~V~CH13, 1940 i i +_ i . lb. I MDepartment Holds Twelfth Annual Open House Today Expect Crowd Of 5000 To See Varied Program Basketball Finals And Saber Champions To Headline Twenty-Sport Schedule By HAROLD WILSON The Intramural Department throws open its door to an anticipated throng of 5,000 at 7 p.m. tonight, thus marking the opening of the Twelfth Annual Open House, featuring a score of sports, 500 contestants, 100 offi- cials, and a myriad of athletic attractions including all-campus tourna- ments, championship playoffs, and exhibitions by internationally-renowned sports figures. Highlighting the Open House grogram for cage fans are three basket- ball tilts, all determining championships of their respective leagues. The Wolverines will meet the Phys Eds for the Independent title. Theta XI clashes with Sigma Nu to decide the Fraternity "A" team champion, and Phi Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Phi tangle for the Fraternity "B" team crown. The final matches of the All-Campus boxing and wrestling matches will be alternated in the large gymnasium. Twelve men have fought their way through the wrestling prelim-- inanies, and six grappling events have been lined up. In the 121-pound Open House Highlights class Ralph Ditchick takes on Bill Lieder. Ralph Wilson and Bill Bes- 7:00: Tennis-All-Campus Finals. tiht will tangle for the 136-pound 7:00 Basketball-Phi Kappa Psi crown, while Harris Rappaport vs. Phi Delta Theta clashes with Stanley Ohlberg at 145 7:30 Boxing Bouts Begin. pounds. Douglas Jeffrey meets Frank 7:30 Swimming-Fraternity Meet. Warner in the 155-pound class, Ar- 7:30 Volleyball-Sigma Nu vs. Al- thur Bennett and Phineas Norman pha Omega. grapple at 165 pounds, and Toni 7:30 Table Tennis Tournament Goodkind and Mel Schlemenson 7:30 Handball 'Matches fight for the Unlimited class title. 7:30 Squash-Fraternity Matches Five Bouts Scheduled 7:30 Archery Exhibitions Constituting the Open House fistic 7:30 Gymnastics-Horizontal Bar festivities are five bouts, alternating Performance with the wrestling matches. Bob 7:45 Wrestling Matches Begin Moore will meet Bob Stephen, John 8:00 Fencing-Mr. and Mrs. de Van Lonkhuyzen mixes punches with Tuscan, Exhibition (repeat- Bruce Scheffer, and Jack Vaughn ed at 9:15) takes on Harry Wicker. Tom Flake 8:00 Tennis Doubles Exhibition will trade blows with Bob Smith and 8:00 Swimming-High School Re- Sam Root will clash fith Chuck lay Wright. 8:30 Squash - LeRoy Weir vs. Fencing enthusiasts will get their Sumner Myers opportunity to witness the finesse 8:30 Baskeball-Theta Xi vs. and delicate technique of champions Sigma Na tonight when Mr. and Mrs. de Tus- 8:30 Volleyball-Ann Arbor YMCA can giye double exhibition of their vs. Detroit YMCA skill in the large gymnasium. Bela 8:30 Paddleball-Exhibition Mat- de Tuscan, the inventor of the fa- ches mous electrical foil, was former saber 8:40 Water Polo-Psi Upsilon vs. champ of Hungary and introduced Trigon fencing as a sport to various schools, 9:00 Badminton - All-Campus including Michigan, Syracuse, and Finals Wayne. Joannade Tuscan was Mich- 9:00 Swimming-Residence Halls igan State champion for seven years, Meet Midwestern champion, American Na- 9:15 Gymnastics - Prallel Bar tional champion, and she served as Exhibition captain of the last Olympic team at 9:30 Basketball - Phys Eds vs Berlin. She now holds the World's Wolverines P'rfessional Championship. 10:00 Ice Hockey-Phi Kappa Psi Divers Give Exhibition vs. Blue Wings (at Coliseum) In the I-M pool a full program is planned. A trio of Varsity divers,_ Capt. Hal Benham, Jock Wolin, and Ralph Psysinski, will give an exhibi- )Frosh 'q tion of high 'board diving. Members r gs of the F reshm an tank team w ill offer a sxalt y a series of exhibition races. The fi- New tiockey v . nals of the Fraternity Swimming Championships, residence hall dual meets, a high school relay, and a By WOODY BLOCK' championship water polo match Coach Eddie Lowrey's well-mauled round out th program. hockey team closed a disastrous sea- At the conclusion of activities in son