1 .4 THURSDAY, DEC, 30, 1943 'Ild A ~ C1B1U A 1AIINA TlTJ~.flYDE. 0,A93 hu I? U 1'I i. A . VI1 L,.w aA SlA 5.1 A SS4 F Western Conference Football Championship HighlightsMichign 's1943 Soorts Year 1943 in Retrosect.. * By ED ZALENSKI Daily Sports Editor rJHE YEAR 1943, which in its in- fancy saw a weak Wolverine cage quintet end its most disas- trous Big Ten campaign In many seasons, comes to an end tomorrow with Michigan carrying on a full athletic program in the face of 1944 's uncertain atmosphere. Yet, despite its inauspicious beginning, 1943 was deinitely a banner one for the Maize and Blue lads. Four times Michigan teams won Big Ten titles to add even greater glory to many brilliant individual performances by Wolverine ath- letes. The recent successes of Bill Daley and Merv :Pregidian in 1ootball were added to those of Harry Holiday in swimming and Bob Ufer in track. It seemed paradoxical that Mich- igan teams should have lost both the first and last events of the year-a hockey game last Jan. 1 to Point Edward, 5-2, and -a basket- ball tilt Dec. 18 to Western Michi- gan. 48-38-but the victories that were gained in betw-een made it a typical Wolverine yar. OUTSTANDING performance in our opinion was the return to power of Michigan football. Coac h Fritz Crisler's sixth edition of the Wolverine gridiron special won eight of its nine games, including all six in the Big Ten Conference. Although the Wolverines had to share the Conference champion- ship with Purdue, they really earned the title-their first in 11 years. Running a close second is the As an added attraction to this end of the nine-year Minnesota football double feature was the jinx and the return of the "Little nomination of Daley and Pregul- man on the All-American eleven- Brown Jug" to Ann Arbor. Michi- the 27th and 28th Michigan ath- gan smashed the baffled Gophers, letes to be so honored. Daley, inci- 49-6, and the lads from Minnesota dentally, was the only unanimous have been moaning about it ever choice on any of the All-American since. The presence of line-smash- teams chosen. ing, All-American Bill Daley in the 'RACK rates over swimming Michigan backfield (he played since Coach Ken Doherty's three years of varsity football for thinclads regained both the indoor Minnesota before being transferred and outdoor Conference titles in here in V-12) added salt to Gopher the most paradoxical fashion pos- wounds. sible. Indoors, the Wolverines amassed the amazing total of 5312 points for a new Conference record and won five of the individual events. Outdoors, it was a totally different story. Yes, Michigan won, but without taking a single first place. This was also a Conference inno- vation. Ufer, referred to alternately as "Bullet Bob" or "Hose Nose," was the squad's individual standout. Bob won the Conference indoor 440-yard dash and two invitational 660-yard titles in relay meets at Cagers Prepare for Game with Western Michigan Team Adopts New Plays To Aid Attack By DAVE LOEWENBERG Michigan's basketball team was sent through its third hard scrim- mage of the week in preparation for the New Year's Day game against Western Michigan at Kalamazoo. Today's workout found the team experimenting with some new plays which should add to the effective- ness of the Wolverine attack. The boys then tried these plays out :in a series of scrimmages and for -the first time in a long while the men were working hard on their defensive as- signments. Michigan is extremely anxious to avenge the 48-38 defeat inflicted at the hands of the Bron- cos-and as Coach Bennie Ooster- baan atly put it, "We intend to give Western a real battle." Team Bolstered This week has marked the return of Tom Paton and Bob Stevens to the squad. In addition, Elroy .Hirsch has shown a great deal of promise and if he continues to improve he may become an important cog in the Wolverine plans. At present Hirsch is being groomed at the center posi- tion where his redounding talents can be utilized to full advantage. The New Year's Day tilt at Kala- mazoo will mark Coach Buck Read's 400th game as Western Michigan's basketball coach and naturally thet best present th veteran mentor could get would be a victory over Western's arch rivals, the University of Michigan.; Has Great Record During Read's 22-year tenure as head basketball coach at Western1 Michigan, the Silver Fox has piled up an enviable record. His teams have scored 274 victories against 119 defeats for an average of .697. In the past 22 years he has had one undefeated season and only twice in his 22 year regime has he had a team that has lost more games than it has won. Only five of the 22- teams have failed to achieve a win- ning season average of more -than .600. This is certainly a remarkable performance when it is considered that such records tend to equalize around the .500 mark over a long period of years. Six of his 22 teams have finished their campaigns with an average of1 more than .800. New M.exico Fears ' Su n Bowl Oppone t ALBUQERQUE, N.M., Dec. 29.