I r t 'Ii MICHIGAN DAiILY "3 ~ r rn Spirit High in W"overine Camp on Eve of Wisconsin Tilt g7~ PRE-SEASON BASKETBALL: Cagers Show Improvement; Three Teams Continue Practice I. 4- By DAVE LOEWENBERG Yesterday afternoon found the .,Wolverine basketball team engaged in-their hardest workout of the year. .Assistant Coach Bill Barclay divided the squad into three teams, team number one using a slow breaking style of offense, team number two exhibiting the Indiana style of play, and team number three was a fresh- man unit playing together for the first time. The first scrimmage of the day pitted team number one against team number three. The first team found Wayne Thompson and Dave Strack at the forwards, John Leddy anddDick Shrider at the guard posts and big Tom Paton at center. Team three, an all freshman squad, listed Bob Caspari, Ed Clauss, Bob Fuller, Her- man Frehse and Stan Peterson as its performers. Game Was Rout This game turned out to be quite arout with team one rolling up an 18-2 triumph in a ten minute scrim- mage. Dave Strack was high point man with 8 points and the only freshman to score was Stan Peter- son. r The.second scrimmage pitted team too cmposed of Herm Heunessey, Max Kelly, Tom King and Robert Stevens against the freshman squad. This time the contest was much closer, but team two had a little too much polish for the yearlings and won 18-10. High point man in the scrimmage was Bob Fuller who chalk- ed up 8 points while Tom King led the victors attack with 6 points. Final Scrimmage The final scrimmage of the eve- ning pitted team one against team two and this was by far the best game of the evening. It was especi- ally interesting' to watch these two teams play, for both squads exhibited an entirelydifferent style of attack. The first team, using a slow break, pounded out a 25-18 win over the second squad which specialized in a fireball type of play. Dave Strack was again top scorer, getting 12 points while Bob Stevens led the losers with 8 points. The dividing of the squad into three teams was not necessarily done on a basis of merit. Instead, the main emphasis was (1) on giving the freshmen a chance to work to- gether as a unit and (2) in pitting a slow breaking team against a fast breaking team in an effort to com- pare the effectiveness of both styles of play. Hockey Team's Hopes Rise as Four Return By JO ANN PETERSON With the Coliseum opening Satur- day night, Coach Eddie Lowrey is losing no time in getting his hockey prospects together in the first prac- tice drill which will be Tuesday af- ternoon. Returning from last year's squad will be Gordon Anderson and Jack Athens, wings, both of whom played a lot of hockey for Lowrey last sea- son, Bob Derleth, captain, and sixty- minute defenseman, and Ted Greer, who was outstanding on the yearling squad. Although Lowrey has not issued any call for hockey players, he has had calls from boys, both civilians and servicemen stationed here, which indicates that there will not be a shortage of material. Several Experienced Men Several of the men who have called Lowrey have had previous experience playing hockey, either on collegiate teams or in high school leagues. He estimates that he has had calls from at least a dozen men who profess to have had experience at the puck game., An overabundance of material will be a change for the harassed Lowrey, who has had a shortage of hockey candidates for several seasons. Last year in particular he was in a tight spot, when graduation and the Army combined to reduce his team to a mere handful of men at the begin- ning of the second semester. Defensemen Fill In With Bob Derleth and Bob Sten- berg, Mutt and Jeff of the team, coached to fill in the two defense jobs, however, Lowrey managed to close the gap in his back-line. Al- though both boys were inexperienced, they picked up the rudiments of the game rapidly, and became invaluable to Lowrey for the second half of the season. Acting CaptainSaturday "4+ Football Steals Spotlight from. Basketball in Indiana This Year INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 11.- (p)- Ki1g" basketball is toppling on his throne in this Hoosier hotbed of the hardwood sport as the 1943 football sason roars to a close with Indiana possessing the one-two teams of the nation, the country's leading scorer, two other undefeated elevens and one of.the year's best all-civilian teams. Ordinarily;'just the mere mention ofbisketball brings a string of facts and figures to prove the best quintets * f all come from-Indiana. Hoosiers now 'have another set of .- facts and figures to prove the best tma of all come from-Indiana-. but this time it's football instead of. basketba f 11 ' S erNotre Dame and Purdue are unde-" feated and untied and rated first and second, respectively, among the 1943 gridiron teams. 2. Bob Steuber, late of Missouri and the Chicago. Bears and now of De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.), has' scored 129 points in five games to take a firm grip on first place in the race for the nation's in- dividual scoring championship- a title held last year by another Hoo- sier player, Eddie McGovern, then of Rose Poly and now of Illinois. 