SATURDAY, FEB. 27, 1937 THE MICHIGAN DAILY a. Strong Ohio State Track Squad Meets Wolverines Tonight _ ____ _ Capt.eBeetham, Dave Abritton Lead Buckeyes 440-Yard Event Features Clash; Varsity Favored To Take Most Firsts High Jump Conceded Merely the fact that it's Ohio State vs. Michigan on the cinder track to- night at Yost Field House should be sufficient guarantee that this dual meet will be one of the year's finest. When it is also realized that the in- vading Buckeyes have even a stronger team than those which boasted the great ' Jesse Owens, the impending clash becomes the peak of a long and intense rivalry. From the opening of the meet with the mile run at 7:30 p.m. right down through the last event on the card, the mile relay, the affair should be a cat and dog fight with the outcome long in doubt. Beetham Leads Bucks Leading the undefeated Buckeyes against Coach Hoyt's Wolverines will be Capt. Charlie Beetham, ace quar- ter and half miler. His duel in the 440 with Michigan's Stan Birleson stands as the biggest attraction of the evening for the race may result in the breaking of the Field House mark and perhaps the world record for the event. The local mark, set by Birleson last Saturday, is :49.2 sec- onds and the world record is :48.9. Never has Coach Larry Snyder at Ohio State had such an evenly bal- anced team. Michigan is practically conceding the Bucks a slam in the high jump where America's Olympic star, Dave Albritton, is practically certain to break his own Field House record. He is a co-holder of the world mark at 6 feet 9 inches and local fans are hoping that he nears that height tonight. The Wolverines have a chance to turn the tables on Ohio and perhaps win a decisive victory by copping the first two places in the first two events, the mile and 60-yard dash. This would give Michigan a 16-2 edge which the Bucks would find hard to overcome. Whip Illini, Hoosiers Ohio last Saturday defeated Illinois in a dual meet, 58-37, and then came back Monday to upset Indiana, 46-40. The victory over the Hoosiers labels Ohio as a defiinite contender for Michigan's Big Ten indoor title and tonight's meet should give fans a good indication of relative strength of the two teams.} Michigan is favored to take the majority of first places and it is the battle for seconds that will prob- ably decide the winner. Michigan's hopes received a setback in the loss of Ross Faulkner, quarter miler, who has been ill all week. Hoyt announced+ yesterday that he would not run How- ard Davidson in the half but instead use him in the 440 and relay in place of Faulkner, thus practically conced- ing Beetham a victory in the half. As the only other local athletic event tonight is the swimming meet with Minnesota, which will not start until the track meet is over, one of the year's biggest crowds is expected at the Field House. Conference Heads To Study Proposed Coast Track Meet The recent proposal to have the track and field stars of the Big Ten oppose those of the Pacific Coast Conference late in June will be con- sidered by the athletic directors and faculty representatives of the West- ern Conference at their meeting March 12 and 13 in Chicago. Coach Charles B. Hoyt of MichiganF stated yesterday that he and Direc- tor Yost are now studying the plan< but as yet have not formulated a definite opinion. The National Intercollegiate meet will be held June 18 and 19 in Berke- ley, Calif., and it has been proposed to hold the inter-Conference meet the. following week-end. Winners of the first three places in each event of the Conference outdoor meet would make up the squad and, with Mich- igan the ranking favorite to cop the team title this year, it appears pos- sible that the Big Ten team may be1 made up largely of Wolverines. l If plans for the meet go through it should be the greatest attraction of the 1937 season and perhaps will1 develop into an annual affair with- the site alternating between Califor- nia and the Mid-West. Michigan's powerful team already has one trip to Berkeley scheduled fort this season, the Wolverines facing the1 University of California in a dual Tankers Return Tonight From Iowa To Meet Gophers Here . National Champion "ohe Gophers Drill Three Big Ten Hard To Give Quintets Loon Varsity Battle In