WEDNESDAY, MN. 12, 8 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Hockey
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By-Wolverines
By IRVIN
Weight Advantage Gives EDITOR'S NOTE: That mad mis-
creant of the Minneapolis mail, and our
Gophers Edge In Tilts. vindictive critic, comes up with a gloat-
e aing screed on the Minnesota hockey six.
sTo Start Why we condescend to print these, we
don't know-unless they appeal to our
indolent nature. But this particular
The second consecutive Big Ten piece has a few facts in it, contrary
hockey crown is the glistening object toFalstaff's usual contribution and
hockeymuch to our own surprise.
at which the Michigan team is casting
covetous glances today as the entire That Man Again ...
squad of 10 players arrives in Min-
neapolis this morning for its two My dear Colonel L.,
game series with the University* of It is with great regret that I un-
Minnesota's highly vaunted Gophers. derstand that you are not planning to
The team remains until Friday night go North with Michigan's hockey
when it plays the second game. club to report the two-game series
Making the trip are Captain Bob the Wolverines will play with Minne-
Simpson and Bucko Smith, defense- sota on Wednesday and Friday of this
man, Spike James, goalie, Smack Al- week. I had hoped to read of your
len and Everett Doran, centers, John- departure with them, for I'm sure
ny Fabello, Gib James, Les Hillberg, that festivities of a peculiar type will
Al Chadwick and Ed Chase, wings. develop in Minneapolis during the
Regulars To Start playing of these two contests, Briga-'
Coach Eddie Lowrey will use his dier L., and, were you present in a
regular starting line-up but all the reportorial capacity I'm sure some ar-
players will see plenty of action. dent (and, one might add, noble)
After dropping its first game*to Minnesota soul would take a poke at
the Minnesota team when they played your schnozzola during the fights
here in the Conference title series which will mark those two struggles!
last year, Michigan turned around this week.
and soundly trounced the visitors 8-1, you know, Lance-Corporal L.,
thereby tying them for the champion- a pkty atere in
ship. Minnesota is out to see that it really is a pity that we here in
this doesn't happen again but Mich- Ann Arbor are to be deprived of
thisdoen't appn agin ut Mch- seeing the opening games in tis
igan is just as determined-in fact, ya set ofnichgaMinne-
they want no one but Michigan to ' ear s set of Michigan-Minne-
share the headpiece this season. sota ice contests. I fear the ar-
Mariucci Is Threat dor of the combatants may have
In Sophomore John Mariucci, col- been reduced once they tangle
orful.and husky defenseman, the Go- on the frozen waters of the
phers have their biggest threat. A Minneapolis Arena. Several of
defensive demon, from all reports, my colleagues have remarked on
what, in their own small way,
Mariucci is adept at carrying the thy cosier ctn "rough
puck and in several games which they considered certain "rough
Minnesota played this season has aspects" of the two games played
contributed quite a bit to the scoring. with Michigan Tech here last
Minnesota's first. line of Randall, week.
Wallace and Anderson is reported to What a pity, Sergeant L., that these
be about on a par with Minnesota's same individuals have not had an op-
first line of last year. The Gopher's portunity to witness the Minnesota
second forward wall led by Frank St. Maulers this year. Where Tech was
Vincent, another outstanding sopho- noticeably weak on defense, Minne-
more, is expected to carry at least its sota has three notoriously effective
share of the scoring. With Goalie choppers-Mariucci, Kroll and Brede-
Marty Falk ingligible it was still un- son-whose very names give a key to
certain just who would be in the nets the "Minnesota Methodology" in mat-
for Minnesota tonight. ters of hockey. Mariucci has a phil-
The Wolverine's chances in to- osophy that's simple, and free of eth-
night's encounter are hard to fore- ical distinctions-he has a job to do,
cast. Michigan will be outweighed and that job is the liquidation of the
man for man and coupled with the opposition. Against Toronto, with
fact that Minnesota plays with that whom Minnesota split a series over
in mind the Maize and Blue will find the Christmas holidays, Mariucci ap-
the going tough. Another factor in plied his philosophy, and in its ap-
favor of Minnesota is that they are plication may be seen forebodings of
playing on home ice while Michigan jill for Michigan. The stick, by the4
will arrive in Minneapolis this morn- Mariuccian code, is useful only when
ing with but a few hours rest before it promotes the object that is desired.
game time. If it should impede one, drop it and
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use feet, fists, elbows, knees and what
have you.
Particularly is this technique
effective when carrying the puck,
for, unlike Michigan's defensive
pair, the Minnesota blueliners do
carry up the black bounder oc-
casionally. When he gets a yard
or two away firom the opposing
defense men (in this case, Smith
and Simpson), our friend Mr.
M. lets fly with the puck, holds
his stick out in front of his mid-
riff, and charges forward, letting
the bodies fall where they may.
His colleagues on the back line,
Kroll and Bredeson, are neither
as effective on defense nor as
good skaters and stick-handlers
on offense, but their ability to de-
posit opposition forwards in the
box seats shouic not therefore be
sneered at. It one conlomnes tie
tactics of the Ohio State basket-
ball team, the "Gas House" St.
