THE MICHIGAN DAILY PLAY & , BY-PLAY ' -B AL NEWMAN-I TO THE FOLLOWING VERSE the sports editor reluctantly gives au- thorship. It is a lament on "The All-Too-Prevalent Custom Of Bring- ingtYoung Ladies To Athletic Con- tests And 'Then Forgetting To Cheer." The non-capitalized style" belongs to Don Marquis, while oc- casional phrases were lifted without mercy from Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel." Canto I breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said michigan will lose I'm feared, and then stood up and loudly cheered and muttered curses in his beard although full well he realized and understood and recognized that for the lads there was no hope in spite of optimistic dope question niark Canto II whose heart within him ne'er hath burned when michigan like worm hath turned and jolly well lambasted hades (pardon this expression ladies) out of a strong unwilling foe and left him battered. on the flo' (end of canto two which is a relative clause referring to the man mentioned in canto I) Canto III (conclusion) if such there be go ask him why and if his answer's not a lie (you'll doubtless be informed of it) that he behind a post doth sit or he hath fallen for a dame and brought her down to see the game the sucker i Wolverine Puck Team To Battle GophersTonight Maize And Blue Open Big Ten Hockey Season In St. Paul Hippodrome Minnesota Favored Michigan To Lineup With Same Sextet That Has Won Five Games These Notre Dame Cagers Won 22 Straight Spoden Not To Wrestle Against Michigan State Bad news descended upon the Michigan wrestling squad yesterday when it became evident that John Spoden will not be able to start in the heavyweight match this Satur- day night when the team meets Michigan State in a dual meet at East Lansing. The large grappler will not be able to startabecause of a bad case of boils that has laid him up for the past several days. Coach Clifford Keen stated that even in case Spo- den were able to leave the Health Service before the meet, the heavy- weight would not be in good enough condition for a match. Coach Keen also stated that he may start John Viergiver, tackle on the football team, who has been out for practices for a week. Viergiver saw action last year as a member of the freshman squad but has not come out for the wrestling team un- til lately. Coach Keen, however, believes that Viergiver will have remembered and recollected enough to enable him to put up a good fight against Reav- ley, the heavyweight that State is expected to start in the meet. Problem Of coach At Yale Clarifies; Indians Get Blaik Eastern football prognosticators saw the clouds around New Haven dispersing yesterday with the an- nouncement that Earl Blaik, unoffi- cial head coach of the 1933 Army team, would coach the Dartmouth Indians next season. This seemingly irrelevant state- ment is explained when it is pointed out that Blaik was one of the red-hot prospects for the Yale job if the powers that be decide to go outside of Yale grads for next year's mentor. It has become known that the pow- erful alumni group that demands an outside coach for the Elis next year named five prominent possibilities in their first list. Today two 'of these men have been eliminated by signing contracts to coach at other schools. The original five coaches were Blaik, Harry Kipke, Ossie Solem, Iowa coach, Bernie Bierman, Minne- sota, and Dana X. Bible, mentor at Nebraska. Of these five, Blaik and Solem have definitely eliminated themselves by signing contracts for the 1934 season. While Kipke has said repeatedly that he will stay at Michigan next year it has been pointed out that he will be at liberty to sign with Yale Primo Expects. To Take Next Boxing Match NEW YORK, Jan. 17 - () - One over-sized shipment of heavyweight champion -- Primo Carnera - w a s deposited upon New York's shores today as the fistic caldron sizzled and bubbled in expectation of an old- fashioned revival. "Ho ho," roared the Genoa Go- liath as he stomped down the gang- plank of an Italian liner. "I 'feex' the Tommy Loughran quick. I knock him out 10 rounds, sure." Thus did the grinning champion bare his walrus tusks and get to the very heart of the opening busi- ness of the day. He fights Lough- ran 15 rounds in Miami, Fla., Feb. 22. Tomorrow he leaves for Pomp- ton Lakes, N. J., to start training his 272 pounds of bulk down to a modest 258 or thereabouts. He ex- pects to leave for Florida Monday after a suitable training site has been chosen. The Wolverine hockey sextet will open the Big Ten ice season tonight at the St. Paul Hippodrome against the fast-skating Gophers of Minne- sota. Tomorrow night, the Maize and Blue will meet Coach Frank Bond's sextet in the second of the two-game series. Nine Varsity pucksters and Coach Eddie Lowrey left late yesterday af- ternoon, expecting to arrive in the Gopher stronghold in time to hold a light practice at the Hippodrome in order to become accustomed to the playing rink before the opening face-off tonight. The players who made the trip were: Captain George David, Johnny Sherf, Johnny Jewell, Avon Artz, Ted Chapman, Larry Da- vid, Walter Courtis, Hugh McEach- ern, and Tom Stewart. Gophers Are Favored Although ratedrthe underdogs in the two-game series, the Wolverines hope to emerge the winner in at least one of the contests. Last year, the Varsity was the only team able to defeat the Conference champions, winning one out of four games. Neither team can boast of a clean slate' as they enter the game tonight. The Wolverines lost to Michigan Tech last Friday night while the Gophers were beaten by Manitoba in one of their early games. Coach Lowrey will start the same Varsity lineup that has accounted for five victories in six starts this year with Capt. David at right wing, Sherf at left wing, Artz at center, Chapman at left defense, L. David at right defense, and Jewell in the net. Michigan spares are Stewart, Courtis, and McEachern. Coach Bond is expected to depend on his large array of skaters to de- feat the Maize and Blue. The