AGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, I GE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY. .1 - U SPORTS BEAT by TOM WITECKi An Interesting Trend A GLANCE at the sport pages of an average metropolitan news- paper reveals what appears to be a growing trend in the U.S. World of sport-more action off than on the playing fields. . In place of high scorers and leading batters, one reads more and more about the non-athletic species-lawyers, vice-presidents, general managers, etc. Of course, businessmen, rulemakers, and ad- ministrators have a long way to go before they can push Wilt the Stilt, Gordie Howe or Mickey Mantle down to the bottom of the sports page, but they are trying, and with increasing success as of late. Flipping through a few of the more recent items: In professional football, the National and American football leagues are engaged in a checkbook battle for college seniors that has club officials hopping from campus to campus. And entering into the fray once again is the Canadian league, which last week scooped up Minnesota's Tom Brown, one of the best pro prospects. And when the sound of pens on contracts and checkbooks die down, talent scouts are bound to discover that a couple of overzealous collegians have signed more than one contract. Then the legal beagles will take over and sport fans will be treated to daily court stories. Another item is the latest hassle for control of the Detroit Lions management. This wrangling, which breaks out periodically, earns as many front page headlines as the Lions do with their efforts on the playing field. A sport in itself.. . n lrl Wres tiers Whin on Team E ft Large Victory Margin over Powerfu 'Brings Only Words of Praise from JACK BARDEN WILLARD ROOT ... improving ... great in defeat DENNIS FITZGERALD .. fighting captain STRACK EXPLAINS CAGE LOSSES: Team Beaten on Back boards, By JIM STOMMEN Last Monday's surprisingly large margin of victory over powerful Pittsburgh left MVichigan wrestling coach Cliff Keen with nothing but praise for his grapplers. "It was a complete team victory, everyone worked as hard as they could to achieve it," he said of the 22-6 triumph, ,a "Actually no one can be singled out for his effort, they all looked great, even those who lost." One of His Finest Matches Of captain Dennis Fitzgerald's pin of August Arrigone, he said, "He simply overwhelmed his op- ponent in one of his finest matches of the year." Regarding Fritz Kellerman's up- set victory over Pitt's Olympic competitor Larry Lauchle, Keen pointed out that "It is bound to go down as one of the great matches of the year. Fritz did a beautiful job, and, though it surprised wrestling enthusiasts over the entire country, I was not too surprised, for he is a great competitor." In the 157-lb match, Don Cor- riere romped over Daryl Kelving- ton, who had been moved up from 137 lbs for the match. Corriere overwhelmed Kelvington, 15-3, as he held a large weight advantage. Keen said of Corriere: "He turned in a masterful match, simply out- weighed and out-wrestled Kel- vington." Of Jack Barden, the Port Huron sophomore who wrestled at 177-; lbs and decisioned Jim.Harrison, 5-2, - Keen said: "Jack is really' improving, getting better with each match." In the 137-1b match Michigan's Wilfried Hildebrandt completely outclassed David Osmun, tossing him around almost at will to win, 00PS This Saturday's wrestling meet is against Ohio State and not Michigan State as appeared in yesterday's Daily. 'The Big Ten meet will start at 3 p.m. in Yost Field House. 7-0. Karl Fink, Michigan's fine heavyweight, won by virtue of a forfeit over Bob Guzik.- Keen said further that "he was hoping that there would be no let-down by the team following this great victory." He pointed out that "the team was really up for this match, for they knew that U Pitt was tough and that need a superlative effort them. The effort was superlative, it was an ex ary team victory." He talked in terms of recognition and stature. "Not much can be. d unseating the top two tea homa and Oklahoma S we have certainly entren selves in the number th Speaking of other top 1 said, "Lehigh is rapidly one of the top teams in and many other Easter are developing rapidly." Interest on Third S "As the season progres of the nation's interes focused on that third, sr rankings, seeing which moving up to challenge t established Oklahoma tE