TUESDAY, DECEMBER . THE MICHIGAN DiAILY Louis Beats Al McCoy On Sixth Round Technical Knc PAC. TfR4"" ickout Champ Looks Unimpressive In Easy Win Bomber To Defend Title Against Conn Next June, Mike Jacobs Announces BOSTON, Dec. 16-(IP)--Joe Louis came back from his six month va- cation to an easy job of work to- night, but he wasn't the devastat- ing Brown Bomber in disposing of Al McCoy, an overgrown down-east light-heavyweight. It took him five full rounds to cut down a. fellow he outweighed 211 pound's and who had no more punch than grape juice in his fists. After Vunise Barrow, Grad., sister of heavyweight champion Joe Louis, was more anxious than ever to have her brother quit the ring af- ter she heard of his latest victory last night. "Of course I was hoping that he'd win," she said, "but that was' mainly because I want him to leave the ring game as a cham- pion. And the sooner he leaves, the better." 1. Soph Natators Impress Mann In First Start By WOODY BLOCK Matt Mann's sophomore swimmers are right at home in their new role as members of the greatest group of natatorialartists in the country. They proved this Saturday night as they led the Wolverines to a lop- sided 51-23 victory over what Coach Mann described as a woefully weak Pennsylvania team. "My sophomores looked fine in their firsthcollegiate performance," Mann remarked. "They're going to be all right." If the results of their initial debut are any indication that is no idle boast. The six second year men that made the trip to Buffalo brought back five first places besides a second and a third, and Michigan entered only one man in five of the events! It was young Jack Patten who led the parade by winning both the 220 and 440 yard free style races. He had to share honors with Jim Skinner, the breast-stroker, who af- ter winning his event, swam on the winning Wolverine 440-yard free- style relay team made up entirely of sophs. Jim made the 200-yard dis- tance in the breast-stroke in 2:33.5. Ted Horlenko captured the 150- yard back-stroke event, stamping himself as a threat to veterans Heydt and Beebe. Bruce Allen played sec- ond fiddle to the incomparable Charley Barker in the 50-yard race, but that is surely no mark of dis- grace. "The diving of T-Bone Martin Saturday night was exceptional," Mann said. "He's in great shape and he surely put on a beautiful ex- hibition." The squad will ease off on heavy drills this week as it is scheduled to leave Friday for Florida and the annual Ft. Lauderdale Christmas training trip. Overconfidetce Is Mai Factor In Cagers' Off-Color Showing By NORM MILLER Degrading though it may have been to their prestige, the Wolver- ines' off-color performance against Michigan Normal, Saturday night, should by no means be taken as a sample of the brand of basketball the Varsity can produce,according to coaches Bennie Oosterbaan and Ernie McCoy. "It's the old story," McCoy re- marked at practice yesterday, "whenever you have a big team tak- ing on a little one, the favorite is invariably overconfident and the underdog is playing its head off to trip up the big fellow. That's just the way it was Saturday." "Yeah," chimed in Oosterbaan, "the fellows had been hearing all week how bad Ypsi wias, and they went into the gan in the wrong frame of mind.: "They let Normal connect with a few baskets right off the bat, and Ypsi gained confidence. It took us a whole half to get started, and even then, we never got back on the right track. But I'm looking for the team t( t7 9 G a t i 7 l t c c to play better ball on the vacation' trip." One of the few bright spots of the game was the performance of Joe Glasser, making his first appearance of the season. Mat Tourney EndsTonioht Chi Phi, Phi Gamma Delta Seek Fraternity Crown Chi Phi and Phi Gamma Delta wrestling squads retained their chances of claiming the interfra- ternity wrestling crown at prelim- inaries held last evening at Yost Field House. Beta Theta Pi and Hermitage are also running close for third place. The only final bout of the evening was in the 128 pound class, An- derson, Phi Gamma Delta, winning over Ed Adams, Beta Theta Pi. Finals will be held this evening at Ferry Field House according to the following schedule: 7:30, 121- pound class: Fleming, Theta Chi, vs. Katz, Zeta Beta Tau; 7:45, 136 pound class: Wallace, Chi