THE MICHIGAN DAILY :' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY_; THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY. FEBRUARY Swimmers Meet Indiana in Crucial Meet Voay ~mEhEhhEhIiuEhmhhhIImEN SIDE INES by Jim Benagh, Sports Editor a RON CLARK DAVE GILLANDERS ...American record-holder ... Pan-American champ JOE GERLACH FRANK LEGACKI ... AAU champion ... NCAA champion Wolverine Swim Team Overwhelms Wisconsin 65-30-; Many Regulars Rest in Anticipation of Indiana Battle N_ _ __ _ __ __"_ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __""__ _ __ _ __"_ __ _ __ _ _ (Continued from Page 1) turned in a clocking of 2:03.3 this season. McKinney appears to be ahead of his competition in the back- stroke, but the battle for second place should be close. Indiana's ~&ACV MNFVDick Beaver and the Wolverines #FMcJV K.1 N NEY AlexGaxiola, Fred Wolf and John Smith are rated almost evenly and second place will probably be de- cided by a matter of inches. Wolf will have to carry the ;..burden of Michigan'sattack in the 200-yard individual medley, where 3 , Michigan Captain Tony Tash- nick's absence will be sorely felt. v Tashnick, American record holder Iin this event, has been sidelined with mononucleosis. Backing up Wolf will be the fast -Daily-Jim Benagh improving Babcock, but this duo RECORD-BREAKER - Just one of the many record-holding will have their hands full with In- stars competing today at the Varsity Pool is Indiana's breast- diana's Bill Barton. The Hoosiers' stroker Frank McKinney. other possibilities in this event are Frank Brunell and the versatile Troy. Clark could be challenged by In- diana's captain, Gerry Miki in the breaststroke, but it is more likely that Miki will have to battle team- mate Barton and Michigan's Ken Ware for second place. Indiana has a decided edge in the Medley relay in which their combo of McKinney, Miki, Troy and Sintz now hold the American and NCAA records. Its time of 3:41.9 bettered the old mark by nearly four full seconds. Meanwhile the Michigan quar- tet of Smith, Clark, Gillanders Statistics 400-yd. Medley Relay-1) MICH- IGAN (Han, Ware, Pongracz, Reil- ly), 2) Wisconsin. Time: 4:05.5. 220-yd. Freestyle-i.: Bechtel (M) 2) Mietzel (W), 3) Brown (M). Time: 2:14.9. 50-yd. Freestyle - 1) Legacki (M), 2) Woolley (M1), 3. McDevitt (WV). Time :22.4. * 200-Indivdual Medley -- 1) Wolf (M) 2) Hunold (W), No third. Time 2:14.6. One-Meter Diving - 1) Jaco (M), 2) Aleissner (:1), 3) Stone ( V). 299.45 points. ., . --.. ----.. --. --.. 200-yd. Butterfly -- 1. Natelson (N), 2) Pongracz (M), 3. Link (IV). Time: 2:14.3. 100-yd. Freestyle-1) McDevitt (W), 2) McGuire (M), 3) Floden (M) Time: 51.1.. 200-yd. Backstroke - 1) Han (M), 2) Dewing (v), No third. Time: 2 :21.2. 440-yd. Freestyle -- 1) Bechtel (M), 2. Pettinger (M) 3) Meitzel (IV). Time: 4:49.7 200-yd. Breaststroke -- 1) Ska- Under (W), 2) Ladwig (W), 3) Mc- Guire (M). Time: 2:37. 400-yd. Freestyle Relay - 1) Wis- consin (Hope, Hunold, Eidenberg), 2) Michigan. Time : 3:37.7. and Legacki or Woolley has come nowhere close to this time. The freestyle relay is hard to predict. This is the last event on the program and most of the con- testants in it will have already swam two races previously. Thus stamina is more likely to tell the story here than speed. Possible combinations are Sintz, Rounds, Verth and Parks or Troy for Indiana and Legacki, Woolley, Morrow, and Kerr or John Mc- Guire. Chuck McCaffree, Michigan State coach, who's team has lost to both squads, said that the meet will probably be decided in favor of the teams that scores the most slams (taking first and second place in one event) and the team who's swimmers are in the best condition and can swim three events without fatigue. No. 33 Michigan casually swam to its 33rd consecutive dual meet victory by downing Wisconsin 65-38 before a crowd of 300 in Varsity Exhibi- tion Pool last night. Michigan, anticipating today's showdown battle with Indiana, went into battle last night with most of their front-line swimmers on the sidelines. Coach Gus Stagera onlyallowed his top men to go all out in one event, the 50-yard freestyle. In that race Frank Legacki, Carl Woolley and Jim Kerr, swimming in exhibition, swept the first three places, defeating Wisconsin's tout- ed Ron McDevitt. Legacki, the winner, and Wool- ley, who finished only inches be- hind, were both timed in the out- standing time of :22.4. Kerr, a sophomore from Wauke- sha, Wis., was less than a yard behind the leaders.: The only other