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Weekn1 Series
Strack Scores 33 Points
In Two Purdue Games
Oosterbaan Praises Spirit of Hirsch; Quintet
Seeks Second Big Ten Win Against Buckeyes
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TAKING ITi EASY
By ED ZALFVINSKI'
1)4il y S!l~pors LEdiior
By DAVE LOEWENBERG
With the loss of two games to Pur-
due's championship-bound squad,
the Michigan cagers have given up
almost all hope of finishing among
the leaders in the Western Confer-
ence race.
Dave Strack paced the Wolverine
attack by chalking up 33 points in
the two Boilermaker contests. By
virtue of this fine performance,
Strack moved into a fourth place tie
with his teammate, Tommy King, in
the race for individual scoring hon-
ors. Both King and Strack have
registered 70 points in six Big Ten
tilts, giving them an average of ap-
proximately 12 points a game.
Oosterbaan Praises Hirsch
Coach Benny Oosterbaan was en-
thusiastic in. praising the wonderful
competitive spirit of Elroy Hirsch.
Oosterbaan said, "Hirsch is one of
the finest team players I've ever seen
in action and he places the interests
of the squad far above that of any-
thing else. Hirsch is the type of
player who doesn't know the mean-
ing of the word 'quit'."
Hirsch suffered an ankle injury in
the first game at Purdue but it is
almost certain that he will be ready
to see full-time action in the games
against Ohio State this week-end.
In the first Purdue contest Michi-
gan was on top almost the entire
game and it was a last second Boiler-
maker basket that sent the game
into an overtime period. Toward the
end of the game, Hirsch was benched
by an ankle injury and at the time of
his departure, Michigan was on top.
Bill Seymour, Who was sent in to
replace Hirsch, did a nice job at the
pivot position, but was not quite fast
enough to cope with Purdue's fire-
water style of attack.
In the second contest, Michigan
fought on even . terms with Purdue,
throughout the first half, and was
behind only 18-16 at the intermis-
Michigan's Oldest.
Letter Winner Dies
The University of Michigan lost its
oldest letterman and one of the
staunchest supporters of Wolverine
athletics Saturday night with the
death of Arthur Giles Bishop of
Flint.
Bishop, who would have been 93 in
April, was a catcher on the Michigan
baseball team of 1870, playing in the
days when catchers did their work
behind the plate without benefitof
mitts or masks and caught the ball
an the first bounce. The records for
he 1870rseason have been lost, and
none of the present group of Michi-
gan men can remember back far
enough to give any details of his
exploits behind the bat.
In spite of 'his age, Bishop re-
mained a loyal supporter of Michi-
gan athletic teams almost until his
death, attending the Minnesota foot-
ball game here last fall. For many
'years he was present at all Wolverine
home events.
sion. Purdue then opened up with
their fast breaking attack and after
six minutes of the second half, the
Boilermakers leaped into a 35-21
lead. From here on in Coach Lam-
bert's boys coasted to an easy tri-
umph.,
Ohio Here This Week-end
Coach Oosterbaan, in discussing
the present status of the Michigan
cagers, explained "that of the four
games Michigan lost to Wisconsin
and Purdue, three of them were so
close that they could have gone
either way. Each one of the en-
counters, except the last with Pur-
due, was decided in the closing min-
utes of play." As Oosterbaan aptly
put it, "These are the toughest ones
to lose." Oosterbaan also mentioned
the fact that "theretare very few
basketball teams in the history of
the Western Conference which have
a percentage of .167, and still boast
as good a team as Michigan."
It will be do or die for Michigan
this week-end in the two-game series
against the Buckeyes. The Ohio
quintet is in fourth place, having
won two games and lost one. Their
single setback was inflicted on them
by unbeaten Northwestern, 42-40
last Saturday.
Army Vets Help
Organized Ball
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-(OP)-Or-
ganized baseball, which has been
sending many of its best men into
the armed services for the past three
years, is due to receive a slight re-
turn on its investment this season.
