THE MICHIGAN I)AILY PAGE Louis Heavier, Training Hard For Title Bout GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y., Jan. 6. - () - Joe Louis isn't getting enough out of Friday night's fuss with Buddy Baer to order a helping of fried chicken, but he's training harder and walloping more viciously than he did when it meant $100,000 or more. Ofhicourse, if Buddy should wind up his high hard one in Madison Square Garden Friday and knock Joe's ears off, the Bomber would be out some- thing more than 40 per cent cut. There's the small matter of the World Heavyweight Championship. Recalls Baer's Right "Buddy hit me a' honey in Wash- ington last May," he recalled today after belting four sparring partners liberally, "so iI ain't takin' any chances of that happenin' again. When I fell through the/ropes after he connected that time, I realized right then I couldn't take any chances if I ever took him on again." What's more, you learn from Joe's camp followers that the head man is having lots more fun training for this fight, largely because he's in bet- ter shape than ever before, and, too, because it's the best way he knows of showing his patriontism. "I'm glad I can do this for the Navy relief, and my country," he explained. "Afterward, I guess I'll be called for the any right quick, but I'll have done this much, anyway." May Draw $200,000 "This much," incidentally is no small touch. The way things shape up at the moment, the fight should draw over $200,000, of which Joe's entire 40 per cent is being turned over to the Navy relief fund'as well as Promoter Mike Jacobs entire profitrand a good piece of Baer's cut. This is a light-hearted Louis work- ing out among the snowy and bitter cold Ramapo Hills. He kids around with his spariates-out-side of' the ring, of course-and is thinking up gags to work on trainer Jack Blacu- burn. It's more like the old days of three or four years ago. Joe weighed 207 after his drill to- day and figures on ringing the bell at between 204 and 205 for the fight. In his Lakewood, N. J., camp Baer went three fast rounds with Danny Cox after completing an eight-mile jaunt on the road. Rangers Tie Record . By BR3ating Wings, 3-2 NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-WP)-The New York Rangers 'tonight tied their _ own nine-year-old record of having scored in 77 consecutive National Hockey League games, and at the same time climbed into a tie for second place by defeating the De- troit Red Wings 3-2 before 11,000 fans. BOSTON, Jan. 6.-(')-A three- goal scoring burst in the last six minutes of first period play enabled the Boston Bruins to defeat the Chi- cago Blackhawks 3-2 and regain the National Hockey League lead tonight before 10,800 at the Boston Garden. Seores Lone 'Wally Coach Offers No Alibis For FiveGageSetbacks ap ain Bill artRH e Iais On Ij d List; Varsity Plays 11"mi Saturday World Series Toes Dominate Alk-Stai' Team Yanks, Dodgers Each Get Three Positions; -Dickey C hosen i For Sixth I ie Michigwu Two-Mile Relay Team Miy Enter Race In New York s i i J Y j l I! tly Wit lSTA1ilL ThA('K SQlrlBs: Even though many newspapers have already ear- ried the news that .the Illinois Re- lys, which was to be the first meet of the indoor season for the Wolver- ines, has been cancelled, bichigan track coach KeI Doherty announced that, as yet, he has received no noti- fication of such a move. The Illinois officials did notify Doherty several weeks ago, however, that they were considering cancelling Roy Bradley, junior wing, scored the lone Michigan goal against the Michigan Teck pucksters Monday night. The Wolverine opponents won the contest 4 to 1. The hockey squad is expected back 'from the northern trip sometime today. Army Reject.14 Ex-Champion NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-VP)--A 46- year-old man who once licked eight, Germans in three minutes with one awfully tough fist walked into the Army Recruiting Station today and volunteered as a buck private. His name is Jack Dempsey. The biggest drawing card in the history of the boxing ring weighed in at 21b pounds as an indifferent doctor tapped the- chest that a lot of bigger men never reached. "But I've got to tell you about those Germans first," hie said. "It was in the summer of- 1925-I was still cl'amp.-when .I was oan a barnstorm- ing tour and landed in Berlin. "I offered $1,000 to anyone who could stay three rounds' with me. But the IHeinies ganged up on me. First they sent in three small guys, then three fast ones, and finally two more, trying to wear me down. I knocked 'em all down in three min- utes." The former World's : Heavyweight Champion .expanded his chest to punctuate the' point. "Been thinking about joining since Pearl Harbor," he said, "soon as the waiver on my age comes through, they say they'll take me. I don't want a rank. I'll do whatever they tell me to-shoulder a gun, anything. I'd like a crack at the Germans." But the Army didn't take bim. Al- though Igempsey passed his physical examination, Col: John F. Daye, in charge of recruiting in the southern New York area, said that sinc6 Dempsey was 46 he could not be en- listed "unless and until Congress