FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE. THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Yogi Berra Named .L.s Most Valuable Pla, er HEADLINES AGAIN: Harmon Named Coast Sports Head Garver Finishes Close 2nd; Ties for First Place Votes Reynolds, Minoso, Feller Round Out Top 5; Yankees, Red Sox, Indians Dominate Poll By DICK LEWIS Ten years after his greatest gridironiachievements, Wolverine All-American Tom Harmon is back in the headlines again. The great Michigan fullback has talked himself into the job of Pacific Coast Sports Director for Dr. Middlecoff North -South Open Leader PINEHURST, N. C. - (P) -Dr. Cary Middlecoff, Memphis, Tenn., professional, who six years ago became the only amateur to win the event in its 49-year-history, yesterday came up with his second one-under par 71 to take a one- stroke lead at the half-way mark of the $7,500 North and Southern Open Golf Tournament. With single rounds remaining today and Sunday, Middlecoff's 142 was a shot in front of three rivals-Jimmy Adams, a member of the British Ryder Cup team; t h e reigning British Amateur Champion, Dick Chapman of Pinehurst; and Tommy Bolt, Dur- ham, N.C., professional via Texas. Chapman's four-under par 68 was the day's best effort over the wind- swept 7,007 yards of the No. 2 championship course of the Pine- hurst Country Club. Sammy Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. V., the PGA champion who was gunning for his third straight North and South win, blew himself to a 78 for 150, eight off the pace, and withdrew. Another casualty was first day leader Julius Boros of nearby Southern Pines. He was 10 strokes off his opening round as he slid to 78 for 146 and a six-way tie for 13th. Sixty-one players qualified for the third round with scores of 152 or under. The leaders: (X-Denotes amateur) Cary Middlecoff, Memphis, Tenn., 71- 71-142 X-Richard D. Chapman, Pinehurst, 75-68--143 Tommy Beolt, Durham, N.C., 71-72-- 143 Tommy Bolt, Durham, N.C., 71-72-143 Jimmy Adams, Great Britain, 74-69- 143 X-Francis Winiger, Pleasantville, N. J., 72-72-144 Bob Toski, Northampton, Mass., 773-71 --144 Dai Rees, Great Britain, 73-71-144 John Barnum, Grand Rapids, Mich, 71-73-144 Max Faulkner, Great Britain, 73-72- 145, Doug Ford, Harrison, N.Y., 74- 71-- 145 X-William C. Campbell, Huntington,J W. Va., 74-71-145 Julius Boros, Southern Pines, N. C., 68-78-146 Skee Riegel, Tulsa, Okla., 72-74-166 X-Stanley Bishop, Weston, Mass., 74- 72-146 the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem, and Terrible Tom is also making a name for himself in the new medium of tele-sportscasting. HARMON'S increasing popu- larity lies in the fact that he is the antithesis of the excitable, bungling sports broadcaster. He talks only when necessary in the television play-by-play. As Harmon himself puts it, "In television, there is no need to say that UCLA or Slippery Rock is in a huddle when your viewers can see it as well as you.", One of Harmon's regular inno- vations, which others have been quick to copy, is the blackboard diagramming of scoring plays. * * * WITHIN A few seconds after each tally, Harmon diagrams for his audience how the touchdown was scored-even to the intricate downfield blocking or mousetrap- ping of guards. Financially, Harmon takes down more money tha nhe ever did when playing professional football for the Los Angeles Rams. "And," he adds, "I don't have my face kicked in every game." Mr. and Mrs. Tom Harmon had thier own television show until recently when the birth of a third child caused a temporary postponement of the tandem video activiites. Mrs. Harmon is the, beauteous Hollywood actress Elyse Knox. LATE HOCKEY SCORES Montreal 4, Boston 2 Toronto 3, Chicago 1 NEW YORK - UP)- Yogi Berra emerged a surprise winner on a close ballot yesterday in the vot- ing for Most Valuable Player in the American League for 1951. The squat New York catcher. who hit .294 in 141 games for the World Champs, edged St. Louis' Ned Garver, 20-game winner for a last place club, by a slim 184-157 * * * Berra wasn't the only person surprised at the result. It was a wide open race with 33 play- ers getting votes and 15 others receiving honorable mention. With 18 of the 24 firsts split among Berra, Garver and Rey- nolds; the best anybody else re- ceived was two for Boston's Ellis