MMMM9 ----- n ' - ~ . + .vYYll l.:\i . .1 = C. .?a ilk dL L-t T -- ~- A OL F 7:7 _ . . ....n.. .u .. yva s. Lit d'i A L": A-]41 1 :V '.!.'iY L".LF YYL..' . ..__... _ . . ... f ' PA.T 'pL' 3 Bg Double Header To Be Featured Here Saturday NIght . .c.. TAKING IT EASY By E ZALENSK D .ily Sports Editr The Prize Boner of 1943 .. . THE FAILURE of Notre Dame's sling-shot quarterback, Angelo Bertelli, to make the 1943 Associated Press All-American eleven should go down in sports history as the greatest boner of the year. The high-powered Rambler managed to land a backfield berth on the second team, losing out to Penn's Bob Odell, teammate Creighton Miller, Northwestern's Otto Graham and our own Bill Daley. It's not the mere fact that we think this much-publicized and highly-talented "Irishman" is a better man than any of the four named above. We wonder, however, WHY BERTELLI COULDN'T MAKE TIlE FIRST TEAM AFTEI4 WINNING-THE HEISMAN TRO- PHY AS THE NATION'S MOST, OUTSTANDING GRIDDER OF THE SEASON' If Bertelli can be THE BEST and still not make the AP first team, we can draw only one obvious conclusion-someone pulled a prize boner in making the selection of that mythical All-American backfield! HERE IS ONLY ONE EXCUSE to .offer in defense of this bonehead selection. Bertelli was called -up by the Marines before the season was completed and the Irish seemed to function almost as well with Johnny Lujack in the signal-calling, pass-heaving role. .Whether or not Bertelli's presence would have been 'sufficient to defeat Great Lakes and keep Notr Dame's record clean is problematical. THEN HOW ABOUT DALEY? Bill -wasin almost the same set-up. The Navy called him out after the Illinois game and the Wolverines finished up the season without him. As much as we respect Daley's record and ability, we don't believe that he was any more impressive than Bertelli. If Daley was good enough for the first team on the basis of a part-season performance, Bertelli certainly was! The question naturally comes up, "Whose place would Bertelli take on the first team?" Daley, Graham and Miller appear to rate the top on rthe basis of their records. But Odell was only a fair offensive back, his forte being his work on the defensive Since when has a halfback with an ob- vious weakness rated higher than a gridder of known ability? We've never seen Odell in action, but information coming out of the East is definite about his lack of ability as a great offensive back. All-American to us means all-around ability. Bertelli must have had it to win the Heisman trophy. Odell is probably the best back in the East, but figures and facts have proven that Midwestern football was tops this season.f WHILE WE'RE IN a critical mood there is another point we would like to bring up. Was the name of big Johnny Yonaker, 6 ft. 4 in. endc of the Irish, missing when the three teams were selected?s We looked at the selections several times, but couldn't even find the Rambler giant on the third team. Guys like Al Channell of the Navy and Indiana's Pete Pihos are :supposed to be better.. The failure of Yonaker to make even the AP third team is more amazing in the light of his selectionc on so many mythical first teams!t Can mere words undo this great injustice to Bertelli? JohnI Greenleak Whittier has the perfect answer in "Maud Muller:" "Of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are: It might have been!" - *P IF MICHIGAN CAGE FANS have any ideas about a championship Wol-v verine quintet by Saturday; Dec. 18, there is every indication that ae few hours in Yost Field .House that night will change their minds. Fort that is the fatal night when Coach Buck Reed brings his rampaging Western1 Michigan Broncos to Ann Arbor. They're giving odds on the Broncs. The surprising Broncos tumbiled a supposedly invincible Notre Damea quintet, 46-42, about a week ago and they didn't seem to miss their bigr star, Hal 'Gensichen. And, to make matters worse, the Broncos rompedi over a bewildered Fort Custer team, 73-34, the other night. Guard1 Mary Bylsma led the Reedmen with 16 points. Bylsma is a former All-I State eager and a star on the Calvin Collegequintet. If you put any faith in comparative scores, watch what the Wolverinesv do this Saturday night at the Field Houseagainst this same Custer team.a And while you're watching the soldiers keep an eye on Howie McCarthyU who tallied 12 points against Western Michigan.a Michian Cue Experts Gain Second Place in Tourney A Champ (i mes fBack Fort Custer Provides Opposition as Wolverines Seek Third Straight Win By DAVE LOEWENBERG Michigan basketball fans will be offered a double attraction here Sat- urday night when the Wolverine quintet meets Fort Custer in the