Michigan regular to see action was Fred Wolf, who won the 200-yard individual in the leisurely time of 2:14.6. Michigan's reserves, however, had little trouble in the remaining events as the Badgers won only three of the eleven events. The meet's only double winner was Wolverine sophomore Bechtel, who won both the and 440-yard freestyle. Tom 220- CAGERS AWAY Th inclads Host "Open Meet Today Aqua Answers HOW MANY American, NCAA and Big Ten records will fall? Is it going to be the greatest college dual meet of all time? Is this the best field of big name swimmers to compete in a dual swim meet? Add these three questions to "Who will win?" and you will have some of the biggest problems in Michigan swimming history as the Wolverines prepare to enter the water against Indiana today. The answer to question one isn't as vague as the others because a host of record holders will be on hand to represent both teams. Any time that junior backstroker Frank McKinney swims, a record is in jeopardy. It's even easy to call him the best male swimmer in the United States when you review his record to date. He holds AL major marks in his event and placed in the Olympics four years ago at age 17. Then, there's handsome butterflyer Mike Troy, who like McKinney holds most of the records in-his event. Add to this field athletes like AAU record holder Ron Clark, NCAA record-breaker Dave Gillanders, AAU and NCAA champ Frank Legacki, and you have yourself a good start towards building America's next Olympic team, As for the question of what is the best college dual meet, the Michigan-Indiana affair has to be ranked among the top-and this corner will call it the best ever. Only a couple of old Michigan-Ohio State meets are in the same class. Is this the best field of swimmers in a dual meet, it has been asked. This corner says yes-and to support the statement look at both the big name stars and tremendous depth of BOTH teams. VENT BY EVENT, it lines up as so: MEDLEY RELAY-Indiana busted the collegiate record this year with a team of McKinney, Gene Miki, and sophomores Troy and Pete Sintz. Michigan for the NCAA title last year whipped the Hoosiers with a foursome that included returnees John Smith, Clark, and Gillanders. Throw in free-styler Carl Woolley or Legacki as a fourth man and the team automatically improves. FREE STYLE SPRINTS (50-, 100-Yards)-Each team is allowed two men to an event, so there's been some sleepless nights lately for Michigan's Coach Gus Stager and Indiana's Jim Councilman. Each has a fine group of sprinters who can swim several distances. Woolley and Legacki should go for Michigan in the century while one of those two will probably join JimKerr in the 50.-Transplanted Michigander Sintz (he's from Birmingham) will give anyone a test in the 100. John Parks will swim both distances. The Hoosiers' vacancy in the 50 is a tossup between a half-dozen swimmers,none of who havethe class of their Wolverine counterparts. 200- AND 400-YARD FREE STYLE-Andy Morrow and' Bill Darntori of Michigan haven't shown much this year, but it's a de- ceiving assumption. They'll probably face Fred Rounds and Tom Verth in both races. But these are the events where there's no definite standouts. suggesting that the meet could be settled on these Y results. ' FREESTYLE RELAY-It's the last event, so any free styler who has a breath left in him will probably make up the respective teams. Since the juggling in the other freestyle events is so unpredictable, it would be difficult to guess at these teams. BACKSTROKE-Here's a rarity, Last year the NCAA final result was: first, McKinney; second, John Smith, Michigan; third, Bill Barton, Indiana; and fourth, Alex Gaxiola, Michigan. All are back this year, and a fifth back-tracker, Fred Wolf of Michigan, is one of the country's best newcomers. What more can you ask? BUTTERFLY-Say you do want more? Try this race. Troy is American record-holder after his, 2:00.8 dash this winter while Gillanders is Pan-American champ. BREASTSTROKE-Clark is probably America's best in the event; butMiki is a fine racer. Keep an eye on improving Ken Ware of Michigan. DIVING-Terry Gum of Indiana has the easiest workout of the day. He's not in the championship class of his Michigan opponents, Pan-Am star Bob Webster and Olympic placer Joe Gerlach, but you can only have two men in an event. That means Gum, who couldn't rate among Michigan's top 10 divers, will earn a point. 