WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1938 THE MICHI;AN I) Al [. ~' I -ASIDE wrestlers WillFace Penn State Team Here Saturday " i...... LINES' By IRVIN LISAGOR - Veteran Squad De Invades; Holds S Eastern Title hner Leads Sweet, Thalner coring Race; Feature Fights Young Second Today At Gym; .... s i i k t I-M Sports 'Off' Night Tragedies ... IN HIS moment of deepest cerebra- tion, the sports psychologist has never figured out the whyfore of an "off" day. Today Carl Hubbell's screwball breaks six inches and the backs of opposing batters; tomorrow a cactus patch outfit shillalahs every- thing he serves across the neighbor- ing river. 'Take this Big Ten cage race, for instance. Saturday night Minnesota resembled fragile dubs against Michigan and lost. Two nights later, they undergo a com- plete form reversal against Illi- nois and look like real champions. The Wolverines, on the other hand, beat the Gophers rather handily one night and slumped against Wisconsin. The Badgers have a scrappy five. They out- played Michigan, and no one wants to detract from their vic- tory.- But Michigan was decidedly Capt. Jake Townsend had a tough night. He made only four points and his floor game was throttled almost entirely. On several occasions, the refs found him taking steps trying to find an opening around the pivot line. Nothing seemed to come right that night. To explain his plight is impossible. because an "off" affair is Lions Attempt Comeback The Big Ten's big one this week, After Princeton Upset and you can take it from practically Last eek !all the experts that he's going to be Last Week up there the rest of the season, is Their one-sided victory over Mich Lewis "Pick" Dehner, the Illini's ace ignStat-eda thitory therstioach-center. With 90 points totaled in five igan State a thing of the past. Coach gmss a hssao o n1- Cliff Keen's wrestlers spent the after- point average, thiey're speculating on noon on stiff workouts in preparation juit wenehey're akiJgeon for their meet with Penn State this just when he will break Jewell Saturday night at Yost Field House. Youngs high scoring mark of 172, established last season. The appearance of the Pennsylvania So far this year Young has gar- contingent in the Field House will ner his mar Yo wng hngr- mark a change in procedure. Last year However he has played in one less the Wolverines confined their inter- gawe.er entheni erles sectional tilts to matches at Lehigh regame. But even then his average is and Franklin and Marshall. This sea- three paints below that of the Illini's son, however, Coach Cliff Keen ar- marksman; and unless the latter ranged for the Lions to come here. shows a complete reversal of form, magedfrincthn'sallnsealmeh erx.while the Boilermaker's pacesetter m aPrinceton' eTolldufeall his- keeps going, there's going to be a tered by Princeton last week, Penn high mark that probably won't be Sn only' touched for some time.I State will bring a team, not onl Should both keep hitting the hoop abundant in veterans, but also a squad which will be out to show the at their present rates, Dehner will quality of Eastern wrestling to the finish the season with a total of 216. midwest. 44 better than Young's record of last Drop Tiger Meet j season. Young will have a total of The Tiger's win over State was 180, which is also quite a bit on the their 16th consecutive dual meet vic- asset side. tory, and it also marked the first de- ~----~ feat that Penn has suffered on their THE BIG TENS BIG TEN local mat in seven years. Including games of Jan. 17. 36f1t8 Coach Larson's Boxers Make First Appearance On Waterman Card Coach Vern Larson's boxing squad will make its first public appearance this afternoon when the first of three fight shows will be staged in Water- man Gymnasium. Of the thirty houses that have postedttheir scores in Intramural bowling, the highest sixteen will be chosen to conduct an elimination tournament against each other. The Phi Kappa Sigma team of Lynn Parker, Frank Meier, Bob Archer, Art Treut, and Joe Paulus are heading the list with 2320 points.. Following are Phi Delta Theta (2318), Zeta Psi (2298), Alpha Sigma Phi (2210), and Psi Upsilon (2216). George Petersen (Phi Delta Theta) is topping the in- dividual