THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Tom Harmon
Chosen Most
Outstanding Athlete Of 1940
Gridiron Star Takes,
Title By Wide Margin
Greenberg, Tiger Outfielder, Is Named
Runner-Up In Sports Experts' Poll
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-(A)-Named to the All-America football team two
years in succession an voted winner of the Heisman Trophy as this year's
No. 1 football player, Tommy Harmon of Michigan reaped fresh honors to-
day as he was chosen the outstanding male athlete of 1940 in the annual
Associated Press poll.
Seventy-eight of the nation's sports experts, asked to give first, second
and third choices, named men from 10 sports, with nine each from football
and baseball.
But for top choice it was strictly no contest. Thirty-two of the 78
ballots put the Wolverine halfback at the head of the list, and there were
enough supplementary nominations -
to give him a staggering total of 147
points, almost three times that polled
by runner-up Hank Greenberg of the
American League champion Detroit
Tigers.
Harmon, who finished his collegi-
ate grid career by breaking Red
Grange's three-year Western Confer-:
ence scoring record, kept football at
the head of the list for the second
straight year. Nile Kinnick of Iowa
won in 1939, but by a mere eight-
point margin over Joe DiMaggio of
the New York Yankees.
Besides Harmon and Greenberg,:
named first by 11 experts and given _^
57 points on a 3-2-1 basis, the onlyf
others who got , more than a single
first-place vote were pitcher Bucky
Walters of the world champion Cin-
cinnati Reds, third with six and 40<
points; Bobby Feller of the Cleveland
Indians, fourth with seven and 31;
veteran Jimmy Wilson, fifth on nine {''
and 27, and fullback John Kimbrough
of the Texas Aggies, sixth with four
and 18.
Of the other sports represented
the leading candidates were:. ::}s:n.
Golf: Open champion Lawson
Little, one first-place vote and 12
pit;boxing: heavyweight chain
pion Joe Louis, no first-place votes"
and 12 points; track: Chuck Fenske,
Wisconsin miler, one first-place vote
and 10 points; badminton: Dave Free- v---'
man of Pasadena, Calif., three-way TOM HARMON
national champion, seven points; u
billiards: Willie Hoppe, New York, first-place vote for three points; auto
five points; tennis: national singles racing: Ab Jenkins; Salt Lake City,
champion Don McNeill, Oklahoma one point .
City, three points; handball: nation- Goodfellows - Monday
al champion Joe Platak, Chicago, one
Mermen Face
Quaker Team
ThisSaturday
Dual Meets With Wayne
Added To Tank Card;
Southern Trip Looms
Fresh from an exhibition trip to
Cleveland, Michigan's swimming team
got down to work yesterday in pre-
paration for their dual meet with the
University of Pennsylvania on Satur-
day of this week.
The Wolverines were a sorely dis-
appointed crew when they returned
home to find themselves with but
two Big Ten meets on the schedule
for the coming season. Iowa and
Purdue are the only Conference foes
on the docket. However, Wayne
University was added yesterday to
the Wolverine card, joining Iowa
State as non-conference opponents.
The Tartars are to be met on a
home and home basis, the first meet
in Detroit March 15 and the second
here on a later date.
There is a possibility for a swing
through the East to meet the Penn-
sylvania A.C. and the New York A.C.
teams around the middle of January,
Harvey Muller, assistant coach re-
vealed. But nothing can be done
about adding some more Big Ten
teams to the list. They simply re-
fuse to swim against Michigan.
So the first and only dual meet
of the semester will be held Satur-
day in Buffalo, N.Y., with Penn's
mermen. Coached by Bill Merriam
and captained by Joe Tyson, a jun-
ior backstroker, the Quakers are re-
ported to be pretty strong in every
division but the distances and div-
ing.
The Wolverines leave Dec. 20 for
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and the land of
sunshine on their annual Christmas
training trip. Matt Mann has a
crowd of almost 60 signed up for the
jaunt including swimmers, reporters
and photographers.
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D.D.'s Double Surprise...
THE MICHIGAN basketball team
and the Chicago Bears, surprised
us all this past weekend.
As for the Wolverines, their 42-14
walloping of the Michigan State quin-
tet came as an unexpected pleasure
for the Double. We hardly expected
this year's gang to hang up the worst
shellacking in the history of Spartan-
Wolverine cage games.