Summing up the mat said once again, "It wa but a great team victory greatly improved the s Michigan's wrestling, anc I hope will serve as th to carry us through the Big Ten meets." C. T's A SPORT ALL BY ITSELF, as nearly everybody in the Motor City from Henry Ford II to the team water boy chooses up sides in the battle to see whose proxy will garner the most votes. Indus- trialists, sportswriters and even Coach George Wilson are out fight- ing for their favorite team. No attempt will be made to estimate how much copy is written on professional baseball's periodic purge of managers. It is immense. A new trend, however, is the publicity given to baseball executives. Nowadays, many youngsters know more about Frank Lane or Bill Veeck than they do about last year's batting champion. During the dollar battle with the ill-fated Continental League and in recent league meetings to discuss expansion, baseball's men up front have moved more and more into the limelight. And rumor has it that they, along with their junior execs, might even join the play- ers on bubble gum cards this spring. Both professional hockey and basketball have somehow avoided the trend and, with only an occasional exception, one reads almost entirely about the athletes. Professional boxing has not been as fortunate. There was prob- ably more written about the arrangements for, and later the scandal behind, the Patterson-Johansson bout than about the fight itself. More copy seems to be written on the non-athletic side of boxing then on the fighters and their bouts. Also on the college level... S.PORT ON THE COILEGIATE level has been a little bit better, but not much. The NCAA with its various suspensions, television reg- ulations and new rules is continually in the spotlight. The Big Ten has its own little prie-the Rose Bowl wrangle. This issue has been raised year after year at the tri-annual Conference meetings and it has never really been settled. Last year, however, the Conference found a bigger headline winner when they temporarily decided to prevent all Big Ten athletes from competing in NCAA meets. This won even more space than anticipated. And then there is college hockey and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, probably the all-time champion as far as action off the playing field is concerned. Twice in the last week, collegiate hockey was involved in off-the- ice action. The first incident occurred when the NCAA asked its hockey rules committee to investigate problems concerning players from Canada, and to report whether it considered them serious enough for action. In plain political language this means that the Eastern colleges are once again warring against the use by teams of the WCHA of what they call Canadian "professionals." A sore spot with the Easterners is that their predominantly American teams have won just two of 13 NCAA titles since 1948 while teams in the WCHA with pre- dominantly Canadian players have won the other 11. The second non-action it1em was Michigan State Coach Amo Bessone's protest that Michigan Tech had used an ineligible player in its 8-1 victory over the Spartans last weekend. According to the rulebook a player receiving a "match" penalty is ineligible for the re- mainder of that particular game as well as for the next contest. Well, Husky forward Louis Angotti received one of these "match" penal- ties, but went ahead and played anyway. The question now is, will Michigan Tech lose the game by for- felt. Husky Coach John McInnes has some sort of argument why An- gotti was eligible, and from all signs it looks as if the WCHA is ready for one of the off-ice battles that have characterized the league for several years. But, isn't "the game the thing"?... FORTUNATELY FOR THE LEAGUE, they have a fine in-action product to offer. For example, despite the up-coming exam period, capacity crowds are expected for both Friday and Saturday night's games with Minnesota. From all indications this return series should be a great one and could easily rival the "tube" and "bridge" for study break time. One wonders just how many people will be interested in rule technicalities and recruiting problems once the puck is dropped for the opening face off. Not too many I imagine. Nor will Detroit Lions fans be concerned with who is on the Board of Directors when the ball sails down field on the opening kickoff. Nor will boxing fans care who