scorers with a round of 227. Sam Singal, Grad., won the finals of the Intramural Twenty-One tour- nament Monday afternoon by down- ing Norman Rosenfield '41, 21-15 and 21-20. Two featherweight bouts open the program. In the first, Bruce Beyer and Ken Chernin, both freshmen, will match blows, while the second bout will bring together Ray Mason and Fred Levine. Mason won the feather- weight division crown in the Ann Ar- bor Golden Gloves last year and is a slight favorite over his freshman op- Cagers Fight For First Place In Topsy-Turvy Big Ten Race By BUD BENJAMIN "We just didn't play good ball in Michigan's basketball team re- Madison. Wisconsin did. We were turned home yesterday afternoon in definitely outplayed. The team; in- the thick of one of the hottest Con- dividually and as a whole, had a bad ference races in recent years. night." Deadlocked with Purdue's Boiler- "Wisconsin." Cappon continued, makers in second place, one-half "has a good ball club. But in this game behind Northwestern's leading man's league you never can tell how Wildcats, the Wolverines seemed far good a team is after one game. After from disgruntled after their even seeing Minnesota on Saturday night, split of the past week-end. I didn't think that they had a prayer Coach Franklin C. Cappon gave the against Illinois. Yet Illinois beat squad a brief workout in the Field them on Monday." House and called it quits for the day. "Against both Minnesota and Wis- Active drills begin today in prepara- consin," he went on, "we had trouble tion for the winning Wildcats and with our shots. Against Minnesota, Ohio State's rough house, the week- however, our defense was good enough end's opposition. to keep us in the ball game during the Surprise-Not Upset first half. In the second half we Recapitulating the team's win and started to hit the bucket." loss brings forth convincing evidence Offense Slumps that their Monday night defeat is not "In the Wisconsin game, our of- actually a tremendous upset. A de- fense did not click, and our defense feat had been predicted for the Wol- bogged down too. All in all it's just verines before the end of the semes- one of those off nights that hit every ter, and Wisconsin turned the trick. team." Prior to the outset of the season, "The Conference is screwy all the Conference critics predicted the way. Northwestern and Purdue look toughest, most hectic dog fight in like the teams to beat," he concluded many a year. Upsets would be num- One thing the week-end did bring erous. All would feel the sting of de- out is that the Wolverinces can do feat. The events of the past few things with the pigskin oval when weeks seem to bear out their asser- they're on their game. The Minne- tion. sota game, against a team determined Wildcats Also Lose to show predicted form after twe Michigan and Northwestern were straight losses, is perhaps the besi the last to feel the bite. Purdue did example. the expected to the Wildcats. Wis- Second Half Spurt consin did the unexpected to the Wol- Behind 13 to 11 at half time, the verines. Varsity, with Capt. John Townsend What happened? Here's what leading the way, added 20 points t 1 Coach Cappy Cappon has to say: their total in the final frame. They ponent. Stilson Ashe, '39, won the All-Cam- Root Meets Skriganuk pus Handball Tournament yesterday The third bout on the card promises afternoon by defeating Bruce An- to be one of the outstanding scraps thony '38, in a well-played 21-10, of the afternoon as Sam Root, half 21-20 match. of the "Battling Brother" act, tangles* with Denny Skriganuk. Both boys are clever boxers and Larson predicts a very even match. Clarence Peterson and John Sim- mers come together in a light-heavy- weight bout and in a lightweight con- I test Jim French will meet Virgil Both graduate and undergraduate all-campus squash matches have ad- vanced to the final round. In the first division Lloyd Black will oppose Emil Schnap who won his semi-final match yesterday afternoon, triumph- ing over Reece Hatchitt 3-0. In the undergraduate division, Reidar Nor- bom will play H. N. Rogers for the championship. A still one of life's little enigmas. No one should have expected Michigan to weather the weekly upsets. In fact, without deserting the Wolverines, we'd be bold enough to allow they'll lose an- 1 other tussle, maybe two, before curfew. But they remain our choice to cop the title. Against Northwestern, another topflight 1 quintet, they should learn more about their chances. 