SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY.FEBRUARY 20. 196I ..... .,.,. .. . .. s ...... +. . v a aav s no v a~ v 9 Longstr By BILL BULLARD Senior Jeff Longstreth reached the peak of his new swimming career last weekend with victories in the 500-yard freestyle against Minnesota and Wisconsin. It's a new career for "Stretch" because for the last two seasons he has been swimming butterfly. He didn't start swimming distance freestyle until last summer yet now he is bolstering this tradition- al Wolverine stronghold. "Each year I've been on the team, I've felt at the start of the season that I didn't have a place on the team. But each season I've made my own place on the team," Longstreth commented. "As a sophomore I didn't swim in too many meets. My best event was the 100-yard butterfly. Then just before the Big Ten Cham- pionships I had a swim-off with another sophomore, Bob Schaefer, 4th's Shift Swift Soph Grappler Stuns Big Ten Judo Club Stages Tourney; Campus Black Belts Welcome i i 1 t 1 summer to drive 30 miles to work. Then before starting work I would stop at the pool and work out from 7 to 7:45 in the morning. I had to go freestyle at these prac- tices because they were so short that there was no time to work on my butterfly. I wanted to make the most of my time. At night, since I live on a lake north of Pontiac, I would some- times do a little swimming in the lake. All this distance work paid off when I placed fifth in the Out- door Junior National Champion- ships which is a four-mile race and eighth in the senior na- tionals." Little Time A similar lack of practice time forced Longstreth to swim dis- tance freestyle last semester. "I had labs until 5 o'clock every day except Friday. So when I did get a chance to work out I did free- style just like in the summer. Longstreth's chances of helping the team in the distance freestyle seemed slim before the season started when Coach Gus Stager had NCAA finalists Roy Burry and Tom Dudley plus Pan-American Games veteran Bill Farley starting his sophomore season. But when Burry was operated on and count- ed out for the season, a place was opened up for Longstreth. Stager commented that, "Dis- tance freestyle has always been a strong point at Michigan. When we lost Burry, I thought we'd be weak. But Jeff has done almost as well as Burry could have done. "There are only two teams in the Big Ten that have good dis- tance freestylers -- Michigan and Indiana. Right now I think we're the best." Three Finalists With Farley, Longstreth, and Dudley, Michigan has three poten- tial finalists for the Big Ten and NCAA meets. But having three outstanding swimmers in one event is also a help in dualmeets. Stager put Longstreth and Dud- ley in the 500 against Minnesota last Friday and they took the top two places in the event. This left Farley free to swim in the free- style relay in an attempt to upset the Gopher team. This attempt failed, but the Wolverine freestyle team did its fastest time of the season. Longstreth explained that it takes a while to learn how to swim new distances. "At 100 yards you can just go all out," he said "But in a longer race you must swim it smart. I think I'm getting the feel of the 500 now. I expect a drop in my previous best time of 5:07. I know I'll have to do faster than that against OSU Saturday. In the conference meet and the NCAA Meet, Longstreth will swim the 1650-yard freestyle which pre- sents another problem. "I have never competed in a 1650 race. I don't know how to swim it." To compensate for his inexperience in this event, he intends to swim this in practice to get the feel of it. Holds Relay Spot Besides finding a new place on the team Longstreth has kept his old place on the medley relay. Sophomore Dave Roadhouse was faster than Longstreth in both the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events as a freshman and Long- streth was resigned to losing his spot in both these events before the season started. Roadhouse and sophomore Bill. Spahn have taken over Long- streth's place in the 200-yard event but at 100 yards he is still the fastest on the team. Long- streth says he will have no trouble in switching from one stroke to the other. "A lot of butterflyers practice by doing freestyle," he said. "Carl Robie (Michigan fresh- man and three-time AAU cham- pion) does a lot of freestyle. All I have to do is work out at but- terfly and develop the necessary co-ordination." By SCOTT BLECH "I'm sure you will read about this youngster in the :college wrestling news." Waukegan (Ill.) high school wrestling Coach Ott , Bay was speaking about a certain senior named Bill Johannesen at the an- nual Waukegan sports banquet two years ago. The speaker was well known to wrestling fans as he had previously -coached his son," Michigan's Big Ten cham- pion, Rick Bay, when the latter attended Waukegan High School. Today, Bill Johannesen is working to make this prediction come true as he wrestles at 130-pounds for the Big Ten's number one team. The wrestling career of Bill Jo- hannesen had an unusual begin- ning. Johannesen quit wrestling his freshman year in high school because he "didn't like it. During my sophomore football season, my football coach who happened to be sophomore wrestling coach told me to try out for wrestling," he went on. Took Advice Johannesen took his coach's advice and became a star Illinois wrestler and probably would have become