Saturday night as they bowed the I-M building, the scene of action to Illinois, 3-0 at Champaign. "But will be transferred to the Coliseum next year, as the old saying goes, where Phi Kappa Psi, fraternity next year will be different!" champion, tangles with the Red The basis for this somewhat hack- Wings, Independent champion, for neyed statement lies, in part, from the All-Campus crown. Tennis On Program present varsity net mentor, will meet Lawton Hammett and Harry Kohl Dr. Sumner Myers of the Mathe- have advanced to the final round of matics department in an exhibition the All-Campus tennis tournament match. and will meet for the net title to- A host of other sports will vie for night. Also for tennis fans will be the spectator's attention. Champion- staged a doubles exhibition featuring ship matches and exhibitions will be Sam Durst, Michigan tennis captain, featured in volleyball, table tennis, In the squash courts LeRoy Weir, handball, archery, golf, badminton, former finalist in the National weight lifting, paddleball, dart base- Squash Racquets tournament and ball, and gymnastics. Mann Awards Varsity Letters To 16 Natators Twelve Freshmen Given Numerals; Only Three A' Winners Seniors Sixteen members of Michigan's Western Conference champion swim- ming squad were awarded letters yes- terday by Coach Matt Mann. Only three of the "M" winning na- tators, Capt. Hal Benham, Ed Hutch-- ens and Johnny Haigh, will graduate this June. The rest of the list in- cludes Charley Barker, Bill Beebe, John Gillis, Francis Heydt, Bill Holmes, Strother "T-Bone" Martin, Dick Riedl, Gus and John Sharemet, Blake Thaxter, Jim Welsh, Tommy Williams and Jack Wolin. At the same time, two secondary letter awards were given to Dobson Burton and Larry Wehrheim. Freshmen Win Numerals Freshmen winning their numerals were Bruce Allen, Bill Garvey, Charles Haughey, Ted Horlenko, Bill Leh- mann, Harold McPike, Howard Mor- rison, Clair Morse, Jack Patten, Jim Skinner, Bob West and Scott Holm-' grain. Although the Varsity awards were given out yesterday, the Wolverine season is not yet finished by any means. The outstanding home meet of the year comes this Friday when Leo Maas brings his amazing Wayne team to the I-M pool for a dual meet. Defeated Once The Tartars have lost but one meet so far this year and that to Yale's powerful crew. Conquerors of Ohio State, Franklin and Marshall, and other top-notch teams, Wayne is con- sidered the third best outfit in the nation. Following the Tartar affair are the inter-class meet March 20, and the National Collegiates in New Haven on March 29 and 30. Next year's captain who will succeed Benham will not be elected until the team re- turns from the Nationals. Brooklyn Beats Tigers CLEARWATER, Fla., March 12.- UP)- Detroit Tiger pitching took the rap today as the Brooklyn Dodgers evened their spring exhibition series with the Bengals by a 9 to 5 victory. Louis (Buick) Newsom, Tom Seats and Archie McKain toiled on the mound for Detroit. quad Promises Deal Next Season 'the fact that the freshman squad coming up has some good skaters. One of the main reasons for this year's poor showing was the lack of this very same item, good skaters. In addition, Lowrey has almost his entire team intact for next season. This means that he will be able to carry a larger squad, and this in itself will be an improvement. Only Capt. Spike James leaves the team via the graduation route. Ross, Stodden Back According to present plans, Char- ley Ross and Bert Stodden, hard hit-. ting defensemen, will be at their usual posts during the '40-'41 sea- son. Just to carry out the theme of the New Deal, Lowrey will have, for the first time in many a year, an alternate defense of Fred Heddle and IN THIS CORNER Ity Met,1InIeI'g The Morgue - - . FR AYnight last in Chicago, we wainto the place and imme- diately we think it's all a mistake. Long faces surround us; they watch and wait. Maybe, we think, it is the morgue into which we have wandered and these people are waiting to be 'interred. But no, they move. They must be alive, So anyhow