Wednesday, December 3, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Weneda, ecmbr , 96 TE ICIGN AIY agrSve Michigan cage .... / - rs face stiff opposition By ELLIOT LEGOW and Meehan, a junior with little Although the Wolverines wo varsity experience, is rated a good their game against Detroit, th Michigan, victors in its first playmaker and defensive player. will need a much better perform game against Detroit, 85-75 Mon- Catlett at 6-8 can play either at ance to top the Irish. Rudy Tom day, moves to rougher opponents forward or center but is expected janovich's ankle is expected to b when it meets Notre Dame and to start at the pivot. If junior better and Johnny Orr will wor Davidson, two of the nation's top John Pleick impresses Dee he will on finding a way to contain Car teams, in their next two games. win the starting center position more successfully than Minnesot Tonight the Wolverines travel to but the 6-8 junior has little varsity did. South Bend to encounter the experience. Preceding the varsity gam Fighting Irish, also winners in Junior Collis Jones is set at one Michigan's freshmen will se their season opener. Monday night fore-court position and the other their second consecutive victo] the Irish topped Minnesota 84-75 forward will be either Tom Sin- at the expense of the Irish fros. and will be trying to make it two nott, Jim Hinga, or Catlett. Jones, Coach George Pomey's "Bab in a row over Big Ten teams, like Carr and Catlett played his Blue" were guilty of numerou In the Minnesota game the Irish high school ball in Washington, errors and poor shooting in the were lead by outstanding junior L.C. and is both a good shooter first game but good reboundin guard Austin Carr, who scored 31 and rebounder. was a determining factor in the points. Carr dropped in eight As a unit, the Irish, though not 94-77 win Henry Wilmore playe points in the last four miNutes to picked in the pre-season Top 20, well at guard, compiling impre clinch the victory for Notre Dame. are rated as a very strong team Carr should be the sparkplug of and should be one of Michigan's Isive statistics of 26 points and this year's Irish quintet, who have toughest opponents of the year.i rebounds to lead the Wolverine lost two of last year's stars and . - -- -- --- - - -- two of their all-time best players, Bob Whitmore and Bob Arnzen, through graduation. Arnzen and L eX al S 110 Whitmore, respectively, rank as the second and third highest career scorers for Notre Dame, and their loss means that Coach John-Buffao awarded 1new ny Dee will have to find new start- ers at the pivot and one forward spot. Unless adequate replace- NEW YORK (P) - Vancouver, 10, 1967. The WHL has requeste ments are found the Irish may B.C. and Buffalo, N.Y. were added from the NHL confirmation of it not be able to attain a record as to the National Hockey League guarantee." good as last year's 20-7 mark. yesterday as the circuit expanded Medicor Corp. of Minnesotai Much of the burden of the de- from 12 to 14 teams. a Minneapolis-based medical in parted players will be picked up Both franchises were awarded vestment firm. Kinasewich saidi by Carr, who averaged 22 points conditionally. If finalized, the new meeting is planned next week t per game for the Irish last season, teams will begin play starting with discuss the matter with Medico despite missing twelve games due the 1970-71 season. and Vancouver. to a broken foot. The 6-3 junior The cost of each new franchise The Buffalo group is headed b, is an outstanding shooter but plays is $6 million, three times the Seymour H. Knox, and his brothe only fair defense. amound paid by the six teams Northrup. Both are bankers. Joining Carr in the backcourt entering the league starting with William Jennings, a chairma will be either Jack Meehan or the 1967-68 season and who now of Expansion Committee and pres Mike O'Connell. O'Connell, a sen- comprise the league's West Divi- ident of the Rangers, said in ior was a regular as a sophomore, sion-St. Louis, Minnesota, Phila- statement that "the committee ha but played only part-time last year delphia, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles granted a conditional franchi: ___ B _ffnln nd Vn r cni ar andi Gymnasts seek lost title. on tey n- n- be trr By JERRY CLARKE The Wolverine gymnasts won the battle last year, but lost the war. Although they were clear- cut Big Ten champions, they miss- ed out on the big prize: a trip to Seattle and a chance at the NCAA daily sports i' ' ta crown. What was more aggravat- ing was that the Hawkeyes of NIGHT EDITOR: ne Iowa, whom the Wolverines de- IMORT NOVECK ek stroyed in a dual meet as well as ry in the conference finals, repre- h. sented the