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Here Saturday
Wolverines Bid for
Fourth Conference
Triumph of Season
By JIM LEWY
By defeating Ohio State Saturday,'
the University of Michigan swimmers
proved that they will be the logical
favorites to recapture the Conference
title which they lost to the Buckeyes;
last season.
Despite the efforts of Keo Nakama,
the Hawaiian ace of the Ohio squad,
the Wolverines took the team win-
nings with comparative ease. The
Buckeyes were able to garner but
three first places, two by Nakama,
and one by diver Bobby Stone. Mich-
igan swept the remaining events with
rather poor showing by the inexper-
ienced Scarlet and Grey team.
Nakama Noses Out Maloney
Paul Maloney, Wolverine quarter-
miler, finished a bare two yards be-
hind little Nakama, in the 440-yard
event to turn in one of the best show-
ings of the afternoon. Michigan's
Merton Church, Conference cham-
pion in the 50-yard free style event,
made a better impression Saturday,
than in previous meets this season,
by winning the 50 and 100-yard free
style races.
As expected, Heini Kessler, Wol-
verine breaststroke ace, won the 100-
yard breaststroke event with little
trouble. He finished far ahead of
his nearest opponent, Steve Ruback,
of the Maize and Blue squad. In
the backstroke race, Bill Cooley nosed
out his teammate, Johnny McCarthy,
to make a clean sweep of the sprint
events for Michigan.
Northwestern Meet Saturday
The Wolverines captured both the
150-yard medley and the 200-yard
free style relay from Ohio. Regular
tankers Church and Chuck Fries
swam with freshmen Bob Branch and
Larry Koppin to take the longer
event for Michigan. Buckeye diver
Bobby Stone easily won the event
from Michigan's John Krygoski to
provide Ohio with its third and last
first place of the afternoon.
Next Saturday, the Maize and Blue
natators are hosts to Northwestern's
Wildcats. The purple squad has been
the only team to give the Wolverines
a close fight this season. Michigan
won the previous Northwestern dual
swim 46-38 by winning the last two
events to nose out a victory. Michi-
gan will be gunning for its fourth
straight Conference win in Satur-
day's meet which will be a preview
of the Conference meet to be held
in Evanston Feb. 19.
Babe Ruth Has
Birthday Party
NEW YORK, Feb. 7. - (P) - The
Bambino still can cut the cake. He
did it today, literally, on his 50th
birthday, just a few seconds before
it slipped from the table to land
frosted-side down with a squashy bop
on the floor of the little den lined
with pictures and souvenirs of the
days when Babe Ruth was making
baseball history with home runs.
He's a gentleman of unwanted leis-
ure now, restless as a caged bear and
filling in his days with bowling and
innumerable appearances at bond
rallies which have left his voice a
hoarse croak. He'd love to go over-
seas to entertain the servicemen, but
he says half a dozen doctors told
him "I'd die before I got there."
So he does the best he can for the
war effort and uses bowling in winter
and golf in summer as an outlet for
his nervous energy. He's a 165-av-
erage bowler, but can't go more than
four games of an afternoon.
"My knees give out on me," he
explains candidly.
He weighs about 240 now, less
than he did when he was playing for
the Yankees, but in his blood-red
lounging pajamas he still looks like
he had been invited to a pot-luck
supper and swallowed the pot. He
saw only four or five baseball games
last year, as he had to take his daily
golfing exercises or his tonnage would
increase overnight.
TAKING IT EASYI
By ED ZALENSKIr
bally Sports Editor
Editor's note: This is the last column of Sports Editor Ed Zalenski,
who left for Officers' Candidate School at Fort Knox, Ky., last night.
My Last Impressions of Michigan . .
T TOOK at least four days, five different typewriters and a ream of copye
paper to write this column-my last as Daily sports editor. It seems as if
I started it 50 times, and tore the page out with disgust. Too much has l
happened in four years to retell in a few hundred words, especially when itt
rushes into your mind in a confused mass and tries to force its way out . .
