THE MICHIGAN DAILY P1 Puckster Doran Returns To Put Varsity At Top Strength Off-Timing And Condition Drop May Affect Hockey Team This Week Evidently the two-week vacation lay-off didn't prove a bit harmful to the Michigan hockey team judging by the showing they made as they went through their first practice of the new year. The Varsity meets Michigan Tech of Houghton here Thursday and Sat- urday nights. These games will be the first of four in a home and home series with the Miners. Stiff Workout Held The return of Evvie Doran to the line-up brought the team to full strength in preparation for their fifth game of the season. Doran did not play the last two games, suffering from a broken bone in his hand. The stiff workout held last night at the Coliseum saw every one of the starting team on the ice. Spike James received a slight cut over the eye when a flying puck caught him unawares. Coach Eddie Lowrey does not ex- pect the sextet to make as good a showing in the first game as in the second because he feels that the outfit will need more conditioning than the three days of practice can give. Timing Is A Problem The biggest problem facing the team will be the matter of timing. That's about the only thing, outside the small drop in the matter of con- dition, that the vacationwseemed dto affect. The timing, however, is bound to improve and should be at par by game time. Tech comes here in the hope of avenging three defeats handed it last year when Michigan took the series. At that time Michigan played the en- tire series with never more than one or two alternates. This year Mich- igan will have a complete second line plus two other wings. Ca gers Blast Toledo Hopes Of Supremacy After making Tuwnsend converts of Eastern sports writers and fans, the touring Michigan basketball team paused in Toledo Saturday night to question the 'Ohioans' claim that their Rockets were destined for na- tional honors and that their Chuck Chuckovits was unparalleled in col- legiate circles. When the argument subsided, Michigan had blasted the Toledo su- premacy myth, broken the hearts of the rabid Toledo fans and further established Capt. "Jake's" prowess as a wizard of the hardwood. In justice to a brilliant performer, however, it must be recorded that Chuckovits' fame is more than the product of ex- travaant publicity. But he is hard- ly unparalleled. Even contentious Toledans must have admitted that after watching Jake tally 19 points against Chucko- vits & Co. Chuckovits himself, though absent from action for fully five minutes, made an equal number of points and would certainly have bettered that mark had he served out his string. But the final score was 50-38-and the 12-point mar- gin might reasonably be attributable to Michigan superiority. Lest some mistake the victory as strictly a one-man triumph, it should be stated that Townsend was ably assisted. Herm Fishman, playing an alert and scrappy game, stole the ball on several occasions and consequent- ly set up several baskets, besides add- ing seven points in his own right. Bill Barclay accounted for eight, Dan Smick for seven and Leo Beebe for five. Combined, their efforts provided a sour beginning of the New Year for the 6,200 spectators and Coach Har- old Anderson's hitherto unbeaten Rockets. Play Tech Thursday; Wrestlers open This Week Matmen Meet Indiana Away This Saturday Hoosiers Have Two 1936 Olympic Men In Line-up; Varsity In Good Shape Michigan's 1938 wrestling team will open its season Saturday afternoon, meeting the powerful Indiana Hoos- iers at Bloomington. Although they didn't have the benefit of a warm- up meet during the holiday season as in the past few years, the team has been working out daily during the past week and appears to be in good shape. Last season the Wolverines man- aged to eke. out a one point margin over the Indiana grapplers by virtue of Jim Lincoln's valiant stand against Bob Haak, the Hoosiers' giant heavy- weight. Looking For Best Combination With adequate material on hand it will remain for Coach Cliff Keen to juggle his men around during the final week of practice in order to find the best combination for his starting team. Leading the Wolverines will be Co-captains Earl Thomas and John Speicher at 136 and 118 pounds re- spectively. Paul Cameron, Harland Danner, Harold Nichols, Dick Tasch, and Frank Morgan are other letter- men available. Keen's most import- ant loss was that of Captain Frank Bissell, Conference champ at 155 pounds. Danner, who wrestled at 165 last season may move down a notch to replace him. Has Two Olympic Men Not only will Coach W. H. "Billy" Thom of Indiana