SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE M Opens Hocke eason; Host to AAU- Swimmers * * * * * * * * * Heyliger Begins Sixth Year As Michigan Coach Tonight McMaster University to Provide Opposition For Opening Game in Remodeled Coliseum Michigan Swim Team to Make Debut; Three Olympic Stars Highlight Meet By BOB SANDELL The sixth year of the "Heyliger Hockey Era" will commence this evening when the Wolverine Ice- men square off against McMas- ter University in Michigan's Coli- seum at 8:00 p.m. A record crowd is expected to jam the remodeled hockev anna watch the Wolverines attempt to continue the magniicent icor' compiled by their predecessors of the past few years. * * * FOR COACH VIC Heyliger, this season, with the possible excep- tion of his first one, will be the big- gest test of the coaching ability and knowhow. Five men graduated last spring that had a big share in giving Michigan its finest hockey squads since the sport was in- augurated 28 years ago. Sijce Heyliger began guiding the destinies of the Wolverine skaters in 1945, his teams in five years have won 73 contests, almost a third of all the games Michigan has won, while dropping 24. It adds up to an impressive .752 per- centage. VIC HAS a whole host of prom- ising sophomores to fill up the gap left by the departed veterans, but they can't be expected immediately to display the brand of hockey that Michigan fans have been treated to. the last few seasons. He is fortunate in having one trio of experience performers re- turning that will give him one of the most potent college lines in the country. 'This line of Neil Celley, Gil Burford, and Wally Grant were a step behind the high-flying first trio of last winter, and this year should be one of the most danger- ous and fastest combinations ever to skate in a Blue uniform. ' * * * HEYLIGER is not so fortunate in another respect in that his crack goalie, Jack McDonald will have exhausted his eligibility the second semester. "Mac" will be in the crease for the Wolverines to- night but he'll be missed plenty when the second term rolls around. Expected to start with the above mentioned foursome are defense men Ross Smith, a sea- soned campaigner, and a new- comer, Graham Cragg. Three more sophomores will make their first appearance before the Wolverine followers on the second and third lines. Bob Heath- Cott will center the second attack- ing threesome with lettermen Joe Marmo and Al Bassey on the wings. . THE THIRD combination will find another returning forward Jenny Brumm operating with Ron Aoberts and Paul Pelow. The Wolverine pilot expects to use Bob Fleming, Owen McAr- dle, and Ed May, the latter a first year man, do defense along with the starting paid' McMaster has a flock of nine re- turning veterans on their squad and probably will not be the push- ILateScores PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL Indianapolis 78, Denver 75 Phil. 80, Chicago 77 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tulane 62, Rice, 58 Miss. State 51, Georgia 40 L.S.U. 62, Arkansas 46 Columbia, 64, Colgate 47 Auburn 64, Miss. 60 George Washington 54, No. Carol. 44 Villanova 88, St. Peters (N.J.) 72 Utah State 58, Colorado State 43 DO YOU KNOW ... that Min- nesota beat Grinnell twice by such overwhelming scores that the series was called off? over they have been for the Hey- ligermen up to now. They won their first game, 5-1 against a not oo potent Waterloo Sextet. * * * A FOUR YEAR man, Dennis Barnes, will lead the crew from Hamilton, Ontario, and will get most ofhis support from other ex- perienced Marauders like Goalie Don Sheppard, Winger Neil McGee, and defensemen Bob Cro- foot. The coliseum, with its capac- ity increased to nearly 4,000, is not quite finished, but the heat will be turned on, and only the concession stands and dressing rooms remain to be completed along with other minor details. Stands have been erected on three sides of the rink to handle the increasing number of students and townspeople who will come to see what the sixth edition of the Heyliger coached teams can do to regain national supremacy nar- rowly missed last spring. By KEN BIALKIN Matt Mann unveils his 1950 mermen thisafternoon at 2 p.m. and this evening at 8 p.m. when the 18th annual Michigan AAU championships get under way in the I-M pool. Fifteen events make up the day's agenda, eight of which are for state AAU titles. SWIMMERS from all over the state will vie for the honors with contestants ranging from boys and girls under 14 years of age to Adolph Keifer, former Olympic swimming star who will give an exhibition of fancy swimming. Three Olympic stars will be on hand for the competition. How- ard Patterson of Michigan State will be in the backstroke event, John Davies, who swam for Aus- tralia in the Olympics will per- form in the breast stroke and Luis Childs who represented Co- lombia in the Olympics will swim in the 440-yard free style. Both Davies and Childs are now students at Michigan. * * * THE MEN'S EVENTS in the gala