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 Illinois, 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 American League 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.