THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1939
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Harmon Is Unanimous Choice For Daily All Big Ten]
Eleven
Seven Schools
Place Gridders
On Star Team
Iowa, Gophers Each Gain
Two Spots; Ohio State
Fills Three Positions
The unanimous selection of Michi-
gan's Tom Harmon, Iowa's Nile Kin-
nick, and Illinois' Capt.. Mel Brewer
was the chief feature of this year's
All-Conference team selected by The
Daily Sports Staff.
With 13 writers in the voting, each
first-place vote counted two points
and each second-place vote one point.
Three men are repeaters this year.
For the second successive season,
Esco Sarkinnen, John Haman, and
Tom Harmon topped the field at
their positions. Kinnick returns af-
ter a year's absence due mostly to in-
juries.
Buckeye, Gopher Chosen
Ends: Esco Sarkinnen, ubiquitous,
a fast man down the field under
kicks, a tower of relief to Francis
Schmidt on defense. The Ohioan is
just plain trouble. John Marriucci,
the Gopher star made close friends
with opposing backs this year-he
was with them so much.
Tackles: Bernie Bierman offers
anQther great Norseman at tackle in
Capt. Win Pederson. The way he
opened holes in the Michigan game
was characteristic of a season of fine
play. Ironman Mike Enich of Iowa
was a big reason for the Hawk's
amazing success this year. Alert,
tough and powerful.
Guards: The inspiring and fierce
play of Capt. Mel Brewer was a major
factor in the Illini's stunning upset
of Michigan, and he played like that
in every game, win or lose. Quick
Vic Marino had much to do with the
success of those crushing Buckeye
center smashes being a standout on a
great Buckeye team.
As Good As Last Year
Center: Haman played this year
even better than he did last year
when he was the class of the Confer-
ence. With a flawless passing ability
he combined his great line-backing'
and a keen diagnosing eye.-
Quarterback: Rising from the ob-
scurity of a reserve halfback to All-
Conference quarterback tells the tale
of Buckeye Don Scott Triple-threat
as well as signal-caller, he was the
focus of the Ohio offense and de-
fense.
Halfbacks: The imposing spectacle
of the two best backs in the country
being in the same Conference greets
the eye here. Nile Kinnick and Tom
Harmon have been the class of the
nation, and need no further comment.
Fullback: George Paskvan took
over Howie Weiss' place this season
and filled completely what should
have been a yawning hole. One of
the few bright spots in the Badgers'
season.
FDR To Witness Game
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-(P)-The
annual Army-Navy game, with its
customary pomp, ceremony, and bit-
ter combat between the service elev-
ens, plus the added attraction of the
presence of President Roosevelt.
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Varsity Squad
Out To Shatter
Swim Records
By DON WIRTCHAFTER
A pack of record hungry Michigan
swimmers will move into Cleveland
Saturday to take up where they left
off last time the team paid a visit
to the nation's sixth city.
For it was just two years ago that
Matt Mann took his squad to the
Cleveland Athletic Club for an exhi-
bitionmeet, and all but the foot-
prints of the great Wolverine aggre-
gation still remains as a memory of
that notable aquatic demonstration.
Mopped Up Pool Records
In the performance, the Michigan
crew broke just about (every pool
record that was in existence that
day, and now after two years in
which squads from Yale, Ohio State,
and Pittsburgh had churned around
within the same confines, Michigan
swimmers still hold six of the club's
12 pool marks.
According to Matt Mann, how-
ever, Cleveland hasn't seen any-
thing as yet, for the 1939 edition of
the Michigan squad will attempt to
leave behind a slate filled with
nothing but Wolverine names and
performances when it departs from
the happy hunting grounds of the
torso murderer Sunday morning.
'Tarzan' Still Remembered
As assignments go, this one is not
exactly a pipe, for a young man
by the name of John Weissmuller
once did some splashing at the Cleve-
land Athletic Club back in 1928 and
the rumor has it that this slightly
unknown chap went so fast that the
breeze that came forth from his fly-
ing body was sufficient to air-condi-
tion for the past 12 years the 12 story
building that houses the pool.
