THE f E w o C.c ry (pn^,{,, N _. w DAILY 4 PACE THREE tilL MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE olverine * * * 4 Swimm ers, C Pucksters .*v. *'4 '* Conquer De LaSalle, 6-3 .r, .t . . . age rs To Battle 1' * * This Weekend Basketball Team Faces Illini; Natators Oppose Great Lakes Untried Tankmen ;Both Squads Seek Sextet's Sixth Straight Victory Sparked by Celley, MacMillan Michigan Scores Three in First Period, One in Second, and Two in Third Frames By DESS HORVATH Starting the New Year in a winning manner, Michigan's unbeaten hockey squad ran its victory string to six games as they defeated De LaSalle Juniors of Toronto, 6-3, last night at the Coliseum. The Wolverines started slowly, but midway through the first period they struck for three quick goals and were never headed after that. The Juniors, fighting all the way, scored one goal in the second period and two in the fni Nibt Cnr hVi H T-viorr~ #.' Meet Sailor Stars , By CLARK BAKER Michigan's swinming team will in- augurate its 1946 season by playing host to Great Lakes' natators tomor- row night at the Sports Building pool. The Wolverines will be out to end the Sailors' tank supremacy in this, the fifth meeting of the two squads. In 1944 Great Lakes' great National Championship outfit chalked up a pair of victories at the expense of Coach Matt Mann's crew while last year the rivals came out even in their two engagements. Sailors Boast Stars Coached by Dobby Burton, Wolver- ine swimming captain in 1941-42, the invaders will display a star-studded aggregation that has won its only start of the season from Northwest- ern, 54-29. The Maize and Blue will pin their hopes on freshmen and a handful of veterans. Top man on the Sailor roster is Walt 4.is, free-styler who last year whipped Yale's century world record- holder, Alan Ford, for the 100-yard National AAU title. Ris has just joined the Great Lakes squad from Notie Dame where he had been in- structing in swimming for the Navy. Girdes Swims Freestyleu The Sailors have a couple more free-stylers in Paul Girdes and Tom- my Gastineau, who should give the Wolverines a rough time. Girdes copped the 50-yard crown in the 1945 AAU junior championships and splashed to wins in the 50 and 100 against Northwestern. Gastineau also scored a double against the Wildcats, taking the 220- and 440-yard free- style events. Burton, who is no stranger to Maize and Blue fans, will probably swim against his alma mater in the free- style sprints. Against the invaders' array of free-stylers Mann will use Dick Weinberg, Chuck Fries, Dave Titt~e, Chuck Moss, Jan Sanford, Chuck Barnes, Matt Mann, Jr., Nev- ille Adams and Lou Kivi. Weedan AAU Junior Champ Ai other AAU junior champ, back- stroker Jack Weedan, will also per- form for Great Lakes. Opposing Wee- dan the Maize and Blue will have Willard Metcalf, Gordon Pulford and Ed Stone. In the breaststroke the Sailors' Charles Solberg will face Michigan's Bob Matters, Heini Kess- ler, Bob Sohl and Bob Michels. In the low-board diving event the visitors will present Carl Quaintance who last year garnered a first and a second in the two meets against Mich- igan. Wolverine hopes will ride with Alex Canja, Gil Evans and Ralph Trimborn. First Big Ten Win j By BERNIE MEISLIN Michigan's hoopsters, anxious to get back on the victory trail after two consecutive defeats at the hands of Indiana and Ohio State respectively, have been drilling hard for Satur- day's clash with a strong Illinois quintet. Oosterbaan Confident "We've a very good chance against Illinois," Coach Bennie Oosterbaan said. "We were just as good, and even better than Indiana at times, two Saturdays ago. Our only bad game was against Ohio last week." Illinois boasts a strong, youthful hoop aggregation with a record of seven wins and three losses. Victories include a sensational 56-37 upset over De Paul's great basketball squad. None of the Illini's losses need cause coach Doug Mills any embarrass- ment. Iowa eked out a two-point win in a thriller, while strong Ohio State and Wright Field squads both topped Illinois by four-point margins. 