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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 193 Lions to Open Title Defense with Cardinals Next Sunday i Potsy Stresses Passing Attack Three of Uncle Sam's Olympic Sharpshooters Who'll Aim Their Blows at Chrysler Boxers Wednesday Night U. of M. Shows Mediocre Play First-Stringers Gain Only 11-7 Victory SPffKT SECTION Plans to Open Up on Chicago Eleven llUllHjMnHll.lU I.JI,..!,.,, il .1.,,, i i.n ini.liii tl hi i I )T I I kr-l vlw (i -I" i (-it 'Wx- it A 4 w4-1 BIIXY TOWNSEJiD, U. S. ARMY LIGHT HEAVYWKIGI1T "i -i, The Second Guess 1 WAo Outstanding Athlete of Year? 1 jf I Owens and Schmeling Play Major Roles A But What About Hubbell, Dean, Gehrig? I I By W.

W. Edgar 1 J- ANN ARBOR, Sept. 19 Th rising star of Michigan football hopes stood still today after the first scrimmage of the 1936 season as coaches and observers stood back to evaluate the showing of the squad. Coach Harry Kipke sent his charges through H0 minutes of football with the Whites, drawn from tha first two teams, besting th lilues, composed for the most part of third and fourth stringers, 11 to 7. On the whole Coach Kipke -pressed himself as satisfied In view of the elementary work which tha squad has had and the fart that neither team had more than a half-dozen plays from which to draw.

Most encouraging was the showing of Bob Cooper, about whom, It is apparent, tha Wolverine offens will be built. Fast and shifty. Cooper showed great power as bore the brunt of his team's offense and furnished the kicking and passing threat. It was hi 75-yard run with the best blocking seen on Ferry Field for three years, that put the Whites In position to score on a blocked punt, and three of his kicks, each better than 45 yards, went out of bounds within the Blue five-yard line. Cooper Alternate with Levln Cooper alternated in calling signals with Louis Levine.

who played a defensive halfback and offensive quarter. It is that position which icmalns open in the backfield, with Levine at present holding the call All the football fanfare and color which goes with a world title team beginning defense of its championship will be in evidence next Sunday afternoon at the University of Detroit stadium when the Detroit Lions open their 1936 regular schedule with the Detroit Cardinals. The Cards opened their season a week ago at Green Bay when the Packers tripped them up in the final period, 10 to 7. The Packer victory reversed five successive decisions that the Cards had enjoyed over the rugged Green Bay eleven. So the Chicago team is expected to strive mightily to regain lost prestige by hanging one on the world champions in their own backyard.

Chicago has enough power to cause the Lions considerable trouble. The Cards were well on their way to registering a sixth triumph over the Packers last week, when Bill Smith, left end, scooped up a Packer fumble near the Card goal and ran away with it to the Packer 38-yard line. All Lions know that Sarboe tossed a touchdown pass to McBride from that point in the second period and that the Cards' pass defense cracked in the second half. Hope for Dry Day So if it Is a dry day, plenty of Lions passes will be hurled at the Cards. The Packers' star passing combination of Herber to Monnett moved the ball down to the Chicago three-yard line in the third itanza.

A line plunge and a. placement kick knotted the count. And in the fourth period Joe Laws' 22-yard sprint through the Cards enroled the Packers' Ernie Smith to boot the winning field goal from the 23-yard line. The Packer method of dealing with the Cards is strikingly similar to the method which Coach Potsy Clark is expected to use. His passers, with Dutch Clark and Glenn Presnell leading the pack, are rated more adept than anything the Packers have.

And Pres-nell has no peer in the pro ranks as a place kicker. Flaws Ironed Out Still smarting under the 7-7 deadlock with the Collegiate All-Stars recently in Chicago, the Lions are determined to open their season auspiciously. Many a flaw which cropped up in the Soldier Field contest has been ironed out and the squad is admittedly in much better physical condition. For the last two weeks the Lions 1mve been barnstorming. It has aaa i finrl nmnv who Will ftf-pllA thp noint.

