THE MICHTEN II PAGE Matmen Face Spartans, Sextet Meets Illinois Again Today Spartans Hurl Mighty Squad Against Varsity Ray Deane - Bo Jennings Match To Be Feature Of Action-Packed Show By HOE SELTZER Tonight's the night.I The night that Michigan and Michigan Stte lock in mortal com- bat on the Field House wrestling mats in the most severe challenge to their title aspirations the Wolverines have met this season. If the match is going to be the toughest for the Varsity to date, it is also going to be the most color- ful and satisfying so far from the spectators' point of view. When peo- ple walk all the way down to the Field House they come to see action. They'll see two full hours of it to- night. Civil War In the first place when Michigan meets State in any sport there's a sort of undeclared civil war. And to- night, when the Spartans will be out to demonstrate how they took second in the National Collegiates last year at the same time the Wolverines at- tempt to prove it was all a dirty lie, the battle gives every indication of assuming Hatfield-McCoy propor- tions. In the opening acts of the show the visitors will have the punch lines. It would be a travesty on a gullible public were the writer to pretend that Vic Wertheimer and Dick Kopel have a Chinaman's chance against State's Herb Thompson and Cut Jennings at 121 and 128 pounds respectively. The main event of the evening, ad- vance dope has it, will be the war to the bitter end at 155 pounds waged between our Mr. Ray Deane and the second and equally devastating Jen-I nings twin known as Bo. Ray' is a veritable savage in action, but so is ]o Jennings. Ray rises to heights in competition he never attains in prac- tice.. He is strictly a money player. Bo Jennings is a National Collgiate champ. There's little to choose from between these two arid tonight the fur will fly aplenty. Herb Rarin' To Go The welterweight clash features a rejuvenated Herb Barnett versus Johnny-Marrs of East Lansing. Herb incurred a very ugly mouse in the right eye region last Monday night, but the peeper is looking much bet- ter these days and the Oklahoma high school champ is out for the kill now. Marrs is pinch-hitting for the regular 145 pounder who is hors de combat, and boasts an aggressive spirit that sets a fast pace and sus- tains it for nine grueling minutes. If Herb's experience prevails in this one, and it should, the Michigan boy is still going to know he went through the wringer to cop the de- cision. A match which may eqal the lightweight fray in point of fury and downright excitement is the 155 pound battle between Mary Becker and State's Captain Freeman (Tuf- fy) Merrill. Tuffy is National Jun- ior titleholder at his weight and goes about his work in very business- like fashion. He has perhaps the fastest refleyes on the invader's team. If matches are won in accordance with wrestling experience Mary won't win. But so far this season uintet, Natators Play Rivals Away Hoekey Squad.Promises Better Contest Against Invincible Foe i i C RAY DEANE Marv has demonstrated something which has twice overcome veteran opponents, and tonight the Wolver- ine puts this intangible something on the block once again. Bill Courtright's performance last Monday night did not please Bill Courtright at all. Tonight Corky tangles with just about the same type of opponent in Johnny Spalink, tough, gutty but not classy, and Bill has every intention of erasing the blot from the escutcheon. He'll do it too. The Spartan light-heavy, Jim Fos- ter, is the substitute for the substi- tute for the regular 175-pounder. It follows that he will be no match for Capt. Jim Galles, who has been taught never to accept substitutes. Here's a glorious opportunity for Michigan to capture a vital five- point win on a fall. Heavyweight Climax The heavyweight climax, under the supervision of our own Johnny Greene and State's Mike Dendrinos, will be a robust and hearty tussle. These men make no pretense to com- mand of fancy technique. They are both what is known as gqod strong boys, Mike has a 15 pound' weight advantage but Johnny is faster. Both possess a great; competitive spirit and each confidently expects to turn his opponent's shoulders down and toes up when they lock grips along abbut 9:30 this evening. And a word in closing: An ex- haustive poll of the Varsity grap- plers reveals that they feel a lot better when the customers in the stands are cheering them on and reminding them to use the old key- lock and the bar-arm on dat guy. Up at East Lansing the fans howled themselves silly last Tuesday night. Be a downright shame if it turned out the cow college could do some- thing better than Michigan. Entries Requested For I-M Tourneys All-Campus tournaments for indi- viduals will be conducted in 12 sports by the Intramural Department be- tween the start of the second semes- ter and the middle of March. Entries for these tourneys are being taken now and will be taken until Feb. 2. Contestants should hand in their entries at the Sports Building as soon as possible in Eorder to facilitate the pairing off. The tournaments will be held in the following sports: badminton, codeball, fencing, handball, paddle- ball, squash, tennis, wrestling, foul throwing, gymnastics, rifle shooting, skating, and twenty-one. All winners will receive gold medals. Gophers' Strong Offense Puts Michigan Quintet In Role Of Underdogs (Special to The Daily) MINNEAPOLIS. 'Jan. 16.-Michi- gan's scrappy cagers will attempt to make it two straight in Conference play tomorrow night when they in- vade the field house to face a strong Minnesota quintet. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's squad from Ann Arbor have won only one game in Big Ten competition and that was last Monday night when they scored a 34-32 upset triumph over the Northwestern Wildcats who are the only team to hold a Confer- ence decision over the Gophers. The Wolverines have bowed to Iowa, Pur- due and Illinois while Minnesota has defeated Ohio State, Indiana and Iowa. Tomorrow's battle will be a test of an offensive team against a defen- sive team. The Gophers are second in Big Ten scoring, having chalked up 198 points in four games, while the Wolverines, despite their three defeats, have the third best defensive record in the Conference, their op- ponents being able to garner just 152 points. Coach Oosterbaan was still unde- cided whom he would start against Dave MacMillan's quintet, but said "he would probably stick to the same line-up that started against North- western." In that case, Capt. Bill \artmill and Mel Comin would be at the forward posts, Big Jim Mand- ler at center and Leo Doyle and Ralph Gibert at guards.' Cartmill is still hampered some- what by a sprained ankle, and if it should be bothering him, either Bob Shemky or Morrie Bikoff, both soph- omores, would get the nod. Bikoff has not completely recovered from the hip injury which he received in the Northwestern game but will be ready for active duty should he be needed.- The Gopher line-up is quite indef- inite, with Coach MacMillan very C much undecided who he would start. The only man sure to start is Don Smith, senior forward and a mem- ber of the Gopher quintet that was beaten by the Maize and Blue last year, 41-24. At the present, Smith is leading the Minnesota team in the race for individual scoring honors in the Big Ten with 43 points. It was not known tonight whether Don Carlson, leading Minnesota point-getterlast season, was still in school. If he is still registered at the university, the Minneapolis se- nior will hold down the other for- ward spot. Otherwise, Warren Ajax or Tony Jaros will take over that position. Either junior Bill Lind or Don Mattson, six foot, four inch sopho- more, will be at center. At guard, MacMillan willrprobably start Hal Thune, a senior, and Ken Exel, a junior letterman. At this 30th meeting between the two schools on the hardwoods, the 1941 Minnesota football team will re- ceive its final honor when the Dr. Henry P. Williams football trophy- recently put up by the Minnesota M Club-will be given to the team be- tween the halves. The trophy will be awarded yearly, and is to be given to the team fin- ishing first in a newspaper poll rank- ing. It replaces the Dickinson trophy, which was retired by the Gophers last season. It was expected that Major John L. Griffith, Big Ten commissioner, would be on hand to take part in the presentation.E I SPORTFOLI " Sextet's Unique Positions " Decides Big Ten Title t B HAL WILSON1 Daily Sports Editorl MICHIGAN'S hockey team holdse the key to the Western Confer- ence puck championship. But it isn'tt exactly a pleasant situation for Coach Eddie Lowrey and his hard-fighting t outfit.t As the situaition stands now, thet ice crown will go to the team which1 beats Michigan the most times in a four-game series. Only three schools in the Big Ten support in-I tercollegiate hockey at present al-I though the University of Chicago's gridless Maroons are making a few overtures toward adopting the sport. The other two of course aret Illinois, which winds up a two-j game series with the Wolverines here tonight, and Minnesota. THE ILLINI and the Gophers, how- ever, will not meet this year be- cause Minnesota's Coach Larry Arm-~ strong has refused to schedule the, power-packed Orange and Blue com- bination. He takes this stand with the declaration that Illinois was un- sportsmanlike and too rough in their series last year. The Illini are of the opinion that the real r.eason for Arm- strong's attitude is that they are simply too good and that Armstrong doesn't relish taking the beating they almost certainly would if the two sex- tets clashed. The actual reason for the break in relations is probably somewhere. in between. BUT MEANWHILE, the underman- ned Wolverines, who are pres- ently on pleasant though somewhat impotent terms with both other schools, have four games slated with each. If the Michigan icemen, for instance, can knock off Minnesota a couple games, that will probably give the title to Illinois or vice versa. Illinois Coach Vic Heyliger, for- mer Wolverine ace, has recently tried once again to smooth rela- tions with Minnesota, but failed. He called Armstrong long distance and couched his argument in dip- lomatic language. Failing to make headway, however, it is said that Vic asked the Gopher mentor point blank if the real reason wasn't the fact that Illinois was just too good. Whereupon Armstrong hung up. SPORTS HASH: According to his teammates swimming Capt. Dobby Burton was buttonholed by some fel- low in the hotel lobby after the Wol- verine tankmen had easily beaten the Y.M.C.A. in an exhibition meet up at Grand Rapids ... this fellow show- ered effusive compliments on Dobby concerning the sportsmanlike man- ner in which his team had conducted itself . . . which was fine until four bars 8f hotel soap slipped out of Dob- by's coat pocket and fell only too noticeably to the floor. SA CHARACTERISTIC sense of modesty prevents the sports staff from boasting about its easy basketball win over the typewriter athletes of the edit staff yesterday . . . but the edits swore as they limped front the hardwoods that they would get even, so discount 90 per cent of anything you read on page one concerning the game .... even as you would a Japanese communique. ,I Swim Squad To Compete With Stars From