AY,,4AWUARY. 23,-L44d THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wolverines Face Buckeye Swimmers, Cagers Tomorrow Backstroke Event Will Highlight Close Dual Meet With Ohio State I-- Quintet Points Toward Upset Win Over Foe Ohio Sate Lantern Rates HI GH A ND INSID By ART HILL I' Michigan Mat Squad To Meet Student-Coached Findlay Oilers By BUD HENDEL 1T Swimming fans who trek down to the Sports Building Pool for the Michigan-Ohio State dual meet to- morrow night will be treated to the pre-scheduled racing of the Big Ten backstroke championship. For the two favorites to cop the Conference crown, Wolverine Dick Riedl and Buckeye Mark Follansbee, are slated to stage an advance show- ing of the title event when the Maize and Blue tankers meet the challenge of the Scarlet and Gray. And a strong challenge it will be too. Ohio State is out to end the long-standing Michigan domination of collegiate swimming which dates back to 1938 when another aggrega- tion from Columbus handed the Mannators their last dual meet loss. Since that ill-fated day the Wolver- ines, save for two ties in 1940 with this same Buckeye crew coached by wily Mike Peppe, have been riding the victory trail. So the Peppemen have a man- sized job cut out for them, and on the shoulders of Follansbee will ride a large portion of the Buckeye hopes to repeat that feat of 1938 and tum- ble the Michigan mermen from their lofty perch. Only asophomore, Follansbee is one of the most deadly feared back- strokers in the country. He started his college days at Princeton, but al- leged scholastic difficulties in the I - BULLETIN - MICHIGAN'S HOCKEY TEAM SCORED ITS FIRST VICTORY OF THE SEASON LAST NIGHT WHEN IT UPSET MINNESOTA, 3-2, AT MINNEAPOLIS. FOR DETAILS SEE STORY ON PAGE ONE. East's tradition-steeped institution forced the natatorial star from Tiger- land and lured him to the home of the Buckeyes. According to stop watch compari- sons, the Buckeye ace should trim the varsity's star backstroker. But races aren't won by previous timings' and performances, and Riedl is one of the best competitors in the Con- ference. He will be matching his long years of experience and his famil- iarity with the pool against the Ohio State sophomore's inexperience and undenied speed when the two clash here tomorrow night. And the win- ner should be the next Big 'Ten back- stroke champion. The other Wolverine entry in this event will be either Ted Horlenko or sophomore Johnny Weise, with the former probably getting the nod to TED HORLENKO battle Will Ryan for the valuable third place points. But the 150 yard backstroke event won't be the only meeting of Riedl and Follansbee. The first race of the night, the 300 yard medley relay, will see them lead off for their respective teams in 'an effort to buildl up a size- able advantage. And that will be only the beginning, for the medley relay will be one of the tightest duels of the evening with Ohio State using Charley Spangler in the breaststroke and Capt. John Leitt in the free style to offer the Wolverine medley trio of Riedl, Jim Skinner and Gus Share- met their most serious threat of the season. Likewise Michigan's national breaststroke champion Jim Skinner will have his hands full. Not only does he clash with Spangler in the medley but he also will face the Buckeye butterfly ace in the 200 yard breaststroke event. Last year Spang- ler captured fourth place in the Na- tional AAU title race here in Ann Arbor, finishing just a few yards be- hind the winning Michigan star. To- morrow night Jim will be out to re- peat his victory performance over the Ohio State entry. Coach Matt Mann can call upon either John Sharemet or sophomore DaveLevy to compete with Skinner against the Buckeye, while Steve Grimm will probably round out the Columbus breaststroke duo. The meet will get under way at 7:45 p.m., with an admission charge of 40 cents per person upon the pre- sentation of an identification card. Michigan Easy Victim;t Doyle Ready For Action By DICK SIMON If fight and the will to win can bring home victories to Coach Ben- nie Oosterbaan's basketball team, you can count tomorrow's game with1 Ohio State in the Michigan win col- umn. . Despite their poor Conference rec- ord of one triumph as against fivea losses, those scrappy Wolverines are out to show the Buckeyes and their newspaper--the Ohio State Lantern -that they are far from toothless and that their offense is far from poor. The Lantern had this to say of the Maize and Blue cagers: "Only Chi- cago's offense is less potent and while the defense is impressive, the differ- ence explains the miserable record of the Michigan cagers." And at the end of his story the Ohio State sports writer said: "The Buckeyes clash with the Wolverines only once this year so it will be an all-out affair. Should the Wolverines get tired of using only the Chicago Maroons as their basketball doormat, it might turn into a basketball game. At this writing, it appears as though the only thing that will happen will be that the Wolverines will get tired." Yesterday's practice session was just a preview of what Ohio State's uprising cagers can expect. Coach Oosterbaan divided the team into two squads and let the "whites," com- posed of Ralph Gibert, Jim Mandler, Capt. Bill Cartmill, Bill MacConna- chie and Leo Doyle, who made his first appearance of the week on the court, work the ball in and take a shot only when they were clear. Morrie Bikoff and Mel Comin al- ternated in the "white" line-up and added scoring punch to the Michigan offense. Very few shots were wasted and the Wolverines kept dropping them in from all angles. However, every player is well aware of the difficulty in stopping a team when that team is as hot as the --BULLETIN - The Health Service reported last night that Tom Kuzma, Michigan's star sophomore foot- ball player, was ill with pneumon- ia. Dr. Gilbert De Ryke said his condition was not serious. Buckeyes are at the present. In their last two games against Iowa and Northwestern, they have scored 105 points, and every man in the start- ing five is a potential high scorer. Most of the Buckeye success in these two games has been due to the all-around play of sophomore Bud Wise and the sharp-shooting of Max Gecowets Wise has proven himself to be a classy ball-handler and has set the stage for numerous Buckeye scoring plays. Gecowets tallied 16 points against Northwestern and 16 against. Iowa and set up the winning scoring play in the'Iowa