!JcR I I Iki PGEtU % . .......... . ....... . .. ... .. ... . .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. . lagers Prepare For Saturday's Opener Against Spartans Ito e don wirtehafter's I DAILY DOUBLE I H. G. Salsinger, the cigar-chewing sports editor of the Detroit News, came forth wit- the story yesterday that Michigan could have played in the Rose Bowl if the Board in Control of Physical Education had approved a proposed Michigan-Stanford game in its meeting last Saturday. According to Salsinger's "Umpire" column, if the Board had okayed the plan "there was every assurance that enough members of the Western Con- ference would have voted in favor of the game to guarantee Michigan's ap- pearance at Pasadena on New Year's Day." He goes on to point out that Stanford was eager to play the Wolverines and had sent "reiterated invitations" to Ann Arbor. The first Rose Bowl game was played 40 years ago, and Michigan and Stanford were the contenders. That was Fielding Yost's first year. This will be his last. Tom Harmon in the Wolverine lineup is by far the greatest box-office attraction in the grdiron world. From all angles, a Rose Bowl game between Michigan and Stanford would have been a "natural." Salsinger feels that Michigan turned down the offer because it would have "set a precedent that would be difficult to discount in the future" and because of the "abortive campaign for a Michigan-Minnesota replay." Where he gets his inside information was difficult to discover yesterday. Prof. Aigler, the mouthpiece of the Board, was in Chicago where the Confer- ence meeting will start today. The rest of the members refused to comment. They neither denied nor affirmed the Salsinger story. Which all leads us to the question: What truth is there in it? Certainly, it seems quite possible that Stanford should have desired to play the Wol- verines. Ever since the 41-0 drubbing of California, Michigan has been the talk of the West Coast. The thing we can't understand is where Salsinger got the idea that, the Conference would have granted permission for the Wolverines to play in the Rose Bowl. Openly during the past few weeks, five Big Ten schools had announced ,that they were definitely against any plan for a, post-season game for the Conference. Michigan, by not taking any position on the matter Saturday, seemed ready to cast the sixth negative ballot. Since Chicago will not meddle in the football situation, the Double finds it hard to understand how approval would have been given. Perhaps Salsinger believes that if Prof. Aigler had appeared in the Con- ference meting this weekend and pleaded for permission, the other eight schools would have done Michigan the favor. But certainly it would have taken considerable coaxing to make schools change their votes after openly admitting they were against the idea. Frankly, we don't feel that Aigler or the Board cared to make any appeal of this sort. If they had been assured that the Conference would have okayed the action, it seems that the Board probably would have asked for the permission. There is much prestige, publicity and money to be gained by participating in a Rose Bowl classic . . . especially when you have a team like Michigan had this year. Well, maybe Salsinger has something that we all don't know about. Only time and Prof. Aigler will tell. * * * ', Radio star Tommy Harmon paid Ann Arbor a visit yesterday on his barn-storming tour of America. The all-American Ace revealed that he had eceived offers from both Warner Brothers and M.G.M. for nvie contracts H. . e is meeting representatives from each company to talk terms next Monday . . . Margot can't understand how they'll get his nose .in the movies . . . The raspberries, two cases of them, arrived from Minneapolis . . but crushed . . . Harmon gave them to Hank Hatch to distribute among the coaches. From sources close to .Mr. Collier himself, we have been informed that Grantland Rice will pick the following All-American team when the maga- zine hits the news-stands tomorrow . . . Ends: Rankin, Purdue, and Good- reault, Boston College; tackles: Reinhard, California, and Bauman, North- western; guards: Lio, Georgetown and Suffridge, Tennessee; center: Mucha, Washington; backs: Albert, Stanford, Harmon, Michigan, Franck, Minnesota, and Kimbrough, Texas Aggies. Sophomore-Senior Track Feud eads To Inter-Class Warfare Varsity