3. Bunker Hill (Ind.) Naval Air Station, starring Mal Kutner, for- mer University of Texas star, is un- defeated and untied. 4. De Pauw is unbeaten in six games but has been tied once-be- fore Steuber arrived on the scene. 5. Indiana University, depending entirely on civilians, has lost only to service-bolstered Northwestern and Michigan. Notre Dame,; Purdue and Indiana -the "'big three" of the Hoosier state-have a combined record of 19 victories and only 2 defeats and 2 ties against the best the middle west, south and east have to offer. If Notre Dame can whip North- western, the Iowa Seahawks and Great Lakes, about the only national championship arguments Hoosiers could get would be from other Hoo- siers who favor Purdue. The Boiler- makers need only to beat Indiana' to get at least a share of the Big Ten championship. All-American candidates? They're a dime a dozen in Indiana this year -Angelo* Bertelli, Creighton Miller, and practically the whole Notre Dame line; Tony Butkovich, Mike Kasap, Alex Agase, Dick Barwegen and Boris Dimancheff of Purdue, Bob Hoernschemeyer, of Indiana; Bob Steuber of De Pauw, et cetera.. King basketball isn't dead yet in Indiana but he's certainly breathing hard. RUDY SMEJA . ..pass catcher extraordinary, and one of two civilians on the Wolverine squad, who will be ex- pected to continue his fine play against Wisconsin's Badgers Sat- urday. Army, 7Navy Cornmence I-M Program The Army and the Navy will in- augurate their intramural program tonight at Waterman gym. Starting at 7 o'clock, the Navy pro- gram will run until 8:40 and the Army will conduct its program from 8:45 until 10:30 every Friday. Bas- ketball will be the chief team sport played while the individual sports will consist of boxing, wrestling, track events and gymnastics. Basketball leagues have been form- ed by both the Army and the Navy of approximately 16 teams apiece. A team is : made up of about 19 men' which will 'be cut down to aten after a two weeks practice period. The in- dividual teams 'represent" the differ- ent battalotit n eom-piaies in the intra-squad i to mpetit on~r fAfter the winners'of'the Navy and:A-rmy squad competition!,have:-been.determined, these two teams will play against each other for the servicemens' championship. Tournaments will be held in 'box- ing, wrestling, track events, and gym- nastics to determine the champions in each field. All men are eligible except those who are playing on current Varsit3 teams such as basketball, football and hockey, and those scholastically ineligible. Badger Plays Stressed as Game Nears By BO BOWMAN "Beat the Badgers," was the cry that rang through the Wolverine camp as the Varsity began tapering off for its tilt with Wisconsin on Saturday. Yesterday Michigan was given a thorough knowledge of the Wiscon-i sin offense as the reserves ran1 through Wisconsin plays in a mock scrimmage. Passing also received some attention with Jack Wink on the throwing end. This offensive weapon probably will be Michigan's second line of attack and will be used only as needed. It has been said that Coach Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin may be able to pull a surprise or two on Michigan this week as he is supposed to know his old players backwards and forwards. Mr. Stuhldreher may< be in for a surprise because his boys now pack a lot more dynamite than they did a year ago. Then too the knowledge of the other fellow works two ways as evidenced by Bob Hanz- lik in Thursday's workout. Bob ably assisted Line Coach Biggie Munn in showing the other linemen how the Wisconsin forwards blocked and op- ened holes in their opponents' line. The big question of overconfidence has definitely been absent this week among Coach Crisler's men. The ex- Wisconsin players in particular have been looking forward all year to Sat- urday's battle against their old coach and teammates. As an example, ap- propriate placards were placed in the dressing room during the week by the players to help keep Saturday's game foremost in their minds. The injuries suffered by Rudy Smeja, George Kraeger, and Fred Negus last week have responded to treatment and all will be ready for the game on Saturday. Elroy Hirsch's arm is still in bad shape and the former Badger will probably not see action against his former teammates. NU Ready for Irish EVANSTON, Ill., Nov. 11.