The Daily Telegram from Adrian, Michigan • Page 8

EIGHT ADRIAN DAILY TELEGRAM, ADRIAN, MI CHIGAN, WEDNESDAY; OCtOBER 21, 1942 Wistert vs. Wildung To Be Feature Of Minnesoto Tilt i JUG ARE ATST, Revised Michigan Defense Is Having Trouble With Gopher Pass Plays KUZMA EXPECTS TO START ANN ARBOR, Oct 21 snappy little sideshow featuring two of the nation's great football tackles is going to attract a customer or two to that big Michigan- Minnesota gridiron circus at Minneapolis Saturday. The Wolverines' bid for their first victory in ten years over the Gophers is receiving top billing, of course, but the struggle for individual attention by Gopher Dick Wildung and Michigan Al Wistert has a certain peculiar charm that could hardly go unnoticed. Let's quote from a man who would scarcely be accused of under- appreciation of Wildung's talents, namely the Minnesota publicity agent: For the benefit of the press his lavish pen writes: "Wildung, Dick year, as a junior, Wildung made ten All-American teams and was on Rice's squad. This Luverne lad, besides having a solid frame and a terrific charge, has an ability to sense the opponents' plays almost before they are executed.

He was a regular from the first game of his sophomore year. Praised as one of the best tackles in the country, Wildung is the only 1941 starting lineman to return this year. Height, six feet, weight 214 pounds." He's Better This Year In a breathless way, that's the idea. Wildung received a splash of publicity for his performance as a junior and early season reports from those who are supposed to know say Rough Richard is even better this year. In lieu of any biographical matter from the Michigan minister of athletic propaganda, Wistert's background might be summarized something like this: Al.

Brother of "Whitey," former Wolverine All- American. Never played football In high school, but in first college season was unanimously tabbed as future All-American timber. Junior season was dismal but seems to have surged back with a vengeance Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern says he is "finest offensive lineman in the midwest. Height, six feet, weight 200 pounds." There'll be none of that widely advertised "individual combat" between Wildung and Wistert Saturday. Men who play the same position do not usually bounce into each other, except by accident, while the battle is on.

Can Make or Break This game will simply provide the fans, the sports writers, and the All-American judges with an opportunity to see two of the besl mid-western linemen in action at the same time. It is in such circumstances All-Americans are made and broken. Coach Fritz Crisler sent his Wolverines against a freshman squad armed with Minnesota plays yesterday, and the frisky yearlings were enjoying great success with Gopher aerial strategy. On several occasions the Red Shirts connected with passes that went for touchdowns or long gains. Crisler has revised Michigan defensive strategy to cope with the Gopher running game and it may be that pass precautions have weakened.

Tom Kuzma will probably start in the backfield this week at left half, with Don Robinson as his relief. Paul White is working at right half, with Don Lund at fullback and George Ceithaml at quarterback. Fullback Bob Wiese's sprained ankle is healing rapidly, but Crisler is not counting on him for duty this week. Wiese soaked his foot in hot water throughout Tuesday's practice. Unheralded Coaches of Both, Teams Credited for Great Records BOTH ARE SURPRISED 1'S CHICAGO, Oct 21 Football coaches, long accustomed to Monday morning quarterbacking, are being taken for a new kind of "ride" this the shoulders of their players.

Illinois gridders hoisted their coach into the air after upsetting Minnesota. So did Notre Dame players after their stunning conquest of the Iowa Seahawks. But for Ray Eliot, Bob Zuppke's successor at Illinois, and Ed McKeever, subbing for the ailing Frank Leahy at Notre Dame, it was a ride that, come Saturday, may lead to a falL For then the two surprise teams of the nation go about trying to mystify one another at Champaign, HI. Illinois, unbeaten in four games, retained its fifth place ranking jn the Associated Press national poll this week; Notre Dame, beaten once, shot into eighth this under the guidance of unheralded coaches. Eliot took over this year after Zuppke had not been able to direct Illinois to a conference win in two seasons.

