FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Hockey
Title Hopes Fade As Gophers
Trounce Sextet,
4-0
OSU Matmen
May Surprise
Varsity T'eam
Wolverines Set For Battle
At Ohio Saturday; Keen
Prepared For Upsets
By HOE SELTZER
You recall that yesterday it was
stated in this corner with no little
assurance that the Ohio State grap-
plers were going to be a pretty soft
touch for the invading Wolverines
Saturday evening.
Well, now we're not quite so sure.
Our weekly issue of the Cham-
paign (Ill.) Chronicle arrived this
morning and in it was startling news
indeed. It had been assumed by one
and all that the powerful Illini octet
which had nosed out a Purdue team
which had in turn humiliated the
Buckeyes by a 21-3 total, that these
Illini would likewise grind the Col-
umbus boys underfoot.
Bucks Threaten Illini
So what happens but that going
into the heavyweight match the score
is a very precarious 14-13, favor of
Illinois. Maybe the Champaigners
didn't feel so worried at that, be-
cause their big boy, Alex Agase, is a
pretty snappy number in their wrest-
ling repertoire. However, any of the
home crowd inclined to take matters
lightly changed his mind in a great
hurry when Buckeye Joe Novak
stepped out and gave Mr. Agase tit
for tat in such thorough fashion that
the match ended in a dead heat and
went into overtime periods.
The fact that Agase ultimately
won and saved the Illinois bacon
matters little. The important thing
is that Ohio State has suddenly de-
veloped from a wrestling clambake
into a time bomb which may go off
any Saturday. Maybe this Satur-
day..
Keen Is Jittery
And Cliff Keen called the turn on
the nose yesterday when he confessed
to being jittery about the first three
matches. State piled up all their 13
points in them last week, which na-
turally signifies that two of the trio
of Bruce Kesselring, Davey Jones
and Keith Wolfe turned their men's
toes up in pin wins.
And if these boys should happen
to dash off a repeat performance
Saturday, and Joe Novak feels as gay
against Al Wistert as he did against
Champaign's Agase, why then Coach
Keen is in for one of those strenu-
ous evenings as in the early season
when at any point during a meet the
winner might have been picked by
flipping a coin.
Of course Cliff isn't really worried.
He insists that bottle of nerve tonic
he's carting along is for the wrest-
lers.
VARSITY BASEBALL
All students interested in be-
coming candidates for the Varsity
baseball team are urged to report
to the Yost Field House any after-
noon this week.
Ray Fisher, Baseball Cach
Johnny Gillis Stars In Defeat;
Penalties Feature Rough Match
(Continued from Page 1)
ther than a handicap because they
played their best hockey of the eve-
ning shorthanded.
The game started comparatively
calmly with both teams making a
total of six shots during the first
ten minutes of play. With less than
winds, and used six forwards on the
ice at one time, which according to
local fans is the first time that Low-
rey has been known to do this.
Oh, Well!
THE LINEUP
Michigan (0)
Loud
Gillis
Reichert
Goldsmith (c)
Bahrych
Kemp
Pos.
G
RD
LD
C
RW
LW
Minnesota (4)
Joseph
Smith
Nolander
Arnold
Maloney
Eggleton (c)
Collins, Bradley,
Michigan Spares:
Dance, Corson and Hillman.I
Minnesota Spares: Behrendt, Gra-
ziger, Page, Heiskeke, Bolld and
Snapp.
Referees: Gordon Anderson and
Arthur Lever.
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring:F(1) Minnesota, Eggleton
(unassisted), 12:54; (2) Page (un-
assisted), 16:33.
Penalties: none.
SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: (3) Minnesota,
(unassisted), 8:16.
Penalties: Nolander (2),
Snapp and Smith.
THIRD PERIOD
Tankers Meet
Iowa In Easy
BattleTonight
Untried Reserves To Get
Big Chance; Wenstron-t
Will Lead Hawkeyes
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to be beaten in dual meet competi-
tion this year.
The Iowa crew will present a much
weaker array than last season when
it finished second to Michigan in the
Big Ten Meet. Thus far in the pres-
ent campaign, the Hawkeyes have
split even with two Conference foes,
defeating Chicago, 51-33, but losing
to Minnesota, 47-37. On the basis of
these performances, the Wolverines
will be odds-on favorites to leave the
visitors wallowing in their wake.
Strong Relay Quartet
But the Hawkeyes are not utterly
devoid of stars. Besides Vargon and
Biedrzycki, they will toss into the
battle Don Wenstrom, last year's
leading scorer. Wenstrom is expected
to give Wolverine Capt. Dobby Bur-
ton a hot fight in the 50 yard free-
style, and to extend Gus Sharemet in
the 100 yard event. The Iowa junior
ace will also anchor the 400 yard
freestyle relay team.
