WEDlNESDlAY, DEiC. 6, 1929 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 0 Four Clinch Berths ForCage Opener With State Saturday IN THIS CORNER By Mel Fineberg Central Casting ... Before us lies a copy of last Sun- day's Daily. Buried deep in the bot- tom paragraph of a track story are these words, "Don Canham, the good looking junior . . ." They appear des- tained to shake an entire industry. We have now a letter for this same Mr. Canham. Hollywood, California My Dear Mr. Canham: I have at hand a copy of the Michigan Daily of Sunday, Dec. 3, in which some mention was ,made of your ability as a high jumper and possibility as a movie star. I am concerned with the latter as we would like to make a Grantland Rice Sports Short; we can correct defects in jump- ing form but we must have a handsome chap for the star, as the camera doesn't lie. Please advise at once as to the = time most conveilent for an in- terview. Please do not disappoint us, Mr. Canham, as we are count- ing the minutes until we can say, "Ready, Action, Camera," as are all the beautiful starlets of this fair city. Ah, I wonder if you really know how many hearts . flutter at the very mention of your name. Wire your answer at once be- cause you know, as Canham goes, so goes the feminine population. Yours truly, Louis B. Mayer. Hereafter The Daily will be known as Central Casting. The Amazing Freshman.. We were down watching a young freshman named James Skinner swim the other day. It was a revelation. He is more fluid than the water in which he swims. The young Ann Arbor yearling is the antithesis of every other breast- stroker. Heretofore breast-stroking was a power art. The bigger the shoulders and the stronger the arms then the faster they flew. Jack Kas- ley, Johnny Higgins, Dick Hough are all built for this killing stroke. But not Skinner. He's long and lean. He's young and hasn't begun to fill out yet. But with what ease he flies. He moves through the resisting water like the man on the flying trapeze flies through the air. He's al- ready the AAU outdoor champion and we'll predict that Skinner will be the first to break 2:20 for the 200-yard breast stroke in the short course. And while we're dreaming we'llj find another. What a medley relay team Matt Mann will have next year with Skinner, Gus Sharemet in the1 free style and either Bill Beebe or Francis Heydt as back stroker. Witht a flying start Skinner will break a minute and Sharemet can do 51.5 on a hot day. Both Heydt and Beebe will be going under a minute (both1 have done it already) and if our ad-i dition hasn't failed us it all adds up to about 2:51. The present national intercollegiate record (best time re- corded by a college team) held by Thec Princeton team of Al Vande Wegne,i Dick Hough and Hank Van Oss isf 2:51.9. T h e National Collegiate1 championship record is 2:54.4, set by the same team in the Intramural PoolI last March at the National Col- legiates. *,* * The current meeting of the base-t ball purveyors of ivory in Cincinnati brings to mind an old story about Ty Cobb whose base running feats ares legendary today. Connie Mack was drilling his. lads on the finer points of base- ball one sunny afternoon in early 1 April. Suddenly, he turned to Wally Schang who caught for the Athletics in those days, and in- terrogated, "if you were catching and Cobb started to steal third- base what would you do?" Quick as a flash Schang fired back, "Bluff the throw to third, rl Dd the ball and tag him as he slid into home plate." And that is that. Crystal Stipple Paperj Sophomores Strengthen First Doherty-Coached Track Team By HERM EPSTEIN Ken Doherty's production, "New Faces of 1940," has two more months of rehearsals before the cast makes its collective debut, but al- ready nine newcomers are shaping up as probable point-winners for the first Doherty-coached varsity track team. Only in the middle distances have last year's freshmen failed to send up at least one man of promise. Two dashmen, a hurdler, two squarter- milers, a two-miler, two pole vault- ers and one weight man make up the new contingent. In the dashes, Indianapolis' Bud Piel and Detroit's Al Thomas are the standouts. Both are powerful 'unners and both combine other talents with their dash abilities. Piel turned in a :51.2 quarter-mile last week as he competed in his first race at that distance. He is one of First-String Guard the two sophomores who are expect- ed to provide a partial solution to thie problem of the fourth man in the mile relay team. Thomas Shows Promise Thomas was easily the class of the lowhurdlers last year, and this year his performances over the barriers give indication