~t~rsn~ rnc t iW~ ~ii - v'~t tc. &M1.Ti Negus, Daley Are Selected on AP All-Star Big Ten Eleven TAKING IT EASY* By ED ZALENSKI Daily Sports Editor Smeja, Pregulman, Wiese, lirsch Named on Powerful Second Team TIIOSE BADGERS AGAIN: Wrestling Team Has Asset In Oberly, Marine Transfer r The Case of Tom Harmon YESTERDAY'S page one Daily headline, "Tom Harmon Found Safe in China," excited opposing reactions among readers. Many, naturally, enough, expressed surprise and amazement that Michigan's great athlete had cheated death for the second time in approximately six months. We're ' not concerned with them. No, our guns are aimed at the ranks of the sarcastic, the abusive, the shallow thinkers-men who make Harmon the butt of their sup- posedly facetious wisecracks and biting; remarks. By way of explanation, we pass on to you several remarks overheard at a breakfast conversation, on campus and in a classroom. The most-repeated one seemed to be,;"What! Harmon in the headlines again!" Or "Has Har- mon scored again?" Or "I see football is again saved for posterity" Or "Is Harmon more important than the war?" Or "There's that man again!" Or "Let's fall on our knees before Allah. Our hero is saved again!" UNDOUBTEDLY, some readers feel that news stories of Harmon's disappearance and safety have been unduly emphasized in the newspapers. They argue that hundreds of other upstanding American boys have been lost or are "missing in action." Harmon, they say, is no better, no different. We ask these readers this simple question, "What about the thousands of boys throughout the country who recognize Harmon as a great athlete, who have heard or read about his immortal gridiron career, who hold him as an idol to emulate, a hero to look up to?"' Ask any young lad who is a lover of sports what he thinks of Tom Harmon. The kids who are familiar with his name, his history at Mich- igan and his greatness; idolize and even worship him. And why not. Harmon is a pattern for them to follow. They were proud of his "98." Many a sandlotter sported Tom's number on his jersey. HXW ABOUT the young boys who saw Harmon perform here at Michigan? Kids used to mob Tom as he left the field after a game. They would beg for pieces of his torn jersey. They would fight to shake his hand; touch him; speak to him; or just look at him. Put yourself in the kids' shoes. You haven't been away from adolescence long enough to forget your childish feelings. These kids worshipped Harmon so strongly they would try with all their ability and strength to be just like him. Certainly it was a" goal that any parent would be proud to have his boy strive for. " Harmon, you must have realized by now, was.not an ordinary football player or person. That he was a great gridiron hero and a football immortal is an accepted fact. What seems to have been forgotten is that Harmon was the kind of a man real red-blooded Americans want to be. Fathers en- couraged that feeling in their sons. ' BUT Tom was more than just a great football player. He was a lover of clean sports, clean living. He was a- likable young man at Mich- igan, on the football. field, off the campus. Many times we saw him roughed up lir a charging lineman on a. pass or.bounced just' a bit too severely.on an out-of-bounds tackle. He'd get up with a laugh, pat his rough opponent on the back and promptly forget about it.. *aturally, when Harmon was first lost last, spring over Dutch. Guinea The'Daily and most midwest papers plastered his nameand" the story of his life all over their front pages. And his subsequent 'return to safety was agaih the occasion of front page headlines. 'It'sobvious that Harmon will be "hot copy" for any editor the next time he's lost. It isn't often that a national sports celebrity who is "missing in action," comes back to renew the fight. When Harmon licked death the first time he unconsciously assured himself of page one the next time he ran into trouble. CHICAGO-(P)-The most unusual Western conference all-star football! team in history-including for the first time a freshman, a player who was performing in his fourth year of varsity competition, and another who made the team last year but repre- senting a different school-has been selected for the Associated Press by Big Ten coaches. The conference's three powerful V- 12 teams-Purdue, Michigan and Northwestern-grabbed seven places on this 1943 All-Star squad, but the Star Fullback Ends: Herb Hein, Northwestern, and Pete Pihos, Indiana. Tackles: Paul Mitchell, Minnesota, and William Willis, Ohio State. Guards: Richard Barwegen and Al- ex Agase, both of Purdue. Center: Fred Negus, Michigan. Quarterback: Robert Hoernsche- meyer, Indiana. Halfbacks: Otto Graham, North- western, and Tony Butkovich, Pur- due. Fullback: Bill Daley, Michigan. Thus Purdue, co-champions with Michigan, took three places, Michi- gan, Indiana and Northwestern two apiece, and Minnesota and Ohio State one each. Hunchy First Frosh Hoernschemeyer, actually a half- back but liked so well by the coaches that many of them listed him at quarterback to make room for Gra- ham, Butkovich and Daley in the backfield, is the first freshman ever to appear on this annual honor group because this is the first season that yearlings have been eligible for Big Ten play. Daley had played three years at Minesota before being transferred to Michigan's V-12 unit last summer so this made his fourth season: on Big Ten gridirons. Incidentally, two years ago as a Gopher junior, he rated this All-Star team but failed to repeat in 1942 because he was handicapped by injuries. Negus Repeats Negus, the only repeater