PAGE 42 DETROIT EVE\ IN G TIMES (PHOSE CHERRY SStOQ) Thursday, April 15, 1943 Sports World Stunned as Harmon Reported Missing By 11015 MTRIMIV r. «-st famous men ever to play the game of football, Arbor, were notified last night by Secretary of War April 8. Additional information \\ill be sent you ripping fangs deeper has been missing in the Lntin-Amcrica area since Henry L. Stimson. when received.” War plunge,(l its'tntel. into The telegram from the department I.t. Hannon April >. war said: was en route to a combat zone with the flesh of America’s sport's loving people today “The secretar> of war expresses deep regrets a squadrop of B-25’s. On the sides of the lumber, with the announcement that Lt. Thomas Dudley Toads parents. Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Harmon, that your son, Thomas I). Harmon, is reported he was flying was the sketch of a growling bulldog Hannon, Michigan’s grid (immortal, and one of the living in a new home Tom built for them in Ann missing in the Latin-American territory since dressed in Maize and Blue football togs with the number* "98.” which Harmon wore so gloriously at Michigan, stand- ing out prominently. Harmon’s plane was dubbed ‘‘Little Butch.” 'I his writer received a letter from Harmon on March 21 in which he said good-by. He was to leave his training f #4 base "shortly” for combat duty overseas. The next we read about Harmon was some 10 days ago fey. '|?W * when he was reported to be in Puerto Rica, cn route to one of the battle zones. "Just wanted to say good-by before going overseas,” wrote Harmon. “Please don’t reprint this letter as a lot of people will think I’m looking for headlines. “I’m just another guy going to war. And I hope to do m> part toward getting this thing over and returning to Ann Arbor. That’s where my heart will always be. "I won’t have ‘Kvvy’ ( Forest Kvashevski) along to a ®pj Jm elear the way on this adventure. Hut I’m really looking t f forward to getting into the middle of things.’’ - .¦* •.SjCW ] jQ / ItJ 'j-’iv :\&'j*’C' f Harmon enclosed pictures of his crew’ and of his plane. cmSP ;^i| Later these same pictures were officially sent all over the - country by the public relations department of the Army Air |B Force. •I#l &«*.¦SlflL WBH W Stim-immM**' 1 MSEBaSBk 1 'I WONT HAVE EVVY ... ON THIS 7 jM i|' fr&, i 'i' i ii 1 |"iii| i Croat as he was. Harmon missed the biggest ambition of his life while at Michigan. He never played on a team lEiir that licked Minnesota. 3I I Since joining the Army Air Force, Harmon several times, once on a ' coast-to-coast -.¦¦>. gßMfajfr. radio broadcast, said his ambition in this war was “to be one of the American fliers to bomb Berlin.” | It seems quite possible today that the fates have robbed him of this ambition, too. j Harmon was so strong and powerful, so full of life, that *; *V all those who know him refuse to believe he won’t show up i J7T somew’here. "Tom knows how to take care of himself,” his father said last night. "Allwe can do now is pray.*’ • Kvashevski. a lieutenant <jq at the lowa Preflight School, J vkirfßl * voiced the same confidence when informed of :he news on Harmon. ' He loved life too much to hr cone," said his former tram- mate. "lie'llhob up somewhere before this war is mrr.” Fritz Cruder. Harmon's coach at Michigan, and one of *s '% «& his Jlr closest friends, was stunned hy the news. He was the greatest," said Cnsler. "It's just unbearable to think about Tom being gone.” " lmißPr v «&fc At , T TOM HARMOX AT HEIGHTH OF HIS C ¦ ; BRILLIANT AREER IN 1910 f ' '' fates rob him again ... 4/ golden path Uij Michigan o, i before the gnat All-America before h< <d up .. Harmon must go down as one of the greatest hacks the game ever has produced. His specialty was-vhe cutback off tackle—- 1 '^^W§jja£' and he ran this play as no other man this writer has seen could Pick Newhouser ' run it. Evvy Believos Moving with speed and power, Harmon could do everything. At th* end of his sophomore year Harmon looked hack o n the season's record and noted that the one blot was 7-6 defeat by lo Hurl First Minnesota. His “That point after touchdown did Pal’s Alive It,” he said. “I'm promising Coach C riskr right now that he'll ha\e a plaeement “Old 98” roared to £rent