WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9,1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Shakeup Patanelli Takes Center Post As Gee Is Benched Slump Of Tall Pivot Man In Conference Opener Brings Change Team Drills Hard Long Scrimmage Follows Failure To Hold Lead In Monday's Game But one thing about the Mich- igan-Ohio State basketball game s Monday night was reflected at yes- terday's court practice, and that was that the Wolverines appeared at a great disadvantage, and no one in the largest crowd of the year was not aware of that. Whether the team was in a slump after winning seven of eight games before the Conference opener or whether the team's showing was tof be expected few - would attempt to say, but Coach Franklin Cappon gavef definite indication that a shakeup was imminent. Shifted Gee Due In Cage Lineup After Disappointin g Defeat These Three Top List In 1934 Tennis Ran king Two Upsets Put Iowa At Top Of Big Ten Heap Purdue And Northwestern Lose As Hawkeyes Win From Chicago SATURDAY'S GAMES Chicago at Purdue Michigan at Minnesota Iowa at Northwestern Wisconsin at Indiana [' f i { i STAR DUST By ART CARS'TENS -- Y I WHEN THE shouting was all over Monday night after the anti- climactic overtime period in which Michigan lost its opening Big Ten basketball game the fans suddenly realised that Michigan had per- formed very poorly and the poorest of the lot had been John Gee. They failed to realise that the most highly handicapped player on the floor was that selfsame John ] -Associated Press Photo Cappon's first move was to shift John Gee, the elongated sophomore ceter who had led the Wolverines in the early games, to the second team, replacing him with Matt 1Iatanelli, who finished the Buckeye game at the pivot position. Despite Gee's brilliant play in the early games, his failure to display any degree of polish or of the spark which he had shown in leading his team to a victory over Michigan State led to his replacement. Cappon used Captain Plummer and Rudness at the guards on the first team in an extended scrimmage, with Dick Joslin and John Jablonski at the forwards. Most discouraging to the Wolverine coach was the offensive and defensive slump into which the team lapsed af- ter establishing a 10-point lead in the first eight minutes, without allowing the Buckeyes a goal from the field. Buckeyes Forge Ahead The Buckeyes shoved ahead in the second period to an eight-point lead before a barrage of Michigan shots tied the score at the end of regula- tion time. The erratic play which character- ized the Ohio State game was what Cappon had early marked as a chief fault of his squad, and indications are that the original program to elimin- ate the lapses in all departments will be followed. The original line-up of the first weeks will be changed, however, and experiments with personnel as well as in practice appears as certain. Birds Will Return Soon; Cochrane Is On HisWay South DETROIT, Jan. 8.-- (P) - When Mickey goes, can spring be far be- hind? Followers of the Detroit Tigers looked on with satisfaction today as Mickey Cochrane, manager of the 1934 American league champions, started southward with his family for Lakeland, Fla., where the Bengals will go into training for the regular season. Cochrane was to be accompanied by his family and by Neal Conway, the Tigers' groundkeeper. Conway will su- pervise the task of putting the spring playing grounds in condition. Three of the Detroit players are to get a jump on the rest of the team as far as training is concerned when Marvin Owen, Tommy Bridges and Alvin (General) Crowder go to Hot Springs, Ark., for a preliminary course. Cochrane believes that the training of Owen in Arkansas last year had a great deal to do with his efficient work and hopes that Bridges and Crowder will react in the same manner this, season. Clarence 4Red) Phillips, the young right hander, who was with. the Tig- ers for a brief time last year, was re- leased to Beaumont, Tex., on option Friday. Phillips came to Detroit with a fine record at Beaumont but showed in big league competition that he needs a bit more experience. Joe Louis To Meet Hans Birkie Friday DETROIT, Jan. 8- (P) --Hans Birkie, German heavyweight, and not Lee Ramage, the San Diego Irish- man whom he knocked out at Chica- go recently, will be the next oppon- ent of Joe Louis, Detroit clouter, hisj manager, John Roxborough, an-7 nounced yesterday. Louis is scheduled to take on Birk-; Gee, six feet eight inches of unco- The University of Iowa, to