Y7 °,F'MJ- RSD.'kY; jAN AIRY -134E THREE, THE iICHIGAN DAILY ~1WR~SI~AY, JANUARY 17, i94G PAGE THREE Sextet Will Be Hos Minesota Friday C ? ._.. --.- e_ Hockey Team Hopes To End Long Gopher Mastery on lce Invaders Boast Veteran, Freshman Lines; Wolverines To Rely on Speed, Playmaking By DES IOWARTH Wolverine hockey fans who have patiently waited for eight long years to see a Michigan sextet defeat Minnesota on the Coliseum ice may finally be rewarded this weekend when Coach Vic Heyliger's squad battles the Golden Gophers in a two-game series For years the Gophers under Coach Larry Armstrong have held com- plete mastery over the Maize and Blue puckmen, often piling up scores running into two figures. But this may be the year for Michigan to turn the trick Jn the North.men. The.,n1_ < W. Franks Norninate By BILL MULLENDORE Daily Sports Editor FOR all we know, nominations for the position of successor to Clarence (Biggie) Munn as Michigan line coach have already been closed. Assuming they are still open, we would like to add still another candi- date to the list, even though we realize we are running a good chance of wasting our ballot. Our nominee is Julius Franks, Michigan's All-American guard in 1942, one of the finest linemen ever produced at this or any other in- stitution. To our way of thinking, the Athletic Department could make no better choice. All this is predicated on the assumptions, first, that Franks is physi- cally able to handle the job, and, second, that he would be willing to give up, at least temporarily, his plans to become a dentist. At this writing, we have no way of proving either assumption. Franks was released from the University Hospitai just this past fall, after fighting and winning a grim three-year battle against perhaps the most terrible of medical foes-tuberculosis. He has resumed his studies in the Dental School, but whether he has recovered sufficiently to undertake such a strenuous job as coaching football, we do not know. FRANKS, as we have said, was as good a lineman as ever played football, in our estimation. Big, rugged, fast, and powerful, he was perhaps the most d for Line Coach consistent forward Michigan has had in the eight years of Coach Fritz Cris- ler's administration. He was one of the few players of whom it could be said, "He never played a bad game." Unfortunately, Franks was deprived of his last, and probably his greatest, year of competition when disaster struck in the form of tuber- culosis. It has always been a source of wonder to all observers that the barrel-chested Negro, 220 pounds of solid muscle, should have been struck by the disease, but he was, all the same. Hoosiers Host To Wrestlers In Mlat Debut Inexperienced Men Fill Starting Berths By SY LICHTER verines have an outstanding record with nine wins and no defeats. Min- nesota has a .500 average, having won twice from Fort William, Ont., while dropping two contests to St. James of Winnipeg. Has Fast Forward Line Michligan has two of the best for- ward lines evr to play on the Coli- seum ice. Both are speedy, and both excellent playmakers. Gord Mac- Millan centers one line with Al Ren- frew and Bill Jacobson on the wings. Wally Gacek, Neil Celley and Walt Grant form the second combination. To match these speed merchants the Gophers have a veteran line and one composed of freshmen. Bob Fleming, Bob Carley and Brad Thompson are the lettermen on the Gophers' first line. In reserve they will have Pat Finnegan, Dennis Rolle and Cal Engstad. Hill Leads Defense At the defense posts the Maize and Blue have four standouts. Captain Connie Hill, despite his small stature, is a clever back-checker and the team's spark-plug. Bob Marshall is big and rugged. Clem Cossalter and Ross Smith are also hard-checking stalwarts. Al Opsahl, a junior will be the Gopher's power on defense, teaming with Jack O'Brien, Bud Frick, Dick Roberts, or Jeff Burman. Burman and Frick are highly-rated fresh- men. Opsahl has been termed by Coach Armstrong as one of the best college defensemen he has ever seen.! He is playing his third year for Min- nesota. Either Duff McDermid, a fresh- man, or letterman Red McCabe will be in the nets for the Gophers. Rated on an even par by Coach Armstrong,1 both will probably see action in the two game series. Jack Macnnes will' again draw the goalie assignment forI the Wolverines.l Although unwilling to venture ac SAME OLD STORY: Wolverines, O Conference Sw By CLARK BAKER With another Conference swim- ming