are the 50-yard freestyle, the 440-yard freestyle, 100-yard back- stroke and the 100-yard breast stroke. The individual events for women include the 75-yard indi- vidual medley and the 50-yard backstroke. Also in the women's events will be the 200;yard free style relay. There are eight handicap events which include the 150-yard med- ley relay, the 200-yard free style relay and the 75-yard freestyle. For the kiddies under fourteen years old there is a 50-yard free style for boys and a 25-yard free- style for girls. BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9- (AP)-The track and field com- mittee of the Amateur Athletic Union have named Dick Wein- berg of the University of Michi- gan's swimming team on the All-America squad. Weinberg was selected for 50 yard free-style, and also as the alternate on the relay team. He is in his, senior year at Michigan. Merge GOAL GETTERS-Michigan's crack forward line (left to right) left wing Gil Burford, center Neil Celley and right wing Wally Grant, is expected to make things hot around the McMaster goal to- night at the Coliseum. Rated by many as one of the finest lines in college hockey, the torrid trio will get their chance this season to improve on their last year's scoring mark of 67 goals and 68 assists. Professional. Costly Four Year War Ends; Five AAC Teams Disbanded Bell Named Czar; Fischer, Sherby to Head Respective Divisions; Bulldogs Buy Yanks srl Leagues Officially Snead Behind McCOY EXPERIMENTS: THE DIVING EVENT includes any six dives from either the high or low board. Representing Michi- gan in diving will be the much im- proved George Eyster, Frank Kel- ler, Jim Hartman and Dave Hos- bein. Two fine divers from Wayne University, Jack Mathews and Joe Mracna should liven up the com- petition. There are three other events which should prove to be real thrillers. These are the 100- yard backstroke, the 100-yard breaststroke and the 440-yard free style. The 100-yard backstroke finds Wolverine Bernie Kahn pitted against Patterson. Kahn, Michi- gan's Number one back-stroker, will have to extend himself to beat the former Olympic swimmer. Twenty other contestants are en- tered in this race but Kahn and Patterson will be the men to watch. THE 100-YARD breaststroke will find Davies, now a Michigan freshman swimming unattached, swimming against Charlie Moss, Stu Elliot and Bill Upthegrove, all representing Michigan. In the 440-yard freestyle Olympic swimmer Luis Child is swimming unattached against Michigan's representatives, lMtt Mann, Gus Stager, and Bob By- berg. In addition twelve other swimmers will try for honors in this event. The 50-yard dash is dominated by Michigan entries. Twelve Wol- verines are slated for this event in a field of twenty-one contestants. Dave Neisch, Charlie Moss, Tom Coates, Dave Tittle, Bill Upthe- grove and Dick Martin are some of the Maize and Blue entries. EVERY MAN on the Michigan squad will be entered in at !fast one event. Many future Michigan natators are swimming unattached today. Regulations prohibit men on, the freshman team or those that are ineligible from representing Michigan until they gain eligi- bility. Spectators will be treated to the unusual sight of seeing women swimming in the usually all-male pool. Many of the mermaids will be representing the Women's City Club of Detroit. Other groups sending repre- sentatives include lMichiguaan State College, Wayne University, the Jewish Community Center, Nolan Recreation and Swim- ming Club, Mackenzie Recrea- tion, and YMCA groups from Detroit and Grand Rapids. The preliminaries will be held in the afternoon to thin out the ranks of entries and the finals will be held in the evening. Thereis no charge for admission to the afternoon events, but in the evening admission charges are fifty cents for students and one. dollar for others. PHILADELPHIA - (AP) - Pro- fessional football's four-year war' was settled across a , conference table today. The All America Con- ference merged into the National Football League. THUS ENDED one of the most costly wars in the history of ath- letics. Losses to clubowners soared' to upwards of two million dollars in the protracted battle for play- ers and attendance. The new league is to be called the National-American Football League.' It is to be made up of 13 teams: the complete 10-club NFL and three from the fledg- 'ling AAC. Nobody said so at the hastily summoned news conference at which the report was flashed, but the merger unquestionably is a victory for the older NFL, which fought for four years.to drive the AAC out of business. BERT BELL, the chubby, affa- ble Philadelphia main liner, re- mains at the helm of the new loop as commissioner. He signed for a new 10-year pact at an undisclosed salary. Bell had been commission- er of the NFL. O. O. Kessing, commissioner of the AAC, resigns at the close of the current season. He tendered his resignation some weeks ago. Under the new setup, Emil R. Fischer of the Green Bay Packers will become president of the Na- tional Division