-- ,P)-Coach Willis Barnes says his New Mexico footballers "are seared right now", but get them in the Sun. Bowl "and they'll really fight." He is counting heavily on that spark--and a dry field to give his star backs a chance against Southwest- ern's favored Pirates from George- town, Tex., in the New Year's Day classic at El Paso, Tex. "The know they are going to win," said Barnes as. he tapered off his Navy trainees with an hour's bucking a sled across a snowy gridiron, "but they don't know how, and frankly, I don's know either for those Texans have plenty." - - i l Do-ds RONeceives Annual Sullivan Award Hockey Team Will Play All rames at Home The University of °-Michigan hockey team is playing the strangest sched- ule of its history this winter in that the Wolverines are not booked to play? -a single -other collegiate team. Seven of the season's eight oppon- ents are Canadian amateur teams and the eighth is a sextet from Buf- falo, N.Y. All of -the games are being played here and in the first the Wol- verines were defeated by London, Ont., 4-1. This is Michigan's 23rd year in hockey competition and it is the first season in that period in which the, Wolverines and Minnesota have notf met. Travel conditions made it nec-I essary to rule -out this year's renewal. In the past Illinois, Wisconsin, Mar- quette, Michigan Tech, Yale and sev- eral Canadian universities have ap- peared on Wolverine hockey sched- ules in addition to the high-geared; athletic club teams from -several -cities in Ontario.! Against the competition which must be faced this winter Wolverine chances of improving upon last year's losing record are not particularly bright. The next game will be played here Saturday, Jan. 6, -against the Sarnia, Ont., team, and will .be followed by engagements here against these op- ponents: Jan. 15, Woodstock (Ont.) Army ;Post; ean. 22, Fingal (Ont.) Air Force Post; Jan. 29, Buffalo; Feb. 5, Paris (Ont.); Feb. 12, St. Thomas! (Ont.) Air Force Post; Feb. 19, Brant- ford (Ont.).I Trojans Worry As Rain Fajis JJaegg S7wotvs AmerUica Boston Miler Polls 860 Vlotes;* Smith Is Second NEW YORK, Dec. 29-(AP)-Gilbert Dodds, the running parson from Bos- ton, today was named winner of the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy -the award annually given by the Amtateur Athletic Union to the ath- lete who was judged to have done the most to advance the cause of sports- manship during the year. In winning the trophy that has gone to nine other trackmen since it was first awarded to golfer Bobby Jones in 1930, the national 1,500- meter champion had things pretty much his own way in the final ballot- ing of 600 sports leaders of the na- tion. He polled 860 votes as com- pared with 469 for Bill Smith, the Hawaiian swimming ace now sta- tioned at Great Lakes Naval Train- ing Station. Joseph Platak of 'Chicago, who has dominated handball competition for many years, was third with 425 votes. He was followed by Bill Hulse, Am- erica's fastest miler from the New York A.C., with 393 votes, and Ann Curtis, outstanding woman swimmer of 1943 from San Francisco, with 263. Other athletes considered in the final poll, after the field had been narrowed to eight, were: Ken Sailors, g basketball player from the University to of Wyoming; Mary Winslow, Nash- id ville, Tenn., business college basket- at ball star. and William Watson, for- mer Michigan athlete who won the National Decathlon Championship in the colors of the Detroit police 'A.A. Dodds' selection was unique in that he won top honors the first time his name was submitted to the sports leaders. Until two, years ago the, divinity student, who races for the Boston A.A., was virtually unknown. He won the National Indoor Mile --_ Title and the Outdoor 1,500-Meter Crown in 1942 and repeated this year be in the 1,500 meters. was He rose to his greatest heights, however, while bowing to Gunder Haegg during the Swedish runner's tour of this country last summer. Gil met Haegg at any distance in a series of races that raised $135,000 for the Army Air Forces Aid Society. When Haegg set an tAmerican mile standard of 4:05.5 at Berea, Ohio, and Hulse finished second in 4:06,1 Dodds turned in his fastest clocking for the distance with a 4:06.1 mark. Presentation of the trophy prob- ably will be made around Feb. 26, when the National A. A. U. Indoor Championships will be held at Madi- son Square Garden. Past Winners. 