At any rate, the "Tarzan of the i
Apes" man holds two of the present
club records, one in the 100 yard
free style and the other in the 220.
Swimming for the Illinois A.C. on
Feb. 6, 1928, Weissmuller turned fh
a 52 second century and came back
later with a 2:14,3 time in the 220.
Matt Counts On Sharemet
Gus Sharemet, the big sophomore
speedster, is the man that Matt is
banking on to knock off the shorter
distance record, while junior Jim
Welsh, the Big Ten 440-yard free
style champion will go after the 220-
yard mark.
In Cleveland Saturday, it won't be
a case of Harmon outshining a past
Grange performance, but instead
they'll be comparing Sharemet and
Welsh to the great Weissmuller, and
the two Michigan mermen will be
going to town in exactly the same
water as that in which America's
Tarzan turned in such notable feats
just 12 years ago.
Detroit Tigers Are Fined
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-(A')-Kenesaw
Mountain Landis, commissioner of
baseball, with a vehement denuncia-
tion of several clubs for the "evil
practices" of concealing player con-
tracts from his office, imposed fines
totalling $2,500 today on four teams,
including the Detroit Tigers and the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Wolverine Forward
IN T HIS CORNER
By MEL FINEBERG_
..:.
is Rachet's Racquets .
A little kid with a big tennis rac-
quet and a high-pitched squeaky
voice that ran up and down the scale
whenever he opened his mouth piped
up with a request that would have
been ordinary had it come from
anyone else with only 137 pounds and
five feet eight inches about which to
boast. "Where can I get the auto-
graphs of Tom Harmon and Forest
Evashevski for my football?"
We looked at the number one ten-
nis player in the United States. We
gaped at the Wimbledon and U.S.
tennis champion. We stared at this
Davis Cup' member. "You see,"
Bobby Riggs half apologized, "this is
my hobby. I pick my own all-Ameri-
can and then get them to autograph
my ball."
But we were in no mood to
talk football with Riggs whohad
just finished an exhibition match
at the Intramural Building. We
wanted to know what he thought
of the brand of tennis playedI
by Jim Tobin and Sam Durst,
who had just beaten him and
Tobey Hanson of Detroit in a
doubles match.
"Say," he said, "do those kids go
to school here? They're all right.-
That Durst has the awfullest stuff on
his serve and they both hit shots
nicely. Are they eligible?"
We assured him they were.
"Then you'ought to go places in
the Big Ten. Chicago loses the Mur-
phys but how did you ever lose to
Illinois. That certainly surprised
me."
He wasn't alone in his consterna-
tion we told him but what did he
think of our Davis Cup chances next I
year.
"There aren't going to be any
Davis Cup matches next year, or any
yearduntil the war ends," he con-
fided. "And by then we'll be far
ahead of them. While they're using
guns we'll be using racquets. Our
younger players will be acquiring!
better forehands while they're learn-
ing bayonet technique. I bet you
lost that Illinois game because Eva-
shevski was hurt, eh?"
That was part of it we said but
what did he think of the Davis Cup
kids like Welby Van Horn and Jack
Kramer?
"It's difficult to say," he re-
plied. "They're good, darned
good. But they're not quite over
the hump. They're at the stage
where they either get better-or
just stand still. We'll have to
wait .a couple of years before we
pass judgment on them. Do you
think Harmon or Evie will sign
this ball for me?"
We assured them they would ex-
cept that Harmon was out of town
for the day (and his face fell a mile)
but we'd try to find Evie for him.
"Sh ell," he said, "TIll drive you over."
He turned to the handsome chap on
his right and introduced us to Fran-
cisco Eduardo Menendez. "He's my
driver and he used to be with Jimmy
Lynch's dare-devil drivers at the
Fair."
Frank (short for Francisco
Eduardo Menedez) brought to
the car to us with an accompany-
ing cacaphony of screeching
brakes. "I should never have told
you he was a dare-devil driver
in front of him," Riggs said.
"He's trying to show off. Once I
fell asleep in the car and woke
up to see the speedometer at 105.
