WEDNESDAY, MN. 12, 8 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE T Hockey Team1 Starts Drive For - _ Rough Tussle Is Anticipated ASE 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 LINES LISAGOR Haynie, Kasley Lead Assault On Records In Cleveland Meet I 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. ~ . . )LY SHOE ECIALS 3.85 J SUEDES, etc. itt Apfel & Co. ntown) SINCE 1895 - =A Oratorical Association ILLINI ENTER RACE 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 presents CAPT. JOHN CRAIG Speaking on "Adentures nf a mil I