MICHIGAN DAILY -String Tackle Post IN THIS CORNER By Mel Fineberg Toil And Trouble...- Superstitious? Who's supersti- tious? Not Earl Martineau, Mich- gan backfield coach. At least, he's a firm believer in hunches and omens on Saturday afternoons in the autumn only. Marty has been a coach here a little over a year or, to put it in terms of football, a little over ten games. For each of those ten games, Marty has worn the same suit. "We beat Michigan State in 1938 when I wore it," he justi- fies, "and I'd be tempting fate not to keep it close to my skin in every other game. The only trouble is," continued this fugi- tive from Hallowe'en, "that it's a winter suit and on hot Satur- day's I fret and I 'turn and I sweat and I squirm. The game with State this year was awful. I was never so uncomfortable in all my life." But that's not the end and all of Marty's exploits with the unknown. He always wears John Nicholson's raincoat. This one is another that, goes back to the State game of a year ago. (As we recall, this game started Michigan on a streak too). Nick had ask Marty to bring his raincoat with him and after the victory Nick, °who isn't at all superstitious, thought that he had better play safe and have Marty wear it all the time. "Anything to humor him, thought lIarty, who, of course, is not superstitious, "but it gets a little annoying at times.. Once he left it at Barton Hills and I had to go all the way out there just before game time. We prob- ably ,would have held up the game if I hadn't been back in time. "But, mind you, it's not supersti- tion. I don't believe in that sort of stuff. But I do believe in pre- caution." * * * Shucks! Mr. Christy.. . It. happened in last Saturday's ball game and Ed Christy swears it's true. It was in the last minute of play and Christy had just missed a tackle only to have someone else come up to make it almost im- Crisler Drills Varsity Team On Offensive I I-M Sports A Reuben Kelto, junior tackle, has become one of the most improved players on the varsity football squad. A center last year, ,Kelto has made a very successful shift to the tackle position, and has been giving veteran Bill Smith a merry battle for the first-string position. Northern Gri Teams Reverse Last Week's Southern Defeats Sfluad Scrimmages After Day Of Rest; Downfield BlockingIs Stressed With the Varsity back in harness after a day's rest, line and downfield blocking was the Wolverine battle cry yesterday afternoon as Coach Fritz Crisler's charges continued preparations for Saturday's game with the lowly Chicago Maroons.- Not yet satisfied with the grade of. blocking which has been evidenced thus far this season, Crisler sent his squad through a long offensive work- out, stressing particularly blocking from the line. Regulars Open Up Holes The regulars took over the offen-i sive at the outset and, after a slow start in which reserve g ards Art Bennett and Art Paddy and tackle Ernie Zielinski stood out in piling up the plays called by Forest Evashev- ski, really opened up and were soon driving through for substantial gains. Joe Savilla was charging hard out of his tackle slot, as were tackle Reuben Kelto and Bill Melzow, who alternat- ed with. Mild~ Sukup yesterday. The sharpness of the blocks which were thrown at the line of scrimmage increased as the practice wore on, but Crisler was not overly impressed at the downfield blocking once his backs got into the opposing secon- dary, which they did with amazing consistency. Further concentration on the downfield blocks will probably take place this afternoon, with de- fense against Chicago running plays coming in for its share, too.' Pass defense, in which there is al- ways room for improvement on the Wolverine squad, will be stressed to- morrow and Friday. The Maroons are pinning their scoring hopes in the air. In the Independent touch football league Robert Owen opened its sea- son with a forfeit victory over Hillel at South Ferry Field yesterday. * * * * In residence hall touch foot- ball competition Leonard Woz- niak led Michigan House to a,7-6 win over Williams House. Adams and Lloyd fought to a 12-12 tie with Wesley Peters standing out for Adams and Fred Spalding and Ted Loring starring for Lloyd. * * * * Four contests were carded in the fraternity speedball leagues. Phi Delta Theta trounced Pi Lambda Phi, 14-4. Phi Kappa Sigma downed Alpha Sigma Phi, 14-3. Theta Chi was nosed out by Kappa Nu, 10-6, and Delta Upsilon defeated Beta Theta Pi, 9-4. * * * * All volleyball entries must be in the Intramural office by Thursday as leagues for the sea- son will be made up then. Fra- ternity and Independent team managers are also advised to en- ter handball and water polo teams at the same time. BASKETBALL MANAGERS All , sophomores interested ini trying out for basketball manager report at the Intratural Build- ing Wednesday at 730 p.M. Larry Rinek, Mgr. AP's Grid Experts Put Michigan Sixth The weekly poll of 112 Associated Press writers shows Michigan's foot- ball team ranked sixth in the country with 512 points. Last week, the Wo ! verines were down in tenth position. Pittsburgh's one-point triumph over} Duke got them top billing this week with 793 points, points being awarded on a basis of 10 for a first- place ballot, nine for a second-place ballot, etc. Ninety-nine points behind came the Irish of Notre Dame, who have, three straight wins. Oklahoma's Sooners, once-tied, but winners over Northstern and Texas, came in third. Fourth was Tulane, and fifth, 44 points ahead of Michigan, was Tennessee. Trailing the Wolverines were Southern California, Alabama, Texas A&M and Ohio State. . __._., _ . _ Full Line of MEDICO PIPES at Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. Virginia Line Coa< Ralph Helkkinen, Michigan's American and Big Ten guard year, has accepted a position as coach at the University of Virg at Charlottesville, Va., it was lear last night. Heikkinen, whos dbwnfield bli ing and defensive play brought American honors to Michigan for first time since 1933, had given 1 position as assistant line coach to accept an offer to play pro sionally with the Brooklyn Dodi He was released by them after porting late and has now acce this new position under head cc