we continue to walk about. There are some peo- ple who, in spite of the general sadness, must be very happy. They are jumping about, twirling on top of their heads as if they are glad about something. Then they stop and all is quiet. We ask some mock-serio characti' what goes on. Does the Finnish war finish here? Is the name of the Democratic candidate announced here? It's two months before the convention but it's a chance we fig- ure. He looks about, makes a quick sign with his finger and mouth and whispers "It's the Big Ten gymnas- tics meet." This is news to us. A gymnastics meet sounds like a kind of food a vegetarian does not eat. It undoubt- edly only serves as an excuse for these lads to release their animal spirits. Suddenly, a giant hush falls over the assembled throng; 4 people are silent, "The winnah," says the announcer, "Minnesota 125 points. Illinois 124% points." Instantly 14 Illini leap into the breach and at the officials. "If that head stand with a half twist had been rated 4.7699 instead of 4.7689, multiplied by four, we'd have won." But the officials, true to their genus, are firm. The score stands. The Illini captain, Joe Giol- lombardi, is the only unperturb- ed lad of the lot. He knows his jumps like he knows his music for his Royal Canadians orches- tra. We sneak out before they land on our head by m tat c Men In White... THE next day we continue our wan- derings and hie ourselves over to the Northwestern campus. There is a massive stone structure there and every door we try is locked. This practically amounts to excommuni- cation so we determine to enter. We climb through a window, wind our way up some stairs and again we see a bunch of guys standing around. These guys are dressed in white and at first glance appear to be waving at each other. A second glance re- veals that they are waving-except they have swords in their hands. No, they are not really mad at each other but a rapid survey of the 20 assembled show that this is the Big Ten fencing meet. There they are, two men in white, trying their darndest. to stab each other. But the amaz- ing part is that for every two fencers there are five, count 'em, five, officials. An if you think basketball brings whistle blow- ing, you should see the fencers. Every time they twitch a muscle, an official jumps on both feet and points, never says a word, just points. Then theyestart over again. No doubt is is very mean- ingful. At this point some joker walks up to us and demands 40 cents admis- sion. We ask him if he thinks it's worth seeing and he shakes his head vigorously. "Don't be foolish. Get out of here while you're still sane. They'll be here till after midnight." We take his advice and run, not walk, to the nearest exit. To this day we don't know who the Big Ten fencing champion is. Our life is in- complete. Conference Champ Stoller, To Iniich, Greer To Run In Michigan AAU Dash Feature By HERM EPSTEIN Headed by the entries of Sam Stoller, former Michigan dash star, Al Tolmich. ex-Wayne University speedster, and Wilbur Greer, Mich- igan State graduate, the entry list for the Invitation 60-yard dash in the Michigan A. A. U. Relays March 23 at Yost Field House will bring together one of the classiest fields the Mid-West has seen since Jesse Owens and Stoller were ruling the dashes. The complete entry list, announced yesterday by Dr. Lloyd W. Olds, State A. A. U. head, and Michigan Normal coach, includes in addition to these men, Al Smith, Michigan's present sprint ace, and Harold Stic- kle, Pittsburg's sophomore sensation. Ran In Olympics Stoller is co-holder of the world record for the event with Jesse Owens. He was a member of the 1936 Olympic team, and was the Big Ten dash king after Owens had finished his collegiate competition. After spending two years in the Phillipines, Stoller returned last fall, and has been working out under Coach Ken Doherty. Tolmich, who holds world records at numerous distances in the hur- dles, has had his sprinting ability overlooked because of his amazing hurdling, but it is his speed which makes up for his