THE MICHIGAN DAILY
After Absence
Starting Lineup Indefinite
For Schedule Opener
Against Mchigan State
By DICK SIMON
This is a tale of courage, of a man
who fought against tremendous odds
and emerged the victor.
The man in question is Ohet Au-
buchon, star guard of the Michigan
State basketball squad that will help
the Wolverines open their 1941-42
season here Saturday night in Yost
Field House.
Back inthe 1939-40 season the In-
diana cager was playing brilliant ball
along with two fellow Garyites, Max
Hindeman and Bob Phillips. All three
were juniors and they were setting
a torrid pace for the Spartans who
won 14 and lost six-two of these de-
feats suffered at the hands of Michi-
gan.
And Chet's. great playing ability
did not go without recognition either,
because he was placed on the All-
American team at guard.
Then it happened. Aubuchon be-
came deathly ill with a severe strepto-
coccus infection and was forced to
remain out of school last year. For
weeks, he hovered on the brink of
death, but finally with his fine physi-
cal condition being the deciding fac-
tor, Chet managed to pull through
with flying colors. .
He's back this year just as good as
ever and .eager to get a crack at the
Wolverines, because he's never been
on a Spartan team that has beaten
Michigan. In his sophomore year,
the Maize and Blue won two thrillers,
41-34 and 30-25, while the following
season the Green and White fell to
the tunes of 33-27 and 32-27.
The five foot, ten inch senior scored
five points against fort Custer in
State's i first game and last Monday
led the Spartans to p, well-earned
victory over Central Michigan College,
29-23, by topping thescorers with
eight po~ints.
SPORTFOLIO
0 New Javelin Ruling
0 Hits Michigan Hard
By HAL WILSON
Daily Sports Editor
IF
Junior Center To Start Spartan Game
J OHNNY WISE is an athlete with-
out a sport.
He has plenty of sympathy for
those gridmen who were attending
the University of Chicago when in-
tercollegiate football was abandoned
by the Maroons two years ago.
For John, a junior on the track
squad, is now in a similar spot.
Last weekend in Chicago the as-
sembled Western Conference Ath-
letic Directors voted, upon recom-
mendation by Big Ten track and
field coaches, to abolish the jave-
lin event from Conference compe-
tition. And to Wise, the only re-
turning veteran javelin thrower in
the league, that's a real setback.
AS A SOPHOMORE last spring
John took fourth place honors
with a heave of 176 feet 5% inches
in the outdoor meet. And since the
first three place-winners as' well as
the fifth man have collected their
diplomas, Coach Ken Doherty natur-
ally enough expected a lot from Wise
in the forthcoming outdoor cam-
paign.
The javelin was given the perma-
nent toss by Conference officials last
weekend only after a bitter session.
Arguments against were mainly: (1)
the event is a dangerous one for, both'
spectators and contestants; (2) it
has proved to be detrimental for the
participants the' last few years, re-
sulting in innumerable sore muscles
and dead arms.
Some of the track mentors felt
that a complete abolition of the
event would be unfair to present
competitors, that if at all, it should
be abandoned at some set date in
the future, preferably three years
hence. But after a stormy session,
the javelin throw was finally erased
from Conference events, by a vote
of 6-4.
THIS IS a double Mjekey Finn for
Wolverine Coach Ken Doherty,
since the Michigan cinder squad pos-
sessed not only the lone returning
veteran, but also the most brilliant
sophomore prospect in Maize and
Blue history, Pete Wege. This young
husky casually tossed the javelin
some 196 feet 6 inches lass spring
which not only shattered the year-
ling record but also bettered the
winning mark in the Conference out-
door by nine feet.
In addition, another returning
Wolverine, Bob Tillson, copped
sixth place in last year's champion-
ships and was also counted on for
points this season. Thus some
nine or ten almost certain points
have been lopped from Michigan's
total next spring.
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SPORTS HASH: Jack Butler and
Paul Kromer, Wolverine grid-
men on last year's combination, re-
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Coach Bennie Oosterbaan is .still
looking for a combination to work
with capt. Bill Cartmin, Leo. Doyle
and Jim Mandle'r. Bob Shemky, Mel
Comin and aalph Gibert are all play-
ing such good ball that Bennie is
having a difficult time figuring which
one to start at forward along side
Cartmill.