game by stealing the ball from one of the Hawkeye players and iassing it to a teammate who scored the winning two points. Ohio State is one of the few teams in the Conference to beat the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team The Buckeyes have been sow in rounding into tip-top shape as is evidenced by the fact that Dick Fish- er, third leading scorer in the Big Ten last year, has been riding the bench in most of their games. SALE SUITS TOPCOATS OVERCOATS Miclaes Itr ii(iad 4lhb i 'Ne makes Reduced 20% to33 % Frankly, folks, this fine reduc- tion at this time offers you one of the greatest savings you have ever known. You will find THERE COMES A TIME in the life of every Daily sports writer when he must needs turn to his inmer self and query, "How, now, what has be- come of the old fire, the esprit de corps which once made Michigan athletic teams the scourge of the middle west?" For it is true indeed that, of the three Wolverine clubs or aggrega- tions which are in operation at the present time (viz. the cagers, the pucksters and the grapplers), none has given evidence that it will be a force to be reckoned with during the remainder of the current season. Take the case of the embattled hardwood forces. Before the season opened, there were those observers who thought that the men of Ooster- baan were in for a successful year. True, the team was a young one but it seemed to have more ability than the cagers of 1941-42. Coaches would tremble, people said, at the prospect of meeting Mighty Michigan. But, look you what has happened. The Wolverine basketballers have managed to salvage but one Big Ten win from a total of six. And the only coaches who tremble when the Maize and Blue cagers take the floor are Bennie Oosterbaan and Ernie McCoy. And they, as you well know, are the coaches of these same Michigans. In the case of the wrestling team, it really cannot be said that prospects look bleak on the basis of contests in which the grapplers have thus far engaged. They have beaten Penn State, tied Kansas State and lost to Michigan State. The Kansans and the Spartans are two of the best mat outfits in the nation but, still, the fact remains that Cliff Keen's lads have copped but once in three attempts. When we come to hockey, it is with a thrill of satisfaction that we recall the upset victory which Eddie Lowrey's team-that-won't-be-beaten- can't-be-beaten aggregation scored over once mighty Minnesota last night. (Incidentally, it is becoming increasingly evident why Gopher Coach Larry Armstrong refused to schedule Illinois this year. He said the Illini were too rough. It is to laugh.) But facts are facts and the fact remains that the Wolverine pucksters cannot be classed as mighty, something which was not true a few years back. And this saddens us. Tomorrow, the swimming team will take up the cudgel and try to put Michigan back in the win column. In all probability, the natators will be successful. And then the track team will swing into action and quite pos- sibly into a winning season. In the spring, it will be golf, tennis and base- ball, in all of which the Wolverines are generally fairly potent. But those things are in the future and we are concerned with the present. What is to be done? Who are we to answer that one? We'll smash the scribes' code by not trying to prescribe for the ailing Michi- gan winter sports teams. But let's hope that things will be different a year from now and that there will be no period of two months during which every Wolverine victory is an upset. And there is a definite likelihood that things will be different next winter. For from the hockey and basketball fronts comes reports of fresh- man teams which battle the Varsities on even terms. We say this with trepidation but, who knows, perhaps things are looking up. INVITATION TO THE DANCE 4' SAFIFELL &BUSH i"i By JACK FLAGLERt The mystery surrounding thisl Findlay College wrestling team which meets the Wolverine matmen at 3t p.m. tomorrow in Yost Field House has finally been brought out in the s open with a mild sort of a bang. According to all available reports, the small Ohio college has a colorful and potentially dangerous bunch of1 grapplers with a suicide schedule and, of all things in this decade, a student coach. Coached By Student The invaders, who call themselves the Oilers, are coached and captained by a rugged 145 pounder, senior Jake Diemert, one of two lettermen re- turning from last year. Diemert hails from Wesleyville, Pa., this is his second year as the Oilers' mat mentor, and if his record of last year is any indication of his ability, the Wolverine grapplers bet- ter be on the ball Saturday lest there be indeed an ignonimous upset. Last season in the Inter-States Meet, composed of teams from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, Diemert's boys took a good third behind Kent State and Michigan State, and since the Lansing aggregation was second in the Nationals also, the Findlay grap- plers are not to be passed off as breather fodder. Pretty Fair Record Their record to date this year is pretty fair-four wins, two losses and a tie. Despite the scarcity of letter- men, there seems to be no dearth of good material down Findlay way, where wrestling is evidently more or less of a fetish with the sport fans. The entire squad of 18 men is com- posed entirely of freshmen and soph- omores with the exception of one junior and Diemert, and all things considered they've done a pretty fair job under his tutelage. The strongest divisions on the Oil- ers squad are right in the middle. Be- sides Diemert at 145, the other let- terman, junior Keith Hummon, looks like a worthy opponent at 155, and a sophomore, Frank Gren, who went to the finals in the Inter-States and was one of the two winners against Ohio as a freshman last year, cap- ably holds down the fort at 165. The only other Findlay grappler with a record of sorts is a tough sophomore 121 pounder, one Igna- tins Mancuso, who also scrapped his way to the Ti-State finals. The rest of the jobs are held down by some willing and evidently pro- gressiv youngsters whose main drawback is lack of experience which they are picking up as the Oilers ex- tensive schedule is played out. * * * ('i o riight Out Of Meet Coach Cliff Keen announced yes- teriday that his ace 165 pounder, Bill Courtright, is definitely out of to- morrow's match with the Findlay College Oilers. 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