1930-Bobby Jones, golf. 1931-Barney Berlinger, track. 1932-Jim Bausch, track. 1933-Glenn Cunningham, track. 1934-Bill 'Bonthron, track. 1935-Lawson Little, golf. 1936-Glenn Morris, track. 1937-Don Budge, tennis. 1938-Don Lash, track. 1939-Joe Burk (CQ), rowing. 1940-Gregory Rice, track. 1941-Leslie Macmitchell, track. 1942-=Cornelius Warmerdam, track. 1943-Gilbert Dodds, track. LSU Has Final Drill For Orange.Bowl MIAMI, Fla., -Dec. 29-P)-Louisi- ana State's football team got in a final hard workout today while its Orange Bowl opponent, Texas A. & M., rode toward Miami on an hours- late train. GUNDER HAEGG Swedish distance runner (right), smiles at a remark by Gre Rice, U.S. middle distance chamnion, as Haegg arrives in New York t start his Americen im asion. After 65 straiighi victories, Rica ran secon to Haeg' in the AAU 5,00 tIeteu. and Iliaeg beat this country's best a both one and two miles. HOOSIER STAR AT MICHIGAN: Mlichigan Cae Team Aided Transfer of Wayne Thompso PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 29. - WP) By JEAN GASKELL -Overhanging clouds and occasionalB sprinkles brought gloom today to Wayne Thompson, forward on this Southern California's:football camp, year's varsity quintet, comes by his while its Rose Bowl opponent, the basketball prowess naturally. University of Washington, although Indiana, where basketball is really used to heavy going, professed a de- king of sports, happens to be Wayne's sire for clearing weather. "Well, Washington is 3 to 1 in the native state, and South Bend Central betting, and a wet field should make was his high school. There his coach them 4 to 1," opined Coach Jeff Cra- was John Warden, all time All- vath of the Trojans. "They're used to American at Purdue. Ed Ehlers. for- a wet ball up there in Seattle. My mer star Indiana cager, was a team- lads don't seem to be able to hold on- to a dry one, much less one that's mate of Thompson's. slippery." His high school experience proved Southern California suffered one of to be extremely worthwhile to Wayne. its two defeats to service teams by Under Warden's tutelage, the team loose .ball handling and won three from Central won the Northern State others in spite'of frequent fumbles. Indiana championship, the sectional "We ,want dry weather," declared andregional contests and was de- Ralph (Pest) Welch, boss of the Hus- feated only in the finals for the bas- 'kies. "Our offense is built around Al ketball crown in the Hoosier state. Akins and Sam Robinson, and we Thompson not only was a great most assuredly can't cash in on our athlete in high school, but added to kind of football on a wet field." his laurels a scholastic average of Welch was perturbed because Don 97.6, and his career in college is just Deeks, ,255-pound right tackle, and as good. Gordon Berlin, 205 pounds of center, Before coining to Michigan to be were suffering from colds, but he ex- in the V-12 program. Wayne attend- pected them to be ready for the :kick- off Saturday at 2 p.m. (5:p.m. Eastern *"__ * r_,._ ed Kalamazoo College, (not to confused. please. with Western Mi igan. also in Kalamazoo). HeN nca-fi-ninecu !of .W ±±O''v quuh niitL Captain-elect of K S14-4qie, had been elected to the Student Sen- ate, and was head of the K College Book Store. Added to all these dutiesI he was carrying a stiff pre-med course. The M.I.A.A. team last year. had Thompson foi'a forward. Wayne also played on the Michigan College All-Stars. This team beat the Globe Trotters, professional opponents, by 14 points. The thing Wayne likes about Michigan is the basketball games and practices. He misses his buddies from K. and secretly, he is supposed to miss his own cheer-the W-a-y-n-e, that always comes from the stands, and one young lady in particular. Wayne sportsmanship on and off the field is exemplary; he's a popular{ guy, and there are a lot of people besides Coach Oosterbaan who are glad he's here. Injured Smeja Is Bck with Stars All pitchers and catchers inter- ested in trying out for the 1944. Michigan baseball team please re- p~ort to Coach Ray Fisher after 2:30 on Monday at the Field House. CLASSIFIED RATES $ .