Fieldhouse at 7:45 following a pre- liminary game - at 6:45 between the finalists in the Army's campus intra- mural basketball tournament. Army Intra-Murals The semi-finals of the Army tour- nament will be run off Friday and the two winners will play for the coveted championship Saturday night. This All-Army tilt will fea- ture a number of former college players who are stationed here in the Army Specialized Training Program. From all outward appearances, Michigan should not have too much trouble with the Fort Custer team. They barely eked out ,a one point victory over Central Michigan and Tuesday night they were swamped by Western Michigan, 73-34. Inciden- tally Western Michigan' holds a 46-42 triumph over Notre Dame which ac- cording to experts has one of the best teams if not the best in the Mid- west. Western Michigan Western Michigan meets Michigan here in the Fieldhouse a week from Saturday night. This will be a real test of WWolverine strength for if the Maize and Blue win this one, they certainly could be classified as one of the top quintets in the Midwest. Another hard scrimmage featured yesterday's practice. The boys were scoring regularly but definitely were not working together as a unit. This SEVEN YEARS A STAR: Starts x hI dcddlv onderi a I le basket and iI te seats 1 0 e (qually iwoficient on~ 11ni is one of tose boys who play b'ke Jlbll 1i real firewater uon. An --eptionally fast player. ~f ~i ~ godshtand like Seymour t> sxcialy aeptA shoit,,under No)n- onference Foes Michign's cagers have won their irst two games from Central Michi- I an and Romulus respectively. They ave i rnee games remaining vith- 1u1m COnf temns before they mee No Ihxrs c-nhere on Jan. 7. leshs le Cm c n-Sme Saturda i er two mes heduled th Ween Nieigan on Dec. 18 and ,Jan. 1. Th' first one is to be !ed here with New Year's Day gae to be splayed in Kalamazoo. Coanh Bnoie Oosterbaan. who is " uciting his sixth season as head baketball coach, is greatly depen- dent on Navy and Marine personnel. BENNIE OOSTERBAAN However, three civilians, Don Lund. Bill S 'yniour. and Bill Oren, will 'apparentlet-down can be attributed unquestionably play an important to the fact that some of the boys arepre new to the Wolverines' style of play oing year. Incidentally any-credit and in their anxiety to make good. for Michigan successes this year and ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~1oi interanit omaego -sol)o to Coach Bennie Ooster- some of the players are trying too l d his at Bi Bar- hard, which in turn throws them off their game. who aie going to have to use all their ingenuity in order to weed out the Seymour and King most efficient unit to represent the A bright spot in yesterday's scrim- m it anl:Blue.s mage was the fine play of Bill Sey- o mour and Tom King, who accounted Tile Paon usinmr nMci for 27 points between them. Sey- jalsbsebl ln stesau Tl poi ;;an sT b oe qutio lnsmrinhestatu mour at present is being groomed atss ta of Tom Baron, Mlichiigan 6 5" center. the pivot position and looks very ;Tom is s n a nee inur- impressive in his new role. Bill is BOB UFER . . . national and Big Ten Con- ference indoor quarter-mile cham- pion who is eligible to compete for the fourth straight year on Michi- gan's track team. The extra year of competition and added strength in his arms and body from calis- thenics may make 1944 the best season of his record-breaking ca- reer. Hockey Team Faces Londol, In Inti'al Test By JO ANN PETERSON Facing a squad of soldier players from the London Athletic Club at 9:00 p.m. Saturday night, the Michi- gan hockey team will have its first opportunity this year to test its strength against any opponent. Lowrey has a rather solid front line with Vince Abbey, Gordie Anderson and Ted Greer probably holding the offensive posts, and With Jack Athens, wing, also a definite possibility for Intra-Squad Mat Matches To Be AUi i -r t weeks' o find i uI drills and t\ o weeks of iiteuinv practice. Conch Ray Courtrighlt be- lieves that his Michigan matmien should be shaping tp 'etty well, and he intends to find our .i t hat this Saturday. There have been no actual match- es since the start of the present wrestling season, Nov. 1, as "Corky" did not want the boys to try too hard and risk injury uniil twy ladai Totten themslves in good condition. ie holes to find out how good his inatniwn are this Saturdayi in an intra-squad meet at Ferry Fid. This meet is being staged for the sole purpose of giving Cotrtright a chance to see his grapplrs in actioni. By these meets, he will kinow exactlyv what to stress to round out the boys skill before they come under actual fire in thefis ertOh Sae Jan. 8. It is also going to be abssof picking out his tentative first string for the coming year. There is plenty of time before that first regular match, but he hopes to iron out serious difficulties or weaknesses that any of his topnotch men have. as they will be counted upon to give Michigan one of the best wrestling teams in Ann Arbor in recent years. 