Possible Ti PRESS 1l t+ L ANG LEJ By GEORGE J. ANDgu (Daily Sports Editor) Doc Okays John . DR CARL BADGLEY, world famous bone and joint specialist of the University Hospital staff, has pro- nounced Johnny Smithers' knee fit for the pitching duties this year . . The ailing joint was injured in the football game with Northwestern last fall . . .Smithers originally came to Mvichigan to 'lay baseball, but be- came a star halfback and is getting his first crack at the diamond sport this spring ...Ineligibility kept him off the mound last season .. .Whitey Wistert, Micligan's All-American tackle in 1933, will not play first base for Columbus in the American Associ- ation this season unless the Red Bird's management allows him to t2inish his semester's work in the Law 'School ... Whitey's contract was re- cently bought by Columbus from the Cincinnati. The 210-pound blond hit .388 for Nashville in the Southern Association last season ... He gained most of his baseball fame at Michi- Igan as a pitcher, and performed for Cincinnati on the mound after grad- Uation from Lit school. * * * For The Champ.. .. THE SEASON'S high-point man of the Varsity wrestling team will be well compensated for his prowess ... Goldman Brothers are offering a handsome prize, and the member of Coach Cliff Keen's squad are cash- ing four bits apiece to provide a trophy . . . Right now Capt. Frank 'Bissell and sophomore Harland Dan- ner are leading the parade with 28 points apiece . . . Each has scored five falls and a decision victory in six bouts .. . Johnny Speicher, con- sistent 118-pound junior, is close be- hind . . . Harvard's swimmers have asked their coach to challenge Mich- igan to a dual meet . . . The informa- tion comes from a letter from one jof the members of the team to Arn 'Daniels of The Daily edit staff . . To the anonymous crank who has taken me to task for various short- pomings and ancestral defects, I issue a challenge to prove his definite Icharge of plagiarism ... And see Bill Reed of the Free Press about those :auotes . . . Also, until you sign your Name I shall consider your corres- pondence so much pusillanimous drivel. Detroit Teams Meet In A.A.U. Handball Final Zerbo Brothers To Battle Holtzman And Dworman Duo For State Title Winning in straight games last night the Detroit handball teams of Al and Lou Zerbo, and Lefty Dwor- man and Joe Holtzman will meet to- morrow for the championship of the State A.A.U. Handball Tournament. The finals will be held at 4 p.m. at the Intramural Building. Taking the first set 21-13, the Zer- bo brothers found little opposition in the Stilson Ashe and Tom Estep team and went on in the next set to win 21-11. The left hand of Lou Zerbo and the fine teamwork of his brother were too much for the Ann Arbor' team. Dworman-Holtzman Win Easily In the other match Holtzman and Dworman, a pair who have been' playing the handball circuit for quite a while, found it easy going .against another Detroit team, Milt Lapin and Bob Dressler. The scores were 21-9 and 21-4. Dressler only 17 years old, showed the ability needed for cham-! pionship play but needs more ex- perience. Both Estep and Ashe, although playing as an Ann Arbor team, are Michigan students and are entered in the All-Campus singles tourna- ment, being favored to place high. Both the Zerbo brothers have been copping championships around these parts, especially in Detroit, for the last few years and are given the edge Tom Haynie, one of Coach Matt Mann's outstanding sophomore swimmers, who broke two National Intercollegiate records against Iowa last night, will perform at home for the first time tonight when the Wolverines meet Minnesota in the Intramural pool. Cagers To Meet O.S.U. Tonig'ht; Title IsAt Stake (Continued from Page 1) Capt. Johnny Gee and Jake Town- send, last year's all-Conference choice, while the Columbus team will have Earl Thomas, all-Conference second team selection in 1936, in the center circle. In the earlier Wol- verine-Buckeye confab it was Thomas who put on the best performance as Townsend had a bad night. Monday the Michigan quintet will travel to Bloomington, Ind. where aI soured Indiana team will be waiting to restore its self-respect. In their first game with the Fightin' Hoosiers two and a half weeks ago the Wol- verines made mincemeat of the Fancy Dans to the tune of a 55 to 31 score. It is not certain whether the In- diana star, Vernon Huffman, will be able to make an appearance against the Varsity. In bed with an influ- enza attack for the last week, Huff- man was released from the hospital only today. Swim Summaries Michigan 55, Iowa 29 300-yard medley relay: Won by Michigan. (Cody, Kasley, Mower- son). Time 2:55 flat, bests Michi- gan 's National Intercollegiate record of 2:59 set by Michigan in 1935. 