ' TV, r ' i Tar:fc Dolphins Relay Mermen Display Speed To Take Third Twining Places Fourth in 220 By Herb Bodman Carolina's Blue Dolphins, swimming hard and with great spirit, managed to accumulate eleven points to tie for fifth place with Army in the National Intercollegiate swimming cham pionships held at Yale Univers ity's Payne Whitney Memorial pool at New Haven, Conn. The Dolphins, however, were not competing with a view for the team title, but rather were attempting to capture the 400 yard relay event, the 100 yard, 50 yard and 220 yard freestyle titles. Relay Results By far the best entry for Caro lina was the 400 yard relay team, composed of Mike Mor row, Jack Zimmerman, Dick Twining, and Ben Ward. In the qualification round employed to weed out the entries to seven or eight, the Dolphins' placed first with the excellent time of 3 :36.9 Dick Twining swam a fine 51.3 leg, Ward followed with a 54.0, Morrow was next with a 55.6 and Zimmerman chalked up 56.0 The next day in the finals; nowever, tne swimmers were tight and placed third, trailing Michigan State and Michigan with a time of 3:37.7. Had they been able to repeat their time for the previous day they would have won easily for Michigan State recorded a 3:37.4. Twining Fourth Dick Twining, swimming in the 220 yard freestyle event fini shed in fourth place. Hill of Ohio State placed first, McClay of Williams, second, and Henni- gan from Purdue, third. The winning time was 2 :11.3. In this event there were twenty four entries, and Twining placed the best any entrant from the South has ever gained for this distance in the N.C.A.A. championships.' On Saturday afternoon, Twin ing also swam in the finals of the 100 yard freestyle sprint, PICK THEATRE NOW PLAYING The spectacular love story of the Son of Robin Hood! milk lOUISE ESMQfiD BUCHANAN 1 maUM total tiWtt Mine Today x Tie For Fifth In Nationals Morrow and Ficklen Chosen To Captain Dolphins in 47 Mike Morrow of Wilmington and Warren Ficklen of Greenville have been elected to co-captain the University of North Carolina swimming team for 1947. ' . The election was made during f . the annual banquet for the team which was held at the Carolina Inn last week. Twenty-three members of the squad and Co Coaches Willis and Ralph Casey were present. . Morrow and Ficklen suc ceed Russell (Snooky) Proctor of Rocky Mount and Ben Ward of Goldsboro, who led this year's tying for third place with Hau lenbeek of Illinois and Weinberg of Michigan. The time for the three was 52.8. Halo Hirose, the Hawaiian flash swimming for Ohio State, took the event in 52.1 and Thayer of Army was second in 52.3. Ward Eliminated In the 50 yard freestyle Ben Ward was eliminated in the semi-final round by the same Hi rose that defeated Twining. Forty-one swimmers were en tered in this event. mirty two teams were en tered in the two-day meet, mak ing it the largest N.C. A. A. cham pionships ever held in the his tory of the classic. Yale Univers ity's swimming team of 24 men which had been undefeated dur ing the regular season failed to qualify in any event. Team Scores Ohio State won the team title with a total of 61 points, follow ed by Michigan with 37, Michi gan State with 18, Navy, 14, Wil liams, 14, and Carolina tied with Army at 11 points. Fifteen teams did not score. Participation in the National Intercollegiate championships completes the season of swim ming for the Blue Dolphins, and the team now turns its thoughts toward the 1947 season under the leadership of co-captains Mike Morrow and Warren Ficklen. It MUNDIALES PRODUCTION. Also Sportlight "SKI trfiofTNfcnfr r ram SCREEN SNAPSHOT TODAY ONLY C squad to .five dual meet victories, the Southern Conference, South eastern A.A.U., and Carolinas A.A.U. championships. They fin ished behind Navy but ahead of previously unbeaten Cornell in one triangular meet, and third behind the great Ohio State and Army teams in another triangu lar engagement. Twining Most Valuable Dick Twining of Charlotte, freestyle star, was voted the "most valuable member of the squad" by teammates, and was awarded a large trophy. Morrow and Ficklen are both sprint freestyle stars, the former holding the National Junior championship in the 1 00-meter freestyle event. - t Spring Football Practice Begins I Coach Carl Snavely greeted around 100 football candidates in the first spring practice drill yesterday afternoon and was well pleased with the large turn out. The squad went through a lengthy session of workouts the inital day and Coach Snavely stated that the daily drills will continue for five weeks, begin ning at 4 o'clock. ' Among the outstanding vet erans that reported for the first grid practice since the war in terrupted their playing were Highsmith, Tandy, Sparger and Lowe.- is possible tnat uick Twining will not be with the team this coming year, but tnere is also a chance that Bill Kelly, star of last year's Blue. Dolphin team, will return. 