In his first conference test, Eliot saw his mini machine roll over none other than Minnesota, the Big Ten champion. A former HUnois player and later assistant coach, Eliot was overlooked in the Illinois hunt for a coach until the players themselves turned on the heat They have been turning it on for Eliot ever since. Notre Dame, unbeaten last year, started 1942 with a tie against Wisconsin, lost to Georgia Tech and then lost its Coach Frank Leahy, who has been at the Mayo clinic the last 12 days for a physical checkup. Remembers Backfield Coach McKeever, almost an anonymous figure on the Irish scene, stepped in. Notre Dame spanked Stanford, then the previously unbeaten Seahawks.

But McKeever, who also was Leahy's assistant at Boston college, declined to take credit for the successes. "People seem to forget Leahy gave the squad its groundwork," he said. But he couldn't decline Saturday's ride off the field on the shoulders of Notre Dame players. It was something of a dream fulfilled. Back in October, 1931, McKeever was an ambitious sophomore fullback on the Notre Dame varsity.

But he quit in disgust when he believed he wasn't getting a fair chance from Coach Hunk Anderson and went on to star at Texas Tech. Yesterday Notre Dame practiced on several new plays in a signal drill and McKeever commented that "Illinois may be better set for us defensively than the Iowa hawks were. Illinois has scouted us in every game." The Ulini held a 90 minute offensive workout behind locked gates. Practice highlights from other midwest football camps: Purdue worked on blocking and line play for the Wisconsin game the Badgers held their first scrimmage since before the Missouri contest Iowa placed emphasis on its running attack in a scrimmage for Indiana. The Hoosiers worked on defense.

Michigan also sought to perfect its defense for Minnesota. In a brisk Gopher drill, Bill Daley and Herman Frickey rotated at left and right half. Ohio State and Northwestern both returned to fundamentals in preparing for their clash Great Lakes, which may present an entirely new lineup against Michigan State, had Paul Anderson and Bill Decorrevont in key backfield positions. Lectures and a general dummy scrimmage was the order of the day for Iowa's Seahawks, who will be idle until the Indiana game Oct 31. huskies Put a good thick chunk of leather between you and the weather.

For all their weight "Huskies" are pliant and comfortable. Double Soles WORN WITH BY MILLIONS For sale only by WILLIAM H. EGAN SHOE COMPANY 129 South Main Adrian WILL HE MAKE IT? One of the greatest question marks of the 1942 football season stands behind the Tom Kuzma keep his All-America appointment after being on the sidelines with a knee injury for half of the season? Rated last year as one of the hardest running backs in Wolverine history, the blonde Gary, star will have to do some tall stepping to forge to the front again. Kuzma is expected to start in the Minnesota game at Minneapolis Saturday but he will have to make a good showing to keep the starting post against the challenge of a bevy of other fine backs with which Coach Fritz Crisler is blessed this year. Detroit to Keep Varsity Sports For the Duration DETROIT, Oct.

21 high schools will continue with varsity athletics, the war notwithstanding. A proposal to abandon interscholastic, competitive sports for the duration was turned down by a 4 to 3 vote of the city board of education yesterday. The proposal had excited wide interest. Its advocates suggested a concentration on intramural sports as a means for saving expenses and transportation and at the same time to care for the physical hardihood of students. Opponents took the stand that student morale would suffer from discontinuance of such games.

In their fight to retain the sports they enlisted the aid of such persons as Police Commissioner John H. Witherspoon of Detroit and Lieutenant Colonel Bernie Beierman, football coach of the Iowa pre-flight naval training station. GREEN BAY ATHLETES HOLD GRIDIRON RECORDS CHICAGO, Oct 21 Bay athletes who cornered most of the National Football League's individual offensive honors last year are at it again. Figures released today showed the Packers had the league's leading passer, Cecil Isbell; leading pass receiver, Don Hutson; the leading scorer, also Hutson, and the ranking field goal kicker, Ted Fritsch. The only department in which the Packers failed to set the pace was individual ball carrying, where Merlyn Condit Brooklyn halfback, moved ahead of rookie Bill Dudley of Pittsburgh.

