THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, March 12, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, March 12, 1969 Allen's success stuns all By CINDY LEATHERMAN As a senior at Palo Alto (Cali- fornia) High School, Mike Allen surprised quite a few people by capturing the eCntral Coast Sec- tion championship in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:45. His best time previously had been 1:49. As a sophomore at the Univer- sity of Michigan, Allen did it again. Only this time, it was in the 200-yard butterfly for the Big Ten championship March 1st. Before this meet, his best time of the season had been 1:58.9-Al- len won the event with a 1:53.49. He not only surprised the spec- tators in Bloomington, but his teammates (particularly Lee Bis- bee and Tom Arusoo, Michigan's powerful butterfly duet who fin- ished second and third), his coach (Gus Stager, who felt he might be able to capture third at best), and especially himself. "It was a surprise," Allen com- 4mented, smiling. "I never swam butterfly in practice - the last time I did was my freshman year." Coach Stager was pleasantly as- tounded with the 6'4" sophomore. "We had no idea at all that Mike would win. I didn't think he was good enough to beat our two but- terfliers (Bisbee and Arusoo). "But he swam a tremendous race," Stager continued. "I'm very pleas- ed with Mike's performance." There are a lot of factors in- volved in such an improvement- a drop of five seconds is quite significant in swimming times. The fact that Allen was shaved down (hair removed from t h e arms and legs to reduce friction in the water) can lower a time as much as one second. Allen also observed that "every- one else drops in time too. That's the way you plan it-to take a big drop at the big meets: You're justI too tired during the regular sea- son." Certainly practice and atti- tude have a lot to do with an athlete's improvement. Allen swims at least two-and-a-half to three hours every day. "When the stroke feels good," he said, "it's worth it. "Trouble is, it takes so damn long. I didn't work out at all last summer, and I haven't felt good all season - until the Big Tens." (Allen spent last summer at Stan- ford doing research on a collection of primitive art from Australia. er. "He's a good person and a Owned by his father, the collec- good coach. He has a personality tion is now on exhibit at the I get along with." Berkeley museum.) Last year, though, Allen was As far as attitude is concerned, feeling doubtful about his sport. Allen believes "You have to be "I was really turning things over up for a race to swim well - in my mind-having all sorts of and you have to be up in practice doubts and decisions and the feel- to get in shape for a race." ing I could be spending my time Allen has been "up" for swim- doing better things. But when ming ever since he first started you're in it (swimming) there's taking lessons at age eleven. "The meaning, and once you've made person who influenced me most as the initial conimitment. y o u far as swimming is concerned, was should stick with it."- the coach I had from the time I But success is a bolstering fac- started until I was fifteen - Gus tor, and this year, Allen is sure Dea had a successful high he's where he wants to be. "I en- Alln hd asucessul ighjoy swimming," he commented. school career, performing well at And Coach Stager pointedly ob- the A.A.U.'s and sectional meets. servedC "Anybody enjoys it when He was accepted at Stanford, they're succesful." Yale, and Michigan, and finally chose the latter because "Stanford There's only one more big swim- was too close to home and I didn't mirig event this year, and Allen want to have to wear a coat and hopes to duplicate his performance tie all the time at Yale." at Bloomington. Inconsistency is ..His freshman year on the squad the biggest problem he must con- was uneventful. "He'd have flash- tend with in preparing for the es of potential along the way, and NCAA's. "Inconsistent isn't really then bad lapses," explained Stag- the right word," Stager comment- er. "He had a little trouble ad- ed. "It's just that until the latter justing at first, but he gets along part of the season, he hasn't shown fine now." the true potential he exhibited in Allen gets along well with Stagl high school." w COUPON-OMEGA PIZZA FREE HEATED DELIVERY 40c O F F * on any large or medium pizza with this coupon I GOOD TO MARCH 15 Call 769-3400 TIGER THIRD BASEMAN Don Wert starts the spring season with the same hustle that he gave the World Champion Tigers all last season. Here Wert tries to break up a Pirate double play en route to Detroit's come-from-behind 