Kinder, durable relief worker who appeared in 63 games. One each went to Philadelphia's Ferris Fain, batting champ at .344; Rookie Orestes (Minnie) Minoso of Chi- cago, and the Yanks' Phil Rizzuto and Eddie Lopat. For the first time catchers won in both leagues-Berra in the Aerican and Brooklyn's Roy Cam- panella in the National. IU Might A sk Smith o Remait BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - 0P) - There's a feeling on the Indiana University campus that the foot- ball team can change Coach Clyde Smith's mind about quitting. It could start the operation tomorrow at Minnesota. Smith announced last Tuesday he was resigning, effective at the end of this season. He said the decision was irrevocable and he hasn't modified the statement. HOWEVER., telegrams from alumni asking him to reconsider have been pouring into his office. A student poll by the Daily Stu- dent, I. U. newspaper, showed a majority want Smith to stay. Jim Birr of Indianapolis, Pres- ident of the "I" Men's Associa- tion, said people who know about Indiana's manpower situation "feel that Smith shouldn't leave." Senior members of the squad al- so asked Smith to reconsider. Forty Wolverine gridders, with a week's practice"on snow covered Ferry Field behind them, left last night for Ithaca prepared to play in any kind of weather, Michigan will meet the Big RedI Wolverines Stress Defense In Final Cornell Rehearsal <" l r drill in the snow yesterday. They continued to work on ways to stop th threats posed by T-Foriation quarterback Rocco Calvo and Bill Seazzero, big guns in the Big Red offense. Lowell Perry, who injured his ankle at Illinois Saturday, par- ticipated in the workout, but whether he will start tomorrow is questionable. The valuable end limped all afternoon as he attempted to pass and run him- self back into shape. The majority of the team re- mained indoors for a light work- out, including a dummy scrim- mage. The traveling squad follows: Ends-Knutson, Green, Oster- man, Perry, Pickard, Schlicht, Stanford, Veselnak. Tackles -Balog,sBartholo- mew, Johnson, Pederson, Stribe, Zatkoff. Guards-Beison, Bennett, Kel- sey, Rugger, Kinyon, Matheson, Timm, Wolter. Centers - Melchiori, Morlock, O'Shaughnessy, Ludwig. Quarterbacks - Billings, Mc- Donald, Putich, Zanfagna and Torpor. Halfbacks - Bradford, Eaddy, Oldham, Witherspoon. Fullbacks-Peterson, Rescorla, Tinkham, Burley, Leclaire. Stanford-Southern ClTl Tops Week'sGrdShdl By The Associated Press NEW YORK-Los Angeles and TENNESSEE (6-0), the nation's; East Lansing, Mich., take over the No. 1 team, appears to have an college football spotlight this Sat- easy one in Washington and Lee! urday with a pair of grid naturals, (5-2) at Knoxville. Stanford vs. Southern California Illinois (6-0) ranked second, and Notre Dame vs. Michigan doesn't figure to be bothered too State. much by Iowa (2-3-1) at Cham- Some 90,000 fans will turn out in paign. The Illini, leading Michi- sunny California for the battle of gan by a half-game in the Big the West between Southern Cal Ten race, are taking dead aim (7-1), No. 6 team in the nation- at the conference title and the wide Associated Press poll, and un- i trip to Pasadena. Right now it defeated, seventh-rated Stanford looks like they're well on the (7-0). way. AU CO Of the other members of the first A SELLOUT CROWD of overj ten, Maryland (6-0), No. 3; Prince- 55,000 will jam Michigan State's ton (6-0), No. 4; and Georgia Tech field in East Lansing to see the un- (6-0-1), No. 8, figure to get by beaten, fifth-ranking Spartans easily. Wisconsin (4-1-1), No. 9; (6-0) collide with the improving and Texas (6-1), No. 10, head for 11th ranked Irish of Notre Dame trouble. (5-1). Hundreds of thousands of * others in the Midwest and points MARYLAND FACES winless Na- east will catch the State-Notre vy (0-5-1) at Baltimore. Princeton c { r GARVER, THE No. 2 man in th voting, had a tremendous season with a cellar club, pitching 3 complete games. Reynolds' 17 e n 4 .7 wins included seven shutouts and he also took his turn on relief. Smith turned in his resignation, Minoso, league leader with 31 with two years to go on his con- was a tract, with the team's record for stolen bases and 14 triples,was. this year standing at two victories close-up fourth with 120 points, and four defeats. Remaining op- The rookie hit .326 for