Condit netted 116 yards in 12 tries against Washington Sunday to boost his total to 331 yards and an average of 7.5 yards a try. Dudley has a 324 total, but his average slipped to 4.6. Isbell displaced Washington's Sammy Baugh by completing 23 of 33 passes good for 277 yards and two touchdowns against Cleveland. Hutson ran his pass catching total to 28 and his point total to 56. Fritsch is tied with Len Barnum of Philadelphia for the most field goals, three but the Packers' successor to Clark Hinkle made his goals in just three attempts to Barnum's six.

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Princeton's Tigers have checked the records, they should know that their big task will be to stop Bob Margarita when they tangle with Brown here Saturday for the first time since 1939. If they haven't, here are some convincing figures: Margarita has gained 530 yards from scrimmage in three games this season. That is approximately 100 yards more than the entire Princeton team has trav- eeld on the ground in its four games to date. CHAMPAIGN, Is giving the Iowa Naval Cadets an assist in its win over Iowa at Iowa City Saturday. Naval pre flight school officials requested cadets attending the game not to take sides.

But when Hawkeye fans cheered the Sea- hawk-Notre Dame half time score, which had the Irish ahead 14-0, it was too much. The cadets yelled "come on Illinois." The Ulini, trailing 7-6, turned from their huddle at the unexpected cheer. Eight plays later they scored the winning touchdown. "It was the turning point of the game," said Alex Agase, mini guard. Bird's Service added to its lead the House Bowling League last night by taking three games'from Tony's Shell Service.

Neither team was working under pressure, although the first two games were closely contested with the leaders winning the first 841 to 820 and the second 777 to 763. In the third the Bird team rolled up a 909 total while Tony's made 715. The Adrian Brass Works took undisputed possession of second crowding the Subway Lunch nto third, by winning two games from Bill Jenkins' Place. The third was close, with the Jenkins' team winning 792 to 790. The three-way scramble for third place was straightened out to some extent in last night's play.

The Subway team shares the position with American Cable. Last week, Schwarze Electric had a share in third place but dropped to fifth by losing two games to Kuehmann Chips. Westgate-Condra won two games from Seger-Graham to hold fourth place. Harry Kreuger of the Westgate team rolled the highest score of the evening. He scored 245 in the first game.

C. Reiter of Bird's Service was next highest with pins in the third game against Tony's Shell Service. Westgate-Condra C. Matthes 161 203 154 A. Kapnlck 156 113 167 R.

Mobus 140 185 189 P. Murphy 161 H. Krueger 245 CHARLESTON, Oct 21 is going to have to move either its football field or high school building, or get a better football team. Indianola high blanked Charleston with four touchdowns last week and after every marker Jay Allen, 205-pound tackle, split the uprights for the extra point. The ball sailed on through the school building windows, close behind the goal posts.

The score: Indianola 28, Charleston 0 and six broken window panes. HANOVER, N. has one football player who gets his tuition free and there isn't an athletic director in the "Ivy" league who would sqawk about it. He's blocking back Rudy Lorraine, a full-blooded Indian, who under the terms of Dartmouth's origina charter as an Indian school is no) required to pay tuition fees. TRADITION BE HANGED LOGAN, Utah, Oct 21 Usually the winner of the football game between Utah University and Utah State keeps the ball used in the contest But when Utah won, Utah State refused to surrender the ball.

"Gotta keep it," a student manager explained. "Can't buy foot- anymore." Caracas, Venezuelan capital, has cut its maternal mortality rate in half in three years. FRATERNAL LEAGUE Elks 12 3 Masons 8 7 LO.O.F. 6 9 Eagles 11 I.O.O.F. H.

Peavcy 183 J. Snyder 161 C. Dillon 103 L. Richardson 127 Totals 574 Eagles H. Wright 170 D.