the sur- ordinated youth, whom his team- prise of almost everybody, found it- mates have dubbed "Leviticus." self on top of the Big Ten basketball Height makes basketball players, heap following two stunning upsets but when that height cannot be in Monday night's Conference bat-I controlled and used properly it be- tles. comes a positive handicap. Most boys Purdue and Northwestern, picked to are awkward in their early high battle it out for the title, were de- school days because they are grow- feated by Illinois and Wisconsin ing so fast that their coordination teams that, although strong, were not canot develop rapidly enough to believed able to halt such formidable keep up. Leviticus, it seems to us, opponents. grew so much more than ordinary Wisconsin showed astonishing de- boys that his coordination hasn't fensive strength in whipping North- caught up yet, and that isn't strange weste st6nt 9. Thildcats Nh when cne realises that he is only 19 western, 16 to 9. The Wildcats had years old. scored over 30 points in beating some of the strongest teams in the Middle Coach Ray Fisher, freshman cage West in its pre-Conference games. mentor, also points out that Gee Illinois' late rally and then a suc- might have been better prepared for cessful stalling game enabled it to college basketball had he concen- whip Purdue, 37-36, at Champaign. trated on that sport in high school instead of dabbling in everything The 39 to 29 Iowa victory over the sfromtennis to football. comparatively weak Chicago Mar- So while most of the Ohio State oons came as no surprise, but Iowa s wee m ns apdb the ir is expected to encounter just about ack f height Ldicu peas handi- its strongest opposition of the sea- capped by too much height and lack son Saturday against the smarting of coordination, and in that they Northwestern five. were even. a Indiana, winner of its only Big Ten But Gee has to overcome a more game, meets the powerful Wisconsin insidious handicap before he will be five Saturday irr a game which will of much value to Coach Franklin share the spotlight with the Iowa- Cappon. That is his own self-con- Northwestern battle, and judging sciousness. Most people who have from what the Badgers have done physical characteristics that dis- so far, will be fortunate to escape with tinguish them from the ordinaryI its slate clean. __-- - --- - - - - Tolan Recovers Slowly. Wilmer Allison wasn't needed by the United States Davis Cup team in its futile effort to wrest the Davis Cup from England this summer, but at the end of the ycar the United States Lawn Tennis Association ranked him as the No. 1 singles player of the country. Sidney Wood, conceded by most tennis experts to be poten- tially the best singles player in the United States, showed flashes of championship form at times, and at other times disappointed badly. Frank X. Shields, No. 1 man'last year, carried the brunt of the American campaign for the Davis Cup with Wood. Shields began a movie carer a few weeks ago. Jewell Says Goalie Is Just Depression Is Lucky Who Stops Short Shots Over For Big What chance has a goalie of stop- tricky forward may hesitate long T e n Athletics ping aashotsfrom close in? Very enough to shoot overa prostrate goal little, answers Johnny Jewell, co- tender into an empty net, or shoot captain of the hockey team and guar- earlier than is anticipated. It is all a Major Griffith, Conference dian of the Wolverine net for three matter of guess work for the goalie, Commissioner Reports years. It's one of the hardest shots and the shooter is the only one who run of mortals are self-conscious about those characteristics, and Gee is no exception. He realised Monday night that most of the 4,000 people in the stands were counting upon his enor- mous height to give Michigan the advantage over the shorter Buckeye players. Any 19-year old kid making his debut in Conference competition could be excused for tightening up under the circumstances. And after a few minutes of play he must have realised himself that he wasn't "hot" as he had been against Mich- igan State, and promptly lost any poise he had developed in seven pre- season games. It may be true that Gee is not yet ready for Conference competi- tion. He has greater handicaps than most to overcome, but he certainly can't be acused of not trying. Intramural Puck Season Will Open This Evening In the first intramural ice hockey game of the season, Lambda Chi Alpha, runner-up for the champion- shin last year, will meet the '38's at 10 p.m. tonight in the Coliseum. Four leagues have been organized by the Intramural department, two of five clubs and two of four clubs. Games will be played each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Snightuntil March 14, when the play- off s will begin. The final for the championship will be played as a part of the Intramural Open House pro- gram, as was done last year. Each team will be allowed a per- sonnel of 11 men, according to in- tramural officials. All games will begin at 10 p.m. Chi Psi is the defending champion. MILLER MAY SUCCEED HARLOW BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 8.