TIE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, ymnastsHost Wisconsin PREVIEW TO IUSHOWDOWN: Wolverine Swimmers Face Badgers I By CLIFF MARKS v hen Michigan's gymnasts op- weak Wisconsin tonight at in the I-M gym, Al Stall, verine all-around competitor,.? do just what the word im- s, "compete." is coach, Newt Loken has ed Stall "a real competitor who s his best under intense com- .tive pressure." Stall himself nits that he does better under ssure, but doesn't know why. More Relaxed I seem to be more relaxed un- pressure," he said, "but there's particular reason for it." This adox may not make sense to casual observer, but it would e were to see Stall under pres- e at its highest. tall, a senior in physical edu- on, started in gymnastics ite by accident." "My dad en- ed me in a YMCA program when I was real young," he re- called, "and I became interested in everything, not only gymnas- tics." Turned to Gym "However," he continued, "I turned to gym because there weren't too many fellows in it, and I did fairly well. Everyone likes what he does well." He also mentioned that he was weak and shy when he started at the Dayton (Ohio) "Y" and no one (least himself) expected him to become the top gymnast that he is. His first meet was the Second Annual Indianapolis Turner's af- fair in Dec. of 1952, and after that he started entering on his own, in "Y" meets mostly. Stall won the all-around YMCA title twice, and, finished second ih rebound tumbling in the national YMCA meet. Former Illinois star Abe VI' Wrestlers at Illinois, 'o Face Weakened Squad By DAVE LYON Associate Sports Editor Coach Buel (Pat) Patterson's hard-luck Illinois wrestling team faces probable defeat when it hosts Michigan in a dual meet to- night at Champaign. The Illini, a second-division Big Ten team when the season began, were considerably weakened by the recent loss of five of the eight regulars. Three failed to make I-M Scores SOCIAL FRATERNITY "A" Lmbda Chi Alpha 54, Zeta Psi 37 SOCIAL FRATERNITY "B,, Zeta Beta Tan 36, Theta Delta Chi 19 Phi Gamma Delta 51, Kappa Sigma grades, two others dropped out of school. Worst Season With his team decimated, Pat- terson expects this season "could well be the worst" in a coaching career dating from 1927, whan he graduated from Oklahoma State, Michigan Coach Cliff Keen gradu- ated from there three years ear- lier. Michigan's forces, under the guidance of Keen and assistant Steve Cole, are expected to ag- gravate Patterson's misery. The: Wolverines are 9-1 this season in dual meets. May Win The only weights the Illini may win are at 137, 177, and heavy- weight. Inactive most of this sea- son, Illini Captain Rex Whitlatch expects to be ready at 137. Tom Trousil mans the 177-pound post and Ken Kraml is at heavyweight. The Illini took a 10-day road trip just before their wave of in- eligibilities. They lost to Kansas State, 27-3; Oklahoma State, 25- 3; Oklahoma, 30-0; and beat Mis- souri, 23-3. After tonight's meet, Michigan moves on to Bloomington to face Indiana, which defeated North- western, 15-11, in its last outing. Grossfeld also competed in that meet. "I never was a winner nation- ally," he said, "just a second place finisher." This last remark also applied to the Midwest Open when he was second in the long horse in his freshman and senior (this) year. However, he has won the Michigan AAU all-around crown. Stall said that his biggest thrill to date, was when he finished third in a Detroit AAU meet with Michigan teammates Wolfgang Dozauer and Nino Marion ahead of him. This typifies his team spirit and thrill of competition. Great Spirit Another example of his tre- mendous competitive spirit is that he has hitchhiked to Sarasota, Fla. twice (for the annual Gym Clinic) and many times to Dayton, so that he could compete in meets. "I try to 'hit' them all," he said. One interesting f e a t u r e in Stall's gymnastics career and rise to success is that his YMCA never had a coach, "and we taught our- selves." Othe:- members of the "Y" group were Tom Gumph, Ohio State's diver and rebound tumbler, and Jack Ryder, now at Florida State, formerly at Illinois, who finished third in the Midwest Open two years ago. Tonight, then, the fans will be able to see Stall "compete" and Loken has announced an added attraction in the person of three girls from Flint Junior College who were on the U. S. Pan Ameri- can