The Michigan Daily-Friday, November 18, 1977-Page 11 TOILE T PAPER CLEANS UP Woody "portraits" By BRIAN MARTIN The scalpers live in utopia these days, selling Ohio State tickets for enough money to send their families on an all-expense paid trip to Cleveland for a month. . However, there is another business in town that is also enjoying ten-fold increases in prices becauses of the aura surrounding Saturday's game - the toilet paper business. NOT JUST ANY toilet paper found in Ann Arbor, mind you, but the infamous "Wipe Woody" rolls that feature a caricature of beloved Wayne Woodrow Hayes on each and every two-ply tissue. Instead of the normal 15c price, a good wipe of Woody will cost anywhere from $1.29 to $1.59 a roll. All the stores around town are experiencing booming businesses hawking numerous Wolverine sou- venirs and anti-Ohio State parapher- nalia. With the game quickly ap- proaching, sales are rolling. "The toilet paper is selling like gangbusters," a clerk from Campus Corners said. "People are buying it to mail to their friends." The "Wipe Woody" paper is the only novelty item being offered by Campus Cor- ners, besides "a lot of beer and liquor." WOODY'S LIKENESS has popped into 20 different stores in Ann Arbor and has sold in varying degrees of effectiveness. The p per, a brain- child of Butler Paper Company owner Frank Borgelt, has become the most popular item to hit Ann Arbor since Hamburger Helper. "Personally, I think he (Hayes) is a good guy," Borgelt said. "It's too bad he's from the wrong school." "It's something new and novelty items generally sell. I think it adds a flavor to the game," Borgelt said. BORGELT developed the idea last September and contracted Elvin Kureth, a student at EMU, to draw the caricature. Since the cost of printing toilet paper is extremely expensive for a small firm, the plans were sent to a New York firm, who sent the 100-case order back to Borgelt. "I was a little apprehensive at first because I didn't know if it would sell," Borgelt said. He needn't worry any longer, for people outside Ann Arbor have received the product enthusiastically. Borgelt sees a national market developing. "I would like to take it out to the Rose Bowl. Southern Cali- fornia people will love it." "NEXT YEAR I might take it out to other teams that play Ohio State," Borgelt added. When told that a few student reporters from the Ohio State Lantern were ecstatic when they saw it, Borgelt wasn't too anxious to promote his product in Columbus. "Fine, I'll let someone else distrib- ute it there and split the profits with him, but I'll stay right here in Michigan." Borgelt has sold 60 cases of the toilet paper thus far, reaching his break-even point. After the re-orders between now and Saturday, students from Ann Arbor St. Thomas will flaunt the 30-odd leftover cases outside Michigan Stadium on Satur- day. Amongst the other items to crop up this year in the novelty market are greeting cards bearing the beat Ohio oiling State theme which have been intro- duced by Eulbog (that's go blue spelled backwards) Publishing Com- pany out of Bucyrus, Michigan. THIS' FICTITIOUS company is a product of the Bucyrus-based annihi- lation news published in Ohio. The greeting card company, although claiming to be in Michigan, has an Ohio zip code. At any rate, the cards are also selling extremely well. "We've re-ordered them many times and have sold out throughout the season," said Jennie Lum of Crown House of Gifts. "We expect sales to pick up this week." Follett's, also featuring the cards, has sold 40 of the 45 dozen they have ordered throughout the year. All of their souvenirs have sold well. "BUSINESS HAS been good this year and particularly this week. With the biggest market days coming up today and Saturday morning, we expect business to be a little better than two years ago for the last Ohio State home game," a manager from Follett's said. Many Ann Arborites are hoping that the outcome of the game will be a little better than that home game also. - Daily Photo by ANDY FREESERG MICHIGAN FULLBACK Russell Davis (33) keeps on churning out the yards. The Wolverine workhorse needs only 43 yards to reach the 1,000 yard plateau for the season. Michigan is counting heavily on Davis to come through with a stellar performance tomorrow against the Buckeyes. Woody Hayes SPORTS OF THE DAILY: j - _ Z Down to thewire By Don MacLachlan Same as usual.- ... Blue will run With one day to go before the big one, Bo Schembechler is still plotting ideas for tomorrow's clash with Ohio State. Up until kickoff Schembechler and his assistants wil try to prepare and revise a game plan for Woody Hayes and the Buckeyes. "I'll spend a lot of time today relaxing and studying films," Schem- bechler said yesterday. "I'll be visualizing in my mind what could happen. You want to make sure you're doing the right thing." For Schembechler these next 24 hours will go slowly - very slowly. The Michigan coach has done all he can do - the rest is up to the team. Bo seemed relaxed yesterday, meeting with the press for the first time this week after drilling behind closed doors. Apparently the practices went according to schedule. Tuesday and Wednesday the Wolverines went through a couple of hard practices and now it's a matter of polishing up a few areas today. Physically, Michigan should be alright. Both Harlan Huckleby and Roosevelt Smith practiced all week at tailback, Now Bo must decide between those two and freshman Stanley Ed- wards. Starting a freshman wouldn't really concern Schembechler. He has a lot of faith in Edwards. The speedster from Detroit started last week against Purdue and did a fine job in a pressure situation. My guess, however, says Bo will indeed start Hiuckleby. The junior worked hard all week and there is nothing to lose by playing him. What is there to save him for? Regardless of who gets the starting nod at halfback, this Ohio State classic will revolve around the power-running of fullback Russell Davis. Barring a catastrophe, Davis will go over the 1,000-yard mark tomor- row. He needs only 43 yards. Every