Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturdav, J anudrv 1$. 1969 PaeEgt H IHIA AL -- .-,rday -FJA II %AI Ir V ,1R I1 r W restlers By JOE MARKER Michigan's. wrestlers will com- pete in Iowa City today, but they still don't know who their oppo- sition will be, With - three other teams parti- cipating, Iowa, Northwestern, and Minnesota, there are two possible meet formats. As Assistant Coach Rick B a y explains, we'll either wrestle back-to-back dual meets 4 with Minnesota and Iowa or else all three teams in a quadrangular. In any case, we won't take on Northwestern head-to-head, since we've wrestled them once (Michi- gan won, 21-10)." Of the two teams Michigan will be facing for the first time, Iowa - should give the Wolverines the most trouble. The Hawkeyes firi- ished two places above Michigan in the recent Midlands Tourna- ment. "Iowa is the toughest team in the Big Ten n e x t to Michigan State, and is also a funny team that comes on late in the season," comments Bay. "Last year we beat them 25-6 in dual competition; but they tied us for second in the conference FOR T meet." face a Iowa's' greatest strength lies in unorthodox Rich Mihal, the de- western fending Big Ten champion at 160. Today1 Bay notes, "he doesn't 1i k e to to be ci wrestle on his feet, so he doesn't get many takedowns. However, in ished thi the second and third-periods he's season, ai murder while wrestling on t i e Hawkeye mat." Michigan Iowa will also be tough at 137 dual mee with junior Joe Cartensen, who The otl has already won three early season will repre tournament titles. Cartensen fin- the 145 p The 171 9 in four team meet SEASON OPENER: Wolverine frosh to encounter Toledo * Minnesota, unlike Iowa, shouldI provide no trouble at all. The Go- phers boast a proud Big TenI wrestling tradition which includes a memorable 18-8 decision over Michigan in 1966, a victory that stopped a 34 dual meet victory string for the Wolverines. However, they have fallen on lean times recently, and this year is no exception. With a team dom- inated by underclassmen, Mike Maas should be the only Gopher to give Michigan any great trou- ble. Maas, third-place finisher in the Big Ten tournament last year, was one of two Minnesotans to win in last year's 27-6 dual meet romp by Michigan. Michigan will go with the same line-up used against Northwestern. Tim Cech, Lou Hudson, and Mike Rubin will wrestle in the light- weight classes, followed by Lane' Headrick, Jim Sanger, and Chuck Reilly. In addition Geoff Hensen and Steve Rubin will be available and' will likely wrestle if the Wolver- ines are engaged in two d u a 11 meets. Tom Quinn, broken nose and all, will go at 167, while Cornell andj Rawls will share the top-weight categories. By RON SMITH Michigan's freshmen cagers play their first game of a short season against Toledo today at 11:30 before the Michigan - Ohio State clash. It will be the first of three encounters this season for the freshmen while the Rock- ets will be playing their third of a 14 game schedule. It will be the first big game for both squads, however. Toledo won its first two games over non- collegiate AAU competition. For the frosh Wolverines, it will be the end of several boring but es- sential inter-squad games. Freshman Coach George Pom- ey said the game "will provide the incentive of outside competition and will be a good test of t h e team". The frosh's offense will re- semble the varsity's. The team is fast and quick, using t h r e e guards. Pomey thinks the fast- break offense will be the team's strongpoint. "We play an o p e n court offense. We try to open up the middlewfor the guards. There'll be two big men playing at the posts and three guards." Lamont King, 6-0, will lead the backcourt on the fast-break. Pomey describes King as "a bril- liant, flashy guard who runs, passes and shoots well, and has the ability to drive for lay-ups," King was a high school standout ers at guard. Both are fast and and all-stater at Detroit North- good shooters. Dave Hart was an western under new assistant var- instrumental member of the Class sity coach Fred Snowden. B state champions from Willow Coach Pomey has six possible Run. starters for today's game. In addi- Wayne Grabiec, a 6-5 all-stater, tion to King, Dave Hart 5-9 and from Illinois, is another possibley Rick Ford 6-0 are possible start- starter. Coach Pomey says Grab- iec is probably the best shooter on the squad and can play either guard or forward because of his size and quickness. -. John Linnen. 6-7, and M a t t Anderson. 6-7, are the other pro- bable starters. They are both good rebounders. playing at the posts. Tim Harmon, 6-3, is the man to watch on the Rockets. Playing at guard or forward, Harmon has averaged 31.5 points and 20 re- bounds in Toledo's two victories. The Wolverines are out to match last year's record of three straight wins. Against 7ki k/a'/I 1..... by Jim Forrester How to keep a happy pressm Fill them with food and booze HE SECOND WEEK in a row, the Michigan wrestlers will conference contender. Last week the team downed North- n, 21-10, for their fourth dual meet win in as many contests. they take on Iowa in Iowa City, with matches expected ose as the above contest. rd in the Big Ten last nd was one of only two grapplers to defeat his opponent in last year's t. ,her was Don. Yahn, who esent Iowa tomorrow in pound class. 7 pound match should be interesting, with Big Ten p Verlyn Strellner most posing Wolverine cap- Cornell. er, who hails from a place a m a, should provide a for Cornell, but he has ome the psychological block of having lost to the Michi- gan star three times in past meets. As in last week's meet against Northwestern, Coach Cliff Keen is undecided whether to use Cornell at 177 and Jesse Rawls at heavy- weight, or vice versa. If he needs one victory out of the two match- es, Rawls will go at heavyweight, while if he needs two, Cornell will get the nod. In either case, the honor is a dubious one, since Iowa has rug- ged Dale Stearns bapk for another year. Stearns last year earned the distinction of not being pinned by Dave Porter in two bouts. GEORGE POMEY Bills hire, Raider Rauclh to coach; Baseball strike chances increase SNACKS the mostl runner-ul likely op tain Pete Strellne called TF stiff test to overc Michigan M. U. Union G. A for t U Order Your DailyNow- SINGERS-ACTORS he winter