'Joke'-On Whom ? ? ?j S PEAKINGof "off" nights, some athletes go along at a gfadual pace, then suddenly crescendo into record breakers.2Bob Osgood's 14-flat clocking in the 120-yard high hurdles during the Conference outdoor meet last spring is an example of an athlete3 reaching a pinnacle.H But a J. P. Abramson, New York Herald-Tribune sports writer, disputes Bob's mark, reports an A.A.U. official as calling ita a "joke" record, and casts an obvious aspersion on the timekeepers. Abram- son makes his allegations in a eulogy of Forrest 'Spec" Towns, the Georgia hurdling whiz, who recently turned in his amateur card to assist in coach- ing track at his alma mater. Last year Penn won the Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling champion- ship by the highest score that has ever been attained by a winning team in( that tournament. With the excep- tion of the men in the 118 pound class and in the heavyweight division the1 Wolverines will come face to face with practically the same team that took the Eastern championship. Opposition Is Stiff However, Coach Keen is not look- ing upon either of these events as easy matches for the Michigan men in these weights. In the lowest division Carl King, a sophomore, won his match in an upset victory over an ex-,- D Young, classy colored boy. eYoung, Pur........23 14 7 60 4 1 In another feature bout George And Ind.22 11 10 55 5 11 Wallach and Bob Trowell, '39, at 160 Powell Wis.......21 13 10 55 5 11 pounds, will meet. Wallach has come Rooney, Wis. ......21 12 12 54 5 11 along fast in the past couple weeks, Nagode, N.U. .....18 10 7 46 5 9 according to Coach Larson, and Boudreau,1ll.....15 14 9 44 5 9 should give the favored upperclass- Stephens, Iowa ... 15 14 6 44 4 11 man a good battle. Townsend, Mich . .13 14 7 40 4 10 Sophomores Battle Jones, Wis ........17 6 8 40 5 8 The semi-final event features Don Platt, Ind .........16 8 11 40 5 8 Cash, '40, and Tom - Root, '40, in a Smith, N.U. .......16 8 5 40 5 8 light-heavyweight bout. Both boys Legend: b, baskets; f, freethrows; were mainstays of last year's frosh p, personal fouls; t, total points; gp, squad and have come along rapidly games played; av, average points per under Larson's tutelage. game. The special heavyweight bout 1 I .k C e Iti YentiSuspendedI After N.Y. Fiasco NEW YORK, Jan. 18.--(P)-Enrico Venturi, knocked out in his non-title bout with featherweight champion Henry Armstrong in Madison Square Garden last Wednesday, was suspend- ed for 90 days today by the New York State Athletic Commission which de- cided the bout had an "unsatisfactory ending." Carmine Tarrentino, Venturi's manager, drew a like suspension and in addition was given 30 days for let- ting his man weigh in at more than the 135 pounds called for in the con- tract. 1 e v s a Big Ten Standings We concur in the opinion that Towns was perhaps the greatest! American hurdler in a memory span. But that's scarcely justifi- cation for scorning Osgood's feat. Writes Abramson: 'By retiring, Towns forfeits his chance to correct the injustice done him wen his 120-yard record was supplanted. Paul Jordan, of Indianapolis, chairman of the National A.A.U. records commit- tee, apparently on his own re- sponsibility, recently approved the 14-flat clocking of Robert Os- good, of Michigan, made in the Big Ten championships last May. "Osgood, a personable athlete, is a fine hurdler, but he is no world-beater or record-breaker. lie never placed one, two three in an important hurdles test; lie never has beaten 14.3 under ap- proved conditions except for the 14-flat creditedto him in the Big Ten meet-in a driving rain!." The exclamation point, we assume, indicates Abramson's personal in- credulity of the time, and suggests that maybe not all was jake at the clock. Two of the same men who timed Jesse Owens record-cracking marks in the '35 meet here, which were accepted without question, tclocked Osgood. They were Art Van Duren and Phil Diamond, both of whom have made an avocative study of