I I THURSDAY, OCTOBER x, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY . FAGL Tlntg THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1952 PAGE THREE now Black Outpitches Reynolds for Opening Seri es Win HI JINKS ... by John Jenks IF WISCONSIN does anything in conference football this year, its success may be attributable to a former Wolverine, Jim Haluska, who is currently directing the Badger attack from the quarterback post. The recent rise to athletic prominence by Haluska naturally has set the Michigan fan's mind to wondering how this personable young creature escaped from the Ann Arbor clime. From what can be gathered, nobody really knows the. answer to this query. It should be noticed, however, that not many potential all-stars leave Michigan and succeed someplace else. Once they're here, they're usually here to stay. The big problem, though, is getting them up here in the first place. * * * 'I. Recruiting at Michigan.. . IN THIS REPORTER'S opinion Michigan's recruiting system is somewhat on the sloppy side. In more than a few cases he has seen good athletes go elsewhere for no other reason than improper handling by the athletic department. An example should bring out his point. Once upon a time there was a young man who had all the earmarks of an excellent college prospect. He could play football like nobody's business, was a competent basketball performer, and most of all, he was smart. Valedictorian.of his class, in fact. Now this lad was sought by all the big institutions in the area, but because he had friends at one place, and because his coach had a son at the same place, our personality, Froncie Gutman by name, hag at least one step in that direction. The place, in case you can't figure it out, was Michigan. * * a * Michigan Plays It Cool... THE NEVER got here. And why? Just before Gutman was graduated from high school his coach approached a Wolverine assistant mentor at an alumni banquet to offer sone aid. He was treated in so condescending a fashion, however, that he just told the Michigan representative to forget about it. Today Gutman is beginning what promises to be a very successful career at a rival institution. Even if he never did amount to a hill of beans at Michigan, at least he wouldn't be in the enemy's camp now if he had been handled right then. This is only an isolated example of a fairly frequent occurrence in Wolverine recruiting. Almost everybody has heard of the Ed Kalafat story. Kalafat is a 6 foot 5 inch monster hailing from Ana- conda, Montana-the home of Wolverines' Laurie LeClaire and Ed Hickey-who is especially adroit on a basketball court. While Michigan almost completely ignored him when he visited the campus, Minnesota's Ozzie Cowles gave him a high degree of personal attention, with the result that he is now a Golden Gopher. Last spring this reporter attended a track meet at which he met the number one and two scorers in the toughest basketball league in Indiana. Some Michigan enthusiast in the school system there had brought the boys up to see the university. s s s s Coaches Seem Indifferent .. . NONE OF THE coaching dignitaries, particularly In the basketball department, even sat with them at the meet, although they were all practically within reaching distance. No wonder one went to Illi. nois and the other to Kansas. To improve its recruiting system Michigan doesn't have ti offer the world and a Cadillac to boys it wants. Just a little more interest in the prospect as a human being by his prospective coach would go a long way towards inducing youths to come to Michigan. Will it work? Ask Don Canham, the Maize and Blue cinder coach, or hockey head Vic Heyliger, both of whom use this method very successfully. Canham has a virtual monopoly on Canadian thinclads, and he holds his own with in-state talent. Now he is expanding his influence into the distant Baltic Sea area. Wolverines Leave by Air For Stanford Michigan's 40-man football squadrdeparted from Willow Run Airport early this morning for the Pacific Coast where they will meet Stanford University in a major1 intersectional clash on Saturday. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan has a late afternoon practice scheduled after the team arrives. The plane is slated to land in San Francisco at 4 p.m. ** * * THE Wolverines went through a rugged scrimmage yesterday afternoon despite a heavy thunder- storm which made the footing ex- tremely uncertain. Major atten- tion is still being given to the var- sity's pass defense problem. The traveling squad is composed of the following players: Half- backs-Don Oldham, Ted Kress, Don Evans, Frank Howell, Tony Branoff, Stan Knickerbocker; Quarterbacks-Duncan McDonald, Bill Billings, Ted Topor; Fullbacks' Fred Baer, Bob Hurley, Russ Rescorla, Dave Tinkham, Dick Balzhiser, Laurie LeClaire. Centers - Dick O'Shaugnessy, Wayne Melchiori, Ray Wine, Ray VanderZeyde; Guards-Don Dug- ger, Bob Matheson, Dick Beison, Masimir