Michigan Wins New Poll Over Notre Dame, 2 to 1 --- T.: ...... ;-i---1-1- Ballot Is 226 to 119 Yanks Sign Di Maggio Record Score Marks or Draw w in, Lose, At Believed Third Win By FRANCIS E. STANN In Special Vote of Figure Hogan's Dilemma in the Far West Nation's Writers Close to $70,000 At Los Angeles That curious hissing noise you may have been hearing in this fty Hm Aikoctotod Pr#kk ■y die Associated tr*u new year means, in all probability, that out on the West Coast those By Witt Grimsley NEW Jan. 6.—Joe Di LOS ANGELES, Jan. I.—Ben sponsors of the remarkable Rose Bowl pact between the Pacific Associated Press Sports Writer YORK, Mag- the gio of the Yankees announced today Hogan left town today, having ac- Conference and the Big Nine are rapidly approaching boiling NEW Jan. 6.—The burn- YORK, that he had signed a contract for complished the following feats In of the point. ing sport* question day— the coming season which made him the game of golf: The Coast Conference people who bought which was the greater college foot- "very happy,” and a consensus of Won the $10,000 Los Angeles Open have been ridiculed and ball of or this particular turkey power 1947, Michigan those who heard the great center- for the third time. Notre Dame—never to be settled on editorially tarred and feathered ever since they fielder express his pleasure placed Established a new the was answered today at record for the entered into an agreement which practically field, the amount of his stipend at close the ballot box—and it’s Michigan tournament at the Riviera Country handed over the Rose' Bowl to the Big Nine for to $70,000. almost 2 to 1. Club with a 72-hole score of 375. 1951. Neither Di Maggio nor George five years, extending through In a Associated Press Turned back the initial threat special poll Weiss, general manager of the The jeers increased in intensity last year, of editors and football writ- of 1948 of South African sports Yanks, would even hint at the sum, Bobby when in the first of the series , twice- ers coast to Locke and the rest of game from coast, Michigan but Weiss conceded that it “ap- the foreign season received 226 votes as the Invaders. beaten during the regular methodically superior proached the $75,000 believed to team to 119 for the with 12 tore apart U. C. L. A., unbeaten Coast champion. Irish, have been paid Ted Williams last Featured an array of professionals S.J W 1 V firkan mioViftr of the experts suggesting that the and season by the Bps ton Red Sox. Di amateurs who attracted a two Midwest giants should be rated Michigan shellacked the 1947 Coast titlist, South- Maggio; voted the mo6t valuable record turnout of more than 40.000 equal. in Ahe last during the four days of the 33d ern California, 49 to 0. A total of 357 from each player writers, disclosed that he received $43,- annual Los Angeles fixture. What’s mqre, it’s going to get worse before of the 48 States and the District of year, 750 in each of his last three playing And having raked the par-71 it gets better. It gets worse this week in New York, Columbia, took part in the “post- years. Riviera course with four successive rraneia Btann. where the Nation’s athletic heads gather to search poll” poll, conducted by popular de- the subpar rounds—68-70-70-87—sound- as of the New A salary of $70,000 would place their souls at the annual NCAA meeting. It could be quite a nose- mand the result third among ed a warning of things to expect Year’s Day game that saw Michi- Yankee star possibly punching conference if the Southeastern and Southwestern Confer- when the golfers return to Riviera gan’s unbeaten, untied Wolverines baseball’s highest paid performers, ence men fail to themselves under firm restraint and next June 10 lor the National keep smugly smash Southern California in the topped only by Bobby Feller of Open. taunt the tormented Pacific Coast Hank delegation. Rose Bowl, 49-0. Cleveland and Williams. Improves 1947 Mark. Greenberg was reputed to have made Hoffan won the T swt Antrele* Onen Rating Not Superseded. Now the Coast Conference Is Fourth Rate $80,000 with Pittsburgh last season, with 280 last The new ballot does not super- year, and Improved but has since been reelased by the Presumably the reason why the Big Nine tied up with the Coast sede the Associated Press’ regular the mark by whipping par by nine pirates. blows in Conference, aside from treasury-fattening purposes, was to keep th* final season rating of college foot- yesterday’s windup—stav- off a Southern teams—Alabama, Georgia, Duke, Georgia Tech, etc.