FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE .. . ...................................... . . . ... . . . . .. . ........................ ..................... 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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. (ontinued fro Page 1) 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. aa Featuring for Spring 1942 I a 4 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 LINES U S FASHION PARK SUITS LEVY BROS.-ADLER RICHESTER CLIPPER CRAFT SUITS AND COATS JOHN B. STETSON HATS ARROW SHIRTS COOPERS SHIRTS AND SHORTS INTERWOVEN SOX HANSEN GLOVES Former Records Topple As Big Ten Cage Race mEnters Finasl Stretch Drive HICKOK JEWELRY McGREGOR SPORTSWEAR 5- ALLIGATOR RAINCOATS Now Better 1891 322-324 South Main Ia I Never say "no" to a jJ 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. -. F I. 1942 4 -1 For 67 years G. H. BASS has been the recognized lead- er in the manufacture 'of OUTDOOR FOOTWEAR . . For COMFORT, SERVICE and ECONOMY they are un- r tl eXcle decf Our spring '42 stock is now complete in Men's and Women's styles. them ove r. 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