WEDNESDAY JULY 30, 1947 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Independents Whip Fraternity Nine in All-Star CAGE PLAY-BY-PLAY: Ex-'M' Track Star To Broadcast All Michigan Basketball Games By IRWIN ZUCKER Here's good news for .sportE fans: A play-by-play account of all Michigan's road and homE basketball games will be broad-' cast this fall for the first time in history. Behind the mike to Five you precise and minute details of Oz- zie Cowle's courtmen in action will be versatile Bob Ufer, 26-year-old WPAG sportscaster and forme? Wolverine All-American track star. It's another step forward in the sports world for Bob, who has been "hanging around" Ann Arbor for the past eight years.. When WPAG, Ann Arbor's first radio station, was born in the spring of '45, the ex-Wolverine speedboy was named director of the station's sports staff. With a colorful sports back- ground of active competition and intimate knowledge of Western Conference history, Bob inaugu- rated a daily sports program. This fall will mark his second year of Wolverine football broadcasting. His chatty talks with Big Nine celebrities and his own sporting views have attracted a wide range of listeners. One of Bob's favorite fans is Bill Stern, the famed NBC sports announcer who has aired Wolverine grid tussles over a nation-wide hook-up for the past several years. Bill first be- came acquainted, with Bob back in '40 when the latter served as a spotter at Michigan Stadium for the nationally-known radio star. .Stern liked the youngster's ac- -urate and rapid spotting. They worked together at Ann Arbor for the next five years, and then Bob moved up into the press box Bob shook his head. "It was a tempting proposition," recalls Bob. "But I like the atmosphere of the Western Conference - it's tough to find a better brand of all- around athletic competition else- where," In his two years as an an- nouncer, Bob has received sev- eral thrills describing sports events. To him the entire day of the Michigan-Army game last fall was packed with a thrill a second. Strangely enough, the greatest moments Bob experienced that memorable Saturday did not occur during the contest. They came when Bill Stern was a guest on Bob's noon-time program; it was the first time the two appeared together on the air at the same time. An even greater thrill came af- ter the game when Stern asked Bob to step over to the NBC mike and "tell the folks all over the country what you think of the game." As an athlete, Bob's greatest moment in Wolverine colors came in 1942 when he set a new world's record for the indoor 440-yard dash with a torrid :48.1. This mark was shattered only three months ago by Herb McKinley, the flying Jamaican from the University of Illinois, who shaved a tenth of a second off Bob's record. In reminiscing, Bob chuckled, with a twinkle in his eye, "Those were the good o1' days - but look at me now!" He patted his stom- ach gently. "Twenty-two pounds of surplus there. Why, I couldn't even out-race my mother-in-law today!" Read and Use Daily Classifed Ads NEW JOB ...Bob Ufer, former Wolverine track star now sports director of WVAG, who will be- gin announcing Michigan cage games next season. alongside the veteran sportscast- er. ,This time Bob had his own microphone and he gave WPAG listeners his own version of excit- ing football plays. Stern was impressed by the newcomer's clever and adept handling of radio assignments. He rates Bob as "one of the outstand-. ing up-and-coming sports broad- casters in this country. . . a man who can get an audience and hold them." When Stern offered the ex-Wol- verine an excellent position with Oklahoma City's leading station, Soft Rocks Misplays, W Capture I-M To Greek-Le Cage Crown Lawyers' Dick Nicht Devette Paces 4728 Hewitt,' Harris Lead Win over Raimblers By ARCHE PARSONS The Soft Rocks just couldn't There will be bruises, aching miss the hoop last night as they. bones, sore muscles, and empty poured in a total of 20 baskets to seats i some classrooms today, blast the Ramblers 47-28 and cap- but Manager Joe Hession of ture the Intramural basketball the Law Club and his Indepen- crown. dent League All-Stars are happy. Paced by Russ Devette, who led Thy took the measure of the all the state's collegiate scorers SAE Al Becker's Fraternity while playing at Hope College last League All-Stars yesterday, 9-5, year, the Soft Rocks started fast, in the second annual "Twinkle and after the first few minutes, Classic," before a rabid crowd left little doubt as to the outcome, of 150 on South Ferry Field. Devette Leads Scorers Dick Nicholas, Law Club pitcher Devette looped in six baskets with four shutouts to his credit and one foul toss for a total of 13 in league play this summer, was points, and he was followed closely credited with the win, while Jar- by Bob Mlann, speedy football cld Wingeart of Lambda Chi Al- wingman and Glen Bowles, who pha, was charged with the defeat. each netted 10 counters for the Each team banged out a total winners. Don McIntosh, reserve of seven hits, but Independent award winner with Ozzie Cowles walks and Fraternity errors made courtmen last winter, led the los- the difference. ers' attack with five buckets and Dick Hewitt, Havenites catch- three charity tosses to total 13 er who started behind the plate points. for the Independents, led his Big Lennie Ford, another foot- team's hitting attack with two ball representative, started things hits, both singles, while left-field- off for the champions by cashing er Al Harris of ZBT countered a lay-up shot in the first minute with the same output for the of play. However, the Ramblers Greek-letter players. The only came right back with two quick extra base blows of the afternoon buckets by the Jans brothers to were doubles by two Independents, take a 4-2 lead. Devette tied it up third baseman Hercules Rend with a shot from the foul circle, who plays for the Hell Hounds, and from there on in the Soft Rocks were never headed. Slim Lead at Quarter Here's Your Chance! The champions held a slim 9-7 See tomorrow's Daily for lead at ,the end of the first quart- full information of the Ann er, but with Devette and baseballf Arbor Optimist Club's hole-i- third sacker Charlie Ketterer al- one tournament to be held on ternating baskets, the lead jump- the 150-yard 16th hole of the ed to 23-14 at the intermission. Municipal golf course from 7 The second half was a repetition a.m. to dark August 4. of the first. The Soft Rocks pour- There are $400 worth of priz- ed in 11 counters in the third can- es, a men's and women's divi- to to the Ramblers 9, and then sion, and the entry fee is a really sewed the bal game up with mere buck and three golf balls, 13 points to the losers five in the Interested? More tomorrow. final period._________ ______ AP Sportf lashes By The Associated Press completed their high school train- PITTSBURGH-Manager Billy ing. Herman of the Pittsburgh Pirates * * * said tonight big Hank Greenberg, BROOKLYN, Gus Lesnevieh the club's $80,000 first baseman, the World Light Heavyweight had asked to be benched 'for the good of the club." Champion, and Tami Mauriello, "The big boy just isn't hitting,''the Bronz beer barrel, will try to Herman explained tonight as knock each other's block off to- Greenberg rode the bench for the morrow night in the name of third straight game. sweet charity.n - Y They tangle in a ten-rounder in Ebbets Field for the Damon Run- MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.-ffi- yon Memorial Cancer Fund. A cials of the New York Yankees an- gate of $125,000 or so is expected nounced today that they will hold with some $30,000 going to the a two-day baseball tryout camp war on the dread disease. 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