PAGE SIX
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1968
PAc~E SIX THE MiCHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1968
SPLASH ON ROAD:
Mermen 'Face Haples
Wood Breaks
U.S. Medal Famine
s OSU
By DOUG HELLER'
The dual meet season for the
Wolverine swimmers ends today at
Ohio State with Coach Gus Stager
not certain that he needs to take
his entire team to Columbus in
order to beat the Buckeyes.
OSU, once perennial national
threats (their 11 NCAA swimming
titles are the most for any school
with Michigan second at 10), have
fallen on miserable times in recent
years while Indiana and Michigan
,have dominated the Big Ten.
Stager explains that the big
reason Ohio State is no longer a
power is that they reduced swim-
ming scholarships several years
ago.
The coach continues, "They
thought that they could make
swimmers, like the Big Ten used
to be able to, but now swimmers
have to be good when they're re-
cruited, or they'll never be good
enough." ,
This year the Buckeyes are
strongest in diving withyChuck
Knorr, second in the nation last
year on the one meter board and
third at three meters. In addition,
Jim Kirklin was fourth at three
meters a year ago.
Only Swimming Threat
Only Jeff Jackman has Stager
worried among the Buckeyes'
swimmers, as his :22.2 in the 50-
yard freestyle is better than any
Other than that, the Wolverine
coach sees Lonnie Harrison as a
dark horse in the distance free-
styles.
"But heck, I don't see how they
can give us any trouble" said Sta-
ger yesterday. "Yet every time we
go down there with less than our
full strength expecting to walk1
away with the meet they manage
to make us uncomfortable."
In the national swimming sta-
tistics through the past week,
Stager finds support for his cau-
tious confidence. Juan Bello's
1:43.5 in the 200-yard freestyle
against Indiana is almost one-
and-one-half seconds better than
anyone else in the nation so far
this season.
Not His Best
But Stager said, "I don't think
the freestyle's Bello's best race. I
think he should be better in the
200-individual medley." Bello is
fourth so far this year in the 200
IM.'
In other events where Michigan
now ranks among the nation's top
five, butterflyer Tom Arusoo is
third at 200 yards, and the 400-
yard medley relay team is fourth.
Stager and his team are looking
right past OSU to the Big Ten con-
ference meet in Matt Mann pool
in two weeks. Apparently, schedule
makers are out to play suicide with
attendance figures as they sched-
GRENOBLE, (JP) - Tim Wood's Wood slipped on one of his loops
comeback bid for an Olympic gold and had to support himself on the
break when students desert Ann medal fell short last night, but the ice to avoid falling.
Arbor en masse. tenacious teen-ager from Bloom- The slip proved costly as all but
This isn't the first time this has field Hills, Mich., finished close itwgur the nine judges rated him W eak eiied
year's conference gymnastics skating king Wolfgang Schwarz Schwarz then clinched the title
championships were scheduled in to earn a silver award and bolster with a dazzling routine that barely By PHIL BROWN
Iowa City during classes and the sagging U.S. fortunes at the missed matching Danzer's free-Byhi HnLs r o e
NCAA swimming championships in 1968 Winter Games. skating score. It was a particularly te ina t week te indoor
East Lansing over semester break. Wood, who trailed the 20-year- rewarding victory for Schwarz s n to wit a n of
Both drew quite a bit less than old Vienna language student by who has been runner-up to his questions still to be answered and
capacity audiences. 14.2 points after . Wednesday's Icountryman in every European s
There is one definite advantage, compulsory figures, which counted coniymnld ehmiynsuipein a tough Notre Dame squad coming
The60 peronenteofnthe finaltscore, and world championship since to town.
however, 60 per cent of the final score, 1966.
Nobody will have to stand in closed the gap slightly with a bril- After three straight weeks of
line waiting for tickets. liant free-skating performance The winner finished with a total unscored competition, the Wolver-
then watched Schwarz hail 'the ,Iof 1,904.1 points and 13 decisive j ines meet the Fighting Irish in
gold medal with an equally stirringd ordinals. Wood had .891.6 points the first of two dual meets, the
final effort. and 17 ordinals. Pera took third only events before the Big Ten
Patrick Pera of France protect- pluace o tiohe basis of placen tchampionships in which team
ed his third-place edge and pick- g standings will be kept.