3 And it's that point that could mean the winner in this meet that has prognasticators going crazy. Gymnasts Wallop Wisconsin, 73-38; Skinner, Mont petit Take Four Firsts In addition to today's swim w" 1 By CLIOT MARKS strong performances throughout In contrast to last week's Iowa the meet with several not count- loss, Michigan's gymnasts scored th etwt evrlntcut "too many" points in overwhelm- ing, as the entire squad showed ing a game Wisconsin squad, up well, realizing that the Big 73-38, last night at the I-M gym. Ten Meet is only two weeks away. Coach Newt Loken mercifully "If we can come through against' held down the score against the Michigan State xlext Friday like woefully weak Badgers, who made we did tonight," Loken said, "we'll it evident from the start that they be ready for the Big Ten. We would be no match for the classy have to withstand the pressure' Wolverines. Loken used his men of the next two weekends in order several times, not to count, which to prove ourselves. We showed made the meet statistics rather I meaningless as Michigan won its HOCKEY CON TR( seventh against three losses. R+ . Officially, Captain Bill Skinner had the night's best record by scoring firsts in the only twoe eet thatdhe competed inree exercise and tumbling. His run- ning mate on the mats, Jim Brown (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the see- was withheld from the event, be- end of two articles dealing with cause of a slight injury received the controversy that has arisen over the extensive use of Canadian play- in pratice.ers on American collegiate hockey Two Firsts teams.) Rich Montpetit chalked up two By MIKE GILLMAN official first places and a second, not to mention an amazing score American collegiate hockey of 95 on the parallel bars, high teams, especially in the western mark of the night. One of his part of the country, have long been wins was a tie with teammate Al noted for the large number of Stall on the side horse at 93.5 and Canadians competing for them. the other came on the still rings. This has generally been the rule Stall also had another "scoring" rather than the exception and so first in the parallel bars, and had it was no surprise this year when, a "best exhibition" 92.5 in the the pre-season polls ranked the' high bar, which Wolverine Barry WCHA teams seemingly in de-! Feinberg won with a score of 88. scending order as to the number The other Michigan first was of Canadians on the respective recorded by Tom Osterland on the squads. All-Canadian Denver was trampoline, edging out a tired T. rated on top, followed by North Francis with a good 91.5 perform- Dakota and Michigan with two ance. Francis has just finished American regulars each. Picked diving in the swimming meet for the league cellar was Minne- against the same Badgers. sota which carries but one Cana- Strong Performance dian. Two other Wolverines, Ken However, the objections raised1 Sakamoto and Wolf Dozauer, gave .by Minnesota coach John Mariuc- against Wisconsin that we haveI capability, now we have to prove it to theyrest of the Conference.. The meet was spiced with an excellent exhibition by three girls from Flint Junior College: Sharon Phelps, Judy Klauser, and Teresa Montefusco, member of the U.S. team in last year's Pan American games. The girls pleased the fanrs with a routnie in free exercise and on the "uneven" parallel bars. meet, the Wolverines' track and basketball squads are also in ac- tion. At Yost Fieldhouse the Michi- gan track team is hosting the Michigan Open. The preliminaries begin at 2 p.m. with the final events being held at 7 p.m. The meet will mark the first appearance of Bennie McRae com- peting in a varsity contest. McRae, holderofdthe freshman 65-yard high hurdle record, is entered in both the 60-yard dash and the 65-yard low hurdles. The Wolverines' opponents will include Wayne State, University of Detroit, Bowling Green, and West- ern Michigan. In an afternoon contest at Min- neapolis, the Michigan cagers will attempt to avoid their tenth straight conference loss as they take on the Minnesota Gophers. The game was originally sched- uled to be televised but will not be because of television coverage of the Winter Olympics. Ohio State can wrap up the Big Ten basketball crown today if they defeat Michigan State before a sellout crowd at East Lansing. OVERSY: Calls for Non-Discrimination ci to this situation have resulted, in some disagreement in the league over the present set-up. Place a Limit The aims of those who would have a limit placed upon the ium- ber of Canadians allowed to com- pete