. .wz r -t, , THE MICHIGAN DAILY rA4rr TH i ---------- -- -ii-ii 0 ThinC,.adsPointi'ng 1owards Saturday 's Relays Cagers Seeking To Climb up Big Ten Ladder in Two Tilts Wolverine Five Will Meet Wiilats, Badgers This Week-End in na Try To Raise Stand igs By BILL MULLENDORE As the Western Conference basketball race enters its final phase with the eventual winner still a matter of considerable doubt, Michigan's cagers will have an opportunity this week-end to better their present fifth-place, standing when they ake on Norhwestern and Wisconsin on successive nights. Northwestern, solidly entrenched inK -------------- ~~ Former Cage Star Returns To Michigan John Townsend Now Enrolled in J.A.G.' John Townsend, oneeofrthe great- est. basketball players ever to don a1 Maize and Blue uniform, has return- ed to the Michigan campus after a "'x-tai bahCPY1'.A a c ~LUU t±i n i-l tI t /king the /un4 By HANK MANTHO Daily Sports Editor Individual, Team Duels To Provide Keen Riva lry 6i(-Yard Dash, I-Mile Relay, Loom as Most hrillijig Events: Barnard May Not Compete 'V. a tie for last place in the Big Ten standings with a record of two wins and five losses, will furnish the oppo- sition Friday evening in the last home game of the season. The Wildcats, after getting off to a fine start with two straight victories, ran into an as yet unbroken five-game losing streakw nhich has removed them from the running. Badgers In Sixth Place The Wolverines have already met Wisconsin once this year, beating the Badgers 50-37 here last weekend with one of their finest exhibitions of of- fensive play in recent years. Coach "Bud" Foster's squad is currently in a tie for sixth in the Conference with a two and four record. Of the two quintets Northwestern has gained the most attention largely through the presence of Max Morris, a comparatively small but dynamic renter who is making a runaway of the individual scoring race. At last reports, Morris had tallied 114 points in seven games, an average of mre than 16 per contest, while his closest rival, Michigan's Bob Geahan ha only 92 in two more tilts. Wildcats Have Two Victories Morris's supporting cast includes guard Ben Schadler, the Wildcats' leading scorer last season, and Du- ane Sickels, a reserve letterman in 1944, who operates at forward. Frank Wright at guard and Bud Pettit, for- ward, round out the quintet which has beaten Minnesota and Wiscon- sin, and dropped two games to Pur- due, and single engagements to Ohio State, Illinois, and Wisconsin in a return match.3 In most of the Wildcats' games this season, the Purple have been out in front most of the way, only to lose in the final minutes, indicating that1 Coach Lonborg has a potentially dangerous crew. Several of the Northwestern losses have been by ' narrow margins. Wolverines May Find Trouble Wisconsin also has had a rater I indifferent season. The Badgers started off in fine style by beating Seek Acclaim WASHINGTON, eb 6.- n -h W A H N T N ,F b . (P - hsis to let the basketball. world know about a service team at Fort Belvoir, Va., that would like to take a shot at somebody's national championship. These "Fighting Engineers" are convinced they are to the indoor sport what the Randolph Field fliers I of Texas were to football last season -just about the best in the land. Their lineup, studded with former college stars from the east, south and midwest, the engineers have won 15c games and lost ony one., Most of Fort Belvoir's games havet been with service teams although they number among their victimst such college teams as Marshall and} garyland University. In the Engineers' front-line com- bination are Lt. Larry (Spike) Pic-s cilli, John Carroll University; Lt.r Herb Bergman, Georgia Tech., and Lt. Milton Kuhl, University of Iowa and one-time Big Ten high scorer. RDS i SRECORD six-year a sence as a student in the Minnesota but then proceeded to Judge Advocate General's school. 