state champion had he not dislocated his elbow in the quarter finals of the state tourna- ment during his senior year. Influenced by Coach Bay and his son, Johannesen came to Ann Arbor as a freshman in the fall of 1962. The 130-pounder ran into the usual problem of changing from high school to college wrestling. According to Bill "the big difference comes in the speed of opponents." Johannesen fights each match with the intention of outpointing his opponent and not trying to score a fall. "College wrestling," says Bill, "demands more pacing as you can't wrestle as recklessly as in high school but must set up your opponent." Beat Teacher Probably a turning point in the scrappy sophomore's college career came last year when freshman Johannesen was greatly assisted by the tutoring of Pan-American wrestling champion, Bill Riddle. Riddle frequently appeared at freshman practice and his advice helped Johannesen gain confi- dence. Riddle probably told Jo- hannesen too much because in a holiday tournament in Chicago this season Johannesen defeated Riddle and went on to the finals of the tournament only to lose on a referees' split decision. The loss in the finals was one of the only three for Johannesen who has a 10-3 record and is undefeated in Big Ten competition. During the past summer Johan- nesen worked to achieve this rec- ord while he was a lifeguard at a Lake Michigan beach. The Wol- verine sophomore had an oppor- tunity to increase his leg strength by running everyday in the sand. "I also had a chance to lift some weights," J o h a n n e s e n adds, "which helped me stay in shape for this wrestling season." Overcame Reputation In a highlight of this season, the Michigan grappler beat last year's Big Ten runnerup, Gary Joseph of Ohio State. Bill said, "I was afraid to do anything because of Joseph's reputation. But when Joseph gained the lead in the match, I had to fight and I gained back my confidence." After the meet Joseph commented that he thought Johannesen had beaten him on takedowns-a facet which Bill considers to be the best part of his game. After what he hopes will be a successful wrestling career at Michigan, Johannesen hopes to return to Waukegan High School and become a wrestling coach "if," as Bill says, "they'll have me." NU's Pitts To Siot Out OSU Game EVANSTON (R) - Jim Pitts, 6'8" sophomore rebounding star, will miss at least two Northwest- ern basketball games because of a leg injury. Pitts, apparently injured in practice, was taken to a hospital Tuesday night after his lower left leg swelled from internal bleeding. Leading Wildcat rebounder, Pitts will miss Saturday's import- ant Big Ten game in Evanston with Ohio State, now sharing the conference lead with Michigan. He also may miss the Iowa at Northwestern game Monday. WELCOME says Jim Hodges Mgr. U-M Barbers (N. Univ. near Kresge's) By GARY WINER Here's a challenge to anyone who thinks he's tough. The Michigan Judo Club is sponsoring an all-campus cham- pionship tournament on March 11 during t h e Intramural Open House. Competition will be held in the wrestling room. Anyone inter- ested may sign up by calling the main office of the intramural de- partment by Friday, Feb. 21. The tournament will be offi- ciated by black belts. Champions will be crowned for white. green and brown belt diviisons. The meet is open to all students, fac- ulty and University employes. The club with 30 active mem- bers, holds workouts Thursday eve- nings from 7:30-9, and Saturday mornings 9:30-11. President Denny Vennen invites all those who are interested to drop in for a workout whenever they have free time. Practices are held in the wrestling room. Acting as advisor to the Univer- sity's Judo Club is Professor of Psychology Sachio Ashida. Prof. Ashida who currently holds a fifth degree black belt, is a member of the United States Judo Olympic Committee, the NCAA, the JBBF Board of Examiners, and a nation- al vice-chairman of the AAU. Besides the all campus meet, the club on occasion offers in- struction from a black belt holder and Vennen hopes to line up some intercollegiate matches for next fall. I UNION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Petitions Available Now Student Offices of the Union rI I I I it I Scores I JEFF LONGSTRETH ..,believes in improvement to see who would swim the butter- fly leg on our medley relay at the conference meet. I beat him. "Then last season as a junior I figured that sophomore Lanny Reppert would take over my job on the relay since he had beaten me consistently when he was a freshman. But I improved more than he did." Backed Up Moore Also during his junior year, Longstreth had improved enough in the 200-yard butterfly to be- come Jeff Moore's backup man in that event. He was a valuable team member in dual meets, tak- ing a key second place behind Moore against Michigan State in a five-point victory. With such a success as a butter- flyer it would seem strange that he would want to try another stroke. But as Longstreth put it, "By the end of last summer I had decided that I just liked swimming distance freestyle bet- ter than butterfly. "I had to get up at 5:30 in the COLLEGE BASKETBALL La Salle 91, Canisius 81 Louisville 84, St. Francis (Pa.) 70 Notre Dame 90, Butler 73 Ohio Univ. 63, Miami, Ohio 60= Pitt 78, Temple 67 Penn State 86, West Virginia 76 DePaul 81, St. Bonaventure 76 t. 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