Frankly, it's difficult to tell at this
point whether Michigan's excellent
showing was due to their own ability
or State's lack of it. The Spartans,
without their injured star, Chet Au-
buchon, didn't present much of a
team. They didn't know how to pass,
lost the ball several times on steps
and broken dribbles, and were ner-
vous, pressing and outclassed
throughout the match.
Michigan, on the other hand,
was an impressive looking outfit.
The Wolverines worked calhly,
smoothly and deliberately. They
had a superiority complex such as
few Michigan cage teams have had
during the past few years.
The veterans, Brogan, "Hey Pete"
Fitzgerald, Sofiak, Ruehle, Cartmill
Herrmann and Grissen all played an
improved brand of ball while Jim
Mandler, the sophomore center,
proved that he has what it takes.
This Girl Can Take Care Of Herself
Excellent Time Trials Increase
Interclass Track Meet Rivalry
By HOLBROOKE SELTZER
During the time trials down at
Yost Field House last Saturday the
sophomores and seniors were eyeing
one another's performances with no
little interest as a possible tip-off to
the outcome of the inter-class track
meet which is to be held this Satur-
day and which is billed to be prac-
tically a duel between '43 and '41.
with '42 just going along for the ride.
And while they were thus busily
engaged, a lowly junior surprised
and surpassed them all by turning
in the best performance of the day.
Bill Ackerman by name, he ran the
mile a full three seconds faster than
he ever had before, in the remarkable
early-season time of 4:20.7, thus
serving distinct notice that he is the
peer of this year's Wolverine distance
men.
Closely pushing Ackerman for top
honors of the day was the.sparkling
work done by Bob Ufer in the 440-
yard dash. witll a mark of :50.7. Now:
ordinarily it is n t)hing unusual for
Ufer to turn in eye-popping times.
but in this case it was. for Bob is
handicapped by the effects of a re-
cent nasal operation and professes
still to feel "sluggish".
Other commend able results ini the
tra k events were 'he :51.3 quarter
mile run by Bobby Barnard. and the
INDOOR TRACK SCHEDULE
Feb. 15, Illinois Relays. Champaign
Feb. 21. Pittsburgh at Michigan
Feb. 25, lieligan. Michiagan State
! and Mcw' Normal at MSC
March 1. Ohio State at Michigan
March 7-8. Conference Meet at
Purdue.
March 15. Butler Relays at
Indianapolis.
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It's Varsity footballer Bob Ingalls on the sports page again . . " but
this time in a little different role. Bob is one of those sexy chorus
"girls" in the Oriental chorus of Mimes' Union Opera which opens at
8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the League.
Said Ingalls, "I'm used to having my picture taken half-dressed in
football shoulder pads.. . but this!."
Mr. Ingalls grimaced after the picture was taken. "You won't print
that will you?"
Pacific Coast,
Big enenreak
Appears Near
DEL MONTE, Calif., Dec. 9.-,(A")-
A widening athletic breach between
the Pacific Coast Conference, in an-
nual meeting here, and the Big Ten
Conference appeared forming today,
although delegates declined to make
official commitments.
Reports, unverified but heard, in-
dicated some of the coast representa-
tives were prepared to oppose renew-
al of the annual track and field meet
bringingtogether picked stars of the
two. conferences.
It stemmed out of re-affirmation
by Big Ten representatives last week
of their policy of prohibiting mem-
bers from engaging in post-season
football games. The Coast confer-
ence had been seeking an annual tie-
up with the Midwest group in which
the two championship elevens would
meet in the Pasadena Rose Bowl, New
Year's Day.
Lacking official action on the con-
vention floor, delegates would not
permit their names to be used. One
was quoted, however, as follows:
"If the Big Ten does not want to
play us in football why should we
engage them in track and field?"
The two organizations have met in
four track meets on a home and home
basis.
Another representative in high
quarters, also requesting to be un-
identified, was indignant over the Big
Ten's refusal to relax its post-season
football policy.
Goodfellows - Monday
The Pennsylvania Railroad's
special student train will leave
the Ann Arbor R. R. Station
at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20 in.
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1:58.6 half mile won by Dave
Matthews with Jack Dobsln a step
behind.
By way of rounding out what was
a very heart-wvrming day for the
coaches, the frosh tracksters came
through with "very satisfactory" time
trials, of vhicuh the performances of
the distance men were especially
pleasing.
