THE MICHIGAN DAILY Michigan, Cornell, Ohio State ,RJtakiii9 the £ound4t 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 X/ 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"' I] f} G 1 i t l i c 1 1 . 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. 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