THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TEMEE ,, Crisler Likes 'M'Showing Deelares Wolverine Passing Attack Good Coach "Fritz" Crisler, at his usual Monday quarter-back session yes- terday, declared he was very pleased with the general showing of his Wol- verine eleven in their initial 1946 grid battle, despite some obvious rough spots common to opening day tilts. He pointed out that the line wasn't boxing in Ben Raimondi and' the other Hoosier aerialists properly in the early part of the game, but after the half-time rest they came back to rush the passers into hurried and inaccurate tosses. "Speaking of passing," Crisler commented, "I thought ours were pretty accurate." Two of Michigan's scores were achieved by way of the air-lanes. The first touchdown of the game came on a toss from half- back Gene Derricotte to Paul White on the five-yard line, and end Len- nie Ford made a one-handed spear of Pete Elliott's end-zone pass in the closing quarter. Crisler presented two explana- tions for hisrather uninhibited use of substitutes throughout the game. Primarily, he declared, he wanted to get a line on as many of his players as passible, and even sent in several combinations that he hadn't plan- ned upon using. In the second place, it was hot. Nothing is so conducive to substitutions as an 80-degree afternoon. As to the coming week's work, the- Michigan mentor said he plans to concentrate on funda- menitals in preparation for the Saturday encounter with an un- predictable Iowa eleven. "I'd al- ways figured on a tough game with the Hawkeyes," Crisler nod- ded;"and after last week-end I'm more positive than ever." Iowa furnished the Western Con- ference circle with a bit of a sur- prse-when they knocked off Pur- due last Saturday. The Boilermak- ers have been touted in pre-season talk as a fairly strong outfit with boys 'like Bob DeMoss and Ed Cody aroupd, and when the Hawks pull a 16-0 upset it's evident that Coach Eddie Anderson has master- mined another surprise-package. Initial I-M Play Slated For Today By BILL JENNETT What will be potentially the largest intramural sports program in Michi- gan's history will start today when fraternity and residence hall teams open their year's schedules with speedball and touch football. Since only freshmen are required to attend PEM classes this year; in- tramurals will furnish men students their only chance to participate in organized sports outside of varsity athletics. There is a place for every man on campus in this expanded program. Thirty-seven different sports will be on the calendar during the year, including both team and individual activities, covering the whole field of popular sports from table tennis to boxing. Program Offers Six Divisions Most participants will enter one of the six main divisions: the fraternity division; the residence halls division, including professional fraternities; the all-campus division for individual sports; the independent teams divi- sion; and the faculty division. Besides these there are the Inter- national Center I.M. program, the large independent program at Willow Village, and the instruction division, for those wishing instruction in vari- ous sports. The instructors are selec- ted from outstanding student players and members of the intramural staff. Representatives Plan Schedules Organization, of the program got underway a week ago when repre- sentatives of 28 social fraternities and four professional fraternities met at the Sports Building and under the direction of Mr. Earl Riskey drew up leagues and schedules for the six week speedball competition. Speedball, a combination of soccer, football and basketball, originated at the University of Michigan, and is considered a much more active and wide-open game than touch football, It has been played with considerable success in the past and the competi- tion this year promises to be excep- tionally strong. Chi Phi is they de- fending champion. Dorms Organize Touch Football Residence halls are also organizing their touch football schedules and' all independents are urged to register at the Sports Building so that they also Cards Face Bums in Play-off Opener Today SECOND GUESSuNt 0 . . By CLARK BAKER Daily Sports Editor It isn't often that we pause to quote a colleague in the newspaper field but an item datelined, "ANN ARBOR, Sept. 28," was spotted by one of our eagle-eyed staff members reposing in the sports section of Sunday's Chi- cago Sun. It was too much to let pass yithout some comment. Said article is headlined, "Michigan Students Get Choice Seats." We looked again, but it wasn't a mirage, so we read on learning that 'students, faculty, season ticket holders and visiting team groups will occupy 27 of the 44 sectios in the University of Michigan football stad- ium this fall." We couldn't disagree with that. The article continued, "Because one third of the stadium seats only are located between the goal posts, practically all of the individual game seats will be located in the corner and end sections since students and sea- son-ticket purchasers have preferential locations." If the students we know received "preferential locations," then individual game purchasers must be buying up tree space adjoining the stadium fence. Technically speaking, the story is correct. Some students, 816 to be exact, out of some 18,000 do occupy so-called "preferential loca- tions." Who cares about the other 17,000? After all, they're only the classmates of the men on the field, the people who cheer the team on to victory, the 17,000 who'll be in the stadium whether the opponent is Podunk Normal or Army, and who'll stick with the team in defeat as well as victory. It wasn't so many years ago that Michigan teams weren't winning. Where were all these "loyal alumni" then, the persons who gobbled up all the best seats last spring because it looked like Coach Fritz Crisler had a winner? The 1934 Wolverines played five home games, winning only one. The loyal alumni stayed away in force. Only 122,526 fans saw the five con- tests. Nor did the Wolverine home attendance reach 200,000 for any of the other three losing seasons, 1935-37. Maybe that's why we dislike seeing stories like the above appearing in out-of-town papers. It gives the impression that the Michigan stu- dent body is appreciated when in reality the athletic administration must have groaned aloud at an increase in student enrollment which cost it some seven or eight thousand more paid admissions. The 1946 ticket controversy has been blanketed by some neat man- uevering which has attempted to clear the athletic administration of all blame for student seating and pin the donkey's tail on