A NwBJj find many who will argue the point. si 1 Who was the outstanding athlete! -s a dark renk comes down the i Who was the outstanding athlete in the affirmative. Likewise you'll -4 1 i oi me year: I path In the Olympic Stajlium Well, there is no denving the fart of the year? Well, there is no denying the fart a 3 in Kpr ln. The stars and nnes mat. Jesse uwens anu jyiax ncnmei- that Jesse Owens and Max Schmel- 1 1 hnulorf In th ton of thn flair-1 "ig turned in two of the greatest -4 4 are hauled to the top of the flag-1 mg turned in two of greatest i EI) KARA, HARD PUNCHING TEDDY TEDESCO, NIAGARA FALLS LIGHTWEIGHT Golden Gloves Held Too Stiff for Pick of Europe's Boxers Olympians Claim that Champions at Berlin Would Be Easy in U.

S. Tourney CI.EVKI.AXD NT AMWKIfillT Dorais to Send 10 Veterans Against Teachers in Opener But Hustling Youngsters Will See Plenty of Action in Grid Game Friday cuse, opposes Bill Larkin, Chrysler polo to record another American victory and ihe news of Jesse i Owens' third triumph is sent! around the world. The dark streak from Ohio State has just made a show of the field in the greatest of all competitions the Olympic Games in which he pitted his skill against the outstanding challengers of the world -and is being heralded as the greatest athlete of his time. Seldom before has one lad raptured the fancy of the public. His three individual titles and a share of a fourth stand as the greatest show ever contributed in the Olym pic Games.

Jesse was hailed as the hero, and rightly so, but were his victories sufficient to stamp him as the outstanding athlete of the year? There is plenty of basis for argument to keep you occupied during the long winter months. For there were several others who contributed heavily to the sports parade of the year 1936 A. D. I have in mind a starry June night in particular. Close to 50,000 people are crowded around the battle pit In the Yankee Stadium.

Nerves are tense as Max Schmeling. a serious-faced, beetle-browed German claims through the ropes to engage Joe Louis in a duel of fisls. Save for a few hardy souls, the gathering had come to see Max slaughtered by the Brown Bomber on his way to the heavyweight title. Louis was hailed as the greatest heavyweight of his time, a flchting machine that would be ranked with the greatest in the history of the game, and Schmeling was to serve only in the role of the victim, Bolt from the Blue! Louis Goes Down THEN, like a bolt from the blue, a right fist cut through the air in that little lighted spot in the center of a dark mass of people and Louis began to totter. The unbelievable had happened.

The fighting machine came apart and finally was wrecked with a series of right-hand smashes in the twelfth round. And more than 50,000 souls sat stunned. They had seen what thev believed Thev had seen Schmeling make a human being nut of a robot. The aura of invincibility was removed from Joe Louis and Schmeling leaped to the forefront of heavyweight battlers. It was a stunning victory, coming as it.

did in a moment when Max was expected to be crushed. But was it the outstanding event of the year? Should that surprising knockout be ranked above Jesse Owens' triumphs in the Olympic Games? You'll find many who will answer Three of the seven Olvmplc box-' ers who appear here Wednesday night at the Chrysler Field against the Chrysler team are Golden Gloves champions and after seeing the pick of Europe's boxers they declare that the ability displayed by most of their foes overseas would not carry them past the qualifying rounds in a Gloves tournament. The three champions are. Louis Laurie, Cleveland flyweight; Ted Kara, Cleveland featherweight, and Bantamweight Jackie Wilson, also from Cleveland. Wilson came closest of any of the United States contingent to winning a title, reaching the finals.

In fact, according to most reports, he did win the crown only to be another victim of the weird Euro pean system of judging. "Without wanting to appear poor loser," Wilson said, "I believe that all of the Olympic champions would be eliminated quickly from any Golden Gloves tourney. They are just mediocre boxers by American standards." Wilson should be qualified to speak for he saw more action than any other member of the squad, fighting six times. He will meet Bennie Goldberg, Chrysler bantam, on Wednesday card. In other Olympic team Chrysler bouts, Teddy Tedesco, of Niagara Falls, meets Dave Egan, of Detroit, 135-pounder; Kara will face Stanley Cieslik; Inurie will meet Jimmy I'rso, Detroit, his alternate on the Olympic tpam; Ord Kink, of Syra- Lautar Elected Captain of Notre Dame Gridders NOTRE DAME, Sept.