I yelled for him to slow down.
So he did-to 100."
We crossed our fingers and got in
the car. We were very happy to
get out.
Then we saw Evashevski and intro-
duced the pair. "Forest Evashevski,"
we said, "this is Bobby Riggs." And
then Riggs shyly asked Evie for his
autograph and apologized for it. Evie
looked at him. out of one eye, rather
quizzically, and then signed it. Riggs
thanked him profusely and then
backed away, still gazing at him.
Evashevski was at a loss and we don't
think he knew who Riggs was. And
here was a 21-year-old kid who could
spot The Gang cards, spades and
Big and little cassino in press clip-
pings and still beat him, the number
one amateur in his avocation apolo-
gizing for requesting a signature.
After a while Riggs thought
that "Evie sure writes his F's
funny."
Twenty minutes later, this shy,
unassuming kid from across the ten-
nis track who rose to fame even'
though he refused to wear clean
flannels and bow his head in defer-
ence whenever the tennis association
officials passed, still regretted that
he hadn't been able to get Harmon's
signature, "He'll still be around next
year though. I'll get him then," he
consoled himself.
He'd always wanted to play foot-
ball but his lack of size prevented it.
He attended USC for a term and the
University of Miami for a term and
then took a vacation. "I'm still on
it."
When they left, Frank invited us
to call on him if we came to the
Fair next year. "I'll give you a
ride around a wall at a 47 degree
angle," he said. We thanked him
but thought to ourselves, "The only
thing we'd ride with you is the sub-
way."
Lowrey Shifts
Hockey Lines
In Long Drill
Lack Of Aggressiveness
Is Biggest Weakness;
First Game Is Saturday
A complete reversal of form last
night by a team which had begun to
show some polish set Coach Eddie
Lowrey to work shifting his line com-
binations in the hope that he would
find two suitable lines to send
against London A.C. in the opening
game Saturday night at the Coliseum. I
Lowrey was far from satisfied with
the poor showing of the hockey team
as he put the squad through a stiff
two-hour drill. The Wolverine coach
indicated that he expected a great
deal ,of development from his team
later in the season, but was rather
displeased at their slowness in round-
ing into shape.
First Line Must Improve
The tentative first line of Lovett,
Goldsmith, and Stodden has been
causing the most worry with its lack
of drive. Lovett and Stodden the two
wings who were second-stringers last
season have shown a great deal of
improvement as far as their playing
is concerned, but according to Lowrey
they will have to show more aggres-
siveness if their line is to account for
any Michigan scores this season.
Paul Goldsmith, the sophomore
center, has not shown the speed which
characterized his play on the fresh-
man squad. However, Goldsmith has
had less experience than the two
wings flanking him and may soon re-
gain his form.
Defense Looks Good
During the entire drill, Charlie
Ross and Larry Calvert took care of
the defense duties, and turned in a
more satisfactory performance than
their forward wall.
The most consistently used second
line was an all-sophomore combina-
tion of Corson and Collins on the
wings with Canfield at the center
spot. Samuelson alternated on this
line. Clif Dance worked between the
h trio and the second de-
fenseline of Manning and Heddle.
I-M Sports
Jim Lovett, left winger of the
Michigan hockey team's first line
will be starting his second season
for Lowrey when he plays in the
opening game of the season against
London A.C. Saturday night at the
Coliseum. A -second-stringer last
year Lovett has shown much im-
provement this year and is expect-
ed to account for a good deal of
the Wolverine scoring.
Cagers, Minus
"Giants,' Adopt
Suitable Style
Michigan's basketball squad will
employ a fast break this season in an
effort to wear down its opponents
and offset its lack of height. The
success of this system will depend
on the ability'of the Wolverine court-
men to stand a fast pace for an entire
game.
The present average height of the
Wrestling Team Being Whipped
Into Shape For Coming Season
potential varsity is approximately 51 In the finas of the All-Campus
ft. 10 in., and it is more than likely Squash tournament Chuck Evans de-
that the majority of the Big Ten feated Phil Newman three matches
squads will average 6 ft. and over. to one.
