SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY VD OPTIMISTIC: N' Diamondmen Get Early Start WEDNESDAY. SAE Wins Track Title; Phi Delts Distant Second 0 y BRIAN MacCLOWRY ock of promising sophomores, >ved pitching, and unusually 1 March weather have com- l to light baseball coach Don 's face with a smile that I do Joe E. Brown justice, as epares the Wolverines for the campaign. th the temperature in the s and sixties the past two s, Lund has had a chance to his practices outdoors, va- g owlish Yost Field House- e even the home-breds would a difficult time seeing a fast marks the first time in three at the helm of the Wolver- that Lund has been ableto extensive outdoor workouts e spring vacation. He thinks s helped theteam. hysically we're in a lot better e than we normally would be at this time of year," Lund empha- sizes. "The boys have been able to work hard and the morale is real good." Youth Movement With a bevy of standout sopho- mores on hand Lund's morale is not exactly dragging either. As he moves his hand down the roster he could easily be accused of starting a youth movement. No less than five sophomores could be on the field at the same time for Michigan this spring. Newcomers Dick Honig and Joe Jones, both from Detroit, will give the Wolverines a new look at the shortstop and second base posi- tions. Both stand 5'10", but Honig, at 165 lbs., holds a 10-1b. weight advantage over his double-play, partner. Other second-year players that Lund expects to get a lot of help from include catcher-first base-' man Bill Freehan, outfielder Den- nis Spalla, and pitchers Mike Joyce, Bob Filar, Fritz Fisher, and John Lengemann. Double Duty Freehan, who doubles as an end on the football team, will catch one game of doubleheaders and be stationed at first for the other. Spalla is a 5'10" 175-1b. left- handed hitter who also hails from Detroit. Easily the most impressive thing about Lund's corps of sophomore pitchers is their size. Joyce, Filar, and Lengemann all stand over six feet and weigh in at more that 190 lbs. Fisher, palty in comparison, can muster only 170 lbs. on his 6'2" frame. With these sophomore hurlers, plus returning lettermen Dennis McGinn, Bob Marcereau, and Joe Brefeld, the pitching situation seems improved over the 1960, squad which had only one pitcher, graduate Al Koch, in the top 15, E.R.A.-wise in the conference. Lund calls pitching the key to the 1961 season, and adds hope- fully, "It should be better than last year.- Last year McGinn was 5-2 on the season but only 2-2 In confer- ence play with a 5.46 ER.A. The tall righthander, as Lund knows, can be brilliant one time and in- effective another. Jackrabbit Marcereau, the small- est player on the squad, was 2-1 last spring with one of his victories being a shutout over Iowa. Brefeld saw only limited action. He pitched 14 innings and compiled a 2-0 record. Veteran Strength n Anchoring the squad, however, in its bid to improve last year's fifth-place finish in the Big Ten will be four veterans. The number-one catcher will be senior Dick Syring. More than adequate defensively, Syring will be striving to improve last year's disappointing .237 batting average. Rifle-armed junior Joe Merullo will be hard to dislodge at third base. Merullo was second on the team in home runs last year with six, and hit .247. In the outfield Junior Ed Hood and senior Dick DeLamielleure hold first call in the center and right field posts respectively. As a sophomore leadoff batter Hood hit .280 and led the team in stolen bases with 11. DeLamielleure, a rangy left-handed swinger with potential power, played a utility role last year and hit .200 in ten appearances. Shifts Marshall Evidence of how highly Lund rates this year's crop of sopho- mores can be seen in the fact that letterman Barry Marshall, a .308 hitter at second base last spring, has been shifted to first where he will alternate with Freehan. Also waiting in the wings is senior outfielder John Halstead, who as a sophomore led the Big Ten in hitting for much of the season. Last year he was lost due to ineligibility. Overall Lund sees this year's squad as being bolstered in the pitching department, "stronger de- fensively - especially through the middle-but minus a little power." Montpetit's By DAVE GOOD Led by George Ginger's double win in the broad jump and 440- yd. dash, Sigma Alpha Epsilon piled up 26% points to walk away with the Social Fraternity track meet last night. It was SAE's eighth team win this year, a new record, with the spring sports not even underway yet. Phi Delta Theta was a distant second with 16, Delta Upsilop scored 15%, Phi Gamma Delta 15, Sigma Chi 11%, Alpha Tau Omega 11/, Sigma Alpha Mu 9%, Theta Xi 8, Theta Delta Chi 4 and Phi Kappa Psi 3 . Wins broad Jump Ginger hit 19'10%" in the broad Jump, good enough to beat the 19'81/4" turned in by Sam's Jay Berkelhamer. Ginger led all the way in his quarter-mile heat and his fine :55.4 put him more than a second ahead of anybody else. Dick Mandel, SAM, and Bob Waddell, tied for second at :56.7. SAE picked up two more firsts when Joe Jones edged Dave