WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945. THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN _ _ - - - --- - - ®- - _ ill SpoUBLE by pres holmes, sports co-editor 'Wolverine Cagers Meet Butler Tonight f.5 I' I A FEW LOOSE ENDS still dangling about ought to be gathered together before the 1949 football book is closed-a few choice moments which should be recalled. The most ironic statement of the year proved to be made by Gayle Talbot November 17 when he rated Michigan at 102.7 and Ohio State as 101.1, and boiled it down to "a point after touchdown- V ichigan." He came too close to being right. THE MOST CYNICAL STATEMENT came from some obviously disgruntled individual who defined a college football player as "a fellow who went through college on the money he received foi re- maining an amateur." He might have something there, at that, as "Ox" Wistert, captain of the Philadelphia Eagles, stated at the foot- ball banquet a couple of weeks ago, "The only thing I didn't like about going into pro ball was the cut in pay." The understatement of the season came from none other than the old "master" himself, Frank Leahy, head coach at Notre Dame. He conceded that Tulane was "somewhat confused"- in the 46-7 drubbing the Irish meted out. "Everything we tried worked." It usually does, doesn't it, coach? While on the subject of Notre Dame, it would seem worthwhile to note what Forrest Evashevski, Michigan State's backfield coach, had to say about the powerful Irish. He said the only weakness he -could see was "that their fourth team is a little weaker than thei third team." Please note, when the graduation "wailing towel" is hauled r out again by Mr. Leahy. THESE ARE ALL perennial tall occurrences, however, they usually happen every season. But this year one of the wackiest ideas ever to materialize presented itself upon the gridiron scene - a talking football. All you do is fill the pigskin with ammonium gas, install a transmitter under the coach's overcoat and your quarterback becomes more of a robot than he is already. Concocted by Dr. W. D. Hershberger, an atomic engineer at EU.C.L.A., this device enables the coach to maintain continuous com- munication with the ball handler-without benefit of wires or the free substitution rule. A quick glance at the rule book evinces no provision to cope with such a situation. * * * * HERSHBERGER EXPLAINED that the gadget worked via the absorption of microwave radio signals by the ammonia molecules. An earpiece filled with the gas could be placed in the quarterback's helmet, but it would seem a lot easier-and undoubtedly have more interesting consequences-if the gas were pumped into the football. Picture the scene. It's late in the game and the team with the loaded ball is trailing. The ball-carrier fades back to pitch one when suddenly the ball becomes almost alive as the coaches voice booms, "Krastopopowicz, you fool! Run through that hole at left guard!" Or, better yet, when an opposing safety, man hauls in a punt and starts tp race up the field for a few extra yards, a pained voice from the football could gasp, "Don't hold me so tight, Speedy, you're hurting me!" It's enough to make the best of men fumble. For some reason or other it doesn't seem possible that this fantasy will ever become a reality, but it would make for quite a ball game. Football is becoming more and more specialized arld it's hard to tell which direction the next step will go. BUT RAMS CAN PASS: Final Statistics Give Eales Edge in Rushing and Defense Frosh Squad Tough Test For Varsity Veterans Tame New Wrestlers Michigan's freshman grapplers gave a good account of themselves but varsity wrestlers won most of the matches yesterday, in the first session of a two day frosh-varsity mat meet. Joe Scandorak, frosh 145 pound- er, turned in the outstanding per- formance of the day, as he gave Captain Jim Smith a good battle before losing, 5-4. Smith won the match on an escape in the final period. * * * IN A 121 pound contest, Mike McNerney, another first year man. HUGH QUINN, Night Editor picked up a point for riding time in the last period, to earn a draw with Brad Stone. Ait "Moose" Dunne, varsity heavyweight, nosed out Roger Zatkoff in a close battle, 5-4. Two pins were recorded by var- sity men in the 155 pound entry. Bud Holcomb pinned Gene Ash in the first period and Bill Stapp took Chuck Nichols to the mats in the second. * * * JOE PLANCK, varsity grappler, disposed of Paul Anderson in a 175 pound bout, via a pin in the sec- ond period. Jack Gallen won the fresh- man's only victory of the day as he defeated Larry Nelson, in the 136 pound division. in a 165 pound match. Don 0'- Connell beat freshman Harold Holt, 11-5, as Holt tired in the fi- nal two periods. Several bouts will complete the two day match today. DO YOU KNOW ... that Floyd Bevens has never pitched an- other inning of major league baseball since his onethitter in the 1947 World Series? Twice Beaten Bulldogs Five Favored As 'M'Makes Second Home Hoop Bid I I-M BRIEFS I By TED PAPES What originally may have been scheduled as an early season warm-up basketball game for