withlespitan moeod-
ed up the bronze medal despite less points and more ordi- Notre Dame comes into the
an electrifying last-ditch bid by a .a.z,, meet with good team depth and
Austria's Emmerich Danzer, the! I am glad to have it over with some truly first-class performers.
pre-Olympics favorite, who turn- Tim said following his near-flaw- Sprinters and middle-distance men
ed in the finest performance ofhe I t wapy tong p- adline the Irish entries for to-
allwahap wa 28 entrants in the free skating I ram and I was ap the wayId'scmeion
nale at the Stade de Glace skated it. Fight or So
Fog Aids Petkevich, an 18-year-old new- Bill Hurd must be favored in the
Wood's brilliant performance comer to the U.S. squad, who 60-yard dash, purely on his past
broke a two-day medal famine for wen nto th f atingsfinale record. The sensational junior has
.: the U.S. Olympic contingent after in ehpd as ledoate recorded times of :06.0 in his spe-
Italy's Eugenio Monti shot within tan Tom. kaptiimedite cialty, and ran away with first
reach of a second bob-sledding after Tim. He captivated the place in the MSU Relays last
gol mealandheay og elpa.crowd with his whirlwind acro-
gold medal and hea fog he ldy batics - only to lose all hope for weekend with a :06.1 effort.
vsuper-stierp frad in h bid a medal by falling twice. Hurd is joined In the 60 by Ole
movea foTrwar in hiBegdinner's Luck? r -stepsSkarstein. a junior from Norway
fom the Alpine Triple Crown. , Beginner's Luck? wohsrpe f 0. iig
In boosting the U.S. medal total Petkevich, who excels in free Skasi oha a :060 to
to seven - one more than its skating, tumbled first during a
accumulation in the 1964 Games simple turn, then fell again at his credit.
TOM ARUSOO at Innsbruk m- Woodledsa trio the end of a difficult triple s n Team captain Pete Farrell key-
_____________________-of young American skaters who leap."Iv never fallen on tha tesafn eaheto rs
cracked the top six places in the particular part of my routine be- middle distance runners. The sen-
men's event. It was a remarkable fore and I probably never will for ace claimed third place in the
accomplishment, for the Amer- again," he said afterward. NCAA indoor 880 last spring, then
icans, who had their entire team Six of the judges rated Danzer added the IC4A 1000-yard title to
wiped out in a Brussels plane ahead of P'etkevich and five pre- his collection. Farrell also com-
crash seven years ago. ferred Wood to John. petes with the Notre Dame mile-
Gary Visconti of Detroit finish- The last of the thrae U.S en- and two-mile relay teams.
ed fifth, behind Danzer, and John tries, former national champion Ihe ay Ratrace
Petkevich of Great Falls, Mont.. Visconti, skated at the top of his Irish entries placed in 'all four
was sixth. form and made no visible errors. relay races run at the Michigan
Wood, a 19-year-old college But the judges i'ated him below State meet, taking second In the
sophomore, made his move after both Wood and Danzer, thwarting sprint medley and fifth places .in
Danzer, the World and European his bid to crack the top three. the distance medley, mile-and two-
champion and the overwhelming Peggy Fleming, JeanClaude Kil- mile events.
Olympic favorite until his collapse ly, Eugenio Monti and Toni Gus-
inte oploy hiureshae, tafsson today emerged as the stars PRO ACTION:
dzldthe crowdwihasetc in the row-ridden winter Olym-_________________
ular routine that earned him the p in roble wiher with
I anzer's score included an un-th 90 m~eters ski jump tomorrow. B ullg
uda tma r srTh enme h b en p de s,1in
1 mxiumof ixpont frm IThe games haveubn plagued B l5es, B u
Italian judge Michele Beltrami. by, snwsors il Ahr n
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-Daily-Jay Cassidy
NOTRE DAME'S BILL HURD blasts across the tape in a blistering
time of :06.1 for the 60-yard dash, On the right is Michigan
gridder-turned-thinclad George Hoey as he finishes behind Hurd
time Michigan
has this
year. uled the championships over spring
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In the MSU Relays.
Michigan runners won the two-
mile relay, but failed to place in
any of the others. The Wolverine
mile contingent was forced to
withdraw from its race when one
member was struck with a leg
cramp.
Michigan's relay teams should
regain some of their past forum
when Ron Kutschinski and Tom
Kearney return. Both were way-
laid by minor injuries before last
weekend's meets in New York and,
East Lansing.
