THE MICHIGAN DAILY - -^--- PLAY& BY-PLAY j -By AL NEWMANI The Booing Section.,. .. FOR YEARS AND YEARS now the University of Michigan has had a good booing section at various ath- letic contests. Not the best booing section I have ever seen, but still a pretty fair booing section. Through all those years and years, people have been deploring its existence, trying to hush it up on the grounds that it was poor sportsmanship and a very lamentable manifestation of something or other. Now I am going to draw down a great deal of criticism by condon- ing the practice, but I think that it reflects a rather healthy University spirit. The man on the receiving end of the booing is the referee, a rather hard-boiled individual, who like the be-moustached villain of the old melodrama, usually realizes that if he isn't booed to the echo he isn't put- ting on a very good performance. I have never seen a referee who was all broken up because the crowd reg- istered disapproval of his decisions. Being human, the referee thinks he is right'and all the other people are wrong. And as far as the idea of a Big Ten referee's being at all biased is concerned, if you will sit down and think about it you will realize its absurdity. Most of the spectators realize that an official is perfectly impartial in intention, but regard him as mis- guided in judgment and register dis- approval. They don't hate the ref- eree as a person at all . . . in fact, they don't even regard the referee as a person, but rather as an automaton which sometimes makes mistakes. And they would boo a robot just as readily. Well, what is at the bottom of the booing section? Pure animal spirits. Students go to athletic con- tests to forget all about work and get rid of a bit of excess nervous energy. They get, rid of a few ounces of hatred by booing the referee. They could do the same thing by getting all worked up about the 1911 drink- ing fountain over on the campus and going over and booing it or by emit- ting a hiss of deadly hatred every time they passed it. Or they could take it out by arguing with the roommate. What do they do in the foreign universities and in those of this country where there are practically no organized athletics? Well, they gather into small factional groups and set themselves to hating the Government, or the Capitalists, or Mussolini, That's how they get rid of their hatred in such places, and this method occasionally gives rise to international unpleasantness and local rioting, That is why I say that a good booing section reflects a healthy uni- versity spirit. It shows that the stu- dents aren't taking it out on the roommate and Hitler and the R.O.T.C., and building up a lot of international hatred and internal strife in the University, So here's to the referee as a public benefactor. He makes life around the campus a good deal easier and much more pleasant. INCREASE SEATING CAPACITY With the Hawkeyes a pre-season favorite in Big Ten basketball for the first time in seven years, University of Iowa athletic officials have added a second deck to the fieldhouse seat- ing accommodations, making room for about 12,000 fans where the pre- vious capacity was 9,000. Wolverines Are To Meet Chicago Here Tomorrow Field House To Be Scene Of Big Ten Home Debut; Teams Evenly Matched Michigan's basketball team will play its first Big Ten home game of the season tomorrow night on the Yost Field House court. The Chicago Maroons will provide the opposition. Both teams have poor early season records, and neither will go into the fray a favorite. Although the Chicago team won only one of its four pre-Conference games, sentiment on the Midway is optimistic. The reason for this is that three brilliant sophomore stars, Haarlow, Pyle and Oppenheim, who have been ineligible, will be avail- able for use against the Wolverines. They were reinstated at the opening of the second term, Jan. 2. Maroon Lineup Undecided Coach Norgren of the Maroons is undecided as to who will constitute his starting lineup against Michigan. It is probable that he will start an all-sophomore quintet with Peterson, six foot four, at center, Haarlow and Pyle, both well over six teet, at the forwards, and Oppenheim and Lang at the guards. Lang displayed an uncanny eye for long shots in the Marquette game, when he rang up five baskets, all from far out on the floor. Has Unusual Record Haarlow, who is sure to start, amassed a great prep school cage record. During three years of high school competition he maintained an average of 23.5 points per game. In the last contest of his prep school career he rolled up the amazing total of 52 points. Coach Cappon of the Wolverines will probably start Plummer and Ford at forwards, Allen at center, and Tessmer and Capt. Petoskey at guards. Jablonski, Tomagno, Rudness and Oliver will undoubtedly see ac- tion. The game will be called at 7:30 a. m. Glen Harmeson, assistant football coach at Purdue ,has been signed for three years as head gridiron mentor at Lehigh University. - Baseball Candidates Called By Ray Fisher Coach Ray Fisher yesterday is- sued the first call for candidates for Michigan's 1934 baseball team. Battery-men will be given first at- tention by the Coach, and all can- didates for pitching and catching are asked to report at Yost Field House at 3:30 p.