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 T 4 Traekmeii Duel Irish 4 4 4 -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 I 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. }4 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. 1110 yals, An 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- L.B.J. a play tested cut-out for rainy days,. . on sale Wed., Feb. 21 _ Ui r 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. 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