__"_THE MICHIGAN DAILY 0rum don wirtehafter's DAILY DOUBLE The Cage Problem.,..\ Dear Mr. Double: What's the matter with the Michi- gan basketball team? Why is it, sir, that Michigan could beat Michigan State 42-14 when playing a non- league game, and then go out and lose three big ones when the chips were down? We agree that State's players, all of 'em, looked like they had been picked up from a cemetery in far- off Siberia and brought down for a look at a "new game called basket- ball" - but you've got to admit that they received a good lesson in their initiation. Perhaps you can tell me some- time how a good-looking winning team like Michigant can, in two weeks of holidays, transform into a rakish and desultory lot while the boys from the cow college go East and flash the class which crumbled the top quintets in the country? It's all a mystery to me. I enjoy basketball and so does my girl, but we also live fairly consistent lives- you know-with some facsimile of adjustment to the forces which dis- tract us. And if the Michigan basket- ball team can't do'the same, we'll watch the hockey team. They're sup- posed to be that way. And if it's too cold in the Coliseum for my girl, then we'll watch the wrestling team. High School Miracle Man Made Buckeye Coach Sextet Leaves For Two-Game Gopher Series A 13-man Michigan hockey squad will board the train at 5:22 p.m. to-I day for Minneapolis where the lads will tangle with Minnesota's once mighty Gopher sextet on Thursday and again on Saturday. Coach Eddie Lowrey of the Wol- verines intends to use his regular defense set-up with Capt. Charley Ross and Bert Stodden holding down the back-line posts. Hank Loud will be in the nets. ,Up front, Lowrey will start a for- ward line composed of Max Bal*ydh, Johnny Gillis and Bob Kemp. His sec-, Athletic Board Names Brown To Grid Post Fans Back New Mentor; Tuss McLaughry Gets Postion At Dartmouth COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 14. -A)- Paul Brown, who was too small to play with Ohio State University's freshman football team 13 years ago, today became the biggest gridiron figure on the Buckeye campus. A "draft Brown" movement whichl started after Francis Schmidt re- signed the head coaching job Dec. 16I swept the Massillon High School mir- acle man into the vacant berth today as the athletic board and universityr ,rustees stamped him with their offi- cial okeh. Never in the history of Buckeye athletics has a man received the statewide support of fans, alumni Mermen Face Pitt, N.Y.A.C. This Weekend The old tale of East vs. West will be reenacted Thursday night when Michigan's swimming team meets the University of Pittsburgh in the Pitt Athletic Association pool. But this old tale will have a novel background, for both teams are champions of their respective aquatic leagues, the Panthers holding the Eastern Collegiate Association crown while the Wolverines are king of the Western Conference. Pitt Coach Is Ex-Wolverine Coached by Ben Grady, former Michigan diver, Pitt set one new re- cord and equaled another as it rode over Franklin & Marshall for the Eas- tern title last year. It was in the 300 yard medley relay that a new mark of 3:05.4 was set. Intramural Angles At least, that failure. Yours for an sive reply, Dear Sam, won't give us heart early and comprehen- Sophomore Sammy Mandler And Brogan Praised As Cagers Prep For Badgers anc other coaches as UiUfBrOwn, In winning the same race at the' whose Massillon High teams lost only Big Ten meet Matt Mann's team eight games in his nine years of streaked in ahead of the field in scholastic mentorship. They lost only 2:57.5-just short of the Conference one in the last 60 contests, record held by Ohio State. Brown, informed of his appoint- The Wolverines got a chance to ment while addressing a joint meet- see their rivals recently at the ing of Columbus luncheon and sportsCoche' u i. Lade clubs, declared: Coaches Forum i Ft. Lauderdale' "I am a very happy man. I have where five of the Pitt stars, mclud- been running this football business ingBill McCafferty, Gus and Ralph SWilde and Bill Reese swam for the on a basis of merit and right and East team which took a shellacking wrong. I'll continue to run it that from their Western foes. . way, no matter where the chips mayM fall. I say this with the expectation Meet N.Y.A.C. Saturday and conviction that I will receive the Thursday's meeting in Pittsburgh utmost cooperation from the uni- ! will provide the Maize and Blue ag- versity officials and the youngsters. gregation an opportunity to get a 'I have made no commitments rel- good workout before clashing with ative to my staff. That will take a the well balanced New York A.C. lot of serious thought, but I expect team Saturday night in New York, to have my assistants lined up in Both of the challengers to Michi- about three weeks. But you may say gan's domination of the swimming this-the staff will be my own, of scene took it on the .nose from the my own choosing. And I alone will Wolverines last year-the New York answer for it." A.C. falling, 48-27, and Pitt garner- Brown will get a one-year contract, ing 21 to Michigan's 54 points. with a three-year gentleman's agree- ment. The first year, it was under- stood, he will receive $6,500, Avith a eir Foresees 1 $500 increase the second and