The one encouraging factor about - ---
the practices is that the boys like
the going swift and rough, and they
have the spirit which is essential for
a fast-breaking game. However, in
spite of the attitude and the effort
being put out by the team, they have
failed to hit a consistent scoring
stride.
Although not yet in top condition,
after a month of drills the team
should be connecting on at least 50
per cent of its shots, but instead it
has barely averaged 32 per cent each
night for the past week.
Returning veterans are Capt. Jim
Rae at center, who has yet to reach
his peak, senior Charlie Pink at for-
ward, Herb Brogan, a junior who was
out due to ineligibility last year, al-
ternating between guard and fore
ward, as is Mike Sofiak, a junior let;=
ter winner.
Reserves from last year's squad
who are making strong bids for posts
among the first 10 men are: juniors
Bill Cartmill, forward and center,
George Ruehle, Joe Glasser, forwards,
Bill Herman, guard, and senior Dave
Wood, forward. In addition two
sophomores, Bob Fitzgerald, who may
be the man to spell Rae at the pivot
post, and Don Holman, a forward,
are right up there.
Michigan Daily All-Conference Team
FIRST TEAM
SECOND TEAM
Total No.
Total No.
Sarkinnen, Ohio ......
Pedersen, Minn......
Brewer, Ill. ..........
Haman, Northwestern
Marino, Ohio ........
Enrich, Iowa........
Marriucci, Minn. .....
Scott, Ohio ..........
Kinnick, Iowa ....... .
Harmon, Mich .......
Paskvan, Wis....... .
Points Pos.
... 25 E Prass
... 24 T Savil]
... 26 G Fritz,
20 C Kodr
23 G Methc
21 T Reed
18 E Rank
21 Q Evasb
... 26 ,1H Strau
... 26 H Franc
... 17 F Langl
HONORABLE MENTION
Poin
e, Iowa ..... . .
la, Mich. ........
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'os, Mich. , . ,. .. .. .
od, Northw. . .. . .
er, Ill. ..........
in, Purdue. . ... .
hevski, Mich..
isbaugh, Ohio ...
Lk, M inn. ........
hurst, Ohio ......
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By JIM MONAHAN
Now that Coach Cliff Keen is
through with his freshman football.
work the wrestling squad is being
whipped into shape for the coming
season. Assistant Coach Robertson
has been stressing fundamentals and
the strenuous workouts are in full
swing every afternoon on the bal-
cony of Yost Field House.
The squad is poinung toward twol
meets to be held in the near future.
An all-campus wrestling meet, in
conjunction with Intramural sports,
will be held on Wednesday and
Thursday before vacation, Dec. 13
and 14, according to Coach Keen.
The competition will be open to any
and all who desire to participate.
The other event is the Third An-
nual Midwest Wrestling Champion-
ships, to be held in Chicago, Dec. 8
and 9. The meet is sanctioned by
the Central -AAU and sponsored by
the Chicago Park District. Matches
will be held in the 121, 128, 136, 145,
155, 175 and heavyweight classes.
While it has not been decided if the
University will send a team there are
several members of the squad who
may go individually. Among them
are Harold Nichols, who is ineligiblel
this season, having participated three
years, Don Nichols, depending upon
his rapidly improving ankle injury,
and Jim Galles. Galles, a sophomore,
is state AAU champion, and wrestles
at 165. Harold, 145, and Don Nichols,
175, are well remembered for work
on last year's varsity.
The windup of the football season
has sent several gridmen back to the
wrestling - ranks.
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Ends: Frutig, Michigan
Tackles: Cutlich, Northwestern
Guards: Bykowski, Purdue; Logan, Indiana
Backs: Van Every, Minnesota; Hursh, Indiana; Byeleni,
Purdue; DeCorrevont, Northwestern; Christianson,
Minnesota; Westfall, Michigan
Kinnick Honored Again
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.-(IP)--
Nile Kinncik, star back of the "Iron
man footbal lteam of the University
of Iowa," was selected today as the
"Outstanding college football play-_
er of 1939"
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