Whatever I've done, what I'm doing, or what I am-it all has its
roots in that first year at Michigan. It was an important year for me.
Everything goes back to 1940-Daily, ROTC, my friendship with Coachl
Ken Doherty and his aide, Chet Stackhouse. . . As I look back I realize
how vital each has been in making my years at Michigan the fullest andE
happiest of my life.
The Daily was my big interest from the start. Everything I did revolved1
around it. When I reported to Coach Stackhouse as a freshman track can-
didate, I had no visions of being a star. You have to live, talk and feel al
sport to know it. I had tried my hand at most of them before Michigani
came into the picture. I spent one year with Stack and one with Ken on
the Varsity squad-just enough to know that they and the boys on the
team were to be my best friends at Michigan.'
Last fall, I added another sport to my list-wrestling. Coach Ray
Courtright was a fine man to work under. And the Michigan men I met,
wrestled with and list as my friends are tops. I learned a lot that may
come in handy soon in a different way .. .
Y LIFE as a civilian student at Michigan ended March 18, 1943, when
the Michigan ROTC was activated. Two weeks at Fort Custer, certain-
ly not the most pleasant in my life, and I returned to campus as a G-1 pri-
vate in stiff, new clothes reeking of moth balls. May ended and I wrote
what I thought was my swan song as Daily sports editor. June 1 was my
first day as a trainee at Fort Knox, Ky. This, I felt, was the beginning
of what I visioned would end with the duration and six months.
Four months in the Armored Force were far more pleasant than I
had imagined. It was rough and rugged, but two years of track and
one of wrestling gave me the jump on my buddies. There were times
when I thanked Corky for being patient and teaching me what he knew
about wrestling. I'll never forget the night I wrestled with a 6 ft. 4 in.,
205-pound, -would-be Minnesota end on a rough barracks floor. The
boys in my platoon respected me after I pinned this giant twice in 20
minutes-something I could never have done, if .my years at Michigan
had been ordinary ones.
Basic training was over and my mind was all set for Officer Candidate
School. Unfortunately, there was no room then, so I was sent back to
Michigan to await an opening. I had plenty of time to think since coming
back and I realize now that the best soldiers are those who have kept active
in athletics, scholastics, social life-.
These four months did more than just give me a rudimentary edu-
cation as a soldier. I met many athletes, big names and little ones. I
realized how much better they were prepared to do a job for Uncle Sam
than their non-athletic buddies. Sports, I learned, were valuable in
soldier training.
WTrH ALL of that behind me I returned to Michigan and started on my
last lap toward a degree and commission. Three months have gone by
and everything that I looked ahead to was here at last . . . Only a few
technicalities separate me from an A.B. degree. The big job is ahead-17
weeks at Armored Force Officer Candidate School at Fort Knox., If all goes
well, I'll be commissioned by July and the Army will take Michigan's place.
The good-byes make leaving painful, especially on top of the happy
memories being left behind. There were many whom I had no oppor-
tunity to see before leaving. I hope they will accept this good-bye in its
place. When the war is over and life is normal again, I plan to enroll
in Michigan's School of Law-as a civilian.
Pucksters Make Good Showing
In Victory over Paris Sextet
(rapy eis Meel
Indiana in Final
lussle of Year
wolverines Unb eate
In Previous Matches;
Eye Con erence Title
By HANK MANTIO
Sweeping seven of the eight match-
es here last week, the Wolverine
wrestling team swamped a valiant
Minnesota crew, 25-3, and now have
their sights focused on Bloomington.
where they will meet Indiana Satur-
day, in their last match of the cur-
rent campaign.
Michigan rolled up one of the larg-
est wrestling scores in a long time
against the Gophers, who were en-!
tirely outclassed by the Maize and
Blue powerhouse. However, Minne-
sota put up a good scrap and, "It's
hard as close as some of those match-
es were, to get such a big score
against them," stated Coach Ray
Courtright.
Gophers Had Few Veterans
Minnesota was shy ofrveterans as
they only had one letterman, Capt.
