PAGE SIX THE MIChIGAN DAILY FRffbAtk, DECS,1939 Cartmill Stars In Workout; Will Start Against Michigai i State Spartan Squad Will Have Big Edge In Height Wolverine Lineup Is Set; Both Quintets To Use Fast-Breaking Offense Bill Cartmill turned on the heat last night and sank four out of six shots for eight points in an abbrevi- ated scrimmage and clinched a start- ing berth for the basketball opener with Michigan State Saturday night. For the past few weeks he has held the inside edge for the post, but the work of juniors George Ruehle, Bill Herrmann, Joe Glasser and sophomore Bob Fitzgerald had kept Coach Bennie Oosterbaan in doubt. With the 6 ft. 1 in. Cartmill at one forward, 5 ft. 8 in. Mike Sofiak at the other, Capt. Jim Rae, standing 6 ft. 4 in. at center, and guards Herb Bro- gan, 5 ft. 10 in., and Charlie Pink, 5 ft. 8 in., the Wolverines will send a team out on the floor which aver- ages close to 5 ft. 10 in. State Is Tall Compared to this State has four men over the six foot mark in for- wards Marty Hutt and Bob Phillips, center Max Hindman, and guard Max Dalrymple, while the diminutive Chet Aubuchon holding down theeother back line post stands 5 ft. 10 in. Thus the Spartans have a rangy team composed of five lettermen in its starting line-up. Coach Ben Van Alstyne of the Spartans will resort to the fast break for the first time this season, but only because of the rule changes and the desire of the fans to see a spectacular brand of ball. In the past few weeks he has been worried by the amount of fumbling his team has displayed in handling the ball, and he attributes this to the new style, which he would pre- fer to see abandoned in favor of the old slow and conservative game. Ball-Handling Troubles Coach Michigan's coach agrees that the new game causes considerable jug- gling in ball handling, but his chief worry is that his boys might try to get a litle too clever in the way they To Start At Forward , .l .IN THIS CORNER By MEL FINEBERG I- i ~...J1 s. . Bill Cartmill, 6 ft., 1 in., junior from Verona, N.J., has won a start- ing post at forward on the Michi- gan Varsity over a host of rivals. Bill will bring much-needed height to the Wolverine lineup in the game with Michigan State Saturday night. Preposterous Purity ... Well, it's finally happened. We thought things were progressing too smoothly and quietly. A small war in Europe, people starving in Cleve- land, the laying of groundwork for a "holy war," all these trivia were merely accompanying life along its routine way. But now we're startled again out of our smug little existence by the Dies Committee of the ath- letic field, The U.S.L.T.A. To those lucky among the un- initiated, the five little letters stand for the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Pos- sessed of extreme extrovert characteristics, this governing body of American amateur ten- nis is never satisfied unless it is in the public eye. And most of the time it's there in the form of a cinder. The latest canon handed down by this supreme and august body is the excommunication of Wayne Sa- bin and Gene Mako on the charges that they "violated amateur regula- tions" by accepting excessive travel expenses. Mako is the third ranking singles player in the country, a for- mer Davis Cup player and Don Budge's doubles partner when Am- erica regained the Davis Cup. Sabin ranks in the first ten. This is the first time this rule has been enforced and the entire pro- cedure is as assinine as have been some of the U.S.L.T.A.'s antics in the past. The rule is that an ama- teur can play not more than eight weeks in tournaments and still re- ceive expenses. Well and good. But we'll venture to say that there isn't a top flight player in the country today who makes the tournament rounds who doesn't get taken care of-and still avoid the eight weeks law. Their procedure is simple. They are backed by an association which takes care of all expenses over and above the maximum eight weeks. In return, the amateur plays in associa- tion tournaments, helps bring in the gate receipts for the association and gives exhibitions at the Association's behest. In short, he is subsidized, in every sense of the word except the U.S.L.T.A.'s. This is the hold the associa- tions in various sections of the country hold on the tennisj players. "No play for associa- tion, no get more than eight weeks' expenses. No get more than eight weeks' expenses, no can get good at tennis." And apparently the parent erganiza- tion is helping the local groups maintain their stranglehold on young talent. Bobby Riggs was one of the few who beat the power of local associa- tions. He played on the Coast at' the beck and call of that group, won the national junior championship-1 and then decided to try to crack the big time. His association insisted2 that he defend his junior title on ther Coast and Riggs, a plucky youngster of 17 years spent across the tracks, refused. "I had nothing to gain,"r he said. "Why waste any more time? I'm going East."t The association raved and ranted, threatened and bullied but Riggst was adamant. "You won't even get in the first 20," they told him. "And1 what's more you'll be subject to thec eight weeks rule. But Riggs thumbeda his nose at them and with Wayne Sabin (the same Sabin who was just suspended) went across the continent in a friend's car, going from tourna- ment to tournament, the hard way. At the end of the year, Riggs was ranked number 4, would have been higher had he not lost to Johnny Van Ryn. So seeing he was well up in theI National scene, his old California chums reinstated him and he did; their bidding as per the usual ar- rangement. But then he was thrown off the Davis Cup squad for what Riggs laughingly c a 11l e d "breaking training" and again his coast buddies decided he wasn't good enough and threw him out on thel ear he sleeps on. The little 137- pounder came back to win at