send a revengeful team against the Wolverines, but he will also have two members of the 1936 Olympic team in his starting line-up. These two men are Willard Duffy who will wrestle in the 126 pound class, and Charley McDaniel, heavy- weight. Both were active in col- legiate wrestling two years ago, but were out of competition last season. Michigan Tank Team Returns From Florida After mixing work with pleasure under the burning sun of Fort Lau- derdale, Florida for two weeks, Coach Matt Mann and his Michigan swim forces returned to the campus late Sunday afternoon; ready to continue preparation for the impending swim- ming season. The two weeks spent in the South saw the Wolverines drill twice a day and partake in numerous activities which were features of the Third An- nual Aquatic Forum, held every year in Fort Lauderdale. Thirty of the nation's schools were represented at the forum by their respective tank teams. Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa gave the Big Ten conference ample represen- tatives while Rutgers, Cornell, Dart- mouth, Rider, Franklin and Mar- shall, William and Mary, Bowdoin, Rollins and Colgate attended from the East. Picked teams from the two sec- tions clashed in a relay meet on Christmas day, and the East, by virtue of an overwhelming quantity of nat- ators, captured its first victory in the three-year history of the meet, winning, 53 to 37. The Western cause was delivered a severe blow when Ohio State and Iowa bolted the meet. Coach Mann's Michigan men stood out for the West, but lacked suffi- cient forces to turn back the East- ern tide. Freshman free-styler Jim Welsh, backstroker .Bill Beebe and Bob Sauer, Varsity breast-strokers John Haigh and Ed Mack dominated the field in their respective events. Watson Plans To Return To School Next February Bill Watson, Michigan's leading track threat who dropped out of school shortly before Thanksgiving, but who plans to re-enter in Feb- ruary, has been working out daily in Yost Field House in order to keep in condition for the coming indoor sea- son. Watson's out-door record in the shot put last year labeled him as one of the best weight throwers in the' country. Peterson To Give Free Cue Exhibition At Union Charles Peterson of the National Billiard Association, considered to be the world's most spectacularcueist, will give exhibitions today and to- morrow at the Union. Performances will be at 3 and 8 o'clock both days. Besides displaying his abilityhto ex- ecute trick and difficult shots, Pet- erson will instruct the students in five easy fundamentals of the game. The exhibition and instruction will be presented free of charge to stu- dents and faculty members. Varsity Cagers Townsend Plays Santa Claus Down Eastern As Cagers Sweep Holiday Tilts ASIDE LINES __ _ By IRVIN LISAGOR_ Button, Button (contd.) .. . BRUSHING OFF the holiday tinsel and finding aside lines in abund- ance ... 1938 STINGER: Name a coach who hasn't an "in" as the new Michigan coach . . . Most newspapers and wire services espouse different men: Davis Walsh, INS chief, likes Dorais; the Detroit News, in a convincing exclusive, gives Crisler the nod; AP's Eddie Brietz prints successive rumors making Ray Morrison and Harry Mehre the likely recipients; a Chicago daily sees George Veenker, no, Irwin Uteritz, as a certain choice. Our New Orleans informative spotted Athleti Director Yost chatting with a southern redcap and swears he's the next mentor. A postcard, scrawled in familiar green ink, confides: "Quit guessing. Michigan's next coach will be-Kipke! Signed, Falstaff."Whereupon, we join the motley throng and inquire in remarkable unison, "Who does it look like ? ? ? " 1938 PUFF-UP: The Detroit sports editor, who raked us over the coals of reportorial indignation because of a recent piece, finally did a complete about-face and admitted the charges he claimed we failed to prove ... Mere lyBy Way Of Summary .. . NOT GIVEN to excessive enthusiasm, we shouldn't like to tout Michigan's basketball team to the high heavens and suddenly find both the tout and our dwindling afflatus landing with a dull thud after Cappy's cagers get beaten. And the Conference titlists are likely to drop at least three games. But after the Wolverines' triumphant Eastern tour, during which Akron, Maryland, Dartmouth, and Rochester fell by the wayside, the hard- wood critics of the East must have sought recourse to a thesaurus for superlatives describing Capt. Jake Townsend's performance and the general play of the Wolverines. A Rochester scribe wrote of Michigan: "It had won with a display of court legerdemain that left the