19 -(U. John Paul Latitat-, senior guard ffom Moundsville, W. was elected captain of the 1936 Notre Dame football team late today. He replaces Bill mlth, who resigned after medical examinations showed he would be unable to play this fall. Lautar is one of two returning regulars from last year's team.

welterweight; Billy Townscnd, Hon olulu, 175-pounder, will box Joe Maciejka, Chrysler, and Willis Johnson, a Detroit member of the Olympic team, will take on John Kroger, Chrysler. Three bouts between local box-erg have been added to the program. They are Mike Zaluski vs. Jim McCormlck; Art Rubin vs. Al Kilpatrick, and Eddie Sulewski vs.

Steve Kushlner, Tickets are on sale at the A. A. U. headquarters in the Tuller Hotel and at the Ringside, 367 State St. The field is located at Mt, Elliot and Huber Aves.

Lansing Nine Falls to Kentucky Foe Loses in First Round of Congress Series LOUISVILLE, Ky Sept. 19 The Pcmbcrton Frigidaire team from Lansing went down, 7 to 3, today before the Louisville Ky.) Dairies nine in the first day's play of the American Baseball Congress Amateur World Series. Pitcher Fielder, of Tensing, allowed seven hits in the six innings he held the mound and Ramont three in two innings. The Kentucky team got off to a two-run lead in the second on a home run by Left-fielder Stotz, and another rirn in the fifth. The Lansing team made its threat in the sixth, bringing in two runs, but the Kentuckians came right back in their half and scored three more times.

F'ielder struck out two men and Ramont three. The Louisville pitchers fanned nine between them. The score: l.nn.lnr 0 'I I ft II .1 1 l.iMilvllln Hi Oil I II ll I 7 10 i KHIiler, KsHnoiit Hud Merltllth. Knbruek; Rfiliinnnn, Miitlirr unit Mrl utlnuffh. I 1UI UlU II CCO.

-kMII WHIM. Ul 31 FII1U the How ahmlt Lo Gehrig, the Durable Dutchman of the New York Yankees, for instance? Yesterday afternoon Iou played in his 1.800th consecutive game a record for stamina and endurance unmatched in anv line of sport. More than that, in his eleventh year as a regular he is leading the home run parade, in the thick of the race for American League batting honors and in line for the circuits most valuable player award. Gehrig's Great Record Improves Every Day LITTLE more could be asked of any athlete. Owens and Schmeling could work themselves up to a peak a brier day or two or a brief minute or two.

But tlehrig must keep going every day over a six-month period. And he is the man who rallied the Yanks into battle formation for the pennant drive. You've got to find room somewhere near the top for Henry Louis Gehrig. Then how about Carl Hubbell, the willowy southpaw who is pitching the New York Giants to the pennant? For two years Carlos and his screwball had blazed across the baseball horizon in vain fighting for a lost cause. It would have been enough to discourage all but the lion-hearted.

Yet, here is Carl back in the thick of the wars, winning games, and he is the one man who has thrown fear into the hearts of the Yankees Murderers' Row. He deserves plenty of consideration when it comes time to select, the year's outstanding athlete. And when the votes are being cast, that tall young fellow who labors for the St. Louis Cardinals-Dizzy Dean can't be overlooked. But for him the Gas House Gang from St.

Louis would not now be figurine in a pennant race. Diz has done yeoman service In the star role. Just a week ago be strode to the mound four times in three days and on his fourth appearance held his foes hitless. That's pitching and a throwback to the days of "Iron Man" McGin-nity. You can't overlook Diz.

Morris Set Record in Ail-Around Skill AND while we're on the subject where would you rank Glenn Morris, winner of the Olympic decathlon? The decathlon was designed to test the all-around ability of an athlete. It isn't a specialty. It's a test, of skill and stamina. Yet, Morris not only conquered the all-around stars of the world but established a new record for the gruelling test. Surely, he must be ranked high on the list.