Big Ten well enough and their replacements will have by to win the national championship, to measure up if the season is to! us This season, it will take a much be a success. ir greater effort for Michigan to Leading the team will be NCAA ng avoid such occurrances and reach parallel bars champ Ron Rapper. ir that same goal. The squad's Rapper, the team captain, will ed strongest event, the trampoline, help make his event one of the has been dropped from Big Ten strongest on the team. He will get s- as well as national competition. help from all-around performer 15 In addition, several key personnel Sid Jensen. The parallel bars are s. have been lost due to graduation, one of his strongest events, and; -- -- - he will provide solid support for Rapper. Sophomore Ted Marti, will help. iver and Together with Jensen, Rick McCurdy, Murray Plotkin, and Bill Mackie will give the Wolver- r I-~ci--mt I-~u' ~ ines great strength in the all- 1 allu 1 eS around category. McCurdy won 'the conference title as a sopho- d Rochester of the American League. more last year, with Jensen sec- ts And final execution of a satis- ond. Plotkin missed the season factory lease with. the Pacific with an injury, but is back in is Coliseum, the arena which is own- form. Mackie is a transfer who n- ed by the Pacific National Exhibi- was named, along with Jensen, to a Lion Co. the Canadian team for the Cup of Pete Rogers, along with freshman Skip Frowick are all inexperienced, but Frowick was one of Illinois' finest high school performers last year. George Huntzicker, formerly a national champion on the tram- poline, will head the floor exer- cise squad. Two years ago, as a sophomore, he placed sixth in the nation in this event. An injury kept him out of the nationals last season. Filling the spot formerly held down by Dave Jacobs, NCAA titlist in floor exercise and tram- poline, will be a relatively inex- perienced underclassman. Sopho- mores Chuck Weibel and Pete Rogers will compete for the open- ing, along with freshmen Ward Black, Terry Boys, and Ray Gura. The depth available will make this event one of the stronger ones for the Wolverines. Mike Sasich is gone from the high bar, but Ed Howard will be a top performer in his place. This event, the last of the meet, was a strong one last year, and it is im- portant that the scores not suffer greatly. Plotkin or Marti will com- pete in the spot opposite Howard, and should more than fill the gap Vaulting is one of Jensen's best events, and it should be a strong- point for Michigan. Huntzicker performed well last season, and McCurdy improved over the course to or by :r, n S- a as Ise it I -Daily-Thomas R. Copi MICHIGAN FORWARD Dan Fife (24) goes up for a shot in last night's victory over the University of Detroit. In addition to lead- ing the team on the court to the 85-75 win, Fife scored 16 points himself. k IRK ON BRIDGE: Silence is golden-sometimes By LEE KIRK eiptive bid played a vital role in Daily Bridge Editor Setting a contract. The preemptive bid can be an After South's opening one spade extremely effective weapon when bid, most all West players I know used intelligently. A preempt can would crack in with three dia- shut the opposition out of valu- monds, or perhaps even four, even able bidding space and often will though vulnerable. This particular discourage them f r o m a sound West, however, chose to keep his contract or perhaps lure them in- silence for reasons that may never to an overly optimistic one. be understood, and was later re- Preempts can also backfire, es- warded. pecially when it is the preempter's After North coughed up a bor- partner who has the points. Un- derline two spade bid, he nearly even distribution in one hand al- fell right out of his chair when so increases the probability of South soared to six spades, a bid freakish hands at other seats, and which seems almost impossible a duel of misfits often results. without a forcing opening. A' long, fairly strong suit in a South's blasting tactic is not hand with m i n i m a 1 outside all that unreasonable, and he strength is almost always worth rightly felt that the contract would an opening three or four bid, and need two finesses at most to make, a weak jump overcall can j a m and when he saw North's hand, it your opponents' communication. looked as though only the heart Even if you do get the contract finesse would be needed. and suffer a set, the chances are (Had West intervened with a good that you have kept your foes jump overcall in diamonds, North from a good contract. would undoubtedly have passed, After all this ballyhoo a b o u t and the slam would have been al-, the merits of the preempt, it - - would seem unusual to look at a