'Fighting Boxers AXwarded I I-It NEW YORK, Dec. 8.- /P-The 4.019 boxers who have traded in their ring trunks for uniforms in Uncle Sam's armed forces today were awarded the 1943 Edward J. Neil memorial plaque, given annually by the Boxing Writers Association of New York for outstanding service to the sport. The trophy, established in memory of the Associated Press sports writer and war correspondent who was killed during the war in Spain in 1938, will be awarded in the name of the "fighting boxers" at the Associa- tion's annual dinner Jan. 19 and will be hung in their name in the lobby of Madison Square Garden. In making the awar( to the group of 4.019-and any more who may elt- ter the service during the war-the boxing writers departed for the first time from the custom of giving the bronze plaque to an individual. Shrider Brilliant Athlete Both, In High School, College Sports ald as yet nonimprovement has been rlote(d in his condition. Tom's loss oOuld be quite a blow to Wolverine cage plans as this rangy center seemed t9 fit in nicel with Michi- gan's style of play. At present Sey- mour and Oren are being groomed for the pivot position. 14'0 "110 a* d b@1 ll WI Lb When Dick Shrider, Michigan's star basketball player, stepped onto the court against Central Michigan the starting front lineup. However, last Saturday night, it marked the Lowrey is far from satisfied with the seventh consecutive season that brand of hockey the squad has been Shrider's name has appeared in a demonstarting, and does not hesi- tate to say so. starting lineup. Must Back-Chek Dick attended high school in Glen- "We can't win hockey games until ford, O., where he won eight letters, we start back-checking, and we aren't four in basketball and four in base- doing it," he said yesterday, referring ball. to the disappointing showing that the For three years in a row Dick was hockey team has been making in re- selected to a starting position on the cent practices, all state Ohio five. To further prove Althoughathe team shows consider- his versatility, Dick played a differ- able speed and agility, the squad does ent position in high school each year not click together, which is essential and when the all-star selections if there is to be any scoring in the cane out, Dick was always picked at London contest, I!the position which he held on his Henderson Plays Defense team, whether it be forward, guard, Bob Henderson, slight sophomore or center. who has been converted from wing to Senior Year Best a defense post, since Bob Derleth's Shrider's best season was his senior unfortunate accident last Friday af- year at Glenford. As captain-elect ternoon, has done a surprisingly good of his high school team Shrider liter- job of filling the gap left by Derleth's ally set Ohio prep records on fire absence. Henderson, who is a Navy with a sizzling average of 26 points trainee, stationed on campus, and an per game. It was Dick's great play Ann Arbor boy, was originally sched- which enabled Glenford to win the uled to play wing on the second string state championship that year. line, but Derleth's torn cartilage de- In his sophomore and junior years stroyed the whole arrangement, and respectively Shrider averaged 15 and Henderson is now trying to play a 20 points per game. In addition, the position for which he has had ,very team won the Southeastern District little training. - title for three years and went to the Slth L F.11 semi-finals of the state tournament j a aL 'es: in 1939 and 1940. - After graduating from high schoolc l ms uaid Dick, like most outstanding prep stars in Ohio, enrolled at Ohio State University. Dick won his freshman C numerals in basketball and was also son the Phil-Pit made captain of the frosh squad. tough in the Nattio Last year Dick was the only sopho- .now comes to lig more in the Buckeye starting lineup nardest-punching and he proved 1 > i Kin)pro too such an assignment by averaging 10 The Pennsylva g C Gai'ners . 8.