2& i§44; A%,t J-, i .. . Ca ers Open Two=Game Series A gainsit Bnckeyes Tonfght LOWdown on Sports .. by BUD LOW Associate Sports Editor Sports Desk, Michigan Daily January 28, 1944 Sgt. Joe Doakes, U.S. Armed Forces Somewhere in the South Pacifie Dear Joe: IT'S BEEN quite some time since I last wrote you,,but then I never was a good correspondent. And, anyway, so much has happened around the old town that I don't even have time to write my family a short note on the back of the checks they send me Things are just about the same up here at The Daily as when I last wrote-Ed Zalenski is still getting fan mail (about one letter every two two weeks from an anonymous critic), Harvey Frank's jokes are still as bad as ever (things are tough all over, I guess), and Jo Ann Peterson still gets her weekly communiques from Walt Klee. Of course we are still letting the women think that they run everything here at The Daily, but you know as well as I that we males do all the work. There just doesn't seem to be any rest for the wicked, and if that really is true, I'm going to have to turn over a new leaf so I can get some rest. Three weeks ago tomorrow night I ran myself into a hole trying to see the basketball game with Illinois, the state AAU swimming championships, and the hockey game with Sarnia, all taking place at the same time. It was like seeing a three ring circus, only the rings were spread all over the campus. (By the way, Michigan came out on top in all three sports.:) NOW THAT I have just about recuperated from that harrowing week-end, another one comes along-only this one is worse. Tonight I am going to sit back and relax, enjoy my last night of rest before toworrow's ordeal, watching the basketball game with Ohio State. Bennie Oqsterbaan's lads have as much or more fight in them this year as any team in the last four years. They have lost a couple of heartbreakers in the last two weeks, but they come back fighting harder than ever the next game. The Buckeye games tonight and tomorrow night should be two of the best games of the year for the home-town crowd to watch. The Scarlet and Gray squad boasts two victories over Indiana and one over hapless Chicago. Northwestern, Otto Graham, Inc., downed Ohio 42-40 by taking the tilt out of the fire at the last minute, and this, together with the fact that the Wildcats (who are now tied with Purdue and Iowa with a perfect record) defeated the Wolverines only 57-47, should mean a close tilt. My trouble starts at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon when the swimming team faces Purdue. Matt Mann's charges should haye little trouble with the Boilermakers; but don't think I won't have a ringside seat for th first home Conference meet of the year. At three, one half hour later,;I make my solo dash from the Sports Building to the Field House to be in on the "kill" when the first wrestling match gets under way. Inside information tells me that this match with Purdue may deCide who ,wins the Big Ten title, for according to Ray Courtright the Boilermakers have the best team in the Conference. Running back and forth between the two meets should be just a warmup for what is to come that night. THE BASKETBALL and hockey games both start at eight, and the title of this might be, "A Sportswriter's Nightmare.." I've already told you what a fine opportunity Maize and Blue cage fans will- have to' see two hard-fought games with Ohio, but those interested In hockey will find no less an opportunity to see an excellent contest at the rink: Michigan hockey has definitely taken an upswing this year. They have shown a lot of fight and spiit-more so than in the past, and the brand of hockey they have been playing has steadily improved since the beginning of the year. The pucksters may not win a lot of games but they don't have to give a money-back guarantee to sell tickets. Getting back to my difficulty, just where did you hide your roller skates when Louie's (Hershey) Lottery caught up with you? Running between the Field House and the Coliseum four or five times is just too much-even if I do have all week to rest up for the next week-end. (By the way, don't breathe a word of this to Ken Doherty-he might get the idea that I'm not in condition.) Well, Joe, I have to go out and buy my weekly box of Dr. Carter's Little Dextrose Tablets. Keep plugging away at those Japs out there, and drop me a line now and