THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937
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Michigan Track Squad Picked
To Regain Big Ten Track Title
Indiana Distance
Main Threat To
Runner
Varsity
A Personal Letter . .
Irvin Lisagor'
Daily Sports Editor,
Ani Arbor, Mich.'
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When they advised me of your appointment as sports editor of The
Daily, I was wont to whoop jubilantly and proclaim to the world the
consummation of. a noble aim. But all I could muster in the way of
comment was, "Why, the lucky punk." I know that I don't have to indulge
in homilies to impress upon you the responsibilities which your new job
entails. With a sincere regard for your success I hope you don't muff it.
Ever since an impressionable sister mistook verbosity for precocity
in the puerile stuff you wrote for a high school weekly, you've wanted
to pop off in print. You even thought you might as well preserve
such genius for posterity-if the prce was right. I distinctly remember
how you borrowed time from packing boxes in a luggage factory to
sneak into the Loop and storm the citadels of Chicago editors.
You decided to give the Herald-Examiner first call on your talents,
and approached its city ed with a subdued, "Sir, I wonder . . . " Without
looking up, he emitted a gruff, "I don't want any," that almost scared you
out of your wits and definitely cured you of the personal approach. It took
several weeks for you to recover from the stupidity of a mn who could
dismiss genius (didn't your sister say so?) with such sang froid.
** * *
THEN YOU RESORTED to carefully fashioned letters, which brought
such highly-prized replies as the one from the late author-editor
Henry Justin Smith: "I liked your letter, but times are tough . . . '
A more fruitful reply came from the City News Bureau, inviting you to be
interviewed, and in a high state of optimism, you coerced your sister into
phoning your boss and telling him Doc had ordered a few days of rest.
Next day, en route to the momentous interview, you ran smack into said
boss on Madison street, and confusion ran rife.
The City News editor told you he'd give you several trial assign-
ments, which, if handled satisfactory, would entitle you to an appli-
cation blank and place you on a waiting list behind 35 others.
Nothing daunted, you agreed and swept across the street to your
first assignment, a conclave of deaf mutes. Being unable to interpret
their signs you returned empty-handed, and then received your second
assigment: "Go down to the South State Street Police Court and
see if you can pick up any newsworthy items there."
Next day you walked into Judge Harold O'Connell's Jury Court, told
the bailiff you were a City Press tryout, and were promptly ushered into
the presence of Hizzoner himself. The genial jurist treated you like a
visiting Rotarian and invited you to pull up a chair next to the bench
and have a listen. Feeling a divine afflatus you sat there beside the
judge, watching the parade of human travail and hoping that Sally Rand
would be hauled'in for indecent exposure so that you might have a printable
yarn.
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WHEN A GOLD COAST RESIDENT was haled before the judge for
drunken driving, and had a 10-day sentence in the Bridewell slapped
on him, you thought that constituted news. After securing details from the
clerk you started off with your "yarn of the age," but a burly lieutenant
detained you and asked that you follow him into an antechamber, where
you experienced journalistic intimidation for the first time. The flatfoot
and an oily-skinned gent, "of the State's Attorney's offices," advised you
to forget that story, as the defendant was a friend of theirs. "We can do
a lot of good for fellows starting out." That served merely to whet your
determination, and back to the office you dashed with the story. , The
editor read it and proffered the application blank.
But your splash in the metropolitan pool of journalism is just so much
water under the bridge now. You must now turn your attention to sports
editing and column-writing. And may the cliches be conspicuous by their
absence.
WHAT'S GOING TO BE your policy as Daily Sports Editor? In case you
haven't formulated one as yet, permit me a few words of advice.
Whatever else you do, don't forgo one of life's rarer pleasures, that of sec-
ond guessing. Being neither psychic nor omniscient, you can't divine whether
No. 22 would be a better play than No. 28, but if it appears so to your credible
eyes, don't hesitate in saying so. And if No. 28 seemed apt, regardless of its
success or failure, by all means defend the quarteroack who chose it.
Never be intentionally offensive, as someone will u'ndoubtedly
resent your most casual remarks anyhow. You .can be provocative
without being antagonistic. When "situations" arise, offer your
oservations for no more than the price of a Daily. They will often
be worth much less.
If Harry Kipke's football team shows the same disinclination toward
victory as it did last Fall, don't rush willy nilly into raking the coaching
staff over the coals of columnar indignation without knowing the facts.
