MMAY, FEB. It, 1944 THE MICHIGAN DAILY XAGE CFA FaIDAY, FEB. 11, 1944 'FAGE tIEREI Crisler Sets Up Program for Post- War Michigan Athletics 11 Initiation of New Sports Matmen Are s Essential Part ofPlan Favored To Addition of Soccer, Boxing, Lacrosse, Rugby Spill Suggests Enlargement of Present Facilities .i By BILL MULLENDORE Green Indiana Outfit Michigan Athletic Director Fritz, Crisler yesterday came forth with a Credited with Single new plan for post-war intercollegiate athletics by which several new sports C iein wTh Cige would be added to the present program. Win in Three Contests In addition to football, basketball, baseball, and the other athletics With three Conference victories to which now form the basis for Western Conference competition, Crisler would their credit, the Wolverine matmen like to see such activities as soccer,o are overwhelming favorites to spill boxing, lacrosse, 150-pound football, low his lead. So far Wisconsin, which Indiana with ease and maintain an and rugby added to the list sponsors boxing in non-Conference unblemished record for the regular Stating that "Varsity football competition, is the only college in the season, when they meet the injury- would probably have to pay for the Big Ten to have any of the new sports riddled Hoosiers at 3 p.m. Saturday new program," Crisler believes that which Crisler mentioned in its ath- in Bloomington. such a plan is entirely practical letic program. Indiana, the defending Big Ten since "intercollegiate sports are Crisler has had some experience champs, have only one win to date, bound to boom after the war.' with the suggested sports as head and that against Wheaton College. The Michigan Athletic Director football coach at Princeton, a position They were defeated by Ohio State also announced plans to enlarge the which he held prior to coming to and tied by DePauw Pre-Flight, which Wolverine athletic facilities after the indicates that Indiana should not war, and the increased sports pro- be too formidable an opponent when gram would fit in with thisscheme. the two teams collide. Among the new improvements Crisler Hoosiers Lack Experience envisions a clubhouse for the golf The Hoosiers have always been course, enlargement of Yost Field Herouse and the Sports Building, and :... *.**nertheto in Big Teni wrestling .1us..:nd:.:.......s.Bu...ing,.,rdcircles, but the school has no Navy a new,.modern ice rink. or Marine training programs, which Grisler envisions week-end sports makes it difficult to compete with extravanganzas between two schools schools that have these Navy pro- during which several teams would grams. This ,along with the injuries compete in various events, thus and inexperience of the men, have cutting down travelling and other been the major problems which Coach ,xpenses. These contests would Billy Thom has had to contend with. be arranged to prevent conflicts Johnny Wilson, 155-pounder, is the thus allow spectators to see every only holdover letterman from last meet. year's Big Ten championship team. As an example Crisler cited a hy- Wilson, discharged from the Army pothetical meet between Michigan Air Corps recently, has yet to be de- and Ohio State. "During the two-day feated this season, and is one of the period we could meet the Buckeyes men upon whom Coach Thom is in soccer, lacrosse, rugby, 150-pound counting heavily. He is captain of football, cross-country, and varsity the Hoosier squad and is the brother ..f6tball. Then, the following fall we of Benny Wilson, who was NCAA could go t Ohio State for a similiar champion a few years ago. carnival." R__ _ER_ Stocker Still Unbeaten ' "The same program could be In the heavyweight division, Dan catried into winter with competi- Michigan. 150-pound football was Stocker, freshman" from Hammond,. 0on in basketball, wrestling, swim- especially popular at the Tiger insti- Ind., is the only other man orn the niing, hockey, indoor track and box- tution, drawing large crowds and team who is also undefeated in his I>g. In the spring it would be base- giving many lighter-weight boys a three matches this year. Stocker ,A ball, tennis, track and golf." chance to play college football. "A had one semester of wrestling at Iowa Of course this plan is entirely ten- little bit" of the carnival idea was University before joining the Marine tative, subject to approval by other also tried with good results. Corps, from which he was discharged Big Ten schools. Crisler, himself, The new sports have never stirred last summer. While in the Marine libelled it as "a post-war vision," but up much interest in Western Confer- Corps, Stocker- did quite a bit of has'hopes that other schools will fol- ence circles up to the present time. wrestling in San Diego, Calif. Trouble for Western Michigan CAMPUS SOLDIERS UNITE: Army Post Basketball Team To Open Season Here Tonight The newly organized 3651 Service Unit post basketball team will open its season against a squad from the Ypsilanti Army post at 7:30 p.m. to- day in Yost Field House. Composed of 14 members, the squad is. made up only of players who havedbeen competing in the intramu- ral basketball league which plays ev- ery Monday night. Company C is represented by Steppling, Price and James, and from Company G are Bi- koff, Doyle and Walker. Company D has two players on the squad, Lucas and Grau. From Company E, which won the first intramural basketball tournament and also beat the Navy All Star team are Oliver, Davis, Sar- torio, and Parker. Company F is rep- resented by Cindric and Katz. "The organization of a squad that will compete with outside Army teams came as a result of the de- miand 'by the players in the intramu- ral basketball league," commented Captain B. W. Jennings, former of- ficer in charge of Army intramural sports. "Even though it is late in the season we are going to try to sched- ule as many games as possible." Master Sergeant Robert Clancy of Station Complement is the manager of the team. RedWigs Whip Rangers NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-(IP)-The Detroit Red Wings, playing effective, business-like hockey, continued to "pour it on" the New York Rangers tonight as they piled up an 8 to 3 score after spotting the National Hockey League's cellar dwellers the first goal. But the fistic fireworks that had been predicted didn't ap- pear except in a brief exchange be- tween Harold Jackson and Bryan Hextall. SWIFT'S DRUG STORE 340 S. STATE ST. -- (The Rexall Store on Campus) ELMER SWANSON Michigan's top hurler who is favored to cop both the high and low hurdle events in Saturday night's track meet with Western Michigan. BIG TEN KINGPINS: Tankers To Face Once-Beaten d ToE Minor League Officials..Expect Fll '44Season American Association Reports Big Advance Sales, Reserve Lists CHICAGO, Feb. 10.