Wimbledon and Forest Hills and the last laugh was his. WithCali- fornia suing for peace, Riggs went to Chicago where he abides, plays and is generally happy un- der the aegis of the Western As- sociation. But the Tennis Association was famous before this for the way in which it handled Bill Tilden and Bitsy Grant among others. And the Way it didn't handle the Frankie Ko- vacs case. Then it consistently and with what some consider stubborn bullheadedness, refuses to give any open thought to an open tennis tournament. The troubles the USLTA has with the fuzz on the balls is an- other angle. And now it's in for more grief. Canadiens Win 4 To 1 MONTREAL, Dec. 7. -(,P)- The Montreal Canadiens, with the veter- an Johnny Gagnon showing the way with two goals, defeated the Tor- onto Maple Leafs 4-1 here tonight before the largest crowd of the home season-11,300 howling fans. handle the ball. Although a strong advocate of aI Hockey Captain 'Spike 'James Says Goalie Success Due To Early Start By MASE GOULD cian with an industrial concern after couldn't see his shots, but you could It's all in starting early. That graduation next June. hear them whistle." seems to be the secret of success nor The greatest thrill James ever ex- James has always idolized Tiny Eldon "Spike" James, captain and perienced was in Ottawa when he was Thompson and his consistently bril- goalie of Michigan's Varsity sextet but 14 years old and actually faced liant work as a big league goalie. for when he broke into organized the famous Toronto "kid" line of Joe "He's the greatest goalie in the game amateur hockey in Canada he was a Primeau, Harvey "Busher" Jackson today," says "Spike," "and yet when amatur ocky i Canda e ws ahe applied for. a position in the Ca- mere youngster of 12, the youngest nadian Royal Air Force a few years amateur in the country at the time. agohe was rejected because of de- James, younger brother of the for- ago, he wsrena o mer Wolverine high scoring left wing,.fective vision.'? "Spike" has nothing but praise for Gib, who is now competing in the the work of his teammates up front Quebec Municipal League, has thrilled> in last Saturday's opener, declaring Wolverine hockey fans for the past that the boys showed more fight than two years with his sensational saves, they did at any time last year. "I've and last Saturday took up where he . seen mediocre teams in Canada walk left off last March by turning in all over a much better team me- another grand job, although his team 4chanically thru sheer fight," he says, succumbed to a late rally by the Lon- ! "and I believe Michigan can defeat on .C. by a score o Minnesota this year by doing the Has Pet Technique same thing." Buy is.,. G 31FT Now See our fine selections of Gifts for men by Nationally known makers. Michaels Stern Suits, - Topcoats, Overcoats, Gordon Leather Coats 7.95 up Jayson Shirts $2.00 Holeproof Hosiery 35c to $1. Standard.Robes 5.95 to 9.50 Hickok Belts and Braces $1. 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Mahoney of New York, former AAU president, is ex- pected to offer at least two proposals as a result of a search for a substitute for the 1940 Olympic games. These will be: 1. Establishment of Pan-American games on a permanent basis, the games to be held in the "between- Olympic" years (in other words, at four-year intervals starting in 1942) 2. Some sort of games for next sum- mer to reward those athletes who since 1936, have been working with a berth on the 1940 U.S. Olympic team in view. -- Goodfelows-Moinday - Tomski And Drysdale Make All-Star Team The Michigan representation on the All-American swimming team which will tour South America next month was trebled with the announcement yesterday that Walt Tomski, last year's sprint ace, and Taylor Drys- dale, back stroke star of several sea- sons back will make the trip. Tom Haynie, captain of the 1939 Wolverine team has already been chosen to make the trip. The team sails from New York on Dec. 29, re- turning Feb. 19. -- Goodfellows-1fonday -- COLLEGE BASKETBALL St. Mary's 54, Cleary 17 Purdue 47, W. Illinois Teachers 24 "pike" has a peculiar psychology for goal tending, but it gets results. "Given sharp eyes and an ability to move fast," says "Spike," "a goalie has won half the battle. But there is far more to it than that. A goalie must always cause the incoming shooter to make the first move or suffer an inevitable score. It is estimated that a player on a solo dash will score four out of five times. My best de- fense against solos is in enticing the shooter to aim at an open hole and then being at that spot when he lets. go. It's a gamble, but a goalie has to gamble on a solo dash, so high are the odds aganist him." This is "Spike's" ninth year of or- ganized hockey, the 6 foot, 1 inch, 160-pound Ottawa senior having played six years in the Ottawa City League previous to enrolling at Michigan. A major in chemistry, he hopes to play amateur hockey in Northern Ontario in conjunction with 9, position as laboratory techni- Collier's Picks Harmon On All-American Team Michigan's great halfback Tom Harmon gathered still another feather for his All-American cap with the announcement yesterday that he had made the selected team for Collier's Weekly. The Hoosier Hammer has been almost a unanimous choice thus far. Two other Big Ten players made the eleven, as Nile Kinnick of Iowa was named Harmon's running mate at halfback, and Esco Sarkinnen, of Ohio State, was named at end. CAPT. SPIKE JAMES and Charlie Conacher. His amateur team's practice had preceded that of the Maple Leafs and as he was skat- ing off the ice he was asked if he would like to hold down the net at the far end of the rink until the reserve goalie put in an appearance. "Spike" shakily consented and to this day he'll insist that Conacher has the hardest shot in professional hockey. 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