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Grapplers grab 4th,
clobber Buck matmen
INVADE DENVER:
Icers stalk
By ROGER ROSSITER
Michigan's matmen were in
the thick of competition over the
holidays, grappling to a fourth
place fiinsh in the Midwest Open
Tournament and a dual victory
over Ohio State's Buckeyes.
The three highest r a t e d
wrestling schools in the country,
Iowa State, Michigan State, and
Oklahoma State grabbed the
first three spots in the Midwest
Open with the Wolverines pull-
ing down the fourth position in
the competition which drew over
50 schools and 500 wrestlers.
The big winners for Michigan
were 118 pound freshman Jim
Brown, who finished second in
his class, and 126 pounder Bill
Davids, a fourth place winner.
Brown's only loss was to
Iowa's Dave Sherman, the Open
champion and last year's Big
Ten runner-up. Coach Rick Bay
was elated with Brown's show-
ing, particularly since Brown is
only a freshman.
Davids' fourth place finish
came in what Bay termed. "the
toughest weight class in the
tournament" the 126 pound di-
vision. The only losses suffered
by the Wolverine sophomore
were to Fujita, a Japanese
wrestler grappling out of Okla-
homa State who was the NCAA
champion at 126 last year and
who is expected to represent
Japan in the 1972 Olympics, and
to Michigan State's Greg John-
son, the NCAA 118 pound cham-
pion last year.
M i c h i g a n took seventeen
healthy wrestlers to the tourna-
ment and competed in 69 indi-
vidual matches with an overallz
record of 42 victories and 271
losses.I
Mark King, Jerry Hubbard,
and Gary Ernst also performed!
well in the tournament, drawing
praise from Bay.
Hubbard was well on his wayt
to a high ranking finish, when
he was injured and eventually
forced to withdraw. Ernst wast
most impressive in his victory;
over Chuck Jean a former 177t
pound champion now wrestling1
heavyweight for Adams State.
Bay summarized Michigan's
performance as a "tremendous
accomplishment" and the "max-
imum performance" that could
be hoped for from his squad of
four freshmen, four sophomores,
one junior, and one senior.
Michigan's 34-12 trouncing of
Ohio State boosted the Wolver-
ines dual record to 3-1. The easy
victory was attributed to the in-
eptness of the Buckeye grapplers
whom Bay termed as the Wol-
verines weakest opponent to
date.
Brown and Davids both re-
corded falls to give Michigan a
quick 12-0 lead that was never
in jeopardy the rest of the way.
Jerry Hubbard and John Ryan
added decisions at 150 and 167,
while Mitch Mendrygal was
awarded a forfeit victory at 158.
Bill Schuck and Dave Curby
also got their first taste of ac-
tion against Ohio State, and al-
though they lost they both
were billed as wrestlers with
great futures by mentor Bay.
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If Coach Al Renfrew's icers
need a ready-made formula to
help get back into the thick of the
race for playoff spots in the
WCHA, they've got it.
If they beat the University of
Denver tonight and tomorrow
night (on the Pioneers' home ice)
theyy will jump from ninth place
to no lower than fourth.
Tonight is the first game of an
all-important eight-point series,
the Wolverines' second of four
such series this season. When two
teams meet only twice during the
regular schedule, as do Michi-
gan and Denver in 1971-72, each
game is worth four points.
The Wolverines lost their first
eight point series last weekend to
Minnesota-Duluth, 9-3 and 7-3.
So now Michigan heads into
the Mile-High City sporting a 5-5
league record for ten points and
ninth place. That leaves them
only four points out of the cellar,
but also only four points behind a
five way tie for fourth place.
North Dakota, Denver, Notre
Dame, Michigan Tech, and Mich-
igan State each have 14 points,
and since none of them, except
I Denver, play eight point series
this weekend, the most any can
have after this weekend will be
18.
If the Wolverines can sweep the
Fourth
Pioneers, then the 18 points they;
collect can result in no worse than
a tie for fourth place.
