.a ', ,, ':' a:. , Page 6C-Thursday, September 6, 1979-The Michigan Daily COIKe TO WC ---- - -GtAqaitdCupnOfr Photography is the one thing in Ann Arbor -Get Acquainted Copon Offer Pay at home, and the reason is Big George s.BC L7 We're unique, a professional photo store within another store (Home Appliance Mart) and that means we 'have the buying power to give O 1Fd you the best price. Our salespeo le are good photographers themselves, reacy to expand Any Pair In Our Huge In- your current photo skills, or to get you off to ' ventory of High Quality a good, solid start. All the top photo lines j become affordable at Big George's, and our I Minolta, Bushnell, Leitz or services include custom photofinishing, Zeiss Binoculars. One per workshops in photo methods, and we service I Customer. what we sell! -Coupon Valid Thru September 30, 1979, Only- ' THRIVE AT HOME, DIVE LATE Golfers lack consistency 1 By JOANNE SCHNEIDER If wishes were golfers, Tom Simon would have a very easy job. As the Michigan golf coach, Simon each year faces the formidable task of putting together a squad that can ef- fectively clallenge on the fairways of the Big Ten. In the first competition of last season, the Wolverines travelled to Texas, to duel a field of predominantly southern schools in the Gulfstream Invitational. The southern teams had been playing all winter, while the Blue linksters were forced to confine their practice efforts to artificial enclosed surfaces. DESPITE THE apparent handicap though, Michigan won the tourney, while team co-captain Frank Sims grabbed medalist honors with a strong 290 over 72 holes. After that strong start, however, Michigan's golfing for- tunes nosedived. In late March, a lackluster Wolverine squad finished ninth of 19 teams in the FAC tournament, in Cape. Coral, Florida, then coasted to a thirteenth place finish in a field of 22 teams in the Kepler Invitational in Columbus. The next weekend, the Buckeyes hosted the Northern In- tercollegiate tournament. OSU easily overpowered the field, but this time Michigan came out of the tourney with a fourth place tie. Bouyed by their improvement, the Michigan contingent went on to win the Wolverine Invitational, held at the Univer- sity Golf Course. THE LINKSTERS finished last season in early May, playing three tourneys in ten days, starting off with the Spar- tan Invitational. Ohio State, a perennial power in the Big Ten on the links, walked away with the top honors, leaving Michigan in eleventh place. Then with just two days rest following the Bronco- In- vitational at Kalamazoo, the Wolverines joined the othercon- ference teams in Champaign for the Big Ten meet. FOR SAKES FINAL YEAR: Hubbard turns Simon conceded first to the Buckeyes, and instead set his sights on second. But though he returned to Ann Arbor disap; 'pointed by his team's sixth place, he still was heartened by Steve Maddalena, a freshman from Jackson, having been chosen to play in the NCAA tournament. BUT WHILE Maddalena returns this year Sims, c captain Bruce Patterson, Pete Pafford, and Jim Marshall, all important components of the 1979 golf team, will not com, pete next spring. All are victims of graduation. Tom Pursel, a junior from Bloomfield Hills, will lead the golfers in his position of team captain. Pursel is a consistent , performer, not given to the ups-and-downs that rattled tho, entire team last spring. Also returning to the Blue links will be Dave Fardig from,, Ann Arbor. Fardig saw only limited action last season, but ; improved immensely as the campaign closed. AS EVIDENCE of his improvement, Fardig turned in the best score for Michigan in the Spartan Invitational. His effor- ts were duplicated by Maddalena. , This surge indicates to Simon the potential of these two, players. "Fardig and Pursel are good golfers. I'm looking for, , them to improve. They're going to be very good." Also, Dave Koch is returning to action after playing o&f ficially in only one tournament last spring. Koch, a junior from Birmingham, participated in the Michigan Invitational,: and carded a 72 for his only competition of the season. Simon, is also expecting significant improvement from Koch. DURING THE winter and spring, while his team was doing battle on the links, Simon was attending to some, business regarding next year's squad. His recruiting efforts,,. paid off in the form of a golfer named John Morse. Morse: a Battle Creek resident, is a Michigan state amateur cham- pion. "Lots of schools wanted him," said Simon. "Including some in Florida. But he chose to come here. He'll be a welcome addition to our program. In addition to Morse, Marty Auck will be joining the team. Simon charac- terizes the incoming freshman as a good golfer who shows signs of promise. 1t p r o Simonlooks forward to the upcoming r golf season ahead with great an- ticipation and enthusiasm. "They're ee years ago, going to be tremendous. I only wish that best," Piston I'd discovered Michigan years ago. said. "I know 'ansition from NBA power Hubbard s per game as By GEOFF LARCOM It wasn't as if Michigan basketball coaches Johnny Orr and Bill Frieder didn't have a dif- ficult assignment already. After falling below .500 in the Big Ten last season, then following that up with only an average recruiting year, an, uphill battle towards respec- tability seemingly loomed for the Wolverines. Then came the kicker. Center Phil Hubbard signed a pro con- tract with the Detroit Pistons, forfeiting his final year of college eligibility. THE PISTONS are thus gam- bling on the speedy recovery of Hubbard's knee, which last season hampered him greatly. 'Phil was the premier forward in the country thr( not just one of thel coach Dick Vitales he can make the tr Big Ten center to forward." Last season, averaged 14.8 point he slowly worked his knee into shape. But many NBA scouts shrugged off the possibility of drafting him as too much of a gamble. The Pistons apparently disagreed. Thrust now into the role of playing the pivot will be either junior Paul Heuerman or sophomore John Garris. Heuer- man improved greatly as a reserve forward last year, while Garris averaged under two minutes per game in his first season. Maddalena Welcome New Students! 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