A°-, TUES., SEPT. 29, 1942 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE Ti-(i;% ,; .T.E......SEPT. . 29, .1942.......... . . .... ® JIheDENCHCOMBER By BUD HENDEL, Daily Sports Editor * * * * Cooper Picked To Hurl World. Michigan Precision, Team work - Proved Too MuIich For Sailors, 11 COACH RITZ'CRISLER. wearing1 a broad smile to go with his crum- pled grey hat and wrinkled suit, walked out of the Michigan dressing room last Saturday after the game and bumped smack into Lt. Benny Friedman, former Wolverine All- American and now assistant coach of the Great Lakes squad. Friedman stuck out his hand and pumped Crisle r's enthusiastically, saying, "Congratulations, Fritz, that's a great team you have and a smart one." Crisler responded in style, and the two of them started to talk over the contest. They had the usual things to say, when Friedman remarked, "You know, Fritz, I can't get over the way your guards knew when to submarine and when to go over the top against our line. They piled up our plays before we could get start- ed and made us look worse than we really are." Crisler replied that it was good guard play on the part of Julie Franks and Bob Kolesar, when Fried- man interrupted to say, "I think it was the fact that our backfield was continually ,overshifting and tipping off the play that told your guards where it was going. I tried to tell our boys that during the half, but they still did it. Your guards were too smart for our gang to handle." Which everybody will agree is a fine tribute to Michigan's Franks and Kolesar, who for approximate- ly two hours last Saturday put on an exhibition of how to play the position of guard on a ftotball team correctly. DRIFTWOOD AND SPLINTERS: The irony of it all ... Crisler was slated to coach Great Lakes this year, and then his Michigan team walks off with a victory over the Sailors ... wonder who would have won if Crisler had been at Great Lakes? The Wolverine dressing room was the scene of unrestrained bedlam after the game . . . Crisler was standing off in a corner quietly smiling, and the team was whoop- ing it up'.. . Biggie Munn kept saying, "Boy, oh boy!" . . Ooster- baan just said, "And we didn't even take the tricky stuff out of the bag."... Captain George Ceithaml took off his uniform amidst all the shouting and yelled, "Don't forget, gang, we've got nine big ones left." . . . Merv Pregulman, sang out, "State next!" .. . Experts in the press box expressed the unanimous opinion that the Sail- ors weren't in any condition for the game ... . they lacked precision and teamwork as well . . . but they'll be much tougher later on in the season which makes Crisler look all the bet- ter for scheduling them for the open- er . . . the Great Lakes team was so slow that their ace back, Bruce Smith, was stopped as often by his own blockers as he was by Michigan tacklers. Series Opener Johnny Beazley Will Face Yanks In Second Game, Lanier Is Third Choice ST. LOUIS, Sept. 28- (IP)- A world series atmosphere settled over Sportsman's Park today as the St. Louis Cardinals made ready to re- ceive the New York Yankees in the first game of the classic Wednesday. The World Champions were not due here until late tomorrow, but the redhot Redbirds worked out on theil- home field while carpenters ham- mered up additional seats and Com- missioner Kenesaw M. Landis made a checkup on arrangements for play- ing the games and handling the_ crowds of about 35,000 for the two installments that will be played here this week. Without committing himself def- initely Manager Billy Southworth of the Cards indicated that he had his pitching schedule already mapped out with Mort Cooper, Johnny Beaz- ley, Max Lanier and Ernie White working in that order. Starting Cooper in the opening game, of course, has been a foregone conclusion. His record of 22 victories and ten shutouts has stamped him the yeaY's outstanding hurler in the majors and in spite of the furious National League pennant fight that lasted till the final day of the season, Cooper has been rested since last Thursday. The choice of Beazley for the sec- ond game was based partly on the reasoning that a rookie would have a better chance performing in is own park before friendly fans than he would in pitching before some 70,000 persons in Yankee Stadium. By BUD HENDEL Daily Sports Editor It was Michigan all the way in the Stadium last Saturday. Michigan speed and Michigan de-' ception beat Great Lakes, 9-0. The Sailors were too slow and too slug- gish for the brand of