the Michigan Wolverines will explode into large scale cage warfare at 7:30 tonight when the amazing Butler Bulldogs invade Yost Field- house. Despite the fact that the Hoos- iers enter the battle with a record of two games lost in as many played, they must be regarded fa- vorites to emerge over Michigan's shaky quintet. HEADLINE ATTRACTION of the game will be the appearance of a five foot-ten inch bundle of Butler dynamite, guard Ralph "Buckshot" O'Brien, one of the Midwest's foremost point produc- ers. His individual efforts were the dominant factors of his team's fine showings in its two losing en- counters. The first of these was an eye-. lash defeat at the hands of Illi- nois. With the score deadlocked at 56-56 in the final minute of play, a reserve Illini forward nudged in a basket to break the tie and enable his club to sal- vage a 60-56 victory. O'Brien had 22 points to his credit. A week later the Bulldogs were hosts to a second Big Ten oppo- nent, the Buckeyes of Ohio State. Again O'Brien did everything but win the game for Butler as he poured 30 markers through the nets on .10 baskets and 10 free throws. However, the superior height of the Ohioans told the story, 67-65. THE WOLVERINES, on the other hand, have little to reccom- mend them, even though they have won two out of three 1949 start. After victories over Michigan State and Miami, they ran into a merciless shellacking at the hands of Toledo last Saturday. The de- cisiveness of that setback was a severe jolt to supporters of the Michigan combination. * * * THE TOLEDO affair may be charged to an off night, but C"ubs el Wit h rve For Voiselle NEW YORK - (P) -- The Bos- ton Braves broke the trading dead- lock at the winter baseball meet- ing wide opentyesterday with two deals, one of them sending pitch- er Bill Voiselle to the Chicago Cubs for infielder Gene Mauch and un- specified cash. TheBraves also sold outfielder Marv Rickert to the Pittsburgh Pi- rates for an unannounced minor leaguer and a cash sum "in ex- cess of $10,000." * * * VOISELLE WON seven games and lost eight for the Braves last year. He is a 30-year-old right- hander who came to the majors with the New York Giants in 1942. Trading otherwise was stale- mated. Detroit Manager Red Rolfe, who professes to be mildly interested in New York's George Stirnweiss as a second base solution, sched- uled a session with Yankee chief- tans. * * * BILLY EVANS, Detroit General Manager, said he had been of- fered Cleveland's first baseman Mickey Vernon for outfielder Hoot Evers and pitcher Freddie Hutch- inson. He turned it down cold. 1 coach Ernie McCoy still has a number of unknown quantities on his squad. There have been no signs of any dependable reserve strength to back his first five. As an experiment last week, McCoy shifted Jim Skala to guard in an effort to bolster the scoring balance, but the results were unsatisfactory. This week Skala has returned to forward where he will share duties with Mack Suprunowicz and Don Mc- Intosh. Chuck Murray has regained his old guard slot and probably will start there tonight. In a behind- the-scenes shift, Bob Olson has been switched from a front posi- tion to a reserve guard status. IT MAY BE that Michigan need- ed a bump such as it received Sat- urday to jar its players into form. If the Wolverines are on the re- bound, they may well startle the speedy Bulldogs. At any rate, the contest will give everyone a sounder basis for eval- uating Michigan's chances during the remainder of the schedule. A victory over Butler would provide the Wolverines with some much needed momentum to carry along on their holiday basketball cam- paign. Volleyball . .. Michigan House and Sigma Phi Epsilon won the IM volleyball crowns in their respective leagues last night, with Greene House the loser in the Residence Hall league, and Beta Theta Pi in the Frater- nity division. Michigan House shut out its East Quad opponent, 3-0, on game scores of 15-1, 15-3, and 15-9. Sig ,p went the five game limit to beat Beta, 3-2. Game scores in this championship match were 10-15, 17-15, 16-14, 9-15, and 15-2. Williams House won the second place play-offs in the Residence Hall division by ousting Tyler House, 4-0, in a best-of-seven ser- ies. Swimming .. . Theta Chi and Sigma Chi won their semifinal meets in the Fra- ternity swimming last night, and will meet each other for the dual meet title. Sigma Chi beat Chi Phi, 36-21, to gain its berth in the finals. * * * THETA CHI trounced Sigma Phi Epsilon, 38-19, displaying a bal- ance of power in all events. Late Basketball Wisconsin 56, Notre Dame 48 Purdue 81, Drake 51 Indiana 61, De Paul 55 W. Kentucky 67, Georgetown 48 Holy Cross 85, Dartmouth 53 Colgate 83, NYU 78 Dayton 66, Miami (O) 50 Monmouth 45, Grinnell 37 Furman 61, Wofford 52 Muskingum 76, Marietta 60 L WHAT A SPOT for Christmas Shopping Er to d L..ahd 7ttaoU on FOLLETT'S 2nd FLOOR ... State Street at North U. 14 Fp rr r rr r a , a Riding Horses For Hire I TRY OUR INDOOR RIDING RING 4 Instructions Available SPECIAL STUDENT RATES Golfside Stables GENE BLAND, Mgr. 3250 E. 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