Phi, vs. Butler, Hermitage; 8, 155 pound class: Bush, Beta Theta Phi, vs. Fiske, Chi Phi; 8:30, 165 pound class: Ireland. Theta Xi, vs. Neis, Beta Theta Pi; 8:45, 175 pound class: Swederski, Hermitage, vs. Eshenrode, Hermitage; 9, Unlimited division: Goodkind, Zeta Beta Tau, vs. Black, Beta Theta Phi. Hockey Tea Gives Lowrey Renewed Hope By ART HILL When Michigan's hockey team came back Saturday night to fight the Colorado College squad to a 1-1 tie, they gave renewed confidence to Eddie Lowrey, the Wolverine pilot. "We outplayed them all the way," Eddie said last night. "We should have beaten them in that second game but the boys didn't cash in on a couple of opportunities that cost us the game. Once Charley Ross was in the clear with nobody near him and he had a lot of tough luck to miss on that one." Especially pleased was Eddie with the work of Max. Bahrych, sopho- more wing, and Johnny Gillis, re- formed swimmer who held down the center ice position on the second line with Bahrych and Gil Samuel- son. Gillis scored the only goal for Michigan in the second game with defensemen Bert Stodden and Bah- rych getting assists. In the first game, Gillis and Bahrych combined for a pair of goals. Lowrey emphasized that he was very pleased with the boys he had chosen to make the trip. "I didn't make any mistake in choosing the traveling squad," Eddie pointed out. "All the boys came through very well and I feel sure that we'll be able to give anybody a real battle by the time vacation is over!" By STAN CLAMAGE If Coach Cliff Keen was worried at the start of the current wrestling sea- son, he must really be in a befud- dled mood right now. He had a pret- ty good idea of what to expect from his Big Ten rivals this year, with In- diana having a strong squad return- ing and with equal strength in the hands of Ohio State and Illinois. But what happens, Purdue comes up with a powerhouse to take the Mid-West-~ ern AAU title. Cliff says that he is sorry now that he ever took a bunch of boys to the meet. His only consolation is received from Capt. Bill Combs' victory in the 155-pound. class, although it is true that Jim Galles and Art Paddy reached the semi-finals, only to be beaten in their matches. And Galles only lost by one point in his match. Surely, if those teams can display such power with the season still young, what will come later? Pur- due and Indiana were able to en- ter at least two complete teams, while Michigan was barely able to muster together the five men which represented this school. And even these men were not in the top flight condition that is required for tough competition. With only two men now working out in the heavyweight division- Clarence Hall and John Wilson- Keen is going to experience his great- est difficulty in replacing "Butch" Jordan. And now when he is trying to get his squad into condition, Keen will be interrupted by the coming Christ- It IffJ AAU Results Perplex Cliff Keen n I Swimmers To Tangle With Purpte Tankmen I taking a pummelling for 15 minutes, McCoy, his left eye closed and his ribs red from right hand shots, was unable to come up for the sixth heat.' Commissioner George LaPlante ruled the-bell had rung for the sixth round and that Louis was awarded a tech- nical knockout vietory in that round. The second-largest crowd ever to turn out for a fight in the Boston Garden enjoyed itself thoroughly while it lasted, but didn't like the finish even a little. bit, and, booed as the public address system an- nounced, "McCoy's eye is in bad con- dition and he refuses to come out forthe sixth round." Immediately after Louis polished off the 26-year-old New Englander tonight, New York promoter Mike Jacobs announced that the champion and Billy Conn would fight it out next June in the looked-for half-a- million dollar battle of the year. l t FRATERNITY ENTRIES All fraternity entries for bas- ketball, squash and bowling close today at 5:30 p.m. -- Intramural Department l ; t i i Ir, -- --. .-- POPCORN BALLS' WRAPPED IN HOLIDAY COLORS Also a Complete Selection of 7?ut4... 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Choice of ten flavors. 