season in full swing it looks like Michigan and Ohio State will fight it out again for top tank honors. Reports from Columbus indicate' that the Wolverines, defendingbtheir - Big Ten crown, will face a better- balanced Buckeye squad than the outfit which last year bowed to the Maize and Blue, 55-43, for the Con- Terence title and then went on to turn the tables on Matt Mann's crew in the NCAA meet. Plenty Of Free Stylers Freestylers are abundant in the Big Ten this year with Michigan, Ohio State, Illinois and Iowa 'all boasting crack sprinters. Of lasta year's point-winner.s in the 50- and' 100-yard free style events only Wol- verine Charley Fries and Illini ace, John Haulenbeek, are back. Out- standing newcomers are Michigan's Dick Weinberg, Iowa's Kenny Marsh and Ohio State's Halo Hirose. Keo Nakama, Buckeye free styler who monopolized the distance events for three years, is no longer around. Ready to step into Nakama's shoes is Wolverine Matt Mann, Jr. who has already equalled the Hawaiian's win- ning time for last year's Conference 440-yard free style event. North- western's Graham Davis, a point win- ner last year, is another challenger in the 220 and 440 events. In the breast stroke Michigan's prediction as to the outcome of the series, Coach Heyliger says his squad is determined to end Minnesota's domination over the Wolverines. "The team showed that it not only The battle in the hospital was not an easy one, but Franks came Michigan's wrestling team will haveitsfirst crack at Big Ten com- through, just as he had always done on the gridiron. He always was the sort havetition this year, when it meets In- of man, on and off the field, who could be depended upon. diana's matmen Saturday at Bloom- It does not follow naturally that a good football player will make a ington. good coach. But when a good football player also qualified in the, i- Coach Cliff Keen, Wolverine men- Fortant respects of leadereship and intelligence, success in the c tor, has announced that Itis starting lineup for this meet will be comprised game is as sure as anything can make it. Franks always was a leader, of mostly inexperienced men. respected by his teammates and by the camnpus, His scholastic achieve- In the 121-pound bracket Jim inents. have always been well above average. Stark will start for Michigan, while And so we say, "What about Julie Franks as the new Michigan line o Alred is slated to open for the coach?" Provided he is able and willing to do the job, we can think of no Dale Richardson, who is a member of better, no more logical choice. Franks gave everything he had to Michican >e v-i? unit on campus, will wrestle while be played football here, It 7ocs .ithout s: lg he would give every- u l -ucund division. thing as a coach. Julius Franks i ? kind of . guy. jil Si der To St New Thinclads yaers eek Revenge m name 1 f To Take Over iee;ar n Yn,, 1cats Here S ravNewe F-sP } f i i i ts a c 3 p o t sr ._ _ --fM.E SL N ,i Y B NE MEISLIN Northwestern will probably plac Lettermen Thomason, Michigan's cagers reach the mid- on1ot Fed Il cot ty sm lIr W I Pardons, Low Return point i udytheir fgtconfeenc teschedule fv e h oktemaueo Parsons, Low Return et Michigan lastSaturday. orrisad LAFAYETTE, d., Jan 16 - By WAEInKJEE6Northwestern here in their sixth Big Chuck Lindgren will start at forwards, urdue's Boilermakers dealt a blow B WALT L.EE Ten clash. King at center, and Bud Carter and to Indiana's hopes for a Western Con- One of the most popular questions The Wildcats are the latest college Buzz Wheeler will play the guard po- rence basketball championship as popping up around the Field House quintet to drop from the ranks of the sitions. .e. defeated their downstate rivals these days is the ability of Michigan's undefeated. Illinois turned the trick Meet Hoosiers Monday y track team to continue the domina- Monday night as they handed Coach On Monday night the cagers jour- (might, 49 to 38. Dutch Lonborg's five a 45-38 setback. ney to Bloomington, Indiana, where tion they have held i the Northwestern's loss leaves only Ohio they will engage the once-defeated r o Se Slt events for the last six years. State and Minnesota undefeated in Hoosiers in a return court battle. In- S .