Bill Aldworth, and he was injured.
The only other man on the squad
who had any previous experience to
speak of was Verne Gagne. But the
Gophers hold no animosity against
Michigan, and as Coach Stanley
Hansen put it, "I figured from the
beginning that Michigan had the
toughest team in the Conference, but
it was good experience for the boys."
Captain Johnny Greene was the
only Wolverine to lose a match and
that was so close that the decision
could have gone either way with a
little luck. Greene got two take-
downs on his opponent, but they
were not counted, as the boys were
ruled off the mat and had to start
in the referee's, position again. There
was no doubt that Greene would have
taken the advantage on those two
falls and the outcome of the battle
would have been a different story,
but as the score stands, Johnny suf-
fered his first disheartening loss of
the season.
Weber Waxes Witty
The witty remark made by fresh-
man football coach, Wally Weber, at
the match, stating that. "The Min-
nesota team would go great guns in
the South Pacific getting all of those
zeros," could easily sum up that dual
Conference meet with Minnesota.
Yesterday the Michigan squad
started preparations for their last
dual meet of the year against a weak
Hoosier wrestling team, also shy of
veterans. This will be the last match
for the undefeated Wolverines until
the Conference finals in Chicago Feb.
19, and if they come through this
encounter in fine fashion, Michigan
will enter the finals as an overwhelm-
ing favorite to cop the 1944 Western
Conference title.
Irish To Have
Grid iaterial
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.-(P)-You can
put Notre Dame in your winter book
as having another powerful foot-
ball team next fall-for the luck of
the Irish is still going strong.
Notre Dame is the only big school
listed in the Navy's new basic V-12
training program for 17 and 18-year
old high school graduates in the Chi-
cago region, and Lieut. Henry Pen-
field of the Navy Aviation Cadet
Selection Board disclosed today that
the Irish probably would get most
of the area's top prep gridders.
Lieut. Penfield, captain of the 1923
Northwestern football team, said that
under a new plan of placement the
boys would report to Notre Dame by
March 1, in time to participate in
spring drills. They will remain ir
training for eight months, graduating
about Nov. 1. They thus would bE
available for almost all the footbal:
season.
Selection of schools is more or less
up to the boys-"So you can see,'
said Lieut. Penfield, "just how muclt
of the crop Notre Dame probably wit
get."
O'Donl Uninterested
In Big League Berth
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. - /P) -
Frank "Lefty" O'Doul said today ht
was "not interested in any majoi
league managership."
O'Doul, who is beginning his tent
year as skipper of the San Franciscc
Coast Leagu, Club, added that werE
he to consider a big league bertt
"The Boston Braves would be a swel:
club to be with. Bob Quinn (presi-
dent of the Braves) is a fine fellov
and a good friend of mine. I likE
Boston and the fans there are great
It would be an ideal major league
set-up.
"But I'm going to stay right herc
IWolveri!nes Impressi
In Wins over Hoosie
By BILL MULLENDORIEC
Bolstered by a double victory over.
Coach.I-Harry Good's tsurprisingly
strong Indiana cjtin tet. Miclngan 's
cagers enter the home stretch of the
1943-44 basketball campaign this
weekend with only two more games
remaining on the schedule against
Chicago and Northwestern.
The two wins over the Hoosiers
gives thevWolverines a Conference
record of three victories against sev-
en defeats, good for seventh place in
the Big Ten standings. In capturing
second and third Conference tri-
umphs, Michigan managed to look
s cii'wsb S,,bsiilule
vastly overconfident Mic
tet take the floor agains
five which had been gre
and also outfitted with
fense. Forward Claude
gave one of the finest ey
1
back-court shooting eve
sinking "impossible" sho
most every angle to sen
fighting Hoosiers into a
was stubbornly defende
final minutes of play.
Commenting on this g
baan observed that M
"rather lucky to win"
sized the fine spirit an
provement of the H
"Michigan," he said, "t
expecting to romp to an
ed victory and was caug
by the inspired play of I
Wells Stars
One of the few bright
Saturday game was the
formance of Wells, wh
Michigan's third- st
throughout most of the s
was substituted for Hirs
game and came throug
points and some finev
backboards to provide t
final victory.
