CH 15, 1934 TH E MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE PLAY & BY- PLAY I--By AL NEWMANT-gn The .gon. . .. SOME ADVICE to the next sports editor, who will be appointed some time in May. First, do not write a column if you want to lead a care- free existence such as sports editors are supposed to lead and don't. A daily column is the chief bane of a trying existence. A column will prob- ably bring your grey hairs in sorrow down to Sheol faster than anything I can think of. Now take for example this column, written on a decidedly off day. What is there to write about? I take a sheet of very blank copy paper, insert it into my machine, and optimistically head it. Then I sit down and wait. Nothing happens. I scratch my left ear with my left hand. Still nothing happens. I scratch my right ear with my right hand. No results. T HEN A TOUR of the Publications building is in order. I wander aimlessly about from office to office where people are working on definite jobs. They don't just have so much blank space staring at them out of a page dummy. They are normal and happy. Returning to the machine, I sit down with my right leg up on the table beside the typewriter. Then things do begin to happen. I make a momentous decision to begin the day's effort with the word "Some," having no idea of what is to follow. After ten more fruitless minutes looking at that accursed word leap- ing out of the white paper in insolent and; solitary grandeur, I get dis- gusted and play a few holes of waste- basket golf. This game consists essen- tially of pitching a gum rubber eraser into a previously designated waste- basket at some distance from the designated tee in as few shots as pos- sible. OF COURSE, if you want to be crude about it all right. Say that a game consisting of heaving an eraser into a wastebasket has no fine points, nothing to arouse the enthu- siasm. But the local devotees have de- veloped such things as bank-shots off the walls. Now this is just avoiding the main issue which is turning out a column of matter supposedly fit to read . maybe a trifle informative, but any- way amusing. And strangely enough, nothing ever happens in the way of work while I am playing wastebasket golf. Still I feel that I should get, back to the machine and try to get something out of it. So I return and there is that hellish' word "Some" staring me in the face. So with a deep sigh and an intense look of concentration, I open the por- tals of my mind and out comes some- thing like this. Ann Arbor Cagers Play In State Meet 'Ann Arbor High cagers will play Benton Harbor tonight at Kalama-c zoo in the first round of the finalst of the State High School Basketball tournament. ,.t Both teams are coached by formerx Michigan football stars, Ann Arbor High by LaVern 'Kip' Taylor and Benton Harbor by Bill Orwig. The winner of tonight's game will meet the winner of the Saginaw East-f ern-Lansing Eastern game at GrandI Rapids in the semi-final round. Finalr games are to be played in Grandt Rapids.t Fordson High May Be Scene Of State A.A.U. Large Group Of Yearling Wrestlers Expected To Participate In Meet Tentative plans indicate that the State A.A.U. wrestling meet will be held on Saturday at Fordson High School, but a definite decision on the matter will not be forthcoming until a later date, Coach Cliff Keen of the Michigan team stated last night. The original date had been set for this week-end but was postponed. Action by the coaches at Michigan, Michigan State and Fordson High School, the three schools chiefly in- terested, has led to the tentative agreement upon Saturday. Michigan will have a strong entry list, with Coach Otto Kelly of the freshman squad planning to enter 16 or 20 men and Coach Keen plan- ning to enter several of his Varsity reserves. All Michigan entries will be as unattached contestants. Kelly will enter at least two men in each weight division. At 118 lbs. he plans to enter Allen Rubin, broth- er of the Varsity wrestler and Ed Kellman. In the 126 lb. class Wal- ter Heavenrich, who made an im- pressive showing in an exhibition bout before the Michigan-Cornell College meet, will be entered. Frank Bissell. one of the outstand- ing members of the yearling squad. will wrestle at 155 lbs. In the heavy- weight division Harry 'Tiny' Wright and Cloyce 'Bud' Hanshue will en- ter. All are freshman football nu- meral winners. Another freshman gridder is Abe Levine, who will wrestle at 165 lbs. other freshmen who will enter in- clude Gardner at 135 lbs., Louis Mas- curuskus at 145 lbs., Otto Kersch- baum and Garver, both at 165 lbs. Ch si's Make id For Hockey Crown Toniht The inter-fraternity hockey title will be decided tomorrow night at 10 p.m. in the Varsity Arena when a sextet representing the Chi Psi Lodge opposes the winner of the Lambda Chi Alpha-Frieze and Cornice semi- final match. Chi Psi assured themselves of a po- sition in the finals when they shut out Theta Chi Tuesday night 5-0. The game produced some excellent hockey, and the Theta Chi's were held scoreless only because of the competent job of net minding turned in by Curt Matthews, Chi Psi goalie. Frieze and Cornice and Lambda Chi Alpha led their respective leagues throughout the entire season, but the latter team is considered rather stronger than the architects because of a recent victory over the powerful Rinkeydinks, 2-1. The Lambda Chi team, boasting such stars as Chuck Kocsis, Ralph Whisler, and Johnny Schaupner, are conceded the edge over the Chi Psi's as far as an offensive threat is con- cerned, but with Matthews in goal for the State Street lads, the title game] should prove to be pretty much of a toss-up. Coach Eddie Lowrey will referee the match and preparations are being made for a sizeable crowd. BAN FRIGID BASEBALL The Chicago White Sox, heading for their west coast training camp, planned a southern return trip to avoid cold exhibition games which trainers blamed