the lower classmen. This is so obviously camouflage that it needs no comment. It is unfortunate that a student outbreak against ticket distribu- tion can only occur after all the choice seats' have been distributed. The good seats were assigned to those who had the money last August. Student seats weren't given out until the last of September. By this time it is obviously too late to do anything about it. We can only hope that for the six remaining games on the schedule the student body will get as good a break as it did Saturday when all the New Louis, Zale Bouts Planned; Frisch Resigns Zale To Face Rock Again NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-(P)-A re- match of one of the great fights of fistic history-the middleweight title bout between champion Tony Zale and challenger Rocky Graziano-was signed today for March 21 in Madi- son Square Garden, with the house scaled to produce the greatest indoor gate on record. ** * Winner May Meet Joe NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-VP)-The campaign to provide a 1947 heavy- weight challenger to be served up to Joe Louis got under way today with the signing of Jersey Joe Walcott and Elmer (The Violent) Ray for a ten- round bout in Madison Square Gar- den November 15. Tigers Sign New Catcher DETROIT, Sept. 30.-(.P)-George M. Trautman, executive vice-presi- dent of the Detroit Tigers, today an- nounced the acquisition of William "Red" Mathis, 23-year-old catcher, from the Tigers' Atlanta, Ga., farm club. The big right-hander, who was dis- charged from service at the start of this season, will report in the spring. He batted .318 during the past season with Charleston, S.C., of the Sally League, another .Tiger club, Traut- man said. Herman Named Manager PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30-P)-Billy Herman, second baseman par excel- lence of the Boston Braves who has batted in the vicinity of .305 over his 15 major league years, today became the 20th manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Herman succeeds Frankie Frisch, who resigned Saturday after a seven- year tenure. By The Associated Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30-Those un- predictable, unreliable, untamed Brooklyn Dodgers meet the Cardi- nals tomorrow at Sportsman's Park in the first of a three-game play-off to decide which of the two National League clubs must stand up and take it, unflinchingly, from the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. Except for the monetary reward, the prospect is not pleasant. The winner is sure to be a weary, beaten- down crew when it finally comes to grips with the American Leaguers about a week from today. But that will make the series starting tomor- row none thehless bitter, none the less hard-fought. Cards Strong Favorites The odds tonight, stated by one of the country's top betting commis- sioners, James J. Carroll, made the slump-ridden Cardinals strong fav- orites to win the play-off-first in the history of organized baseball. A $20 bet placed on the Red Birds would win only $13, while a $10 wa- ger on the Brooks would return $13. The Cardinals, who blew a chance to to sew up the flag late yesterday when they were beaten by the Chi- cago Cubs in their final tussle, went through a small workout -today. Manager Eddie Dyer said his start- ing pitcher tomorrow would be ei- ther Howie Pollet, a left-hander of recently dubious ability, or Murray Dickson, a righthander. Dodgers Miss Workout The Brooklyns, who gained a re- prieve after being shut out in their finalagainst the Boston Braves yes- terday at Ebbets Field, spent last night and most of today on the cars. They got in here too late to exercise, but their manager, Lippy Leo Duro- cher, left no doubt that they would be ready when the bell rings at 1:30 CST tomorrow. Leo said he leaned strongly to- ward Ralph Branca, a rookie right- hander, as his starter in the flirst game of the play-off. Branca blank- ed the Cards 5-0 with three hits the last time he faced them in Brooklyn. Durocher's Boys Unpredictable Taken on almost any sound basis of reasoning, the Cards probably should win the play-off and play the Red Sox on the Series. The only draw-back to such a conclusion is that it never is quite safe to expect the Dodgers to do anything either sound or basic. There isn't a single sane explana- tion of the fact that they have fin- ished in a tie for the top. Man for man, they simply do not possess the "class" players who adorn the St. Louis roster. Card Hurler Undecided; Dodgers Favor Blanca FRATERNITIES - SORORITIES -DORMS for After-the-Game Parties v by THE CAMPUS JAZZ GROUP Tom McNalI - 115 WinchelI House - Phone 2.4401 I IC can be grouped into teams in their division. GET HEP O REFEREE ARM SIGNALS ~_ .......... --- ------- W HA T T O W IT H W -AND W WEAR f 'HEN WH AT'S 9 0''' H E R NUMBER? ' f Put The Tools Away.f and be present at the ' action took place around the north noses of 17,000, Michigan students. end of the stadium, right under the \ WHAT SIZE SSHOE DO I WEAR? WHO HOLDS T H AT RECI)RD? IVI,, Club Meets "M" Club, the campus organization for all varsity letter-winners now at- tending the University, swings into its fall program tomorrow with an all-important meeting at 7:15 p.m. in the Union, at which Homer Heath, treasurer of the national "M" Club, and Vic Heyliger, Wolverine hockey coach, will be the princ4.pal speakers. At this time, new officers will be elected for the coming year, and the club's activities and policies for the future will be discussed. Such topics as the annual-fall dance, club-spon- There will be an important meeting of the sports staff includ- ing tryouts at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow afternoon in the Student Publica- tions Building. All members should be present. sored swing concerts, and "M"-win- ners' activities at the future pep ral- lies will be on the agenda. Elmer Swanson, Wolverine baseball and track star who is the president, urges all letter-winners now on cam- pus to attend, regardless of when they won their awards. Golf Tourney Match play in the annual True- blood Golf Tournament gets un- der way this week, with all first round scores due by next Sunday, October 6. Bruce Mac Millan led the quali- fiers with a 73, followed by Mort Cohn and B. W. Gilpin with 75's. Entrants are to call 9308 for their pairings and time schedule. ..In the special tourney being held for varsity men, Bill Ludolph leads the field with a 74. UNION STAFF BANQUET TOMORROW NIGHT 6:30 P.M. SCHEDULES! SCORES! COACHES! KNOW YOUR GREEK WHO AT A PEEK! PAYS WHO PEE~iAND HOW MUCH WHO DID IT? 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