from the 1942 team, was Wisconsin's varsity center then, but, like Daley, played with Michigan's V-12 assemblage this year. Graham, a brilliant performer for Northwestern for three years but ne- ver previously named to the all-con- ference team, received unanimous first team support from eight coach- es, the ninth not having seen the V- 5 student perform this season. Five listed him as a left halfback and three as a quarterback, so he was placed at the former position, which moved Hoernschemeyer to quarter. Butkovich and Daley, too, were vir- tually unanimous selections. Al though both are fullbacks, every coach but one thought each deserved a place on the honor team, and Daley received more designations as a full- back. Neither player finished the sea- son, being transferred by the Marines at the end of October. Fifty-one players from eight of the nine football-playing schools drew votes. Michigan and Purdue tied with 10 nominees apiece. SECOND TEAM Ends: Rudy Smeja, Michigan, and Frank Bauman, Purdue. Tackles: Mike Kasap, Purdue, and Merv Pregulman, Michigan. Guards: Alex Kapter, Northwest- ern, and Robert Liddy, Iowa. Repeater By HANK MANTHOs We have been hearing all about thes Wisconsin "Whiz Kids" that werel transferred here with the Marine8 Corps and composed the main partt of the football team that brought Michigan its first Big Ten title inz ten years. It seems that these Mar-t ine transfers from Wisconsin intend to dominate the sport spotlight in other fields, too, now that football is1 over for the year. Lowell Oberly is one of these boys and his particular talents are limited to the wrestling1 team. Oberly is not big of stature, but iss plenty sturdy for his size and will give a good account of himself in matches that he participates in this year. Lowell hails from Washington High School in Milwaukee, Wis. While in high school he only wrestled two years and those were his last two years in high school. Has a Knack However, Oberly seemed to have a knack for this strenuous sport as he copped the state championships in both of those last years, winning the first in the 125-pound division and the second at 136 pounds. Lowell was also co-captain of his high school's cross-country team. While attending the University of Wisconsin, the present world-wide conflict arose and Lowell enlisted in the Marine Corps, being shipped here in the first detachment. Before leav- ing Wisconsin, he had gained him- AAU To Vote On Standards NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-()-Head- ed by Gunder Haegg's three records established during his tour of the United States last summer, 63 new track and swimming. standards will be up for approval when the Amateur Athletic Union convenes Friday at Columbus, Ohio, for its annual three- day session. The American records which will go down opposite the Swede's name, providing they are accepted by the AAU, are: 4:05.3 for the mile, 3:47.8 for the 1,500 meters and 8:51.3 for two miles. The mile clocking will re- place Glenn Cunningham's American figures of 4:06.7, his 1,500 time will supersede Walter Mehl's 3:47.9 and his two-mile time the 8:58.3 put into the books by Don Lash. self a bit of prominence by his out- standing mat work, when he was se- lected captain of his freshman team at Wisconsin. His sophomore year there, Oberly made the Wisconsin varsity as its regular 128 pounder and made his first letter at his Alma Ma- ter. First Matches Disappointing The first Conference matches that he participated in were quite a dis- appointment to Oberly last year, as he did not place in them. He lost a tough match in the semi-finals of his weight division, and his one hope this year is to give a better perform- ance than he did last season. Oberly likes Michigan very much and as a preparation for his future, he is entered in the Physical Educa- tion School of the University, his present major. He maintained a fine B average while in school here last semester. Lowell doesn't like to dance and stated that he wasn't much of a social man, but he admitted that he had a comely lassie anxiously awaiting him "back home." He de- rives quite a bit of pleasure out of hunting, fishing and golfing, his fav- orite hobbies. Should Be Threat As long as his Marine detachment! remains at Michigan, Oberly will be one of Coach Courtright's main guns on the wrestling team this season, anld he should prove to be a constant threat to all opponents that he will encounter in matches this year. - Be A Goodfellow -- Bruins Defeat Blackhawks 6-5 BOSTON, Nov. 30.-(IP)-The Bos- ton Bruins fought grimly against six of the Chicago Blackhawks forwards during the last 55 seconds of play to protect a hard-earned lead for a 6-5 National League triumph tonight be- fore a 10,000 crowd at the Boston Garden. The Blackhawks, unbeaten in six of their last seven starts, were trail- ing by a 6-3 margin with about five minutes to go. Their furious closing drive gave them two goals and, with 55 seconds to play, manager Paul Thompson pulled out his goalie and threw a sixth forward into the mad scramble for the tying counter. The Bruins, however, gave Maurice Courteau, their rookie goalie, air-I tight support. BILL DALEY "have-not" schools like Indiana, Min- nesota and Ohio State took their share of glory, too. Picked by Majority This is the list of players who com- pletely dominated-in the voting, plac- ed in positions assigned them by a majority of the coaches: FRED NEGUS Center: John Tavener, Indiana. Quarterback: Robert Wiese, Michi- gan. Halfbacks: Elroy Hirsch, Michigan, and Ernie Parke, Ohio State. . Fullback: Don Buffmire, North- western. Carl