Team Holds Another Long Workout Mandler, Rookie Center, Paces 'A' Team Attack; Grissen In__limelight Coach Bennie Oosterbaan refused to slacken the torrid pace he has set for his Varsity basketball squad as he sent the cagers through another hard two-and-a-half hour workout yesterday afternoon in preparation for the Michigan State game here Saturday. And when Oosterbaan finally de- cided to call it quits for the day, the Wolverine "A" team had once again drubbed the second stringers, 39-18. Grissen Looks Good Big Jim Mandler, rookie center, was the big noise in the first team lineup as he chalked up 12 points on four baskets and as many foul shots. But for the second straight day husky Jim Grissen played a lead- ing role in the intrasquad tilt. Dividing his time substituting at forward and guard on the "A" team, Grissen tossed in three baskets and a pair of free throws, while George Ruehle scored seven points and Cap- tain Herb Brogan six. Oosterbaan continued to employ a starting lineup of Mike Sofiak and Bob Fitzgerald at forward, Mandler at center, and Brogan and Ruehle at the guard positions. "There's plenty of fight on the squad," piped Bennie after practice, "but they still need loads of work. We'll have to do a lot of brushing up before Saturday." Spartan Coach Pessimistic Meanwhile at the Spartan camp, Coach Ben Van Alstine moaned loud and long over State's hopes in Sat- urday's clash. "Michigan'll beat us by 20 points; we're just going along for the ride," he was reported to have wailed. But no one is taking the Spartan mentor seriously. Despite the loss of Captain Chester Aubuchon, State has a veteran team made up of eight let- termen, three of whom were regulars last year. Van Alstine's charges op- ened their season with an easy 48-29 victory over Kalamazoo College last Tuesday. Inue InPrctc .Y f } star ting ne f ATLANTA. Dec. 4-(/P)-The trad- ing tempo of baseball's big winter v' ----. Max Bahrych, sophomore wing- man of the Michigan hockey team, suffered a broken nose last night when he collided with Johnny Gil- lis in the first play of the nightly practice session. Bahrych will be out of Saturday's game with West- ern Ontario. Swimmers To Appear In Cleveland Exhibition The queen city of the Great Lakes is going to see the king of the swim- ming world Friday when Michigan's natators journey to Cleveland for anj exhibition.J Matt Mann is taking 11 of his great crew to the Cleveland Club to meet a mixed squad of Western Re- serve; Case and high school mermen in what has turned out to be an an- nual affair. This year, however, the Wolverines won't be after any records as they were last year in their meet at the Cleveland A.C. Matt's boys will be given handicaps as has been the cus- tom in these dual exhibition meets. Those making the trip will include: Gus and John Sharemet, Jim Skin- ner, Francis Heydt, Ted Horlenko, Strother Martin, Jack Patten, Bruce Allen, Claire Morse, Bill Holmes and Bob West, besides Harvey Mueller, assistant coach, and Matt himself. Ontario Squad' Boasts Colorful' . Dodgers Buy Mickey Owen; * BillyMyers Sold To Chicago By ART HILL A colorful squad of Mustangs from the University of Western Ontario will skate out on the ice to do battle with the Michigan hockey team Sat-I urday night.1 Since the Canadian regulations for-t bid colleges to engage in intercol- legiate sports because of the war, the+ team is officially known as the Ca- nadian Officers Training Corps Mus- tangs but all the players are students at the University and would comprise1 the school's hockey team if they were allowed to have one. Two Frosh Will StartI Included on the eleven-man squad E are three freshmen, two of whom will1 be in the starting lineup. Don Free- born, husky goalie from Chapleau, Ontario, will be in the nets for the Canadians and Henry Baxter, vet- eran of the Windsor City League, will hold down the left wing position. The Mustang captain is Dudley Thompson who handles the regular right wing spot. Dud got his hockey experience playing for London Cen- tral when they were runners-up for the Canadian Secondary School Championship. He is one of three seniors in the starting lineup. Med Student Plays Claude Moore, starting right de- fense man, is a medical student in his fifth year at Western. He played on the forward wall for the Mustangs last season but has been moved back to bolster a defense which was