are 1) that American high schools take up the sport, 2) that American colleges would then have more players from which to make. up teams and thus more colleges would initiate hocey programs, and 3) recruiting outside the schools' own areas would be mini- mized. Michigan's hockey coach Al Ren- frew, feeling that he is supported by Michigan Tech's John Mac- Innes and Denver's Murry Arm- strong, has remained a supporter of the current set-up. Renfrew is quick to support the aims given by the pro-limitation group, but feels that the plan they suggest would not be good for college hockey and would not pro- Michigan State and Michigana Tech., "While I was at Tech, we talkeds about it and the people up there: felt that they would have a tough time getting people to come toI games if we had to turn to re- cruiting just Americans." Rebuttal The players on the Wolverine team themselves offer a rebuttal to the contention that more Amer-! ican colleges would take up the sport if the Canadian imports were spread around. Said one, "If any school wanted to get players it wouldn't have any trouble. There are a lot of Canadian junior play- ers available." As to the question of recruiting in distant areas, Renfrew points out that Ontario is closer for Michigan to go in search of play- ers than Minnesota where the only effective high school program out- side of the East is functioning in the States. Strongly interested in main- taining the level of competition in hockey from both the players' and spectators' point of view, Renfrew says, "To maintain interest in the sport you have to exhibit a good game of hockey. The local hockey program is now starting to develop and if we can keep the kids in- terested by showing them good play, maybe some day kids from Ann Arbor will be on the team here." Support in East Surprisingly, Renfrew has some support in the East, where there is a less intensive use of Cana- dians. George Menard, hockey coach at St. Lawrence University (an early-season foe of Michigan) declares that while St. Lawrence has had a great deal of success with a 50-50 ratio of Canadians to Americans, this is just a school policy. Says Menard, "I believe that a question that may be well tossed gested reform toward that end- around at the coaches' annual spring meeting following the NCAA playoffs in Boston this March. "My own exberiences and observations have convinced me that fraternities have a very definite place in college li fe." Kenneth S. Adams Chairman of the Board Phillips Petroleum Company -------------------------------- resters D Take on Ho (Continued from Page 1) 167. Polz is normally a 147-pound- er, but has been forced to grapple at the higher weight because Pat- terson recently lost six of his men including five starters, for in- eligibility and other reasons. Wolverine heavyweight Fred Olm won a close decision against Illinois' Ken Kraml when the Orange and Blue wrestler took a last-ditch gamble for a victory and failed. In the other two matches, Friez Kellermann tnne o nao deiioAnn Non-Discriminatory o i liniRenfrew has long stated his oW 1 apolicy - and that of the school - as being non-discriminatory. It is his feeling that such a limitation ositers N ext would be an unreasonable dis- crimination against a Canadian athlete, who might now have a chance for an education that he experienced opponent in two days would not qualify for under a when he takes the mats against limitation rule. Thnatoinerngrapp'evenge' math.In addition to this, he does not oosir grapr, who bat believe that such a change would Fink, 4-2, last year, lost once result in an increase in the num- early this season and since then ber of high school teams in Michi- has picked up four victories. gan taking up the sport. Sophomore Ron Hutcherson fig- Says Renfrew, "We tried to get ures to give Wilbanks a good test high school hockey in upper Mich- at 130. Ralph Carlino (123) and igan while I was coach at Tech. Russell Smith (157) are other The junior teams were going to Indianans that have a chance of transfer their equipment to the winning, schools, but the schools didn't Other probable starters for In- want the responsibility of another diana are Pete Walker (147); sport, especially when they found ,rm_,., t*m .f Athat insurance was almost impos- FRATERNITY RUSH TOMORRO0 OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, Feb. 21 2-5 P.M. and 7-9:30 P.M. Monday, Feb. 22 7-9:30 P.M. Tuesday, Feb..23 7-9:30 P.M. 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