the promoter is when the bell rings for the 15th and final round of a title bout. People will say that businessmen, rulemakers, administrators and others of their secie are necessary if sport is to be "conducted on a fair and well-ordered basis." I guess so . . . But, to be trite, let us not-put the cart before the horse. By DAVE GOOD After finding encouragement in defeat against Indiana's talent- packed Hoosiers, Coach Dave Strack and his cagers have run up against some real problems in losing twice on the road to Illinois and Michigan State. Unable to account for the ice- cold starts and second-half rallies which have characterized all three of the Wolverines' Big Ten games, Strack simply rioted, "We's looked good in spots, but we've got to play good ball all 40 minutes." "You can't win on 30 minutes of good ball," he continued. "We aren't a strong enough team to be able to let up." Rebounding, Strack pointed out, has been the Wolverines' chief problem. "We lost the Indiana. game on the boards, even though we matched them in the second half. Illinois is a real strong team in (its) Huff Gymnasium. They've got good personnel," he added. "At Michigan State we were also making some mistakes on the boards. We weren't taking a firm grip on the ball." Michigan was outrebounded 48-34 at Illinois and 60-48 at Michigan State. Michigan's cagers were com- pletely swamped by the Spartans' 6'7" sophomore Ted Williams, who grabbed 25 rebounds, 16 more than anyone else on the- floor, in what Strack called State's best game of the season. The trouble with the Wolverines' board work is that their tallest man, 6'7" Tom Cole, weighs only 190 lbs. The burly threesome of Detroit Tops Dayton 71-57; Notre Dame Topples DePaul Bob Brown, Scott Maentz and Don Petroff provides enough weight, but Brown and Petroff are only 6'4" and Maentz;6'3". Strack also blamed sluggish ball- handing and too much dribbling for part of the team's problems. In moving against State's pressing defense, Strack pointed out, "We should have gotten down cburt and have gotten some easy bas- kets, but we lost the ball at half court too many times." Some Bright Spots But there were bright spots for the Wolverines. Captain John Tid- well, operating at about 75 per cent efficency because of a leg injury, scored 24 and 20 points in the two games. "We always get a good performance from John," Strack noted. "Petroff, who can score well, did, (23 points against State). He is improving. He made some good moves underthe basket, but he must learn a lot defensively to realize his potential." Strack also thought Maentz played a good game against State, scoring only six points but com- ing up with some key rebounds. In addition Cole came through with 11 points as the third Wol- verine in double figures. Alternates Guards Strack, who has been alter- nating Steve Schoenherr and Jon Hall at guard, sees gCod points in both. "Schoenherr is the more accurate shooter, but Hall is quicker," he explained. So where does the team go from here? Strack noted that the Big Ten is split into two divisions. Ohio State (first in the nation), Iowa (fourth) and Indiana, fol- lowed by Purdue and Illinois, make up the first division. The other five teams, Michigan, Minnesota, Michigan State, Wis- consin and Northwestern, are not far apart. Strack added, "If we can find a key to open things up we'll give a good account of our- selves. With everything equal, we should have a good chance against State at home next time." By The Associated Press DETROIT -Detroit came back from its first home defeat in 24 games to whip Dayton 71-57 in a basketball contest before 6,296 fans last night. Dayton was behind from the start, hitting on only 24 per cent of its shots from the floor in the first half while the Titans con- nected on 35 per cent, Charlie North poured in 18 points in the first half to boost the Titans to a 34-22 halftime lead. North was high scorer for the game with 23 points. Teammate Dave DeBusschere was held to only eight points. High for Dayton was Garry Rog- genburk with 15. Last night's triumph was De- troit's 10th in 15 games. Dayton is 9-4 for the season. * * * Notre Dame 61, DePaul 58 SOUTH BEND -- Notre Dame's basketball Irish, almost invincible on their own floor, knocked off previously unbeated DePaul's Blue Demons 61-58 last night. Racking up their' 23rd straight home floor victory, the Irish won by dominating