Thursday, February 1, 1976: THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page [even Thursday, February 12, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page ~Ieven __ _ _ MITTERMAIER CHASES OLYMPIC RECORD: 20-20 HindsiIht } By JEFF SCHILLER - HOw Wyou.. . play the ame I'LL BET THAT almost everyone has heard of the old adage, "All you can do is try your best." Why, even Jim Wisman has probably heard it. I'm not sure he believes it anymore, though. Wisman, a sophomore reserve guard on the Indiana basket- ball team, committeed three straight turnovers against Michi- gan's zone press in Saturday's game. Not on purpose, of course, but they did cost six points. For that sin, he suffered out-and-out humiliation. Mercifully, the TV cameras refrained from focusing on Hoosier coach Bobby Knight as he dragged Wisman fromn the court and threw him onto the bench, screaming and pushing at him, the whole time. The incident embarrassed even his teammates, several of whom came over to pat Wis. mad on the back. The outcry has since forced Knight to apologize. "It won't happen again," he said. But I wonder whether he would have apologized had Wisman's miscues cost Indiana the game. Where would poor Wisman have been then? Washed up at age 19. The sad commentary is that a lot of Indiana fans would have accepted the diagnosis. "That stupid Wisman (if you can't re- late, substitute Lantry);" they would mutter. "He's no good. We lost because of him." Winning not only thing What we've come to is a situation where a group of 20-year- old kids are acting out the dreams of America's Walter Mitty's. Fans feel personally cheated when someone on "their" team fails to live up to expectations. It's as if they, themselves, have been personally insulted. What egotism. And what dangerous egotism as that, for it is this atmosphere that allows incidents like Saturdays' to continue. When winning is the only way to self-fulfillment, the inevitable outcome is a "win-at-any price" philosophy, and the ones who get trampled are the athletes who lose. Their lives are wrecked by the outcome of a mere game. Not that the atmosphere is solely responsible. A lot of coaches would have acted with more class than Knight, regard- less of the provocation. But if Knight's action (or actions like it) weren't tolerated, they wouldn't continue. As it is, Indiana will probably go undefeated through the regular season, and Knight's winning tactics will be rewarded with Coach of the Year accolades. YVharious vituperation voiced Don't get me wrong-I'm not against winning. I cheer and suffer with my favorites as much as anyone. But Steve Grote didn't cheat me because he missed a free throw Saturday- nor did he cheat anyone else. He tried as hard as he could, and that's all that can be expected. The ironic thing is that the disproportionate, emphasis on success makes failure more likely. The added pressure put on college athletes may be just enough to make them "choke," College athletics should be viewed in perspective. It is not a substitute for the pros, nor should it be used as a vehicle merely to satisfy spectators' vicarious pleasures. It is a learning experi- ence for a group of college students with skills in a particular area. At least Jim Wismian wishes people would view it that way. Hamill favored for skating medal By The Associated Press INNSBRUCK-America's Dor- othy Hamill, shaking off a nasty fall, all but locked up the wo- men's figure skating gold medal with a brilliant performance yesterday and Britain's' John Curry dazzled a packed crowd with his freestyle routine to win the men's title.j Meanwhile, effervescent Al- pine skier Rosi Mittermaier of West Germany made a bid for Olympic history with her sec- ond victory of these Wintei games. Team medal standing s G S B T Soviet Union 10 5 7 22 East Germany 6 4 3 10 West Germany 2 4 1 7 Finland 2 2 1 S United States 1 3 4 8 Switzerland 1 2 1 4 Austria 1 1 2 4 Norway 1 1 1 3 Britain 1 0 0 1 Holland 0 1 1 2 Italy 0 1 1 2 Canada 0 1 1 2 Sweden 0 0 1 1 Liechtenstein 0 0 1 1 ; Y "'::' y1t:: 'i ' :' J,'il ;:1"~ .. .".... . i " .":' }i :" ::.V:::i :i v:"::ijssszM E issiN MISS HAMILL, 19 and bidding to follow in the golden path of former American winners Peggy Fleming, Carol Heiss and Ten- ley Albright, -won the short pro- gram portion in women's figure skating Wednesday. She moved into a nearly insurmountable lead entering tomorrow night's finals, the freestyle skating, at which she is the world's best. While Miss Hamill seemed to have secured America's second gold medal of the Winter Olym- pics, MissMittermaier, the 25- year-old bundle of energy who is the most popular skier on the World Cup circuit, won her sec- ond gold medal with a victory in the slalom and prepared for an all-out run at an unprecen- dented third