THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Michigan,
Cornell,
Ohio
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Dy HANK UMANTIO
Daily Sports Editor
I N THE MIDST of our fourth year of war, final tabulations revealed that
basketball is now second only to football as a major sport in the Big
Ten, and this is rather surprising since the sport was nine years old before
it was incorporated into Conference athletics.
Credit for the innovation of this game goes to Dr. James Naismith,
who first put his idea into practice in 1891. Minnesota, Iowa and
Wisconsin were the first three teams to participate in a Conference duel
in 1900, which the Gophers managed to win.
The followipg year saw Indiana and Purdue come into the fold, and
in their first year of competition, the Boilermakers shared a championship
with Minnesota as both teams wound up the season with two wins apiece.
By 1906 Chicago, Northwestern and Illinois had entered the West-
ern Conference races, and it was not until then that the Conference
began to officially record basketball championships.
Although Michigan entered the league in 1.909, the Wolverines with-
drew for nine year's because of a difficulty in football, and they did not
again join the ranks until 1918.
AS A GOOD indication of the vast-reaching popularity of the sport,
basketball was rated as the top athletic event in Great Britain with
more than 25,000 servicemen competing in one of the best organized over-
seas' functions.
Out of 2,000 teams entered in the league, the survivors of the
various district bases played in championship tilts to determine the
team best suited for the title of the United Kingdom champion.
Baskets and the player's equipment were hard to phenagle at first,
but with the cooperation of the small arms factories of Britain and the°
various clothing stores, this difficulty was surmounted and relaxation and
pleasure was provided for servicemen all over the Empire.
The various servicemen's desires to play basketball found them
competing in gyms, hangars, or any other place that was suitable for their
needs in their anxiety to carry on the sport. The fervor of the American
servicemen for basketball seems to have spread to the British, who pre-
viously played net ball, but have now adopted the American sport, andI
their inclination to play basketball has made it hard for other teams to
schedule games due to a lack of courts.
TR ACING the history of the "Golden Gloves'' boxing matches, Ed Prell
says that a fighter without a Golden Gloves' background is like a dogI
without a pedigree, in his article, "Golden Gloves' Golden Trail" in the
February issue of Esquire. Now a nationwide institution and during peace-
times extended to Europe, the Golden Gloves was started in 1923 by Captain
Joe Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News. Since then it has
been the kindergarten for heavyweights Joe Louis, Lem Franklin, Bob
Pastor, Lou Nova and many more ring stars. Young amateurs gain excel-
lent training through the Golden Gloves route and the fights may best be
described as a leather hurricane of threew two-minute rounds with a
minute's rest in between. From a humble start in a Chicago west-side-
hall, the Golden Gloves has become a nationwide million-dollar enterprise,
with all profits going to charity.
RIPE OLD AGE:
Man 0'War Is 28 Today
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op NCAA Field
'Annual Swimming Meet
'Attracts Fifteen Teams
By HANK KEISER
Michigan, Cornell. and Ohio State constitute the triumvirate of lead-
ing contenders for the 1945 NCAA swimming crown offered to the winner
of the 22nd annual championship meet, which gets under way here Friday.
A host of 15 college and university squads, chiefly from the east and
midwest, are journeying to Ann Arbor to compete in the two-day battle.
Wartime travel restrictions and loss"'
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BASEBALL'S HERE AGAIN-Bats ring with renewed vigor as 16 Major League squads prepare for their
fourth wartime season. Player shortages and travel restrictions don'"t seem 'to bother the Detroit Tigers
as the annual round of intra-squad games begins down in the training circuit. Here, Jimmy Webb, re-
cent Tiger purchase from, the Chicago White Sox, fouls one off past Bob Swift, veteran Detroit catcher.
WH AT GOES ON HERE
Ile FavoriR 'Goal Tenders' PaSseu 0v
Vioients Against Cage's Big ys
By WHITNEY MARTIN
Associated Press staff writer be afraid of splashing while they are Maybe they should have classes in
NEW YORK, March 28-All winter i dunking. basketball, too, with the divisions
Now Bays, Dfip based on height, in which case we
long the "let's change the rules" boys N ywould find the De Paul six-foot-twos
have been yowling that something Oddly enough, the rule passed last meeting the Bowling Green six-foot-
should be done to curb the advantage year with the idea of bending the wos, etc.
knees of the big guys a little reacted
the exceedingly tall players have in in their favor, although at the same Changes Tested First
basketball The fagpoles should be time serving the purpose for which Anyway, there can be no criticism
cut down to half mast; they should it was intended. of the basketball rules makers to date.