then so I'll know how the war is doing. So long, BUD P. S.: I'm having trouble with that blonde I wrote you about in my last letter. Swimmers Meet Purdue Tornor'ro w Michigan Favored To Sweep Firsts in Big Ten Home Opener While no one expects Purdue to beat Michigan's powerful swimming squad in the first home Big Ten match of the season at 2:30 p.m. to- morrow in the Sports Building pool, Boilermaker fans are pulling for a victory in the 440-yard freestyle. Phil Hansel, newly-elected captain of the invading squad, will bear the Purdue banner in the gruelling quar- ter-mile race with Michigan's Paul Maloney. The odds are on the Wol- verine freshman, who holds the New York AAU mile record. Maloney To Face Captain Hansel is also entered in the 220- yard freestyle along with Bill Porter. He won an easy victory in the quar- ter-mile grind against Northwestern. Maloney took a first in the last Great Lakes match here Saturday. Coach Dick Papenguth has entered Jimmie McMullen and Bob Barnard in the breaststroke against Coach Matt Mann's freshman ace, Heirn Kessler. The Purdue men finished second and third, respectively, in their team's 56-28 defeat at North- western. Entries Are Listed Purdue's top entry in the 220-yard swim, Porter, lost a touch finish to Northwestern, while Salmon, a V-12 transfer from Iowa State, finished a close second in both the 50 and 100- yard sprints. Other entries from Purdue are Bob Brogan, Indianapolis freshman, in the distances; Hugh Woolverton and Bob Huntington, in the backstroke, and Claude Bower, .diving. Purdue Is Once-Beaten Salmon and Porter are the two standouts for the sprint and relay combinations. The 16-year-old fresh- man, Earl Gorby, and a pair of hold- overs from last year's yearling squad, Bob Cumming and Don Leach, com- plete the relay teams. Michigan is an obvious favorite to trounce the Boilermakers on the strength of their 46-38 victory over Northwestern in which the mermen grabbed five out of nine first places. Stacked up alongside the Wildcats' easy 56-28 victory over the Boiler- makers, this triumph looks even more one-sided. 'It Takes- tt JFallop jit Ohio State Boasts Three Wins in Big Ten Play JohnL eddy Moved lp to Starting Berth; OSU Rated Tallest Team in Conference By DAVE LOEWENBERG Michigan's basketball team meets once-beaten Ohio State at 8 p.m. tonight in the Yost Field House, in the first of a two-game series. The Buckeyes have scored three victories in conference play, with their lone setback being a close 42-40 defeat inflicted on them by North- western's unbeaten quintet. The re- mainder of their record includes two victories over Indiana by scores of 62-43 and 72-46, and an 82-44 rout of Chicago. Both Indiana and Chi- cago have failed to win a single con- ference game, which is unusual for Indiana, but certainly nothing new for Chicago's hapless Maroons. Leddy Promoted to Starting Berth Coach Benny Oosterbaan an- nounced last night that John Leddy will start at guard for the Wolver- ines. The ex-California star had worked himself up to a first string berth after his impressive perfor- mance in the last Western Michigan game, but then left on a two-week furlough. Leddy rejoined the team two weeks ago and because of his excellent showing in practice, he has been moved back to the first team. The remainder of the starting line- up will remain intact with Dave Strack and Tom King at forward, Elroy (Crazy Legs) Hirsch at the pivot position, and Don Lund and John Leddy at the guard positions. Both King and Strack are tied for IKE WILLIAMS . . . Trenton, N.J., lightweight, lies with his head in the press row after he was knocked out by Bob Montgomery of Philadelphia, former holder of the New York-Pennsylvania lightweight championship, in the final round of their 12-round bout at Convention Hall, Philadelphia. Struck King ed or Fift In Scoring Race Michigan's two forwards, Dave Strack and Tommie King, were dead- locked in fifth place in Big Ten Con- ference scoring with 70 points apiece at the end of three weeks of play. Strack pulled up from 12th place by scoring 33 points in the two losing games at Purdue last week-end, while King droped from 2nd to 5th by bucketing only 14 points in these two tilts., Stan Patrick, Illinois forward, jumped into a tie for the lead with 85 points in six games, the same total Big Ten eaiders scored by Don Grate, Buckeye star, who will make his first