pridiron touchdown scorinp record. H< IOWA C ITY. la., April 15 (INS)—Forrest Game in Detroit kicker m*\t season.” Harmon kept his feats at U. of M., as in this game picture also was awarded the* two major trophic? Fvashevski, former Fniversity of word. He practiced all summer. The next season Michigan did have of Tom Harmon. One of his accomplish- as the country's outstanding football Bv I.EO MU nOVFI.f, a placement kicker, and a good one. quarterback and Tom Harmon’s teammate for Thp name was Harmon. ments was surpassing Harold tßed) player while at University of Michigan. MINCIK. three years, refused today to believe his friend Ind April 15 Harold Inc magnificent Harmon New is expected to draw also added punting to his grid w hotiser (bores as dead. I the honor of being ’lie first to his junior year and did well. But the Minnesota jinx g ip toh for the Tig* ¦ s in a game at ¦iiii on and tout w is the season Bob Zuppke-added more woe “I heard about it over the radio.” be said, Briggs Hi- year. to Michigan Harmon's <»roalncss Stadium s cause by sparking Illinois to one of the great up- ‘‘but I don’t believe it. Somehow, I feel Tom w ill Tho young bet hander prohahly sets of modern times. will ho on tho h.ll when tho Tigers show up alive before loop:. Harmon’s senior year found him breaking Is Told in Kcrords and Piratos engage each othet in records of all his Detroit Saturday. .kinds. He played one of the greatest games of his Michigan “With stamina and desire to live, it Now hm.'or and Stubby Ov rr- c trrer against the rnr, Golden Gophers of the North. Rut Michigan By \r havfs would require an awful lot to take away bis life. mire looked good as they pitched again bowed, 7-6. Tigers \;< Tom Karrrrn wa« no fla-h in his first gam® he gained but 27 I heard from Tom before be left, in which he the to tojy over tho the pan foctbail player. So many yards, playing only 16 minutes. Chicago Cubs at George Field HE COULD DO players leave high school with a He got a touchdown the next said he was very anxious to see combat duty. army aviation camp near Vin- EVERYTHING fabulous roro ri only to falter Saturday against Chicago. lie cennes. At tho rn-.l nf hia fontba !I t 'rrri Harmon wi, guampM ) radio, with v I rn faced w;th the s’erner com* payed his heart out against Min- “It’s bard to be rational and give a logical Paul <Dizzy Trout and Tommy movie and advertising offers, Bridges will see action on the i nation of college foot hall and nesota for 60 minutes hut couldn't M reason for my hopefulness, but somehow I feel H*' accepted the best of them and on all occasions he to iege studios. get across Itvit coveted score. mound against the Pirates hem took lime out to pay tribute to his teammates at Not so vs 1 1h Harmon. Ills repu-, During bis sophomore \ear be that Tom will reach there (the combat area) today ni the tii'’ ol two games Michigan, especially Gary gained 38ft yards threw 1o hooked ler Dilf-sln:roll's camp heu - ta.Lion at 11:wa* known " before this fracas is over.” Johnny Virgil to all foothall fans before he and completed 21 for a gain of (lotsir.i. Trucks and Vnybodv could run with the hall behind Kvashe\ski,” entered Michigan. It was so wide- 310 yards. Fvashevski is stationed at Hal White will chuck tomorrow. was Toms favorite declaration. spread that one southern college the lowa Tre- The Tiger* 'jj strong, failled S< OR FI) IN F.VFRV GA'IF Harmon s chief goal following graduation from him to quit Michigan :n flipfht School. stakes at Kvansville yesterday, rollege was wanted to earn enough money to his freshman year and go to their Tn hi« junior >ear he scored in ending a months training grind build a home for my mother and dad. institution of learning '‘where hi- even game hut his annual rnroun-| which was labeled "satisfactory" And it's got to be in Ann Arbor." ter with hig by Steve O'Neill. hat talents would he more appre- Minnesota His dayj I is exactly what he did. The same home w here a mother ciated it out at against lowa when 'tireatost of All*—lri*lor | Before the Tigers left Kvansville Harmon stuck was he and father sir today amid mingled mental Michigan and even when fame four times. His \ardage for the' AS LT. HARMON there was some puc-iion as to torture and hope.