term operetta production -.M Gilbert and Sullivan Society UNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1-1 1 P.M. BUFFALO, N.Y. W-) - Jo h n Rauch, a championship c o a c h with the Oakland Raiders, now faces the task of rebuilding the Buffalo Bills, a one-time Ameri- can Football League powerhouse that fell on its face last fall. Ralph C. Wilson Jr., owner of the Bills, said yesterday he reach- ed agreement with Rauch 1 a t e Thursday for the former Georgia quarterback to sign a four-year contract as head coach. T h e terms were not disclosed. Rauch, 41, replaced Harvey Johnson, who was named to suc- ceed Joel Collier after the latter was fired .by Wilsonfollowing Buffalo's 48-6 loss to Rauch's Raiders last Sept. 16. Johnson, who was coach for 12 games, re- BOWLING 1 P.M. to 12 P.M. Michigan Union turned to his former job as di- rector of player personnel. At Oakland, Rauch directed the Raiders to the AFL title in 1967 but lost to the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl. Last year, Oakland won the Western Divi- sion title and bowed to the New York Jets for the league crown. His teams compiled a 34-8-1 record in three seasons, best in' the AFL. He was named coach of the year in 1967. Rauch's playing career - at Georgia and with the NFL Phil- adelphia Eagles - ran from 1945 to 1951. He coached at the Uni- versity of Florida, Tulane, Geor- gia and West Point before joining the Raiders. Players in revolt NEW YORK (P) -- The threat of a strike by major league base- ball players increased again yes- terday when the Players Asso- ciation revealed that the owners' offer to increase their pension fund by a million dollars had been overwhelmingly rejected. According to a release f r o m the Players Association, theI vote by the players on whetherI to accept or reject the offer madeI by the owners on Dec. 17 was1 described tersely in the following1 manner:1 "Accept the owners offer-6. 4 "Reject the owners offer-461."T At the end of the statement was a list of names, reading like a who's who of baseball, of players who were allowing their names to b° used in support of the policy of not signing 1969 contracts un- til a satisfactory benefit plan is worked out. In elaborating on the statement, Marvin Miller, executive director of the Players Association, s a i d that meetings with representa- tives of the owners will continue but he also pointed out that "time is getting narrower." The specter of a strike looms when baseball's spring camps be- gin opening late next month, at which time it is presumed unsign- ed players would not report to camp if an agreement had not been reached. The time of the Michigan- Southern Illinois swim meet next Saturday Jan. 25 has been changed to 3:30 p.m. In the afternoon because of a concert that night. Win Schuler's is one of those restaurants scattered throughout the middle-west that tries togive itself a Bavarian flavor with the Alpine construction and the ornate wood carved interior. The effect is lost though because nobody inside is Bavarian, The food is'great, possibly the best in the state, and the service excellent. But it isn't even remotely European. Good '01 American hustle takes care of that. This might not be fair to Schuler's though. To get atmosphere a violin quartet should have been playing polkas. Instead we watched a film of the 1968 World Series. It should have been retitled, "The Greatest Story Ever Told." The hell with polkas. The occasion was the Tiger Mid-Winter Press Conference. The Tigers got all the writers in the area, together in hopes they will re- member the nice wining and dining in case the Bengals slip a little during the season. It's quite an impressive meeting. Walking in the door, you sign in, a minor executive watches you sign your name and after you put down the pen says, "Hello, Jim, glad to meet you. I'm Bill Somebody- orother. I'd like to give you this brochure and this pen." Turning around you find a waitress in your path, "Would you like a cocktail, sir?" She takes the order and scurries away. It didn't happen quite that way to us. We walked in the wrong door, stood around looking thirsty and got our drinks (they sure don't scrimp on the liquor) and THEN went to sign in. Then we looked around. The room was split into a lounge and a dining area by a partition. There were relief pictures on the walls of characters from Dickens' Pickwick Papers, hence the name "The Pickwick Room." The room was plush and plush was the only place the World Champions could be. Well, more like the men who made the Champs. Jim Campbell, Mayo Smith and Don Lund were there, but the only player at the gathering was Jim Northrup. His seventh inning triple won the World Series. But the man who found the players has been shuffled into ob- scurity. That man is Don Lund, former Michigan baseball coach from 1959-62. Lund is in charge of player personnel. He is responsible for ob- taining and developing ball players. Since he started working for the Bengals such stars as Willie Horton, Bill Freehan (whom he coached) and Mickey Stanley have appeared on the Tiger roster. Not a bad record. There were three of us from The Daily at the conference and along with the rest of the newspapermen we had been pretty much shut out from proximity of these men by radio people taping inter- views. We were enjoying ourselves but were a little disappointed that we weren't able to talk with any of the people we came to talk"to. We sat down to dinner expecting to eat and then watch the Series film, period. But there was one seat left at our end on the table; and Don Lu nd came down and sat in it. This of course is not the most shattering event in the world, but from the standpoint of a writer on a college newspaper, he was the most valuable person who could have sat in that seat. Being respon- sible for player development, Lund makes sure that the best of the collegiate players are brought in to the Tiger fold. However, profes- sional baseball's activities on the campus is the subject for another story. Obviously, along with booze, talking to Lund made the conference illuminating. For while most of the other writers were talking to each other, we talked to probably, next to the general manager, the most important man in the Detroit organization. Just a little luckin the hassle. 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