Thursday, March 23, 1972T THE MICHIGAN DAILY P©geNine busted 11fmnr n d If Bruins defend NCAA I ~_ LL1:G L e7 V1S" . . . * . . a dead beaver al shackelford WHEN GREAT sports teams are talked about and compared, the name Mayfield High School will keep cropping up like precocious Iowa corn. And when the names of great individual stars are bandied about like so many pieces of pickled herring, the name Wallace Cleaver will be returned to again and again. Wally the fleet. Wally the strong. Wally, brother of Beaver. Sure, Columbus High had a great basketball team with Ed Ratleff and Dwight Lamar. And Detroit Pershing was pretty tough with Spencer Haywood, Ralph Simpson and John Lock- ard. But, damn, how can you top a team led by Wally Cleaver and Lumpy Rutherford, and managed by Eddie Haskell? Eddie Haskell . . . the oily manipulator, the supreme stra- tegist who formulated the box-and-one zone that won May- field the Anystate state championship against Bayport. Who drew up the dazzling play that won the Anyconference football title for Mayfield. Coach, said Eddie; I just drew up a sure-success play. What what what Eddie, said coach. The quarterback hides the ball under his jersey and Cleaver goes long, said Eddie, then the quarterback pegs it to him. It just might work, said coach. And the rest is history. Mayfield's successes were enough to dazzle the imagination of a John Tunis. Once Wally arrived at the state track meet, only to find his track shoes missing. He ran barefoot and won, setting a new world record with a nine flat in the hundred. And didn't even get one blister. Later when he got home he found that Beaver and Gilbert were using his track shoes as walkie- talkies. Boy you guys, said Wally, those are my track shoes. How much of Wally's athletic success can be traced to the guidance of Ward Cleaver, once a football star of no small proportions? No one is likely to forget the time Ward cut out of the office early and raced to the Mayfield field to catch one of Wally's football games. Or the time he carried his lunch to work in a sack, for a week just so Wally could buy a new jock. Why did the boys persist in calling Clarence Rutherford Lumpy? Was it because his face had the consistency of mashed potatoes? It is true that if President Nixon's face resembles an old peanut, Lumpy's face resembles a pile of old socks. But, good-natured fellow that he was, Lumpy endured the taunts, right up to the time when he had a hemorrhage ogling the Playboy centerfold and died. The kind of thing they never showed on TV. Beaver followed cautiously in his illustrious brother's foot- steps, brushing his cowlick modestly from his bright probing eyes. He distinguished himself on the fields of play at Grant Avenue Elementary School, copping intraschool cups for mar- bles and horsing around with the guys. Some -had hopes that the two Cleavers would form a brother act rivaling that of the Alous or Cruzes or Seven Santinis. A writer, trying to describe these things, is doomed to stare vacantly at his typewriter, grasping for the right words. Did Wally salivate as his eyes flicked to Mary Ellen Rogers on the sidelines, leading the cheers with all the exuberance in her vibrant young body? Did Eddie grow tired and irritable as towel after towel whipped nastily across his lean flank? Can you imagine Lumpy squiring a Caddy around town? What does it allmean? By BOB McGINN The question is "How to stop UCLA?" as the NCAA final Round of Four opens tonight in Los Angeles. In the opener, slated for na- tional television, second-ranked North Carolina (25-4) is fa- vored to beat tenth-ranked up- start Florida State (26-5). Un- defeated and top-ranked UCLA takes on fourth-ranked Louis- ville (24-3) in the nightcap. Before the close of the sea- son, Chicago Loyolatcoach George Ireland . dubbed the NCAA tournament the "UCLA Invitational." The title seems just about right. The current edition of Coach Johnny Wooden's wonders may be better than any of his seven previous 4NCAA titlist squads. The Bruins won each of their 28 contests (?) by an incredible average margin of 32 points, an NCAA record. In their regional final last week the Bruins demolished what may have been the second best team in the country, Long Beach State, 73-57. The 49ers appeared to have the size, speed, and poise to present a stiff chal- lenge to UCLA, as they had in 1971. sports NIGHT EDITOR: CHUCK BLOOM Except for the three opposing coachestand a few of their more optimistic players, everyone realizes that UCLA is untouch- able. They're probably not even human. But tradition demands that the games be played, and the Bruins are certainly not averse to adding another trophy to their already bulging cache. Missouri Valley champ Louis- ville is the unlucky club to play UCLA first. All week the press has billed the contest as a "Pu- pil vs. Teacher" confrontation. The Cardinals' coach Denny Crum was first a player and then an assistant coach under Wooden for the past five years. Suspiciously, little has been written about the Louisville team. Crum's club surprised power- ful Southwest Louisiana in the regional semis to earn the trip west. Louisville's downfall should come because of their lack of a true big man to contend with UCLA's Player of the Year, Bill Walton. 