Five years from now it won't make a particle of difference to anyone except
fatuous alumni and Stadium bondholders.
The I-M department, despite Andy's good intentions, deserves more
space. Men not participating in Varsity sports like to see their names and
activities in print. It stimulates interest in your page.
Before I go, let me again impress upon you the good fortune that has
come your way. You will work with six junior colleagues who are extremely'
capable. You have their support. You also have a mark to shoot at, a mark
set by George Andros, the man who pulled for you from the day you penned
a column called "Joe Unsung" for him. Maybe you should have saved it.
At any rate, you're on your own.
Your severest critic,
Victory Hopes I
By ROY HEATH
Today marks the opening of what
promises to be one of the top track
and field circuses of the year from
the point of performances, jeopar-
dized records, and able performers
who will do their stuff.
So, with post time for the qualify-
ing heats of the Big Ten track meet
at Ferry Field only a few hours off
we wind up our survey of the squads
involved with a look at the two teams
in the role of Champ and Challenger.
INDIANA-"Uneasy lies the head
that wears the crown" and the Gal-
loping Hoosiers are no exception. Al-
ready the jeweled derby denoting Big
Ten track supremacy has been hand-
ed an 81 to 50 nudge by the Wol-
verines who let the same chapeau slip
last year. Today, unless the dope,
sheets are cockeyed, the same Wol-
verines are going to start the pro-
cess of removing it entirely and ap-
propriating it for their own use.
After you say Lash, Deckard, Smith,
Trutt and Collier you have the story
of Indiana. The great Don should
take the two distance grinds but it
won't be any cinch-not with Chuck
Fenske in the same race. Deckard
and Smith will trail the pair but
they won't run out of the money. Mel
Trutt is by no means a set-up in
the half mile but it will take all the
steam he has to finish in first or sec-
ond spot. Bob Collier, is backed by
a minority school of thought to col-
lect five points in the 220 and he
may do it but Grieve still looks good.
Collier will also finish well up in the
century. Other Hoosier individual
possibilities include Malcolm Hicks in
the quarter, Jack Neely and Charlie
Baldwin in the high and low sticks.
The Hayes squad usually manages
to put a more or less formidable relay
quartet on the track and tomorrow
should prove no exception. A possible
first in the event but it depends on
who they can scrape up. Coach Billy
Hayes, as good as he is, will have to
scratch his pate plenty tosthink his
way out of second and this is not as
certain as it looks "Cause the Bad-
gers'll getcha if you don't watch out."
MICHIGAN-Coach Charlie Hoyt
has his track machine tuned up like
a fiddle and is just waiting for the
fireworks to start. Without any
breaks the Wolverines look good for
between 55 and 60 points. Give them
a few drops of that stuff called luck
and they will crack the Conference
scoring record of 74 points run up by
the Illinois juggernaut of 1924. It's
Michigan to collect their 15th outdoor
title with from eight to ten winners
and enough place points to complete
the total. That's all.
Braddock Shows
Form In Rin Drill
GRAND BEACH, Mich., May 20.-
(IP)-James J. Braddock's legs,2un-
tried and idle from ring warfare for
two years, stood up in perfect shape
under a 10-round workout today. The
world's heavyweight champion moved
his training activities out into the
open after drilling in private for three
weeks for his title fight with Joe Louis
in Chicago June 22.
The champion convinced 30-odd
boxing writers that he is well on his
way to perfect fighting condition with
his bout still five weeks away. He
belted four sparring partners in eight
rounds of boxing, punching accurate-
ly and with sufficiently good timing
for this period of his training.
He even scored a technical knock-
out over George Morton, 199 pound
youngster from Fresno, Calif., who
was twice dropped with left hooks to
the chin within a minute's time.
JAMES RIDES AGAIN
NEW YORK, May 20.--!h)-Jesse
James, 188, Hollywood, pinned Gino
Martinelli ,193, Italy, with a flying
tackle and body hold in 36:09.
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This Afternoon,
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of the most bitter duals of the cinder
paths. Don Lash will attempt to even;
his Big Ten competition score with
Wisconsin's Chuck Fenske. The'
count is now 2-1 in favor of the Bad-E
ger flyer. This is one of the ;pots
on the card most likely to produce a
new standard.
Sam Stoller, Michigan's "titlelhss
champion" bids fair to gain his long
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