56-52 and 50-46 respectively. Lrose in Overtime During the Christmas vacation Michigan was toppled from the ranks of the undefeated by Indiana in a closely contested overtime battle, 67-58. The game's high scorer was Wolverine forward Glen Selbo with 20 points. Don Wittenbraker, captain and center for the Hoosiers, had a totalnof 16 while leading his squad to victory. The game was a see-saw battle all the way with theascore 32-31, in favor of Michigan, at the half. A Hoosier basket swished through the hoop at the final horn, to tie the contest, 58-58, but the overtime period saw Indiana surge to1 a 67-58 win. Buckeyes Take Wolverines One week later at Columbus, Ohio the hoopsters again met up with stern opposition, going down to de- feat at the hands of the Buckeyes,1 57-40. Arnold "Stilts" Risen led his mates to victory and copped the eve- ning's scoring honors racking up 15 markers. Little Don Snyder, 5 ft. 6 in. forward, was second with 12 points. No Mictiigan man scored more than eight points. Harrison was the lone Wolverine to reach that figure with Elliot and Selbo, scoring seven. Oosterbaan revealed that a definite starting quintet has been decided upon with Selbo and Mullaney at for-1 wards, Strack and Elliot at guards and Harrison, the team's high scorer, at center. An ankle injury which has shelved Gordon Rosencrans was re- ported. Rosencrans is a guard who has showed plenty of promise in practice. I naw, ru oac vie V ieyi ger s eam matched them goal for goal. Neil Celley opened the scoring for the Maize and Blue puckmen, climax- ing a ganging attack on the De La- Salle goal after Connie Hill set up the play, laying a pass on Celley's stick in fi'ont of the net. Hill Penalized Hill was sent off the ice for inter- ference a minute later, and De La- Salle tried to even the count on a power play. But Chet Kuznier and Bob Arnot broke away on goalie Al Kahnert for Michigan's second score. Arnot took Kuznier's pass and beat the Toronto net-minder with a high shot to the far corner of the net. The high-scoring line of Gord MacMillan, Bill Jacobson and Al Renfrew added a third goal at 15:20 with Renfrew getting credit for the marker and MacMillan and Jacobson assists. Quackenbush Scores Both teams performedsluggishly in the second stanza until Mike Quack- enbush, brother of Detroit Red Wings' Bill Quackenbush scored a goal for the Juniors with Cantley Spears assisting. Celley marked up his second goal near the end of the period on a hardshot which bounced over Kahnert's shoulder as the goalie fell in trying to save. Each team tallied twice in the third period. The Canadians scored a.fluke goal when Michigan goalie Jack Mac- f TH Innes tried to clear from in front of his net. The puck hit defenseman Bob Marshall's skate and caromed back into the Wolverine goal. Seconds later MacMillan countered again, with Jacobson and Renfw again assisting. Later MacMillam took a pass from Ross Smith for an- other goal. De LaSalle matched this with a goal in the final minit. of play. Spears scored and Bill Ford got the assist. Summaries i I, { 3 ALABAMA SCORES EARLY IN ROSE BOWL G AME. - Beneath this pile of players, Quarterback Harold Self of Alabama lies on the ground with the ball over the goal line for Alabama's first touchdown in the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, Cal. The Crimson Tide beat USC, 34-14. sp" Bixler Named ~POHTSHead Foot ball NEWS + VIEWS + COMMENT Coach at OSU By BILL MULLENIDORE, Sports Editor Widdoes Resigns Top Spot After Two Years WHAT was otherwise a remarkably well-played and hard-fought basket- COLUMBUS, Jan. 2 -(AP)- Ohio ball game between the Universities of Michigan and Indiana over the State University's Athletic Board to- holidays was marred by an incident which has had widespread repercussions. night unanimously approved the ap- pointment of Paul Bixler as head With the game tied at 58 points and only seconds of playing time football coach to succeed Carroll Wid- remaining, Indiana guard Jack Herron dribbled down the middle and does, who asked to be relieved of his looped the ball into the basket, just as the buzzer ending the contest duties after directing the Bucks to 16 sounded. victories in 18 games. The change was unprecedented in One of the two officials signalled in no uncertain terms that the basket Ohio State football annals. Both Bix- had counted, and that Indiana had won, 60-58. The Hoosier players went ler, 39, and Widdoes were assistants ino under former coach Paul E. 'Brown, into the usual transports of post-game glee. The crowd began to file out. and Bixler served as Widdoes' assist- But the final word had not been said. The other official went into ant during the last two years. a huddle with Ray Roberts, Michigan trainer, who was serving as timer The Athletic Board announced that for the game. After much protracted discussion, the "winning" shot remain on the staff as an assistant was disallowed, and an overtime period begun. The Hoosiers then pro- coach. ceeded to score nine points in the extra session to take the game handily, The board said there was a "Gen- 67-58" tleman's agreement" that Bixler's contract would run for three years, The incident has caused a great deal of comment in many quarters. It starting as of yesterday. The salary would undoubtedly have caused much more if Michigan, not Indiana, had was not given. been the victor. The conclusions reached by the public were definitely Widdoes had been one of Brown's