Vescellus 136 D. Stark 114 T. Eldredge 191 E. Burllngame 199 159 143 129 128 106 153 124 623 518 120 147 137 150 173, 145 160 151 611 590 593 Totals Elks G. Kllby 150 R.

White 134 C. 135 A. Whitney 128 G. McPhail 127 Totals 674 Masons Meyerhuber 123 Kirk 169 Kortle Tubbs 135 Low Score 127 Low Score 128 Totals £82 767 £94 156 152 133 152 189 133 213 171 178 147 iS 755 171 137 152 139 151 169 160 116 133 133 LEAGUE PLAY Brass Works Retains Second Place, Dropping Subway to Tie for Third KREUGER HIGH SCORER HOUSE LEAGUE 1 Bird's Service 13 5 Adrian Brass Works 11 7 Subway Lunch 10 8 American Cable ..10 8 Westgate-Condra 9 6 Seger-Graham 9 9 Schwarze Electric 9 9 Kuehmann Chips .99 Bill Jenkins Place. 7 8 Mich.

Producers 7 11 Adrian Laundry 6 12 Tony's Shell Service 5 13 141 199 191 182 Totals 863 841 883 Stgcr-Graham H. Wendelcke 188 157 176 C. J. Stark 147 181 157 J. Stark 120 180 126 D.

Becker 131 171 202 J. Drenth 116 179 148 23 25 25 By FRED THOMPSON Barring a sudden upsurge in power by the Morenci Bulldogs, the post-season football game be- iween the top team in the Lenawee County. Athletic Association and the Adrian high school eleven to decide county championship will be played at The Island on Wednesday night, Nov. 11. Morenci could upset this time table because the Bulldogs dqn't play their final game of the regular season until Nov.

11 against Hudson. All other teams In the county association as well as Adrian finish their regular season Nov. 6. Since state high school athletic rules prohibit scheduling games less than five days apart, it would be necessary either to change the date of the championship game or of the Morenci-Hudson contest if the Bulldogs should win. A victorious Hudson team would mean the same thing but as the Tigers already lave lost two association games, their chances of winning the title appear to be.

slim. Morenci has lost one county association tilt and won one. Adrian's season ends Nov. 6 when the Monroe Trojans come here. Unless a sudden reversal of form takes place during the next two weeks, Adrian's opponent in the Armistice Day charity fray is likely to be either Tecumseh or Blissfield, both of whom are undefeated in county association play.

Proceeds from the game which is being held under the auspices of the county association and the Adrian high school athletic department, will go to the U. S. O. Fighting Reunion Comes now the time for hunting stories and you don't have to look to the Burlington Tall Story Club to furnish them. Here's one the author characteristically claims is true and who is to say it isn't? Russell McAfee and Bill Shepherd, Adrian bankers, were stalking rabbits one fine day last' fall when a bunny popped up and started off.

A well-placed shot crippled the rabbit but it only slowed him up slightly and made him mad, according to McAfee. Whereupon the furious rabbit turned and charged the huntsmen. "I'd be darned if I was going to run from a rabbit," Mr. McAfee said, "so when he came near me I held him down to the ground with Totals .727 893 834 Michigan Producers R. Stover 113 144 129 M.

Beach 145 110 125 H. Huyck 128 130 155 B. Malonoy 179 170 152 H. Ruesink 132 166 207 18 18 IS Totals 715 733 786 Subway Lunch F. Fox 152 137 185 H.

Reed 112 176 129 M. Daniels 203 100 153 B. Caudle 196 178 164 B. Rlmell 142 145 144 Totals 80S 736 775 Kuehnuum Chips P. Bradley 141 Dr.

Mackenzie 181 F. Swartz 174 A. Slmpklni 144 G. Ray 155 Totals 119 140 129 148 177 795 713 Schwarze Electric A. Macham 172 174 E.

Erlacher 120 130 F. Holtz 144 151 F. Bans 162 151 F. Alexander 130 182 16 16 154 154 135 148 173 147 152 146 154 131 16 Totals 744 804 746 Shell Service C. Schwartz 168 149 176 B.