Ann Arbor appearance in tonight's game. Pur- due's Fred Hoffman and Charlie Haag also sneaked by King with 75 and 72 points, respectively. Northwestern holds the one-game scoring record with 77 points, five more than Ohio State scored in beat- ing Indiana. fifth place in the race for individual scoring honors with 70 points apiece. In meeting the Buckeyes the Wol- verines are opposing the tallest team in the Big Ten, a starting five that averages 6 ft. 4 in. and includes center Arnold Risen, who towers 6 ft. 8% in. Grate Paces Buckeye Offense The Scarlet and Gray attack is sparked by forward Don Grate, who has tallied 85 points in four games for an average of better than 21 points per contest. G rate is now tied for first place in the individual scor- ing race with Stan Patrick of Illinois. Teaming with Grate at the other forward position is Jack Dugger, a 6 ft. 4 in. performer who has played consistently good ballall year. The guard positions will be handled by Bob Bowen and Paul Hutson, both of whom top the 6 foot mark. Last season the Bucks tripped Michigan twice at Columbus, and in one game were paced by guard Dick Shrider, who tallied 15 points. Shri- der is now a reserve guard on the Michigan squad, stationed here as a V-12 trainee. A preliminary tilt is scheduled to take place at 6:30 tonight in the Yost Field House, with the Michigan reserves under the tutelage of Assis- tant Coach Bill Barclay, facing a team from the Naval Architecture School. Tomorrow night this same Wolverine reserve team will engage Company E, winners of the recent Army-Navy intramural cage tourney. Los Angeles WanIs '48 Olympic Games LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.-(P)-Los Angeles will petition the Internation- al Olympic Committee which is to meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, this summer, for permission to hold the 1948 Olympic games here. Avery Brundage, head of the Am- erican Olympics Committee, confer- red today with a committee organiz- ed to bring the big athletic event here after cancellations in Japan and Fin- land because of the war. William May Garland, heading the Los Angeles committee which brought the games here in 1932, said that if the 14th Olympic games were not held because of war conditions, ap- plication would be made for the 1952 games. Boilermakers Send Undefeated Mat Squad Against Wolverines Won Lost Purdue ...........6 0 Northwestern4........ 4 0 Iowa ..............4 0 Ohio.,State........3 1 Wisconsin..........3 2 Illinois.............2 4 Michigan...........1 5 Indiana ............0 3 Chicago.............0 3 Minnesota ..........0 4 Individual Scoring: Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 .750 .600 .334 .167 .000 .000 .000 Marjorie Amateur By HANK MANTHO Michigan's match with the Purdue wrestling team at 3 p.m. tomorrow will find some of the best individual wrestlers in the Conference paired against each other when the two un- defeated teams meet in the Yost Field House. Coach Claude Reeck is bringing one of the best wrestling teams in the Big Ten when he brings his squad to town tomorrow. Both Michigan and Purdue are rated veryhighly in the Conference standings, and this match between the two Goliaths of the Mid-West should prove to be the outstanding wrestling meet of the year in Big Ten circles. Boilermakers Are Undefeated. Purdue has an unblemished record so far this season, as they racked up three successive wins at the expense of Northwestern, Illinois, and Wheat- on College with comparative ease. Therefore, the two mentors are prob- ably anxious over the coming tilt, and there will be tension shrouding the two teams, which won't find any let-up until the end of the match. The Boilermakers will start a wide- ly represented array against the Maize and Blue, ranging from Carl Liang, a Chinese student, who will wrestle at 121 pounds, through other civilian, V-12, and V-5 grapplers. Lightweights Are Tough Sam Johnson, V-12, will undoubt- edly get the call at 128 pounds, with Dan Nettersheim and Art Aernie at 136 and 145 pounds, respectively. Net- tersheim is the only Purdue letter- man and was runner-up for the 136 pound Big Ten title last year. Aernie is a V-12 freshman and has shown much speed and agility in previous matches. Both of these lightweights are undefeated to date. Newt Copple, a V-5 student, who wrestled three years at Nebraska, will get the call at 155 pounds, with Jack Shepard, V-12 transfer student, whc was a high class wrestler at Iowa at 165 pounds. Heavyweight Is Undecided Joe Hersch, a reserve guard on the undefeated football squad last fall, is a likely choice at 175 pounds. Coach Reeck has not decided on his heavyweight contender as yet, but it is a two-way fight between Jim Mc- Millen and Robert Humphreville, a pair of V-12ers. 1-1 Row Leads in Golf Contest MIAMI, Jan. 27.