But the odds are by no means in
our favor. Denver has the league's
leading goal-scorer in Vic Venas-
ky, a sophomore from Thunder
Bay, Ontario, who won the scor-
ing championship last year and
was named All-America.
Heading up the defensive'corps
is another All-America, Mike
Christie, a senior from Calgary,
Alberta. In fact, from a team
which finished second in the
WCHA last year, only one player
graduated.
Added to this is Denver's near
invincibility on home ice. The
Pioneers have lost only one league
game in the last 21/2 years at home
and last season's record in the
Arena was a fine 17-3-1.
Finally, the Pioneer icers just
completely outsize the Wolver-
ines. Those who witnessed last
season's double 6-3 beatings at
home will remember Pete Mc-
Nab and his buddies Tom Peluso,
Mike Lampman, and Mike Chris-
tie. All are six feet tall or over
and not afraid to hit.
But the Pioneers are not all
muscle, either. Rob Palmer, a
sophomore from Grosse Pointe,
Michigan will be remembered for
his fine stick-handling and pass-
ing and weird tip-in goal which
helped beat Michigan last year.
The clouds grow ever darker.
Denver is at full strength for these
'games while the Wolverines could
use some help.
Forward Pat Donnelly, a fresh-
lace
man who came to Michigan direct
from the Detroit Junior Red
Wings, has been declared scholas-
tically ineligible. He's gone for the
rest of the season.
Forwards Julian Nixon and Gary
Kardos have come down with the
flu. Nixon will definitely sit out
but Kardos may see some action.
Denver holds three of the
league's five leading scorers in
Venasky, Peluso, and McNab.
Their goalie, Ron Grahame, gives
up better than one goal per game
less than our Karl Bagnell.
And Denver has won 28 of 45
games with Michigan dating back
to who knows when.
Although Denver has a definite
advantage in being used to the
higher altitude, the Wolverines
have shown they are capable of
knocking off the favorite teams as
they defeated two first place
teams, Notre Dame and North
Dakota, in four straight games
last month.
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woman ump wins appeal
MICHIGAN'S BERNIE GAGNON (7) winds up to take a slap
shot against North D~akota's Dave Murphy, Michigan swept two
games from the then-in-first-place Sioux, 9-6 and 4-2. The Wol-
verines are now in ninth place in tihe WCHA with a 5-5 record.
ALBANY, N.Y. WI) - New York's
highest court ruled yesterday that
Mrs. Bernice Gera, a 41-year-old
Queens housewife, can be a lady
umpire in professional baseball.
The 5-2 decision rejected the
appeal of the New York-Pennsyl-
vania League and the National As-
sociation of Professional Baseball
Leagues.
They had appealed a ruling by
a lower court that they were guilty
of unlawful discrimination in de-
nying Mrs. Gera the opportunity
to become a professional baseball
umpire.
Mrs. Gera has been trying to
umpire in professional baseball for
about five years. She was gradu-
ated from the Florida Umpire
School in 1967 but has been un-
able to get a job.
In New York, Mrs. Gera wac
trying to reach her lawyers to
plan her next step.
"I'm very excited," she said. "I
couldn't be more thrilled. It's been
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has been in my favor."
Baseball could continue to ap-
peal the case to the federal courts
in Washington but Mrs. Gera said
she hoped the New York court's
decision would end her legal
battle..;
"I'm hoping to go to spring'
training and get in shape," she
said.
The league and the National As-
sociation had contended that Mrs.
Gera was not barred from employ-
ment because of her sex but be-
cause the umpire school that she
attended was not approved and
her conduct was inappropriate.
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HOUSTON (1?) - Notre Dame
defensive end Walt Patulski, a
finalist for the second annual
Vince Lombardi Award, says the
Heisman Trophy is biased against
inemen because the backs get
more publicity.
The award, presented annually
to the nation's top lineman of the
year, will be given to one of four
finalists tonight at a $100 per
plate dinner at the Astroworld
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The other three finalists, Ron
Estay of LSU, and Rich Glover
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