last season for ge- ting players out of condition. Veterans And Rookies Limber Up For Another Pennant Chase -Associated Press Photo With the baseball season just around the corner, stars and rookies alike are working out the kinks at spring training camps. At left Hughie Critz, New York Giants infielder, spears a high one at Miami Beach, Fla. Below Charley Beery of the Athletics socks one at Fort Myers. Carl Ulrich is catching. Above three Chicago White Sox players are pedaling the air at. Pasadena, Calif. Left to right: Whitlow Wyatt, "Mule" Haas, and Milton Bocek. And at right old Dazzy Vance, now with the Cincinnati Reds, is shown ready to send a fast one across the plate. Petoskey And Paulson Belting' BallAlready Squad's Heaviest H i t t e r And Third Sacker Sock Pill Into Indoor Nets The baseball boys have only been batting for three days, but it seems as if Ted Petoskey and Clayt Paul- son have found their batting eyes al- ready. They are hitting the ball of- tener and harder than anyone else in the cages; in fact the pitchers don't exactly relish the idea of throw- ing to these two, for it's hard to dodge those whistling line drives i the cages. Petoskey will be playing his third year as the regular centerfielder. He is a ball hawk in the outfield, has a good arm, and he was the hardest hitter on the team last year, despite the fact that Artz led him by a few percentage points in the final tab- ulation. Last year, during the early part of the season, Paulson started out as the regular third baseman. He had shown great promise as a hitter on the freshman team the year previous, but his career was cut short when he stopped a hard line drive with his thumb, in an early practice game with Michigan State Normal. This year, Coach Fisher needs a catcher. He is trying to convert Paul- son, who has had high school and sandlot experience as a catcher, and it is probable that he will get first call at the receiving assignment, al- though Ted Chapman, reserve catcher last year, will push him for the job. The cast of 45 aspirants for Var- sity berths is still intact, but it is probable that Fisher will cut several of them by the end of next week. Every Winner A Record-Holder Is Possibility In Big Ten Meet By ART CARSTENS When the smoke of battle has cleared away from above the Iowa University pool late Saturday how many shattered Big Ten records will float upon theruffled surface of that body of water? - One prognosticator says a new rec- ord may be set in all eight events, another says that no records will fall. The latter bases his prediction on the fact that the meet will be held for the first time in a 50 yard pool, in- stead of the usual 25 yard affair. The 150 foot Hawkeye pool is one of the few of its length in the coun- try and, consequently, few swimmers are accustomed to swimming twice the usual distance before making a turn. Automatically A Record Holder The National Intercollegiate A.A. lists records for both 75 and 150 foot pools, and perhaps Big Ten records may be divided the same way this year. If so, every winner in Saturday's meet will automatically become a rec- ord holder. Most swimmers tend to gain time on the turns, it is believed, and the smaller number of turns in the longer pool tends to cut down time corre- spondingly. This is partially born out by the N.C.A.A. 150-foot records which are seconds slower than those recorded in the 75-yard pools. If the Michigan, Northwestern, and Illinois swimmers can accustom themselves to the new pool in two days of practice, any number of rec- ords may fall. If Captain Jim Cristy will "shoot the works" in the 440 a mark con- siderably under the 5:06.4 recorded by Kennedy, Michigan, three years ago will go into the books. With the meet almost a walkaway for Mich- igan James Crapo should feel no scruples about attempting to set a mark around 4:54 or 55, that will stand for years to come. In such an event the matter of breaking the 220 mark will have to be left to Robertson, Michigan, al- though Cristy is defending champion. Johnny Schmieler, last year's Mich- igan captain, set the existing mark of 2:17.4 two years ago. Tex knocked a tenth of a second off this time in practice yesterday. Hershberger's eight year old mark of :24.1 in the 50 will have to be broken by Highland, Northwestern, or Flachmann, Illinois, if at all. High- land has negotiated the distance in 23 and a fraction on several occa- sions this year. Flachmann Is Favored Wilcox's 53 seconds for the cen- tury is still regarded as pretty decent time around the Conference, but Flachmann may knock off a few fractions of a second if he is at his best. Don Horn, Northwestern, has been attempting to loosen Johnny Schmie- ler's hold on the 210-yard breast stroke crown for a year now, but the Michigan captain's record still stands. Will Horn crash through in 2:31.3 or less Saturday? Few people think so. After waiting two years for a chance at his own 150-yard back- stroke mark no one believes that Tay- lor Drysdale will let his opportunity on Saturday go unused. Taylor can make his 1:42.3 look like something out of the 19th century archives and may lower this time by three, per- haps four seconds. Michigan also has a well-balanced bunch of sprinters who may crash through with a new mark in the 400 yard relay. They have to better the mark of 3:44.2 the Wolverine team of 1931 set. I. ' 1 It famous VA ' ~ -T-USIN So Q IT "COUNTRY" MODEL WITH *ATTACHED VAN HEUSEN COLLAR Prices DOBBS LIG HT L IG H TE R -LIGHTEST "hat's the story of Dobbs progress infelting fine hatsfor men. And now Dobbs has made the lightest hat any man has ever worn -- the Hankacf Felt.' It weighs 2 ounces, finished. You'll have to think twice to know NEw REDUCED TO When sales go up .. . costs come down. And in this instance, gentlemen, the sav- ings are being passed on to you to the tune of 55c per shirt. 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