( ItitC In addition to the doubtful entry Conference competition. diana's single loss came at the hands HEAD MAN -- Sending his all- winning hockey team out for their tenth straight triumph tomorrow night against Minnesota will be Vic Heyliger. has ability, but also the fellows showed they have plenty of spirit when they came from behind twice to beat Colorado College," Heylige'r said. Of the 87 games played between the two teams, the Gophers hold a wide margin of victories with 55. The Wolverines have won 21 while 11 games have ended in ties. Michigan last defeated Minnesota at Minneap- olis in 1942. hio State Top imming Field co-champ, Heini Kessler, will have a rugged time retaining his title. Northwestern's Al Craig broke the world 200-yard mark last week against the Wolverines while Ohio States' two-time AAU breast stroke champ, Jim Counsilman, is back to pick up where he left off for the Bucks. Wolverine .Bob Sohl is an- other promising breast stroker. The Wildcats also boast two of the Big Ten's better backstrokers in Bob Tannehill and ex-Wolverine Dave Robertson. Ohio State's Bob Dennis and Lenny Adell, Purdue's Pete Huntington and Illinois' Tony Kon- stant may all figure in the Confer- ence backstroke picture. Trouble For State's Divers Ohio State's closed shop in the diving may be seriously threatened this year with the return of Wolver- ines Alex Canja and Gil Evans from the service. The Buckeyes lost their Big Ten and NCAA title-holder of last year, Hobey Billingsley, to the' Air Force but will still have theirl Conference second-place winner, Ted Cristakos, around. Reports also have, Miller Anderson, State's great diver of 1942-43, back from the armed, forces. Michigan and Ohio State clash at Columbus March 2 in their annual: grudge meet preliminary to the Con- ference meet at Minneapolis the fol-' lowing week. of the Hume twins, there is the loss of Dick Barnard to the Navy and' the loss of Charlie Birdsall at the end' of the Indoor season or sooner. Bird-E sall, conference two mile title holder, will graduate from the N.R.O.T.C. unit at the end of the current semes- ter and may .be called to duty soon afterwards. Three Veterans Oack That leaves the Wolverine track coach with the problem of building' up a team with men with little or no experience. Bob Thomason, Archie Parsons, and Chuck Low are back from last year's squad. All of these men showed promise last year while turning in capable perform-I ances whenever called upon but are not yet stars. Thomason is the youngest man ever to compete on any varsity team as a 16-year-old freshman. Today the Asbury Park, N.J.,athlete is probably the most experienced 17 year old in the country. In his first year for the Maize and Blue he picked up a tie for second in the Conference Indoor Championships mile run, and a third in the National AAU 1,5001 yard run in New York.j Thomason Runs Half, Too For most of his cinder career Thomason has been a miler, but he also does a competent job in the half mile. The Michigan coach says of his protege "Bob showed great improve- ment in being one of the most con- sistent point winners on the team last year. He has a fine running style and. good competitive spirit. He may de- velop into a real star." The second of the possible replace- ments for the "dead heat" Humes is Parsons, who came to Michigan from New York University. Parsons was a sophomore sensation last year and caused Doherty to comment "He is as good as the Humes were in their second year." Parsons Looks Good Archie also is a thinclad who is al- most equally competent in both the half mile events. Parsons best eventr so far has been a 1:55.3 half turned in at the Purdue meet outdoors last year. The third of the men to whom' Doherty is looking to fill the shoes of' the men who last year amassed thej amazing total of 39 out of 45 points in the three distance events is a freshman out of Chicago, Herb Bar- ten. Barten last year was high school mile champion in his home town. Doherty Likes Trio "All three, Barten, Thomason and' Parsons are definite possibilities." commented the Wolverine mentor. In the two mile run in addition to the present Conference champion 'the Maize and Blue nas Herb Voege- len and Lou Nail who have shown im- provement in practice so far this sea-' son. Dave Hess, - a transfer from Western Michigan, Joe Shea from M.I.T. and letterman Chuck Low will also be after points for the Michigan1 The secret of defeating the Wild- cats seems to hinge on a team's abil- Harrison Selbo Strack Mullaney Elliott Feinberg Kell Walton Dietrich Baker Harder Rosencrans Westerman Phillips G--Games, -Foul Tries, fg ft ftm tp pf 11 53 39 20 126 25 11 50 31 23 123 24 11 35 9 6 76 24 11 20 26 20 60 22 10 19 25 14 52 