Gymnastics team, Teresa Montefusco, Sharon Phelps, and Judy Klauser. Their coach, Herb Vogel, will bring them to give an exhibition. I-M All-Stars Host Broncos In Hockey A Western Michigan hockey team. will be here this evening to play an exhibition game against an all-star team from the I-M league. Western Michigan has started a hockey program in the hope that if the sport catches on it can be- come a varsity sport at the Kala- mazoo school. Game time will be 8:00 and a 50 cent admission will be charged to cover rink expenses. By HAL APPLEBAUM Michigan's swimmers will try to add another win to their 32 meet streak tonight when they host Wisconsin at Varsity Pool in a prelude to tomorrow's showdown battle with Indiana. The Badgers, possessors of a 3-5 record are not expected to fully test the Wolverines, who will be saving most of their best swim- mers for tomorrow afternoon's battle. Among Best Wisconsin is led by sophomore sprinter Ron McDevitt, Whose clockings of :22.5 for 50-yards and :49.5 for 100-yards are ambong the bset in the nation this year. McDevitt will be challenged in the 50 by Frank Legacki, Carl Woolley andi Jim Kerr, but he should handle the field in the 100, in which Michigan's best are ex- pected to be withheld from action. On the basis of times turned in in previous meets this season Michigan men will be favored in all other events. One of the few Wolverine stars who will swim tonight will be breaststroker Ron Clark. Clark, who recently set an American rec- ord in the 200-yard breaststroke, will be joined by Ken Ware as the Michigan representative in this event. Butterfly star Dave Gillanders will be given the night off to rest for his meeting against Mike Troy NHL Standings Montreal Toronto Boston Chicago Detroit New York W 34 27 24 22 21 13 12 21 27. 25 23 33 T 10 8 6 10 12 10 Pts. 78 62 54 54 54 36 HARD WORK-Al Stall, one of Michigan's all-around gymnasts, practices on the still rings in preparation for tonight's meet with Wisconsin. Stall has been called by his coach, Newt Loken, "an intense competitor under pressure." Death Takes Al Simms, M' Pucksters' Top Fan tomorrow and the butterfly spots will probably be handled by Ed Pongracz and Mike Natelson or Jack Pettinger. Reserves To Swim Michigan Coach Gus Stager, who celebrated his 37th birthday yesterday, has a large group of swimmers from which to choose the rest of the lineup for the Wis- consin meet and in all likelihood he will try to give all of his re- serves a chance to swim, as the stars rest for tomorrow's long an- ticipated meet. I NBA Standings EASTERN DIVISION W L Boston 50 13 Philadelphia 42 22 Syracuse 37 27 New York 26 36 WESTERN DIVISION Gt. Louis 38 23 Detroit 25 37 Minneapolis 16 43 Cincinnati 16 49 Pet. .794 .656 .578 .419 .623 .403 .271 .246 2000 WEST STADIUM INDEPENDENTS Phi Delta Phi 22, Sweat Hogs 19 Ah-Ha 25, Moray's 23 Falcons 37, Tau Epsilon Rho 23 PROFESSIONAL FRATERNITY Delta Sigma Pi 28, Phi Delta Epsi- lon 26 Nu Sigma Nu 29, Phi Rho Sigma 27 Psi Omega 45, Alpha Omega 30 Phi Delta Phi 72, Phi Delta Chi 18 Delta Sigma Delta 57, Gamma Al- pha 22 Law Club 44, Alpha Chi Sigma 20 RESIDENCE HALL "A" Van Tyne 43, Chicago 41 Kelsey 46, Strauss 16 RESIDENCE HALL "B" Huber 2, Prescott 0 (forfeit) Lloyd 25, Van Tyne 24 By DAVE COOK Michigan's hockey team, point- ing towards a comeback in the final weeks of the season, suffered a sharp personal blow yesterday morning with the sudden death of Al Simms, 53. Called "our finest fan and big- gest booster" by Wolverine Cap- tain Bobbie Watt, Simms always sat behind the Michigan bench, and stopped in at the dressing room after every game, win or lose. "He knew all the fellows per- sonally," said Watt, "And we were always welcome at his home. Some of the guys have been Al's guests for weeks at a time." "This has really hit hard," said senior Bob White. "Al was our 'old man' around here -- a father to some of us." Recently, Simms, along with Coach Al Renfrew, had taken the entire team to a Detroit-Montreal hockey game. "I thought our recent losses were tough to take," Renfrew said. "And then something like this." Simms, a close friend of former Michigan coach Vic Heyliger, be- came a companion and supporter of Renfrew's after Renfrew took up his duties in 1957. ' Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon. 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