victory in her sport. MISS MITTERMAIER, who also w o n Sunday's downhill race, will seek to win her third gold medal in Friday's giant slalom. Twice before in the 52- year history of the Winter Games a man has won all three Alpine gold medals; no woman Blue thinclads duel MSU; prepare for Cleveland meet has ever done it. In another event last night, Curry, criticized by some for a style which appears effeminate, put on a brilliant performance to win the men's figure skating title, the first gold medal of these Games for Britain. VLADIMIR Kovalev of the Soviet Union won the silver me- dal and Canada's Toller Cran- ston, fifth before the' final part of this competition, captured the bronze medal with a stellar freestyle rountine. David Santee of Park Ridge, Ill., was the top-rated Ameri- can, finishing sixth, and Terry Kubicka of Cypress, Calif., the U.S. champion, was seventh al- though he also earned a stand- ing ovation with a backflip. -- n Sports THURSDAY XII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES 9 pan., channel 7 . INDOOR TRACK at Michigan State FRIDAY XII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m., channel 7 HOCKEY! vs. Denver, 7:30 p.m., Yost Iee Arena MEN'S SWIMMING vs. Oakland, 7:30 p.m., Matt Mann Pool WEST GERMAN skier Ros vs.Wisconsin, winds her way down the 0 7:30 p m., Crisler Arena Lizum Wednesday en route t SATURDAY in the Winter Games. MEN'S BASKETBALL at Michigan State- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL at Central Michigan MEN'S GYMNASTICS MAI ZETTE RL I NG'S vs. Indiana State, 1 p.m., Crisler Arena HOCKEY vs. Denver, 7:30 p.m., Yost Ice Arena MEN'S SWIMMING This Swedish film is c vs. Illinois, 4 p.m., Matt Mann Pool women confined to a NCAA BASKETBALL days before World W Ohio State vs. Purdue, 2 p.m. d beforenWorld and hood incidents' and si Maryland vs. Clemson, 4 p.m., reveal the reaons f channel 4 XII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES men, their position ii 2:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 9 p m., the manor, and the c channe 17 the conception of the Third Round of the Andy Williams San Diego Open, 5 p.m., channel 2 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS FRI: John Ford's V 5 p.m., channel 7 NHL HOCKEY Vancouver at Toronto, 8 p.m., channel 9 IEAGlD RED WING HOCKEY CINEMA GUILD Detroit at Minnesota, 8 pam., channel 56 By ERNIE DUNBAR Michigan's track team will be on the road this week, taking on Michigan State tomorrow in a dual meet and traveling to Cleveland S at ur d ay for the Knights of Columbus meet. The thinclads should have a relatively easy time against the Spartans. MSU's talent is spread very thin, and should provide little competition for Michigan's powerful squad. "We shouldn't have too much of a problem beating them," said assistant coach Ron War- hurst. "We're just sticking to our training schedule this week and staying on schedule to peak at the Big Ten championships." Michigan State's Herb Lind- say offers the Spartans' best bet for a victory. Lindsay ran an 8:39.2 two-mile and a 4:05.8 mile last Saturday in the Spartan Relays. He'll bat- tle Michigan's, Greg Meyer, Bill Donakowski, and Mike McGuire In the mile run. "It '1 be an interesting mile," said Warhurst, "because Meyer and Lindsay have been arch- rivals since high school." The Spartans also boast 600 man Tim Klein. Klein ran 1:11.1 last weekend and should give Michigan's Angy Johnson some t o u g h competition. Michigan State's other top-caliber runners include hurdler Howard Neely, half-miler Dane Fortney and 4 4 ' i M )i t( 4 a y rl C miler Stan Mavis. On the other hand, Mich- igan should be overwhelming with its depth. Doug Giggs, consistently around 6-10 in the high jump, will head the Wol- verine high jumping crew that includes Peter Running and Jesse Myers. Running, Abe B u t l e r and Giants remain SAN FRANCISCO-Former major league owner Robert Short and S a n Francisco businessman Robert Luriel brought an $$ million offer for the San Francisco Giants to court yesterday and Judge John E. Benson issued an in- junction blocking the pro- posed transfer of the baseball team to Toronto. the 70 yard high hurdles. Head coach Jack Harvey of- fered his outlook for the meet. "It's going to be a decent meet," Harvey said. "They al- ways run well against us and with us going there with good competition I think that it'll inspire them to run some good performances."j At the Knights of Columbus meet this Saturday, Michigan runners will face some of their toughest competition of the year. Furst, Elliott, Meyer and Johnson will combine for the best two mile relay Michigan can put together. "We put Andy on the anchor because he runs better when there's less traffic around him," said Warhurst, "and I figure that we'll either have the lead