3,' THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Tankmell 'mill Face r x:.. . Here Strda A TOSS-UP YER: ,95Wl ard Year Last Year 's Powerful Foe Greatly.Weakened Coach Matt Mann Says Wolverines Will 'Defeat Sailors by Comfortable Margin" By HANK KEISER All odds are heavily in favor of a victory for the Maize and Blue swimming squad in their clash with a greatly-weakened Great Lakes team scheduled for this Saturday at the Varsity Pool in the Sports Building. Led by Captain Mert Church, Chuck Fries, Heini Kessler, and Gordon Pulford, the Wolverine mermen are expected to "defeat the Sailors by a comfortable margin," Coach Matt I The Michigan men, in their quest for conference and national honors, are especially anxious to register a decisive victory over the Navy boys in retaliation for last year's two defeats suffered at the Sailor's hands. In the initial tilt with Great Lakes last season, the Wolverine squad was only able to muster one first place berth. Kessler churned his way to honors in the- breastroke event and thereby captured Michigan's sole vic- tory. Church and Fries, Maize and Blue star free-stylers were completely out- shone by Bill Smith, captain of the Great Lakes team and conceded by many to be the fastest free-styler in the United States today. Smith, who swam for Ohio State before enter- ing the Navy, sped his way to the winner's slot in both the 220 and 440-yard events and finished second to Carl Ahlman, another Great Lakes tankman, in the 150-yard back- stroke. In the 220, Smith finished ahead of teammate Jerry Kerschner and third place was captured by Ace Corey of Michigan. Paul Maloney and John McCarthy, stars of last year's Wolverine team took second and third place respectfully in the 440-yard tilt. Bluejacket Dobby Burton, former captain of the Maize and Blue squad, defeated his ex-teammates in the 50, and T-Bone Martin, also on the Michigan team of 1942-43, showed his old form as he finished ahead of I-M Hoopsters To Play Initial Tilts Saturday Intramural basketball leagues have at last been organized and will start their season rolling next Saturday afternoon at Waterman Gym, play- ing each Saturday thereafter until the final champions have been deter- mined. Referees are still needed to offi- ciate at these games. Anyone wish- ing such a job is asked to contact Earl Riskey at the Sports Building. Also there is room for at least one more team in the Independent league. Teams may not include players who are members of the varsity or junior varsity squads or who have health excuses from PEM. No eager is allowed to rep- resent more than one outfit. The schedule for Saturday's games is as follows: Servicemen's League- 1:30; Battalion One vs. Fourth Lloyd; Naval Supply vs. Ronags; Rangers vs. V-12's and Company A vs. Sangineers. Professional Fraternity League- 2:30; Phi Rho Sigma (B team) vs. Delta Sigma Delta; Phi Rho Sig- ma (A team) vs. Xi Psi Phi; Nu Sigma Nu vs. Delta Tau Delta and Phi Chi vs. Alpha Kappa. General Fraternity League-3:30; Phi Sigma Delta vs. Alpha Tau Ome- ga; Sigma Phi Epsilon vs. Phi Delta Theta; Zeta Beta Tau vs. Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Chi vs. Lambda Chi Alpha. Independent League-4:30; Robert Owen vs. Forresters; Hi - Temps (practice). There will also be practice for the Residence Halls League at 4:30. Mann stated with a confident smile. :he field in the fancy diving compe- tition. The second dual meet with the Sailors also ended in disaster for the Wolverines, to the tune of 48-36. Kessler again exhibited his cham- pionship ability by winning the areaststroke event, and Maloney, Na- ional AAU long distance champ, took the 440 for the only two firsts cap- lured by Michigan. Smith showed plainly that he was king by unofficially breaking two world's records and coming within )ne-tenth of a second of breaking his awn world's record in the 220. On his way to victory in this event he broke his own 200-yard mark of 1:56.7 by swimming the distance in 1:55 and topped Walter Spence's long-standing figure of 1:23.8 for 150- yards, by churning it in 1:23.5. Church was nosed out in the 50-yard event by Sailor Ted Ho- hart, and Fries lost the 100 to Kerschner. The Navy squad also took the 300-yard medliy and the 400-yard freestyle relays and, in addition, the fancy diving contest. However, this year Smith, Bur- ton, Martin, and all of last season's Sluejacket tankmen are prohibited from participation in swimming com- petition, in accordance