and Daniel Sherby of the Cleveland Browns head of the American Division. IF THERE IS one man respon- sible for the merger, it is Horace Stoneham, ruddy-faced owner of the New York Baseball Giants. Stoneham is owner of the Polo Grounds, where two New York pro teams played in 1949 and lost a considerable amount of money. Bell and J. Arthur Friedlund, representing the AAC, told news- men that Stoneham started the merger move by summoning Bell and Friedlund to New York last Friday. They talked for a while there and then came to Philadelphia two days ago. Round-the-clock conferences came to an end shortly after noon today and the two men, tired but jubilant, summoned reporters to break the news. Bell, unshaved but beaming, joined with the dapper Friedlund to announce the new league was conceived "not only in the interest of the public but also to assure the permanency of professional foot- ball.'' These are the 13 teams in the NAF: FROM THE NFL: Philadelphia, New York Giants, New York. Bulldogs. Washington, Pittsburgh. Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Detroit, Green Bay and Los An- geles. FROM THE AAC: San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts. The league is to be split into the National and American Divisions with the winners of the Divisions meeting in a World Football Championship. Makeup of the Di- visions has notkyetubeen deter- mined. The complication in the merger' is what will happen to the playersI on the three AAC teams liquidated in the move and to the college players already drafted by clubs in the two circuits for the 1950 sea- son. The AAC and NFL draft meet-, ings were cancelled. All of these players will be tossed into a giant pool when the NAPgets together at its first meeting, tentatively arranged for January. It will take approval of 11 of the 13 teams for any player to be as- signed to a new club. Bell said that the only players who will not be affected by the formation of the new league are the 32 players on each of the ros- ters of the 13 teams in the new league. Two New York teams are special cases, however. Dan Topping's New York Yankees of the AAC were purchased outright by Ted Collins, owner of the New York Bulldogs. Collins acquired the right to deal with all but six of the players on the Yankees. Those six go to the ew York Giants. The names of the six players were not disclosed. In addition to the Yankees, the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Dons and Chicago Hornets of the AAC are going out of busi- ness. The Hornets are to be broken up completely, while the Dons merge with the Los An- geles Rams and the Bills with the Cleveland Browns. James Breuil, owner of the Bulf- falo club of the AAC, has acquired what Bell and Friedlund said was "a substantial interest" in the Browns and has exclusive rights of that club to present exhibition .milton in l a.0 Miami_ Open MIAMI, Fla.-(P)--Bob Hamil- ton, Landover, Md., holed a spec- tacular 33-foot uphill putt on the 18th green yesterday for a five un- der par 65 and a 36-hole total of. 129 to lead the second round of Miami's $10,000 open golf tourna- ment.j THE 33-YEAR-OLD veteran professional fired a two under par; 33 going out and three under 32' coming in. He was low scorer in the opening round yesterday with i blistei ing six under pai 64. Tommy Bolt of Huston, Texas, playing his first tournament since 1916, was only two strokes off Hamilton with a 36-hole to- tal of 131. Sam Snead, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., leading money winner of 1949 had a 32- 34-66 for a 36 hole total of 134. Hamilton is now 11 under parI at the halfway mark of the four day 72-hole tournament being played over the 6,310-yard Miami Springs golf course. By BILL BRENTON Testing a revamped lineup, Coach McCoy's Michigan cagers face their first real trial of the young season against the tall Tol- edo Rockets tonight on the Toledo court. McCoy's experiment centers around the sophomore shot-maker, Skala, who willbe at a guard post, replacing smaller Chuck Murray. Skala, standing 6 ft., 3 in., gives1 the Wolverines an all 6 ft. and plus starting five to combat the Toledo skyscrapers. AT FORWARD against Michi- gan State and Miami, the versatile Skala bagged a total of 14 points, including a key underhand shot against the Spartans. Murray, whose floor play has been accept- able, lacks both height and scor- ing punch. Replacing the sophomore end is Don McIntosh, member of the Conference championship club of 1947-48. The 6 ft., 4 in. Detroit product has shown equally well at forward and center, hooping 17 counters in the Miami rout to clinch a starting post. McIntosh may spell 6 ft., 5 in. Leo VanderKuy at the pivot post in a complicated rest maneuver which will bring Grosse Pointer Bob Olson in at the forward post. VanderKuy leads the Wolverine scorers with 29 points in the two non-Conference scraps. ROUNDING OUT the starting quint, Captain Mack Suprunowicz at forward and Lefty Hal Morrill at the other guard post will limber up