FEB. 17, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY eber Named Tournament Manager For Big Ten Mat I I pe nCg Meet Varsity Squad -0 Rated Favorite To Win Crown Speicher, Bissell, Danner Renain Unbeaten; Meet Ohio State Feb. 22 Coach Wally Weber, backfield mentor of Michigan's football forces, will be tournament manager of the Big Ten wrestling meet to be held here March 12 and 13, it was an- nounced yesterday. Weber will serve as director of pub- licity and will make all pre-tourna- ment arrangements necessary for the conduct of the meet. This includes providing accommodations for the visiting teams, choosing the officials, appointing committees to dispose of the tickets, and the like. Hoosiers Are Powerful Michigan has definitely taken its place as a pre-tournament favorite in the impending meet. Illinois and the always powerful Indiana aggre- gations at present are the only ap- parent contenders that the Wolver- ines will have. The remaining dual meets will go far in determining the inatmen's chances. The Varsity powerhouse took an- other big step along the victory trail Monday night by annihilating North- western's matmen at Evanston, Ill., to the tune of 33-5. The Wildcats, who had previously dropped only two decisions, were out- classed, outfought, and outsmarted by the aggressive Michigan grapplers. The only Wildcat victory came in the heavyweight division where De- Witt Gibson, ponderous Wildcat grid- der pinned Stan Schuman, subbing for the still-injured Butch Jordan. Jordan: should be in shape for the Indiana fracas on March 1. Trio Wins Again Michigan's triumphant trio, Cap- tain Frank Bissell, Harland Danner and .wee Johnny Speicher, had plenty of company as they won easy vic- tories. Bissell toyed with Phibbs, his Wildcat opponent, finally pinning him easily in 6:09. Danner, wrestling with his usual effective abandon, wasted no time in setting Bud Gridley of Northwestern on, his back, emerging victorious in 2:13. Danner and Bissell have en- gaged in five meets to date and have won every battle by the fall route. Speicher, the little man of the trio, pinned his opponent, Gluckman, in the 118-pound division in 5:45. John- ny, still unbeaten, had the best of it all the way. Speicher's real test will come on March 1 when he tackles Indiana's "Two-Bit" Meyers, who beat him last year in the Conference meet. Paul Cameron, Earl Thomas, and Dick Tasch, the latter subbing for the injured Frank Morgan, also won their matches by falls. Harold Nich- ols, wrestling his first meet for Mich- igan won a handy decision in the 145- pound class. %he PReSS ANGLEa By GEORGE J. AN RW. (Daily Sports Ider) Kipke Thanks Alumni ...: COACH HARRY KIPKE'S first open letter to Michigan alumni appears in the latest issue of The Michigan Alumnus . . . He thanks the alumni for their unwavering sup- port through good seasons and bad, and says "the members of the squad seem to feel much more confident than they have for several years past." . . . "It is natural to criticize during lean years and it is hard to keep on 'boosting' when things are not going well," Kip concludes; "but I feel positive that the surest way for all of us to do his share in working things out for the good of Michigan is to take a constructive rather than a destructive attitude." Matthaei After Lions . FREDMATTHAEI, '14, former Var- sity grid star and prominent fig- ure in Detroit alumni circles, is ne- gotiating with G. A. Richards, presi- dent of the Detroit Lions football club for controlling interest in the profes- sional team . . . There is more than a possibility that he will get it . . . Richards at present owns approxi- mately 75 per cent of the stock of the Lions Club . .. Matthaei is president of the American Metal Products Co. Sammy Stoller received a gold medal and a leg on a huge trophy for winning the Briggs 50-yard sprint Ben Grady Lures Corsage From Deb With Fancy Dive By BETSY ANDERSON It was gardenias instead of the proverbial orchids to Ben Grady, swimming team member and diver de luxe at the Michigan-Colgate swim- ming meet held in Buffalo last Satur- day night. The corsage, consisting of two gar-, denias, was thrown to Grady froml the balcony of the Buffalo Athleticl Club by an enthusiastic debutante following an exhibition of fancy dives of all sorts put on by Grady at thel insistence of his team mates who loudly suggested (the suggestions echoed from one end of the pool to the other it may be added) that he was a sissy and his dives weren't nearly exciting enough. Grady and Phil Haughey were giving exhibition diving between two of the swimming events when the suggestions were made and after a whisper in the ear of the referee, Grady soon reciprocated by virtually "going to town" from the high diving board. The last dive, described unusual- ly well by one of his louder team- mates as "it'll be good if he does it and if he doesn't. do it, it'll still be good," was one of Grady's own com- positions consisting of a double som- ersault and concluded the meet with the proverbial "bang" and left the much excited audience breathless, and last but not least even silenced his finally satisfied teammates. 