Hubbell Leaves Major League Baseball 0> .t T WASN'T a surprise to anyone when his disappearance over China last October hit the front page headlines again. This time it seemed to be the real thing. He was missing nearly a month before he returned from the land of the missing. What more could any newspaper do but play his story on page one? It was a must. What other well-known figure had been on the "missing in action" list twice and had come back to tell about it? It seemed a s if providence was watching over him. And now we come back to the sardonic wiseacres with their sar- castic puns. Is it Harmon's fault that he should be lost twice and found again? Is he to blame for becoming page one copy for every Midwest editor? Why should he take the brunt of this abuse? There is no reason in the world. It is only those shallow thinkers who can't see beyond the edge of their book or the end of their pencil. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-(A)-End-v ing a 16-year run as one of the top left hand pitchers in baseball, King Carl Hubbell today left the active playing lists and was signed as head of the New York Giants' growing farm system for "a long term." President Horace Stoneham and Secretary Eddie Brannick made the announcement at the winter baseball meetings. Landing on the Giants in 1928, after brief runs in Toronto and Beau- mont, Texas, in the minor leagues, and a quick stop with the Detroit Tigers, Hubbell ranks up with Lefty Grove as a top southpaw elbower in the game in the last two decades. He pitched the Giants to three Na- tional League pennants in that stretch-1933, '36 and '37. Twice he was voted the league's most valuable player-'33 and '36. From July 13, 1936, until May 31, 1937, he didn't lose a single league game, running up a string of 24 straight triumphs during the stretch -16 in '36 and 8 in '37. Irish Hold Lead in Final A.P. Poll I _1 -. , I! -y IN For a NOVEL v=. ChristmasG ift Cagers To Face Central Michigan In Opening Game Saturday Night. By HUGH D. MILLER The 1943-44 edition of the Michi- gan basketball team will make its first appearance of the season at 7:30 p. m. Saturday at Yost Field House with Central Michigan. The entire Chippewa team is drawn from the 450 men in the V-12 unit which is stationed on the campus. In the absence of the regular coach who is now a Naval officer, the squad is being coached by Athletic Director Ronald Finch. Under his tutelage the Chippewas have played and lost two games to date. Last Friday, they dropped a close one to Fort Custer, 29-28, and Saturday evening they lost to Western Michigan, 51-24. The half-time score of this contest was 20-19. Most of the Central Michigan play- ers have had experience on various midwest college cage squads. In the first two games Finch has started forwards Mario Fortino, who won his letter last year at Michigan State, and six-foot, three-inch Joe Dale from Detroit. The pivot man has been John MacDonald, who has had three years experience on the Wayne University varsity. The starting guards were Everett Pepper, former Iowa State cager, and Bob Polk who played at Wheaton College First-line replacements include sev- eral well-known athletes. Johnny McHale, former first string center on the Notre Dame football teah and also an understudy to Rudy York at first base for the Detroit Tigers early this season, is playing guard for the Chippewas. George Dalman, former Hope College star, was placed on the all-MIAA Conference team as a for- ward last year. The other all MIAA forward was Wayne Thompson, for- merly of Kalamazoo College, who is now holding down a regular position on the Michigan quintet. NEW YORK, Nov. 30. - (P) - The Irish are still No. 1 in the opinion of 131 sports writers voting in the final Associated Press poll of the 1943 footballseason. The voting retained Notre Dame, despite its loss to the Great Lakes Sailors, in first place but with a drastic cut in the Ramblers' prestige. Only '86 of the Scribes rated the Irish as the best in the country and some of the remaining 45 listed the club no better than seventh. As it was, Notre Dame garnered 1,159 points on a basis of 10 for each first place vote, nine for second, and so forth. The Iowa Pre-Flight aggregation captured 12 first and finished a strong runnerup with 1,028 points. Michigan, Navy,- Purdue, Great Lakes, Duke, Del Monte, Calif., Pre- Flight, Northwestern and March Field of Los Angeles, completed the first ten in that order. Great Lakes was 21st a week ago and zoomed to sixth following its 19 to 14 decision over Notre Dame. - Be A Goodfellow - Phillies Want General Manager, Pennock Asked NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-P)-Herb Pennock, the one-time southpaw pitching ace and more recently head of the Boston Red Sox farm system, couldn't make up his mind today whether or not to take the job as general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. He talked for an hour behind closed doors with young Bob Carpenter, the new president of the Phillies, and afterward Carpenter announced that Pennock "wanted more time to think it over." tit v: ' ti ;+f4?;:jfir . v{..... ! N: %: '. { +s y -. sue' - U -U 'Oening T onight, THE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH University of Michigan Presents PLAY PRODUCTION In It's Upto You A LIVING NEWSPAPER DRAMA By Arthur Arent AMUSING PLAYLETS - MOVIES - DANCE and SONG Toniaht throuah Saturday 8.30 P.M. * Special Christmas Rates Available December First $4.00 per year ( thru June 15th Anywhere in the United States Oratorical Association Lecture Course Fulton Lewis, Jr. I U