Chomicz, Bob Timm, Ron Williams; Tackles-Rober Zat- koff, Ralph Stribe, Ron Geyer, Jim Balog, Art Walker, Dick Stro- zewski, Ben Pederson, Don Ben- nett; Ends-Bob Topp, Thad Stanford, Merritt Green, Lowell Perry, Gene Knutson, John Vesel- enak and Jim Bates. McDougald Hits Homer For Yank~s in Lost Cause * * * (4)- (Continued from Page 1) called out to open the sixth. Cox fouled to Yogi Berra. Reese sin- gled to right and took second when Reynolds wild pitched. WITH THE count 2-1 on him, Snider sent a Reynolds pitch high and far over the scoreboard to break the deadlock. Then Reese, up with two out and nobody on in the eighth, lined his home run into the left field seats off relief pitcher Ray Scharborough. He was the first Dodger ever to hit two homers in series competition. Pee Wee's first came in the 1949 series against the Yanks. .. Both managers already had announced their pitchers for to- morrow's game at Ebbets Field. It will be two righthanders-Carl Eskine 14-6 for the Brooks and Vic Raschi 16-6 for the Yanks. * * * THIS WAS a brilliant job by Black, the fellow who was sup- posed to be only a "six-inning pitcher." Actually it was his 31st victory in 12 months, counting 15 in the Cuban winter league and 15 in his first big league season. Despite his brilliant record eye- brows were lifted when Dressen nominated Black to pitch the se- ries opener against the mighty New York Yankees. THE DODGERS meal ticket was far from relaxed in the Dodger dressing room after the game. "It wasn't easy. Don't ever let anybody tell you that,". Black said. "Nervous? Was I nervous? I'm always nervous out there. My stomach was full of butter- flies." STENGEL, the constant juggler of lineups, was asked what he had in mind for Thursday. "Don't know whether I'll change or not," he replied. "Woodling looked good. He ran pretty good. If Woodling don't cripple up during the night, I must put him in the game." Gene Woodling slammed a pinch hit triple in the eighth and scored on Hank Bauer's fly. DUKE SNIDER ... powders pellet Phi Gamis Down Kappa Nu; Sigma Chi Beats Theta Chi TOAST OF TULARE: Olympic Champ Mathias Sparks Stanford Eleven Intramural football teams had to battle the weather yesterday afternoon due to intermittent showers which hampered playing conditions of some games and can- celled others. However the weather didn't bother Phi Gamma Delta as they trounced Kappa Nu, 42-0. Clark Gibson scored 4 touchdowns for the Phi Gams, 3 on passes from Pete Palous and the 4th on an in- terception. The game started slowly and at the half the score was 14-0, but in the second half the Phi Gains really got rolling and racked up 28 more points for their victory. On the strength of their sharp passing attack, Sigma Chi turned back Theta Chi, 12-0, in one of Season's First Regatta At Whitmore Saturday yesterday's feature games. 'he first tally came when Jerry Davis tossed an aerial to Paul Fancher in the end zone. With less than 2 minutes left to play in the first half, Norm Canty connected on a touchdown pass to Jim Young to end the scoring for the game. Sigma Alpha Epsilson downed Phi Kappa Psi, 12-0, scoring on the first and last plays of the game. On the first play from Any student interested in be- coming varisity track manager should report to Ferry Field at 4 p.m. today. --Ed Smith scrimmage John Taylor hit Jed Shull with a touchdown pass and on the last play from scrimmage Dick Young sprinted 50 yards for the final tally. Lambda Chi Alpha edged Delta Chi, 2-0, when Dave West caught a Delta Chi man in the end zone in the early part of the first half. Phi Delta Theta and Theta Xi won by forfeit from Phi Kappa Tau and Trigon, respectively. All other scheduled contests were cancelled because of the rain. DID YOU KNOW. . . that Mich- igan's all-time football record in- cludes 416 wins, 120 losses and 24 ties. The Wolverines have tallied 12,467 markers to 3,680 for their opponents. By DICK LEWIS If you look closely at your tele- vision screen late Saturday after- noon, you'll see a broad-shoulder- ed, hard-charging Stanford full- back taking pot shots at the Mich- igan forward wall. And when you hear sportscaster Tom Harmon, himself an All- American Wolverine halfback in 1939-40, announce that 21-year- old Robert B. Mathias has stepped his way to another substantial gain, you'll stop and think for a minute. THEN YOU'LL recall that Math- ias is the same 17-year-old high school wonder from Tulare, Cali- fornia, who stunned the sporting world with a smashing victory for the United States in the 1948 Olympic Decathlon grind. The same Mathias earned another gold medal for a similar feat in the 1952 Olympics. In between Olympic triumphs, the 6-3, 204 pound all-around athlete has captured four Na- tional decathlon titles in 1948- 50 and 1952. He set a world standard of 8,042 points for this event, and holds the, all-time Stanford discus record at 173 feet, 4 inches. During the fall of the past two years, Mathias has found enough time to play topnotch football for the Palo Alto eleven, last year's Pacific Coast Conference cham- pions. * * .