—from ball teams, released last December Respected as is his batting ability, ing challenge by former Na- which named Notre Dame the Di Maggio is equally .well known as tional Open King Lloyd getting that Rose Bowl swag. The Big Nine long has viewed the Dixie 8, Mangrum national with * ntvllsh fielder. He led all regu- in a round played in fog so thick teams and accused the belt mythical champion with baleful eyes unofficially hominy grit with an the ball Michigan the runnerup. lar outflielders last year disappeared 50 yards after of their bowl funds to ouy new bowl outfits, Midwestern using luring The 146 writers who cast ballots average of .997, having made only it was struck. talent in the process. He made 318 in that one gave the Irish 1,410 one error. putouts, Mangrum' matched Hogan’s 87, The reason or reasons the Coast Conference in with the two assists—the reason for why fell points to 1,289 for the Wolverines but only but he couldn’t overcome Hogan'a that few base scheme are somewhat more obscure. To the lay eye it doesn’t seem as and awarded Notre Dame 107 first- the low figure being four-stroke lead going into the final, would take chances if the PCC had anything much to gain, whereas it has a great deal to place votes, with Michigan getting runners any and wound up the same distance 25 and the other No. 1 with his rifle-like throws. at lose. In fact, football prestige on the West Coast already has suffered only tags behind, 279. elsewhere. The signing of Di Maggio follows so much since the Big Nine series has started that the PCC has been going Hogan collected $2,000 for first The Irish, who led the Nation’s by only a few hours the signing reduced, until to a fourth or fifth rate place; Mangrum, $1,400 for second, proved otherwise, league. 10 weeks of of another Yankee star, Tommy Hst through 7 of the and Ellsworth Vines, the one-time The last three Rose Bowl games have resulted in one-sided defeats another hard-hitting out- the campaign, won in the regular Henrich, king of the amateur and for the Coast defeats in which the pro tennis Conference, opposition—Alabama, poll after a decisive 38-7 triumph fielder. this balletlike while attempting worlds, finished third for $1,000, Illinois and scored more than 30 For the over the same Southern California OF Wier, Iowa forward, assumed pose Bringing both these stars to Michigan—have points. GREATEST EASE—Murray j thanks more to a 87 in the third basketball last night. Guarding Wier is Neil Johnston terms so early in the winter defies Sugar, Orange and Cotton Bowl people this has been wonderful. They Trojans. a field goal in the Ohio State-Iowa game round than his 72 yesterday. Iowa Wirephoto. [ baseball Usually after may be w'rong when rate Southern, Southwestern and Midwestern Many of the participants in the Ohio center. No. 30 is Roger Finley, Iowa center. won, precedent. they (8), 49-41,_—AP Tied one shot back were Sam latest roll call ,their a team wins a world championship football than the but not much of an acknowledged stronger PCC, they're getting there is a considerable of Snead, who scrambled into the run- opinions were swayed largely by period argument from the Coast. with the hold- ning with a 67, and Ed Furgol of comparative scores, which in two Golf bickering, athletes. Increase in Courses Puts ing out for high salaries. Pontiac, Mich., who had a 73. There Moments of other instances swung the pendulum Eligibility Agreement Were, However, Glory toward Fritz Crisler’s men of Michi- Whether the signing of Di Maggio Lagging behind was the pre- and Henrich reflects an 'even more tournament Probably it’s merely a cycle, meaning the collapse of Far Western gan. co-favorite with Hogan. Back to Days liberal than that Locke, whose football in recent tests. The Pacific Coast has too Scores. Is Aim Pre-Depression salary policy pur- Bobby long game went bowl many Comparative With Baseball produced uovu u* vwx,.** By th« Associated rros» ulallipiuu, oaiu. sued by Weiss’ Col. haywire on the first fine teams in the to be as a In for instance, Against the other two common predecessor, nine, improved past typed pushover. 1945, and the teams fared this NEW Jan. Golf is ex- has a beautiful game would, L. S. MacPhail, was a matter of little on the trip in, and who finished U. S. C. whipped Tennessee, 25-0, if that’s too war-yearish for you, opponents way: YORK, while has need a few breaks to go all the, conjecture. with an embarrassing 76 for 387 there was a 1938-1942. when U. S. U. ; Michigan walloped Pitt, 69-0, Of Coaches a boom such as it only period, California, C., S. C. again, College periencing Di underwent an and a 1 opera- $400 consolation Notre Dame did the job a little more As for any beating out: Maggio prise. Stanford and State defeated Press not known since its year of way. girl Oregon consecutively Alabama, Duke, ! fty th# Associated peak tion at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Tied with Locke, one stroke back mercifully, 40-6. The Wolverines of Atlanta for Tennessee, Nebraska and Duke. before the Louise Suggs the; November for re- of rolled over Northwestern, 49-21, NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—With several 1931, just depression Baltimore, 17, Johnny Palmer of Badin, N. C„ »U .i._a._ women’s title, I hesitate to say. That — V>A VAAV A. 1AI.AAAV VUMU V V/WA1A V V Alb and V 1-01.11 1/ OUVlllO coaches and ath- the moval of a small bone chip from his Dutch Harrison of Little while the who also had a hundred college shuttered clubs length — Rock, Irish, per- country little is really great really to on hand and girl elbow. He was troubled were Bulla and stom from low-grade material at a time when the Big Nine is red fect season, trounced the Wildcats, letic officials already and breadth of the land, Joe Dey, right by Johnny Toney great." a sore arm Penna. hot. It's conceiveable from now others hourly, baseball, all last season, but kept that until 1951 