15C The existing situation of a decided lack of Big Ten opponents for the Wolverine swimming team this sea-, son was somewhat relieved yester- day when it was announced that Northwestern University has con- tracted to tangle with Matt Mann's; Marauders both in 1941 and 1942. The initial meet will be held Feb. 20 in Evanston. don wirtehafter's Dill In Defense Of Matt.. .. ONE of the Double's former col- leagues in this newspaper game, Ken Chernin, pens an interesting "Letter to the Editor" in today's Daily. After glancing over the bit, you'll immediately feel that perhaps we haven't been handing you the straight dope in this column dur- ing the past week. You'll start pointing a finger at Matt Mann. You'll shout for a house cleaning right here in our own home. You'll throw up your hands and yell "guilty." Ken points out that the whole schedule problem arose two years back when Michigan refused to en- ter the AAU championships in Col- umbus because Matt felt that his squad couldn't afford to miss any more school work. It was that fateful decision that brought on all these complications, according to Chernin. Ohio is now paying the Wolverines back. It sounds logical enough. But, be careful, neighbor. Don't be deceived by this sort of superficial talk. Despite the fact that Ken is a former Michigan student, he has fallen before the masterful propa- ganda which annually arises from the Buckeye camp. This is nothing but the usual Ohio excuse. We'll show you why. Until last year, Michigan had never entered a team in the National AAU meet. Several times, individual Wolverine natators had journeyed to the annual affair on their own ex- pense account. Came 1939, the year that the meet was held in Columbus, and a tremendous amount of pres- sure was hurled upon Matt to send the entire band down to compete. The Wolverines had snatched the Big Ten and National Collegiate titles that campaign, and Ohio was anxi- ous to gain some revenge. Matt Mann thought over the situation, was impressed somewhat by the pressure, but finally decided to stick to his old plan of winding up the official swimming season after the collegiate meet. "We'd like to oblige and send down the squad," Matt said at the time, "but most of these boys have been out of school for two weeks now. We can't expect them to re- main eligible under those condi- tions." As usual, all Michigan swimmers s 0 * Make Christmas * Mean More with * * 0 * Fraternity Jewelry : * 0 S from P who cared to compete were allowed to go on their own. A few did, namely Jack Kasley, Walt Tomski and Tom Haynie. But the situation in 1939 was no different from that of any of the years that preceded it. It is true that in 1940, Michigan did enter a full team in the AAU meet, and did manage to win the title.dBut once again, it was not the decision of Matt Mann to have his boys compete in New York. Sometime before the meet, a group of swimmers asked Matt if it would not be possible to remain in the East for a few days after the National Collegiates at New Haven and repre- sent Michigan in the AAU's. They were sick and tired of being called "yellow" because of their reluctance to compete. Once again the idea of ineligibility was brought up. Matt warned his swimmers about the amount of school they had missed already, but the Wolverines just laughed it off and continued their pressure. Finally Matt asked the Board, and the team was granted a mere $100 to make the trip. That sum is hardly enough to keep a squad of athletes in New York for a week. Matt then contacted the New York A.C. where he had formerly coached, and they agreed to grant the Wolverines one large room to sleep in gratis. The proposition was then placed before the Michigan swimmers. Al- most unanimously they voted to go, despite the fact that they were re- quired to pay for their own meals during the trip. Now it turns out that Matt's pleas about ineligibility weren't just silly excuses to get out of taking a beat- ing. For in the year following his first full entry in the Natonal AAU meet, the Wolverine coach has more ineligible swimmers than ever be- fore. Aside from Capt. Bill Beebe, diver Jack Wolin, free-styler Dobson Burton and back stroker Dick Reidl are all on the sidelines this semester because of grade difficulties. No, you can't accuse the Wolver- ines of starting this whole mess. Didn't Ohio pull the same snubbing policy this year with the up-and- coming Wayne team which upset the Buckeyes last winter? 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