-(P)-Marjorie hour of Anniston, Ala., the surprise player of the Helen Lee Doherty Golf Tournament for women amateurs, moved into the final round today with a 6 and 5 triumph over Jeanne Cline of Bloomingdale, Ill. Her opponent in the 36-hole en- counter tomorrow will be Mrs. George Wilcox of Miami, who today defeated Mrs.dFrank Fuller of Coral Gables, 6 and 4. F.G. Patrick, Illinois .....34 Grate, Ohio State .. 38 Hoffman, Purdue .. 32 King, Michigan .... 28 Strack, Michigan ... 32 Danner, Iowa .......29 Kirk, Illinois .......20 Patterson, Wisconsin 27 Ives, Iowa .........20 F.T. 17 9 11 14 6 8 23 6 10 Pts- 85 85 75 70 70 66 63 60 501 . S t INUT a IBBLE 339 South Main Phone 2-4832 INVEST IN VICTORY Tunney Praises Armed Forces SAN FRANSISCO, Jan. 27.-(/P)~ Lavish in his praise of the fighting spirit of this country's armed forces, Comdr. Gene Tunney, in charge of the Navy's physical fitness program, declared today "American youth is our secret weapon." The former world's heavyweight boxing champion, back from a more than six months tour of the South Pacific battle fronts, presented an optimistic picture of the morals and the physical trim of servicemen dur- ing an official press conference. To illustrate Tunney told of a 22- year-old Marine who was recovering in a base hospital on Guadalcanal after a harrowing experience on Bou- gainville. He said he thought it unnecessary to try to instill "killer instincts" in the fighting men. War psychology takes care of that. Tunney said he found the "highest morale right up on the front lines where the boys are slugging it out. Farther back there is griping but it is a healthy condition because they are griping to get into the battle." LIGHT-HEAVIES SQUARE OFF: r 1 Beau Jack Fights Sammy Angott NEW YORK, Jan. 27.- ()- Swarmin' Sammy Angott and Boun- cing Beau Jack entertain the folks in Madison Square.Garden tomorrow night with two shows for the price of one - a ten-round beak-busting scramble and an exhibition of magic the like of which has rarely been seen before. With nothing up their sleeves, mind you, they're going to bring two world lightweight championships into the ring with them at 10 p.m. (EWT) and before the very eyes of the 16,000 or morehcustomers expectedto chip in to a $65,000 gate, they will make both baubles disappear. It is easy to understand that this trick is the high in mystic maneuvers but all Swarmin' Sammy and the Jumping Jack had to do to perform this neat little trick was to make their tussle a non-title affair. The Bouncing Beau is recognized as head man of the 135-pounders in New York and Pennsylvania. Swarm- in' Sammy has the National Boxing Association blessing as boss. Al- though it would have been about as easy as buttoning your vest to straighten the matter out by making U ) _ _________ MaoUES T ecordSo ANNOUNCES WITH PRIDE. tomorrow's party a title affair, that's not the way the lightweight pretzel has been twisted down through the years. The division has been famous for keeping its top spot in a stew- and the stew a-boiling. Although Angott hasn't been beat- en since he started his comeback from his "temporary permanent" re- tirement last spring, while the Jump- ing Jack has been as in-and-out as the cuckoo in the clock in recent out- ings, this corner tabs Angott to gal- lop home on his "ring savvy" alone. Even Beau's best friends will prob- ably tell him that Sammy has forgot- 1 ten more about the gentle art of mashing noses than the charging, wild-swinging ex-shoeshine boy ever learned. The New York Commission, which sanctioned this one as a non-title tilt, is going to try to take steps to straighten the thing out after to- morrow's weigh-in by calling the managers of both crawlers, along with Frankie Thomas, pilot of Bob Montgomery, into a huddle. Montgomery won the title from Jack last spring, then lost it back to the Bouncing Beau and now is slated for another shot at it in March. 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