The weekend also sa
to form of forward Dav
hadn't been playing up
standards. Strack start
in great style but slump
Purdue series. In the tw
Indiana Strack gathere
31 points to lead the W
King Still in Lead.
Forward Tommy K
somewhat from his bli
set against Ohio State a
gain 28 points in the tw
spite his slump, King
lead in the race for B
ing honors, although
Dick Ives whose 43 po
ance against ChicagoS
shattered two individua
ords.
For Indiana this ga
third of the campaign .w
in the last few minut
Hoosiers had led all the
Good tersely summed u
in a few words, "Too mE
and not enough experie
dited Michigan's fast b
ing the outstanding me
tor in their success aga
The game left Indian
way tie for the cellar wi
iate prospect of rising
eighth or ninth. The
now entrenched in sev
can climb at least two n
with victories over Chic
and Northwestern the
weekend.
Feldman To P
NEW YORK, Feb.7
Feldman, New Yorkt
whose illness brought h
rating and a physical b
summer, today receiv
cian's approval to pl
this season.
Title Race
vf her 'Wil Run
I Boston Meet
On Saturday
chigan ciun-
t an Indiana IDasl Vte'aI To Miss
atly inspired (:ol1 etitin M iigan
a new de-
Retherford Contest with Broncos
xhibitions of
r seen here, By BILL LAMBERT
ots from al- Bob Ufer, Michigan's veteran dash
d the hard- ace, will leave Thursday for the Bos-
lead which ton Athletic Association's invitation-
d until the al games which take place Saturday
night and will compete in the 600-
, Oster-yard dash.
ame an was This means that "Bullet" Bob will
not be here for Saturday's track meet
and empha- with Western Michigan's thinclads.
d great im- He will be out to make up for his
oosier 'five defeat in the Millrose 600-yard dash
ook the floor in which he placed fourth Saturday
othr opsd-night. When asked- about Bob's
ht flatfooted showing,Coach Doherty said, "A 600-
Endina."yard dash on 'an eleven-lap board
track necessitates the utmost relaxa-
spots in the tion, and Bob's failure to be able to
stellar per- relax in the first quarter mile re-
o has been sulted in his tying up in the stretch."
tring center Relay Team Fails To Crack Record
eason. Wells The 2-mile relay team, composed
ch late in the of Ufer, Ross and Bob Hume, and
h with seven John Roxborough, although they suc-
work on the cessfully defended 'their 1943 title by
he spark for winning their specialty in 7:53.4, fail-
ed to crack the record to which they
w the return had come so close in practice. This
e Strack who could be blamed to the fact that there
to his usual was a lack of competition, and the
ed the season Wolverine foursome was merely run-
ped after the ning against time. Had the boys been
'o games with pushed, the time probably would have
d a total of been much faster.
olverines. The time schedule at the Gardens
Saturday night was such that Ross
ing fell off Blume was scratched from the Wana-
istering pace maker mile. The space between the
nd could only mile run and the 2-mile relay was
o games. De- too short to allow 'lume to get back
retained his into running shape. As he was not
ig Ten scor- expected to grab any high honors,
sharpshooter against such a star-studded field, he
)int perform- was at his prime for the relay.
Sunday night Both Bob Segula and Elmer Swan-
Ll corng ee-son fared as well as they were ev-
p scoring rec- peted. Segula reached13 feet In
rme was the the pole vault, but the others went
;hich was lost on up to 14 which is almost tops in
tes after the the nation.
e way. Coach
p the reason Meragden Takes
any freshmen
rnce." He cre- 1,i iu ix ourney
reak with be-
chanical fac- PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 7. - P) -
rinst his club. Smooth stroking Harold (Jug) Mc-
ia in a three- Spaden of Philadelphia, the winter
th no immed- season's top golf money winner, add-
higher than ed a $1,00 war bond to his earnings
e Wolverines, by shooting a 70 for a two-stroke
enth position, victory today over Byron Nelson of
otches higher Toledo, O., in an 18-hole playoff
ago Saturday to decide the Phoenix Open.
e following Deadlocked yesterday at the end of
72 holes with 273's, 11 strokes under
par, Nelson and McSpaden were still
lay Ball even and still shooting better than
par golf at the turn today.