Fox 137 144 138 Laddie 115 134 93 Louden 183 158 126 Brooks 174 135 139 43 43 43 Totals 820 763 715 Bird's Service C. Reiter J82 151 213 C. Hadden 158 146 167 C. Hassett 170 167 193 C. Pelton 159 142 155 C.

Vogel 172 171 181 Totals Adrian Laundry W. Bliss 102 V. Grittin 128 G. Leonard 87 L. Beebe lie R.

Osborne 143 67 Totals 841 777 909 95 132 138 171 160 67 134 141 141 210 177 67 870 184 171 142 161 156 648 763 American Cable A. Roblson 116 130 G. Leute 204 167 T. Eldredge 158 175 E. GaMup 178 151 C.

Mamuth 177 172 Totals 883 795 814 Adrian Brass Works H. Near 172 iga 183 L. Halstead 173 151 149 L. Vajrfecaveye 173 144 143 Foote 171 169 158 B. Miller 154 177 333 44 4 Totals Bill Jenkins Place JUdson 156 139 52 g- Corley M9 i 76 164 ik Igmblta 171 167 142 Ed.

Palmreuter 156 146 145 Pttte 168 163 169 Totals 800 791 792 GOPHER BACKS VERSATILE MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 21 Minnesota probably is going to count a good deal on the versatility of its backfield when the Gophers and Michigan fight for the Little Brown Jug Saturday. A fast workout yesterday found Bill Daley and Herman Frickey rotating at right and left halfbacks. They changed posts frequently as the Gophers put in a stiff workout. Daley and Joe Silovich shared the passing and both looked good.

The billion dollar paper industry of America owes its modern development to an insect. Frederick Keller, inventor of the paper pulp machinery, first watched a wasp chew wood into pulp and spread the paste to dry. A new opaque glass floats like a cork. It can be sawed and drilled. barrel of my gun while Bill tonked him over the head with the stock of his gun." Well, could be.

And who's next? Rubber, Pigskin Don't Mix Football attendance figures for the start of the 1942 season show that the rubber tire shortage ami the pigskin parade just don't get along well together. In its four home games, the University of Michigan team has played before only 123,189 fans this season as compared with 214,095 for the first four games last year. The Wolverines together with Michigan State and the Detroit Lions are drawing only about half as many spectators as they did last year. Only the University of Detroit Titans are holding their own. They have 'played before 34,021 hi two home games as compared with 31,918 last year.

Rabbit Rhapsody It will be something of a reunion Saturday for members of the Michigan coaching staff when their charges play the tough Minnesota Gophers at Minneapolis but it's doubtful if they will be in a reunion spirit Coach Fritz Crisler, Wolverine mentor, was head coach at Minnesota in 1930 and 1931 and Clarence Munn, whose "seven oaks" line is making a name for itself, was Gopher captain in 1931. Earl backfield coach, was Gopher captain hi 1923 when he earned All-American honors as a halfback. Barber Accepts Call to Coach Football Team ORTING, Oct. 21 Let's have a cheer for that the Monday Morning Barbershop Quarterbacks. One of the boys (and it's the barber himself) has landed a job as coach.

Roy Benjamin, who has honed a razor over many a football game in this town of 1,200, took the Orting high school job after the regular coach left for a war job. The team surprised the townfolk by going right out and scoring a touchdown for the first time in two years. When Benjamin volunteered his services, a letter of the townfolk told him: "You've been quarterbacking the team from the shop every Monday morning, Roy. Go ahead arid coach it" Benjamin is a pretty busy gent between the shop and the field, but he granted the following long distance interview to a sports editor in Seattle: "What do I do with the shop when I'm coaching? I close it up tight. My experiment? I played football since I was four years old.