week this season Schembechler praised his fullback. He described Davis as a "fine fullback who's going to be a great one." Davis has deceptive speed for a fullback. The Purdue secondary will attest to that. But his powerful running - picking up the necessary three or four yards - is what Michigan needs most. Since Ed Shuttlesworth departed, the Wolverines haven't really had the big fullback. Until Davis came into the picture. Last year in Columbus he churned for 89 yards and scored two touchdowns in the 22-0 victory. Davis has only been tackled for a loss twice this season and seldom fumbles. Both these teams know each other very well. Schembechler says their offenses look very much alike. "It's fundamental when two teams are winning and fairly well matched that they don't do things foreign to their type of football," Schembechler said. "If the other team is better and you honestly feel tley are better you can't go with that premise. Unless of course the defense dictates that you should do that. We run play-option football and throw 15 times a game. I don't think we will change." In other words, the Wolverines will churn on the ground tomorrow. Schembechler feels that the option is risky enough - why throw the ball un- necessarily and add the threat of an interception? The thing that scares Bo most of all is the turnover. He definitely doesn't want his team to get in a hole, because fighting back in a big game like this is rugged. Hence, the game will be conservative until that one break opens it up. From then on, it will be a dogfight. So expect Davis to get the brunt of the action. The offensive line play is peaking, and the health in that area is better than it has been all year. But Bo still has to mix in the option to keep the Michigan offense moving like it has been all along. And a surprise pass or a reverse could come into play when the Bucks least expect it. Sounds good, doesn't it? Bo isn't so sure. "This is the type of game you go into and aren't sure what will happen," he said. "You know what to expect, but it can go either way. It all boils down to executing the best and not turning the ball over and getting in trouble. The element of a mistake here and there can kill you." There you have it. Schembechler knows his team has the tools to defeat the Buckeyes. But that one little mistake could kill any momentum that' either team may generate. Schembechler needs the victory to get back to the Rose Bowl. He is satisfied with the team's preparation. They went all out in practice this week. But he's still pessimistic about the part of the game he has no control over - a shanked punt, missed block, fumble, penalty or whatever. The scene is set. Both teams will be emotionally high. Fans will be going hrcirk Tt' uit aisht t witnes di nNA fane incina the Virtnrc th Ruass ian By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS - Vladimir Tka- chenko scored 40 points last night, sparking the SovietNational basket- ball team to an 88-77 exhibition vic- tory over Indiana. Tkachenko, a 7-foot-2 center, hit Too close to call (Continued from Page 10) OSU (27-6). I think we played well against Michigan, but we're not a good barometer." JOHN PONT, who has just retired as Northwestern's football coach, thinks, "Whichever quarterback has the hot hand" will guide his team to a win. "It puts more pressure on Rick Leach and Rod Gerald (the opposing quarterbacks)." "Personnel to personnel, it will be the closest match-up I've seen in four years. I don't think the crowd, Michigan playing at home, will have any ef(ect." The winless Wildcats were victimized by both the Wolver- ines and the Buckeyes, falling to Michigan 63-20 and to OSU 35-15. Judging these opinions as consen- sus, they add up to a big question mark for Saturday's game. It's up to Bo and Woody to clear up the mystery tomorrow afternoon. ~sdump well from close range, capitalizing on a height advantage over the Hoos- iers. The game included an unusual scene in which Indiana Coach Bobby Knight removed his show and banged it on the scorer's table during a verbal exchange with Soviet Coach Alexandr Gomelsky. Knight, who had been slapped with two technical fouls earlier in the first half, was protesting to an official when the Soviet coach started yelling in Knight's direction. Knight re- moved his shoe in a scene reminis- cent of Nikita Khrushchev's action at the United Nations. The Hoosiers stayed close in the first half and led 32-31 until Vladimir Zhigiliy sank a 10-foot jumper with 5:57 left in the half, putting the Soviets ahead for good. Zhigiliy came off the bench and scored, 23{points as the Soviets. snapped a three-game losing streak on their United States tour which continues at Notre Dame today. Freshman Steve Risley scored 9 points and freshman Ray Tolber had 17 for the Hoosiers' Palner sent cor LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League sent rookie defenseman Rob Palmer to their Springfield farm club in the American Hockey League Thursday. Palmer, the Kings' fifth draft choice in 1976, appeared in nine games this season. Palmer, who had seen limited playing time because the team has been carrying seven defensemen, is subject to immediate recall. * Hoosiers, 88-77 * * Torrez 10 Rosox? BOSTON - General Manager Hay- wood Sullivan of the Boston Red Sox said last night he was ''optimistic" about signing free agent Mike Tor- rez, who helped pitch the New York Yankees to the American League pennant and the World Series cham- pionship this year. Sullivan said in an interview with sportscaster Len Berman of WBZ-TV that only a few details remained to be worked out with Torrez. "I don't think the money difference is that much," Sullivan said. "It appears a matter of working out details, us giving a little and them giving a little. "I'm optimistic, but like so many things, you can't be sure until you get the final signature." Sullivan said he and Red "Sox treasurer John Harrington "went the full nine innings" in trying to sign Torrez during a recent visit to Arizona. 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