or in second place. Villanova will be our main cm etitin AP Photo si Mittermaier grimaces as she lympic special slalom course at o securing her second gold medal 1964 COUPLES, discerning look at three maternity hospital in the Var I. They recall child- sexual experiences which or their cynicism toward n the caste-like order of ircumstances surrounding child each is bearing.' WEE WILLIE WINKLE Tonight at OLD ARCH. AUD. 7:00 & 9:05 Admission $1.25 Mark Bohlke will compete for Michigan in both the long jump Michigan will also enter the. and triple jump. Butler was im- mile relay team of Huckleby, pressive last weekend, record- McLeod, Grace and Williams. ing a sea-, ? best of 49-2% /in In the individual events, Wil- the triple jump. j.liams will run the 600, and Chis- The Wolverine entries in the holm will be inthe 70-yard high l running events will be slightly hurdles. McGuire, who has the different from the past two second fastest three mile in the weeks. Dave Williams will run country, will run the two mile the quarter-mile along with Jeff against some of the best dis- McLeod and Jim Grace. ? tance runners in the world. Doug Hennigar, Harlan Huck- leby and Rob Lytle will run the 60 yard dash with Hennigar and SCO RES Hiickleby coming back in the _ _________ 300. Hennigar will also be run-, ning his first quarter mile of wa 1rBA the year, as he anchors the Milwaukee 109, New York 95 team of Don Wheeler, Charles Houston 115, Boston 103 Crouther, and Dave Furst in the NHL 1mile relay. Buttalo 4, Detroit 2 "The reason we want to run Atlanta 5, Toronto 2 C"Teru E E BASKETBALL . . . FE ., ': :: 1/ MEN'S TOURNEY BEGINS N etters battle Mizzou HQ U U h1L~ L ANN AI~I~()l~ By CINDY GATZIOLIS IF THE Wolverines beat Mis-' Spring is the time of year souri, they will face the winner when a young man's fancy turns, of the Southern Methodist-Ala- to love, but the kind of love bama match. Michigan played which may previl this weekend Alabama in the first round and in Wisconsin has nothing to do SMU in the second round last with the birds and the bees. year and won both matches, 5-4 The young lads in question and 7-2 respectively. compose the Michigan men's Provided that Michigan sur- tennis team and the love on vives the first two rounds, its their minds is the tennis term third opponent will probably bel which means "shutout." The Stanford.. Wolverines hope to blank sev- The Wolverines do not possessy eral of their opponents when the depth they have enjoyed in they participate in the National the past. Former players Jerry Collegiate Indoor Tennis Tour- Karzan and Jeff Miller have nament, February 12-15 at Mad- graduated, Victor Amaya has ison. turned pro and Freddy DeJesus THE TOURNAMENT field in- is not playing this winter in or- cludes all of the top 16 teams in der to devote more time to his the nation, with the exception studies. If needed, however, De- of UCLA and Miami (Fla.). Jesus will return. Michigan finished second lastE year in indoor competition be- THIS WEEKEND'S ieup in- hind Stanford. In the outdoors, cludes senior captain Eric Fried- the Wolverines came up with a ler in the number one position; fourth place finish behind UCLA,t freshman Jeff Etterbeek, a two- Trinity and Miami (Fla.). ~ - Michigan's first round oppo- nent this weekend will be Mis- souri, the reigning Big Eight by the time champions, in the first meeting ; ever held between the two you find us you squads. Michigan coach BriantEisner may be too tired expressed no fear of the un- known, however, saying, "We to bowl. feel positive about the Missouri match." Missouri's top players, the Mitchell brothers, pose a threat,, but, as Eisner said, "We'll have; to wait and see." Could your children have fun coming to school after school? The kids who come to our after-school 1, 4 'I ii -1 ,o time state high school singles. champion; returning Big Ten iumber five and number six; singles champions, Buddy Gal- lagher and Jim Holman; Brad: Holland, Ollis Owens and Mark Zausmer. Th doubles competition pairs Frieder and Gallagher, Holman and Holland, and Etterbeek andj Owens. Doug in the mile relay," said, Warhurst, "is that there's a real; good chance that he'll be the, quarter miler on the distance. medley team at the nationals,I and we want to see what he can do." Steve Elliott and Furst will run the half for the Wolverines and Arnett Chisholm, Wheeler a and Crouther will compete in W. Michigan 85, E. Michigan 73 Cent. Michigan 95, Bowling Green 82 N. Carolina 81, Maryland 69 Notre Dame 84, Villanova 57 Oklahoma 65, Nebraska 60 Providence 79, Boston College 71 N. Carolina St. 67, UNC-Charotte 64 Wake Forest 84, Clemson 77 Kent St. 70, Ohio U. 67 Dayton 78, Chicago Loyola 73 DePaul 71, Indiana St. 62 2455 S. STATE ROAD... 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