15 11 11 21 15 37 13 10 12 10 6 30 19 8 11 6 4 26 10 6 8 6 4 20' 4 10 7 8 5 19 11 7 4 5 3 11 4 4 2 6 3 7 3 5 1 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 FG--Field Qoals, FT FTM - Foul Tries of Minnesota's surprising hoop squad and the boys from Bloomington are still very much in the race for the championship. In their last match earlier this season the Hoosiers beat' the Wolverines in an overtime battle, 67-58. Coach Oosterbaan spent yesterday afternoon going through offensive and defensive drills in preparation for, the coming crucial basketball tilts of Saturday and Monday nights. Bob Baker looked particularly impressive and is certain to see more service in the coming games. Following is the scoring record for jMichigan's basketballers : NEW YORK, Jan. 16-{A')--TheI National Football League climaxed five days of schedule maneuvering to- clay by adopting a 1946 playing chart, opening Sept. 22 and closing Dec. 8, with each club playing 11 games. The title playoff between the East- ern and Western Divisional cham- pions will be held in the home park of the eastern winner on Dec. 15 un- less sectional ties should set it back a week. Nelson Withdraws RICHMOND, Calif., Jan. 16--U)- The field in the $10,000 Richmond golf tournament was thrown wide open tonight when Byron Nelson, leading money winner of the touring pros, withdrew to tend to his um- brella business and "get a physical checkup." Basketball Scores Army 95, Penn 61 Navy 44, Maryland 35 Detroit 51, Hillsdale 24 Purdue 49, Indiana 38 Yale 41, Brown 23 hriocke y Results Chicago 2, Montreal 1 Boston 3, New York 2 I Wa no smith, fresimian on cam- pus, is the top man in the 145-pound r was on the mm last year, will stcAt for the Wol- ~'i~~e a 15 ouds BiCour- .t. "a aan hold d n the sl ting IOsLtien in t7 e 165-pound di son. in the 175-pound class, there are. two me who ae compting for a statig psl i,. hee wo are Ward Peterson and George Chiames. Iowever, it appears tha Chiames will get the nod for Michigan. In the unlimited division, Dan Dworsky was to have been the starter for the grapplers, however, due to a cold, Coach Keen is not sure if he will be in shape to start Saturday Should he still be ill, Stu Wilkins will wrestle for Michigan in this position. Indiana Line-Up Set Charles McDaniel. new wrestling coach for Indiana, announced that he will probably start the following men Saturday night. Mike Rolak at 121 pounds; Ray Cantarelli at 128 pounds; Bernard Berger in the 135-pound division; Elias George at 145 pounds; at 155 pounds, George McCool will start for the Hoosiers; Larry Nopalitan at 165 pounds; Robert Johnson at 175 pounds; and Joe Sowinski will start in the unlimited division. I-M Results INDEPENDENT LEAGUE Bus. Ad. 36, Latin Wolves 1 FBI 36, Forestry 17 Semper "5" 23, Ship's Co. 16 Poontangers 35, Watchdogs 24 Engineers 38. Rangers 26 Jr. Birdmen 30, DDT 25 Che-Mets 25, Division St. AC 24 PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE j Phi Rho Sigma 28, Alpha KK 18 Alpha Omega 37, Alpha Chi Sig 21 Delta Sig Delta 25, Xi Psi Phi 10 BEETR VAULT Beer - Wine - Mixers - Keg Beer 10 to 10 Daily 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. Sat. 303 N. 5th Ave. Ph. 8200 RIGHT THERE - Leading Michi- gan in Big Ten play and second high-scorer for the Wolverine cag- ers this season is Glen Selbo. ity to stop the scoring activities of both Max Morris and Le Roy King, lanky 6 ft. 7 in. center. In losing to the Ililini, Morris and King could only score a total of 21 points compared with their 37 point aggregate of last Saturday against the Wolverines. Start Same Line-up Michigan at the moment stands sixth in the Conference with a record of two wins and three defeats. Coach: Bennie Oosterbaan is expected to stick to the same line-up that faced the Evanston hoopsters last week. This will place Dave Strack and Bob Harrison at forwards, Glen Selbo at center and John Mullaney and Pete Elliott at guards. Made, TP-Total Points, PF--Per- sonal Fouls. Louis, Conn To Fight June 19 in N. Y. C. NEW YORK, Jan. 16 -O/)- Joe Louis and Billy Conn will tangle in their "hot" heavyweight champion- ship return match in Yankee Stadi- um,,New York, on Wednesday night, June 19, and Promoter Mike Jacobs predicted today it probably will draw the greatest gate in fistic history. Conn will get his second shot at Joe's crown just five years and one day after their first encounter in 1941. . > r I , . 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