hard hit by graduation. He is also a mem- ber of the Western Ontario football team. Murray (Fru) Frarey and Joe King, both seniors playing their fourth year with the Western Ontario squad, complete the starting lineup. Frarey, a husky six-footer, plays left defense and can be counted upon for an oc- casional solo dash down the ice since he is an excellent shot and one of the team's offensive standouts. At the center spot, Joe King will show Wolverine fans plenty of smart hockey. He is an excellent play-maker and was the 1938 winner of the Wes- tern Ontario hockey scholarship. He comes from Port Colborne, Ontario, where he played in the Senior On- tario Hockey Association. meetings reached top speed today with completion of two major deals in the National League and the rum- ored near-closing of several others. The Brooklyn Dodgers, continuing their fabulous spending in an effort to build up a pennant winner, ac- quired the coveted catcher, Mickey Owen, from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for catcher Gus Man- cuso. rookie pitcher John Pintar and a "large amount" of money, var- iously estimated at $65,000 or $75,- 000. Before this deal was two hours old the World Champion Cincinnati Reds, who had come to town telling everybody they weren't interested in the trade mart, gave up Billy Mey- ers, their 30-year-old shortstop, to the Chicago Cubs for outfielder Jim Gleeson, shortstop Bobby Mattick and an additional player to be named later. No cash was involved. The net effect of these swaps was to confuse everybody at the 39th an- nual convention of the minor leagues and make the National League out- look for 1941 an uncertainty. At the first glance it looked like the Dodgers benefited most in their transaction while the Reds and Cubs broke about even. The money paid in the Owen deal goes on the same side of the Brook- lyn ledger as the $150,000 they put out to get outfielder Joe Medwick from the Cardinals and the $100,000 they gave the impoverished Phillies last month for pitcher Kirby Higbe, but in spite of this tremendous out- lay, President Larry MacPhail of the Dodgers still was the most active bar- gainer in Atlanta tonight. He was hidden away with President Bill Benswanger and Manager Frank Fritsch of the Pittsburgh Pirates and was known to be striving to get an outfielder, of which the Pirates have seven. 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By HOLBROOKE SELTZER Now when there appears on the track bulletin board down at Yost Field House a notice which tears down the senior members of the team in general, and which concludes with: "We, the undersigned, do hereby challenge the seniors ... to a track meet to be held Saturday, Dec. 14 ii Yost Field House . . ." said notice being signed with bold flourishes by eighteen sophomore tracksters, one can appreciate the clash of steel on steel which figura- tively fills the air of the track locker room these days. The above ringing call to combat was issued Nov. 12, and ever since their immediate acceptance of same the seniors have been devoting them- selves to their training chores with what may be termed tight-lipped assiduity. For the challenge of the sophs is no idle one. That last year's frosh squad was one of Michigan's finest in years is attested by the fact that pre-existing records were smashed and resmashed with startling thoroughness through- out the indoor season of 1940. One lad alone, bespectacled:Bob Ufer, tied or surpassed four standards, ranging from the 60 yard sprint to the 880 yard jaunt. And in addition to Breezing Bob the trackmen of '43 number among themselves Frank Mc- Carthy, Neil MacIntyre and James Byerly, who are even now pushing senior Jeff Hall in the high hurdles. Although outmanned two to one, the seniors are confident that class will show when comes the fateful day, for there will be such Wolverine stars as Captain Don Canham, War- ren Breidenbach, Jack Leutritz and Bob Hook, who will attempt to spank these impertinent youngsters over their collective knee. % \t. r 1 // ONLY YOU can give I this pleasure Do Your Christmas Shopping Soon! Christmas Vacation starts late this year- a good reason to shop here in Ann Arbor and avoid that (lay-before rush. Ann Arbor shops offer the finest and latest in CHRISTMAS GIFTS for all. Follow The Daily for shopping information. 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