I ACOE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 12S OR IGAN WRESTLERS MEET NO RTHWESTERN TO 1 7 OV E RIE MATME ET.ERMINEDTO l~lillproved Wl dcat WIkaiii Will Face Co. 1 tii ~salR eelis 31 i At Yost Field llHuse WARREN OPPOSES VARERO With victories over their first tour opponents, Ohio.university, West Vir- ginia, Michigan State, and Ohio State already tucked away, Coach Clifford Keen's Wolverine wrestlers will at- tempt to add a fifth to their unbroken 'string of wins when they face the Northwestern mat team at 7:30 to- night in Yost field house in their second Conference meet. Sciuler Returns To Purple The Wildcat team, after a poor start, losing to Purdue and Indiana, 25-6, in its first two Conference matches, has been slowly rounding into shape. Captain Rudy Schuler, star heavyweight, became inegligible after semester examinations, but the gain of Yarbro, Reicke, and Boddie to the Purple team has more than off- set hi's loss. Indiana had already been beaten by Ohio, 25 1-2 to 6 1-2, and the Wolver- ines' 17-6 victory over the Buckeyes a week ago in their first Big Ten match gives them a decided advantage on paper, but it is expected that the addition of Northwestern's star per- formers in the 125, 145 and 148 pound divisions will materially strengthen the Wildcat's chances of handing Michigan her first defeat. Lupton, Hewitt In 1"eature Blout The feature bout of the meet is ex- 'ected to be the 115 pound encounter in which Ralph Lupton of Northwe'st- ern, 1927 intercollegiate champion, will meet Hewitt, Michigan's star sophomore featherweight. Lupton has never been defeated in three years of college competition and has shown himself capable of his old time form by winning four of his five matches this year by falls. Hewitt, his opponent, is Michigan's high point man so far this year, hav- ing gained two falls, a time advantage, and a tie out of four bouts. Accord- ing to Coach Keen, Hewitt should1 give the Wildcat star a stiff tussle, and even stands a chance of breaking Lupton's long string of victories. Reicke, one of Northwestern's newly eligible veterans will oppose Thomas in the former's first appear- ance thi's year. In his two starts, against Ohio university and OhioI State, Thomas has gained a fall and a time advantage decision, but should be given a good fight by Reicke, who is reported one of the best wrestlers (Continued on Page Seven) LU TON, HEWITT CLASH TONIGHT n : "~w Lupton (above) Northwestern 115- pound intercollegiate title holder who will meet Hewitt (below) of Michigan in the feature bout of today's wrest- ling meet at the field house. AMERICAN BOBSLEIGIHERS TAKE FIRST AND SECOND (By Associated Press.) ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, Feb. 17. -The United States captured first and second places in the single bob- sleigh race of the winter Olympic games this morning. Jack Heaton of New York was first, J. R. Hleaton 'second and the Earl of Northesk, Great Britain, third. Jack Heaton's best time was 60 2-10 1 seconds, which was two seconds slow- er than the world's record held by the Earl of Northesk. France, Austria, Italy, and Switzer- land also competed. URBAN SHOCKER TEAM HCOACH EDWIN J. MATHER CHEERFULLY INDIA AR GB WILL QUITS BASEBALL'. AWAITING RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS «r TVE NTSiTd ress) T IBy lIerbert Vedder Though not feeling so well at FACEJI PIIRIIIIFTIU IGHT!, NEW YORK, Feb. 17 - Urban L Y So many questions have come to times, Mather manages to keep iath- Coach Dean's Teami Will Attempt To I (halt winningstreak Of Black And Gold GOPHERS MEET PURDUE Conference basketball fans will fo- cus attention on one, and only one, of the three Conference basketball games that are to be played tonight, namely that between Purdue and In- diana at Bloomington. In addition to this tilt, the classic of the 1928 title race, Northwestern will perform at Minneapolis, while the Badgers entertain the lowly Buckeye quin- tet. The Deanm'en cherish a twctbold ambition in tonight's contest, namely to avenge the 28-25 defeat sustained at the hands of the Boilermakers at Lafayette earlier in the seatson, and to achieve the accomplishment which no other Big Ten outfit has yet real- ized. indiana To Mi.s Beckner In spite of the fact that the In- niana team will face the invaders minus the services of Beckner, who played a prominent part in the for- mer ,t~ontest, the Lambert-coa,,hed aggregation is not taking tonight's game at all lightly. A point of added interest is that tonight's battle will see Branch Mc- Cracken, Hoosier center and leading point scorer of the Conference, pit- ted against one of his foremost ri- vals, Murphy, the elongated Boiler- maker pivot man. Coach Dean has been concentrating on a defense that will offset the shooting ability of Murphy, Harmeson, Wheeler, and Cummins. Itarmneson To Start Contrary to reports earlier in the week, Harmeson, sharp-shooting for- ward on the Purdue team, is expect- ed to start the game. Harmeson re- ceived a rather painful ankle injury in Purdue's last contest and it was feared that he might be out of the lineup for several weeks. Aside fronT the Purdue-Indiana battle, iWsconsin and Northwestern. are rated favorites over Ohio State and Minnesota respectively. The Bad- ger, with one eye fixed on the battle b etween the Hoosier rivals in hopes that Indiana will succeed in handing the Boilermakers their first reverse, will oppose the Buckeyes for the second time this season. Although the Olson-coached team (Continued on Page Seven) Shocker, veteran right handed pitch- er of the Yanlkees, apparently has ended his 12 yea'r career of major league baseball by voluntary retire- ment. But officials of the Yankees are not sure "whether "e ioans it of rot." 