the PCC won’t win a 26-19. arriving of the United Dey considers the men’s Open football mentors executive«secretary it a secret until after the World Rose Bowl game and it’s also conceiveable that for the next three Notre Dame supporters argued track and began with doz- Stranahan Tope Amateur. years States Golf Association, says. such a wide-open event, Series. comparative scores should be no meetings today preliminary to the Low amateur honors fell to Frank of the pact the Big Nine won’t be able to send its champion to “During the coming year we ens of top professionals having al- gauge because the Irish were in- 43d annual convention of the Na- Stranahan of Toledo, whose 70 Pasadena. should easily pass our record total most equal ability, that he couldn’t put clined to their tional Collegiate Athletic Associa- mm in tne 28», two strokes in front “pull punches.” of member clubs set in ’31,” hazard a guess as to the winner. Since the Rose Bowl contract provides that no Big Nine team 1,125 of “They used their third and fourth tion. he did out with some Douglas Ford of Elmsford, N. Y„ to oftener than once predicts the spruce young ex-Navy However, point' Colton Bowl's may go California in three years. Illinois thus is most of the fourth The Executive Committee of the Biggest and three to the good over Bud stringers through officer who conducts the multitudi- significance that Bobby Locke, the Ineligible until 1950 and Michigan is out until 1951. If either the Illini quarter against Southern Califor- NCAA, which will vote on amend- will be Ward of Spokane, Wash. nous affairs of golf’s ruling body terror from South Africa, or Wolverines win the Big. Nine this coming season the third-place nia,” commented Jim Costin, sports ments to its “sanity code’’ for college for the Scores of 291 and under landed from a trophy-cluttered office here. in there gunning big cup Melon Sliced team will go to the Bowl. And if the Nine editor of the South Bend (Ind.) athletics the latter part of the week, Norman Money in the money class, with Stan champion Big team of the “At present we are only 29 mem- again. He also expects Tribune, registering a vote for Notre is scheduled to hold its first session the Associated Press Leonard of Vancouver. B. C.. and following campaign. 1949, is either Michigan or Illinois well, bers short of equaling- our previous van Nida, the Australian champ, ly Dame. tomorrow. it a whirl at Los Harry Bassler of Los Angeles last it could go on indefinitely. The PCC champion may be playing the mark, and we have accepted 375 new to give Angeles. DALAS, Tex., Jan. 6 —While re- Warren Brown of the Chicago however, members of in line at $110 each. Nine team from now until Meanwhile, clubs since the war ended. Reports Difference in Clubs. ports of dissension on the Penn third-place Big doomsday—if the pact is Herald-American Lew added that Notre the American Association of Base- section of the State Worsham, National Open renewed until doomsday. coming in from every who. like m06t of the USGA fotball squad continued to be Dame "was never extended, while ball Coaches together with one lists at Dey, champion from Washington, D. C„ got country tell of long waiting of an idealist, aired today, the Nittany Lions and And if the PCC champions keep getting licked, you know what's had to like blazes officials, is something finished with a 74 a total Michigan go of the items high on the agenda clubs and of lines of players Southern Methodist four-day to to golf sees no prospect whatever of get- University of 298. going happen the prestige of the Rose Bowl, don’t against Minnesota and Illinois." recommendations for a con- j AA ncfflnnc Viol veH tho loroAcf malnn Baltimore’s Otto Greiner had you? being to tee off at public courses. Professional Two of the Irish waiting ting together with the 75 for 299. Exactly. supporters—Bill trolled eligibility agreement with in the 12-year history of the Cotton of Nationwide Interest. Golfers’ Association on the number Keating the Holyoke (Mass.) organized baseball. Bowl the obvious Nation- clubs a carry. The classic. Transcript Telegram and George “Because of of player may Plans for a second NCAA-spon- we are 16 the USGA Penn State’s share of the gate Herrick of the San (Calif.) wide interest in the game pros permit weapons, Wins Diego sored baseball tournament also will was director James Scarborough our events only 14. Also, the USGA, which $66,453.59, game A11WU11V V7X1U avvtvax* uaillb scattering championship to Head Year UWIt- be on the The first tour- V. Stewart announced Olympics Busy program. next summer as never before. The conducts the Open, is much more ydkterday. ened Southern California for '48 up" of this was held at Mich- Southern Methodist received Boost ney group Open and Women's Championships strict about the “scoring” of iron *«,- Salary Michigan. last summer. first of its team’s Pitcher Ray Scarborough of For igan State College will be in California, the clubs than the PGA. 453.59, the $5,000 British Placed All-time Greats. played the Nats has his 1948 con- Sports-Minded Among Uniform procedure regarding col- iwietAiiv In MamnVlk onH t.hft Pub- “Ac -we sec it Dev said “our dutv share automatically going to the signed By m* A»so