A few athletes-very few in com-
parison to the number who have
joined up since the end of the 1943
season-have been discharged from
the Army and Navy and will return
to their old trade of playing ball.
Among them are four players with
considerable Major League exper-
ience who are scheduled to go to big
league training camps this spring,
about as many more rookie prospects
who will come up for trials and about
a dozen minor leaguers whose names
appear on recent National Associa-
tion bulletins as "reinstated from
national defense service list."
The Chicago White Sox will take
no fewer than three ex-Army men
to camp. They have Myril Hoag, vet-
eran outfielder, Roy Schalk, an in-
fielder who hit .288 for Little Rock in
the Southern Association in 1942,
and rookie pitcher Tony Annoreno,
who had two years' experience in the
1.orthern League.
Big Ed Levy, who was given a trial
as the Yankees' first baseman last
spring, traded to the Phillies and fin-
ally wound up in. Newark, will come
up again with the Yanks. The base-
ball draft skipped over him last fall
because he was due for induction but
the Coast Guard turned him back
after a short time.
Buffalo Here Saturday
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HEINI KESSLER
.. .Michigan's freshman breaststroker who scored the team's lone
first place against Great Lakes in the first meet, and repeated this
triumph Saturday in the return match here. Kessler is an Ann Arbor
High School product and has been tutored by Coach Matt Mann for
years.
Kessler, Maloney, On Natators
To Win First Place over Sailors
By JO ANN PETERSON
In handing the Fingal, Ont. RCAF
team a decisive 8-0 lacing Saturday,
night, Michigan's puck squad proved
that it may well have the spirit.
power and skill necessary to make
the season's record a creditable one.1
Coach Eddie Lowrey's charges were
showing a brand of hockey in the
one-sided fiasco, which was entirely
lacking in the recent Woodstock
game. The sloppy passing and inex-
pert stick-handling were almost en-
tirely lacking, and the attack was
coordinated.
Lowrey Is Pleased
Lowrey was well pleased with the
showing of his proteges, and is con-
fident that in the future, although
the team may absorb defeats, there
will be evidence of "the smart hock-
ey" displayed in Saturday's game.
It was a surprise to varsity hockey
fans when the squad came through
with such consistently good play, as
the Fingal crew was highly rated
and advance information indicated
that the team was at least the equiv-
alent of the Woodstock combination.
Forward Line Cooperates
Certainly the two-line combina-
tion with Ted Greer centering and
Johnny Jenswold and Vince Abbey
on the wings of the starting forward
line, is a happy one. These three
men shoved in eight goals.
Although offensively the squad was
strengthened by the addition of Ab-
bey, who has been absent from the
lineup during the last two contests,
it was also in large measure due to
the stellar 60-minute work of de-
fensemen Bob Henderson and Tom
Messinger. Goalie Dick Mixer was
forced to make only 14 saves.
York Classified 1-A
DETROIT, Jan. 22.--()- Rudy
York, Detroit Tiger first baseman
and 1943 Major League homerun
champion, has been reclassified 1-A
by his draft board at Cartersville,
Ga., it was learned tonight.
Marginal Notes on Michigan Basket ball .
THREE WEEKS of the current Big Ten basketball race are on the records
and Purdue, riding on the crest of a six-game victory wave, champions
the Conference. But where is Michigan, the team which showed so much
promise early in the season? How are the Wolverines doing with half of
their 12 games played?
Coach Bennie OosterbaanN Wolverine cagers haven't been doing
so well. All they've got out of their first six Conference games are a
number of minor injuries, a few bruises and headaches, and one lone
victory. They have only a shim mathematical chance of winning the
Conference crown, and are ahmost git of the running. It looks as if
Bennie is doomed to no better than seventh place this season.
Six more Conference games rema in. Ohio State comes here for a pair
this week-end, and Indiana follows next week-end with two more at the
Field House. Then, the Wolverines take to the road for solo contests at
Chicago and Northwestern. Since Chicago and Indiana are on successive
lower rungs of the Conference ladder, it is highly possible that Michigan
can win at least three more games. This would give the quintet four victories
in 12 games, hardly an enviable record.