-()- Irjnn Waldorf put a high polish on Northwestern's defense and offense today and declared, 'We're as ready as we can ever be for Notre Dame." The passing and running of Otto Graham featured the offensive drill, while Herb Mein and Bob Wallis{ stood out in defensive practices which stressed maneuvers against t passes. LOWdown on Sports *byI[UD LOW Out-of-Bounds Kickoffs SO FAR this season Michigan's gridiron opponents have done one thing in particular that has caused us to wonder-deliberately kicking the ball out of bounds on the kickoff. Now there are arguments on both sides as to whether this is beneficikl or harmful to the game, but we are of the opinion that it is definitely detrimental from the spectators' point of view, and that if it is continually practiced it will be as harmful as it would be to abolish the point after touchdown. Of course the rulebook says kicking out of bounds on the kickoff is perfectly legal, and in some instances it is good football strategy to do so, but it eliminates one of those thrilling incidents that all sports fol- lowers crave to see. Collegians put the ball in play on the 35-yard line when the pigskin goes out of bounds on the kickoff, but the profession- als, realizing the value of a spectacular return, penalize the team kick- ing off a good deal more by bringing the ball in at the 45-yard stripe. Michigan has always been noted for its broken field runners and has always had good blocking in the open, and therefore the Wolverines have been the victim of out-of-bounds kickoffs a large percentage of the time. This year Maize and Blue opponents have feared the open field running of Elroy Hirsch, Bill Daley, Captain Paul White, and Bob Nussbaumer even more than usual as shown by the fact that Northwestern, Notre Dame, Minnesota, and Indiana continually kicked off out of bounds. Western Conference statistics, which included games played Nov. 6, showed that the Maize and Blue gridders were last in the "kick returns" column, while in practically every other department they were first or second. This seems to indicate that, despite the fact that the Wolverines were last in the number of yards gained from returned kicks (mainlay because opponents refused to kickoff in bounds), it did not seem to do them any particular harm in their four Big Ten games to date LOOKING BACK in the records we found that the last time Michigan scored on the kickoff was Sept. 28, 1940, when Tom Harmon took the ball on the five-yard marker and raced 95 yards to a touchdown against California's Golden Bears. Now we are aware of the fact that most opposing coaches realize that even the Wolverines', chances of running back the kick- off for a score are mighty slim, but these coaches seem to think that Maize and Blue runners will get beyond the 35-yard line at least half the time, else they would not instruct their players to kick off out of bounds. We are of the opinion that even the best downfield blocking team with the best broken field runners will not be able to get as far or be- yond the 35-yard stripe on the average, and that only under certain highly extraordinary conditions is it a wise policy to kick off out of bounds. One possible condition that might occur is when a team, after playing a scoreless tie throughout the game, pushes over a touchdown with but a few minutes left.to play, and in order to protect their slim margin, kick 'off' out of ,bounds. All of which leads us to believe that collegiate rules should be changed so that the ball will be put in play on the 45-yard line when it goes outside the playing field on the kickoff. This, we believe, would speed up the game, make it more interesting for the spectators, and certainly would not make it any less enjoyable for the players. Traditional Michigan Football Bust To Be Held in Detroit Nov.27 DETROIT, Nov. 11. -( P)-- The famous Little Brown Jug, the trophy the Wolverines took from Minnesota this year after nine long years, will adorn the 'speakers' table at the tra- ditional Michigan football bust Sat- urday, Nov. 27, at the Hotel Statler. Lt.-Comm. Harry G. Kipke, former Michigan All-American halfback and coach, will be master of ceremonies. Speakers will include Capt. Rich- ard E. Cassidy, United States Navy and Commandant of the NROTC at Michigan, and other Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers from the cam- pus, W. B. Crawford, chairman, announced. committeeI Plans are also being made for two of, Michigan's gridiron heroes, Tom Kuzma and Julius Franks, to hear part of the celebration over the tele- phone in , their room at University Hospital, Ann Arbor. The usual custom of presenting rings to members of the Michigan squad will also be followed. 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'e: Carr's goal climaxed an up-hill struggle by the Leafs after Detroit went into an early lead with two quick goals in the opening period- fs Deadlock, 2-2 one by Modere ("Mud") Bruneteau and the other by Adam Brown. Bru- neteau's goal-his eighth of the sea- son-was unassisted. Blond Bill Quackenbush assisted on Brown's. Don Webster, who signed a Tor- l onto contract this week and was playing his first game of N.H.L. hockey, put the Leafs back into the hunt with a second period goal on which he was assisted by- sturdy El- win Morris and peppery Jack Hamil- ton. 71 WASHINGTON By Drew Pearson W4ERRYiO*ROUIND a i I .t ii Twenty million people read what Drew Pearson reveals in his column of special report, interpretation and comment upon national and international affairs and the men who mold them, Because those twenty million find in the column alert, exclusive- news-getting, crisp and to-the-point news-writing, disclosures of beneath-the-surface motives and movements-able and unswayed OPEN for DANCING 1 P.M. DAILY 3 P.M. SUNDAY ,I 11 11 u ....