passes A law raising the age limit from 35 years." While Michigans basketball team took a well deserved rest today, its coaching staff in the , persons of, Bennie Oosterbaan and Ernie Mc- Coy were kept busy answering ques- tions concerning the poor showing of the Varsity cagers. Instead of trying to make excuses for the boys on the squad, the Wol- verines' mentors laid the cards right on the table by saying, "We just' didn't have a good enough team to win any of our last five games." Even Butler and Marquette, who usually are not too difficult for the Maize and Blue, came up with their finest teams in years. Both lost very close games to the brilliant Illi- nois squad. Mandler Forced To Retire Monday night's 36-18 loss against Purdue, however, was not quite as one-sided as the score indicates. Big Jim Mandler, Michigan's high scor- cr, was forced to retire early from the game after he had committeed three personal fouls. Not until late in the second period could Ooster- baari take the chance of sending him back in. This alone gave the Boilermakers a tremendous advantage, not only be- cause of Mandler's scoring ability, but also because the Wolverine cen- ter was one of the best defensive players on the floor. The Wolverinessuffered another serious blow in the middle of the first period when Capt. Bill Cartmill had to retire from the game with an injured ankle. Oosterbaan put him in late in the second period, but severe pain forced -the lanky for- ward to call it a night. The doctors have not yet decided whether Cartmill will be ready for the all-important Illinois-Michigan clash here Saturday night. Oosterbaan is confident that the squad will improve with experience. Every one of the teams the Wolver- ines met during vacation had played at least four more games than the Varsity had. With only one chance to practice during the holidays, Michigan wias at a decided disadvan- tage. Illini Biggest Hurdle The squad will face their biggest hurdle of the season against Illinois, made up of a group of veterans and several sensational sophomores, the Illini are considered probable Big Ten cage champions. Despite their recent reverses the team is in fine spirits, and refuses to concede anything to their future visitors from Champaign. With Cartmill out, Oosterbaan will probably revamp his lineup, giving some of his sophomores a chance to 'show their ability. Rangers' Line Leads In Hockey Scoring MONTREAL, Jan. 6. -(A')- The New York Rangers' high scoring line of_ Bryan Hextall, Lynn Patrick~ and Phil Watson continued to dominate the National Hockey League's scor- ing table during the last week. Hextall, the leading marksman since the season got into full stride, topped the official scoring list to-; day with 14 goals and 12 assists for a total of 26 points. Two points be- hind him were his line-mates, Pat- rick and Watson, and Bill Cowley of Boston. Toronto's Gordie Drillon was next with 23 points. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.-P)-The New1 York Yankees breezed past the Brooklyn Dodgers four games to one; in the 1941 World Series, but theI National League champions had just1 as much all-star talent, in the col- lective opinion of the Baseball Writers Association of America. ; Both the Yanks and Dodgers landed three players on the 17th an- nual all-star team, chosen by 356 members of the Association and an-1 nounced today by the Sporting News, baseball weekly. The Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland and Washington each placed a repre- sentative in the lineup. Joe DiMaggio, the Yankees' cen- terfielder, was a unanimous choice I for the second time, counting votes for all outfield positions, : and was named on the team for the fifth consecutive year. Ted Williams of the Red Sox, first .400 hitter in a decade, gathered 353 first-place votes and led fob both left and right-field. The latter post went to Pete Reiser, Brooklyn's bat- ting champion rookie, who was run- nerup with 108 votes., The remainder of the all-star line- up with individual vote totalsB: First base, Dolph Camilli, Brook- lyn, 233; second base, Joe Gordon, Yankees, 296; shortstop, Cecil Travis, Washington, 185; third base, Stan Hack, Chicago Cubs, 178; catcher, Bill Dickey, 'ankees, 262; pitchers, Bob Feller, Cleveland, 347; Whit Wy- att, Brooklyn, 269; and Thornton Lee, Chicago White Sox, 137. Dickey returned after a year's ab- sence to become dean of the team and win recognition for the sixth time. ect Difficult teSatu rday injured before the vacation has not mended as well as expected and it is doubtful whether he will be able to wrestle. Mike Hurwitz will replace Becker in the 155-pound class if there is not sufficient improvement of the shoulder injury. Today the occupant of the 145- pound spot will be chosen after try- outs among Herb Barnett, Mel Becker, and George McIntyre. As usual, dependable Captain Jim Galles will hold down the 175-pound slot, and Bill Courtwright, who showed great promise last year, will be there in the 165-pound class. Husky Johnny Greene, reserve quar- terback on the football squad, will handle the heavyweight chores. Victor Wurthcimer will represent