950, THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE I- I Open House Features 16 Sort ard Tonight DAILY DOUBLE by pres holmes, sports co-editor OPEN LETTER to armchair quarterbacks and grandstand coaches: Sirs, and Madams: IT IS MY solemn duty to call to your attention some data recently released, which, without a doubt, will cause you much discomfort and evoke cries of indignation. I am not, and do not pretend to be, an iconoclast, yet it is my unfortunate duty to shatter an image-to dispell a myth which you have lived by and worshipped these many years that you have been loyal football enthusiasts. A Football players are NOT stupid. They are NOT incapable of exer- cising their mental, along with their physical, abilities. They are NOT uncivilized yokels, unearthed in the wilds of the hill country, who are wearing shoes for the first time when they don a pair of cleats. AT LEAST no such players exist here at Michigan. Last week the fall semester grades of the 38 lettermen who played on the 1949 , Wolverine Western Conference Championship team were released. Let me assure you that they were amazing, more than enough to make one realize that if the football team wasn't around, this- university's scholastic average would drop, rather than rise. The overall, composite, average of these 38 gridders was an en- viable 2.75, considerably higher than the 2.56 average which the total student body possesses. OUT OF A TOTAL of 551 classroom hours of work carried, only 21 hours were grades lower than C, and more than four times this num- ber, 94, received A's. The B's were the most plentiful, 253 hours-worth, A and 182 hours of straight C work was- done. Don't try to wiggle out of this one by saying that the boys were taking "snap" courses. There were 16 men in the Lit school, 1 10 in education, six in engineering, three in Med school, two in Bus Ad, and one architect - a pretty fair cross-section. Two fullbacks stood as top men on the scholastic totem-pole. Tom Peterson and Ralph Straffon, both in Med school, hauled down straight A averages during the fall campaign. Dick Kempthorn, Don Dufek, Jack Powers, Bill Bartlett, Harry Allis, Ozzie Clark, and George Suth- erland rated B averages or better. The list goes on, but you should be ready to admit defeat by now. ' There are no Eino Filliikkiinnenn's at Michigan. Sorry to be so rough on you, but, nowadays, a man's gotta be intelligent to play ball for Keen,Stapp Receive'M' Mat Honors Bill Stapp, consistent competi- tor at 155 pounds, was named cap- tain of the 1951 wrestling squad at the annual banquet held last night at the Michigan Union. Stapp, runnerup for conference honors, will be a senior next sea- son. He transferred to Michigan from the College of the Pacific two SPORTS, JOHN BARBOUR, Night Editor years ago, and since then has im- proved rapidly. The captain-elect gained the finals of the Confer- ence meet after an excellent dual season in which he was beaten but once. The grapplers also conferred honors upon Coach Cliff Keen, who'scelebrating his 25th year at the Wolverine helm. The letter- men on the squad presented Keen with a silver serving tray em- blematic ofhis long and success- ful record at Michigan. GRAPEFRUIT JUICE Detroit (A) 11, Boston (A) 5 Baltimore (IL) 6, Philadelphia (A) 4 New York (A) 4, Boston (N) 2 Brooklyn (N) 5, Fort Worth (TL) 1 Philadelphia (N) 14, Cin- cinnati (N) 4 St. Louis (A) 9, Cleveland (A) 6 LEMON JUICE Ohio State 10, Texas A & M 9 Baylor 7, Minnesota 6 NHL SCORE Chicago 6, New York 3 All-Campus Championship Boxing Bouts Top Program By JERRY FANGER The entire Intramural Building will be thrown open tonight as 500 participants will be viewed by close to 5,000 spectators in the 16- sport program at the 19th annual I-M Open House. Messers. Earl Riskey and Rod Grambeau have announced that there will be continuous activity from 7 till 10 p.m. * * * THERE WILL be exhibitions in wrestling, gymnastics, volleyball, weight lifting, tennis, badminton, codeball, handball, paddleball, squash, fencing, and archery. There will also be finals in basketball, swimming, and wa- terpolo. The All-Campus championship boxing bouts will highlight the evenings activities. Five bouts are scheduled, with Jim Kanemoto in the spotlight as he matches wits with Ed Cox in the 145 pound class. Kanemoto won the 135 pound division last year, and re- ceived the Orwick-Setomer tro- phy