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Bing Cfrosby,
Three Others
All-Campus Softball Elimination
Tourney Play To Begin Aug. 23
ON OCTOBER 12 two of the greatest football machines of the coming
season will collide on the turf of Michigan Stadium in what promises to
be Sportdom's gridiron game of the year. On that date, the third week-
end of the fall semester, Army comes to Ann Arbor.
The West Point juggernaut, which crushed through nine consecu-
tive foes last year without losing a battle, will thunder back on the scene
this September at almost the same peak of power-almost, but not quite.
It is on that "not quite," no matter how little it may be, that Army's
opponents, including the Wolverines, are training their sights.
The latest communique from Colonel Ned Moore, West Point public
relations officer, complains of "shortages." He pictures this ominous bogey,
which seems to be plaguing everyone recently, as knocking at the very
door of Army's defending National Champions. And Coach Earl "Red"
Blaik, himself, says, "We have lost our first four tackles and three of five
ends. In Arnold Tucker, we have only one experienced "T" quarterback.
And, there are no outstanding name players in the plebe or freshman
group."
ARMY'S BIGGEST SHORTAGE is in tackles. Last season's mighty duo,
-DeWitt Coulter and Al Nemetz, are among the missing. Filling the gap
left by this pair of All-Americans will be a first-class engineering project.
It cannot be done with last year's alternates, because both Bill Webb and
Bill LeMar, who relieved Coulter and Nemetz at frequent intervals, are not
returning.
Furthermore, the Cadet line which massacred enemy backs last year
has cracked in two other spots. Dick Pitzer, veteran end, and Captain
Jack Green, All-American guard, have been commissioned in the regu-
lar army. Bob Wayne and Clyde Grimenstein, second string wingmen,
are also gone.
The only line-man on hand who can partially overcome the loss of
Coulter and Nemetz is Goble Bryant. Bryant is a former captain of the
Texas Aggies, and also participated in the annual East-West game. That
accounts for only one of the holes, however, and unless some unknown
blossoms in pre-season practice, Army may have a dangerous weak spot
at tackle. -
ART GEROMETTA, who was overshadowed by Green last fall and as a
result very under-rated, will return to his old position at right guard.
Replacing Green on the other side will be Joe Steffy, a Chattanooga boy who
saw a lot of action in 1945. As far as the pivot spot is concerned, the Cadets
are "set." Herschel "Ug" Fuson, one of the best in the business, is ready
to go, and Jim Enos, Fuson's other self last year, is right behind him.
At the flank, Barney Poole will move into a starting berth at left
end replacing Pitzer. Hank Foldberg, will again very capably over-see
affairs around the other extreme. If Red Blaik can round up a couple
of good prospects to spell these regulars he should have no worries there.
But regardless of the shortages, regardless of the tackle weaknesses,
"all is not chaos," as Colonel Moore says, "for on the credit side of the
grid ledger, Mr. Blaik can count solidly on Glenn' Davis and Doc Blanchard
-Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside of football-probably (Ed. note-why prob-
ably?) the finest running combination in collegiate football."
Add to these two armored divisions the names of Shorty McWilliams
and Arnold Tucker and you have the same murderous blitzkreig-machine
that ripped through last season's undefeated campaign. There may be
a lack of backfield reserves to rest these monsters, however-if they need
itf-as only one other major letter-winner, Rip Rowan, is coming back.
On the other hand there will be a host of plebes with which Coach Blaik
will be able to finish painting the West Point picture.
BAD FOR YOUTH...
Professionalism Hit by
Beirut Athletic Director
/Acquire Bucs
By The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8-A four-
man syndicate in which movie actor
Bing Crosby gained top billing with
Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis
banker, purchased the Pittsburgh
Pirates baseball club today for an
unannounced price reported to be
in the neighborhood of $2,225,000.
The McKinney-Crosby associates
announced by McKinney at a press
conference today were John W. Gal-
breath, 49, Columbus, 0., real estate
man, and Thomas P. Johnson, 32, a
Pittsburgh attorney.
McKinney's position in the pur-
chase of the club came as no sur-
prise but his announcement of Bing
Crosby as an associate did. Crosby's
financial position in the deal which
ended a 46-year dynasty of family
ownership by the late Barney Drey-
fuss and his heirs was not disclosed,
but McKinney said all four members
of the syndicate have "about an
equal" financial interest.
Consummation of the purchase was
announced at a press conference to-
day by McKinney. He said he was
"happy" to take over with his asso-
ciates the Pirates, now floundering
in last place in the National League.
The four-man syndicate bought
the club from William E. Benswager,
president, who acted as agent for
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Barney
Dreyfuss, chairman of the board.
McKinney did .not disclose the
exact sale price but admitted it was
"over $2,000,000."
Kulpinski Beats Getz
For Handball Crown
Bob Bussler won the Championship
Flight golf title yesterday afternoon,
defeating Bill Powers in a sporadic
light rain, five and four.
Bussler covered the University
course in a very good 74.