Go- phers depend on a number of spares to enable them to throw in fresh' front lines and wear out the oppo- sition, allowing them to crash over a tired defense for victory. Coach Lowrey, however, is count- ing on Chapman and Larry David to put up a steady defense that will keep the Minnesota forwards from getting too many shots at Jewell. Larry David has an additional in- centive for a good showing tonight as he hails from Hibbing, Minn. Independent Cage Round Robin Starts Coach Cappon Is Disappointed In Wolverine Basketball Team -Associated Press Photo Charles Keogan, "little giant" coach of the Notre Dame basketball team which broke the school's all-time cord with 22 straight victories, is shown surrounded by three real giant. of his squad. Left to right they are: Guard Don Elser, Forward Ma. y Peters, and Center Ed Krause. All three of these men are all-around athletes, being letter- winners on the football squad as well as Varsity regulars among the cagers. To Keogan must be given much of the credit for the great record turned in by the Rambler basketeers in recent years. Wolverine Track Squad Trains. For A. A. U. Meet, January 3 By CHARLES A. BAIRD Coach Franklin Cappon is a sad, sad man. Life, it would seem, holds nothing for him. If you value your safety, don't mention basketball in his presence. It's a touchy subject. Ordinarily he is a man of even temper, but the situation is far from ordinary. Some of the cagers are almost afraid to turn up for practice after the disas- trous Wisconsin and Northwestern debacles. After waiting two days we thought we could risk talking to him, so we called him on the phone. "What," we asked him, "do you think of the team?" "Think," says he, "I don't think. I've lost all power to think." Gaining courage we said, "Have you made any changes in the line- up?" "Line-up?" came hopelessly over the wire, "We haven't any line- up." Silence. Tears were dropping. We still didn't have a story. "What did you do tonight?" "We scrimmaged," he said. "Who scrim- maged?" says we. "The Varsity scrim- maged the Varsity," says he . . After a minute he continued, "You might say the reserves scrimmaged the reserves ... we haven't got any Varsity." "What do you intend to do?" we asked desperately. "All I can do is hope," he said. We thought of that quotation which runs: "Hope, in reality, is the wvorst of all evils. It prolongs the tor- ments of man." We only thought it. We didn't say it. We hung up. Fountain Pens -Typewriters -EXPERT SERVICE- 302 SOUTH STATE STREET I Captain Roy Oen, small but mighty center, is the only regular of the 1933 University of Minnesota foot- ball team to be lost by graduation this spring. PRE-I NVENTORY 'SALE at $tatb &tl ?Ve Serae to Serve ;gdln" 309 SOUTH MAIN STREET THE DOWNTOWN STORE FOR MICHIGAN MEN -0- HOLEPROOF HOSE Wool or Silk $1.00 Values, Now. 2 for $1.50 75c Values, Now.. 3 for $1.75 80 SC *59C Teams in the independent basket- ball league, composed of 23 teams sub-divided into three 5-team leagues, and two 4-team leagues, began their first round games last night. Each division will play a round-robin series, the ultimate leaders meeting in elimination contests during March. The Frosh-Physical Eds, with an all-star lineup consisting of Malashe- vich, Paulson, Rudness, Viergiver, and Emling, won the championship encounter last year, defeating the Bluebirds in a thrilling, over-time battle. The Frosh-Phys.-Etts., now no longer freshmen, have entered a team this year which will be some- what weakened by the loss of Paulson and Rudness, who have graduated from the ranks of Intramurals to the Varsity. Other strong, habitual Intramural teams in the league are the Blue Raiders, possessing four skilled per- formers in Ward, Wolfe, Zahner, and Escowitz, the D.D.'s, boasting Gang, Fourman, Cohn, and Kunitz, and the Hops with four good men in Zander, Rothstein, Van Wagner, and Kotch- ka. With only a week more of unin- terrupted practice before the on- *aught of final exams Wolverine tracksters are working overtime to get into shape for the Michigan A. A. U. meet, Feb. 3. Coach Charlie Hoyt expressed himself as "satisfied" with the per- formance of his proteges in their first time-trials of the season last' Saturday, but hopes for much im- provement before the opening of the indoor track schedule. The tracksters will race against time and their teammates only once more before the A. A. U. meet. The second time-trails of the season areI scheduled for Saturday afternoon. With Willis Ward and a few other of last week's absentees present, a bet- ter show should result. Even the usually gloomy Coach Hoyt is more optimistic over Michi- gan's prospects on the cinders this year than he has been for some time. Although the times recorded in the recent trials were not extra- ordinary, they revealed that some of the sophomores have great potential- ities, and may fill the shoes of the team's graduated stars. Harvey Smith was outstanding in the half-mile and ran the race in mid-season form. Although he is a senior, this is his first year on Mich- igan's team. Sophomores who came to the fore were Neree Alix in the two-mile, Code-Ball Is Becoming Popular 'Mural Activity Code-ball, the new sport that has been making rapid progress down at the Intramural building and is sup- posed to be the future substitute for soccer, is being practiced regularly by a group of enthusiasts. The game has gained so much headway that Earl Riskey of the Intramural de- partment has decided to run three separate sets of tournaments begin- ning next semester. Dave Hunn in the pole vault, Bob Lamb in the hurdles and sprints, and Harvey Patton in the quarter- mile. Although complete, plans for the Michigan A. A. U. meet here, Feb. 3, have not been completed, advance in- dications are that many changes will be made over last year.. For one thing races will be run on the yard system, instead of the meter system as was formerly the case. Relay races will.receive more stress than ever before. 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