the re- ponents besides Minnesota are vived White Sox.MihgnSaendPdu. Bobby Feller's fine comeback Michigan State and Purdue. (22-8) won the Cleveland ace fifth BILL SCAZZERO . . . potent Cornell halfback of Cornell tomorrow afternoon for the first time since 1933. ONCE AGAIN Coach Bennie Oosterbann took advantage of the poor weather conditions by send- ing his defensemen through a YOGI BERRA ... best of the best margin in points. A 24-man com- mittee of the Baseball Writers As- sociation of America did the vot- ing. "I'm very happy over it," said Berra by phone from his home at place and 118 points. The leaders with points figured on a basis of 14-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. (First place votes in parentheses). PLAYER, CLUB PTS. 1. Yogi Berra, New York (6) ...184 2. Ned Garver, St. Louis (6). 157 3. Allie Reynolds, New York (6) 125 4. Orestes Minoso, Chicago (1) .. 120 5. Bobby Feller, Cleveland ...... 118 6. Ferris Fain, Philadelphia (1) .. 103 7. Ellis Kinder, Boston (2) .. 66 8. Vic Raschi, New York.....64 9. Gil McDougald, New York ... 63 10. Bobby Avila, Cleveland .......49 11. Phil Rizzuto, New York (1) .. 47 12. Ed Lopat, New York (1).....44 13. Ted Williams, Boston....... 35 14. Eddie Joost, Philadelphia..... 32 15. George Kell, Detroit.......... 30 16. Early Wynn, Cleveland........ 29 1. Nelson Fox, Chicago...........25 18. Billy Goodman, Boston....... 21 19. Dom Dimaggio, Boston....... 16 20. Gus Zernial, Philadelphia .... 15 Others getting votes were: Bobby Shantz, Philadelphia, 14; Mike Gar- cia, Cleveland, 11; Gil Coan, Wash- ington, 8; Mel Parnell, Boston, and Eddie Robinson, Chicago, each 7; Gene Woodling, New York, and John- ny Pesky, Boston, each 5; Irv Noren, Washington, and Dale Mitchell, Cleve- land, each 4; Virgil Trucks, Detroit, Eddie Yost, Washington, Jim Busby, Chicago, and Johnny Mize, New York, each 2. JUST A COINCIDI Catchers Garner '51 Diamond Laurels By WHITNEY MARTIN At the plate he might swing NEW YORK--()-So you want at anything from a wild pitch to to make a name for yourself in a balk, yet he's liable to hit baseball, Bob? Well, first get your- whatever he's swinging at for self a mask etabss Not meaning you should start extra bases. out as a Jesse James, or, worse yet The short, swart guy, as a result as ball players will argue, an um- of his unique appearance is a base- pire. Just learn to be a catcher, ball uniform and a certain artless- that's all. ness of manner, has been kidded I unmercifully by other players and IT SEEMS to be more than coin- by writer. It has all been good- cidental that Roy Campanella and natured ribbing, and Yogi has tak- Yogi Berra, both- masked men, en it in stride. His answer to it all is a classic. "These fellers who make fun of CaoIreeion1 me," he said shrewdly, "how much Wenley House and not Huber do they make? House won 13-0 to advance to * * * Dame tilt on their television screens. This will be the payoff game for Southern Cal and Stankford, each coached by freshmen men- tors. The winner of this clash is almost a cinch to win the Paci- fic Coast Conference title and the right to play in the Rose Bowl. Southern Cal is rated a touchdown favorite. Michigan State and Notre Dame will be seeking to bolster their prestige more than anything else. The Spartans, ineligible for Big Ten football competition as yet, may win themselves a crack at New Orleans' Sugar Bowl with a win over the Irish. The victor is sure to be boosted several notches in the Associated Press' weekly ratings. State is favored by a touchdown. ENCE? I and Dick Kazmaier should run up Woodcliff Lake, N.J. "Boy, it was points against poor Harvard (2-4) I a surprise. How'd it go?" at Canibridge. Georgia Tech (6-0- 1) should thump Virginia Mili- tary (5-2), in an inter-league fra- cas. Wisconsin, still a threat in the Big Ten race, plays host to Penn- sylvania (3-3) of the Ivy lea- gue in another good intersec- tional match. Texas, a game be- hind Texas Christian in the Southwest Coniderence r a c e, plays host to Baylor (4-1-1) which was whacked by TCU last week and is itching for an up- set. BERRA WAS told he had six of 24 firsts. So did Garver and Allie Reynolds, his Yankee team- mate who pitched two no-hitters for the pennant winners. Accu- mulation of points on the basis of 14 for first, nine for second and so