bnth e icto. The cnlsoassistants in creating the fabulous not favorable to Michigan. teams at Massillon High School. Bix- We are making no charges. As far as we know, Roberts' contention ler had been coach at Canton Mc- that the buzzer did not make itself heard above the noise of the crowd seed a Cogahtch d ronUalsnive-a until several seconds after time officially was up was made honestly and sities. impartially. In the light of that evidence, the decision to play an over- Early in 1944 Brown entered the time was the right one. Navy. Widdoes was named acting head coach. That fall his team blast- But the unfortunate aspect of the whole affair was the use of a man its way to nine straight victories, connected with the Michigan Athletic Department as an official. No matter Ohio State's first unbeaten and untied how fair such a person may be, he is always open to suspicion in the pub- regular season since 1920, and copped [ic mind. Conclusion-jumping is one of the average American's favorite the Big Ten championship. MICHIGAN Maclnnes Cossalter 11111 MacMillan Renfrew, A. Jacobson REFEREE:I SCORING: G LI) RD C LW 1W Ace Lee 1st period - Michigan ---Celley (assist Hill) 11:24, Anot (assist Kuznier) 12:54, Renfrew (assists Jacobson, MacMillan) 15:20, 2nd period-De LaSalle-Quack- enbush (assist Spears) 14:18. Mih- igan-Celley (assist Hill) 18:r. 3rd period -- De LaSalle--Furdv (technically awarded) 4:24. Mich- igan -- MacMillan (assists Jacob- son, Renfrew) 4:41, MacMillan (as- sist Smith) 14:32. De LaSalle-- Spears (assist Ford) 19:43. DE LASALLE -KahuerL Giroux Quacken musa Sin'ars Renfrer ,. of Detroit AIRPLANES TO0' RENT FLIGHT INSTRUCTION OUR NEW AERONCA CHAMPION has arrived and is the first new postwar plane on the field. A deluxe tandem trainer, i.t has many new fea- tures of construction and remarkable perform- ance. Come out for a demonstration, Gridley Flying, Service Dealer for Aeronca - Bellanca - Commonwealth. Municipal Airport - 4320 South State Road Ann Arbor Phone 25-8825 NEW YEAR'S HANGOVER: Cinder Squad Loses Services Of Aces, Forrestal, Shepherd -v 1 I parlor pastimes. Facing a dearth of material in the quartei mile and broad jump, the Michigan track team is back at work after a two week layoff during the Christmas vacation. The loss of team captain Dick For- restal and George Shepherd in the quarter mile has left the burden of the 440 and mile relay events on new- comers to the Wolverine cinder squad. Forrestal took second place in the National Collegiate last year and placed second in the Conference meet, having covered the distance in the creditable time of 48.2 .seconds. Shepherdwas one of the outstand- Anyone interested in trying out for positions running the quarter mile or broad jumping events should report to Coach Ken Do- herty at the Yost Field House any afternoon this week after three o'clock. ing freshmen on the team last year. His time of 48.7 in the event was good enough for third in the Big Ten. With these two men not around this season the brunt of the running in this event falls upon two men, Bill Haidler, a newcomer to the Maize and Blue, and Val Johnson, who ran the 220 and on last year's mile relay team. Neither of the two men have Wet turned in the performances that show them to be the equal of last year's performers. Munni Gets Official Bid from Syracuse Line Coach Clarence L. (Biggie) Munn, who was rumored as the lead- ing choice for the head coaching job at Syracuse University recently va- cated by Ossie Solem, has disclosed that he received an official offer of the position from Syracuse over the! holidays. Munn, who came here with Head Coach H. O. (Fritz) Crisler in 1938 after serving as line coach at Syra- cuse, stated that he will decide to ac- cept or reject tthe job within the "next few days." He will be in Grand Rapids tomorrow, but will return here Saturday, he stated yesterday. As a result, Michigan has received a great deal of bad publicity, the sort of publicity no major institu- tion can afford, no matter how un- just it may be. The public unfor- tunately does not require proof if the charges are sufficiently sensa- tional. It seems to us this sort of "inci- dent" could easily be avoided. We recommend that the Athletic Depart- ment, in all fairness to itself, the Uni- versity, and the public, adopt as a permanent policy the practice of us- ing as officials only such persons as are not connected in any way with Michigan. Such a practice should not be diffi- cult to follow. Men in sufficient num- bers should be available, even for the most minor officiating jobs. Any ex- tra expense incurred would, in our opinion, be well repaid by the avoid- ance of future controversies in con- nection with similar "incidents." 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