PAGE SIX-SECTIO;4 TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940 P A G E S I X S E C T O ~ J T W O U E-A-, E P T M B E R 2 4. 1 9 4 Netters Hope For Big Season As Tobin Returns In Top Shape Courtright Faces Task Of Building New Team Only Two Experienced Golfers Remain From Last Year's Successful Squad Michigan tennis followers and Coach Leroy Weir are looking for- ward to his most successful cam- paign next spring. Best news of all is that Captain- elect Jim Tobin will be back in top shape. After winning the No. 2 championship of the Big Ten his 'sophomore year, Tobin was expected to carry plenty of slack last spring. But Jim twisted his knee before the season started and played with an elastic support throughout. His ef- ficiency was impaired, and at the season's conclusion it was announced that he would undergo an operation to remedy the situation. So, it was with extreme pleasure' that Coach Weir learned of Tobin's SHOP AT -302 S. State St. successful operation, and his subse- quent fine showing in a recent De- troit tournament. Very pleasant to consider too is the fact that six of this year's letter men are, expected to return. They are: juniors Wayne Stille and Tom Gamon, and seniors Harry Kohl, Bob Brewer, Bud Dober and Jim Porter. Lawton Hammett, junior, who was ineligible last year, will also be back ready to play. Hammett was con- sidered to be the finest freshman prospect to.hit the Ann Arbor cam- pus in years, and his return will im- measurably aid. the Wolverines in their quest for the Big Ten title. To make the picture even rosier, Coach Weir concedes the fact that three men up from his freshman squad have a better than even chance to make the team. They are Roy Bradley, Emory Freeman and Gerald Schaflander. Thus it's not too difficult to name the Wolverine netters as a strong ti- tle contender in the winter books. We/c qne 3pe4/le hi May we extend our welcome to ydu in -this your orientation week. Just as you are anxious to get acquainted with the canipus this week, so will you want to see our shop for MICHIGAN MEN. Here you will find all the new fall fashions in Men's Wear which we have carefully selected for 'you -=ahd'all reasonably priced! Come in and get acquainted with the shop that you will want to nake your headquarters during your Michigai career. "Compare our Prices" 4EflbZ TOGrGyERY GP9 514 East Liberty Greene ldg.. Phone 9068 Michigan's golf squad, which fin- ished second to Illinois in the Bigd Ten race last spring and completed the season undefeated in 11 dual1 matches, will not find the path so rosy this year. It was a team made up of five seniors that Coach Ray Courtright used so successfully throughout the 1940 campaign. Led by Capt. BobI Palmer and the diminutive Jack Em- ery, the entire quintet of par-smash-e ers was purged by graduation. In addition to Palmer and Emery there was Tom Tussing, Bill Black and Lynn Riess, a junior scholastic- ally but through with Big Ten com- petition. Clark Is Captain; This year's aggregation will be built around Capt.-elect GoodwinG Clark, Hinsdale, Ill. junior, who broke into the varsity lineup as a' sophomore and was instrumental in the Wolverines' long string of vic- tories. The quiet, cool-headed Clark was inserted into the Indiana match last April when Emery was unable to make the trip, and from then on made a name for himself with re- peated victories over the best in the Conference. He lost but one match, that one to Ralph Kortgec of Mich- igan State in the final contest of the season. Dave Osler, an Ann Arbor boy, is the only other experienced winner Courtright has for his team. Fred Dannenfelser, reserve for two sea- sons, will be back in addition to John Barr, who saw action last sea- son. Yearlings Impressive It will, of course, be a tough job to mold a team that can emulate the '40 squad, but the picture isn't as dark as it may seem. Coach Thomas C. Trueblood found a smooth swing- ing group of freshmen and drilled them hard during the year. Bob Fife and Ben Smith were two of the best' mashie wielders True- blood fbund. Then there's Walt Schmidt, who was banging them high and hard, Bud Arnold, Ralph Harbert, Jim Wolfe and Morrie Boas. Dick James, Flint sophomore who dominated play in the Flint district tournaments this summer, may get a chance to earn his letter. His brother, Cliff, a reserve for two years, is also expected to give Michigan more strength for the campaign. Just to give the uninformed sports Close Big Ten Race Expected OPEN ING Five Teams Given Chance; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Buckeyes Are Favored (Continued from Page 3) ger will have to carry the .whole of the backfield burden. Only bright spots are: Capt. Tom- my Riggs, tackle, Bernihardt 'and Turek, tackles, and Bob Cherry, cen- ter. Despite the dearth of material, the little genius will give more than one opponent a mighty bad day. A squad of mediocre sophomores '91 C and juniors is not expected to make the Purdue Boilermakers too strong "THE STUDENTS' OWN DINING CLUB" a threat in 1940 Big Ten competi- tion. Twenty-six first-stringers have been lost from Purdue's '39 edition, and the remaining reserves leave ?OM eals... 4.75 many weak spots. The center and right guard posts are noticably lack- (Pluhs tx) ing in material. There are only four certainties in W omen Are Cordially Invited the starting lineup, Capt. Dave Ran- kin at left end, Jim Miller, left- guard, and John Galvin and Mike 209 South State St. Phone 2-1124 Bylene, halfbacks. Coach Harry Stuhldreher, dead r ian of the Wisconsin football forces, is faced with the prospect of rebuild- --~ ing his graduation-riddled squad if e Satisfied With A MICIIGAN DAILY C lassifie his boys are to go anywhere except down during the 1940 season. - - - - -- -1-_ r I i V I BOB PALMER ... 1939 captain fan what Courtright's '41 team will have to live up to. here's what the seniors of '40 did: In the Southern training excur- sion, the boys went through three ,f the South's leading squads. They decisively whipped Tennessee, Geor- gia Tech and Georgia. Then they ntered the Southern Intercollegiate meet with but little practice and ended up third. Capt. Palmer reached the finals in the individual play, losing to Burt McDowell of Louisiana State, one up. State Ties Wolverines The Big Ten race started:after the team returned and the Wolver- ines whipped six Conference rivals, two non-conference foes, tying Mich- igan State in the final match of the season. In '39 it was Northwestern that dged out the Wolverines. This year Illinois did the trick. Again Palmer was nipped for an individual title as he lost to Ohio State's Billy Gil- bert on the final hole when a sen- -ational 50-foot chip shot he made hung on the lip of the cup. BULLETIN Freshmen! Upperclassmen! New Students! 0 RABIDEAU - HARRIS wishes to extend a cordial welcome to Michigan's old and new students and to wish them success in the coming year. Former Michigan men have learned the value of Rabideau-Harris clothes. We invite the new men to come down and become ac- quainted. 0 I I N urnj I I 081 I I Al IE