'I lie announcem'ent came in a tele- gran to business manager Ed. Bar- row s of the world's chainiois in which Shocker said he was retiring "ror the furtherance of my bUtsiness interests at home." Both the veteran pitcer '?ir' dl Yan- kee eflicials denied that i. was a holdorut or that there had beea any disagreement between 'then. in re- gard to the salary to be paid him this yar. Barrows said the telegram was the first he heard from Shocker since his contract was mailed. The pitcher hd said nothing about not being sat- 'sried with the terms offer.=d, Bar- rows added. Asked what the club intended to do about it, Barrows said that the next move was up to Shocker. BASKETBALL SQUAD MAKES HIGH SCHOLASTIC RECORD Official figures released recently reveal the fact that the members of the Varsity basketball roster earned a scholastic average for the semester just concluded approximating the mark which hitherto stood as a record for all squads; that established two; seasons ago by the track team. A total of 424 honor points as com- pared with the C standard of 294 points was made by the 20 athletes on the Varsity sduad. All in all, 21 hours of A, 104 hours of B, 153 hours of C, and oily 16 hours of D were compiled. Not a single failure was recorded against the court performers. JOIE RAY MAY ENGAGE IN INDOOR TRACK MEET (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-The return of Joie Ray to the indoor tracks he for- sook two years ago, may occur in the K. of C. games in New York, Feb. 29. Ray said today that time trials next week will determine whether he will send in his entry for the one mile race in which Dr. Otto Peltzer, Ger- man champion, and Lloyd Hahn, American champion, are matched, or decide upon the 'special two mile run. Ray had deeided to try his speed in the Illinois A.C. games here last week, but Coach Johnny Behr at that"timne said Joie was not quite ready. 1 i .. I _ .. jus in the past few weeks concerning Maitch Races Will Probably Determine the condition of Edwin J. "Skipper"j Composition Of Squad IWhich Mather, the Wolverine basketball Will Race This Week coach who has been confined to S't. MILE RELAY IS FEATURE Varsity track athletes, in accord- ance with the regular program for Saturday afternons, will compete to- day at the field house in a seriest of time trials which will have muchr bearing on the com-position of thef relay squads which will travel to1 Cleveland and Lansing on Friday. A series of match races has been arranged by Coach Stephen J. Far-I rell, features of which will be a spe- cial mile relay event, a duel between1 Lomont and Leonard in the 880 yard run, and the sprint for the '{field1 house "champoinship." The contest- ants in the invitational dash will in- clude Hester, Varsity captain and thet holder of various indoor and outdoori Conference championships; Tolan,t national scholastic sprint title-hold- er; and two other freshmen, Murry and Cook, posessors of enviable prep school trophies. Promptly at 3 o'clock a field of six will start the half mile grind. In this group will be Getz, Grunow, Kennedy, Jesson, Hunt, and Lawson, all aspirants for places on the two- mile quartet which will compete in the Michigan State carnival on Fri- (lay. Following this group, Lomont and Leonard will engage in a special 880 yard match against each other and time. Both appear to be in good condition and should approach the (Continued on Page Seven) Joseph's hospital, that I feel some sort of story should be forthcoming, even though there is very little that can be said. The Skipper has never recovered fully after his operation for tumor of the bladder last spring and was forced to go back to the hospital about six weeks ago. During that time there has been little change in his condition. As he said yesterday when we dropped in to see him for a few minutes, "some day they tell me this infection of my bladder's go- ing to clear up and all will be swell, but I don't know when. "One thing I do know, though," Mather added, "is that the first doc- tor who tells me that I can get out of here won't get a chance to change his mind." Of course there is no prospect of his being released from the hospital before the basket- ball season closes, two weeks from Muonday. As he sees it, he will be lucky to "escape" by April. er cheerful all in all, but the same thing (lay in and day out is quite a tax on a mnan of \lather's enretic nature. As he says: "10 o'clock 'tos- day is just' the same as 10 o'clock Wednesday or any other day." Another thing contributing to the Skipper's discomfiture is that "hlp- less feeling" of being completely out of the picture while that which will always be "his team" Is enjoying only indifferent success. "It's bad enough to sit on the bench and watch them get beat with- out hanging on the other end of a phone wire listening to someone else telling you about it," said Mather. During the Purdue game, whcn Michigan was so far' behind, "Skip- per Jim" found it just too much and told one of the nurses to do the lis- tening, that he couldn't. Coach Mather, with that feeling of knowing his men as only a coach can, still holds a spark of optimisnr and confidence. 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