on down to one for tenth gave Berra his first MVP award. Rey- nolds was third with 125 points. GAME OF THE YEAR? dled himself as an infielder or outfielder. Yogi is short, com- pact. Stubby is the world. But Yogi listened patiently to his idol, Dickey, and methodically tried to do everything lie was told . how to pick men off bases . . . how to detect a steal before it happened . . . how to field foul flies .. . how to handle pitchers. He's mastered all the tricks, al- though there's nothing much that can be done about his habit of hitting bad balls. I-MVball Chicago 3, Strauss 3 Gomnberg 5, Lloyd 1 Hinsdale 7, Williams 2 Kelsey 4, Cooley 2 Wenley 6, Michigan 0 Adams 6, Green 0 Tyler 4, Huber 2 Allen-Rumsey 3, Hayden 3 Taylor 4, Winchell 2 MCF 5, ASPA 1 Michigan Co-op 4, Hawaiians "A" 2 Canterbury 6, Gamma Delta 0 l m Ar .--,r o, ti -o-,. BRE iiiPL( There are plenty of other inter- sectional contests on the program 1 including Michigan at Cornell, Marquette at Holy Cross, Detroit at Villanova, and the Citadel at Army. Most of the Conference Races E will shake down to the all-but- the settled stage after Saturday's T games. pry the the E 7F 114" am ISCL Remains With Notre Dame Approaches AST LANSING.-U P--"We'll be cal shape after its two weeks rest re for the kickoff." from competition and eager for hat's about the best you can action. out of Coach Biggie Munn in Bad weather has kept the work- way of advance comment on outs on a half indoor half outdoor Michigan State-Notre Dame schedule as one major handicap ie Saturday. during the week. ,Calm as Clash I the final round of the Residence hall football championship. have been named as Most Valuable Players in the National and Ameri- can leagues, respectively. The choice of Yogi came asf something of a surprise, as for a spell during September he couldn't buy a hit, as they say, and his batting average, al- though a respectable .294, was afar. below that of some other players who might be considered candidates for the Most Valu- able Award. But we aren't arguing about it. We'd like to have him on our team. YOGI IS something of a para- dox in baseball. He has short, heavy legs, slightly knockneed and spread- ing out toward the hips, yet he's one of the fastest men on the Yankee squad. Not because Yogi couldn't learn very rapidly, but because there is so much difference in the physical makeup of teacher and pupil. Dickey is long, lean and loose, and as a catcher han- BILL DICKEY'S job when he was hired as Yankee coach was supposed to have been to make a catcher out of Yogi. He succded, possibly beyond his fondest dreams, but it must have been quite a task. and oose an as ca cher han tiw., ' ++N ' ri T ,. a L ' °; " f Our Wilton model is one of those rare fashions that adds to your appearance and your comfort at the same time. Reasons: the minimum of padding, the soft construc- tion . . . and the natural, straight-hanging lines. from $68.00 VAN BOVEN N you two have to we*r your matchin suits? DESPITE ALL the whoop-la and the "Game of the Year" buildup, Munn and his squad are taking things very calmly. "Some of us have played Notre Dame three times," commented one senior. "We've played some other tough ones too-and we've won. We're not going all up in the air about this one." That seems to be the attitude all through the team. The Spar- tans have come of age as far as football is concerned and no long- er are all a-flutter about their high national rating. THE TEAM is grimly determin- ed to win this one, the players know this game is the only big hurdle left to prevent an undefeat- ed season. They know a loss will drop them among the also rans in the national ratings. But Michigan State is prepar- ing for Notre Dame with hard work and not hysteria. The latest weather forecast for Saturday was good news for fans who feared that snow might bog the game down into a cautious tug- of-war. Cloudy skies, a tempera- ture of about 40 and possible light snow flurries were predicted. THE SQUAD was in top physi- r -- -_ - - __ -_ AIM's LITTLE CLUB FRIDAY 8:00 - 12:00 P.M. MICHIGAN LEAGUE MUSIC . . , REFRESHMENTS , . . ENTERTAINMENT jl I i. ( "We haven't been able to follow the practice schedule that had been planned," Munn said, "but we've been getting in some pretty good licks." 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