that he may bring Michigan points in that event. Slen- der Ray Gauthier is the high hurdle hope of the sophs. The Shaker Heights, Ohio, boy has been staying right up with the veterans thus far this year. The third of the athletic Dobson family of Ann Arbor, Big Bill Dobson and Chicago's Johnny Kautz are the quarter-mile men. The rangy Dobson was right at Piel's heels last week, and Kautz wasn't far behind in his heat. Ackerman Runs Two-Mile The long-striding Bill Ackerman, from Bryan, Ohio, is the besttwo- miler since Capt. Ralph Schwarz- kopf first reported here three years ago. With Schwarzkopf and Brad Heyl, he will form one of the most formidable long-distance groups ever to represent Michigan. In Charlie Decker and Wayne Mc- Master Michigan has the best duo of pole-vaulters in its history, the two boys having done 13 feet 5 inches. and 13 feet respectively while in high school. Ostroot In Weight Events Last, but very far from least, is the biggest one of the newcomers, George Ostroot. Last spring the big boy smashed Bill Watson's fresh- man discus record to the well-known smithereens with heaves of almost 150 feet despite being kept from con- centrated practice by spring foot- ball. In addition, he is a very prom- ising shot-putter. With a crew like that to supple- ment an already strong varsity, it looks as though the Doherty era in Michigan track should have a most auspicious beginning. --Goodfellows-Monday- Minor Leagues Oppose Landis Juniors Battle For Wide Open Forward Post Cart ill, Glasser, R-11hle, H~erriann Wage Fight- TomH armon Reports By CHRIS VIZAS Starts Third Termt With four starting posts already clinched for the opening game with Michigan State this Saturday at the Field House, a battle looms ahead this week for the fifth berth among four juniors. With Capt: Jim Rae at center, Mike Sofiak at one forward, Herb Brogan and Charlie Pink at the guards, certain starters, Bill Cartmill is fighting to hold the edge he has for the second forward post, since Joe Glasser, Bill Herrmann, and George Ruehle are pressing right be- hind him. Coach Bennie Ooster- baan will have two seniors and three juniors in the starting line-up. Rae and Pink are the two seniors, and the only other man playing his last year for the Wolverines is Dave Wood, who would be in the thick of the fight for the last starting post but for a charlie horse which has kept him on the sidelines for the past few days. It is likely that it may keep him out of the State game. Hammer Reports Tom Harmon; last year's leading scorer, reported for practice yester- day afternoon, but stands only aI slight chance of seeing action in the opener. The presence of Harmon brought the total of juniors on the squad up to nine as compared with the three seniors and six sophomores, who stand the best chance of sticking throughout the season. Two. other juniors besides Har- mon and those competing for a start- ing post are Mio Sukup, who re- ported this week after taking a rest following the close of the football season, and Harold Westerman, a reserve last year. Westerman Injured Westerman was putting up a strong bid for a position among the first ten early in the season, but a hip injury kept him out for several weeks and put him behind the rest of the squad. Sukup won his letter as a relief guard last season and is again expected to see plenty of actiont filling in when he, gets into form. The leading sophomore at present is 6 feet 5 inch Bob Fitzgerald, who is -being worked in as Rae's under- study and an alternate at forward. His classmate Don Holman, who is the scrappiest man on the floor down at the Field House, is also putting up a strong bid for a place in the select circle of the first ten. Call Plays Alternate Right behind these players is sophomore Norm Call, who reported immediately after the grid season ended and worked himself up from the fourth stringers to an alternate post on the second squad. Other sophomores who are certain to stay with the squad are Jim Gris- sen, another gridder who reported this week, Buck Antel, a rangy six foot forward, an Penny Morris, who towers 6 feet 3 inches and plays center.3 Be A Goodfellow COLLEGE BASKETBALL Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology 41, Harvard 28 Kansas 34, Oklahoma Aggies 30 Missouri School of Mines 55, Cen- tral Wesleyan 21 DePauw 32, Rose Poly 27 Eleven remaining home games on Master heads this list as a peren a twenty-game schedule character- nially powerful team. The collegian ized by its lack of breathing space is from across the border will meet ti the menu for Michigan's puck fans Wolverines here Saturday night. for the 1939-40 