Then there's Alice Marble, the Pacific Coast girl who dethroned Helen Hull Jacobs as the queen of tennis with a masterful exhibition of combined skill and coolness under fire. Miss Jacobs held much the same position in woman's tennis that Joe Louis held in boxing invincible. But Miss Marble found a flaw in her defense, conceived a plan of battle and stuck to it. It, was a plan that brought her a stunning victory one of the highlights of the season. There have been many outstand ing ana almost untieuevanle per formances and the year still has several months to go.

Football will contribute its share of heroes and riirht on the heels of the gridiron battles will come modified murder on skates, more commonly known two itranrnes: or me aiz.v sports wnirl will boast their outstanding stars. i5ui win anv one come alone to i over Bill Barclay and Ferris Jennings, both lettermen who mad good impressions today. In the line Kipke found much work to be done, particularly at the guard positions where tha speed which John Brennan, Forrest Jordan and Lilhurn Ochs had promised, failed to materialize. At left tackle, however, Fred Janke handled himself like a veteran. At renter Joe Rinaldt showed a lack of speed despite fine defensive play.

John Jordan, his sophomor understudy, also showed lack of woi k. For the reserves Wally Hook stood out as the fastest back on the field, reeling off a 25-yard run for the Blues' lone score. Stat Kltrhie also showed the form he flashed as a freshman two years ago. Passing Threat Absent Offensively the Whites had to do without a passing threat due the absence of its ranking ends. Matt Patanelli, Art V'alpey and Elmer Gedeon.

Its one touchdown, however, came on a pass from Cooper to Danny Smick, Hazel f'ark sophomore. Alex Loike, rated the best passer on the squad, saw service but failed to complete pass. The Whits score included two safeties, the fust when Smick blocked Hook's attempted kiclt and another as a bad pass from center was downed behind tha goal. No Injuries were reported following the scrimmage and Kipke announced secret practice would begin Monday. A second acrimmag will probably be announced then, he said, when it ts determined finally when the squad's cripples may safely return to action.

Biggs Nine Plays in Toledo Today Detioit will be represented by th Leo M. Biggs team In the four-team sandlot baseball tournament In Toledo Sunday afternoon. BenCochell has arranged to take the entir Biggs squad which competed in th Class A of the D. A B. F.

this summer to play the Toledo Scales team in the first, round. In the other first round game the Buffalo Titans meet Toledo Auto-Lite. The winners of these game will meet for the championship lata in the afternoon. All of the games will be played at. Swayne Fild.

home of the Toledo Mud Hens of the American Association. Kipke Refuses to Let Wistert Risk Injuries ANN ARBOR. Sept. 19-Harkin to experience. Coach Harry Kipke has refused to Whitey Wistert to play in scrimmages wi'h the Michigan grid squad.

Wistert, All-America tackle for Michigan in 1933. has returned Ann Arbor as assistant line coach and as a law student, and had wanted to show his wares to the budding All-Americans on the squad. Kipke, however, recalled the experience of Flop Flora, Harvev mer Harold Steele, and Carl Savage, all former players who returned as coaches and took part irt scrimmages only to receive injuries, and so Wistert will not giva practical demonstrations this year. Wistert returns to Ann Arbor from Nashville, where be hss been playing first buse for Nashville in the Southern Association Dirt Track Championship Is at Stake in Jackson JACKSON Pent 19 4 Pi The dirt track championship Bend Indianapolis, Flint. Detroit.

Kokomo and Hammond, Ind. JOHN SWENSKI YANKJE SPEEUBOV OS DAY. for reservation! vU na will be cut down to one a day. There probably will be only one scrimmage this week, and as Dorais always tapers off his practice the day before a game and gives his men a rest the day following one, there Isn't so much time to get ready for Villa Nova. Ex-City Coach Aims atTitans Defeat Friday KALAMAZOO, Sept.