for his efforts. THERE WILL BE considerable interest in the codeball exhibitions in which several varsity lettermen will participate. Al Wistert and Carl Kreger will match feet and brains with ChuckOrtmann and Harry Allis in a game that com- bines soccer with handball. Leo VanderKuy nad Alex Con- ja will face Jack Hudnut and Don Domke in another doubles codeball match. John Gregory meets Harry Jokela in the only singles exhibition. Lazy Aces will oppose the Big Reds in the finals of the indepen- dent basketball league. Phi Kap- pa Psi meets Chi Psi in the fra- ternity finals, and Fletcher Hall faces Chicago House in the dor- mitory finals. IN BETWEEN the basketball1 games the varsity gymnasts will put on exhibitions on the flying rings and the trampoline. Wrestling and weight-lifting, have always been feature at- tractions. Tom Kristofferson, 175 pound fraternity wrestling champion, will meet B o b Schmunk, residence hall champ in the same weight division, in the feature bill on the card. The Faculty sends the Aero- engineers against Adams House in a volleyball match. The Chinese students, International Center champions, face the independent champs, the Hawaiians. Sigma Phi Epsilon, fraternity champs, plays Phi Delta Phi, pro-fraternity leader, in the featured volleyball game. EARLY IN the evening tennis will hold the spotlight with the All-Campus singles championship The Senior Lifesavfng class will meet on Thursday instead of Wednesday, as previously an- nounced. --Jack Redd match between Clyde House and Frani Tillery. Afterwards, Coachj Bill Murphy will send his varsity players onto the hardwoods. By GEORGE FLINT and KEN BIALKIN EDITOR'S NOTE-This is the last in a series of articles on the NCAA Swim- ming Championships to be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week at Columbus, Ohio.) Yale's Bulldogs, perennial pow- er in the East, will bring a fairly strong team to the corn country this week in hopes of bettering last year's fourth place in the NCAA competition. The sons of old Eli have a num- ber of experienced performers on hand, headed by junior Dick Blum, who set an Eastern Intercollegiate record last week in the 440-yard free style. Blum's mark was 4:48.6. He's also been clocked in 2:09.5 for the 220. BACK OF BLUM in the dist- ances the Bulldogs have Bill Farn- sworth, who's turned in a 4:52.6 for the 440 and a 2:10.7 for the 220. Both of these swimmers have bettered the winning Big Ten time in the furlong, Matt Mann III's 2:11.4. The Bulldog captain, Al Rat- kiewich, figures to threaten an Ohio State dominance in the backstroke events. Ratkiewich toured the 150-yard, distance in 1:34.8 earliar this season. And wily Coach Bob Kiphuth can call on Blum, Ray Reid, and Larry Munson in the dashes and relays and expect creditable per- formances. All have bettered 52.5 in the 100 and 23.4 in the 50, with Reid's 51.5 in the century tops for the threesome. ALTHOUGH the Bulldogs don't figure to take the top spot this year, they could well adopt the old Brooklyn Dodger slogan -- "Wait till next year." Reason for this is that the Easterners have one of the strongest groups of freshmen in the school's history. Among the frosh standouts is John Marshall, Australian who cracked the world mark in the 440-yard free style with a 4:32.1 clocking, and James McLane, the young Olympic 1500-meter champ. So Kiphuth will be viewing this year's meet as a mere preview of things to come. The Yale squad should nevertheless be troublesome to all contenders for the NCAA crown. EYEING BOTH the Bulldogs and the defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes warily, Michigan's contingent embarks for Columbus today and tomorrow in quest of their seventh NCAA crown. For the Maize and Blue there are four men who will be swim- ming their last intercollegiate meet. Although they will appear in the National AAU's next week, Captain Matt Mann III, Gus Stag- er, Charlie Moss, and Dave Tittle have exhausted their collegiate eli- gibility. Rounding out the crew for Coach Matt Mann are Dave Neisch, Dick Martin, Bernie Kahn, John Davies, Stew Elliott, George Eyster and Jim Hartman. FIT TO BE TRIED: Yale Natators Pose Threat in NCAA r) s * *.Y. Y SATTERTHWAITE"S REALLY GOING OVER BIG SINCE HE STARTED USING VITALIS! You'll go over big with the gals, too-if you use your head- and "Live-Action" Vitalis care. Get this scoop-give that skull of yours the famous "60-Second Workout." 