220-yard free style: Won by Haynie (M) ; Barnard (M), second; Chris- tians (1), third. Time 2:09.7. Bests Yale's National Intercollegiate record set by Livingstone in 1934 of 2:12.2. 60-yard free style: Won by Wal- ters (1); Tomski (M), second; Farns- worth (M), third. Time :28.7. Bests Natinal Intercollegiate record of :28.9 set by Walters in 1936. Low board fancy diving: Won by Grady (M); ;Nissen (I), second; Haughey (M), third. Total points 118.6. 100-yard free style: Won by Kirar (M); Walters (1), second; Bryant (M), third. Time :51.4. Bests Na- tional Intercollegiate record of :51.5 set by Schwartz, Northwestern in 1930. 150-yard back stroke: Won by Westerfield (1); . Cody (M) second; Sauer (M) third. Time 1:36.0. New University record. 200-yard breast stroke: Won by Backstroker Brandt Stars For Invaders; Time Set For 8:30 P.M. After handing the Iowa swimmers a 55-29 defeat last night at Iowa City, the Michigan natators en- trained for the 500-mile jaunt back to Ann Arbor where they will tackle the Minnesota team at 8:30 p.m. in the Intramural pool. Niels Thorpe's swimmers have been drilling hard for tonight's meet in an attempt to put a team into the pool that will provide Michigan's National Intercollegiate champions with some real competition. Three Gophers Undefeated Outstanding among the Gopher splashers are Rex Hudson, dash man, Lyman Brandt, backstroker and Leonard Klune, diver, all of whom are undefeated thus far this season. Hudson will be pitted against two Varsity stars, Walt Tomski in the 50 and Ed Kirar in the 100, and his chances for remaining in the unbeat- en class are very slim. Tomski and Kirar, along with Ray Walters of Iowa are rated three of the best sprint men in the conference this year. tory. Coach Matt Mann has an- nounced that student admission will be twenty-five cents with a forty cent price to outsiders. All of the bleacher seats will be erected to accommodate an ex- pected capacity crowd. Brandt who swims the 150-yard back-stroke and a leg of the medley, although unbeaten this year, will have to show more speed than he has to date. The time of 1:43.4 that he turned in at the Illinois meet to gain first place is not fast enough to keep him in the race with Fred Cody who has been doing 1:40 and under all season. Morris Has Little Chance Morris, who is the Gopher hope in the distance swims will find himself facing an almost impossible task if he entertains any illusions of beat- ing Co-Captain Frank Barnard and Tom Haynie in the 220 and 440 events. _ The varsity medley trio has twice bettered the old I-M pool record and the free-style quartet sped over the 400-yard course at Columbus last week in a time that cracked the exist- ing intercollegiate mark by two sec- onds. Although Ben Grady was edged out of a win in the fancy diving event by Jimmy Patterson of Ohio State last week, Klune will probably have no such luck against the Michigan ace of the springboard. Kasley (M); Haskips (1), second; Lowry (1) third. Time 2:20.5. Bests National Intercollegiate record of 2:26.6 set by Kasley, Michigan in 1936. 440-yard free style: Won by Hay- nie (M); Barnard (M), second; Christians (1), third. Time 4:47. Bests National Intercollegiate record of 4:512 set by Wiget, Stanford in 1933.1 400-yard free style: Won by Mich- igan (Tomski, Bryant, Mowerson. Kirar). Time 3:30.7. Bests Na- tional intercollegiate record of 3:34.5 set by Yale in 1935. B BEN MOORSTEIN For the second time in three years three teams may tie for first place in the Big Ten basketball race. In 1935, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ill- inois each grabbed a share of the top position to lay claim to the Confer- ence championship. Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota, with but two losses apiece seem head- ed for the crown. Illinois is in first place by itself now but that only be- cause it has played one more game than the other two schools. Varsity Has Hardest Battle Michigan, with probably the hard- est schedule of the trio, meets Ohio State tonight. Also this evening, Ill- inois takes on Iowa, and Minnesota clashes with Wisconsin. Ohio State has beaten the Wolverines before this season while Iowa and Wisconsin form part of the cellar-occupying group of the Conference. Monday night Michigan faces an- other opponent that is expected to prove quite a hurdle notwithstand- ing the shellacking it received from the Maize and Blue team before. In- diana is the stone in the way and even in lean years has to be entered into the figuring. Minnesota plays Northwestern, and the battle is ex- pected to be a close one, although the Gophers are the favorites. Illinois i1 idle. Illini Meet Gophers .If all the teams come through thes two nights unscathed then the hopes of each as a co-holder will go much higher. The final night's play in the Big Ten will see each of the three in action. Michigan will meet Wisconsin and is favored as Wiscon- sin at present has a firm grip on ninth place. Illinois comes up against the tough- est of the lot when it takes the floor against Northwestern but the Illini, too, are odds-on favorites to win. Minnesota has a cinch. The Gophers knd Chicago meet, and Chicago has yet to win a tilt in Conference play. Hockey Summaries Michigan Pos. Minnesota W. Chase .... ...G...... Wilkinson Simpson ........ D..... R. Carlson Smith ...... ....D.......... Kroll Heyliger ........C... . ..... Bjorck James.........W........Arnold Fabello ........W......... Ganley Spares: Michigan-Merrill, Cooke, E. Chase; Minnesota - J. Carlson, Taft, Baker, Anderson, Randall, Wal lace, Bresen. Tom Cunningham, Referee. First period: Scoring: James (Hey- liger) 1:34. Penalties: J. Carlson, R. Carlson. Second Period: Scoring: Baker, un- assisted, 3:44; Cooke, unassisted, 4:37. Penalties-Heyliger, Cooke. Third Period: Scoring: Randall un- assisted, 5:59; Heyliger, unassisted, 19:49. Penalties, R. Carlson, Arnold. Stops: W. Chase ..............2 9 8-19 Wilkinson .............7 4 4-15 CANADA WINS HOCKEY CROWN LONDON, Feb. 26.-(A)-Canada virtually clinched the World Ama- teur Hockey Championship today by defeating England 3-0. Indiana Wrestlers Suffer Only One Defeat In 36 Dual Meets By BUD BENJAMIN Bassham, scrappy New Albany sopho- One defeat in their last 36 dual more, is Thom's usual choice for the meets and Conference winner five 145-pound assignment. times in the last six years. Sophomore Forces Veteran That's the imposing record that In- John Keeler, a sophomore, is giving diana's powerful wrestlers boast of as John Tatum, seasoned veteran, a they prepare for their dual meet with rough run for 155-pound supremacy Michigan at 7:30 p.m., Monday, in with neither having much advantage the Yost Field House. to date. Chauncey McDaniel, sopho- The lone defeat administered to more brother of the former Indiana Coach Billy Thom's charges came Olympic star, has practically elim- this year when Lehigh, the East's inated allacompetition in the 165- most powerful mat aggregation whip- pound department. ped them 26-18 at Bethlehem, Pa. Three men are scrapping for Coach Michigan has also dropped only one Thom's nod in the 175-pound bracket decision this year, the same team with Chris Traicoff, a sophomore, whipping them in January, 23-13. holding the inside track. Indiana grapplers have been in- No doubt exists as to leadership in vincible against Western Conference the heavyweight niche. Bob Haak, opponents in dual competition since 215-pound sophomore from Ham- Illinois spilled the Hoosier squad of mond, Ind., has already shown high 1930 in a match for the Conference promise of becoming one of the most championship. capable heavies in the Conference. Lose Olympic Men Haak, rosy-faced, chunky product of The outlook at the beginning of the Northern Indiana steel mills, has .his .opinned every foe he has met to date this season was not too bright with this season in a decisive manner. all of Indiana's three members of the U. S. Olympic team out of harness. Capable sophomores have filled in BASEBALL PLAYERS REPORT