)AV, JANUARY 11, 1934 THE MICHIGAN IIATLY )AYiiJANUAR 11, 193411.- <1rL1. i.\ y/.1'faj, .a THE MTCIETAN ATT Rumor Says Michigan Will Get National Wrestling Athletic Board, Big Ten Heads Must Concuir Freshman Swimmers To Feature Open Swim Wildcats Get Ready Northwestern Meet Be Held Saturday For To1 Rumors that the National Collegi- ate wrestling will be held here this spring have not yet been confirmed by the University Board in Control of Athletics, but such confirmation is expected in the near future. Even if the Board did not accept an invitation, the matter would still have to go through the hands of the Big Ten directors and be accepted by them. At present, the Big Ten meet is scheduled for Ann Arbor but if Mich- igan accepts the National bid, the meet will probably go to some other Conference school. Indiana has voiced a desire for the meet and will undoubtedly get it if the National meet is decided for Michigan. Starting Lineup Doubtful Coach Clifford Keen yesterday put the wrestling squad on its final drive in conditioning for the opening meet of the season with Northwestern here Saturday night. The matches will take place at the Yost Field House and the admission charge will be 25 cents. Students will be admitted free of charge upon presentation of of coupon books. The problem of the men starting against the Wildcats took on a dif- ferent turn yesterday with Coach Keen's statement that he may start Hilton Ponto in the 175 pound di- vision. This move of Ponto from the 165 pound class may find Lewis Par- ker as the Wolverine representative at 165 pounds and settle for a time the doubt as to who will hold down that position for the remainder of the season. Fiero vs. Landrum The lively battle for the 118 pound job continued merrily yesterday when Jim Landrum and Don Fiero went through a hard fought, evenly con- tested match. Both men have been competing on practically even terms this season. Landrum is a veteran of last year's team and has won a letter. Fiero is a senior and has been on the squad for three years. Captain Art Mosier, John Spoden and Joe Oakley are three veterans who will undoubtedly see action in the meet.. Seymour Freedman, al- though he did not win a letter last year, appeared in several meets and appears to be the logical choice for the 135 pound representative. The 145 pounder for Michigan is still in doubt. The choice is between Harrod, Lewis, and Sweet. Harrod may get the call because of his win- ning the All-Campus title and excel- lent showing throughout the train- ing season. Week-End Trials To Establish Caliber "f Frosh Track S quad If the present freshman track squad lives up to its advance notices and continues the good form it has shown thus far in practice, Michigan will not lack track material for some time to come. There are a number of outstanding men on the squad whose names it would not be wise to men- tion at least until after the freshman trials are held this coming week-end. The pole vault, shot put, and the high jump will take place tomorrow, and the remainder of the events will occur on Saturday. The entries are as follows: 60-yard dash, Dennis, Graves, Rose, Stoller, Steinhausen, Williams, Uslan, 'W. White, H. White, and McKee. In the 660-yard run, Brelsford, Aikens, Davidson, Hall, Stiles, Ladd, Burlesen, Connolly, Born, Sullivan, Sharfstein, Stiegel, Morrison, and Dispenza. , There will be a longer run of six laps around the Field House track in which the following will take part: Pinkerton, Whitney, O'Connell, Mair, Brelsford, Lawton, . Wardell, and Good. There will be a 65-yard high and low hurdle event in which Osgood, Uhl, Boyle, and Jordan will partici- pate. McKee will also joint the low hurdlers. The weight men are Andros, Cal- louette, Friedman, Graper, Oberman, Osborne, Sears, Schumann, Middle- comb, Wopot, and Zaiser. Those in the high and broad jumps are Drucker, Frau, Graves, Hill, Kerri- gan, Mitchell, Moore, Upon, Zajanc, and Hogan. Yearlings May Upset Varsity In First Meet I Swimmers To Meet Frosh In 7 Events; Strength Lies In Relays Thirteen freshmen swimming and diving stars who are expected to com- prise the Wolverine Varsities of the future, are entered in the various events of the Open Handicap meet which will be held tomorrow night in the Intramural pool. Even without the benefit of the handicaps which will be imposed in the meet tomorrow night, there are several of the freshmen who could give the Varsity natators a stiff battle for individual honors, among them being Willard Crittenden Drew, Frank Barnard, George Allen and Bob Mowerson. All will compete in the meet except Mowerson, former Ann Arbor High star and one of the fastest of the yearling sprinters, who will be unable to compete. Enter Seven Events The freshmen are entered in seven events with Barnard and Edward Vander Velde each entered in three events, followed by Allen, Crittenden, Ben Grady, and Henry Vander Velde who will compete in two events. One of the outstanding teams en- tered in the 100-yard relay, according to Coach Mann, is the all-freshman outfit of Drew, Barnard, Matt Siel- ski, and Allen. Vander Velde and Crit- tenden, paired with Gage and Denni- son of the Varsity, will also compete in the relay and are given a good chance to come out in front of the field. Three yearlings, Allen, Grady, and Frank Person, are entered in the 75- yard medley with Allen conceded the best chance of the first year men. The 50-yard free style also lists three freshmen with Vander Velde, Bob Kennedy, and Barnard expected to give the Varsity sprinters close races. Strong in Breast Stroke The breast stroke will find Vander Velde and Crittenden attempting to uphold the honor of the yearlings against the Big Ten champions while Fred Cody is the sole first year entry in the 50-yard back stroke. With Dick Degener and Ned Diefendorf, Varsity divers, both unable to compete, Orady and Art Kuesel, the yearling entries, stand an excellent chance of winning first place in the handicap diving. Bob Ashe and =Barnard will repre- sent the yearlings in the 220-yard free style with the Vander