THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 1945 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ,1 +5 Grid Rivalry with Michigan State To Be Resumed in Fall Basketball Team Faces Most Difficult Weekend, First Place Iowa, Runnerup Buckeye Tear To Provide Opposition Tomorrow, Saturday Facing their hardest weekend cam- paign of the season, the Michigan basketball team will take on Iowa and Ohio State on successive nights, meeting the Hawkeyes here Friday and journeying to Columbus to face the Bucks the following evening. Iowa, solidly entrenched in first place in the Big Ten standings with a perfect record of two victories and no losses, is rated as the top team in the nation by the experts. Ohio State, with a two and one showing, is second in the Big Ten and ranks as co-favorite with the Hawks to Haegg, Dodds Duel Is All Off NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-( P)-Word was received from Stockholm today that Gunder Haegg, Swedish track star, had completed plans for his winter trip to the United States just a few hours after Gil Dodds, expected to be his major American rival, said he would be unable to compete dur- ing the coming season. Charles Jannson, secretary of the Swedish amateur athletic group, told the Associated Press in Stockholm that all the plans had been com- pleted for the journey of Haegg and hurdler Hakon Lidman to reach the U.S. by Feb. 2. Dodds, who lowered the indoor mile time to 4:06.4 at Chicago last spring, announced his retirement in a letter to Dan Ferris, secretary- treasurer of the A.A.U., in which he said that he expected to leave Boston Sunday for Los Angeles to take up ministerial duties with a gospel group. annex the Conference crown. Of the two quintets Iowa shapes up as the tougher. Coach Pops Har- rison's boys have not lost a game all season, and have run up 221 points, an average of 67.5 per game, to their opponents' 112. Included in their eight-game victory string is a 41-34 triumph over Minnesota and 61-34 shellacking handed to Pur- due, winners over Ohio State. Ives Is Big Gun The fast-breaking Iowans' chief threat is forward Dick Ives, leading Conference scorer last winter and unanimous selection for all-Big Ten honors. Ives has averaged 14.2 points per game this season, while amassing a 114-point total. Not far behind him is center Clayton Wilkin- son, who has averaged an even 13 tallies per contest. Ohio State has not fared quite so well, but will be no soft touch, hav- ing already trounced the Wolverines, 44-41, in overtime earlier in the season. Since then, the Buckeyes have taken an upset defeat from Purdue, 37-36, but bounced righta back to whip Northwestern, 53-36. Risen Again The Ohio attack is built around towering Arnie Risen, All-American center, who has taken up where he left off last season in point produc- tion. Risen ranks third in Big Ten scoring with 40 points, 18 of them coming in the first Michigan-Ohio contest.' While meeting these two first-class foes, Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's Wolverines will have their backs to the wall. With two wins and two; losses already on the records, Mich- igan must take both games to re-1 tain any kind of a chance for a share in the title. DICK IVES ..Hawkeye threat Baseball Troupe Returns to U.S. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-(IP)-Leo Durocher and the other members of a Mediterranean USO-baseball troupe got so close to the front lines that once the Germans captured their movie projector and generator. Durocher, manager of the Brook- lyn Dodgers, was a member of the group, led by sports writer Tom Meany of the newspaper PM, that traveled 20,000 miles in 42 days and returned home for its first report today. First Michigan Relays Entered By Six Squads Coach Doherty Lists 1.6-Event Schedule for Annual Extravaganza By BILL LAMBERT When the Michigan track squad does pry the lid off the 1945 season, it will do it in real style, by pres- enting the first running of the Mich- igan Relays Feb. 10 in the Yost Field House. This Relay carnival which will sponsor 16 events during the course of one evening, and play host to five Mid-West cinder powers, is the first step toward the establishment of a permanent relay show to be held an- nually by the University. Word has been received that Mich- igan State, Western Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Purdue will definitely be sending teams to enter in the competition. Marquette and Drake were also invited, but it ap- pears as though war-time restric- tions- will prevent them from mak- ing the trip. The meet will be governed by National Collegiate rules, and will feature many different events, un- common in Conference dual and triangular meets. Besides the reg- ular 65-yard high and low hur- dles, there will be a special 240- yard high hurdle relay, which will have four hurdles spaced through- out the distance. The distance medley relay will be composed of an 880-yard leg, a 440, and then another three-quarter mile. A special 660-yard run -and a one and one-half mile run are two other events which will lend variety to the program. The three-quarter mile relay, a three-quarter mile run, the regular field events, and the mile relay, round out a program which as Track Coach Ken Doherty put it, "will pro- vide plenty of competition for the participants, and plenty of thrills for the fans." Before the thinclads make this opening home appearance, a few of the team members will travel Feb. 3 to New York's Madison Square Gardens where they will defend for the third successive year their two-mile relay title in the Millrosc Games. The exact quartet has not been decided yet, but will certainly be picked from the following men: Bob Hume, Ross Hume, Dick Barnard, Archie Parsons, George Vetter, Bob Thomason, Dick Gehring, Dick For- restel, and Walt Fairservis. These nine will run off time trials again at 4:30 Saturday afternoon, with those turning in the best times mak- ing the relay team. Julian Witherspoon, who placed second in the Conference in the 60- yard dash last year, may also make the jaunt to New York, should his times show that he has rounded into shape sufficiently. Schools.