50 seconds' scalp massage (feel the diference!) ... 10 seconds' combing (and will the gals... see___ e t 1=--....o .;..11* --,nea 4 a nu ai U P-ua the Wolverines. Cordially, DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN AP Roundup SEE THEM TUMBLING ON: I Publication in The Daily Official B$ulletin is constructive notice toall members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Office of the Assistant to the President, Room 2552 Administration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication L11:00 a.m. Saturdays). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1950 VOL. LX. No. 117 Notices ApRegents' Meeting: 10 a.m., Tues., April 18. Communications for con- sideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than April 10. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Women students attending sec- ond performance of Vaughn Mon- roe show, sponsored by Men's Glee Club, Mar. 23, will have one-half hour late permission after the ter- mination of the show. Men's Housing Applications for the Summer Session 1950 for Residence housing applications for the sum- mer session 1950 for Residence Halls will be accepted after March 21. Application blanks may be ob- tained in the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Administration Bldg. i Students now enrolled at the Uni- versity who are planning to con- tinue for the summer, and those PHILADELPHIA-()-Nat Hol- man, coach of City College of New York's National Invitation Tourn- ament champions and players Paul Arizin of Villanova and George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers were honored last night by the Philadelphia Basketball Writ- ers Association. Holman, whose cinderella boys also will play in the NCAA tour- ney, received an award as the As- sociation's selection for the No. 1 Coach of the Year. admitted for the Summer Session are eligible to apply. Sociedad Hispanica: The execu- tive committee of La Sociedad Hispanica is now accepting appli- cations for scholarships for sum- mer school at the University of Mexico. The applicant must be a member of La Sociedad, and all applications have to be in before May 1. Send applications to Socie- dad Hispanica, 406 Romance Lang- uage Bldg. Approved Student Sponsored So- cial Events for This Week: March 22: East Quadrangle Council. March 24: Alpha Epsilon Pi, Al- pha Sigma Phi, Cong'l. Disciples Guild, Delta Sigma Delta, Psi Omega. * March 25: Alpha Epsilon Pi, Be- ta Theta Pi, Chicago House, W.Q., Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Fletcher (Continued on Page 4) By MARV EPSTEIN Michigan should come out at least one notch better than last year in the Western Conference gymnastics meet at Iowa City this Saturday. That seems to be the consensus of campus followers of the sport. Although a small vocal minority definitely is laying its money on the Wolverines, more astute ob- servers feel that the powerful ag- gregation from the University of Illinois gets the nod. * * * ALMOST ALL gymnastics boost- ers here feel that the Wolverines will do better than last year when they finished third behind Min- nesota, 1949 team champion, and the Illini. Although every team, with the exception of Michigan State, will have an entry in the twentieth annual Big Ten championships, only Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois are conceded chances to nab the team crown. Minnesota has won the honors in the two post-war meets, but it is generally felt that the era "of Gopher domination is past. AT LEAST AS far as Coach Newt Loken is concerned the team to beat is Illinois. The Wolverines hold a decision over the Gophers in dual meet competition, 52-44. The Lokenmen will get one final workout this evening at the Intramural Open House, where they will put on an exhibition between halves of the IM baslet- ball playoffs. Tomorrow, they will entrain for Iowa, arriving in time to get a good day's rest be- fore the fireworks start Satur- day morning. The list of men figuring in team scoring published in yesterday's' Daily through an oversight failed to include the name of Fred Thompson, who acquired seven 02 Illinois Favored in Big Teni Gym Meet gals see the difference!). You'll look neat and natural: Bye- ye loose, flaky dandruff and dryness, too. So head for Vitalis--at any drug store or barber shop. 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