football hurled at them by the Maize and Blue, and Michigan was too full of sheer fight- ing strength to lose. Precision and teamwork did it. Without them, Michigan's speed would have been to no avail and the Michigan deception could not have clicked. The 11 men on the field for Michigan acted as one, not as 11. That teamwork and that precision made Michigan a great team last Saturday. Early in the opening quarter, on the second series of downs, Cliff Wise quick-kicked, the ball rolling to the Sailor 11 where Al Wistert downed it. That punt set the Bluejackets back on their heels, putting them on the defensive against this Maize and Blue outfit that they outweighed by over 20 pounds to the man. Once, twice the Sailors held on their own goal line. They balked the Wolverines when Michigan had the ball on the Great Lakes one yard line, first and goal to go. The behemoth Bluejacket forward wall held then, but they couldn't hold forever against the fleet Wolverines who never stop- ped marching into scoring territory. Hugh McCullough punted for Great Lakes to the Michigan eight yard line in the early minutes of the second period, and it seemed then that the Wolverine ship was sunk. But Michigan, with every man play- ing a leading role, marched 92 yardsZ through that giant Sailor line to pay- dirt and the game's sole touchdown. It took the Maize and Blue gridmen exactly 11 plays-seven on the ground and four through the air-toI score, with the tally coming on a perfect pass from sophomore Bob Chappius to Paul White. Merv Preg- ulman missed the conversion, but Jim Brieske, Pregulman's understudy at center, split the uprights with a per- fect field goal in the third quarter to clinch the triumph. No one man can be singled out as the star of the day. They were all good. Each one played his part to perfection. Smith, Sessions Lose Charity Golf Tit By 3-0 Count 1 Playing before 400 rugged golf fans1 who braved Sunday's frigid weather,J Chick Harbert and Marjorie Row de-i feated Ben Smith and Sally'Sessions, 3 to 0, on the University course. The match was for the benefit of the Washtenaw County Red Cross; and despite a strong, biting wind, it was a fine exhibition of the ancient Scotch game. Harbert, the sensa- tional young pro from Battle Creek, shot a sub-par 70 to take medalist honors. He bogeyed three holes, but more than made up for this by birdieing five others. Ben Smith, Wolverine links captain for the coming year, had a little trouble on the back nine and came home with a 78. Ben fired birdies on the first and last holes and managed to par nine of the others. Miss Sessions and Miss Row each carded 88, although on matching their scores, Marjorie would have been one up on her opponent on each nine. This was caused by the fact that the Michigan State lassie got into trouble on the eleventh hole and took a nine while Sally scored a six. Michigan State Banks Heavily On Air Attack Pawlowski, Kieppe, Stark Carry -Spartans' Victory Hopes In Annual Clash EAST LANSING, Sept. 28.-(2)- The Michigan State College football squad, which has been hearing the cry for "speed and yet more speed," knows now the cry was not foolish. Slightly dizzy after watching the University of Michigan blitz Great Lakes 9 to 0 last Saturday, the Spar- tan coaches and players admitted they were impressed and then buck- led down to figure a counter-attack for their encounter with the Wolver- ines at Ann Arbor Saturday. Especially chilling, they conceded, was the view of the Wolverines' ar- ray of fast backs, hard-charging line and an effective aerial attack made more dangerous 3y fullback Bob Wiese's plunging. Making no secret that its offensive strength lies in the passing power of Dick Kieppe, Elbert Stark and Wally Pawlowski, the Spartan squad looked that trio of tailback players over anew and wondered if they could match Michigan next Satur- day. "Michigan showed tremendous team speed and wonderful passing," Coach Charley Bachman asserted. "Those fast backs made Great Lakes seem anchored from start to finish." The Spartan coaching staff was not worrying about whether the ii- jured Tom Kuzma of Michigan would be ready next Saturday. The Wolverines promise plenty of trou- ble with or without Kuzma, they said. Big Ten Briefs . From Associated Press Summaries CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 29.--Rt- peated recurrences of an old injury have forced Ken Cheeley, Illini cen - ter, out of action for the rest of the season. 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