PERHAPS, it is too early to speculate on the final standings. The
boys have shown a lot of fight and will to win, especially in their lone
triumph over Illinois' "Gee Whiz Kids" and at Purdue Friday when they
lost in overtime. Although comparative scores (never reliable) indicate
two Ohio State victories this week-end, Michigan's fighting quality
could easily change that.
It is true that injuries have been frequent among Michigan's better
men. Wayne Thompson, Bob Wiese, Elroy Hirsch, and John Leddy have
been unavailable or handicapped at some time or other during the first
stages of the season. But Dave Strack, Tommie King, Dick Shrider, Don
Lund, and Bill Seymour have shown themselves. Shrider, however, has
had little opportunity yet to demonstrate his ability.
Bennie's boys really showed something in the Conference opener
with Northwestern and the victory over llinois. It was not hard to
imagine a successful season for Michigan after five years of drought.
However, we've stopped'dreandhg now and are dealing in facts.
Let's ALL Do Our Very Best
HELP THE MARCH OF DIMES
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By BUD LOW
The Maize and Blue swimmers
took it on the chin for the second
straight time last Saturday night'
when the Great Lakes Bluejackets
repeated their performance of the
week before by defeating the Wol-1
verines, 48-36.
Sparked by Bill Smith who broke
the pool record in the 220, in addition
to unofficially breaking two world's
records in the same race, the Sailors
captured first places in every event
except the 440 and the breastroke.
Michigan's "flying fish" star, Heini
Kessler, took the breastroke for the
second week in a row to have the
honor of being the only Wolverine
able to place first in both meets with
Great Lakes. Coach Matt Mann was
ance of Kessler who went the 200
especially pleased with the perform-
yards in 2:36.3 to show the most im-
provement of anyone on the squad.
Maloney Takes 440
Paul Maloney, who like Kessler is
also a freshman, took the 440 in a
breeze to gain Michigan's only other
first of the evening. Maloney also
grabbed a third place in the 220 be-
hind Smith and Jerry.Kerschner, but
the Maize and Blue distance star was
obviously saving himself for the
quarter mile, since at that time it
was not known that Smith was going
to be scratched in the longer race.
Matt was also very pleased at the
swam on the 400-yard relay. Charlie
Fries churned through his anchor
BULLETIN .
It was announced yesterday by
Coach Ray Courtright that the
Wolverine wrestlers would meet
Purdue at 3 p.m. this Saturday in
the Field House. Coach Courtright
has been trying to arrange a meet
with the Boilermakers for some
time.
leg in :52.8 for the best time of the
group. Mert Church ,who led off
against Smith, did :53.4, a very com-
mendable performance considering
he started from scratch. Achilles
Pulackus and Ace Cory each went
the distance in :53.7, also good for so
early in the season.
'Meet Purdue This Week-end
This Saturday the Varsity natators
will open their home Conference
schedule by playing host to Purdue
in a meet that is scheduled to get un-
der way at 2:30 p.m. in the Sports
Building. The Boilermakers are
coached by one of Matt Mann's for-
mer proteges, Dick Papenguth.
Bill Hulse Captures
MetropolieaiTIi ik
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.--(P)-Bill
Hulse, America's 4:06 miler, de-
throned James Rafferty tonight as
the Metropolitan A.A.U. champion at
the distance by swinging eight times
around the 13th regiment armory's
unbanked floor at 4:15.6.
It was the second straight win on
the boards for the youngster who
hopped into the limelight last sum-
mer by chasing Gunder Haegg. Last
week, running in rubber-soled shoes,
he was clocked in 4:23.4. Tonight the
competitors wore short spikes.
Lawrence Schmidt of Columbia,
pulled a mild upset in defeating Al
Daily of the New York A.C., former
Manhattan College athlete, by jump-
ing into the lead only a few strides
from the finish line of the 1,000 yard
run. Prior to that Daily led all the
way. The winner's time was 2:21.8.
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