THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937 .e 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.' n E~ar PAL : 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. *~* * 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. TENNIS RACKETS 3-Speed English Bicyles 712 E. Washington Ph. 9793 Big Ten Tracke Prelims S t ar t This Afternoon, (Contin ledfrom Page 1) 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 In The Majors American League Detroit .......200 001 000- 3 8 0 Philadelphia 000 001 lOx- 2 7 0 Lawson and Cochrane; Smith and Hayes. Cleveland.....140 100 370--16 21 3 Boston ........004 000 010- 5 11 2 Allen, Hudlin and Pytlak; Marcum, Ostermueller, McKain, Olson, W. Fer- rell and Desautels. 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