-P)-The rea- tt Eagles were so onal Football League ht. They were the bunch of ground- otball in 1943. ania combine -its points a game against conference opponents can say they were out- foes. Dick's best night last year was I rushed by two teams-rolled up 1,7301 in the Michigan game when he 1;ards on the ground in 10 games toI scored 15 points in leading his team nose out the western champion Chi- to a 46-44 triumph at Columbus. cago Bears, who made but 1,631 yards Stationed in V-12 and thus lost out on the ball-carrying It was through the Navy V-12 pro- honors for the first time since 1938. gram that Dick finally landed on the The Chicagoans easily sewed up Michigan campus. Dick is now play- the total offense title-yards by both ing first string on the Wolverine rushing and passing-with a 4,045 quintet and in Saturday night's total, topping Green Bay's runnerup game with the Chippewas Dick con- effort of 3,351 by several gridiron nected for eight points and was the ! lengths. The Bears did this with outstanding defense man on the their second-place rushing quota plus floor. a first-place chunk of yards by pass- All pre-season dope points to an- ing--2,310. Green Bay again was the other banner year in Dick Shrider's No. 2 team in this department, mak- brilliant athletic career. ing its aerials good for 1,909 yards. Official Issuing Agency Here - Bonds Issued, Day or Night Shows Continuous From I P.M. .a~~r .E9, '. .- . a l LMvtae 'r fu rr' MICHIGAN By BILL MULLENDORE The annual National Intercollegi- ate Telegraphic Billiard Tournament, sponsored by the various college Un- ions throughout the country, is being played at one week intervals during the first three weeks of December at the billiard rooms of the competing Universities. In the pocket billiards competition, which was held last Thursday, Dec. 2, representatives of the University of Michigan garnered a second place for themselves by amassing a total of 376 points to Indiana University's 380. Cornell, which is this year in charge of the tournament placed third with 350 points. Other com- peting schools include Florida, Wis- consin, Colorado State, Illinois, and Purdue. Straight Rail Play Today Competition in straight rail bill- iards is scheduled for tonight. The Michigan players will wield their cues in the Michigan Union Billiard Room. The three cushion billiards tournament is slated for next Thurs- day, Dec. 17. The series of tournaments is en- dorsed by the National -Billiard As- sociation and is the brain child of Charley (show me a shot I can't make) - Peterson, one of America's foremost billiard exhibitionists and instructors. Since it would be rath- er difficult for the members of each team to congregate in one place for the tourney, it is conducted by tele- graph. Work from Key Shots Working from previously deter- mined "key shots," each billiardist shoots a specified number of innings in which he can run no more than ten in any one inning. A team con- sists of five members, and after all have shot, the scores are totalled and sent in to the tournament manager, this year Everett W. Adams of Cor- nell University. Results are then tabulated and sent to the competing schools. In previous years Michigan has done very well in this tournament, winning all three events in 1939 and 1940 and never placing worse than third. With a second place already to their credit representatives of this University stand an excellent chance of adding to their brilliant record to- night and next week. Billiard en- thusiasts who wish to see some high class cue artistry may watch the pro- ceedings without charge in the Union billiard room on those nights. National League Seeks I To Deny Gambling WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-(/P)-Pro football in general and the cham- pion Washington Redskins in partic- i l l 1 jeraes smoss jei Although practice this week has been partially upset by the loss of Derleth, there is a noticeable lack of coordination and cooperation. Hen- derson has been playing spirited hoc- key, but the rest of the team has not been animated to a sufficient degree to inspire any confidence. Lowrey re- marked that the boys will have to start playing "sixty-minute hockey," but as yet there has been little to sug- gest that the squad is capable of such sustained effort. However, it may be that if the team starts passing more accurately, and back-checking, it will produce a brand of hockey good enough to give the Canadian team a battle. Burton H ios Lead In~ owlinc , Tourney CLASSIFIED DIRECTOR STARTS TODAY" 2 FEATURES! a CLASSIFIED RATES A .40 per 15-word insertion for one or two days. (In- crease of 10c for each additional 5 words.) Non-Contract $1.00 per 15-word insertion for three or more days. (In- crease of $.25 for each additional 5 words.) 1 I SOYf . o R+ RyjCraw, GI#dCt Pool Co ALSO-_____ WArd I r/i :-t 91 CHICAGO, Dec. 8.-(,P')-Although oact Rates on quvuu lacking the form he displayed yester- _ day in rolling six consecutive games of more than 200, Nelson Burton of LOST and FOUND St. Louis today maintained his lead in LOST-Beta Theta Pi pin. 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