-(P)- "Rip" Miller, former head football coach and current assistant at Navy, was mentioned most prominently to- day as successor to Dick Harlow at Western Maryland. Miller appeared to have the inside track as Western Maryland embarked upon a search for a new coach. EXPERT PRINTING .LETTERHEADS - ENVELOPES PROGRAMS - BIDS The ATHENS PRESS 206 N. Main - Downtown (Next to Postoffice) in the game to stop. The goalie is always at a disadvan- tage when the skater with the puck swoops in for a short shot, says Jew- ell, and can be considered lucky when he makes the save. About all the goalie, can do is watch the shooter's eyes. It's A Guess When the man with the puck looks to see the goalie's position in« the net and then looks down again at the puck, it is time to come out acid meet the shot. Even then, however, a Swimmers To ~Open Against Indiana Friday Little Opposition Expected From Invaders ; Mann Drills Team Hard With the first dual meet of the sea- son scheduled for Friday night against the University of Indiana. Coach Matt Mann yesterday set his Varsity swimmers earnestly at work for the first time since practice began early in November. While the Hoosiers are not ex-f pected to furnish much opposition1 for the Big Ten and National Col- legiate champions, they will give the1 Wolverines a much needed workoutI against strange competition and1 Coach Mann promises- the fans somet eery good times. Renner Heads Sprinters I Co-Captain Bob Renner leads an imposing array of sprinters and free- style relay men into action for the first time since the spring of last year. Three lettermen, Ogden Dal- rymple, Bob Lawrence, and Dick Blake1 will support Renner in the dashes, together with sophomore Bob Mower-1 son and Chuck Drew, a reserve lastY ,year. In the 220 and 440-yard free-l style events Coach Mann finds him- self blessed with two stars in TexC Robertson and Frank Barnard. Rob- ertson made the All-American inter- collegiate team in both events, and~ Barnard, a sophomore, is a former high school "star of national note. Both boys are out to swim againstI the watch Friday night. Lawrence, originally a free-style man, swam the breast-stroke for theI first time last year when Coach Mann was hard pressed for exponents of thet frog method of swimming and per- formed with remarkable success. Sup- porting him Friday in the 220-yard event will be Bill Crittenden and Fredr Vandervelde, both sophomores. Drysdale Is Ineligible Due to the ineligibility during the first semester of Co-Captain Taylor. Drysdale, sophomore Fred Cody willI take over the main burden of the 150-yard race, and will be assisted by1 Mowerson and Bill Boice, a letter-f knows what he is going to do. Attendance Gains Naming the best shot he has ever had to face was simple. Johnny Sherf (By Associated Press) tops all the sharpshooters the veteran !So far as Big Ten football is con-' goal minder has come up against Jewell, of course, has opposed Sherf cerned, the depression is over, says only in practice, but the ace left Major John L. Griffith, Western Con- winger is considered to be ;the trick- ference athletics commissioner. iest of them all. Possessing a hard And that news, he says, should shot. Sherf wastes no time in get- make for a happy New Year in foot- ting the puck away, is accurate and ball capitals of the Middle West. Tricky, and skates in on the goalie; "I don't have all the figures yet," with a weaving sort of motion. I dnthv h iue e, I says Major Griffith, "but I asked the Enerson Reid, forward two years i directors when they were here for ago for Michigan, comes second and, their meetings recently and from somewhat facetiously, Jewell names their estimates, although the statis- all the McMaster forwards third. Reid tics on some of the games have not was a member of that estimable Wol- yet been compiled, we estimated that verine line: Reid, Crossman, and the crowds and gates would be about