7 SEE! Ill floollng gardens of XchiMllc IH pHi (Ming for this Marie Uv ttoryl M-G-F.1 praseefc W-9 ft DOLORES DEL RIO MASTER' t I Ejg. ....... . .,. ...,,.,1 , Haigler Hurls No-Hit Game For Phi Gams Phi Kaps, DKE's Capture Contests A tall, right-hander named Ted Haigler stole the intramural softball spotlight yesterday as he pitched the first no-hit ball game of the season, pacing the Phi Gams to a 13-0 victory over KA No. 2. Haigler was never in trouble from the, start, coasting to victory behind the Fiji batting power which col lected four home runs. DKE won its second straight by downing Phi Delt No. 2, 15- 14, in a thrill-packed slugf est. Bill Kemp broke up the ball game in the last half of the final frame with a single to center that scored the winning run from third base. The powerful Phi Kaps kept in the win column with a hard-fought 8-4 win overSAENo.l. In other fraternity contests, Sigma Chi nipped Delta Psi 6-5; KA No. 1 nosed out ATO, 4-3; and Kappa Sig No. 1 rolled over the Betas, 17-5. Elsewhere, Phi Delt No. 1 outlasted PI Lambda Phi, 10-6; Zeta Psi rallied late to defeat Delta Sig, 24-12; and Chi Psi trounced Kappa Sig No. 2, 14-5. Sigma Nu won by forfeit from ZBT. - Over in the dormitory league, an undefeated Old East nine up set Steele,-10-3, while Lewis was edging out Whitehead, 7-6. Gra ham No. 1 topped Everett, 10-4, and Stacy toppled Aycock, 10-7. The high-flying Marines won by forfeit from ROTC 3rd. Monogram Club Meets Tonight in Clubhouse An important meeting of the Monogram Club will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in the clubhouse, president Jack Zimmerman announced. Plans will be discussed for the initiation of new mono gram winners and a party will be mapped out during the business portion of the meet ing.' Attention Chemistry Students! TheNUpha Chi Sigma chem ical fraternity cordially invites all chemistry majors to a "Game Carnival" tomorrow evening, April 3, at 8 p. m. in the Roland Parker Lounge of Graham Me morial. University Service Station Odis Pendergraft, Prop. BULL'S HEAD BOOKSHOP Ground Floor Library "THE GREAT PROMISE" by Noel Houston Browse Rent Buy Dance to the music of ROY COLE and HIS ORCHESTRA. Phone 6076. Locals Seek Coleman Gets StdiUng Nod Final Contest for Carolina Club Prior to Conference Opener Friday By Bill Woestendiek Carolina's busy baseball team will play the first of three games scheduled for this week today when the Tar Heels clash with Ohio University on Emerson field at 4 p. m., in what will be their last game prior to the conference opener against VPI here Friday. In an effort to pick up his firstf win of the season, Coach Bunn Hearn is planning to divide the pitching chores among three of his leading hurlers. Hamp Cole man, frosh star from Red Springs, is scheduled to open and will be followed by Monk White- heart and either Vinnie DiLoren- zo or John McElrath. Rollo Fra- zier and Jim Hayworth will share the catching duties. Ohio's starting pitcher figures to be one of three men. Charles Burdette, right-handed letter man, Russ Gregg, promising freshman, and southpaw John Jurkovic are the mainstays of the visitors' mound staff. New Shortstop Fred Ryan, freshman from Trenton, N. J., will be the only new face in the Tar Heel lineup. Ryan, who played for Trenton Catholic high school prior to his entry into service, will open at shortstop. The remainder oT the infield stays the same as in the Trpvions ton o-nmpf? with JnTvn dcnrcrf Thnmnsnn. and Bob Warren handling first, sec- ond and third. meet Cleetwood in left. Ott Evans in center, and Harry Bea- son in rignt win compose me starting lineup for the home team. However, Hearn figures xo cnange me men aruuuu again i .-i -li j today and -all, of .the infielders and outfielders probably will see some action. Ohio will take the field with either Gene Ruzzkowski or John j Biskun behind the bat, Bill Brooks at the initial sack, Ralph Sayres on second, Bill Turk at signing Brooklyn catcher Mick the hot corner, Charlie Horn at ey 0wen to a five.year contract, short and John Madden Charles Jugt ag jt Mt Traeger, and King Brady m the Browns hopes f & outer garden. berth q the American loop the To Play Burlington Mexican league also has put a Hearn said yesterday thaffhe damper on Brooklyn pennant boys have been coming along nicely, with experience contin uing to be their big need. Follow ing the game with VPI Friday, the Tar Heels will go to Burling ton to play the Burlington club of the Bi-State league on Satur day. Ohio is the second northern club to meet the Carolinians on a southern trip. Michigan State squeezed out two victories over Carolina last week, and the Tar Heels will be looking for their first win this afternoon. Infielders Bo Hackney, Jolmny Pecora, ano Johnny Cblones and outfielders Tom Clayton, Bill Webster, Al Chappell, Charlie Cole and Emmett Cheek are like ly to get into the game before the afternoon is over. And then there was the secre tary who called her boss "Ump because he always wanted her to play ball. RMC. - Sign in the library: Only low talk permitted here. First Victory; c f s ,V'w'''Va,i'. .. RolI Frazier, above, is ex- pected to see plenty of service behind the plate for Carolina today when they play Uhio University. Frazier is from Winston-Salem and was first string catcher on last years Tar Heel team. Mickey Owen Jumps Dod&erS to Perform w t Or UleXlCait L lUO New York, April l-(UP) Lightning has struck twice in as many days along the baseball trail. The Mexican baseball league has followed yeshterday's Lurchase of Vern Stephens by hopes in the National circuit. For weeks now, Manager Leo Durocher has been saying "just wait 'til Owen gets out of the navy then our catching staff will be set." Well, Mickey notified the Dodgers he was out of the navy today. And as a postscript Owen added that he had received a $12,500 bonus to sign with Ter reon of the Mexican league as player and manager. CLASSIFIED Advertisements must be paid for In advtnca and turned in at the Daily Tab Heel buaineaa office, Graham Memorial, by 3 o'clock the day preceding publication. Dial 64 1. Fifty eenU each inch and fraction. The Daily Tar Heb. will be responsible only for the first incorrect insertion and then only to the extent of a make-good insertion to be run only in ease of an error which lessens the value of the ad vertisement. LOST Brown leather billfold. Possibly in Carolina Theatre Friday night. REWARD. 'Fritz Luther, 203 Aycock. 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