2 split a pair with Northwestern and Townsend, who was selected for lose to Michigan and Ohio State. all-Conference honors as a center After falling before the Wolverines for three successive years, climaxed a Friday night, Wisconsin travelled to brilliant cage career by serving in the Columbus, 0. and managed to give capacity of Assistant coach to Bennie the high-flying Bucks quite a tussle Oosterbaan, after Oosterbaan was before succumbing, 40-36, to indi- named Head Basketball Coach to suv- cate that the Badgers may be a differ- ceed Franklin Cappon in 1938. ent team Saturday than the one After serving in that capacity for which was smothered here last week, three years, Townsend retired from Wisconsin is led by Ray Patterson, the coaching game in 1941 to prac-l the rangy center whose ball handl- tice law in Indianapolis until he en-s ing and floor work last Friday proved tered the Army last year. Before be- his rating as one of the topnotch per- ing transferred to Michigan for Judge formers in the Conference. The Bad- Advocate training, he was stationed gers' other main threat is forward at Fort Belvore, Ga.; Des Smith, who counted 14 of his' Although he has no thoughts of re- team's 37 points against Michigan, turning to the game which originally brought his name before the public NUMBER 3? eye. Townsend still has a warm spot in his heart for basketball. While in! j the Armed Forces, he has played with EIIZ d Rl, im P service teams throughout the South. As a member of the Wolverine five through the years 1934-38. Townsend won wide acclaim around the BigI rri'~ * U~T7n z t J t i f t s t i t i t By BILL LAMBERT SSHORT TME AGO, five members of the Brooklyn College basketball Individual as well as team duels ence winner leading the attack. The tear- wereexposed in a plot to throw games to a gambling clique, and are fast shaping up for the Michi- Wolverine entrants are listed < this news, which managed to assume country-wide proportions. dominated gan Track Relays, which will be held Jim Artley, Clem Bauman, Bob Graz- sports head lines from coast to coast. Saturday at 7:30 p. m. in the Yost dy, Don Nufer, and Al McNab. It seems that this news should be less startling to leaders of inter- Field House. vte Wolve ties bestchances f collegiate athletics, because these same leaders had the foresight to prediet With Notre Dame, Michigan State, middle distance events, with sus such incidents at least five years ago. Purdue, Western Michigan, and Ohio'performers as Archie Parsons, Geom.. "Phog" Allen, Kansas Coach, created quite a stir among athletic State bringing teams, the win, place, Vetter, Ross and Bob Hume, all c Circles when he initiated remarks pertaining to gambling more than and show, positions will be bitterly whom ran in the Millrose Games, toe- five years ago. Many people regarded his statements as inocuous and contested. ing the mark. others considered him a crack-pot. It has taken five years for his wise The 60-yard dash looms as a. three Wolverines Strong in Distances admonitions to be proved, but the old gent could undoubtedly capital- cornered affair, with Michigan's Jul- These men, along with quarter mi- ize on his foresight were he now to go into the fortune telling bisness. ian Witherspoon, who finished sec- ers Dick Forrestel and Dick Barnard, ond in the Conference Indoors last two-milers Charles Birdsall and Ro; "The National Collegiate Athletic Association met in Columbus in Janu~ year, Purdue's Ben Harvey, who grab- Wilad d Bob Thoaso and W ary and expressed regret' at the prevalence of gambling on intercollegate bed the same spot outdoors, and Bill Fairservis, both 880 men should pr- sports," Allen asserted in a recent interview. "But they continue to team Porter, a Western Michigan man who vide the Wolverines wEithan abux- !' r up with professional promoters to nold tournaments in arenas whe.'e won the 60 in :6.4 in his team's meet every one knows big time gamblers operate in hordes." against Notre Dame last week, all seeking top honors. ERE ARE THE WORDS of a man who has been studying this same situa- Purdue Mile Rela -1 .- -- -- -Purue ileRely Team Favored tion for many years and obviously knows what he is talking about. But when a remedy to avert similar situations was sought, we have the panicky efforts of the officials who were surprised at these crooked pro- ceedings, and the edicts which ensued stated that newspapers should re- frain from giving information on athletic contests over the phone. and that sports writers should cease to list any factual material on probable outcomes of any contests, Thus, we are barely touching the problem on hand, and missing the? root of the trouble entirely. Gambling on basketball is ever bigger busi- ness than on football, which was rated second only to horse racing in money