Sherf. The McMaster forwards get 15 per cent better than in 1933, which the call for their uncanny knack of in turn was nine per cent bver 1932." picking the corners at difficult angles. The pickup in business, Major They got four goals against a dis- gusted Jewell in the last pre-vacation Griffith says, was felt outside the game. Big Ten in the Middle West. He cites am sLc.rNebraska, in the heart of the drought :ixm~sLac Shapshotes stricken area, which drew capacity Jewellmcould think of no outstand- crowds for the Pittsburgh and Iowa ing sharpshooters in the Big Ten. games. Minnesota, Conference champions, have no star shots, but depend upon Iowa Set Record scrambling around the goal and ma- "Similarly," he says, "Iowa had neuvering the goalie out of the net. the largest crowd in the history of There is, however, one good shooter the state when more than 53,000 whom Jewell can stop on a close in watched the Iowa-Minnesota game. shot. and he is Gib James, stellar Michigan and Minnesota played to freshman forward, who collected two a capacity crowd of 63,000 at Minne- goals against Wayne University last apolis and one of the most interest- Saturday, but got no more when Jewell ing features of the season, revealing moved into the net. "I've got him public interest in the sport, was the jinxed," said Jewell laughing. "I don't fact that during a terrific downpour believe e hihas scored a goal against morenthan 3,000 seats were sold be- nite yet this season." tween 12 o'clock and game time at _ _the Illinois-Army game.' More Reports Fly Aside from the boxoffice records, Major Griffith believes the 1934-sea- Regarding Coaches soe was noteworthy in several other . ~respects -- particularly in the num- ber of fine players developed. BRUNSWICK, Me., Jan. 8. - ('P) - "I don't remember a time," he says, A report that Eddie Casey, former "when we had so many big squads Harvard coach, would succeed Charlie with so many big, fine athletes on Bowser as Bowdoin College athletic there. Teams averaging 190 to 200 mentor today brought a statement pounds were the usual thing." here that there was "'no vacancy'' in (Atidtedh as a h Bowdoin's athletic department. Mal- A thir etresdoh g sasnwaseth colm Morrell, athletic director, de- development of a strong offensive in clared that "no coach has been inter- the Big Ten and he lays this to the viewed or considered by an official at addition of five "offensive" coaches the college." in the Big Ten. e gNewcomers Add Zip ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8. -U(AP) - Paul "They include Francis Schmidt of Moss, former. All-American end at Ohio State, who, over a period of 20 Purdue, has applied for the head years, has maintained an average of coaching position at Kirksville (Mo.) 26 points per game," says the commis- State Teachers College to succeed sioner; "'Bo' McMillin of Indiana, Don Faurot, newly appointed coach at another colorful offensive coach; Missouri University, it was learned Clark Shaughnessy of Chicago, who today. is another great offensive coach; Ber- Moss was assistant coach at the nie Bierman of Minnesota who had Maplewood High School and played the outstanding eleven of the year, with the St. Louis Gunners of the and Ossie Solem of Iowa, who is National League last season. ranked among the 10 greatest coaches in the game." Tilden And Lott To At the same time Major Griffith pays tribute to Bob Zuppke, Harry Renew Net Rivalry Kipke and Noble Kizer, veteran Big Ten mentors. "You don't hear any squawking NEW YORK, Jan. 8.--(/P)- Pro- from any of these men wanting to fessional tennis opens its 1935 season change the rules to give them an of- FGFT TP Riegel, (c) Illinois ... .8 6 22 Cottom, (f) Purdue . ...7 5 19 Rosenthal, (f) Iowa . .6 6 18 Froschauer (f) Illinois .6 3 .15 Laybourne (f) O. State 6 3 15 Blackmer (c) Iowa . . . .5 5 15 Grim (g) Iowa ........5 3 13 Wilson (f) Ohio State .6 0 12 Bobby (g) Iowa ......5 1 11 Shaver, (g) Purdue .. . .2 7 111 ~rom Leg Injury SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 8.- (P) - Eddie Tolan, winner of the 100 and 200-meter sprints in the 1922 Olym- pics, is slowly recovering from a muscle strain received Dec. 25 in a race at Melbourne. If the injury responds to treatment in time, the speedy United States Negro plans an attack on the world's record of 9.4 seconds for 100 yards on Jan. 22. In the Spring he hopes to meet Robertson and MacFarlane, Aus- tralia's professional sprint champions. 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