THE MICHGAN DAltY PAGE THEEkt Wolverine Thinclads Raise urtain Tomorrow Swimmers Set To Halt Spartan Winning Streak Metcalf Faces Patterson in Backstroke Race; Mann III Takes on Gilbert in Freestyle Event By CLARK BAKER Michigan State's swimmers who will play host to Coach Matt Mann's Michigan squad tomorrow night at East Lansing will be out to extend their season winning string to four straight. All three of the Spartans' triumphs have come at the expense of Big Ten teams, Northwestern, Illinois, and Purdue having bowed to Coach Charlie McCafferee's men. Compara- tive scores give the East Lansing out- Wrestlers Face Badger Squad In Third Match Coach Keen To Take Nine Men to Madison Michigan's 1946 varsity wrestling squad will entrain this afternoon at 1:31 for Madison to engage the Wis- consin matmen in the third match of tlire season Saturday night after the Badger-Michigandbasketball game in the Wisconsin Field House. The grapplers will take on the Badgers with the hopekof breaking their .500 percentage, which include a 17-11 victory over Purdue and a defeat, 18-8, at the hands of the Hoosiers. The Badgershave one win to their credit by virtue of their re- cent 25-11 victory over an outclassed Chicago team. Nine Make Trip Nine wrestlers instead of the usual eight will journey to Madison, fo Coach Cliff Keen is taking along twc 175-pounders, George Chiames and Ward Peterson. Keen isn't sure as yet who will be the starter in the light- heavyweight class, but both men hav had a chance to show what they could do, Chiames in the Indiana meet, and Peterson in the Purdue contest. The only other change in the start- ing lineup will be in the 145-pound class, where Maurice Smith, who hasn't seen any Big Ten competition yet, will get his first assignment Sat- urday night._ The Wolverines' two undefeated wrestlers, Captain Bill "Corky" Courtright and Jim Stark will try to extend their winning streaks to three a piece. Each man has gained a fall and a decisive decision in their re- spective divisions, 165-pound and the 121-pound classes. Allred, Smith, Dworsky To Start The rest of the card for Michigan includes the men that Keen has used in all preceding matches to date John Allred will appear at his accus- tomed spot in the 128-pound bracket. while Wayne Smith again will be in the starting lineup. Navy trainee Stu Snyder gets the call of the 155-pound division, while Dan Dworsky will compete for the Maize and Blue in the u'limited class: There is little information known about the Wisconsin team save for its lonr victory over Chicago, and therefore Keen's charges will not know the ability of their opponents until they meet them on the mats of the Badger's field house Saturday night. I-M Results Fraternity A Teams Phi Sigma Delta 27, Zeta Beta Tau 22 Phi Sigma Delta 13, Zeta Beta Tau 12 (Playoff Game) Lamba Chi Alpha 21, Sigma Al- pha Epsilon 17 Sigma Phi Epsilon 40, Chi Phi 24 Beta Theta 28, Theta Chi 16 Fraternity B Teams Phi Sigma Delta 0, Zeta Beta Tau 2. Sigma Chi 42, Phi Delt 16 Sigma Phi Epsilon 28, Sigma Al- pha Epsilon 26 ., . fit an edge while comparative times favor the Wolverines. State beat Northwestern, 51-33, while Michigan turned the trick by 47-34. The Spartans whipped Pur- due last Friday, 57-27. Saturday the Wolverines turned back the Boiler- makers, 49-32. Michigan Favored On Time Basis Taking comparative times as a' basis, the Michigan State swimmers will rule favorites in only one event, the 150-yard backstroke where Spar- tan Howie Patterson holds forth. Pat- terson beat Wolverine Willard Met- calf in December and figures to re- peat tomorrow. In the freestyle sprints State will depend on Ziggy Indyke, Jim Quigley and Abel Gilbert. Against Illinois Quigley swam the 50-yard race in :24.6 while Indyke won against Pur- due last week with :24.5. Wolverines Dick Weinberg and Charlie Fries have both done under :24. flat. Gilbert won the 100-yard freestyle against the Wildcats in :55 while Quigley turned in , a :55.3 against Purdue. Both Fries and Weinberg have done better than :53. and the Wolverine freshman clocked a :52.4 last week. Gilbert Double Threat Gilbert also offers the Michigan State threat in the 220-yard freestyle event where he'll oppose Matt Mann, II. Gilbert's best time for the dis- ;ance is 2:16.1, made against Purdue last week while Mann churned to a 2:15. in beating Dick Hennigan of the Boilermakers. The 440-yard freestyle should go to Mann whose best time of 4:55.1 is seconds better than Gilbert's best of 3:11.5. The breast stroke event may be one of the best of the night. Bob Sohl of the Wolverines holds an edge. ver Paul Seibold of the Spartans. 