track. Track Coach Charley Hoyt probably tapped the source of this. Eastern scorn when he cited Osgood's disappointing perform- ances in the National Collegiate meet and the dual engagement with the Pacific Coast Confer- ence. Bob had turned an ankle prior to his coast tests and there- fore had justifiable reason for his failure to come through as ex- pected of a champion. Moreover, Hoyt points out, Michigan doesn't barnstorm its track stars. Wic is probably why some people shook their heads when Osgood burst through with his record. Abramson quotes Judge Thomas T. Reilly, new A.A.U. track and field chairman, as calling the approval of Osgood's record, "considering his background and prevailing condi- tions," as "a joke." And he hopes that the A.A.U., for the good of the sport, ought to throw out the record. A.A.U. nabobs, from time to time, 1inva nupn to h te tinkeg" in theI perienced Tiger opponent. ------ -- ---- -- -- -- brings together Cedric Sweet and Bob Although defeated in the heavy- Actually there are 12 included in Thalner, '40. Sweet lost a split de- weight class, Ernie Bortz, of Penn, the first 10 this week, for Jake Town- cision last year in the Ann Arbor Princeton's Toll needed all his ex- send, Wisconsin's Charlie Jones, Jean Golden Gloves finals to Don Siegel' perience and a 40 pound weight ad- Smith of Northwestern, and the Hoo- who went on to annex the state vantage to take the match. sier's Joe Platt are all knotted up at crown, Frank Craighead will represent the 40 points apiece for ninth place. The bouts will be fought in the box-t visitors in the 126 pound division. This is Townsend's first appearance ing room at Waterman Gymnasiumt Pinned in the last few seconds of his in the column this year. However, and the first scrap is scheduled to match last week, Craighead was rated while he is down at the bottom of the get underway at 4 p.m. The officials, as one of the outstanding wrestlers heap now. he will undoubtedly rank I as announced by Coach Larson, are: in the East last year. much higher as the season progresses, John Johnstone, of the Physical Ed- Aldo Zazzi, Eastern champ at 135 Also he has played in only four games. ucation department, referee; Berger pounds, has changed his weight class Wisconsin leads tne field with three Larson, timekeeper; Don Siegel, and and will oppose Harold Nichols in j men up in the high ranks. Illinois, Vincent Scanio, of the Romance Lan- the 145 division. Indiana and Northwestern have guage Department, judges; and Irvin Three Classes Tough # placed two this week. Michigan, Pur- Lisagor, Daily Sports Editor, an- Bob Reynolds, Don Bachman, and duce, and Iowa each have qualified nouncer. Capt. Russ Schaffer won against the one, while Chicago, Ohio State, and Admission to the chow will be free. Tigers in the 135, 165 and 175 weight Minnesota, the three squads at the__ __ classes respectively. All of these men4 bottom of the Conference race, have are veterans and will cause co-cap- no one to carry their colors. OWEN IN FOLD tain Thomas, Frank Morgan, and - CHICAGO, Jan. 18. -() - The either Tim Hurd or Don Nichols of i Ssigned contract of third baseman the Wolverines a lot of trouble when RiggsAr Marvin Owen reached the Chicago they meet them Saturday night. First Round Competition White Sox offices today. Outfielder Steve Priolo of Penn State who met .,Gerry Walker and Catcher Mike defeat in the recent Princeton match, TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 18.-(P)-Fa- Tresh, who with Owen came to the will be out for a win when he faces vorites survived the first round com- Sox in exchange for Pitcher Vernon Harland Danner in the 155 pound petition in the 14th Annual Dixie Kennedy, Outfielder (Dixie) Walker class. Tennis Tournament today. and Infielder Tony Piet, signed their Bobby Riggs of Chicago, top-seeded contracts several weeks ago. HOCKEY PRACTICE and co-favorite with Bryan M. (Bitsy) Grant of Atlanta, defending Varsity hockey practice will be champion and seeded second. elimin- held tonight from 6 to 7:00 p.m. ated W. B. Marcum of Lakeland. Fla., at the Coliseum. 6-3,6-3 Coach Eddie Lowrey. Grant defeated Gene Busbee of Tampa, without difficulty. 6-2, 6-1. 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