biggest collegiate turnout ever to watch a game 4t the River Campus stunned, stupefied and the Michigan alumni greatly pleased." They repeated Ray Goodman's "Houdini of the Hardwood" description of Jake, called Michigan a "wonder" team. The New York Times reported Michigan's victory over Dartmouth as a "one-man show." The Herald-Tribune, although saying, "What this fellow Townsend could not do to and with a basketball just doesn't have to be done," didn't forget the presence of nine other Wolverines. "Michigan, however, was not completely a one-man team," the Herald-Trib wrote. "In Herm Fishman it had a fine dribbler and an outstanding defensive player. In Ed Thomas it had an opportunist who was quick to seize his advantages. And the Wolverines played as a team, with or without Townsend to guide them." Another Rochester reporter said of Ed Thomas, "a basketball double for the famous Nat Hickey if there ever was one . . . poetry of motion, etc." You get the rough idea, of course. A Quick Backward Glance ... MEL FINEBERG, sophomore on the sports staff, burrowed through the files for a quick retrospection of the '37 season, and though lack of space forces us to shave it down, the highlights were: October-Pep rally, tear gas and stink bombs .. . State 19-14 . . . Kipke says, "It's going to be a long winter," and wag adds, " .. . and a cold one!" ... Bob Cooper and Butch Jordan quit. . . Janke at fullback.. . North- western 7-0 . . I ipke perks up as Siegel and M band get heavy boost from Husing ... State 7, Jayvees 6 (a habit?) . . . Janke at tackle . . . Minn. 39-6 ... Lincoln quits and Kipke shivers (winter again!) . . . Haynie left eff A.A.U. All-America swim team . . . Kasley, Tomski, Kirar remembered . . . Mich. 7, Iowa 6 . . . Much rejoicing with blasting of defeatist myth . November: Purucker replaces Trosko ... Ritchie replaces Purucker and scores twice, sensationally, in last four minutes for 13-12 victory over Chicago ... Phys. Ed. Board to investigate subsidization rumors ... Kipke peppered by curious reporters ... Mich. 7, Penn 0 as Ritchie and Purucker prove brilliant mudders . . . Tom Harmon crashes na- tion's headlines as Tulane wires "offer" . .'. Harmon says, ".... didn't think it would go beyond the Daily!" ... Heikkinen chosen All-Con- ference guard by UP . . . OSU 21-0 . . . clouds gather over Kipke ... Janke made captain ... basketball starts .... December: Hockey team beats Western Ontario, 3-0 . . . loses to London, 3-2 . . . Notre Dame scheduled in golf, baseball . . . Kipke fired and huge smelleroo sets in as alumni choose up sides and protest . . . European war shunted off front pages as l'affaire Kipke shrieks in bold banners ... Eight considered for coaching job . . . Cagers beat State, 43-40 . . . Sextet tops Brantford, 2-1, then McMaster, 5-0.. . Matt Mann appointed to AAU com- mittee . . . Cagers beat Akron, Maryland, Dartmouth, Rochester . . . Mickey Mouse eliminated in Michigan coaching "possibilities" - - - - - RESOLUTIONS With the New Year here you are already turn- ing a new page and starting afresh. Why not begin right and resolve to make a better finan- cial success of this year than 1937. Take the first step today and opena savings account with us. Our many facilities are placed at your disposal. TeamsEasily Squad Gathers Momentumr1 As Tour Progresses; 'Jake' Wins Praise1 Approximately 20,000 enthusiasts and a host of Eastern sportswriters will attest today that the 1937 edition of Michigan's basketball volume is apt to be one of the Wolverines' best sellers. The Maize and Blue express roared triumphantly through five cities this1 Christmas, while the local basketball populaces sat by and applauded their successful and impressive court ef- forts. Gaining momentum as the tour progressed, the rampant Wolverines. left in their wake three eastern and two midwestern opponents to keep their slate unblemished. Briefly here's the story of the vic- tory march : AKRON-The Wolverines, still dis- playing some of the lethargy of their Michigan State debut, eke out a 32r to 27 win as Leo Beebe tallies 11 points. With 11 minutes to go, the score 22 to 21 in Michigan's favor, the Wolverines stage their flashiest offensive drive of the evening to emerge victorious. MARYLAND - Outclassed Mary- land fails to give the Varsity much competition as the locals lose 43 to 26. Danny Smick leaves the bench to tally 10 points and lead the victors. . DARTMOUTH-Michigan defense takes on stone wall motif as the Green is held to a single point in the first half. Johnny Townsend wins himself the plaudits of the crowd and the eastern sport