7.-()-Harry Nelson, recent winner of the San
Giant pitcher Francisco Victory Open, in which Mc-
im a 4-F draft Spaden was runner-up, picked up a
reakdown last stroke on the 16th when McSpaden
ed his physi- got into trouble and took a bogie. But
ay ball again the amtch reached the turning point
on the 17th.
REX WELLS
both very good and very bad, win-
ning the first game in the series by
an overwhelming 65-49 margin and
barely eking out a 4i6-44 thriller in
the second c(onhest
First Win ImpressiveI
The initial triumph was an espec-
ially impressive one from the Wol-,
verine standpoint as Coach Bennie
Oosterbaan's charges ran up their
largest point total of the season
against a thoroughly bewildered and
outclassed Hoosier squad. Ooster-
baan was especially pleased with the
fine play of center Elroy Hirsch who
gathered 22 points and controlled
both backboards almost singlehanded
in the rout.
Indiana was at a disadvantage in
this first contest,'having had no op-
portunity to scout the Wolverines be-
fore the game. The Hoosier aggrega-
tion, composed entirely of 17-year
old freshmen, put up a game fight
but were no match for the high-step-
ping Wolverines.
Saturday night's contest saw a
By JO ANN PETERSON
Consistency is not one of the out-
standing features of the Michigan
hockey, team.
Six starts-three wins and three
losses is the record the squad has
made, and in any of the six games
the final outcome could have been
just the opposite of what it was.
Coach Eddie Lowrey's proteges are
able to play hockey if they want to,
and they seem to want to just every
other week.
Team Cooperates
Last week-end in humbling the
Paris, Ont. club, 6-2, the team
played coordinated hockey. It was
Ted Greer who united the forces of
the forward line and led four of the
attacks on the Paris goal, but it was
notable that every man on the squad
was playing hockey-not flawless but
good hockey. The passes were accur-
ate and clean, and both forward lines
were back-checking carefully. Much
of the difficulty that has hampered
sharp play in previous games was
entirely missing.
Saturday night's game was a good
one from the standpoint of the spec-
tator. The first period was not in-
spiring and as Lowrey said, "Those
boys looked terrible." Fortunately
for the Maize and Blue chances, the
Paris sextet also failed to show any
spark during the first period. It was
a slow twenty minutes with both
sides lacking the punch to make a
concentrated drive towards a goal.
Second Period Play Superior
When the second period started it
was an entirely rejuvenated varsity
squad that hit the ice., Whether
Lowrey's bitter between-period words
had anything to do with the change
is not a certainty, but whatever was
the driving force, Michigan had a
new and infinitely better team.
The Paris defensemen, John and
Tom Torti, seemed incapable of deal-
ing with the new fury that possessed
the Michigan forward line. Two
minutes after the period began Ted
Greer, assisted by wings Johnny
Jenswold and Vince Abbey, made an
assault on the goal which resulted in
the first tally of the evening. Less
than five minutes later this fast-
breaking trio had rung in a total of
four goals. The Canadian club tight-
ened up at that point, but the job
had been well and efficiently done.
Defensemen Bob Henderson and
Tom Messinger played canny, im-
pressive hockey. Both men cleared
the puck to the wings, and showed
no desire to center it in front of the
nets which has been the cause of
more than one goal for shrewd op-
ponents.
Yesterday the squad spent almost
the entire practice period shooting,
which Lowrey indicated was a neces-
sary preparation for Saturday's re-
turn battle with the Vickers Sports
Club which defeated Michigan - two
weeks ago, 4-3.
4 MONTH INTENSIVE
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