their set-shooting guns against an effective zone defense which Thursday halted Conference champ Illinois for a half. Murray is sure to see action as a guard replacement with Tom Tiernan and Irv Wisniewski slated for duty if the opportun- ity presents itself. Toledo, coached by Jerry Bush has good height and enough speed to fast break off their zone. The squad is studded with veterans from a 1948-49 club which won 13 out of 25 games. The Rockets only loss this season was to Illinois, 67- 51, after a tight first-half battle. Skala to Replace Murray Tonight LEONARD RHODES, 6 ft., 4 in. forward-center, is the key man in a tricky Toledo attack which features the set - shooting of George Bush, brother of the coach and one-handers by Carlo Muzi, diminutive guard. George Lindeman and Robert McDonald complete the starting five. Certain to be plenty of trouble are big Cal Christensen, who will probably move Rhodes to a for- ward position in Bush's back- board-control bid, and Bill Walk- er, 5 ft., 10 in. forward with a deadly side shot. Surprise package on the roster is Ralph Carroll, 6 ft., 9 in. sopho- SPOUTS BILL CONNOLLY, Night Editor more center from Grand Rapids, Ohio. Carroll has not appeared in any close games yet, but he has scored well in the encounters. In a defensive zone the Rockets will probably have Rhodes, Bush and Christensen under the bucket with the speedy Muzi and Walker up front. McCoy hopes for more fast break opportunities against the big Rocket contingent and may switch to a zone if necessary to stop the Toledo height. The Wol- verine starters average 6 ft. 3 in., while the Rockets could coneeiv- ably floor a 6 ft. 5 in. unit. Big Ten Sports Roundup By The Associated Press CHICAGO-Possibility of the Big Ten relaxing its recruiting code to permit directcontact with prospective prep athletes is being thrashed out behind closed, doors at the conference's annual winter meeting. After an exchange of views all day on what is and what isn't legitimate recruiting, the League's athletic directors named a three- man committee to incorporate suggestions in the hope of clari- fying parts of the code. THE COMMITTEE, which will report their .findings tomorrow, consists of athletic directors Har- ry Stuhldreher, Wisconsin, and Paul Brechler, Iowa, and Lou Keller, assistant athletic director at Minnesota. "The basic problem, which has been before the Conference for at least 26 years," said Fritz Crisler, Michigan athletic direc- tor, "is to what extent contact with the boys should be made. Should the boys select the col- lege or should the college select the boys?" Current Big 10 provisions pre- vent salesmanship unless contact is made with the athlete on the campus of the school interested in him. This is more stringent than the N.C.A.A. "sanity code" which permits off campus cohtact. BIG 10 representatives cannot talk to a prospective student un- less lie is on the school's campus,' and they cannot make contact through letters, telephone, etc. Once the prep star gets to the can be entertained. He gets his ordinary meals and two nights of lodging on the cuff. "The athletic directors are not unanimously satisfied with what we have now," said Crisler, this year's chairman of the directors. "We are studying re-definition or revision of the present code but nothing definite has crystal- M . *t _ I C.I -i Cham pU iset NEW YORK - (1P) - Tireless Robert Villemain of France fired a constant barrage of blows at mid- dleweight champion Jake LaMotta tonight to win an upset unanimous ten round non-title decision in Madison Square Garden. LaMotta weighed 165, Villemain 1621%,. The spirited little Frenchman, firing away from the opening bell, never let up on the slow, sluggish champion and just about boosted himself into position for a title fight with the fading Bronx bull. lized. Some directors feel it should be loosened up and others think it should be tightened." The concensus was that the cur- rent code enables schools from outside the Big Ten to "muscle in" on the best prep prospects. Oper- ating under the "sanity code," these schools can go after the boys off the campus and sell a bill of goods in advance. * * * * "COMPETITION for prep stars last summer seemed no tougher than usual," said Crisler, "but the feeling has been expressed that the Big Ten is at a disadvantage with its present rule and is losing ath- letes to other areas." i De To M Ch Ne Bo NHL Standings W L T P GF GA etroit 16 5 3 35 79 57 oronto 10 10 4 24 67 61 ontreal 9 9 5 23 56 47 hicago 8 12 4 20 71 76 ew York 7 9 6 20 47 58 oston 7 12 6 20 64 85 Saturday's Games New York at Detroit Chicago at Montreal Boston at Toronto The Lineups: Michigan Suprunowicz McIntosh VanderKuy Morrill Skala '1 F F C G G Toledo Bush McDonald Rhodes Lindeman Muzi DO YOU KNOW ... that George Kell of the Detroit Tigers is the first third baseman ever to win the American League bat- ting title? CuT FOOD We carry a full line of KOSHER DELICATESSEN COSTS ! 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