with a Navy regulation limiting all sailors to one year of athletic competition. Stars of this year's Navy crew are Achilles Pulakus and Bob Diefen- dorf, both former Michigan tank- men. Pulakus, a short distance free- styler, placed after both Church and Fries in the intra-squad meets held last year, and it is fairly safe to pre- sume that the two Wolverine stars will hold the edge. Coach Mann is confident that Heini Kessler will easily walk off with the breaststroke event and there is a strong pos ,ibility that his team- mate Ralph Chubb, former football star, will be right behind him. Char- lie Higgins and Duane Drake are also expected to give powerful perform- ances in the freestyle events. Thincicids rain For Time Tests The Wolverine thinclads are now back training in earnest after a two- week layoff, in preparation for this month's time trials which will deter- mine the team roster, and also who will travel to the Millrose Games which are set for Saturday,Feb. 3, in Madison Square Garden. Michigan has won their specialty, the two-mile relay in the last four out of five years, and have been vic- torious for the last three straight. The quartet composed of Bob Ufer, Bob and Ross Hume and Dave Matt- hews came within three seconds of the 19-year old record of 7:44 in 1942, but last year the Wolverine foursome was clocked in 7:53.4. The ;exact members of this year's relay squad are not known as yet, but they will certainly be picked from the Humes, Dick Barnard, George Vetter, Dick Forrestel, Ar- chie Parsons, Walt Fairservis, Bob Thomason, and Dick Gehring, the latter four all being new additions to the track team. Parsons is the lad who beat Bob Hume to the wire in the half mile in the Servicemen- Civilians intra-squad meet two weeks ago. Buckeye Quintet Called Top Cage Team in Nation Michigan Five Plays Indiana Here, Illinois Away This Week-End{ Calling the Ohio State basketball team which took Saturday's heart- breaking 44-41 overtime from the Wolverine cage quintet "potentially the best team in the country ;his year," Coach Bennie Oosterbaan praised the fine play of both squads in the contest. Unable to name an outstanding player for Michigan, Oosterbaan av- erred that the whole team was char- acterized by fine spirit all the way. The Michigan coach did say that Dick Rifenburg, who was inexperi- enced and made understandable mis- takes, showed great promise, for a freshman cager. Rifenburg, who was a state high school star, was handi- capped by the fact that he had not practiced with the team since the beginning of the season and was only appearing for the second time in regular competition. Oosterbaan Praises Buckeyes Oosterbaan also praised the fine work of the Buckeye squad, and said that much of Michigan's effective- ness on the defense came in check- ing Don Grate, last year's All-Am- erican cager. On the other hand, much of Michigan's trouble was a result of its ineffectiveness against Arnie Risen, whom Oosterbaan terms as good a center as you.could find anywhere in the country." Risen fell four short of the 21-point total which he registered against the Wolverinest in one of last year's contests. Oosterbaan said that the turningf point in the game came during theI first part of the second half, when the Buckeyes started their steady march toward overtaking the Wol- verines, who led at the end of the first period. If the Michigan quin- tet had been able to keep even with the Buckeyes at that point in the game, instead of catching them in the closine -conds,.the Wolverine coach thinks that his team would have emerged victors at the final gun. As it turned out, the Bucks were never really headed from that time on. Team Loses Two Men Oosterbaan believes his team bet- ter this year than last, mostly be- cause of the larger number of play- ers and the greater height of this season's aggregation.dHowever, Wol- verine hopes received a jolt yeste- day with the news that two men have been lost to the team. Morrie Bikoff, a letterman of two years ago, has been forced to leave the team to devote time to his scho- lastic work as a dental student. Har- old "Lefty" Morrill, third string cen- ter, has been ordered to report for Army induction. With the Ohio State contest out of the way, the Wolverines this week turned their attention to Friday's contest here with the Hoosiers and a Saturday game in Champaign against Illinois. Athletics To Suffer From New Plais WASHINGTON-(AP)- Immediate extension to