State, Wayne, In AAU Meet By BUD HENDEL Michigan's kings of collegiate swimming will face their toughest test to date this season when they tangle with Michigan State, Wayne University, and other surroundingj colleges in the State AAU Meet at' East Lansing tonight. So far in the young campaign the Wolverines have romped away with easy victories over Amherst, Olney- ville, and Grand Rapids, and al- though tonight's encounter will un- doubtedly offer the Maize and Blue natators stiffer competition than they have yet met this year. neither Coach Matt Mann nor the tankers themselves expect much trouble in subduing their automobile state op- ponents. Race For National Title Oddly enough, the feature race of the evening will be for a national title instead of a state one. For the medley relay national junior cham- pionship will be decided during to- night's festivities. Heavy favorite to cop the coveted trophy, the Wolverine trio of breast- stroker Tommy Williams, backstrok- er Dick Riedl, and freestyler Jackt Patten will go all out in an effort to crack the existing pool mark. Neither Jim Skinner or John Share- met, the team's two top breaststrok-. ers, will make the trip to the capital and Williams, who can swim equally well in both the freestyle and breast- stroke events, will handle the latter duty for Mann's mermen. In spite of the big medley attrac- tion, the most thrill-packed race of the night should be the 100 yard free-style, if Wayne's Coach Leo Maas sees fit to bring his National Intercollegiate champ Bill Prew to East Lansing. And if this happens, the spectators rimming theSpartan pool can be sure of seeing one of the hottest duels ever waged in that na- tatorium. Gus Has Score To Settle For Michigan's ace sprinter, Gus Sharemet, has an old score to settle with the Tartar star. Last year Prew, a comparative unknown at that time, took the measure of the Maize and Blue freestyler every time they met, beating him in the Wayne meet, National Intercollegiates, and Na- tional AAU. But that was a poor' season for Gus. So far during this campaign his practice form has giv- en evidence that he has returned to his old self and is ready to deal with the Wayne natator. Coach Mann will probably use the vest-pocket battleship, Capt. Dobby Burton, as Gus' running mate in this event and there is a chance that Pat- ten may also see service. On the! other hand Wayne can toss in for- mer national champ in the 50, Guy Lumsden, to make things more in- teresting. Studded with stars, the 100 yard free-style will be the hot- test race on the program-providing Bill Prew makes the trip from the Tartar campus. By KEV JONESI Tonight at 8:00, on Michigan ice, Illinois' championship hockey team1 meets the Wolverines in the second of their four scheduled contests, and it looks as though only a miracle will 1 save Coach Eddie Lowrey's squad from their second Big Ten loss. Thursday, the Illini put on as spec-' tacular an exhibition of skating, stickl handling and shooting as has ever been seen in the Coliseum. In down- ing Captain Paul Goldsmith's out-; fit, the Indians used what seemed like every possible method in amass- ing their overwhelming total of 10' goals. Amazing Aggregation This team from Champaign is an amazing aggregation. Last year they took the Western Conference title with six wins, one tie and one loss over Michigan and Minnesota, the only other teams competing. And of that championship team, eight play- ers were on the squad which came to Ann Arbor this year. Yet nearly all of the 10 scores and 10 assists racked up by Vic Heyliger's boys were all credited to sophomores. The Wolverine puck team just did- n't have the stuf to stand up to this team which has been able, in prac- tice, to score on big league outfits. The Michigan lads gave their all, but tthe blinding speed of the Illini left them dazed before the first period was well under way. Varsity Will Fight However, the Varsity sextet can be counted upon to be in there battling tonight, if only to even up for the cut Roy Bradley received in his col- lision with Amo Bessone in the thirdI period of Thursday's game. The raw1 courage of this 130 pounder in block- ing the roughest, toughest player on the visiting squad has not been matched in the Coliseum this year. At latest reports Roy will be in the lineup at the right defense post when the teams take the ice tonight. He received a two inch laceration over the left eye, but Coach Lowrey ex- pects that this will not prove enough to keep him out of the fray. The team which will be out, to garner its first victory of the year. will be the same at the face-off as it was Thursday, according to Coach Lowrey. This means that the for- ward line will be composed of Cap- tain Goldsmith at right wing, Max Bahrych at left wing, and Johnny Braidford at center. The back line will be Ed Reichert at left defense and Bradley at right defense. Hank In The Nets At goal as usual will be Hank Loud. In the first game the Illini bounced no less than 47 shots off Hank's pads. The Illinois lineup will probably be a duplication of their original team, which proved so successful. Starting at goal will be Jack Gillan, who held the Wolverines scoreless in the opening game, while making a total of 24 saves during the 60 min- utes. This was his first shut-out, after three years on the Illinois squad. Amo Bessone and George Balestri will handle the starting defense as- signments; Roland DePaul, the lad who pulled the hat trick and then added an extra goal for good mea- sure, 'will be in the center slot, flanked by the Palazzari brothers, 1Aldo and Mario. .1 For your defense! 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