Mann, aiming to whip his relay
quartet into shape for the record-
breaking Yale squad which will once
again be faced in the National Col-
legiates, will not hold back in that
closing relay. Burton, Lou Kivi, Jack
Patten and Sharemet will oppose the
Hawkeye sprinters in an attempt to
lower the world's mark set' by the
Bulldogs last week, but since they
probably will not be pressed to their
utmost the record seems likely to
stand.
Mann's Entries
Dick Riedl, John Sharemet, and'
Gus Sharemet will form the Maize
and Blue medley relay team while
John Weise and Ted Horlenko will
represent the Wolverines in the 150
yard backstroke. Patten and Walt
Stewart will likely swim the 220,
with the latter and Perry Trytten be-
ing Mann's choices for the 440. Jim
Skinner and John Sharemet will both
be entered in the 200 yard breast-
stroke. Burton and Bruce Allen will
battle Wenstrom in the 50, and either
Allen or Bob West will team with
Gus Sharemet in the 100.
Tickets for tonight will be sold to
students at the reduced price of 40
cents and the presentation of an
identification card.
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equals the world record set by Col-
umbia's Ben Johnson.
Stickel, the other Pittsburgh sprint
star, is the IC4A 60 yard dash cham-
pion with a time of 6.2 seconds to his
credit. With Michigan's two top
sprinters, Capt. Al Piel and Al Thom-
as, both having turned in times of
Michigan Favored To Trample
Pitt In Dual Track Meet Tonight
to take a crack at the quarter-mile
meet and Field House mark of 49.1
seconds, set by Pitt's Johnny Wood-
ruff in 1937.
With such speedsters as Thomas,
Piel, Carter, and Stickel making an
assault on the 60 yard dash record,
there is every likelihood that this
mark too will meet an untimely end
tonight. Established by Wolverine
Sam Stoller in 1937, the 6.3 seconds
record was equalled by Stickel last
year.
Frank McCarthy, most versatile
man on the Wolverine squad, lends
another note of interest to tonight's
meet. Already the team's highest
individual scorer, the husky thin-
clad stands a good chance of better-
ing his previous high meet score of 14
points which he garnered in the Notre
Dame meet last week.
With a possibility of grabbing top
place in the high jump, the broad
jump, and the high hurdles, McCar-
thy can amass a grand total of 15
points for the evening. And if he
gets a chance to compete in the low
hurdles, this sum might stretch even
higher.
Varsity Five Plays
Chicago Tomorrow
Opening its final home stand of
the curent Big Ten campaign, Michi-
gan's cage quintet will clash with a
weak Chicago outfit tomorrow night
at Yost Field House.
The Wolverines will wrap up the
1941-42 season for keeps Monday
night after the final game with Pur-
due here. Neither of the two Confer-
ence tilts has any bearing on the
Big Ten race which is being well
taken care of by Illinois.
Assistant Coach Ernie McCoy, still
handling the team in Bennie Ooster-
baan's absence, can be expected to
employ various combinations against
the hapless Maroons who haven't
won a Big Ten clash in the last 30
attempts.
There is a possibility, he pointed
out, that Morrie Bikoff, aggressive
guard, may be sidelined due to an
injured shoulder. The diminutive
cager was in uniform today but re-
ported his shoulder is still sore,
The Wolverines snapped out of a
losing streak Monday night and
handed the same Chicago outfit a
crushing 61-37 shellacking. They are
favored to repeat tomorrow night.
Arnold
Gillis,
BOB COLLINS
... plays best game of season
eight minutes left in the first period,
Al Eggleton, speedy Gopher forward,
picked up a loose puck in front of the
Michigan net and rifled it past goalie
Hank Loud.
Three minutes later at the 16:33
mark, Joe Page picked up a rebound
off a shot by defenseman Bob Smith
a few feet from the Wolverine net
and blazed it past the defenseless
Loud.
Michigan fans thought they would
have their first goal of the evening
when the varsity's Max Bahrych,
taking a beautiful pass from Bob
Kemp took a shot from about three
yards out, but Gopher goalie Burt
Joseph made a sensational save.
It is an old hockey adage that if
the opposing team says the goalie was
lucky, it really means he's a good
player. According to the Michigan
team last night, Joseph was a very
lucky player.
Arnold's goal came half-way in the
second period when he skated from
his own blue line to rifle a shot into
the Michigan nets unassisted. The
last Minnesota score came at the
6:15 mark of the third period, as
Bob Graziger, who had played ex-
cellent hockey all evening, pushed a
shot by Loud, from in close on the
Michigan nets.