Louis Cards, and Eddie Shore,
you get a minute idea of what I
mean, Captain L.
The forward line for Minnesota is
not as good as that of James-Fa-
bello-Allen, but the second line,
headed up at center by one, Frank
St. Vincent, a product of the same
Iron Range school of hockey as Ma-
riucci, is probably better than Michi-
gan's reserve trio. On defense Minne-
sota has the edge. In the nets, there
is only confusion in Minneapolis.
Marty Falk, who did a creditable job
against Toronto in the Christmas
series, will not play, and efforts are
being made to find a substitute.
Whatever luck Coach Armstrong may
have, our own "Spike" James will
probably give the Maize-and-Blue an
edge in the nets.
But I stray from my original point,
Corporal L., which was to express my
regret that you are not among those
going up to Minneapolis to cover for
the so-called newspaper of which you
presume to be the quondam sports
editor, for I'm sure that in the al-
most inevitable battles which will
accompany the relatively unimport-
ant business of opening the 1938 Big
Ten hockey season, some great and
good individual would hand you one,
Lieutenant L., perhaps even with a
hockey stick, thus justifying forever
my high opinion of the Minnesota
hockey team of this current year.
Respectfully yours,
FALSTAFF,
In Maroon-And-Gold
Doublet.
Psi U., Lambda Chi
Win In Rough I-M
Puck League Tilts
Upsets Are Numerous Among,
Big Ten Cage Teams, Score
Those upsets that marked play on most twice as many free throv
the Conference hardwoods this past any one else. Not only that
week-end and sent the Main Street Louis Boudreau the flying Fr
coaches back to'their dope books also man, has scored more charityt
left their marks among the lists of than he has field goals.
high scorers. THE BIG TEN'S BIG TE]
Not that it juggled the list around (Including games of Jan. 10
any, since the race has just gotten b f tg
under way, but several of the boys Dehner, Ill ..........18 11 47
who were up at the top at the close of Andres, Ind. ........19 5 43
last season got off to a poor start. Powell, Wis. ........12 7 31
Dehner Leads Jones, Wis...........13 5 31
Pick Dehner, who did not see action Young, Pur. .........12 6 30
with the Illini last season, jumped off Stephens, Ia. ........12 4 28
in the lead in the first three games Nagode, N.U. ........13 2 28
despite the fact that his teammates Boudreau, Ill. .......8 12 28
have had a hard time getting started Rooney, Wis. ........11 6 28
this season. So far his play has over- Huffman, Ind. ......10 7 27
shadowed that of his two more well- Legend: b, baskets; f, free th
known teammates, Louis Boudreau p, personal fouls; t, total points
and Tom Nisbet. who last season were games played; av., average poin
one of the most highly-regarded com- game.
binations in the country. Nisbet mis-
sed getting into the list of the first 10
this week by one point.
The Wolverines have yet to place
anyone up near the top. Jake Town-FR IE N I
send is the only one within striking
distance, with a total of 24 points for
the two contests the Varsity has
played.
Badgers Surprise
Wisconsin, surprise team so far by
virtue of its wins over the 1937 cham-
pion Gophers and its 50-27 slaughter
of the Chicago Maroons has the big-
gest monopoly on the positions, with GRAINS
Hod Powell, Bud Jones, and George
Rooney all well inside the list of the
first ten.I 'Sch
Purdue's Jewell Young, Conference L ii e ii
pacemaker last season is only listed
as fifth, but undoubtedly will rise
higher before long. His total of 30
points were scored in two contests,' _
while all the men ahead of him have
seen action in three games. By av-
erage per game he ranks second.
Most conspicuous fact in the sta-
tistics is that both the Illinois men
listed in the first 10 have scored al- d
ers
The roughest action yet seen in the
ws as Intramural hockey leagues was dis-
, but played in the two close encounters I
ench- played Monday night.
tosses In the first tussle, Psi Upsilon eaked
out a victory over eBta Theta Pi, 4-3,
:N both teams displaying brands of ex-
cellent hockey. Goals for Psi U. were
gp av made by Sam Perry and Harry Cal-
3 16 cutt in the first period, and Ken
3 14 Bradford and Paul .Keller in the
3 10 third period. For Beta, Bob Ferries
3 10 was the individual star, garnering
2 15 two goals in the third period. Bud
2 14 Gulde made the other Beta goal.
2 14 In the other game on the card,
3 9 Lambda Chi Alpha took Alpha Sig-
3 9 ma Phi into camp 4-3. The Alpha
3 9. Sig goals were made by Leonard West
rows; in the first period with one of their
s; gp, men in the penalty box, again by
ts per West in the third period and by Fran-
cis Anderson in the second period.
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Illinois will maintain a hockey
team this year for the first time in
conference history. Since the with-
drawal of Wisconsin, a few years ago,
the Conference hockey title has been
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