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'Tom Hlarmoni
Gets__rophy
Heis man Award Is Given
To Michigan Flash
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-0P)--Tommy
Harmon, Michigan's All-America
halfback, tonight received the Heis-
man Trophy, given annually by the
Downtown A.C. to the football player
who is voted the most valuable in
the country by a committee of sports
writers.
The presentation was made by
Walter B. Holcombe, president of the
Downtown A.C. at a dinner attended
by gridiron notables of the past and
present. Harmon was praised by his
coach, Fritz Crisler, and by Fielding
Yost, Michigan Athletic Director, who
hailed him as "about the best all-
around halfback who ever pulled on
a cleated shoe," and other speakers.
In his reply Harmon said he was
"about the luckiest individual alive"
and that he would "try to live up to
the high standards set by mypre-
decessors."
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Zeta Beta Tau Annexes
Volleyball Championship
Zeta Beta Tau annexed the Fra-
ternity volleyball championship by
defeating Sigma Alpha Mu two out
of three sets, 16-14, 12-15, 18-15, at
the Sports Building last Saturday.
The play of Jack Kessel, a mem-
ber of last year's All-Star squad, and
Art Schoenberg, a member of the
wrestlingsquad, greatly aided the vic-
tors, while the work of Merv Pregul-
man, one of the outstanding frosh
gridders, stood out for the losers.
FOR THE
QUEEN OF
YOUR HEART...
ju ge Lancdis
Sure Of Job
Commissioner Of Baseball
Slated For Reelection
CHICAGO, Dec. 9. -(P)- Base-
ball Commissioner Kenesaw Moun-
tain Landis, whose term of office has
another year to run, is slated for re-
election by the major leagues this
week as a gesture of co'nfidence.
The fact that a formal resolution
to this effect had been prepared for
submission to the major league mag-
nates was disclosed, today by Presi-
dent William H. Harridge of the
American League.
He said his organization would sub-
mit to the joint session with the Na-
tional League on Wednesday or
Thursday the following motion:
"Resolved, that Commissioner Ken-
esaw Mountain Landis is hereby re-
elected Commissioner of Baseball to
serve at his present salary ($50,000)
from the expiration of his present
contract to the date of the termina-
tion of the major league agreement,
to wit, Jan. 12, 1946."
Only a majority vote is needed
from the 16 big league clubs, but
there apparently was no question
that the vote would be unanimous.
The baby-faced Chicago lad still lacks
experience; but one shot in particular
Saturday, the one in which he com-
pletely faked Hindman to his left
from the pivot position, and then
gracefully swerved beneath him and
dropped the ball over his right shoul-
der into the basket, proved that
Mandler can be counted on for big
things in the future.
Be it State's weakness or not, it
still was a pleasure.
As for the Chicago Bears, frankly,
the Double thinks the Redskins must
have been doped, every last one of
them. As one writer put it, it was the
worst beating Washington has taken
since "the British sacked the city
more than 100 years ago."
DOUBLE DRIBBLES:
Michigan's avoided swimmers
received the good news yesterday that
they will have two meets with Wayne
University's young upstarts this year
. one here and one in Detroit .
The Tartars, who defeated Ohio State
and scared the daylights out of Yale
last winter, were also snubbed by the
other natatorial powers this year ...
Yale is coming to Columbus for a
meet . . . but can't make Ann Arbor
. Michigan could beat an all-star
Conference team made up of the best
men from all the other nine schools
. . . without any trouble . . . Ohio's
free style ace, Johnny Patton, left
school .. . Mark Follensbee, the crack
ineligible Princeton backstroker last
year, who flunked out of the Eastern
school, has enrolled at Ohio ...
Maybe Johnny Gillis wasn't so
dumb after all... He goes to Colo-
rado this weekend . .. and. where
are the swimmers? The scheduled
Purdue swim meet will have to be
canceled or changed . .. It comes
during the week of finals.
MATT MANN has more troubles ...
Another of his seniors is heading
altar way this weekend . . . Bill
Holmes will marry Dorothy Wagner
of Detroit . . . He's the third senior
to get hitched this year . . . "It's
catching, like the measles," comments
Matt.
Tommy Quinn, Ypsi distance ace,
and Al Tolmich, former Wayne hurd-
ling star, are working out in the
Field House these days along with
Ralph Swarzkopf in preparation for
the approaching Sugar Bowl meet.
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