6-9 stringbean Al Vil- check will get the honor of battling Walton. Rugged board- er and good scorer Ron Thomas (6-6) will help Vilcheck. Since Tt is doubtful that Crum's charges can penetrate inside offensively, All-America guard Jim Price will have the responsibility of trying to keep the score respectable. He could give the Bruins some trouble if he is effective from his occa- sional low post position. UCLA has averaged 96.3 points, points a game using a multi- faceted attack. Henry' Bibby provides the outside threat as he has been shooting well from his wing spot in the Bruins' 1-3-1 offense. The 6-11 Walton has been unstoppable inside with hooks and short jumpers. In the other bracket, the North Carolina-Florida State battle looks like a much closer affair. The Tar Heels have beaten their southern foe seven consecutive times over the years title and rate a slight favorite to- night. Many of the experts feel that North Carolina has a legitimate chance of upsetting UCLA. They point to Coach Dean Smith's disciplined tactics, and to out- standing 6-10 pivotman Robert McAdoo, who could conceivably give Walton a struggle, as their chief reasons. First, however, the Tar Heels must defeat Coach Hugh Durham's Seminoles. '-I feel we can win the tour- nament," Durham said. He then added, "I'm not saying that in a boastful way. We feel like on a given night we can play with anybody in the country, and that includes UCLA. We're not going out to Los Angeles for va- cation." A capacity Sports Arena crowd will witness the two semi-final tilts on tap. Smith's teams have been in important tournament clashes before (NIT champs in 1971), while this is only Florida State's second post-season appearance.! North Carolina also has far su- perior bench strength than do the Seminoles. a CAVS WHIP LAKERS: Sa bres blast Penguins By TheAssociated Press power-play goal at 18-16 of the PITTSBURGH - Al Hamilton's Lkesitsdpirdperiydglate18-16Tofothe third period goal climaxed abig CELEVELAND - The Cleveland third period gave the Toronto Buffalo rally and lifted the Sabres Cavaliers pulled off the biggest Maple Leafs a 3-3 tie with theI to a 4-3 National Hockey League upset of their two-year history last Montreal Canadiens in a National victory over the Pittsburgh Pen-' night by stopping Los Angeles 124- Hockey League game last night. guins last night. 120 for their first win ever over' The Sabres, trailing 3-1 midway the Lakers. in the second period, tied the score Rick Roberson, a former Laker, DirtyDeal on goals by Gerry Meehan and paced the Cavs with 29 points, his rookie Rick Martin, his 44th of career high, including 12 in the FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. the season. final period before fouling out. -The New York Yankees Gil Perreault had scored for Jerry West and Gail Goodrich led traded veteran first base- Buffalo in the first period, but Al the Lakers with 31 apiece. man-outfielder Danny Ca- McDonough tied it for Pittsburgh. 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Bean with a 67 topped the list, men who were listed as 1-2-3 came The resourceful Michiganders with Gary Koch following with a ',in, in that order. Balliet's 73 is have clutched seventh place in 69, matched by Andy North's 69. also very encouraging. We're the tournament with a four man Coach Newcomb is not disappoint- working up. total of 300 below the University ed with his team's performance While working up, scorewise the of Florida, (276), Louisiana State in light of Florida's domination of Michigan men are enjoying balmy University, (298), the University 80-degree weather and tee off Uniersiy, (298), the ivsty, the meet. The Floridians are times of 7:30 yesterday and 8:30 (322), South Florida (302), and threatening to break the tourr:a- this morning. well-known Florida Atlantic Col- !~l-~,-( 0-- lege, (306). Michigan's three top men from the prelims yesterday finished consistent with their places. Top man Neil Spitalny fired a 75, Dan Hunter 76, and Rene Desmarais carded a 78. 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