Mon- geau, ATO, with a time of :06.7 in the 60-yd. dash, and Joe O'Donnell tied for first in the shot put with Mongeau at 43'2". Mongeau had breezed through the preliminary heats but in the finals Jones was a clear winner de- spite Mongeau's final burst. Hollis Jencks, DU, cleared 10'6" in the pole vault to beat out Jack Gilbert, Phi Kappa Epsilon, and Nick Armelegos, PDT, who tied for second with vaults of 10'. Strong Stretch Run The 880-y4. run went to Sigma Chi's John Dumont, who won in 2:13.5 with a strong stretch run to finish ahead of Gary Joachim, DU. Jim Bolt, PGD, jogged his way to a 5:07.4 mile win over Gary Rich, TDC, who was close behind at 5:09.0. Jeff Smith of Theta Xi negoti- ated the 65-yd. high hurdles' in :08.9 for his win over John Tid- well, SAE. Jim Kay, PGD, high- jumped 5'10" to nudge out Frosty Evashevsky, who cleared 5'8". Mongeau, who finished in a six-way tie for third at 5'6", gar- nered 9 points to fall just short of Ginger's 10 points and the indi- vidual scoring honors. West Cagelas. Subdue East KANSAS CITY ( ) - The West, with Walt Bellamy and Bill Brid- ges leading the attack, subdued the East 103-100 in the 10th an- nual Shrine All-Star Basketball game last night. Bellamy, Indiana's 6'10" marvel, and Bridges, Kansas' 6'6" rebound- ing specialist, each scored 21 points and Gary Phillips of Hous- ton helped with 20. Neither team led by more than 6 points in the furious scoring battle which wasn't decided until time ran out. TomiStith, St. Bonaventure's All America, scored 0 points for the East, and Larry Siegfried of Ohio State got 17. Exhibition. Baseball Minnesota. 3, Philadelphia t Detroit 7, Cincinnati 5 Chicago (A) 3, Los Angeles 1 Pittsburgh 9, New York 2 Washington 5, Cincinnati (B) 3 Baltimore 8, Kansas City 7 (11 inn.) St. Louis 1, Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 3, Boston 1 --Daily-James Warneka HANG ON RICH-Michigan's Rich Montpetit performs on the high bar in one of his near-perfect routines. The muscular senior will be a vital cog in any NCAA title aspirations for the Wolverines. Talent Leadership Contribute to Gym Successes -Daily-James Warneka EEP GOING BARRY - Barry Marshall rounfts first base en- ute to second with a standup double in Michigan's first scrim- age since moving outside two-weeks, ago. In the background Distant Coach Moby Benedict doubles as umpire. )WE, MOORE STAR IN PLAYOFFS: pings, Habs Sweep DETROIT (&)-The Detroit Redd .ngs, brought to life by Gordie we, beat the Toronto Maple afs 4-1 last night and grabbed a nmanding 3-to-1 lead in their st of seven Stanley Cup semi- al series. Eowe, wrapping up his 15th Na- nal Hockey League season in a ekage of playoff glory, perked up luggish attack by setting up the .ng goal and then pounding me the winner. The Wings trailed 1-0 last night .en Howe banged a hard shot m the point that Leo Labine rieved. Labine slapped the puck oss the goal mouth and it unced off the stick of Toronto .enseman Carl Brewer and into Snet. Halfway through the second .iod, Howe got a quick pass from cStasiuk and broke the 1-1 adlock with a shot from eight -t that he'lifted into the high t side of the net. Marcel Pronovost and Van Fon- -ne got the other Red goals as wild crowd of 13,190 watched e exciting tussle. Howe, however, might have been e game's goat. He was serving a nalty when Bert Olmstead, re- ning to action after sitting out o games with a knee injury, oved Toronto in front midway the first. But Howe more than made up it, and the Red Wing attack s so furious in the third period it the Leafs became completely organized. Pronovost's goal came early in e third period. He collided with o Toronto defensemen and alle Johnny Bower in front of e Leaf nets, the puck trickled e and dribbled across the goal e. Coach Punch Imlach yanked wer for an extra attacker in the t two and one-half minutes, but strategy backfired when Fon- ne put his second goal of the ies into the open net with only e seconds left. Referee Frank Udvari gave Olm- ad a misconduct penalty when Toronto veteran complained terly about a goal that was :en away from his team in the At period. A penalty Ron Stewart )ught Udvari's whistle just as ve Keon raced in alone on < goalie Terry Sawchuck. Keon slap- ped the shot through Sawchuck but Udvari ruled play was dead before the shot. Montreal 5, Chicago 2 CHICAGO (P) - The Montreal Canadiens, their National Hockey League supremacy endangered, put on a dazzling display of speed last night and dumped the Chi- cago Black Hawks 5-2, squaring their Stanley Cup semifinal playoff at two games each. Led by Dickie Moore and Bob Hicke with two goals each, the Canadiens scored twice in the first period and twice in the second in the game marked by roughhouse tactics. Some 13 minutes had elapsed in the first period when Elmer Vasko of Chicago and Marcel Bonin' of Montreal got into a squabble which resulted in a total of 40 minutes in penalties for the two players. to Victory The Canadiens wasted little time in taking the lead. Phil Goyette trickled in a goal at 4:02 of the first period. Goyette's third goal of the series hit goalie Glenn Hall's staick and bounced in. The Hawks tied it up 22 seconds later on a 35-foot shot by Dollard St. Laurent. But before the period ended, Moore hammered home his first goal with less than three min- utes to play, putting Montreal ahead to stay., Montreal upped its advantage to 3-1 early in the second period when Hicke took a perfect pass from Henri Richard and slammed it past the overworked Hall. Hall had been credited with 24 saves in the first period While Hicke was serving a pen- alty midway in the second period, Stan Mikita scored for Chicago at 9:28 but the Canadiens got it back less than five minutes later on a shot by Moore while Reg Fleming was in the penalty box. By DAVE KIMBALL Richard Montpetit is a very dedicated young man.