And to make matters even tougher,
he's having the same trouble filling
the guard position. Don Holman,
Morrie Bikoff and Bill MacConnachie
are waging a battle amongst them-
selves to see who gets the nod when
Saturday's game rolls around.
Oosterbaan put the team through
a hard two and a half hour drill yes-
terday, the last long one before the
opening tilt. The squad has been
working' hard and long and are' in
excellent shape.
Joe Louis Wins
Memorial Award
For Fine Record
NEW YORK, Dec. 10-(P)-For his
record-breaking reign as king of box-
ing and the job he did in turning back
seven challengers this year, Joe Louis
today won the Edward J. Neil Mem-
orial Award as the man who did the
most for the sport in 1941.
The Boxing Writers Association of
New York, making the annual award
in memory of the Associated Press
sports writer and war correspondent
who was killed in Spain in 1938, voted
the trophy by acclamation for the
first time in the four years it has
been awarded. The previous winners
were Jack Dempsey, Billy Conn and
Henry Armstrong.
The Brown Bomber will receive the
trophy at the boxing writers' annual
dinner Jan. 14.
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ceived their wings from the Navy
Air Corps last Sunday and were as-
signed immediately for action at
Pearl Harbor . . . little Davie Nelson,
who's done a pretty good job of
bringing big athletes down to his
size, declares that it'll be a real ex-
perience fighting someone nearer his
own stature like the Japanese.
Wild Bill Combs, captain of last
year's wrestling team, has with-
drawn from school . . . after com-
peting in k the Midwestern AAU
Meet in Chicago this weekend, Bill
plans to head for Texas to visit
his mother, then join the Fleet
Marine Corps . . . Paul White,
sophomore wingback, goes into
University Hospital Saturday for a
surgical operation on his right
shoulder . . . the Whizzer in-
curred the injury, a separation of
the clavicle, in the Michigan State
game, missed two contests, thek re-
turned against Northwestern and
finished out the season with a spe-
cial brace.
ASIDE NOTE To Those With Rights
of Suffrage: I don't want to be
Santa Claus . . . I am not running
I am mean to little children . .
I don't like reindeer . . . I took a
bluebook yesterday and had to put
quotation marks around all of it . .
I am no good . . . I don't want to
be Santa Claus.
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Trials To Show
Track Prospects
By BOB STAHL
Michigan's track squad will wind
up its pre-Christmas conditioning
program at the Field House Satur-
day afternoon with the first intensive
time trials of the season.
These trials will give backers of
the Wolverine thinclad aggregation
their first real chance t see how
powerful a crew Coach Doherty will
present against Michigan's opponents
when the first meet rolls around next
February. Up until now, the cipder-
men have been running under wraps,
but Saturday they will be aiming at
the Field House records and can be
expected to really turn on the heat.
With a team that lost many of its
most consistent point-getters through
graduation, the time-trials will give
Coach Doherty an opportunity to see
just how his new sophomores will fit
into the picture. The cap-and-gown
bugaboo took its heaviest tollof the
middle-distance and, long-distance
events, leaving the Wolverines with
good runners in both the mile and
two-mile but with none 'of the deep
reserve strength which has been so
characteristic of Michigan track
teams of the past, and it is from the
ranks of the sophomores that Do-
herty must develop this reserve ma-
terial.
Saturday's trials will be open to
the public and all track fans are wel-
come to come down to the Field
House to watch the 1942 thinclad
crew in action.
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By REV JONES
Michigan's hockey sextet will be
seen in action in Ann Arbor nine
more times this season, according to
the official schedule which has just
been announced. Eight encounters
away complete the 18-game card, of
which one, the London A. C. battle,j
has already been played in the Coli-
seum.
Play Port Dover Saturday j
Second opponent will be the Port
Dover outfit which meets the Wol-
verine puckmen this Saturday night,
also on Michigan ice. Little is known
about the boys from Port Dover, al-
though Coach Eddie Lowrey says that
they play in about the same league
as the London A. C.
Play resumes after Christmas va-
cation as the Wolverines journey to
Houghton, Mich., for a two-game
series with Michigan Tech on Jan. 3
and 5. Last year Tech took it on the
chin twice in meetings with the Uni-
versity team.