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.) Contract Rates on Request LOST and FOUND Leonardi, Michigan Disuance Runner, Injured in Accident Word was received here yesterday Christmas vacation when the acci- that Ernie Leonardi, Michigan dis- dent occurred. tance runner during the past two A letter winner during ,the 1942 seasons, had been injured in an auto- and 1943 seasons, Leonardi placed in mobile accident near Alpha Sunday each of the four Conference two-mile night and was removed to Iron events he competed in-indoor and h aoutdoor. In the 1942 season, he was Mountain General Hospital where fourth indoors and third outdoors. his condition was regarded as seri- The only sophomore to place in the ous. Conference that year, he was clocked According to first reports of the in 9:31 in the outdoor two-mile, his accident the chunky distance runner best time for that event. suffered a fractured shoulder, pos- Last season, he placed fourth in sibly fractured hip, a bad head cut, both the indoor and outdoor races. numerous contusions and abrasions Never a great runner in high school, of the head and body, and possible Leonardi's best time in the mile prior internal injuries. X-rays will deter- to his coming here was 4:42. His mine the full extent of his condition. only coll giate appearance in the The accident occurred when the mile was against Ohio State as a car in which Leonardi was a passen- sophomore when he won in 4:26. ger blew a tire on a curve, overturned and rolled for about 400 feet. The Todd To Manage Elnira vehicle was completely demolished. The driver -of the car, whose name ELMIRA. N.Y., Dec. 29. -VP)- Al was not learned, was reported in Todd, former National League catch- serious condition also. er, today was named manager of the Leonardi, stationed at Ann Arbor Elmira Pioneers of the Eastern League with the Michigan ROTC unit which for the 1944 season, succeeding Ray is awaiting call to OCS, was visiting Brubaker. Todd was a player-coach at his home in Alpha during the for the Chicago Cubs last season. War Time). Wings Face Montreal For Week-End Series Uflrdearm * m Deodorant' safely s5 PerspiratiOn YJK binsL~.'XDoes1-19Ciritate skin. 2 N tin tri. Can be used h aftershng. MONTREAL, Dec. 29.-iP)-The Detroit Red Wings, whose road re- cord is only two victories and two ties in 11 National Hockey League starts, tackle the pace-setting Montreal Canadiens tomorrow night in the opener of a two-game week-end se- ries. They play again Sunday at De- troit. I -un u cicats SAN FRANSISCO, Dec. 29.-VP)------------------- ...~ Colgate's veteran football mentor, LOST-Notebook and Spanish text $ lAndy Kerr. who annually coaches the book at Hill Auditorium Tuesday Eastern All Stars for the east-west night. Notes particularly valuable charity game. said today he was play- to owner. Daytime call, Mrs. Heyn, CHAMPAIGN. Ill. ,Dec. 29-- ( ,)_-ing his cards close to the vest and did 25685; evenings 26115. Illinois' Gee Whiz Kids avenged an not intend to reveal what type of at- -- early season defeat by Great Lakes tacking formation would be used LOST-Lady's wrist watch, yellow tonight. whipping the Sailors, 64 to here New Year's Day. gold, round face, black cord brace- 51. There has been speculation whe- let. Lost Saturday before Christ- Guard Walter Kirk. who led his t~her Kerr, a confirmed double wing ..mas. Phone 6801. team's attack with 17 points, put the exponent, and his associate, George Illini in the lead 26-21 as the half Hauser, Minnesota, would spring theed r aCsLTAti h sn ended. After that. Illnos was ne er T-formation against the westerners. MIMEOGRAPHING: thesis binding. headed and in the last 10 minutes of Kerr referred all inquiries on the sub- Brumfield and Brumfield, 308 S- the game Coach Doug Mills' boys ject "to the day of the game." State picked up steam and won going Four hitherto ailing players prac- away. ticed today as the East went through HIGHEST CASH PRICE paid for Registerng 20 pints.orward two workouts. Th casualties who re- your discarded wearing apparel. Herman Schaefer former Indiana turned to duty included Rudy Sme- Claud Brown, 512 S.- Main Street. star, led the attack for the Sailors. ja, end from Michigan. who downed Iinaoi ir-oently 52-4 at The Westerners, area d y esta- ALTERATIONS on ladies' garments. 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