bets several years ago. Since basketball games are played every night of the week, it is ' next to impossible for colleges to combat gambling interests to any extent whatsoever. Colleges could avoid much of this unpleasantness by playing natural{ rivalries, and by playing all of their games either on college floors or under college supervision as the Big Ten teams are now doing. This would tend Purdue also has two holdovers from their last year's mile relay team. which copped the title in the Big Ten outdoor meet. Don Weber and Dick Major, the two veterans, will team with Larry Nielsen, a minor letter- man two years ago, and Wallace Dest- erhaft, V-12 transfer from Wheaton college, in an effort to beat out a highly touted Wolverine foursome. All the hurdle events promise some' close finishes, as Porter, who hast the best time of :7.8 in ,the midwest yet this season, Ohio State's Bill Sei- bert, and Bill Marcoux of Michigan, clash in the timber-topping events. Ohio's Schmidt To Vault Johnny Schmidt, the Buckeye cap- dance of power in such events as tl 3-4 mile runthe 1%r, -mile run, th distance medley re layh,te 2-mile n - lay, and the mile relay. Both Barnard, who has been out for several .weeks with an illnes and Forrestel, who sprained an ank in the Millrose 600, are doubtful starters, and it won't be known unit i later in the week whether they wil compete or not. Preliminary heats will get under.- way at 7:00, and the final events ar slated to begin promptly at 7:3 As the schedule now stands, this Wit be the only home appearance of th iWolverine thinclads, for the indoor season. INVEST IN VICTORY I I erIaterloo --- After suffering a 15-2 defeat at the aegg Keeps in Trim hands of Minnesota last Saturday, LONDON, Feb. 6, , UP)- Gunder' the Wolverine hockey team will be Haegg and Haakon Lidman's Swe- aiming for their third victory of the den's traveling trackmen, kept iri4 season against the Waterloo Athletic athletic trim today by trotting three Club. miles in Kensington Gardens. En Coach Vic. -leyliger, commenting route, they gave some pointers to fn Pliminn.tP mzrh of the g-a.mhlinpr , 3 # i Y on the prospects of this week's con- test, said that the Waterloo squad is about equal in strength to the Sarnia and Brantford teams which Michi- gan has defeated 4-3 and 6-4 respec- tively. The Maize and Blue puck mentor stated that he expects the visitors to "cause a lot of trouble and lut up a good battle." The main emphasis in the practice sessions before the Waterloo contest will be on defensive work, because Heyliger believes that the Wolver- ine's weak defensive was one of the important reasons for the Gophers' triumph. Stress during the work,- outs will fall on developing the de- fense of the second line of Francis Allman, Fred Lounsberry, and Bob Lilienfield; also the squad will prac- ice covering up in front of the net. To date the Michigan hockey team has won two games and dropped three. Losing two to Minnesota and one to Vickers A.G., and topping Sarnia, and B~rantford. A win in Saturday's match will give the rink- sters a 500 average. Heavywveights Are Bolstered NEW YORK, Feb. 6.--(P)---Return of Jimmy Bivins, Arturo Godoy and Lou Nova to the ring, plus the sensa- tional rise of Lee Oma, promises to re-establish the heavyweight class as the leading attraction of the fight business despite the absence of Sgt. Joe Louis. Bivins ;eturned from the Army with a fourth round technical knock- out over George Parks in Washington yesterday and is due for a Madison Square Garden appearance soon. Godoy, recently arrived from South America on a new comeback cam- paign, hasn't any definite dates but manager Al Weill will have him scrapping for heavy sugar when a suitable opponent develops. Nova has been sidelined by a hand injury but is ready to leave his California ranch and head east for a tentative March 12 warm-up date against an un-named foe for his new manager Jimmy Johnston. Oma has emerged from two bouts with Tami Mauriello and a win over Joe Baksi as Mike Jacobs' best hea- vyweight "draw" of the moment and is due to tangle with Mauriello again in late March. BUY WAR BONDS i? I . . :3 : < 3 s I i i . r i i i? i I Britain's No. 2 miler. D. G. Wilson, next to Syd Wood- erson as England's top distance run- ner, paced Haegg through the Gar- dens where the only running usually is done by flocks of