these vacancies, however, and along All candidates for the baseball with the returning veterans the team team are requested to report to has been coming along rapidly all Coach Ray Fisher at Yost Field year. House immediately. Hitting drills l will start Monday, March 8. "Two-Bits" Myers, Big Ten champ, wi__startMnday,_March __. is a dependable mainstay in the 118- pound division. Myers whipped Mich- THREE PROS TIED igan's undefeated Johnny Speicher ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 26. in the Conference last year, but wee -(AP)-Three top ranking professional John is a much better wrestler this golfers, Ralph Guldahl, Harry Cooper year and the bout should be a corker. and Horton Smith, all of Chicago, Scotty Sefton and Seth Boyd are tied today for first place in the St. sophomore rivals for the 126-pound Petersburg Open Golf Tournament slot with Tom Bryce, who wrestles with 72 hole scores of 284. They will anywhere from 135-pounds to 145, meet in an 18 hole play-off Monday working at the former weight. Cliff afternoon. LATE WIRE The dickey shirt harks DRESS-UP NOTES back centu enjoy for demi same satin to late nineteenth ury days, but now ys returnings favor town wear in this -bosom style. The goes for the dark tie. NM N,: t~i'" .. ..tQ' ar' .. Girl Reporter Impressed By Matmen o) In this machine age, we take pride in the hand- sewn glove, ,.because it is more individual and really fashioned to tit. More and more the trend is toward gauntlet style. By BETSEY ANDERSON term, could be called "a honey." Heads With vague recollections of having arms and legs all tangled up in* heard such terms as "the airplane .heterogeneous confusion came forth spin," "half" and "whole nelsons," at intervals at surprizing places. Just s , 'and "grapevines"us yensiasas I'd be prepared to see an arm and "grapevies" used by enthusias- shoot out to grab the wrist or waist tic supporters of wrestling who in- of the wrestler who had the upper- variably sit in back of me i street- hand at the moment, out would pop cars, it was with a sense of not know- a head followed by the rest of the ing quite what to expect, that I at- wrestler and everything would start tended what was to be my first wrest- al lover again. ling match Monday afternoon at Yost As Ed Kellman of Michigan and Field House when Michigan wrest- Gene Porozynski appeared for the lers engaged Ohio University in a 126-lb. match, the only thing I could dual meet. think of was, the advertisements of Having only seen movies of the Charles Atlas and the prepared book- unusual in wrestling, such as the lets on "You, too, can be a man." huge hunk of humanity known as Energy Amazes Her "Man Mountain Dean," and heard all Rex Lardner of Michigan and Paul the usual jokes about "cauliflower DeTuerk of Ohio in the 145-lb. match tars," "exaggerated biceps," and seemed to use a tremendous amount flattened noses," my first reaction to >f energy while in motion, and I was it all, as the two teams came out on continuously amazed by the way they the stage was that these couldn't be thewretles Id ear abut --teywould jump back to a standing posi- the wrestlers I'd heard about -they tion immediately after going through were just as clean-cut in appearance several minutes of as complicated as other people. !aa..i ann i-o -- -~z,;, their anatomies for several turns around the mat just to keep from being "pinned." This especially in- pressed me during the match between Harold Nichols of Michigan and Ed Bijak of Ohio. One A Tongue Twister Eranus Sepetowski (!!) proved to be little more than a tongue twister, Dick Tasch handling him with ap- parent ease in the 165-lb match. Although I felt as if I should lose my standing as a loyal Michigan student, I couldn't help cheering for Hjalmar Olson, the Ohio coach's son in his match with Lilburn Ochs in the 175-lb. bout. The Ohio coach had such a proud smile on his face while his boy wrestled that my ma- ternal instincts got the best of me, ;and I burst out in wild cheering, astounding stands all around me who frowned discouragingly. English shirt-makers are casting heavy votes for this wide-spaced stripe on shirts carrying the new, farily long point lounge collar, worn without a collar pin. Do not wear a striped tie with this shirt. I