be blindfolded; there oughta be a That rule barred goal tending, or They never leap and then look. Sug-
law. the practice of placing some human gestions that possibly might improve
So-the Rules Committee, possibly thre-spract iclcing isoeune the game usually are given a thor-
working on the theory that the way three-story building in there under ough trial before being adopted, and
to keep a dog from barking so loudly the basket to practically put a lid on we have an idea that nothing radical
is to equip it with an amplifier, makes it by batting the ball away on its to curtail the rights and physical ad-
one change which might pertain to downward arc. vantages of the big men will be put
the Mikans and the Kurlands and Rule Improves Players into the rules.
the Ottens, and the one change is in It was a good rule. It curtailed the To do such a thing would be too
favor of the big guys. defensive effectiveness of the big fel- much like making some football rule
Watch the Hoop lows, but at the same time it made to curtail the effectiveness of Doc
The change eliminates any penalty better all-around players out of them, Blanchard, Army's great fullback
Theacaetoucemntesanopweaas the coaches who have such men whose physique gives him an edge
goal is being scored, and as the man on their squads will testify. ovr the average man.
of average height isn't going to touch Personally we aren't in favor of
the hoop at any time without a step- putting too many restrictions on the 'v
ladder the change can affect only the I s asm nt ti it ir"to T g S w e
Giants. penalize a man for his physique. It
isn't done in any other sport except
It i amor change at best, and perhaps boxing and wrestling. 1 11
probably was made to take the pres-
sure off the officials, who often have EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 28--(/P)
difficulty in determining whether or Vigneau, Hockey Player, -Detroit Tiger hitters caught up
nol ea ei haeindbeen touchplayers Evades Selective Service with the pitchers today and first
though to know they don t have to baseman Rudy York and pitcher Paul
PORT HURON, Mich., March 28- 1Trout each slammed one ball over
(/P-Camille Edmond Vigneau, 21- the left field wall at 240 feet and
- year-old hockey player whose home pitcher Zeb Eaton pounded two over
dr Lease j is in Edmundston, New Bi unswick, the barrier.
was taken into custody by federal Pitchers Al Benton, Frank (Stub-
Ii aI authorities here today for failing by) Overmire, Art Houteeman, Walt-
*1,i ie i .'r to register under the United States er Wilson and Les Mueller threw to
Tb + Selective Service Act. batting practice under a broiling sun.
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 28-(P)-
Tomorrow's an occasion in the roll-
ing blue grass country, already tinted
by. the natural magic of springtime.
As the first cock's crow echoes in
the dawning, a grand old man-
EASTER GREETINGS
Let us help you look your
best this Eastertide.
THE DASCOLA BARBERS
Between State & Mich. Theatres
Man O' War-the most famous horse
in Aemircan turf history will reach
the 28th milestone in his now-pluto-
cratic life.
Big Red, "the greatest hoss of thein
all," is now in complete retirement
at Samuel D. Riddle's Faraway Farm
near here.
The equine pride of Kentucky is an
old man; twenty-eight years is a
long life for a horse.
But Big Red is a frisky fellow,
despite his years and an old-age sag
in his back.
NEED A VACATION,
TAKE IT ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN
GO INTO THE COUNTRY!
Brown at Ahoru
BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y., March
28-U(P)--They say anything can hap-
pen in Brooklyn. But who would have
dared predict a year ago that a 17-
year-old would be the regular short-
stop and a 43-year-old would share
the catching duties for the Dodgers?,
CLAs-Iricuin AnvIITI I' IN4."
LOST AND FOUND
PACK A LUNCH -
TAKE A BOOK -
TAKE A BLANKET -
We'll furnish the Bikes, Basket,
also help plan your route.
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Yet that is the situation today, as LOST: Cameo ring, brown sto
manager Leo Durocher let it be tune cut into stone. Rewa
known that Tommy Brown, who John Klefish, 6226.
won't be 18 until December 6, "Is
the only infielder sure of his berth" LOST: Van Roy pipe and
while the wizened weather-beaten pouch between E. Univers
Clyde Sukeforth "Will do plenty of West Quad. Call Michigan
catching this season." 2-3241.
"Brownie is my shortstop, make no --- -- - -
mistake about that." He said. The LOST: Identification bracer
kid has natural ability and has im- ' graved Ralph D. Dwyer 3
proved greatly.- With the added con- Call East Quad Co. A. Rev
fidence of big league competition, LOST: Navy blue leather wal
Tommy should become one of the zipper on 2 sides. Containe
standouts of the game."annhnf t C Lis
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