Powers did not play up to his
usually good links game, and had
considerable difficulty with hard-
luck putts all afternoon.
Bussler's Second Title
The match play championship is
Bussler's second intramural title of
the summer. Two weeks ago he cop-
ped the medal play tourney with a
75. Powers was third in the same
event with 77.
Bussler joins Fred Robie and Frank
Morgan who won the Maize Flight
and Blue Flight crowns last Tuesday.
Bill Peet and James Denavie clash
this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. to decide
the Wolverine Flight championship.
It is undecided as yet whether the
four titlists will meet in a match to
determine the all-campus champion.
* * *
Softball Tourney Tuesday
Intramural softball teams will play
in a single elimination tournament
for the All-campus championship
with the first round games scheduled
for next Tuesday, Aug. 13, announced
Howard Leibee, summer intramural
director, yesterday.
The three top nines from the Frau
ternity and Residence leagues and
the leading team from the Inde-
pendent and Faculty loops will meet
in the title play.
Chi Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and
Sigma Chi are the three Greek squads
and Prescott, Rumsey, and Tyler rep-
resent the house league. Vets Hous-
ing from the Independents and
Chemistry Department from the Fac-
ulty round out the entrants.
The first round pits Prescott
against Chi Phi, Chemistry against
Rumsey, Vets Housing against Sig-
ma Chi, and Tyler against SAE.
Winners of these contests play the
following day in the semi-finals,
while the championship game is list-
ed for Thursday, Aug. 15.
The games will start at 6:15 p.m.
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Kulpinski Takes Title
John Kulpinski captured the in-
tramural handball championship yes-
terday, defeating Ernest Getz, in a
best-two-out-of-three series, 21-10
and 21-7.
Kulpinski is an LSA student from
Detroit, and is also a member of the
Wolverine football squad. He served
in the 97th Infantry division during
the war, copping the division hand-
ball title.
Getz, a transfer student from Ro-
chester, won the university cham-
pionship while there.
Yanks Rout Senators
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-(/P)-The
New York Yankees swept a double
header from the Washington Sen-
ators, 9-3 and 13-1 today as Rookie
hurlers Bill Wight and Randy Gum-
pert limited the Senators to six hits
in each game.
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N.Y., Aug. 8-Chestertown, owned by Brookly
Walter E. Smith of Los Angeles, won . AM
the 21st running of the Hambleton-
ian today by taking the second and Boston
third heats after finishing second in New Yorl
the first. ' Detroit .
Victory Song, owned by Mrs. James Washingt
B. Johnson, Jr., of Rochester, Mich., Cleveland
who won the first heat, closed fast St. Louis
in the stretch to take second place Chicago
in the third. Victory Song broke in Philadelp
the second heat and finished ninth., YES
Chestertown, bought for $40,000 Boston
only a week ago, trotted the third New Yt
heat in 2:03 after setting a season Clevela
record of 2:02/2 in the second heat.
Deanna Makes Bid
Last year's two-year-old champion, Montei
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first mile and second in the second,
also put on a stretch rush to wind DETRO
up third in the final heat as a Ham- maker Sc
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cheered her game bid. University
The victory was worth $28,047.56 with the
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finish of the third heat was Westfield
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WHAT'S AN ACHING BACK?
Feller.s Recklessness May Give Cleveland
Ace 30 Wins But No Pennant for '46 Tribe
By DICK KRAUS
Present controversies concerning
professionalism in conflict with the
old spirit of amateurism in Ameri-
can sports were emphasized yester-
day when Abd Traboulsi, athletic
director of the American University
of Beirut, studying this summer at
Michigan, declared that "semi-pro-
fessioialism has always been the.
problem of the world; if a champions
is not a professional, unfortunately,
he is a semi-pro."
Traboulsi mentioned the recent
French sports congress, which pro-
posed to "nationalize" France's out-
standing athletes, and further advo-
cated that their athletes be ad-
mitted to the coming Olympic Games
in England with professional stand-
ing.
Nazis, Russia Nationalized
"Egypt and Nazi Germany have al-
ready nationalized their athletes,"
he pointed out. "And I understand
that in Russia there are no amateur
teams. However, professionalism is
bad for youth."
He expanded this by stating that
young men become accustomed to
easy living off big returns from pro-
fessional play, and then must face
a let-down after only a few years
of top competition.
Traboulsi is trying to promote
amateur sports on the American
model throughout the Near East, and
hopes that his work here at Michigan
will be profitable when he returns
in the Fall.
Middle-East Olympics
In connection with Middle Eastern
sports, Traboulsi "confidently pre-
dicted" that a Middle East Sports
Conference featuring a regional
Little Olympics as a warm-up for
the main games in London in 1948
will materialize next year.
He declared that the conference
would organize and make official in-
ternational dual and trianguler meets
such as have been held at his school
since 1929. For example he indi-
cated an international tennis cham-
pionship tournament which will be
held in Beirut this year. Represen-
Hold Your Bonds
;atives from Egypt, Turkey, Pales-
tine, and Syria will compete.