third season. On top of that a summer Aheadt F rTJ school teaching session will add about $500 annually to his earnings. - By Gene Gribliroek II By NORM MILLERJ Thrice beaten but still unbowed, A large field of independent teams Michigan's basketball team was back -a total of 36 entries-began the at work yesterday preparing for Sat- chase for the basketball title last urday's game with Wisconsin fgllow- night. Divided into nine four-team ing its unwilling catapult into the Big leagues, the loop has been built on a nlling new basis this year, with recognition Ten cellar. given to the cooperative and room- But if there was any discourage- ing-house groups on campus, ment in the Wolverine's camp over The co-ops, eight in all, have the team's failure to come through, been placed in two leagues of their with a victory in either of their en- own. Two of the other leagues counters with Purdue and Illinois,{ include the squads which come under no special heading, and the neither the Varsity coaches nor the remaining five are rooming-house players themselves showed it. affairs. The success of the latter Mandler Missed Tough Ones depends entirely upon the turnout. "We played a wonderiui game at! If it goes through, the independ- Purdue, but I guess it wasn't enough," ent competition will have a firmer basis than it has had in the past. Oosterbaan remarked at practice yes- The Wolverines and the Forestry terday. "Only once were we behind by Club have been established as pre- more than three points and we led season favorites to fight it out for them several times during the course the crown. The Phys Eds, last year's champions, showed up late with their of the game. entry this year, and will not defend "Jim Mandler and He Brogan their title unless a withdrawal makes played swell games," Coach Ernie room for them. McCoy contributed. "Mandler scored A lot of interest will be centered six baskets, but he might just as well around the Robert Owen entry. have tossed in a dozen. He missed Owen, volleyball champions and co-claimants to the football title several tough dog shots that just with the Hill Billys, have yet to seemed to rim the hoop and drop go down to defeat in anything this out," season. Unbeaten in football and Questioned about Jim Grissen's volleyball, they have four straight revoked shot that might have pro- victories in the handball tourna- l longed the game into overtime, ment and opened the cage season the coaches had no kick forthcoming last night with a 39-9 win over about the decision. "Grissen stepped Lincoln House. over the foul line before the ball hit Eteaeu frh fctthe basket," the two mentors re- Entries are due for the faculty Ivealed. squash and handball singles tourna-vl Ruehlc Handicapped ments, to begin next Tuesday.A In the Illinois game, a bad first field of about 25 will compete for the half proved too much for the Wolver- squash title to be defended by Sum- iaes troveome.hGorgthe le- ner Myers, of the Mathematics de- ines to overcome. George Ruehle, partment. At least as many entries who was assigned to guard the Illini's are expected for the handball event, sensational "Hoot" Evers, had three which Alexander Smith won last year. personal fouls called against him in nthe firsit t nminc f ,-lnv A ,ri c t I ,{ , Ohio State ........ Indiana ........... Illinois .......... . Wisconsin........ . Minnesota ......... Iow a ... ......... Purdue ............ Chicago ........... Northwestern Michigan .......... W 3 2' 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 L 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 , l . t t > >j r a t i 1 M i / Ki THIS SATISFIED CUSTOMER ALWAYS CALLS 8s200 Jim played "Frosty" Sprowl, now the leading scorer in the Conference, and held the Purdue ace to nine points, Against Illinois, Mandler was pitted against Art Mathisen, who at the time was tide for the scoring lead with Jim, and outscored the Illini pivot man 17 to seven. BASKETBALL STANDINGS l Pts. 162 100 134 124 78 76 117 38 72 120 Op. 117 70 123 121 68 83 137 67 98 137 The Double has always been one' who answers his mail promptly. I just finished thanking a friend for a high school graduation card, and! now I can get to work on your biting problems. Poor Sam, and you do have biting problems, don't you? Any guy who can't keep his gal from getting cold in' the Coliseum must be in terrible shape. Bqit on to serious chatter. The Double now attempts to clear up the mystery of the Michigan cag- ers which seems to have baffled you and your "consistent" lover. Really I wouldn't lose any sleep over Bennie Oosterbaan's victory- hungry five. They're still a pret- ty hard battling bunch of basket- ball players, and after all, what more can you ask? Before the Conference season got under way, it is true, the Wolverines did make a pretty promising showing. Their triumphs over State, Butler, and Pttsburgh were both impressive and encouraging. Notre Dame and Princeton conquered the Wolverines, to be sure, but it took some cagey caging to turn the trick. Then came the Conference season with Ohio State drawing first blood. The Buckeyes were hot that night and have remained so ever since. It seems no disgrace to the Double to lose a game to a team that boasts three straight triumphs in Confer- ence play. The heart-breaker at Lafayette popped up