small stature. Greer IC4A Champ Greer is a former IC4A 100-yard dash champion, having run the dis- tance in 9.5, only one-tenth off the world record. The Spartan flash appeared in Ann Arbor in an exhibi- tion race during the triangular meet between Michigan, Michigan State, and Michigan Normal in February, and won in impressive style. Stacked against these three vet- erans will be Smith, second in the outdoor Conference 220 last May, Michigan's best sprinter since Stol- ler graduated, and Stickle, whose performances in his first year of competition stamp him as one of the outstanding prospects in the coun- try. Don Nichols, Wolverine 175- pound grappler, was one of three seniors on the squad who finished their Conference careers by tak- ing the Big Ten titles in their divisions last weekend. Nichols thus recaptured the crown he held as a sophomore in 1938. Caige Mentor Favors iMinor RuleChange By CHRIS VIZAS They're off! Oosterbaan joins the race as a liberal conservative. Town- send refuses to even throw his hat in the ring. Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen of Kansas University takes the lead, and it looks like it will take more than a miracle to catch up to the chairman of the National Basketball Research Committee in the matter of demand- ing drastic changes in the basket- ball rules. The Michigan mentor declares, "On the whole I'd agree with those coaches who say that there is too much tampering with the rules, but since they did put in a rule last year which permitted a team to take the ball out of bounds instead of at- tempting to make the basket when awarded a personal foul, I think it should be strengthened. "The result has been this year that the only time a team exercised this option was when it was ahead in the closing stages of a game and wanted to prutec a narrow lead. Now it is only natural under such circum- stances for the team that is behind to gamble in an effort to get the ball away," Oosterbaan pointed out. Continuing, he said, "This gam- bling has often resulted in deliberate fouling to get the ball in the hope that the officials will miss it. If they do not, the team that is trailing doesn't lose anything by having a foul called on it, for their opponent will again refuse the shot. "Such deliberate fouling may in- jure a player and weaken a team either temporarily or, if the injury is serious enough, for the remainder of the season. To correct this I would have the referee give two throws to the player who is fouled. This would give the squad with a narrow lead a chance to increase it and at the same time keep the ball," concluded Oosterbaan. As for the proposed Oosterbaan change Jake simply states, "They should leave all the rules alone be- fore they ruin the game for the fans. Not so for the Kansas "Phog." He'd practically make a new game out of basketball by increasing the height of the basket two feet, cre- ate a 16-foot area in the vicinity of the basket in which no one would be permitted to shoot, add two play- ers to each team, increase the size of the court, and restore the center jump. That's all! .1 I! 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He's a skater and a stick handler with a world of speed and should make good. But you, can't count his teammates, Robert Fife and James Funk, both of Detroit, out of the running, how- ever. Loud Is Groomed Filling the net left vacant by the inimitable James will admittedly be quite a task. But Henry Loud, Grims- by, Ontario, goalie, is being groomed for the job and so far has showed up well. This brings up the problem of scor- ing, and the records show that this tS : year's outfit didn't get along too 4 PNANgwell with their sharp-shooting. Only 41 Michigan goals slipped in enemy nets during the past season while 70 pucks whizzed past Spike James. BURTON'S wAr SUTHOVEPR 115 SOUTH MAIN i A Always "first" with the newest EC"RDS SMOKING... mONRY # ti c" B 01K CENIIE FILTERSJ FOR MEDICO PIPE S PACKIED ONL I THIS RED & SLACK BOXJ I-M Sports Victor Decca Bluebird Vocalion t 'i ^..r ... - 1 I II I d Columbia iI lull I