The- Point Edward club, of Sarnia,
Mich., will attempt to repeat the win
of the Sarnia A. C. last year, when
it plays here five days later on Jan.
10.
Meef Conference Champs
First -Conference encounter will be
with the Illinois team on the Colise-
um ice on Jan. 15 and again two
days later. The Illini were the Con-
ference champs last year, and this
season have a team as good if not
better than last.
Pouring on the punishment, the
Michigan squad travels to Minne-
apolis the next week for two games
with Minnesota. The Gophers are
Twenlty Beautiful Aquabelles Will Present Ballet;
Varsity Swimmers To Stage Special Events
By BUD HENDEL
The barker chants: I delighted cash customers can be ac-
"Step in line. one at a time, don't commodated. It's the big Swim Gala
rush, shove, push people around. No here in Ann Arbor tomorrow night,
with a diamond ring, a wrist watch
ndeedy. it's not a strip-tease, there's and a wooden whistle in every bath-
not a hula-hula gal in sight, and ing suit."
we've positively got no jitterbugs in
the entire cast. And it's the gospel truth. For Coach
"W n.Matt Mann has the greatest Swim
yWr can. man our teeth, curl Gala in the history of the Michigan
yiournair, mae you eellike a mIG water carnival all lined up and ready
lionaire, btwet canegive you a BIG to wheel out to the paying public
show, the bigg est ever staged ini at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Meechegaan. We'vc got 20, yes 20- t8pm oorw
count 'em. beautiful mermaids fresh One of the headline events will be
from sparkling triumphs in the bi the water ballet, featuring Kay Curtis
Windy City of Ch ,ccaoh ready t and her world famous troupe. These
dance for you n the greatesteaquatic girls, who make the water sizzle with
ballet performance to ever hit 'lil old their beaut'y, will do everything but
Ann Arbor. the fox-trot when they go through
their routine in the Sports Building
Get your tickets now for this x- Pool. Reports from Chicago, where
travaganza of natatorial perform- they have been performing, state that
ances. Fifty cents a head for every the troupe puts on an act unsurpassed
man, woman and child and only 1000 by any.
Big Jim Mandler saw service all last season as a sophomore when
he finished second in the team's scoring. The six foot four inch junior
has shown much improvement in th#practice sessions so far this season
and great things are expected of him. He is an excellent ball-handler
and his favorite shot is a one-handed push shot from the pivot posi-
tion. The big center hails from Chicago and is one of the four letter-
men on this year's squad.
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Puck Squad Encounters Tough
ScheduleW it Nine Hoe Tilts
strong as usual and are expected to
repeat their triumphs of last season,
on Jan. 22 and 24.
The Wolverines return home for
the last contest of the semester,
meeting the Paris A. C. of Paris, Ont.,
on Feb. 14, after a three-,week layoff.
With the coming of the second se-
mester and the expected raising of
several of the at present ineligible
players to eligible status, Coach Low-
rey 'expects to take a greatly improved
team with him when he goes to Col-
orado Springs on Feb. 21 and 22.
Object of this trip is the Colorado
College sextet, who last year downed
the Wolverines once and were held to
a tie in the other of their annual two
contests.
Gophers Invade Ann Arbor
On Feb. 26 Minnesota comes to
Ann Arbor for the last two of their
four encounters with the Michigan
team.
Next on the list is Michigan Tech,
which plays the third and fourth in
its series on March 5 and 7. This will
be the last time the Wolverines will
be seen on home ice.
Two games at Champaign with
Illinois climax the season. The In-
dians; will be out to finish up their
year with two victories, but the Mich-
igan team can be counted on to make
it tough for them this time.
Beginners' fencing tournament
will start at 1:30 Saturday after-
noon in the Sports Building, third
floor. Only those persons who be-
gan fencing this fall are eligible
to sign up with Ray Chambers Fri-
day afternoon. Entries will also
be accepted at the I-M office.
Duquesne Willing'
In Post Sesaon
To Play
Contest
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 10-(P)-Of-
ficials of Duquesne University tonight
granted the school's undefeated and
untied football team permission to
play a postseason game in Washing-
ton New Year's Day for the U.S.O.
and British War Relief.
The permission specified, however,
that the opponent must be either
Minnesota, champion of the Big Ten,
or the University of Texas.
The invitation came from Wash-
ington..
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