next in the Wolverine path. One point behind with less than a minute to, play,. the Ooster- baan battlers hurled the ball three times toward the hoops, but no go. They wound around, hit the rims, and always seemed to worm their way out. It was a tough one to lose, and again no disgrace.! After that defeat, you can hardly expect any bunch to bounce back into the victory column in two days time. Illinois came along too soon after that sad eve in Lafayette and the Wolverines were an off-color quintet. They were listless, sloppy and out-spirited. They came charg- ing from behind in the final half, but the margin was too great, and the defeat inevitable. Well, there lies the Michigan rec- ord. The Double is still hoping and expecting better things from our cag- ers. They really aren't a bad bunch of players. Before the season start- ed, we admitted that chances of a top-notch quintet seemed slim this year. Therefore, we have no kick com- ing, don't you agree, especially since diptheria has knocked Bob Fitzger- ald from our original plans? Thanks for your note, Sam. A loyal member of the "Stick to the Finish Club." Mr. DOUBLE. GIL SAMUELSON ond line will be made up of Paul Goldsmith, Gil Samuelson, and Jim- my Lovett. In addition, the squad will carry four more forwards who will alternate on the third front line. They are Bob Collins, Johnny Cor- son, Fred Heddle and Roy Bradley, The Gophers are not as strong as they were last year when they went through a 17-game schedule undefeated and untied, but they still manage to ice a powerful squad. They got a victory and a tie out of their two-game series with London A.C.# (who beat Michigan 7-5) and split two contests with Yale. Last Satur- day Minnesota fell before the power-' ful Illinois squad by a 4-1 score. Previously, the teams had played to a 2-2 overtime tie. Bright Season >teran Net Squad severely ha of the gam "This Eve seen in a lo "He's cleve either hand. did a good By BUD HENDEL ton Hammet, holder o Brown Mentor Picked Something very rare and unusual ous title. If Jim Port T is taking place on the University of Stille, both letter-wir O ,StCC~edMichigan campus. One of the coach- the ineligible list this HANOVER, N.H., Jan. 14.-(I')- ing staff, Leroy Weir of the tennis can produce a seasonec Announcement that De Ormand team, is disregarding the golden rule erans which will not 1 (Tuss) McLaughry had given up of all coaches everywhere, and is back seat to any aggr what was considered a lifetime berth actually optimistic about his squad's Big Ten. at Brown University to succeed his chances for the forthcoming season. Three men up :om intimate friend, Earl (Red) Blaik, as Most mentors exude gloom and have also flashed fine Dartmouth's head football coach was pessimism but the genial tennis indoor drills. Gerry made today by Athletic Director Wil- coach expects a better than average transfer from Wiscons liam H. McCarter. Wolverine band to square off at the- ley. a member of the Although McCarter was over- net against formidable Conference and Jinx Johnson makE whelned with applicants when Blaik opposition. of promising netmen. and his entire staff resigned Christ- Five lettermen are returning from the squad is lanky Jir mas Day to return to West Point, last year's squad to form the nucleus reserve letter-winner o McLaughry's eventual appointment of this year's aggregation. Capt. Jim Coach Weir is looki had been taken for granted here. It Tobin heads this list which includes the most even Big Te was understood Blaik urged the Dart- Tom Gamon, Bud Dober, Bob Brewer last half-dozen years. mouth authorities to name his friend and Harry Kohl. and Chicago, perennial when he asked release from his con- And another factor which is glad- as strong as usual, wh tract. jdening the chief netman's heart is the Conference membE "The decision I have made has the present eligible status of Law- way up in the tennis s been a most difficult one," McLaugh- ry said on his arrival here. --- honor positions, with seven alter- nates, from a field of over 600. Judged as to leadership, character, person- ality and proficiency in acrobatics, the staff represents the nation's IE X 1i. ri scream teams at most of the post- season all-star games. In its 21st year, Gamirl, Sigma has had on its \ J lists such noted cheerleaders as the - famed Archie Nelson, originator of the Nelson Arch, Kay Kyser and the Ik A late Hal Kemp. ) f the all-cam- Evers mad ter and Wayne baskets aga nners, get off eral of his semester, Weir idsquad of vet-r Tho have to take a Thecoat egation in the i impressed I displayed 1 the freshmen games. In e form in the j Schaflander, a -_-- in, Roy Brad- hockey team, e up this group Rounding out m Bourquin, a of last year. ng forward to en race in the Northwestern powers, aren't Nile the rest of ers are on the trata. mnlllluesV1play, anl was andicapped for the rest e. ers is the best player I've rng time," McCoy reported.} er, fast and shoots with d. At that, though, Ruehle job of guarding on him. e only three of his six inst George and had sev- pet shots blocked." ed Defensive Ability ches were also especially with the defensive ability by Mandler in the two the Boilermaker tilt, big Beer Ffault 303 North Fifth Ave. Get the Habit! Shop at CANTON'S and save 11 I II N- UI WIt ?%#_ U rmx! . 7 1 ..'1 III E