professional football and ,baseball and other sports activities of the ban on horse and dog racing is not contemplated. But plans projected by War Mobil- izer James F. Byrnes for culling more manpower from 4-F ranks may even- tually hit hard at the sporting world. Congress, Byrnes said yesterday, should consider whether to draft all 4-Fs for war work or limited military service. Such a program if adopted might close down many sports, espe- cially if most 4-Fs were put into uniform. r~t le-c redictions By wUITNEY MARTIN AssociateA Press Correspondent 0RDINARILY we would be predicting all over the place today, releasing our Little Giant Sports Almanac, a guide to utter confusion for the fans who don't want to know what is going to happen during the year so feel quite safe in perusing the forecasts. It was a harmless bit cf buffoonery, although occasionally a client would take it quite seriously and writo in a few months later calling attention to our errors as if we had given him a bun steer on the weather and he had suffered great personal loss by having his seed corn washed away. Tin s year, due to the paper shortage, we are withholding publica- tion. Besides, who in thunder imows what is going to happen in sports. It would be much safer to -o'cdIe what won't happen. Instead of predicting how many $3,000,000 racing days there will be, you can just pred ct there will be no $3,000,000 racing days, and instead of announcing the winner of the National Open six months in advance, you can announce there will be no National Open. 1jP TO FOUR YEARS ago you knew just what events would take place month after month d ing the coming year. Maybe you might miss on your forecasts of who would win certain events, but at least you knew the events would take place. Now you don't even know that. You could be sure there would be a certain number of baseball hold- outs to enliven the news before the teams went south, or west. Then there would be the training camp yarns and predictions of how the clubs would finish.. wuYou could sandwich in a few predictions of what the golfers would do on their winter tour, and which unfortunate gentlemen Joe Louis would knock kicking in the Garden. You could go on from there to your Derby and Preakness predic- OLD TIMERS MEET-Connie Mack (left), 82-year-old manager of thePhiladelphia Athletics, meets Amos A. Sta g, 8., footbail coach of the College of the Pacific, at a sports dinner in Los Angeles, Calif. The last time they met Stagg pitched for Yale against the Washington Senators, who, ad Mack for catcheh. That was in 1838. G1's Watch Spaghetti Bwl. Tjth SPAGHETTI BOWL STADIUM,^I O the Fifth Army a 20-0 winner over Florence, Italy, Jan. 2-UP)-Among the 12th Airforce, the true story may the 25,000 GI's and WACS at yester- be told. day's Spaghetti Bowl Game only a Twice last weekend Jerry advised few knew the Luftwaffe had prom- he was coming to the party "Air- ised to drop in on the football festivi- mail." Since the game was less ties, but those who did know can tell than three hours from the front by you today just how it feels to be a jeep, you can readily see Jerry decoy on a duck pond. wouldn't have had to make any over- Now that the game is over with night jump to get there. _ r i , rj i r tions, the naming of the National Open golf champion and the winner of the Poughkeepsie Regatta, the victors in the major tennis tourna- ment and the National Amateur, and forecast the schools which would have knock-'ern dead football teams, winding up with the names of the teams which would compete in the Bowl games a year hence. 'ELL, MOST of this fertile field has been plowed under by the war. You know there will be no baseball holdouts, and aren't sure there will be baseball. Eacing is out. So are the Poughkeepsie Regatta and the Naticnal Open and National Amateur. Outside of Army and Navy you don't know a lick about the football outlook. This is probably a pessimistic out look for the new year, but war never paints a pretty picture. Some day the outlook may brighten, and may that day come soon enough to make this a happy new year. a.1 s ' ,..S4, , 'G~l~e d~f~ ri~t a-arsym c. WN . .ri K' i.e. . " xa"E b 'Y ?iT. t~mi'.R. t :3(:i WE'RE iSORY. Zero we ather kept us off campus! -oucans4 Yy I 11 'rmCL~-nmtLn RE R DR D flLLnLFLr-Lr1.rnFRi1 ii LaFntT 7117117 IAI YOUR DREAM of a bright, new polish to keep your nails sparkling is answered by Peggy Sage. 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