sheep from ad- joining Hyde Park. '. "i""llo """ '± tAt~'"""""" tain and Big Ten champion, may en- T-OWEVER, it is incongruous that if a coach had the ocmplete respect counter plenty of opposition in his of his players and had instilled the proper spirit in them, that such specialty-the pole vault, in the per- son of Bill Moore, new Western Mich- things as throwing games would never occur. Much of the remedy= to this igan thinclad, who last year cleared evil will lie with the individuals. Maybe this Brooklyn College case was an a3'6 while competing for Drake Uri- isolated one-then, too. maybe this is the rule instead of the exception. versity. And then maybe we are getting excited over nothing. Past season performances, give Still, I can't help recalling this year's Michigan-Ohio State foot- Ohio State the edge in the shot put, ball game not so long ago that the Wolverines lost, 18-14. The vision with Rus Thomas, last year's Confer- WATCH THIS SPACE For Further Development i Big Ter Standings t Ohio State Iowa Illinois Purd ue MICHIGAN Indiana Wisconsin Northwestern Minnesota (i 9 6 6 r '7 5 5 4 2 2 1 4 5 4 4 5 5 Pe*t. .83 3 .833 ,'750 .556 .444 .3 fi .286 .28& of 34 tear-stained athletes in the shower room after the game-men whno had fought for victory till they couldn't stand-awakened me to the realization that these athletes were men in the true sense of the word, and that they wouldn't have thought of giving tha game away for all of the money in the world. Maybe these athletes were imbued with the right spirit. Then again, maybe they presented the true concep- tion of what we term athletes, and the Brooklyn cagers involved in this money matter represented mere mercenary, immature imitations of athletes. Nevertheless, the problem. still remains, and it will be interesting to note the action taken to curb such calumnious practices in the future, and whether or not this Brooklyn case was the exception to the golden rule. STATE STREET CLASSIFIED ADV[RTSJNG1 -__ _--- ------- ing to learn. Meals furnished-6 LOST AND FOUND day week. Vacation with pay. Ap- L T-----~~~-~~~~~-ke-- ply Miss Tomlinson, University I L OST-Two balloon-tired bikes On Health Service. 2-4531. campus. License numbers 2222 and -------------------- 3260. Call 2-5163. MISCELLANEOUS P1 PHI PIN between Pi Phi House A B R me nd afe-ROOM AND BOARD for men and I : and State Theatre Sunday after- women at inexpensive rates rang- noon. Reward. Call Mary poch- ing from $4 to $8 per week, in sixI 'sran, 24514. --- ----24-14.- student co-operative houses. For' LOST-Cocker Spaniel, lost two further information call Joan weeks ago, vicinity of Hill street. Schwartz, 6957. White feet. Reward. Phone 2-1729.1--- LOST _ _. _____ BOARD AND ROOM at the Sigma LOST: Gold watch fob, four inches' Phi Epsilon House, 733 S. State. long with topaz attached. Lost in Spring term, for students only- or near Rackham on Washington: fraternity men preferred. Location up to parking lot. Family heirloom. near campus. See Mr. Reeck at 12 Substantial reward. or 6 p. m. LOST: Plain gold cross on black rib- DORMANT PRUNING. House or- bon-in Union swimming locker chards. Limited schedule filling room. Sentimental value. Tele- now. Rapid approved service. P. phone 2-2914 or 4483 evenings. O. box 536. HELP WANTED WANTED WANTED-Housekeeper, family of I GRADUATE STUDENT and wife de- three, laundry out, no children sire apt. near campus. Will do Call 2-1592. some maintenance for part of rent. HELP WANTED: Drug clerk and D. H. Baker, 414 Adams, Owaso, Michigan., fountain. Excellent hours. Better Michigan. tpay. Witham Drug Co. 691 S. pForestD CREWARD-For information leading ____est__ _ ' to rental of apartment in February, IWANTED: Assistant cook, experience' March, 2-3 rooms, $42 maximum. not necessary if capable and will- Phone Jackie or Jeannie, 2-2218. Wrong Number? In accordance with the recent ef- forts to eliminate the opportunity of gambling on collegiate sports and owing to the shortage of tele- phone equipment, the Daily asks its readers to refrain from calling in for information concerning Michigan athletic contests. Full details of the games will be carried in the following day's Daily. , , :.., : ,w : . = WAR BONDS ISSUED HERE Continuous from 1 P.M. Last Times Today -- I( ' I 1- -':; ---~~~----------- .. 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