* BUT ENTRY into the gridiron sport last season came after a three-year layoff, and it took the toast of Tulare some time to re- gain the old form which branded his as one of the nation's out- standing high school players at Kiski Prep in 1948. Mathias took over the full- back slot in the fourth game against UCLA and wound up the campaign with eight touchdowns in 194 minutes of play. He fin- ished second in ground-gaining on the Indian squad with 389 yards on 98 rushes for a 4.0 average, In the first scrimmage of the 1951 fall practise, Mathias went off tackle for 30 yards, but in- jured, a toe so badly when.tackled that he didn't even make the trav- elling squad for the opener against Oregon. Neither did he appear in the contest with San Jose State the following week. MATHIAS played exactly 45 seconds against the Maize and Blue in Ann Arbor, but when reg- ular fullback Bob Meyers was in- jured in practice, the needed break came. Big Mathias was the starting offensive fullback in the battle with arch-rival UCLA, and de- spite his rustiness found the end zone for two badly-needed touchdowns in a 21-7 win over the Bruins. He netted two more tallies, in- cluding a 96-yard runback of a kickoff, in a 27-20 conquest of Southern Cal, and hit paydirt for two more as Stanford topped Santa Clara, 21-14. IF YOU SEE this West Coast golden boy dart out occasionally for a well-meant aerial, this is also in his bag of tricks. Mathias, you see, grabbed four of these for 68 yards in 1951. The quick -witted Californian, has led Stanford to victories over Santa Clara and Washington State in its first two outings this year. Box Score The fall racing season will get its kickoff Saturday and Sunday when the Michigan Sailing Club entertains eight other schools at Whitmore Lake in its annual Fall Invitational Regatta. Bowling Green, Denison, Wis- consin; Toledo, Detroit, Case Tech, Wayne, and Rhode Island Univer- sity are slated to compete with the Wolverine helmsmen for the trophy won last year by Purdue and the year before by Toledo. * . a AS IS USUAL in round robins of this sort all ten of the club's D-T dingies will be rotated among the different crews so that no team can claim superiority or inferior- ity of boat construction or per- formance. Each school is entering two crews, one for the "A" Division and another for the "B" Divi- sion races. Results in each divi- sion will count equally towards the final score. Several times throughout the day skipper John Ritter plans to demonstrate a new class dingy, approved by the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association for future use. Sailing club members will go over final plans for the regatta at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at the Michigan Union. YANKS Bauer, rf Rizzuto, ss Mantle, cf Berra, c Collins, lb Collins, lb Noren, If McDougald, 3b Martin, Sb Reynolds, p Woodling Scarborough, p Totals BROOKLYN Cox, 3b Reese, ss Snider, cf Robinson, 2b Campanella, c Pafko, If Hodges, lb Furillo, rf Black, p Totals New York A Brooklyn N ALA R 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 3 0 2 1 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 31 2 AB R 430 4 2 4 1 2 1 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 28 4 001 010 H 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 6 H 0 z 1 1 0 0 0 0 000 002 O A E 2 0 0 2 1 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 0 4 1 2o 1 0 0 1 0 24 10 2 1 2.0 720 4 1 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 6 3 0 1 0 0 27 11 0 01002 01x- 4 On Saturday IT'S DANCING 9 to 12 Michigan Union Ballroom mil ...... . .... The White Oxford Shirt 'WINTHROP SHOES present GENUINE WHITE BUCKS His ace shot putter hails from Swed on to an Estonian javelin throwers- who, unfortunately, didn't meet the academic requirements. HEYLIGER also does well in the hinterlands of Canada. He isn't much with in-state talent, mainly because there isn't any such thing, but he does like Min- nesota boys. As both these coaches turn out consistent top-flight squads, it is obvious that personal interest pays off. Who would you nominate as the guttiest player on the 'M' football team? This reporter - would cast his vote for guard Bob Matheson. "Matty," as he is called by his teammates, came to Ann Arbor labeled quarter- back. He didn't attract much atten- tion his freshman year at that position, so he turned himself in- to a guard and went out for spring ball. Apparently he' didn't shine there either, for he wasn't asked to partake at the training table the following fall. He came anyway, and spent the year as a red shirt, which means he was cannon fodder for the var- sity. Eventually the coaches rea- lized that nothing short of murder was going to keep him out, so they gave him his needed chance. 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