-Met Last in 1942 Contest Here By BILL MULLENDORE ' Michigan State College, traditional intra-state football rivals of Mich- ipan, will be back on the Wolverine grid schedule this fall, the Athletic Department announced yesterday. The game, slated' for Sept. 29 here, was booked after University of Pennsylvania athletic author- ities requested that the tentatively scheduled Michigan-Penn clash, also a traditional affair, be can- celled owing to "circumstances be- yond their control." Michigan State last took the field against Michigan in 1942, losing to the Wolverines, 20-0. The Spartans dropped football the following year, and all grid agreements between the two schools were dropped. After reviving football last seas- Sextet To Meet Sarnia Squad Front Line Bolstered By Sulentich at Center With the game against the strong Sarnia team a few days away, Mich- igan's hockey squad went through an intensive drill on passing yesterday. According to Coach Vic Heyliger, the Sarnia club usually turns out a fine team, and it will be a tough aggregation to defeat Saturday. This year's Sarnia team, however, is not as powerful as the Vickers sextet that defeated the Maize and Blue puck- sters in their initial contest. On Saturday, the fans will find something new added to the W'ol- verine sextet. This something is Carl Sulentich, who has just recently be- come eligible to play. He will be used at center with Ted Greer and John Jenswold in the forward line. Old timers Bob Henderson and Herb Upton with Dick Mixer at the goal position fill the defensive bill. In the reserve offensive slots are Francis Allman, Fred Lounsberry and Bob Lilienfield. When the game starts, the Maize and Blue hockey team will have an unimpressive record behind them. To date, the sextet has lost both of the games played this year. In the opener, a strong Vickers A.C. group whipped the Wolverine rinksters, 12- 6. Last week the speedy, reserve lad- en Minnesota pucksters shellacked Michigan by a very impressive 10-0 score. Saturday's game will give the Wol- verine rinksters a chance to break the ice and enter the win column, Traditional Game Set for Sept. 29; Date Left Open by Penn Cancellation on, State sent feelers to the Uni- versity regarding the renewal of'4 the series, but previous Michigan I committments appeared to make it impossible until 1946. Cancel- lation of the Penn game, however, left an open date in the Wolverine '45 schedule, and the Spartans were inserted in that spot. This fall's encounter will mark the thirty-eighth renewal of the long series between the two rivals, which began back in 1898. Michigan has! a large edge in .the games won and! lost column with 26 victories, six de-! feats, and three ties. Four of the Staters' wins were chalked up since 1934, when they first became recog- nized as a power in the football world. The Spartans, coached by Charlie Bachman, made a sterlingbcomeback last fall after the year's layoff from the grid wears, winning sieven of eight games with practically an all- freshman eleven. Up until mid- season Bachman's youngsters figur- ed prominently in pre-Orange Bowl speculation, but a defeat at the hands of Missouri ended all hopes of post- season glory. Addition of State to the '45 grid card leaves the Wolverines with a nine-game schedule. It is prob- Nov. Nov. Nov. 10--Navy at' Baltiimore. 17--Purdueat A n Arbor. 24--Ohio State at Ann Ar- bor. Barber Services to fit your need. We feel proud to serve you at your conven- ience. THE DASCOLA BARBERS Liberty off State able that another tilt,possibly with a Mid-Western service team fhr- nishing the opposition, will be ad- ded to fill the Sept. 15 date. Penn was slated to appear here either Sept. 29, the date of the State encounter, or Oct. 20, which has now been left open. Athletic offi- cials indicated that the latter date will not be filled, as it falls between semesters. The revised schedule follows: Sept. 22-Indiana at Ann Ar- bor. Sept. 29-Michigan State at Ann Arbor. Oct. 6-Northwestern at Evans- ton. Oct. 13-Army at New York. Oct. 20-Open Oct. 27--Illinois at Champaign. Nov. 3-Minnesota at Ann Ar- bor. ----- --------- - - __ U G'E PReiN we RIINthe 1 , .,1 H at Golfside i ~cing Stables PRIVATE OR GROUP INSTRUCTION SPECIAL RATES FOR SERVICEMEN COURTESY CAR .s MOM" .dLl Phone 2-3441 3250 East Huron River Drive ; , , " s t a1 , a R s 'rro r gyc r.aY YA..P J .f S .: ,( nrt r, j1f rF ' ; With more long distance calls on the Cash In on Your Directory Coupon! BUY M C A PRESENTS AND HIS ORCHESTRA ' EI at + . 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