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Varsity Quintet To Meet
GophersHereSaturday
Indiana's Fast Break Too Much For Michigan Team
As Cagers Are Given Worst Defeat Of Year
Wolverine Relay Team To Face
Nation's Best in Millrose Games
By BOB STAHJL
With more and more news emanating out of the East every day of how
good the relay teams are which the Wolverines will have to oppose in the
Millrose Games in New York's Madison Square Garden on Feb. 7, it begins
to appear as though Ken Doherty's crew of baton passers will have to give
slightly more than its best if it is to see a Maize and Blue-shirted anchor
man break the tape at the finish of the racing classic.
The Michigan two-mile quartet, composed of Johnny Kautz, Dave Mat-
thews, Bob Ufer and Will Ackerman, will be at a disadvantage almost before
they start because, after having worked out on a cinder track all fall and
winter, they will be running on a board track in the Garden. Matthews,
Young Griffo, 'Trickiest Boxer Ever,'
Yet He Was Never World Chainpion
By DICK SIMON
The fast break which the Wolver-
ine cagers used so successfully
against Ohio State last Saturday
night really paid off with big divi-
dends for Indiana Monday.
Led by Ed Denton and Capt. Andy'
Zimmer, the Hoosier hot-shots hand-
ed Michigan its worst defeat of the
year, mainly because the quintet
couldn't keep up with Indiana's
quick breaking offense.
Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's play'-
ers stayed fairly close to the Hoosiers
during the first half, but tossed
away many opportunties to take the
lead by making bad passes and by
failing to keep control of the back-
board. With one minute remaining
until the half, Indiana scored five
points to take a 25-17 lead.
Jim Mandler and Capt. Bill Cart-
mill aided Michigan's hopeless cause
by pulling them within six points,
29-23, but from that point on they
were outclassed and outscored.
The Wolverine defense fell apart
before the second half was three
minutes old, and when the smoke
had cleared away, Indiana had add-
ed 41 points to make their total 64.
Everything Coach Branch McCrack-
en's cagers did was right and one
out of every three shots they took
found the range. Michigan's aver-
age, on the other hand, was slightly
better than one out of five, not too
impressive for a team that scored 53
points aginst Ohio State two days
before.
Coach Oosterbaan gave the boys
a day of rest yesterday, but all hands
will be on deck today for a good two
hour practice session in preparation
for Saturday's game against the sec-
ond place Golden Gophers of. Min-
nesota.
In their previous meeting at Min-
neapolis, the Wolverines didn't fare
so well, dropping a 44-32 decision to
Dave MacMillan's quintet. In fact,
Minnesota has only lost two of its
eight Conference games, one to
Northwestern and one to Illinois' un-
defeated team.
Current scoring threat on the Go-
pher five is center Don Mattson. It
was the big red-headed sophomore
who led his teammates to their first
triumph over the Wolverines. Tony
Jaros, also a sophomore, has given
Minnesota another scoring threat at
his position of forward.
MacMillan seems to have found a
capable substitute for Don Carlson,
one of the leading point-getters in
the Big Ten last season, in Warren
Ajax. Carlson played three or four
conference games for the Gophers
this year and then joined Uncle
Sam's armed forces. As well as be-
ing one of the best marksmen on the
squad, Ajax consistently sets up
Minnesota plays with his clever ball-
handling and accurate passing.
Saturday's game is scheduled to
begin at 7:30 p.m.
THE PROBABLE
Michigan Pos.
Cartmill (c) F
Gibert F
Mandler C
MacConnachie G
Doyle G
LINEUPS
Minnesota
Smith
Jaros
Mattson
Thune
Ajax
BIG TEN CAGE STANDINGS
W L Pct. Pts. OP
Illinois .... 6 0 1.000 362 226
Minnesota . 6 2 .750 376 321
Purdue .... 3 2 .600 223 155
Wisconsin . 4 3 .571 324 284
Nor'western 3 3 .500 287 262
Iowa .... 3 3 .500 268 255
Indiana ... 3 3 .500 261 264
Ohio State 3 4 .429 330 340
Michigan . . 2 6 .250 283 357
Chicago 0 7 .000 221 411
Ackerman and Kautz ran on thisq
track once last year when they, along
with Jack Leutritz, copped the two-
mile relay event, but it will be the
first experience of its kind for Ufer.
This factor of discouragement is
not so great, however, as is that of
the record of the opposition the Wol-
verines will face in the famed track
event. The winning time turned in
by the Michigan quartet which
copped the race last year was 7:55,
but the relay crew of Manhattan Col-
lege has already claimed an unoffi-
cial time of 7:44 over the two-mile
distance.