100 Men Turn Out For Grid Practice Relay Quartet For State Meet Still Uncertain Reserve 440 Men Falter; Star Combination May See Action In Opener It isn't how to beat Michigan State1 Saturday night that is troubling Coach Charley Hoyt, Wolverine track mentor, but rather which four men out of seven possibilities he should place on the mile relay team. Charley had a big plan afoot yes- terday but it didn't pan out just as he expected. In the first place three of the relay quartet are definitely de- cided upon, these being Capt. Bob Osgood, Stan Birleson and Ross Faulkner. But because the Spartans are not expected to furnish an ex-. ceedingly great amount of competi- tition this week in the Field House Michigan's cagey coach decided to form a different relay team for this one meet. Relay Men Disappoint Yesterday afternoon he sent nine quarter-milers through time trials with the original plan being to use the four best performers against State as the relay aggregation. But the performances were not quite as good as expected. As a result Hoyt is up in the' air and it may be that he will send his star trio of relay men, plus Steve Mason, against State. Mason, Mil- ler, Clark and Aigler turned in the best times in yesterday's trials but together wouldn't have broken 3:30. The Field House record for the event is 3:21.6, set by the Wolverines last winter against Ohio State. Fourth Man Sought If a fast fourth man can be found to place with Birleson, Osgood, the sophomore Faulkner that mark may fall before the local indoor cam- paign is ended. If it is to be broken it will probably be done in the Pitts- Michigan Title I Race May Rest Expect Illini, Gophers Will Soften Lambert's Quintet For Cappon's Squad By RAY GOODMANI With Jake Townsend and Johnny Gee both playing championship ball. the Michigan basketball team, until Monday night's rout of Indiana men- tioned merely as "still in the run- ning," stands today as one of the four favorites for the Big Ten title. Minnesota still holds the lead with six wins and a single defeat, but Sat- urday night the Gophers faced Pur- due and that game should .chango the situation all around. Just what the Boilermakers can do when they're out for revenge was made quite clear by their 61 to 34 victory over Illinois, erstwhile Conference leader. And the fact that Purdue defeated the Illini and face Minnesota Satur- day is the greatest factor in the Var- sity's favor, for next Monday Piggy Lambert brings his Firehorse squad to Ann Arbor. The hope is that the "keying-up" effect of Illinois and Minnesota will soften Purdue for Michigan and bring the title to the Wolverines for the first time since 1928. Michigan is traditionally a second opes In Cage On Purdue Tilt Brown Declares He'll Stay Limit With Louis semester team. It's been years since one of Cappon's quintets has done well during the first half, but they've aways been hard to stop the second half of the schedule. For instance the last time Michi- gan won a Conference opener was in 1932 when Williamson, Garner, Pe- trie, Eveland, and Weiss defeated Wisconsin, 24 to 18, at Madison. Last year the same, weakness was shown during the first semester, and the usual whirlwind finish was evident as the Varsity whipped Illinois twice, drubbed Chicago, beat Iowa, and then almost upset Purdue in the final game. The offense that Cappon has been trying to drill into his boys from the beginning worked beautifully. When Indiana crowded the pivot men then the back line set up its own plays and broke through the free throw lane for points. Yes, Michigan has really hit its stride, and if it can hold it the Var- sity should take Northwestern this Saturday and then upset the high- riding Boilermakers who, as Ohio State's Francis Schmidt once re- marked, "still put their pants on one leg at a time." KANSAS CITY, Feb. 16.-(P)-Joe Louis, suffering from dented prestige as a result of his failure to knock out Bob Pastor, will seek to straighten it out at the expense of Natie Brown when they meet in a scheduled 10- round bout here tomorrow night. Speaking in round numbers, Brown, who in 1935 stayed 10 with the Brown Bomber, declares he can do it again, but the idea is practically original with him. Nobody else thinks so, with the result odds on the fight are prohibitive. The bout is scheduled to start at 10:05 p.m. (C.S.T.) and will be broad- cast (NBC Blue Network). JEWELRY I Burr, Pa I I Approximately 100 candidates for in Bbston Saturday night against the 1937 Varsity football team, the such stars as Ben Johnson, Marty largest group in Michigan history, Glickman, Sammy Richardson of reported to Coach Harry Kipke last Canada and Herb Weist of Columbia. night at the Union for the beginning * *of spring practice. Last night's meeting consisted; Have A Laugh, Matt . . . mainly of getting organized for in- door drills, to be held first in the THE DAILY IOWAN swimming Intramural gym and then in the writer says the Northwestern med- Field House when the basketball ley trio of Zehr, Horscke and Faner floor is lifted. is the -best in the country . . . Poor The squad will be divided into misguided soul . . . Keep you eye three groups, each group drilling two on Cody, Kasley and Co. of Michigan days a week when the refinishing of in the Conference championships the Intramural gym is completed late March 13, sir . . . this week. 7''alk- Oud.t VIKING CALF )I mellows with age " Like ra-e old wine, this imported leather is world .® famous for its full-bodied mellowness, and the way it improves with age, CROYDON. Brown Treadsmooth Mello-Flex . insole. De Luxe. BURTiON'S WALK-OVERSHOP 15 SOUTH MAINN l ,, ,, ' ; t 1 _4 burgh meet, last dual meet before the Conference title chase next month. 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