The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-16
Regional Contest
to be Conducted
at Normal Field
Thirteen Additional
Regionals Planned
on Same Day

Over 500 high school athletes,
representing As institutions, will
compete here Saturday In the nf-
teenth annual Michigan Normal
regional high school track meet.
Thirteen other reglonals, nine in
the Lower Peninsula and four in
the Upper Peninsula, will be held
on the same day.
Here are the teams and indivi-
dual performers who are expected
to make the most brilliant show
ings In the Ypsilanti regional:
Birmingham is favored TO win
the Glass B title for the second
straight year. The Naples, who
won a divisional championship N
the Wayne Relays two weeks ago.
also rate as strong contenders for
state laurels.
FLINT Michigan School for the
Deaf, a Glass D entry, will be
represented by a 29-man squad,
largest OF any in the meet. The
Flint team, which placed second to
Bath in the state finals last year,
recently captured the Albion invi-
rational title.
.3-Little Forrest Naveaux, Mon
roe junior, is expected to break
his brothers state high school
pole vault record before he is
graduated. Naveaux vaulted sew
eral inches over IL feet indoors
last winter. He is also entered in
the 100 and 220-yard dashes.
Russ Reader. state low hur-
dies champion from Dearborn,
will make his first. major start
since injuring leg muscle early
in the season He equaled the
state record OF :229 in the 200
yard lows last year. He will also
compete in the high hurdles, shot
put and broad jump.
5-Harold Oehmke. OF East De-
troit. will probably have little
difficulty in winning the Glass B
shot put He is state champion in
the event Oehmke is coached by
Dean Rockwell, former Michigan
Normal weight star.
6-Dick Klett, OF the Michigan
School for the Deaf, will enter
the high jump, the half-mile and
quarter-mile. He tied for first in
the Glass d high jump in the
state meet last year and won the
SS0-yard run.
Besides Monroe and Dearborn
three other teams will vie for the
top rung in Glass A competition.
Wyandotte, defending champion
River Rouge and Plymouth round
out the entry list in the bracket,
Walt Nasarzewski, OF Wyandotte,
will probably provide most of the
opposition to Reader in the hur,
dies.
Glass B entries include Adrian
Albion, Belleville, Berkeley, Birm.
ingham, East Detroit. Ecorse,
Pennington, Howell, Melvindale,
BEDFORD Union. Roseville, Trenton,
Lincoln Van Dyke. Wayne and
Ipsilanu Central.
Lambei tville. winner last wear,
heads the Glass c entry. Other
teams in this division are Dundee,
Flat Rock, Keego Harbor, Michi-
gan Center. Milan. Milford, Nor
enci, Romulus, Saline, Tecumseh,
Ann Arbor University High, Van
dercook Lake. Williamson and
Ypsilanti Roosevelt.
Class d teams are Bloomfield
Hills, undefeated in regional COM
petition since 1898: Byron. Clay.
ton, Clinton, Fraser, Michigan
School for the Deaf, North Adams.
Waldron and Warren.
Coach Jack Starwas' Ypsilanti
High School team will consist of
II men. They are Max Peck, Fred
Wolter, Joe Britton. Warren Cakes,
Bill Seaton, Gerald Powers, Nah.
lon Ellis. Robert Goss, Nelson Boik,
Bob Gaudy and Bill Hughes.
Ypsilanti Roosevelt competitors,
selected by Coach Matt Lappinen,
include Lamar Miller, Everett
Chappell. Herbie Smith, Bill
Swihart, Dick Medium, Bob
Hops. Bob Northrup. Roger
Smith, Arlo Cox and Lawrence
Skinner.
Preliminaries In the meet will
start at 9 a. m. while finals will
get underway at p. m. Finals in
the pole vault and shot put will be
held in the morning.