PAGE SIC THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRMAY. FEBRUARY 25, lose PAESXTEMIHGNDIYFRDY IRJAL 3 ~A .s} i+ +a v aava wV) iVVV School Time Jil OLYMPIA' TIME m+ University Typewriter Center Home of OLYMPIA, the Precision Typewriter 613 E. William St 665-3763 M' Icers Seek State Funeral G The Margin for Error ~ Gil Suuueerg mominimummmmin By BILL LEVIS Earlier this month, Michigan's icers faced the Spartans of Mich- igan State after twice beating the league - leading Michigan Tech Huskies. Twice, the Spartans turn- ed back the Wolverines. Tonight, Michigan journeys to East Lansing to seek revenge for that double defeat suffered at the expense of their supreme instate rival. Then tomorrow night, the two teams will travel to Ann Ar- bor to close out regular season play when they exhibit their hockey talents at 8 p.m. in the Michigan Coliseum. The two losses inflicted by the Spartans the first weekend of February sent the 'M' icers into a tailspin which saw five straight games without a victory. The Maize and Blue finally came out of the slump last Saturday when then erupted against the Minne- sota Duluth Bulldogs. In that con- test, Michigan exploded for five goals in the first period and then "Isprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; 1Isat upon Joris, the third guy on me. --from 0 X a -t * POEMS4 Famous first and infamous second lines by Richard Armour Illus. by Eric Gurney The master history-twister and classics-reclassifier turns impious reversifier. Complete with facetious footnotes. At all bookstores. $1.50 PRENTICE-HALL coasted to a 8-3 decision over the cellar-ridden Bulldogs. Spartans Take Two In the first Michigan State series, the Blue succumbed to the Spartans 8-7 at East Lansing and 4-2 in Ann Arbor. In that series, MSU and WCHA leading scorer Doug Volmar sparked the team to victory when he netted a hat trick in the first period of the opening game. While Volmar did not score again, his three goals stunned the Wolverines and gave the Spartans the momentum need- ed to sweep the series.j When asked if he would alter his style against the Spartans in generaland Volmar in particular, sophomore goal tender Harold Herman remarked, "I am not go- ing to play any different at all. I just have to be a little quicker. Volmar got a couples of nice goals and a lucky one off me. I only plan to play a little better." Dynamite on the Rocks Michigan State has the most explosive team in the league. They have averaged 4.5 goals a- game. Still, Michigan is tied with State for that honor. Defensively, the Spartans are ranked sixth in the league though. Coach Al Renfrew noted that "Michigan State is a' tough team. They are an offensively minded club. They have a real hard shoot- er in Volmar." Herman agrees, "They play well. They have good shots. There is though no particu- lar player to guard against. The team is just good all over, like everyone else in the league." Michigan State's scoring attack is, of course, led by Volmar. He tops the WCHA with 18 goals and a like number of assists in 18 games. The third leading scorer in T WCHA Standings Michigan Tech Minnesota North Dakota Denver MICHIGAN Michigan State Colorado College Minnesota Duluth FRIDAY'S W L' 13 4 13 7 12 8 S 6 88 8 10 4 11 2 15 GAMES T 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 S Pct. .750 .650 .600 .583 .500 .444 .281 .139 DOUG VOLMARAND Michigan at Michigan State Minnesota Duluthat Colorado College Minnesota at Michigan Tech Denver at North Dakota SATURDAY'S GAMES ' Michigan State at Michigan Minnesota Duluth at Colorado College Minnesota at Michigan Tech Denver at North Dakota the conference is also a Spartan. Center Mike Coppo has collected five less points than his teammate netting 14 goals and 17 assists in league competition. Battle of Scorers A third member of MSU in the top ten scorers is wing Brian Mc- Andrews. The Wolverines, also a high scoring club, have their share of scoring leaders. Mel Wakabayashi, though play- ing in two less games than his intrastate rivals, has netted 12 goals and has aided on 14 more tallies. Bruce Koviak, center of the high producing 'Kid' line, leads the Blue in goals with 13 in conference play. In total season scoring, Koviak leads Wakayashi in goals by one, 18-17. The Spartans biggest weakness appears to be their defense. Their defensemen have allowed 83 goals in 18 games. Michigan State coach Amo Bessone points out, "Our de- fense just hasn't been keeping up with our offense. Defense is the most important part of hockey and it's been our weakest point all year." Spartans Share Net Work Michigan State relies on goalies Jerry Fisher and Gaye Cooley in the nets. Both have played in 12 games this year. Cooley has regis- tered a 3.9 goal against average while Fisher has allowed an even 4 goals a game to penetrate the Spartan net. When asked what he thought of the MSU netminders, Herman said, "I have played with Jerry (Fisher) when we were both in Detroit. He's a great goalie. Cooley also does a real good job." While the M' icers are aiming for a climax in the playoffs, Coach Renfrew reiterates, "We play every game to win. We are concerned with getting the team ready for the playoffs, and still experiment- ing in our offensive lines. We're just trying to get the best com- binations of what we have." Coach Renfrew continued, "Our players do not have the greatest ability. It takes a supreme effort and mental outlook from us. I just hope we are ready."t The IM Department will spon- sor its weekly foreign students sports program tonight at Wat- erman Gym from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Both foreign and American students are invited to 'attend. There will bescompetition in badminton, basketball, volley- ball, table-tennis, and track. If you are interested in seeing the Michigan gymnastics team play Michigan State at East Lansing this Saturday, contact Micki King at 764-2667 or NO 2-7739. If enough interest is shown, a bus will leave the Un- ion at 10:30 a.m. Saturday and will be back by 4:30 p.m. Cost will be approximately $2.50, in- cluding bus fare and the meet ticket. f - 0 4; C The New York Mets And How They Grew, PART THE LAST: "The Spectator-Participation Sport" And in 1962 the Mets were