Fordham Boast Strong Crew
And even if Manhattan's time can
be discredited because it was not
official, the fact still remains that
a quartet of half-milers from Ford-
ham, competing in the Metropolitan
AAU's two-mile relay in the Bronx
Coliseum last Saturday night, ran
the course in 7:45.5 seconds. This is
just a-little more than a second over
the Millrose Games . record, set by
Georgetown clear back in 1925, but
it affords pretty much of an indica-
tion of how rough the going will be
for the Wolverines.
If Manhattan and Fordham were
not enough competition, Indiana and
North Carolina are both sending re-
lay teams to the meet which are re-
putedly far better than average. The
Hoosiers, of course, will have the
sensational Big Ten 880 king, Camp-
bell Kane, running for them, which
is enough to make them a serious
Scribes Honor
TedWilliams
Joe DiMaggio To Receive
Shannon Trophy Award
BOSTON, Jan. 27.-(P)--Since his
Minneapolis draft board has instruc-
ted him to remain within easy reach,
Ted Williams, the American League'sj
406 batting champion, will be hon-
ored in absentia as the Boston base-
ball writers and 800 .of their readers
hail his foremost rival, the Yankees'
Joe DiMaggio, in person tomorrow
night at their annual dinner.
Williams, who expects to be in-
ducted into the Army within a few
days, has been awarded. the Jacob
Morse Memorial Trophy as Boston's
most valuable major league player.
The Boston writers alsorvoted Di-
Maggio, who has been crowned as
the American League's outstanding
performer, their Paul Shannon Mem-
orial Award to commemorate his re-
markable 1941 feat of hitting safely
in 56 consecutive games.
Both of those trophies are dedi-
cated to deceased writers. Morse,
one of baseball's pioneer scribes, was
the originator of the current scoring
system and Shannon was serving as
president of the Baseball Writers As-
sociation of America at the time of
his death.
By HOE SELTZER say his opponents could literally
Now this guy never had anything never lay a glove on him. That bob-
to do with Michigan athletics. But bing head slipped every head punch,
he was a very colorful character in- and no body blow could penetrate
deed and maybe you'd like to hear his perpetually moving hand-elbow-
a bit about him, forearm barricade. And since fights
His name was Young Griffo, and he are won in accordance with the most
was the cleverest, the trickiest boxer blows landed, and Griffo's foes never
of them' all-and still was never a landed even one while he was be-
world's champion. laboring them with several thousand
From Australia To Frisco slaps and caresses, Young Griffo al-
Griffo originated in Australia and ways won.
showed up in San Francisco in the Strictly A Bar Fly
1870's because he had run out of Now Griffo's punch would un-
competition back home. His repu- doubtedly have been of a more lethal
tation had partly preceded him and variety had he not done virtually all
all those interested in the fight game of his training in the local taprooms.
hopped right down to see this wonder But indeed it was his exploits in the
man of the ring work out. Because gin-mills and beer-joints that earned
Griffo could not fight his way out of him a fame even greater than his
a paper bag in a rainstorm, and yet ring renown.
he never lost a fight. Even in a drunken stupor he had
As soon as the boys saw him in such cat-like reflexes he could snatch
action they knew why. The gentle- flies right out of midair bare-handed.
man from Australia with the pot Or he'd stand up against a brick
belly and the generally unpugilistic wall and dare anyone to try and
build was without doubt the swiftest knock his block off. And many a
thing they had ever seen in the I brawny simpleton took Griffo up on
squared circle. I it. And missed.
No figure of speech is it when we Young Griffo went all the way to
the top in the lightweight division,
beating everything that came along.
You might therefore wonder why he
was never world's champion. Here's
why.
Why Ile Never Won A Title
The champ was going to retire, but
first he decided to fight the three
title contenders and declare one of
them his successor. Griffo was one
of the contenders, and everyone
agreed that he made the best show-
ing of the three. As a matter of fact
the only trouble was he made too good
a showing. He made the champ look
like a complete fool, and indeed very
unhappy at not being able to catch
up with Griffo and hang one on him
for several insulting remarks apropos
of his fighting prowess. So that*ot
of spite the champ gave the title to
one of the other contenders and the
new titleholder would never give
Griffo a. match.
That's the reason then why Young
Griffo was never a world's light-
weight champion. Not because he
wasn't good enough. But because he
was too good.
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threat, and the Tar Heels have been
burning up their league this season.
The Wolverine, cause still has an
abundance of bright spots, however,
and the Michigan thinclads can by
no means be counted out of the win-
ning spot. Potentially, if the best
time ever run by each member of the
quartet were taken into considera-
tion, they could cover the two-mile
course in 7:40, and with such com-
petition as they will have forcing
them to their utmost, it is not an
impossibility that they will find some
inspired heat somewhere and grab
their second title in as many years..
Ken Doherty and his quartet are
looking to the Rams as the team to
beat in the Garden's annual winter
classic. And as one member of the
baton-passing crew so aptly put it
yesterday: "The hell with Fordham!
Remember what Pitt did to their
great undefeated football team."
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