Was captain of the Tomah, high school team in 1915. Don't write me up like I was a Rockne, because my boys are pretty green. But Orting scored a touchdown last week for the first time in two years, even if the other team did win, 51 to 7." Shut Out To Match Strides For Fourth Time NEW YORK, Oct. 21 and Shut Out, three-year-old stars of the 1942 racing season, match strides for the fourth time today in the 515,000 Gallant Fox handicap, closing day feature of the fall meeting at Jamaica. Six others have been named for the mile and five-eighths fixture, but the interest will be centered on first renewal of the feud between Mrs.

Payne Whitney's Derby winner and Mrs. Albert Sabath's Chicago charger since the Belmont Stakes last June. Shut Out defeated Alsab in the Kentucky Derby, but the latter reversed the order in the Preakness a week later. Then came the Belmont, which Shut Out won to move into the lead in the struggle for three-year-old honors. Since then, however, Alsab has come on to conquer the great Whirlaway in two out of three meetings, while injuries and training difficulties kept Shut Out off the track from mid-August until his recent Belmont appearance.

Each colt will carry 124 pounds, sharing topweight. Leon "Buddy" Haas will ride Shut Out and Carroll Bierman will be up on Al- sab. Full co-ordination of the muscles of the eyes is not believed to be attained in children until their fifth year. Cinderella Boy With only two weeks of practice behind him, End Don Phillips watched his mates on the Adrian high school grid team absorbing a thorough beating in the first half of the game Friday at East Lansing from the sidelines where he was helping to run the yardage chain. Came the second half and Phillips was put into the game at right end where he did considerable damage to the Trojan passing attack which had chalked up 26 points during the first half.

Twice in a row he tossed Jack Reisser, East Lansing passing ace, for a loss before he bad a chance to get the ball away. The Trojans scored just seven points in the last half. Hunting the Hard Way Policeman George Willis was plug casting along Point Creek in Ohio. As he made extra long cast, two cock pheasants zoomed out of the brush nearby and headed across the creek. The plug hil one of the birds which became tangled in the line and fell into the water with a loud splash.

Willis reeled in his unexpected catch, stuck a feather in his hat as a souvenir and liberated his wet and ruffled captive. Bob Pastor Outpointed by Cleveland Negro; Crowd Divided on Decision RETURN BOUT INEVITABLE CLEVELAND, Oct 21 decisions over highly regarded Bob Pastor and Tami Mauriello in his last two scraps, Jimmy Bivins deserves a spot well up in the heavy weight ranks today. The punching Cleveland Negro, who normally fights as a light heavy, tacked on a couple of extra pounds last night and grabbed a split decision from a surprised and indignant Pastor who landed far more blows, although they weren't quite so sharp. The .10,576 faithful who entrusted $35,908 to Matchmaker Larry Atkins' care at the Cleveland arena seemed evenly divided on the verdict Bicycling Bob was provoked at the ruling, declaring "I won my last 14 fights and I didn't lose this one." Although Pastor twice slipped to one knee for no count, there were no knockdowns as in theii first encounter six months ago when Robert won after hitting the floor in the first two rounds. As a result, a third match appears inevitable between the 21- year-old Bivins, who at spotted the New Yorker seven pounds, and Pastor, now 28 and talking of enlisting ha the marines early next year.

Pastor undoubtedly landed more frequently last night and displayed more aggressiveness. James' counter-punches were vicious, however, and he won the fourth round because Referee Lou Parker ruled Bob had struck three low blows in a perpetual attack on Bivins' midsection. The two judges divided on who won and Parker's deciding vote was seven to two, with one even. The Clevelander spent most of his time in the light heavy ranks until the last few months, and on one occasion handed champion Gus Lesnevich a decisive pasting in a non-title affair. Bivins didn't get a shot at the crown and isn't likely to for a while, with Lesnevich in armed service.

Bivins and the winner of the Lee Savold-Mauriello bout in New York Oct 30 may fill a Nov. 27 date in Madison Square Garden. BOMB SPANISH TERRITORY LONDON, Oct. 21 reported today that a few Italian bombers flew over the Gibraltar area last night and dropped bombs in Spanish territory nearby. It said an air raid warning was sounded but that no bombs fell on Gibraltar.

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