a godsend for the press. They had the man to provide the aphorism for the day. The Mets had brought the O' Professor-Charles Dillon Stengel-back to the big city. Only a couple of years earlier (with the "Other Team") Case had Stengel- ized the same scribes into believing that Yogi Berra not only could speak English, but that he was, in fact, the greatest raconteur since Rhett Butler. With his new personnel he would have a field day during his stay. Rod Kanehl would hustle for a week and become the new Ty Cobb. Choo Choo Coleman would single and block a wild pitch in the same inning and he'd be hailed as a catcher (for the Mets to have a catcher is about as likely as their having Ty Cobb). But the biggest joke of all was that he had these fellows believ- ing for three-and-a-half years that he, Casey Stengel, did not mind being the losingest manager in baseball-finishing twentieth every time out, a composite 80th-and that he took all the adversity with a grain of salt and shrugged it off after the last called third strike or blown grounder or dropped pop-up or triple-turned-into-an-easy- double-play of the game. When the rest of the league started making those 435-foot DP's look easy . .. it hurt plenty. But Casey, even mighty Casey, could not have done it alone. So the Mets started out with New York City, but for the first few games their home field had the popularity of a nuclear weapons test site. It appeared that all the advance publicity paid for by Mrs. Joan Payson (who, by chance, had also financed the rest of the works too) had left her with a potentially large and very private garden. Then one weekend it happened. The Mets had a solid house of spectators for a Saturday matinee, and people in the stands cheered. They cheered, they yelled . . . and then there was a chant of "Let's Go Mets!" which came out of some dark pocket high in the staduim. They booed umpires #n the tradition of by-gone years with a blunt Bronx Cheer. They enjoyed themselves. They generated excitment. No exploding scoreboards. No free baseballs. No mules. No irri- descent pastels. Just baseball and they enjoyed themselves. By Sunday game time the Mets mas not have had any real fans But their patron's did! The doublexieader was a sell-out going away. And somebody whipped out a dented and dulled brass coronet, something out of an era when Brooklyn loved their Bums; and led that chant . . . "Let's Go Mets." Then there was a bedsheet unfurled somewhere in the unreserved grandstands in right field, and it got some exposure and encourage- ment on TV. It was the first of a long procession to come (The Mets were to hold a "Sign Day" the following year between games of a doubleheader which would bring forward over 1100 messages of all types to parade around the field for over two-and-a-quarter hours, sending the second game far into the evening) which included such memorable ones as: "Casey for King" . . . "Artie's Tavern Heartily Endorses the Metropolitans!" . . . "Ninth Place or Bust!" . . . "Is This the End of the Mets Empire?" . . . "Pearsall for Premier" . . "If This Sign Doesn't Win First Prize You Can Always Cover the Infield With It" . . . "Break Up the Mets!" . . . "Yea!" . . . "Will Success Spoil Our Mets?" accompanied by "We'll Never Knw!" .,. "Boo!" . . - "Remember the Maine" . . . and, typical of the entire Metsomania craze, 'Pray'... And so the ball team had fans. And the Mets had inadvertantly come up with their first innovation for baseball. They made the game a "Spectator-Partici- pation Sport." On that very first day, the fiery cries of some 50,000 boosters had lit a flame under the club, and late in the game they were to come back from a,10-3 deficit to eke out a 10-9 defeat, leav- ing the bases jammed in the bottom of the ninth. Who could ask for anything more? In the next few weeks this wave of human voices would swell and break over every visiting team that ventured to New York. It bewildered them-the Cubs, the Phils the Cards-teams that had been used to the comfortable silence of their home mauso- leums. And on the weekends, when the already hard-core fans were really reinforced, it crushed them. That isn't to say that they lost to the good guys. Heaven forbid and shucks, no! But it crushed them. The fans loved it. The writers loved it. And overnight, through the power of the quill an j the tonsil, the Mets had stormed-well, maybe tripped into-and captured a nation. That PR! It was that real expensive PR that did it, right? Wrong! The Mets' PR men seemed to be the last to know about their client's success. By the time they realized what was coming off, they couldn't jump on the bandwagon because they were being trampled by it. No, not Madison Avenue, not Broadway. It wasGerard Avenue and Fordham Road and Flatbush and Harlem that did it. Because the people-the individuals-in the stands put two and two together, and for the first time in quite awhile liked what they came up with. The Mets were not a bad team .. . they were an incredibly bad team. Under normal baseball conditions they couldn't possibly win a contest in the National League-or, for that matter, in any league- without an overt act of God. But occasionally the Mets did win. There could be only one answer as to what was causing the strange events out there. There was only one answer. And every last man-jack of a paid attendee in the city who could lift his voice above a whisper or paint a sign on an old bedsheet or blow a horn or light a cherry bomb knew it as the gospel truth and the impossibly wonderful phenomenon that it had to be. It was... AMAZIN'. So they advertized simply: "Come on out to the ball park and enjoy the people. Do some yelling and hoping and have a good time ... And you can see the Mets too!" E 0 -a 9 ....-..-..-. -------""" I L. rl 0I I T -. . KODAK Cuwwo800 Projector Automatic, jamproof--80 slides to a tray! New, more compact, quieter version of the world's favorite slide projector-the Kodak Carousel Projector. Round 80-slide tray loads like a piggybank, plays like a record, stores like a book. Slides feed by gravity. The Carousel Projector is jam- proof and spillproof. Automatic slide change and full remote control, too. 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