the Wolverines in the 121-pound class while Dick Kopel, winner of the Bis- sell Trophy last year for the most improved freshman wrestler, will grapple in the 128-pound division. ence competition. Now we hear that Wege has been drafted and will join Uncle Sam's armed forces in the very near future. That's really add- ing insult to injury, or something. * * .4 Don Canham, last year's track cap- tail and former co-titleholder of the National Intercollegiate high-jump crown, who is now track coach at the high school in Kankakee, Ill, spoke before the National Collegiate Track Coaches Convention which was held in Detroit, December 28 and 29. The subject of Canham's talk was "The Straddle Form of the High Jump." Chester Stackhouse, coach of the Wolverine freshman track crew, spoke on the organiza- tion of track athletics in the high schools. - * * *' Coach Doherty announced that the Wolverines have been extended an invitation to send a two-mile re- lay team to the Millrose Games to be held in New York's Madison Square Garden on February 7. The thinclad mentor has tentatively accepted the invitation, but will not send a relay team to the meet unless he has four men of sufficient ability whose final examination schedule does not con- flict with the date. The five best Wolverine half-milers, though, are good students and it is probable that the invitation will be accepted. * * * Coach Doherty received Christmas cards from several of last year's track stars now in the army, all of 'whom were very anxious to get news of Michigan and Wolverine track ac- tivities. Karl Wisner, two-miler, is in the Marines and is stationed at the Parris Island recruiting station; Neil Maclntyre, hurdler, is a second lieutenant in the army and Herb Leake is serving in the army; Jeff Hall, low-hurdler, has enlisted in the navy. COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES Michigan State 33, Great Lakes 31 Kansas 54, Oklahoma 32 Alabama 36, Tulane 27 Missouri 39, St. Louis 24 Toledo. U. 50, De~aul 37 DON CANHAM the meet because the Army was us- ing the building in which the meet was to be held, and Doherty said that in all probability, the meet would be officially cancelled in the very near future. The' track coaches really dealt Pete Wege, sophomore javelin star, a heavy blow when they .deleted the javelin event from Western Confer- Wo iverine Wrestlers Exp battleAgainst Penne Sta Coach Cliff Keen's wrestling squad continued to drill yesterday in prep- aration for one of the toughest meets on their schedule--the clash with the Nittany Lions /of Penn State at 3 o'clock this Saturday in the Field House. The Easterners have always turned out a team which has been a strong contender in the National meets and although not a lot is known as yet about the exact personnel of the Penn State team, it is a safe guess that the Lions wi~l be as tough as ever this season, so the Wolverines will have to be at full strength for the clash. In the sixteen years that Keen has been coaching the Michigan mat- men, his grapplers have met Penn State six times and each team has won three meets from the other. The line-up for Michigan has not yet been entirely determined. Ray Deane, 145-pounder, is still recover- ing from the effects of a severe cold which put him in the Health Serv- *{ WALKAOVER KICKER TOE. New : ty lc kick andJ extr'a cofn orl. I ligh-sided, roomy too like the business-end of a.football shoe. Walk-Over F- stockF'1r. Antiqued brown- SCOtCh g rain,r RIBURTON'S WALK-OVER 115 South Main IRd i I M"Pm .1 . January Special \+k Sweat rs11 I CAPT. JIM GALLES i Sweaters!!!1 Sweaters!!! ANY IND...ANY SIZE Cleaned and Blocked II ice and may keep him out of the ac- tion against Penn State, in which case his place will be taken by Ed Wight. The shoulder which Mary Becker Football Rules Meeting Etids Coaches'G roup Abolishes Double Offside Penalty PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 6. -(/P)- Pursuing a general hands-off policy in regard to new statutes, the Na- tional Collegiate Football Rules Com- mittee moved to take a few kinks out of the rules and adjourned its an- nual meeting tonight. There were no new rules written into the book, but several were clari- fied as the group wound up a three- day session at Camelback Inn. Chief of these were : The double offside penalty was virf tually abolished. A supplemental note in the existing rules was written, insisting that a referee call one team or the other offside instead of rul- ing that both had been offside and ordering the play repeated. Another note described as un- sportsmanlike the hideout or sleeper play executed under a screen of mul- tiple substitutions. It was explained there had been instances where three substitutes carne into a game, four started off the field and one stopped to occupy an obscure position on the the sideline. Often his presence was A 5 . P14 t y. ' -, ,, c cpp tpp For only .39 at SAY! ARE YOU STILL HERE? SAM'1'A: Sure looks like I Imneeded for this gif1, KID: Soethilg for ie? SAN TA: for you, the Class of '42, aind the whole school. KID: Sounds good! When do we get it? 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