Frank Murray. He will also at lw school here 324 South State 818 South State' I '. . ° h .l By DON WIRTCHAFTER It looked for awhile this year that the South was going to demand repa- rations from the North for the fight- ing of the Civil War in the form of football triumphs, but the Yankees dug in last week and more than held their own in the grid battles with their foes from across the Mason- Dixon line. Only a week ago, Alabama whipped Fordham, Louisiana State swamped1 Holy Cross, Duke walloped Colgate, Texas outclassed Wisconsin and Oklahoma ran wild against North- western. All in all, the intersection' hostilities seemed to give evidence that General Lee's surrender almost 80 years ago was a grave error and by no means decided the strongest of the two sections. North Gets Revenge The North came back last Satur- day, however, and balked at the de- mand for reparations. Pittsburgh checked the Confederate tornado by edging out the strong Duke squad, 14-13. Temple also figured in the revenge by unleasing a tricky aerial offense to set back Texas Christian, 13-11. Holy Cross took things in its own hands and gained its vengence by coming back from the Louisiana de- feat to spank Georgia, 13-0. Then there was Notre Dame, too, to help the Yankee cause. The Irish again came through by the margin of a place kick in downing Southern Methodist, 20-19. Two Southern Victories' Of course, the Southerners didn't go through the week without a vic- tory or two for their side. Tulane handed Fordham its second straight intersectional defeat, 7-0, and North Carolina turned the N.Y.U. charges back ;with a 14-7 trumph. As far as Big Ten football is con- cerned, the title race took on a new light this week as Ohio State held Bill DeCorrevont to a total of three yards in 12 attempts to wreck the Northwestern hopes, 13-0. The Wild- cats were conceded the September crown along with Michigan, but after two weeks of operations, it's the Wol- verines and' the Buckeyes on top of the Conference heap with one victory apiece. Gophers And Purdue Tie Minnesota, the defending cham- pions, and Purdue fought each other to a 13-13 standstill in their Big Ten opener. Indiana came back from its Iowa licking to' whip Wisconsin and Michigsg knocked toff Iowa in the other Conference games-last week- end. Illinois and Chicago took part in intersectional battles and failed to hold up the Big Ten standard as the Maroons, fell under Harvard, 61-0 and the Illini went down to defeat against Southern California, 26-0. Michigan's future opponents suf- fered three losses against two wins and a tie Saturday. Ohio State and Penn came through victorious, Minnesota gained the tie, while Yale, Chicago and Illinois were defeated. knee, appeared in a sweat sut, but) did not engage in the drill. Paul Kromer's knee appears well on the mend, as the speedy back, again exercising in a sweat suit. showed only a slight trace of a limp. He may accompany the squad to Chicago. JOHN'S TAILOR and CLEANER Suits Made To Measure Satisfaction Guaranteed! Also Alterations and Repairing 609 PACKARD STREET Jaa/N ED PIPES, CIGARETTE & CIGAR HOLDERS - 0 NLY fitter combining 66 baffle interior and cellophane exte- . .. rior, keeps nicotine, juices, flakes out of mouth. No breaking in. No tongue bite. Breaks up hot smoke stream, resulting in . ild, health y MEDICO FILTERED SMOKING. MOEY CAN RUT Harmon Hits Target Tom Harmon engaged in a passing drill for a half hour, concentrating on long, high passes to John Nichol- son and Joe Rogers. He was hitting his targets consistently and from a distance of over 40 yards. Ed Frutig, still bothered slightly by a sprained le . .... r --- Ihucks," he cried, with typical sty moderation and self-con- And then, out of the maze layers, the ballearrier threw Wolverine fullback the pig- So amazed was Christy it was a moment before, he ed to run Walters Voted Best In National League NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-(P)-Bucky Walters, Cincinati's 27-game winner, learned today, probably with mixed feelings, that he had been voted the National League's most valuable play- er for 1939 by the Baseball Writers Association, being the first choice of 13 of the 24 writers who participated and the second choice of five others. He rolled up a total of 303 out of a possible S336 points. While :appreciating the well- earned distinction, the 29-year-old Red flinger doubtless will recall that the same honor was voted last year to his battery mate, Ernie Lombardi, and that Ernie hasn't been anything like the same player since. Second to him was Johnny Mize, of the St. Louis Cardinals, the league's leading hitter, who received 178 points. Paul Derringer, who pitched 25 victories while losing seven for Cincinnati, was third with 174 points. Fourth went to Cincinnati's, first- baseman Frank McCormick, with 159 points. Curt Davis, Cardinal pitcher, was the only other player to receive more than 100 votes. RACI-MANlI NOFF SERGEI I TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 . . 8:30 P.M.. HILL AUDITORIUM i After the game, he walked over to Fritz Crisler and asked him for the program of the game. The reas- on? He wanted to know if there were anyone on the Hawkeye squad who called himself Shucks. "But there wasn't," he says. The explanation must be in' Christy's magnetic personality. * * * Charley Hoyt, who transferred his allegiance from Michigan to Yale at 'the beginning of this year, will be back in town the Friday before the Yale game. He will accompany the Elis as trainer. Hoyt was in that capacity here before he suceeded the late Stephen Farrell as track coach. As track coach he was always noted for his conditioning ability and he will have both positions at Yale-trainer and track coach. TRACK MANAGER TRYOUTS All sophomores wishing to try out for positions on the track- manager's staff are requested to report at the coaches' room in Yost Field House at 5 p.m. Wed- nesday, Oct. 1. A Tom Adams, Jr., Varsity Track Mgr. Chicago Has Most Titles The University of Chicago leads the Big Ten in unshared football Conference championships since 1896. The Maroons have won seven, Michi- gan, Minnesota and Illinois five. 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