ID-Johnny Gill, former coach of Southeastern High School in Detroit, Is going back to the city next Friday not to present it with a victorious football team hut to try to hand it a defeated one. The University of Detroit will be that team, he hopes. Gill now Is the bockfield coach at Western State Teachers' College, where, because of lemarknble records, there seldom is any change In the coaching personnel. Therefore Johnny became, big news this fall kia( when he was promoted from fieshman coach to the varsity. In his new position, his first job has been to drill a backfield that will try to upset the Titans at Dinan Field.

Western Teachers College is Johnny's School. Upon graduation went to Alma High where his success attracted Southeastern. hat school lured him to Detroit in 1926 and success came almost overnight. He took the Detroit prep candidates in his first year and trained them into such a fine machine that they went through the season undefeated and without a score being registered against them. With almost an entirely new team he continued his successes the next year and that, brought the eyes of his Alma Mater upon him.

Gill accepted the offer to coach the freshman team at Western and once again his successes stood out. So impressive were his freshman teams than when a new backfield coach for the varsity was needed this year, there was no question I i Johnny GUI been to their liking. Lengthy scrimmage sessions between "Blue and "White" teams have sharpened CMroit tackling and the blockers been moving faster. The contest Timhahlv will crlve Detroit fan's an opportunity to wit ness Reino at work In the quarterback post. The sensational little fellow from De Kalb Univer sity has continued a steady devel opment; enough so that now the coach has enough confidence in him to turn him loose in a league game.

The probable starting line-up: I AHIHNAI.S I. IONS Kl'-wi hi Hlwwe Johnnon PiMr-otl I.U. 0. H.fi Kiel.l H.T. turn HE I'anirlp I).

Ril-u'll II 11. I ok K.B Knox hmcmon Si-try S-hnflkr rhri Hansen radial Uulowsky Swenski to Face Oriental Grappler Both Seek to Extend Victory Strings Two unbeaten wrestlers of the junior heavyweight division will battle Monday at the Arena Gar- Oki Shikina, who has won four straight, will be on one end of the nrgimipnt seeking his fifth victory. John Swenski, who has won nine wrestled three draws at the hardens, will oppose him. Last. Monday these matmen were the victors in the double windup 'ard and promptly were matched fr a showdown bout.

Swenski spenis to be better equipped to com-bat the tricky attack of the Oriental than anv of his previous foes because of his speed in getting away from holds and a fair knowl-rrifre of trickery. fki is bv far the best jujitsu "ipatlcr that has arrived in Detroit 'from Japan. He learned his stuff ftim the ma-ster, Taro Miyake, and JV added to it since. The bout will be best two in three falls with an hour and a. half time limit.

'n the semifinal Pat McCleary, Irishman, is to meet Dutch Heffncr, brother of Cowboy Jim, wtio has appeared here on many occasions. It also is two in foils. matches are: Rny Ryan, Diego, vs. Frankie Hart, and Al George. Boston, vs.

VonEckner, Germany. F. M. Gould Entry Captufes 'Chase "Aru HILLS. Md Sept.

19 (A. Frank M. Goulds What Have with P. D. lleid up, staved off aii'trh challenge today to win Foxcatcher National Cup I'icchase by a head before 25.000 fans.

Fate, owned bv Campbell and ridden by V. Byrne, mi-sed overtaking What You in a rousing finish but seeond money easily in the purse. difficult, three-mile, ninetpen-f-'-' course was run over the es-' William Dupont. Jr. Adcraft GolfrTto Hold inal Meet at Red Run A '--'Hft Club will hold its "I of the season id Run M'if I ii b.

Al'i-ift Club campaign and i winner for trie T' in this toijtnev. a f' Ten wearers of the varsity and one man who has had three years' experience on the squad probably will comprise the starting line-up for the University of Detroit In the opening game against Western State Teachers In the Titan stadium next Friday evening. Coach Dorais has 16 lettermen all told nrd nothing that the newcomers have shown so far indicates that be should displace those who held regular positions last season. Dorais believes that the-veteran I player alwavs is entitled to his job i until some youngster beats him out of it; the burden of proof is on the aspirant rather than on the incumbent. This does not mean that anv position on the team is definitely closed.