Keep AUB In Front
The Beirut director's' aim is "to
'eep the AUB as far as possible on
the front line of sports," and one
>f his main projects is the introduc-
tion of American indoor softball.
"It can be introduced with relative-
ty little expense, and it takes little
apace and involves very little danger
for participants," he pointed out.
Other innovations ranking high on
ais list are replacing Beirut's present
use of calisthenics' in physical edu-
cation classestwith instruction in
Ffootball, basketball, and volleyball.
He emphasized the importance of
ueaching men to use their leisure
hours profitably in physical recrea-
tion after they leave college.
Safety, Health Classes Taught
Safety and health education classes
to be taught along with the actual
physical activity courses is another
phase of Traboulsi's plans. For such
an athletic organization, he declared,
he would need a centrally-heated
shower system, much equipment such
as diving boards, and mechanical and
maintenance equipment such as that
used in keeping up tennis courts.
Traboulsi said that the many inter-
national meets held at his university
have done a great deal of service
in advancing common understanding
and have placed the name of the
American University of Beirut high.
The director is studying here under
the University of Michigan's top var-
sity coaches who have brought speak-
ers from all over the United States
to lecture in a summer program for
physical education leaders.
There's something futile and craz-
ily reckless in Bob Feller's chase for
30 victories in the 1946 campaign,
and watching shim go after that still
far-off goal is. like watching a Uni-
versity of Chicago line backer at-
tempting to stop Bronco Nagurski
and the Chicago Bears.
If he does succeed in chalking up
30 victories this season, it still won't
keep the Boston Red Sox from run-
ning off with the flag.
But there's somethiiig about that
kind of recklessness that has so much
more appeal than ordinary plain
common sense, the kind of common
sense that should have made Feller
rest until the back injury he suf-
fered last Sunday had completely
disappeared, instead of standing the
Chicago White Sox on their collective
ear with a one hit masterpiece, the
eighth of the big Iowan's Major
League career.
The last game Feller completed
was also a one hitter and it camne
against the Boston Red Sox. It tied
Feller with Addle Joss, oldtime
Cleveland ace, for the Major
League record for the number of
one-hit victories.
Yesterday, Feller refused Manager
Lou Boudreat's offer of additional
rest, had his back tightly taped up,
and then pitched himself into the
Hall of Fame. It was one of Fate's
Ruel To Hold
Owen Hearing
CINCINNATI, Aug. 8-(P)-Mickey
Owen, the boltin' baseballer who
jumped from the National League
into the Mexican League and then
out.again, came in town today to pre-
sent his case to American baseball's
top officialdom.
He said he had an appointment for
11 a.m. (CDT) tomorrow to meet
Herold (Muddy) Ruel, the Commis-
sioner's special assistant, but that
Ruel "couldn't guarantee that Chand-
elr would be there."
whimsies that left it up to Frank
Hayes, Rapid Robert's ,former bat-
tery mate, to. spoil F eller's: perfect
game with the one hit that shat-,
tered Joss' old mark.
The triumph was the 21st of the
season for the Van - Meter right-
hander and put him ahead of Hal
Newhouser in the victory derby for
the first time this season.,
Looking at it from a cold com-
mon-sense standpoint, Feller would
be better off taking it easy this sea-
son, and going all out next season
when Veeck's planned additions
might make the Indians a pennant
contender.
With a team that has won only 50
games thus far, a team with only an
outside chance of getting into the
first division, Feller's insistence on
pitching as often as possible makes
the sports world wonder if he is not
jeopardizing his'future.
It may be that there is some kind
of a bonus clause in Feller's contract
providing for more pay for more vic-
tories, but it doesn't seem likely that
the 27-year-old ace would risk the
seven or eight big money years he
* * *
Feller Nips Sox
With One-Hitter
CHICAGO, Aug. 8-(1P)-Bob Feller
pitched his second one-hit game of
the season today as Cleveland beat
the Chicago White Sox, 5 to 0, but
the White Sox took the second game
of a doubleheader, 7 to 6, on Earl
Caldwell's tenth-inning single.
Feller's one-hitter was the eighth
of his career and established a new
Major League record, beating Addie
Joss' record of seven with Cleveland
in 1902-10. The only hit off Feller
fell in the seventh when three In-
dians got mixed up on a pop fly by
Frankie Hayes.
should have left for a few extra
thousand dollars.
It's more likely, though, that Fel-
ler has that little extra something
that makes him want to. prove his
supremacy as often as possible.
For those who remember the
baseball fate of the Dean brothers
and Schoolboy Rowe, before his
amazing comeback this season, fol-
lowing the pitching antica ofFeller
In_ his quest for 30 vIctor*eshao
something of the thrill of watching
a circus aerialist perform a triple
somersault without a net.
But records aren't set by stopping
within the limits of common sense,
they are made by gambling and reck
lessness and one-hit pitching by a
guy who should be resting a sor
back.
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