season. The longest trip ever made by After starting their season Satur- Michigan hockey squad is slated f day in a style that served notice of Christmas vacation with Colorad their intentions to maintain the Springs the goal. Lowrey's squa eleven-year .700 win average of will make the long jaunt to me Michigan hockey teams, the Wolver- Colorado College, Dec. 15, 16. ines will soon be engaged in the The remainder of the Michiga seriousness of a difficult schedule, schedule follows: The program calls for the renewal Dec. 9 McMaster University here of old rivalries, as well as giving Ann Dec. 15 Colorado College, there Arbor fans their first look at Yale's Dec. 16 Colorado College, there sextet which plays against the cream Jan. 2 Yale University, here of collegiate squads from Harvard, Jan. 4 Michigan Tech, here Princeton, McGill, Dartmouth, Tor- Jan. 6 Michigan Tech, here onto and Queens. The Elis are slated Jan. 11 University of Illinois, he to make their appearance Jan. 2. Jan. 13 University of Illinois he Minnesota's big bad men whose Jan. 18 University Minnesota, the annual trip to Ann Arbor calls for Jan. 20 University Minnesota, the local rioting, renew a rivalry which Jan. 24 Ontario Agricultural makes the gridiron feud between the College, here two schools seem mild in compari- Feb. 10 Sarnia A.C., here son, here Dec. 29 and Feb. 2. How- Feb. 15 Michigan Tech, there ever, the Big Ten hockey champions Feb. 17 Michigan Tech, there will get the first crack at Michigan Feb. 24 Paris A.C., here this year on their home ice Jan. Feb. 19 University Minnesota, he 18, 20. March 2 University Minnesota he Strong Canadian squads are not March 7 University Illinois, ther lacking from the schedule, and Mc- March 9 University Illinois, ther - t~ - ---- --- -- - - - -- - -- ~- ~-- - -~ ~~ Hockey Schedule Is Announced; Michael "Mike" Sofiak, diminu- tive junior guard, has already. cinched a berth on the Michigan basketball squad for Saturday's opener with the Michigan State Spartans. Sofiak, a Gary (Ind.) boy, won a varsity letter last year as a sophomore. Trust y Toes Still Play Deciding Role In Football Games ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 5. -(P)- Trusty toes still are vital aides for football's brain and brawn. Field goals, the revival of which was a major trend in 1937, supplied the margin of victory in 73 college games this season to lift the little three-pointers to their most profit- able use in years. Points after touch- downs decided 136 other battles. Field goals and extra points were kind and unfavorable by turns to many of the nation's major teams. Notre Dame trimmed Purdue and Georgia Tech with three-pointers, and squeezed out one-point decisions over Southern Methodist and Car- negie Tech with conversions before fate backfired in a 7-6 loss to Iowa. Extra-point kicking kept Cornell in unbeaten and untied ranks once. Undefeated Tulane survived twice with conversions, once with a 7-6 decision over Clemson and again with a 14-14 draw against North Carolina. Most of the winning field goals- 25 more than last season-were for short distances. Other major elevens triumphing on field goals included Yale, Army, Nebraska, Missouri, Syracuse, Miss- issippi State, Ohio State, Auburn, Purdue, Kansas State and V.M.I. Rulings Passed Grip On Farm Relaxing System Charley Pink, veteran forward from Detroit, will start his third year as a member of the Michi- gan cage squad when the Wolver- ines open their schedule against Michigan State here Saturday night. Pink along with Rae are the two seniors with starting berths. Texas Aggies To Play Tulane Two Teams Accept Offer To Meet In Sugar Bowl NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 5. -(MP- The New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association announced tonight that Tulane University and Texas A. and M. College had accepted invitations for their football teams to play in the, Sugar Bowl here on New Year's Day. Texas A. and M., undefeated and untied in ten games, is currently ranked as the nation's No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll of sports editors. Tulane, which has been tied by North Carolina and won all the rest of its nine-game schedule, is No. 5. The Sugar Bowl announcement climaxed a day in which an offer of $85,000 each to Texas A. and M. and Tennessee to play in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas failed to bring results. For weeks it had been predicted the Aggies, Southwest Conference champions, and Tulane, co-cham- pions of the Southeastern Confer- ence, would meet in a post-season tilt. 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