5-4 victory over Pittsburgh yesterday. Tiers edge Pirates; Yanks stretch streak FOUR TEAMS CUT: am- glional -Ui IF YOl MUST HAVE.. .o OR MORE WEEKLY THIS SUMMER... nGood Humor OFFERS IT! I Boston By PHIL HERTZ One year ago the National In- vitation, Tournament decided to increase its field from fourteen to' sixteen teams because of the abun- dance of top-flight teams across the nation. In this year of fewer top-flight collegiate fives, the NIT decided to cut four teams from its field in an attempt to stage nothing less than a first rate tour- nament. Unfortunately for the tourna- ment directors, their attempt seems to have fallen short of the goal as this year's field will further illustrate the decline of the NIT which has been continuous since the early fifties. Then it was open to all NCAA entrants and at- tracted iall the top cage quintets in the country. Now it is limited to conference runners-up, rejects from the NCAA tourney, and the stronger teams from the New York Metropolitan area. The 1969 NIT includes seven second place finishers, Temple (18-8) from the Middle Atlantic Conference, Tennessee (18-6) from the Southeastern Conference, Wy- oming (19-8) from the Western Athletic Conference, Ohio (16-8) from the Mid-American Confer- ence, Kansas (20-6) from the Big Eight, Louisville (20-5) from the Missouri Valley Conference, and South Carolina (20-6) from the Atlantic Coast Conference. College heads NIT There are also four New York area teams, Rutgers (20-3), Ford- ham (17-8), St. Peter's (20-6), and Army (16-8). None of the teams, however, played a really strong schedule, Three NIT participants, West Texas State (17-7), Southern Il- linois (16-7), and Boston College (21-3) were independent powers rejected by the NCAA tournament, and two other entrants, Tulsa (19- 7) from the Missouri Valley Con- ference and Florida (18-8) from the Southeastern Conference, were only able to finish third in their resective leagues. Only four of the quintets in the tourney received mention in the final Associated Press Poll. South Carolina was rated thirteenth, Louisville fifteenth, Boston Col- lege sixteenth, and Kansas nine- teenth. kansas, Louisville, and South Carolina all have suffered defeats since the poll was publish- ed, and Kansas has been downhill since February when the Jay- hawkers' top ballplayer, Jo-Jo White graduated. - Pre-season decisions by the NCAA, which barred La Salle and St. Bonaventure, two top Eastern powers, from post-season tourna- ments because of rule violations further weakened the potential, at least indirectly, for a strong NIT field. As things stand now, only Bos- ton College, which defeated NCAA bound Duquesne by 20 points last week, has the talent to dominate the 1969 NIT; however, even Bos- ton College will have to be wary of the cinderella teams, that have become to prevalent in recent tourneys. Two teams that made surprising showings in the two most recent tournaments are entered in this year's NIT; Southern Illinois which stunned Eastern basketball writers by capturing the tourna- ment crown last season when it competed as a smallcollege team; and St. Peters, co-champion of the Metropolitan Conference. That year the Salukis were led by Walt Frazier, who went on to stardom with the .New York Knicks, and a sophomore named Dick Garrett, who has achieved all-american status this year. Gar- rett, a 6'3" forward, who has oc- casionally played guard, has aver- aged 20 points a game for each of his three seasons. He leads a bal- anced team which' features four I starters who average in double figures. Coach Jack Hartman's squad has also been aided by a strong defense that has yielded only 63 points a game, good enough to place the Salukis thir- teenth in the nation in that cate- gory. Over the regular season, South- ern Illinois was inconsistent, but the Salukis did finish the cam- paign by winning four of their last five contests. The Salukis may be gaining the consistancy they lacked all year, if so, the so-called power teams of the NIT will have to contend with them. St. Peter's, also must be counted as a threat. -Last year the Pea- cocks stunned the sport world when they trounced a strong Duke squad, 100-79, and then went on to capture fourth place in the NIT. Then St. Peter's featured a strong, fast ball club, which, was one of the top offensive teams in the country; however, St. Peter's lost four of its five starters, and Peacock Coach Don Kennedy was. forced to build his team around, the one returnee, Elnardo Webster. Webster, however, was no or- dinary ballplayer. As Kennedy says, "Webster is a tremendous player. St.Peter's has}never had a ballplayer like him before." Last year Webster averaged 25 points and 13 rebounds a game. 