Veldes teaming in the 25-yard double oar to complete the list of freshmen com- petitors. Minnesota Begins Indoor Grid Drills MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10. - ( - Bernie Bierman,.head football coach at Minnesota, already eyeing the 1934 Big Ten season, sniffed the winter air today and called the first winter practice for this week. However, Bernie won't put his charges through their paces in the open, but will hold his practice ses- sions in the field house. He plans intensive work with freshmen and last year's scrubs primarily. It is not compulsory for members of last year's varsity. Bierman, usually reticent, broke his customary silence before the start of last season and declared -"the 1934 Gophers are the ones to watch." And, while he has not retracted that statement, he has not amplified it either - and makes no prediction of a Big Ten championship for the Gophers next fall. I;t PLAY & - BY-PLAY_ By AL NEWMAN Yale And Kipke... . * * * MAYBE NOW SOME of my Eastern friends will believe me when I tell them that Michigan athletes are unpaid for their services on the athletic field. I have lately gotten heartily sick of their jeers and gleeful snorts when I tell them this fact, and sicker yet of the fast-fading halo that the Big Three have erected over their football heads. Apparently de- emphasis is just fine business when there is a depression on and football receipts are low anyway. But now that people have taken to snaffling onto pieces of change more readily and can actually spend such pieces of change on something besides coffee, cakes, and the odd pint of likker, these Eastern education- foundries are getting their football faces lifted and are getting prepared to cut themselves at least a small piece of the currency which everybody says is floating around. PRINCETON LED OFF BY HIRING some mid-westerners with ideas to coach the Tigers. These mid-westerners had the peculiar idea that the line was not just seven men who were to put on such a dumb performance that the backfield looked like world-beaters in contrast. Princeton has also been very very lucky in that many fine freshman players have come to old Nassau during the past two years. In fact, you never saw such luck in your life. Report tells me that practically the entire Princeton freshman team was comprised of captains of prep teams from far and near and that the boys as a unit were nothing to trifle with. New York sports writers call them "Princeton's Lucky Coin- cidences." And now the once-spiked rumor that Yale is angling for Coach Kipke is again raising its ugly head. In fact, it is supposed to come out into the open today, with the possible augmentation that they are also angling for practically the rest of our coaching staff, which is probably the best in the business. WELL, WE ARE JUST A JERK-WATER COLLEGE and we can't even pay our coaches much, let alone our athletes. We have a great athletic tradition and try to get along out here, but as far as over-emphasis is concerned -well, if the Big Three are atpresent engaged in de-emphasis, we are practically paying people to stay away from our football games. I wouldn't blame Coach Kipke and the rest for leaving and going into the big time. We can't pay them what they would get in the East because we are afraid of over-emphasizing football. Why a Dartmouth professor told me that Jack Cannell, Dartmouth coach, got ten thousand last year and you can take that rumor along with the rest for what it is worth. Just remember that Cornell beat Dartmouth, we swamped Cornell and Kipke gets considerably under ten thousand. The sum is incomprehensible. No, I wouldn't blame them for going at all, although we'd all hate to see it. Still, poor little Michigan would limp along somehow although for goodness' sake I'd bar a game with Yale. That would be courting disaster. Fate Of Michiran Grid Coaches Appears To L1e In Newspapers Merriman, Mass, Biegle, Nahrgang, Buhl, Form Well-Balanced Team Fencing does not have the finan- cial support of the University Board in Control of Athletics this year, but By CHARLES A. BAIRD "All I know is what I read by the papers," was Coach Harry Kipke's a la Rogers' statement to The Daily last night in connection with the widely ballyhooed rumor that he is being considered for the head coaching position at Yale. "I haven't been approached yet and my friends seem to know more about the situation than I do. It's true that I was given a raise in sal- ary here. But if I receive an offer from Yale, I'll give it much consid- eration before I make a decision." And in the meantime newspapers all over the country are playing the story to the skies. "Yale Undecided Between Harry Kipke and Tad Jones," "M Staff Raid Is Consid- ered," the headlines scream. And they all make the assumption that all Yale has to do is say "boo" and Michigan's coach will come a running. The New Haven Courier-Journal come to Yale, along with his chief aides, Jack Blott, Franklin Cappon and Wally Weber." All of which riles the Michigan student body and is news, incidentally to Mr. Kipke him- self. Coach Franklin Cappon, when ap- proached on the subject, said, I haven't received an offer, but I'm not interested in one. You can say that I stay here." All of which is very fine, indeed, and easily explained when one considers that he is- the likely successor to Fielding H. Yost, when the athletic director retires. Coach Weber said, "All I know is what I read in the papers." No offer has been made him. Coach Blott said, "All I know is what I read in the papers." No offer has been made him either. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan, just to be different, said, "You can say that I've been approached. No definite of- fer has been made me, however. I N 111111111I D ANCE $twub& " 2e Serve to Seve .Alagrwz" 309 SOUTH MAIN SwfmEE THE DOWNTOWN STORE FOR MICHIGAN MEN are offering a PRE-INVENTORY SALE on Clothing Now $19.50, $22.50, and $25.50 O'C OATS et 1 n\ cn r r AT THE MICHIGAN LEAGUE BILL MARSHALL and His Twelve-Piece AA A EN AVANT el.. ~@tw.r4 A A A A A A A 1111I If