-()---The Am- eriUan Association, one of the coun- try' most prosperous double-A minor ,Baseball leagues, has been in busi- iess since 1902, will be in business in 1944 and in all probability will add football to its curriculum after the war. "You won't find any crepe on our door," President George Trautman declared today after a special meet- ing of the league's directors. "Reserve lists of all eight clubs are in good condition, and those cities which have advance ticket sales report that the sales are 20 per cent above nor- In the reserve list of about 290 players, Trautman estimated that 20 ,percent were youths 16 and 17 years old and 15 per cent were 4-F's. Old- timer Mike Kelley, president of the Minneapolis Millers, has four "kids" who will Join the team after gradu- ating from high school in June. He said that they were stars of the Min- neapolis Richfield team which won the American Legion National Base- ball Championship last year. Trautman proposed a "family, plan" to keep players within the con- fines of the League as much as pos- sible this season. "Any club wishing to trade or sell a player," he suggested, "should first give Association members a chance for. him. This old sentiment that a player traded to another league member will seek his revenge is a lot of bunk." LOWdown on Sports * b BUD LOW Associate Sports Editor W ITH THE WOLVERINE trackmen making their first official appearance of- the indoor season' tomorrow night' in' Yost Field House, and the wrestling and swimming teams driving down the home stretch for their last encounters before. the Big Ten meet in each of these sports the following week-end in Evanston, chances for capturing three out of a possible four winter Conference championships appear very bright. These three, to- gether with 'the tie that the gridders gained with Purdue would give Michigan four titles, with the spring sports still to come. For the last 13 years Maize and Blue teams have won at least three Conference crowns each year-an enviable record which no other school can boast. Then there is the probability of winning at least one title (outdoor track), and possibly more, in the spring sports. Michigan truly can be called, "Champions of the West." The swimmers take on Northwestern in the last dual meet of the year tomorrow, and the Wildcats seem to be the only obstacle in the way of Matt Mann's charges regaining the Big Ten championship they lost to Ohio State last year. The meet, which gets under way at 7:30 p.m., will certainly not be lacking in excitement, and' should give an indication of the outcome of the Evanston meet next week. The grapplers have had little trouble in going through their sched- ule undefeated and on this basis will be highly favored to take their first title since 1938. Several of the matmen are undefeated in dual competition, and it would be surprising, indeed, if the Varsity didn't come home with two or three individual crowns in addition to the team championship. KEN DOHERTY'S thinclads will be facing their first dual test of the season tomorrow when they play host to Western Michigan, but already they are overwhelming favorites to take their ninth indoor championship in 11 years. With 13 lettermen back who scored 30'/2 of the team's record 531/2 points in the Big Ten indoor meet last year, the Wolverines should win going away. The fourth winter championship at stake, basketball, will not find Michigan in the running, but from our standpoint the cagers have been far from disappointing. In the first place, since the State of Michigan has never been basketball-minded like Indiana and Illinois, the Wolver- ines have never been a great exponent of the cage sport. Then too, Michigan lost several close decisions which might have gone either way, and occisionally looked hot enough to burn up the league. Their fight and determination have more than made up for any ability they might lack. Big Ten title hopes of the Michigan and Northwestern swimming teams, the two standouts of the current Conference season, will be placed in. proper alignment here tomorrow night when the Wolverines and Wild- cats meet for the second time. Early in January.Michigan's swim- mers took a 46-38 decision from Northwestern at Evanston, but since then the Wildcats have won three straight. Michigan has also scored over Ohio State and Purdue and has lost two meets to Great Lakes. Feature racesin tomorrow's meet, which is the last dual meet of the year, will include the medley relay, tihe 220 and 50-yard free style events, the back stroke and the breast stroke. Th all these events the season's best times by both teams are practically on a par. Ronnie Trumble of the Wildcats should be an easy diving winner while Michigan appears to hold a definite edge in the 100, 440 and free style relay. The Wildcats will send Bob Trib- ble, John Walsh and Jim McCaskell into the medley, a trio that earlier clipped 3:08. Orrin Neff in the 220 will battle it out with Chuck Fries or Achilles Pulakos of the Wolverines, while in the 50 Michigan's defending Big Ten titlist, Mert Church, will NUT an1"IBBLE 339 South Mam Phone 2-4832 agamgwewmee have his hands full in meeting Jim Gamble. Church's best time this year has been :23.8 and Gamble's :24 flat. G's I. +.r .... .r y, STOMP, it last Of the semester VALENTINE PRIZES TO THE WINNERS OF THE J ITTERBUG CONTEST SATURDAY, 3:00 to I . " a I $ 5:00 NORTH LOUNGE, UNION 1 SYMPHONY AND SWING featuring UNIVERSITY CONCERT BAND 1 . a MIC H I GAXN TO THE NATION'S COLLEGES at the year's biggest dance PLAY HO0S T TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY; FEB. 14 NAVY and MARINES- 5 to 7:30, First half deck, West Quad. ARMY - 5 to 7:30, Union Travel Desk and Main Lounge of East Quad. CIVILIANS - 10 to 4, University Hall Corridor, 5 to 7:30, Union Travel Desk. 41x" I !