- So dedicated, in fact, is the young Canadian from Montreal, that he has helped transform the Michigan Gymnastics team from a perennial second, third, and fourth-place finisher in the Big Ten into a squad which has com- pleted an undefeated dual meet season and captured the Wolver- ines' first conference champion- ship ever. Of course, Coach Newt Loken's charges were far from a one-man team; Tom Osterland did an out- standing job all season and cli- maxed the year by taking the con- ference trampoline crown, while two of Montpetit's fellow country- men, sophomores Gil Larose and Jim Hynds, added much needed depth to the Michigan cause with their consistent all-around per- formances. , Nevertheless, without Montpetit, who is team captain, the Wolver- ines probably would have finished in the first division, but that's all. Dedicated and Confident So now, with the upcoming NCAA championships only a week and a half away, Rich is as dedi- cated as ever,rand almost as con- fident as ever, that he and the six other Wolverines entered in the meet will come back from Champaign with the coveted NCAA crown. However, despite his confidence that the Michigan contingent will come home with all the marbles, Montpetit is a little reluctant to make actual predictions. "It will all depend 'on how some of the other stars do," he cautionsly ex- plained. "Because they have Fred Orlofski, Southern Illinois is fav ored," the little Canadian star went on, "but he certainly isn't a shoo-in." Montpetit is obviously oozing with confidence, but he doesn't think it anything unusual. As a matter of fact he interchanges confidence with experience. Experience Helps In explaining his faith in his own ability to perform his routines and exercises successfully with a' minimum amount of flaws, Rich simply stated, "Confidence is a matter of experience. When you begin to get more and more ex- perience behind you you naturally, have more confidence in yourself." The 5'5", 130-lb. senior was raised in the European-type com- munity where gymnastics was either the number one or two sport, so he was introduced toit rather early in life. In addition, he had a natural flair for the sport ("I always liked to stick my feet in the air," he says) and with an almost ideal height ("Most gym- nasts are between 5'6" and 5'7" tall") it was only natural that he should become a star in the art of throwing one's body around with grace and ease. Sets Goals However, despite the apparent advantages, ,he didn't take too much interest in the sport until he set up some goals to shoot at. When he did, he wasted no time in achieving them. His goals? Well, his first one, made at the end of 1956, was to go to Rome for the 1960 Olympics. He not only went to Rome as the only male gymnast among Can- ada's 97-member contingent, but went to the 1959 Pan-American Games in Chicago as well. Rome was a valuable experience for the young star and may be the reason for his tremendous success this season. "I trained with the Italian team for a week," he ex- plained, "and as a result changed my training methods." Since he speaks Italian fluently, Montpetit has no trouble communicating with the Italians and exchanging ideas. U. S. Catching Up His Olympic experience led Montpetit to the opinion that United States gymnasts aren't, as far behind those of Europe and Russia as many people might be- lieve. "U. S. and Canadian gym- Masts are coming up In precision. of execution," he commented. Montpetit came to the Ann Ar- bor campus on an academic scholarship after Loken had seen him in action and convinced him that Michigan would be the Pest place for him. Rich finished at the top of his high school class in a curriculum much tougher than any of those offered by most U. S. high schools and expects to return to Canada upon graduation in June to coach, "preferably gymnastics." FAVORS by .UD-MOR 1103 S. University NO 2-6362 TODAY'S SPECIAL U. CANDY for EASTER -~ GI FTS Let us mail your Candy and Gfis 307 .south Statie -i Lundaq.-e ....04..50. /L< CharcoalSteak Dinner 1. " 1.29 1201 South University SPRING SPECIAL Tareyton delivers th e flavo r... N _. i J "! /' ' t! ~ , ~ N %j : ..N t , t : r ; ake Home a MICH IGAN "Take back your diamonds just buy me Poplin All-Weather Coats RAIN-SHINE $8.95 0 Raglan Sleeves . . . 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