Ron to Run?
The flashy two-mile unit took a
third and a first over the weekend,
but had to borrow a pair of run-
ners from other units, thus hurt-
ing their performances.
Assistant track coach Dave Mar-
tin said yesterday that Kutschinski
"might" compete in today's meet.
"He ran on it yesterday and to-
day," noted Martin after the team
had finished preparations for the
meet. "But it's still a little stiff
and he might decide to wait a
week. It will be up to him."
High jumper Clarence Martin
was also injured before the MSU
meet. Suffering from painful shin
splints, the leaping junior failed
to qualify by missing at 6'-4"
three straight times.
"I'd say the shot put is still our
weakeset event," added Martin.
"Unless one of these guys really
fires up, we won't even place in
the Big Ten's."
Senior strongman Bob Thomas
won the event in both the Western
Michigan and Michigan Federa-
tion Relays, but failed to place at
MSU. A consistent 52-foot per-
former, Thomas was outdone as
fifth place went to a Kansas State
athlete with a toss of 52'-7".
ets Blast Past Foes;
nericans Romp to Wins
Costly Slip
The U.S. champion, skating with
ease and grace to the music of
Pagliacci and Tchaikowsky, mat-
ched Danzer's electrifying per-
formance until he attempted the
same triple spin loops the Aust-
rian had executed brilliantly.
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Sui es tthUnitedsaetam
rows about rules, sex and dope
tests, and political arguments.
The Russians, who won 11 gold
medals at Innsbruck four years
ago, have slipped back and now
will be lucky if they finish second
in the medal standings.
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PITTSBURGH (+) - The St.
Louis Blues scored once in each
period to defeat Pittsburgh 3-1
last night and move into fourth
place, while dropping the Pen-
guins into the fifth spot in. the
West Division of the National
Hockey League.
The Blues were ahead 2-0 be-
fore veteran Andy Bathgate slap-
ped the puck in from 50 feet mid-
way through the second period
for his 18th goal of the season.
With St. Louis forward Craig
Cameron in the penalty box for
hooking, Perry Crisp broke loose
and skated nearly the length of
the ice for the Blues' first goal
at 10:45.
The Penguins pulled Binkley
out of the goal in favor of an ex-
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tra attacker in the final seconds,
giving Bill McCreary a clear shot I
with 19 seconds remaining. It.
was McCreary's ninth goal of the
season, six of them against Pitts-c
burgh.,
* * *
BALTIMORE (P) - The Balti-l
more Bullets crushed the Seattle
Super Sonics 147-118 last night
in a hotly disputed National .Bas-1
ketball Association game which
saw six technical fouls and two'
ejections.f
Seattle coach Al Bianchi and1
Bullet guard Leroy Ellis each re-
ceived two technicals for disput-
ing calls by referee Richie Pow-
ers and were ejected.
After Bianchi was thrown out
of the game with 8:50 remaining
in the third period, he chai gedi
Powers and had to be restrained
by his players.
Kevin Loughery led the Bullets,
who increased a 68-58halftime
lead to 22 points midway throug!
the third quarter, with 29 poins.
Gus Johnsron had 21 points avd
18 reboun1s for Fa'timore.
CLEVELAND (M-Adrian Smith
and substitute Walt Wesley led
a late second-quarter rally that
boosted the Cincinnati Royals to
a 13-point lead on the way to a!
125-91 rout of the New York
Knickerbockers in a National Bas-
ketball Association game last
night.
Wesley scored eight points and.
Smith seven in the big bust as
the Royals outscored the Knicks
23-10 and took a 59-46 halftime
lead.
The Royals built up a 20-point,
margin in the third period and,
coasted the rest of the way.
* * *
TEANECK, N.J. (R)-The New
Jersey Americans ran off seven
straight points late in the final
quarter last night and stormed
to a 130-119 victory over the Ana-
helm Amigos in the American Bas-
ketball Association.
The Americans led only 123-119
when they put on the decisive
burst, with Stew Johnson hitting
for two key field goals.
It was New Jersey's fifth
straight home court victory and
gave it a one-game edge over idle
Indiana for third place in the
Eastern Division.
Steve Chubin of Anaheim led
all scorers with 30 points. Tony
Jackson had 25 and Dan Ander-
son and Mel Nowell 24 each for
New Jersey.
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Cincinnati 125, New York 91
Boston 124, Chicago 108
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