hand where the lack of a pre- I"-1 4'7bL104a1"54 mostbeyond the reach of rational bidding. The normal opening lead from the West seat would of course be the King of diamonds, but West shrewdly lead the queen. This lead implies that West does not have the king, and if East has the ace, he will overtake. As it turned out, East did have the ace, and figuring South for the king, decided that continua- tion of the diamond suit was fu- tile after taking his ace. The only lead was a heart, and when West trumped in the con- tract was set. The deceptive lead had paid rich dividends. No other North-South pair reached the slam, and many made six on four or five bids when the diamond king was opened and East made the apparently natural play of not overtaking. This particular silent East-West pair were the only ones to garner a positive score and their restraint got them a high board. ~._ _ . and Oakland. Starting with the 1970-71 cam- paign, teams representing Van- couver and Buffalo will play in the East Division along with New York, Boston, Montreal, Detroit and Toronto. Chicago will shift to the West Division. TheVancouver franchise was awarded conditionally to the Medicor Corp. of Minnesota, a Minneapolis-based medical in- vestment firm which also owns the Ice Follies. The president of the Western Hockey League indicated yesterday that considerable negotiations re- main before Vancouver, B.C., enter the National Hockey League. The NHL said yesterday it had awarded conditional franchises to Vancouver, a member of the WHL, and to Buffalo. to builaio an an 1'.AJerunu i4 has been approved by the board. We feel we are right on schedule for long range growth of the NHL. Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL said: "We are extremely enthusiastic with the prospect for major league hockey in Vancouver and Buffalo. We are confident they will bring new and important strength to the league." The conditions for Vancouver as stated by the board were: Acquisition by Medicor of Northwest S p o r t s Enterprises, which owns the Vancouver Can- ucks of the Western League and Pro Standings NB A Eastern Division Buffalo's franchise was awarded to the Niagara Frontier Hockey Corp., a group headed by the Knox brothers. The board pointed out that the granting of the fran- chise "is contingent on the for- mal approval by Buffalo city au- thorities to increase by the 1970- 71 season the seating capacity of War Memorial Auditorium to not less than 15,000 seats. In addition there will have to be an execution of a lease satisfactory to the NHL between the city of Bufalo and the hockey club. The conditions will have to be met by the clubs by Dec. 20, 1969. With the addition of the two new clubs, the 1970-71 schedule will have each team playing 78 games, six against each of the other 13 teams. The playoff alignment was also changed slightly. The four top teams in each division will meet each other in best-of-seven quar- terfinal games with the East win- ners meeting the West survivors in the semi final round. This sys- tem makes it possible for two teams in one division to play for the Stanley Cup. The Expansion Committee also said that there would be future expansion prior to the. 1973-74 season, with four more teams being added-two in each division -plus the possibility of a Euro- pean division. The European division would not compete during the regular season with the NHL but would meet for a world championship at the close of the season. ;-- mm.COUPON-------m 1 I ~THOMPSON'S PIZZA 761-0001 IE - off 50c off I * Large one item (or more) * ' pizza. One coupon per pizza II Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs. Only DEC. 1-4 mmm mm mu ni mm University of Michigan STUDENTS AND FACULTY FLY TO Americas championship. T h e s e of the season. Rogers, Gura, Mar- four should all compete at some ti, and Boys will fight it out for time this season. the open spot. The team's biggest losses were on the rings, where both Chuck Froeming and Rich Kenney grad- uated. The rings were the team's strongest event except for the trampoline, and unless the re- placements come through, there will be a appreciable drop in thei scores. Sophomores Mike Sale andE To repeat as Big Ten cham- pions, Michigan will have to hold off an improving Illinois team, as well as always strong Iowa and Michigan State. If the sophomores and freshmen come through, and the entire team performs up to potential, it could mean that elusive national championship. HAWAII r , :, . The WHL board of governors is W L Pct. not about to rent from policy as New York 24 2 .923 established," Gene Kinasewich, Miwaukee 1 11 .577 president of the WHL said. 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