Just, the minute a sophomore or former reserve shows enough stuff to prove that he is the best man, he will get the nominal ion. As things now shape tip the Titans have Capt. Al Bogiarsky and Rav Larson at ends, Dave Crot-tv and Joe Cieslak at tackles. Frank Kond.jjki and Pick Schroeter at guards, Harold Cooper at center, John at quarter, Jim Piper a.ad Andy Farkas at halves and John Wieezorek at, fullback. Ivory Only Newcomer Of these, Ivoiy l.

the only man who has not received a letter and lack of opportunity is the only th'ng that has stood between him and the award. He has done, good vf.rk in every game that he has f.en service in but, because of the ixccllent quarterbacking of Kinsey Jones did not have many minutes in the line-up in the last two seasons. Other lettermen not named for the starting line-up. but sure to be In the game sooner or later are John Shade, guard; John Krkoska, end; Roger Hayes, halfback; Jim Tonilinson, tackle, and Charlie Payne, fullback. Al Knauerhaze, another letterman who played end last season, has not returned to college.

Of the new men it is uneiy tnai Bob Filiatrault, quarterback; Bruno Mas. guard; Jack Nat us and Charles Ganster, tackles, and William Coyro, end; Edward Palumbo and Ed Holstrom, halfbacks, and Ray Skorupskl, fullback, will see some service. In fact. If the state of the score warrants it, Coach Dorais will trot out his entire squad for Inspection. He is naturally very anxious to see the new men under the fire of a contest with strange opposition.

Scrimmage practice is all very well In its way as an indicator of a man's ability but it isn't, so conclusive as playing "for keeps." The game with Western State Teachers may not be so important in itself, but it is vitally so as an index of what, progress the Titans are making toward their first big objective, the Villa game on Oct. 4. The Main Liners split, even wjtri Detroit, last season, losing here 8n(j winning there. As t.nis game hp on the Easterners BP. inovipcr for grounds i i i to handnap Villa Nova very mum, especially as the material is far; above aveiage.

Attack Improxed The Titans weie har.d;cj,pp-J bv extremely warm wea'ner eany shs fail, b-it ivca i-e of the 11: of the s-n-'tn were wuik h'li-i o' the i-tur, the cold list we It was Wit! 1 I Brown Bomber Sharpens Up His Weapons for Ettore -IS' I f- i i who would get the jot). on a half mile oval at 50 laps will With him this year as backfield P9 determined hete Sunday when coach are the men he coached as 33 aig compete at ths freshmen last season. He has been pajr Grounds The race pro-working them hard and long. Gill grilm calls for six events with the is saying little hut persons who I national championship as the fea-know him say he is quietly hoping 1 ture attraction. Drivers have en-that his boys of 1C5 will come in-1 tered tiom Chicago.

Toledo. Cin-to Detroit next Friday and per- cmnati. Columbus. Davton, South BOUT AMERICA outdo Jesse Owens or Max Schmel-1 gVd coache smce fail -y S-hMreher going to VVtscon-Hubbell and Dizzv Dean and Glenn and 'Clipper Smith la.e of Morris and Alice Marble? replacing him. C.ip- Thev belong in the top bracket P'-a" always have acquitted for the vear.

But which one be-, thfmselves well and tne chance in lnr.es at the as the coaching sys'ems is not expected hap hand the Titans a jolt. At; least he knows they will provide a battle al! the way. II 1: I. I (. INTERNATIONAL JAPAN OKI SHIKINA JUl JITSU KING DOTH VS 3 ARENA ie 44 to 50, p'ut 1 DCH.ATLD HERE OTHERMATCHES 3 outstanding athiete of the There's plenty of food for thought.

'Ole Miss' Starts Right UNIVERSITY; 1 A Pi The Mt'Pi on ned its K' Ser.t. 1 0 foO wi'h a 4V't Umon a do-i GARDENS Mi; I.Ot IS 151 LTI.NG AWAV AT HF.W JUG IN i'fil'TA RATIOS I OK Tl I -MUli I.