With less than five minutes in the
game, Minnesota was forced to play
with only four men on the ice be-
cause of penalties, but the Wolver-
ine scoring punch failed to material-
ize as the Gophers kept shooting the
puck back the length of the ice.
In the last minute of play, Coach
Eddie Lowrey threw caution to the
Scoring: (4) Minnesota, Graziger
(unassisted), 6:15.
Penalties: Nolander, Bolld, Gra-
ziger (2) and Heiskeke.
NROTC Rifle Team
Wins Four-Way Meet
The NROTC rifle team added an-
other to its recent series of victories
last Saturday by defeating Pennsyl-
vania, Harvard and Duke.
In a postal match, the results of
,which were released yesterday, the
Michigan marksmen annexed a to-
tal of 1815 points. The other team
totals were Pennsylvania 1781, Har-
vard 1730 and Duke 1712.
In individual scoring Morton Hun-
ter, '44, paced the victors with 380,
points; followed by Capt. Arthur
Thomson, '44E, 361; and Allen Lewis,
'45E, David Anderson, '45A, and
Harry Miller, '44E, each with 358
points.
Thus far in the current season the
local unit has won 14 of its 15
matches, the only loss being to
Georgia Tech early this month.
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CAPT. AL PIEL
NATIONALLY-KNOWN
6.4 seconds this year, the sprint event
will probably be the most hotly con-
tested event of the evening.
Stickel will face Thomas again in
the low hurdles and the two speed-
sters are just as closely matched
here. The Panther ace, accustomed
to running the lows at a 60 yard dis-
stance, has recorded a very fast seven
seconds flat at this stint, whereas
Thomas, who has been topping the
low timbers at a 65 yard distance,
has stepped off the event in 7.4
If the track is fast enough tonight,
several meet and Field House records
may topple and fall into the cinders
before the evening's activities are at'
an end. Michigan's wing-footed
quarter-miler, Bob Ufer, who holds
the Varsity crown for the* 440 yard
run at 48.8 seconds, has gone on
record as stating that he will be outI
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By DICK SIMON
With all the Big Ten cage teams
coming down the final stretch drive
and with Illinois already having
clinched at least a tie for the cham-
pionship, several interesting facts
have come to light.
This year no less than six teams
have bettered the previous Confer-
ence scoring mark for a 12-game
Big Ten schedule. Conference teams
in 1942 play a 15-game schedule as
against 12 games in past years, and
existing scoring records have been
based on a 12-game season.
In 1941 Wisconsin set the all-time
scoring record for 12 games by total-
ing 536 points. In its first 12 games
this season, Iowa's sharp-shooting
Hawkeyes have bettered that mark
by more than 50 points, with 588.
Illinois' sophomore-studded team,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota and
Northwestern have all bettered the
previous record while Ohio State and
Purdue lack only four points of tying
the old mark.
Point-Score Increase
Conference teams have averaged a
total point-score of 87.2 points per
game as compared to 82.38 in 1941.
This is quite an increase over the
last decade when Big Ten teams
averaged only 55.63 points per game
back in 1932.
Individual scoring honors took
quite a pasting too, but managed to
survive the assault. Johnny Kotz,
brilliant Wisconsin forward, regis-
tered 173 points for the third highest
12-game total in Big Ten history.
The existing record of 188 points
was set by Chuck Carney of Illinois
in 1920 under the rules which per-
mitted one player to make all the
free throws for a team, while Jewell
Young of Purdue holds the modern
record of 184 points set in 1938.
r Kotz, however, came within a sin-
gle basket of the all-time field goal
record, 69 in a 12-game season, which
Young established in 1938.
Mandler Sets Mark
Big Jim Mandler. Wolverine cen-
ter, who now stands tied for fifth
place in the Conference scoring hon-
ors, set a new Michigan mark. His
136 points for 13 games betters by a
lone point the 12-game record set by
Jake Townsend in 1938. His 11 field
goals against Chicago last Monday
night was just two shy of equaling
the Conference record held jointly by
five players.
Northwestern tied one record and
helped break one other before the
season was a month old. In their
game with Chicago's victoryless
Maroons on January 10th, the Wild-
cats scored 69 points to tie the mark
set by Purdue in 1937. When the
Chicagoans tallied 50 points, the 119-
point total broke the record of 118
points established by Minnesota and
Purdue in 1941.
With most teams still having two
or three games to' play, several addi-
tional records should be established,
and if the way the Big Ten quintets
have been playing is any indication,
new marks should be aplenty.
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