scribes, tally- ing 13 points and feeding for many more. Dartmouth, undefeated before the game, is completely at a loss to stop the big Michigan captain whose uncanny passing and deadly accuracy clicks. Final-Michigan 41; Dart- mouth 17. ROCHESTER-The Maize and Blue hits a zone defense and likes it. Town- send, still in form, leads the parade with 17 points, while Jimmy Rae, his running mate, is good for 12. It is Michigan from the start as the Wol- verines, superior in every respect, run roughshod over Rochester TOLEDO - The plague named Chuck Chuckovitz hits the Wolverines and all advance notices seem cor- rect. The Toledo ace is good for 19 points, but Townsend, still in form, matches his rival's performance, with eight field goals and three fouls. Akron Bows December 16 Michigan (32) Townsend, f......... Thomas, f ........... Barclay, f ........... , Rae, c............. Sm ick, c ............ Beebe, g .............. Fishman, g .......... Pink, g .............. Totals ............. fg ft ..1 2 ..1 0 .....2 0 ....3 0 ....0 0 ....4 3 ....1 2 ....0 1 ... 12 8 tp 4 2 4 6 0 11 4 1 32 Dartmouth (17) Hanna, f ..... Cottone, f .. Macy, f...... W. Thomas, f.. Sullivan, c ... Dudas, c...... Stewart, g. Batchelder, g. White, g ...... MacLeod, g Totals ...... Four .2 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0... . . .. . .. . 0 fg ft 3 0 tp 6 ..... .......7 For Four Akron (27) fg ft Endress, f..............0 0 Becker, f...............4 4 Carnahan, f ..............0 1 Tsaloff, c .......... .....3 0 M ott, g ..................3 0 Zelma,g...............0 2 Totals ............10 7 Michigan 42, Maryland December 17 c i Michigan (43) Townsend, f....... Barclay, f .......... Thomas, f......... Slavin, f......... Rae, c........... Smick, c.......... Beebe, g.......... Dobson, g......... Fishman, g....... Pink, g........... Totals.......... fg ft .22 S1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 4 2 3 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 18 7 to 0 12 1 6 6 2 27 26 tp 6 3 2 0 6 10 7 0 7 2 43 Smick c Beebe g . Dobson g. Fishman g. Barclay g . .0 . . . . . . .. . .. .... 0 ....... 2 December 21 Michigan (50) fg Townsend f ..... ........7Z Pink f.................0 Thomas f ................6 Slavin f .................0 Rae c ....................5 t 0 4 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 17 ft to 0 14 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 12 02 04 0 0 1 1 0 4 4 50 ft tp 2 2 2 4 1 5 1 3 2 2 0 2 1x11 9 29 Totals ....... Rochester (29) Spies f ......... Gilbert f ........ Cohen f ........ Lane f .......... Mee c .......... Roberts g ....... Ulrech g ........ .. 23 fg .~0 . . . . . . . 1. . ..........2 ..........1 . .........0 . . . . . . . . ..1 ... .. ....5 Maryland (26) Wheeler, f. Johnson, f Bengoshea, f Norton, f ...... McCarthy, c ... Headley, c .... Mulitz, g ...... Knepley, g ..., Mondorff, g ... Rea, g ........ Totals..... Dartmout Dec fg ft tp ,0 0 0 00 .0 .1.0 2 .... 2 2 6 .. . .. . ... . .1 0 2 .1 1 3 ............5 1 11 ............0 0 0 .. .......... 0 0 0 ..11 4 26 th Comes Easy cember 20 Totals............10 Even Chuckovits January 1 Michigan( Townsend Thomas f. Barclay f Slavin f Wood f ... Rae c Smick c .. Valek c ... (50) fg ft f ..............8 3 .. . .. .. .. . .. . ...0 0 . .. . ... ... . .. . ..0 0 . . ... .. .. .. . ... .1 0 . . .. . .. ... .. .. ..3 1 . . . .... .. .. ...0 0 tp 19 2 0 2 7; 0 5 7 0 0 Beebe g ..................2 Fishman g ...............3 Pink g ...................0 Dobson g ................0 1 1 0 0 Michigan ( Townsend, Thomas ,f. Dobson, f Smick, c .. Rae, c .... Slavin, g .. Beebe, g Barclay, g. Fishman, g Pink, g ... Totals .. 42) fg ft f ..............5 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1 1 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 ...... .... ......1 0 ................3 0 ................3 0 ................2 0 ............... .0 0 0 0 tp 13 7 2 2 2 6 6 4 0 0 Totals .... . Toledo (38) Chuckovits f .. Hintz f' ...... . Gast f ........ Swihart c .... . Alvarez c ..... Jones g...... Crow g ....... Charles g. Totals ..........21 8 fg ft ...........7 5 ...........0 1 ...........2 2 ...........3 2 ...........1 1 0 0 ...........0 1 0 0 50 tl 19 1 6 B 3 0 1 0 19 4 42 .13 12 38 I __________ __________________ I BETTER VALUES AT WAGNER'S I OVERC OAT S S UJT-S 00 /- 000S HOE S Wr . -. I I .u STROH'S CARLI NG'S FRIAR'S ALE At All Dealers J. J. O'KANE, Dist. Dial 3500 _ SHIRTS 00-0 00TIES 9 iim __._. PAJAMA, 20 0 to a Reductions S MICHAELS-STERN )00 SUITS $30. now $22.50 $35. now $26.75 - OVERCOATS TOPCOATS' $40. now $23.95 n $35. now $21.95 '4 l, i I I