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By The Associated Press The Detroit Tigers, who w o n over 40 games last y e a r in the seventh inning or later, did the trick again yesterday in their 5-4 exhibition baseball victory over Pittsburgh. With the score tied 4-4, Dick McAuliffe led off the ninth in- ning with a double off reliefer Dick Hendrix, t h e n came home on Mickey Stanley's single. The Tigers were behind twice earlier. In the eighth, Detroit was losing 4-3 when Ron Woods hom- ered to tie the game. Clete Boyer started a three-run rally in the eighth inning with a solo home run yesterday) that swept the Atlanta Braves to a 5-3 exhibition baseball victory o v e r the Houston Astros. Mike Lum drove in two more runs with a double, with all three runs charged to losing pitcher 'Steve Shea. Houston took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning on a triple by Doug Rader, a double by Curt Blefary a n d a single by John Edwards. Denis Menke slammed a solo hom- er in the ninth for the Astros' oth- er run. Johnny Bench slammed a triple, double and single yesterday to drive in three runs and lead Cin- cinnati to a 6-1 exhibition base- ball victory over the Kansas City Royals. Gary Nolan, Tony Cloninger and Clay Carroll each pitched three innings and held t h e Royals to four hits to break a three-game Kansas City winning streak. The Royals scored their only run in the first inning off Nolan on a double by Mike Fiore and a sin- gle by Steve Whitaker. Rookie outfielder Bill Russell sparked a three-run sixth inning Tuesday as the Los Angeles Dodg- ers edged the Montreal Expos, 4-1, in an exhibition baseball game. Outfielder M a c k Jones hit a 375-foot home run to right field for Montreal's only score in the fourth inning. The Cleveland Indians took ad- vantage of five bases on balls to record a 5-3 exhibition baseball victory over the San Diego Pad- res yesterday. rand slam home run by Ted Uhlaender in the second inning carried the Minnesota Twins to a 7-6 victory over the Boston Red Sax in an exhibition baseball game yesterday. The St. Louis Cardinals batter around in two consecutive innings yesterday to overpower the Phila- delphia Phillies 8-1 in an exhibi- tion baseball game. A home run by Larry Hisle was the only Phillies' run against three Cards pitchers. Hisle connected off starter Gary Waslewski in the second inning. The Cards promptly retaliated with a four-run outburst against Barry Lersch, scored three more against Bill Laxton in the fourth inning and added a final run in the ninth off Bill Wolfe. American League Oakland A's crushed the National League San Francisco Giants 11-5 yesterday in the first meeting between the Bay Area rivals in a spring train- ing exhibition show. Rookie Tom Shopay's two-out two-run single in the seventh broke a 3-3 tie and led the un- beaten New York Yankees to a 5-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox in an exhibition base- ball game yesterday. The Yanks loaded the bases with two out in the seventh off star re- liever Wilbur Wood and Bob Prid- dy. Bobby Mitchell's double and walks to Gary Washington a n d Gene Michael set it up for Shop- ay's winning hit against Priddy. The Baltimore Orioles received 14 bases on balls. yesterday b u t needed tight pitching from Jim Palmer and three others to hand the Washington Senators thpir fifth straight exhibition def at 2-1. Manager Ted Williams' team scored its first run in 1b innings when Tim Cullen's single in the eighth scored Mike Epstein, who.. led off with a double. Tony Cohigliaro got his f i r s t hit of the spring for the Red Sox. He doubled off the fence in left center against a strong wind to drive in a run, Cleon Jones' three-run homer climaxed an eight-run sixth in- ning Tuesday that carried the New York Mets to their first exhibi- tion baseball victory of the year, 15-7 over the Philadelphia 'B' team. I *1 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER (M/n" 4 SUNDAY-MARCH 23, 1969 - 8:00 P.M. - FORD AUDITORIUM TENANTS, TAX,.CREDIT Michigan law entitles tenants to claim 20% of their rent as credit against state income tax. If you do not claim this credit, your landlord may subtract 'this 20% of your rent from his tax bill, but by law he is not entitled to that credit. Do not pay your landlord's income tax as well as his property tax, have your land- lord fill out a form, MI 1040G. If he refuses he is breaking the law, furthermore such information provides the State with figures to check tax returns of Ann Arbor landlords. 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