play under the boards. The defeat of DePaul, ranked No. 7 nationally in the Associated Press Poll, left Ohio State the only unbeaten major team in the country. DePaul had won 12 straight. John Tully, 6'7" Notre Dame senior, was the game's standout. He topped Irish scorers with 16 points and hauled down 14 re- bounds. Howie Carl topped DePaul scor- ers with 16 points. Other Scores Cincinnati 64, Duquesne 53 Auburn 74, Florida State 67 Butler 73, St. Joseph's (Ind.) 63 WCIIA North Dakota 3-4, Colorado 2-9 .. .. . D tschinger, Injures Self, LAFAYETTE (M) - Purdue's hopes of knocking Iowa out of the Big Ten basketball lead suffered a blow yesterday when the Boiler- makers' top scorer, Terry Dis- chinger cut a finger while working in a chemistry lab, and five stitches were required to close the wound. Coach Ray Eddy said the cut may handicap Dischinger in Sa- turday night's game here with Iowa, but there was some hope most of the stitches could be re- moved by Friday. He is averaging 28.5 points for 11 contests. OSIJ ake~s 'RileMatch Michigan hosted a Western Con- ference rifle match last weekend which was won by Ohio State with a score of 2807 out of a pos- sible 3000. Purdue; Illinois and Michigan finished behind OSU in that or- der. Michigan's score was 2702 and its high man was Lee Ehman. FOLLETT'S will buy YOUR,''COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS for CA SH ANY TIME IT'S SO EASY to sell your discarded books to FOLLETT'S. Textbook values decrease rapidly as new editions and more up-to-date books are constantly being published. SELL YOUR BOOKS as soon as you have had your exams and get today's top value for them. at MICHIGAN BOOKSTORE 322 South State Street I - West Beats East in NBA A ll-Star Tilt; Chicago, Pittsburgh Given Franchises By The Associated Press SYRACUSE-Elgin Baylor hus- tled out of a sick bed and helped by Oscar Robertson, Bob Pettit and Clyde Lovellette lead a first quarter drive that carried an un- derdog West team to a 153-131 victory over the East in the Na- tional Basketball Association all- star game last night. A standing room crowd of 8,016 in War Memorial Auditorium saw Baylor, bedded with a fever earlier in the day, launch a furious as- sault that buried the East with a steady succession of fast breaks resulting in easy baskets for the West. The West's 153 points top- ped the previous mark of 130 set by the East in 1958. In winning it's fourth of 11 all- star games, the West scored a record 47 points in the first quar- ter, taking a 28-point lead and breaking the mark of 38 points set by the East two years ago. Wilt Chamberlain, TV" league scoring leader of the Philadelphia Warriors, was so harrassed by Lovellette's glove - tight defense that he scored only 12 points, and was held without a field goal until the fourth quarter. Pettit was the game's leading scorer with 29 pomts while Rob- ertson, voted the most valuable player, had 23. Lovellette had 21. Baylor was withdrawn from the game after eight minutes and was used intermittently, winding up with 15 points. Bill Russell of Boston, who did not enter the game until the see- ond quarter, topped the East with 23 points. Dolph Shayes of Syra- cuse had 21. NBA-Expands SYRACUSE-The National Bas- ketball Association expanded to 10 clubs last night with the addition of Chicago and Pittsburgh to be- come effective with the 1961-62 season. Maurice Podoloff, NBA Presi- dent, said Chicago had met re-' quirements earlier in the day, and that final details had been worked out during the evening on the admission of Pittsburgh. Chicago already has paid one- third of the $200,000 franchise fee, and Podoloff said Pittsburgh in- terests had guaranteed a one-third payment next week. Thne NBA President will go to Pittsburgh Monday to sign an agreement with representatives, headed by John Harris. Both new teams, Podoloff said, have agreed to pay the balance of the fee by March 15. Pittsburgh will play its home games in the civic auditorium with a seating capacity of about 15,000 for basketball, while Chicago will play in the 12,000-seat Amphi- theatre. Each of the eight teams now in the league will put up four play- ers for Chicago and Pittsburgh to draw from., Pittsburgh and Chi- cago can buy no more than two players from each of the present league teams. No purchase price has been agreed upon. 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