-m. tomorrow. Fisher has four veteran pitch- ers, Wistert, Patchin, Tillotson, and Menefee, to work with, as well as several good hurlers from last year's freshman squad. The loss of Mike biffley, captain and catcher last year, creates a serious situation over a catcher and Coach Fisher especially requests candi- dates for this department. Wrestlers Will Meet Widcats In First Match With the Northwestern meet a week off, Coach Cliff Keen is still undecided regarding the entire ag- gregate that will represent the Mich- igan wrestling squad next Saturday. Keen is certain that Joe Oakley in the 126, Spoden in the heavy- weight, and Captain Art Mosier in the 155 pound divisions will face the Purple invaders, but the remaining positions are still a bit indefinite. Don Fierro, 115 pound class, won a title in the recent 1l-campus wrestling meet, but Landrum, veter- an of last year, disputes his candi- dacy. As well, in the 135 pound di- vision, Friedman, all-campus title holder, Taylor and Caldwell are put- ting up a stiff three-cornered bat- tle. Hilton Ponto defeated Lewis Park- er in a cautious match in the all- campus struggle, but his margin of victory was so unconvincing that the 165 pound division remains as un- certain as the others. This class, however, is the most hotly contested of any. Lawton and Ross are also offering plenty of beef and compe- tition. Herrod is outstanding in the 145 pound class, having won an all-cam- pus championship, but here again competition is strong in the form of Lewis and Sweet. Hockey Team Meets Ontariio Outfit Tuesday Michigan's undefeated varsity hockey sextet will meet another un- beaten team from Kitchener (Ont.) on the Varsity Arena ice at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the first of two remain- ing home games for the Maize be- fore mid-years. Kitchener, Senior champions in the "A" league of the Ontario Hockey Association last year, is classed as the best outfit of college calibre in either Canada or the United States. Kitchener StrongE Last year the Kitchener puckmen registered a clean slate for the sea- son over all teams in the O.H.A. Their opposition came from Niagara Falls, Port Colburne, three Toronto teams, including the crack Univer- sity of Toronto sextet, and twelve more Ontario teams of the same character. Coach Eddie Lowrey is highly pleasedhover the selection of Kitch- ener for Tuesday's battle. Lowrey feels that he has a winning team this year and a win over the cham- pionship Kitchener team would strengthen his convictions as well as establish the fact for everyone else. Polish Attack The Wolverines have been working .since the holidays to polish off the attack that has beaten Dearborn, Amherstburg, and Colgate by rather close margins. Capt. George David has shown much improvement in speed and puck-handling over his pre-vacation form and is working well with Johnny Sherf in practice drills at the forward post. On the spare list Tommy Stewart' continues to display better form onI offense and promises to become a valuable asset to the Wolverine Con- ference championship hopes this year. Following the game here Tuesday night Michigan will meet Michigan Tech at Houghton and Minnesota at Minneapolis for two games with each team. The finale of the semester shows the Dearborn White Stars on the local rink. - -- -- Wistert Makes All-Michigaii All-American Team Possible Henry A. iErnie) Vick, 1921; Jack Blott:, 1923;Mayarv d Morrison, 1931, Charles Bernard, 1933. Quarterbacks: Bennie Friedman, 1926; Harry Newman, 1932. Halfbacks: Willie Heston, 1903, 1904; James Craig, 1913; John Maul- betsch, 1914; Harry Kipke,-1922. Fullbacks: Cedric C. Smith, 1917; Frank Steketee, 1918. The naming of Francis M.7 (Whitey) Wistert at tackle on theI majority of the All-American grid teams for the last season for the first time makes it possible to have a complete All-Michigan, All-Amer- ican squad. Although previous to the 1933 season 18 Michigan gridders had, received the mythical honors, butF one tackle, Otto Pommerening, All- American in 1928, had been named. The total list of the 20 Michigan All-Americans, including Wistert and Chuck Bernard, the past season's ad- ditions, which represents the finest . .G.A. Revises Method Of Play In U. S. Amateur NEW YORK, Jan. 6 - OP) - The United States Golf Association, at its annual meeting today, decided upon a drastic change in the con- duct of the national amateur cham- pionship effective this year, elimi- nating the qualifying rounds at the tournament and substituting a com- plete week of match play for a max- imum of 180 entries. Under the new arrangement, which follows in general the lines of the British amateur and will be tried in this year's championship at Brook- line, Mass., Sept. 10-15, six rounds of 18-hole matches will be played on the first four days, followed by the semi-finals and finals over the 36- hole route. The field will be selected chiefly through the sectional qualifying competition, already well established and scheduled this year in 22 sepa- rate districts on Aug. 21. The association detailed a num- ber of other national tournament arrangements and announced the selection of the Walker cup team for the international matches to be played against the British, May 11- 12, at St. Andrews. record of any school in the history of modern football, follows: Ends: Bennie Oosterbaan, 1925, 1926, 1927; Stan Wells, 1910. Tackles: Otto Pommerening, 1928; Francis Wistert, 1933. Guards: Albert Benbrook, 1909; E. J. Allmendinger, 1917; E. R. (Butch) Slaughter, 1924. Penn State's 1933 football squad isn't much heavier than a high school team. The average weight is 171 pounds and the .average height, 5 feet 10 inches. Centers: Adolph Schulz, 1907; TFRIENDlLY' we AND E w Vd F4$RTUNE $5 LINDENSCHMITT - APFEL & COMPANY 209 South Main - Since 1895 1 7 Continuing ... 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