3ohl's best time for the 200-yard dis- tance is 2:31 while Seibold had a 2:41.2 against Illinois. Canja Still Unbeaten The Maize and Blue divers, Alex Zanja, Gil Evans and Ralph Trim- born, all finished ahead of State's best diver, Don Dunbar, last month n the State AAU meet. Canja is still unbeaten in dual competition this season, but Dunbar has shown recent improvement and may give some ;rouble. The State 300-yard medley relay team of Patterson, Seibold and Quig- ley recorded a 3:03.6 last week as against a 3:01 turned in by Wolverine Bob Matters, Metcalf and Fries against Great Lakes. Fisher To Meet 'Czar' Chandler Coach Will Discuss College-Pro Relations Michigan Baseball Coach R a y Fisher will leave for New York today to represent the American Association )f College Baseball Coaches in a mneeting with top officials of pro- essional baseball at which both par- ties will attempt to clarify relations between collegiate and professional ball. Fisher, vice president of lthe coaches group, will be one of a five- man delegation which will meet with Baseball Commissioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler, Will Harridge and Ford Frick, respective presidents of the American and National Leagues. Among the issues up for discussion will be the question of professional dubs signing college players while still in school. College coaches have expressed great dissatisfaction with present Major League practices in "kidnapping" likely looking prospects from the campuses. --Courtesy Ann Aroor News TUNED UP-AAU titleholder Bill Bangert, Purdue's singing shot put ace, will be on hand in tomorrow's triangular track meet at Yost Field House. DohertyReva Michigan Entry To Meet Buckeye, PurdueThreat By WALT KLEE Michigan will field a strong but revamped entry in the triangular track meet between Michigan, Ohio State and Purdue to be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Yost Field House. Yesterday. Wolverine coach Ken Doherty announced, -that he had switched Archie Parsons from his position in the 880 yard and mile ruis to the quarter mile and mile relay to strengthen that department. Birdsall To Lead Team At the same time Doherty an- nounced that Chuck Birdsall, Big Ten Indoor two mile title holder; would be acting co-captain for the first meet. Birdsall will replace Dick Forrestal, who is on active duty over- seas with the United S;ates Navy. Parson's switch was caused by the fact that with the exception of Bill Haidler, none of the other regular, prospects in the quartermile have rounded into form. Parsons ran in this event at numerous occasions last year and will not be doing something he hasn't done before. Haidler will be the other Michigan entry in the 440 yard run. Voegtlen Shows Improvement Birdsall, who will graduate from the N.R.O.T.C. unit at the end of the semester will be gunning for his sec- ond straight two-mile title. Dean Voegtlen, who has "improved remark- ably in the past three weeks" accord- ing to the thinclads' mentor, will greatly add to the Maize and Blue's point chances in the long grind. Michigan's strongest entry may very well be in the high hurdles. El- mer Swanson, Neil Mac Intyre, and Hack Coplin are all veteran hurdlers. The three men are all ex-servicemen and have been having slight difficulty with pulled muscles and tendons, and therefore may not be in the peak of condition tomorrow night. MSC To Hold EAST LANSING, Jan. 31-()- Top track and field talent from the midwest will be on hand at the Michigan State relays Feb. 9. at Michigan State College, Spartan track coach Karl A. Schlademan pre- dicted today in announcing 'a list of preliminary entries. With the meet still more than a week away 122 entries from only three schools have been received, Schlademan said. Swanson and MacIntyre are letter- men from previous Wolverine cinder squads while Coplin ran for Arkansas Babtist before his service in the Army. The mile run will see Bob Thoma- son, Herb Barten and Dave Hess run- iing for the Wolverines. Thomason is .a 17 year old Sophomore who will double in the half mile. He ran on last years squad in both events and has caused his coach to comment, "Bob is coming along rapidly." Barten is in his first year at Mich- igan and will be running in his, first collegiate meet tomorrow. Last year he was interscholastic mile champion in Chicago. Hess, the third member of the trio, will also be running his first race for the Maize and Blue. Johnson, Swain To Se Action The dash will see two men and maybe three running with the block "M" on their shirts. Val Johnson and Bob Swain are certain to run, while Julian Witherspoon may run if his condition permits. In the half mile there will be, in addition to Thomason, Joe Shea and Chuck McFadden, both newcomers to the Wolverine track scene. Bob Harris will be the high jumper on the Michigan squad while Chuck Lauritsen will do the pole vaulting.. John Larsen will also be seen in the high jump. Chuck Fonville, George Ostroot and George Artley will com- pete in the shot put. Fraternities To0 Run Of fRelays Although there probably will be no Field-House records broken, there should be a lot of the "old college try" displayed when four fraternities hook up in an 880-yard relay race tomorrow night. The race will be one of the events at the triangular meet in which Michigan plays host to Ohio State and Purdue. These four teams, repre- senting Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi posted the best times in a qualifying meet held among all fraternities last week. Top qualifying time was 1:43.4 by Sigma Chi. I - Cagers Out To Humble Wisconsin Wolverines Seek Fifth B FitTeel Wi ] Michigan's twelve-man traveling zasketball squad will entrain at 1:30 ).m. today for Madison, where it is scheduled to clash with Wisconsin omorrow night on the floor of the Badgers' Field House. "We'll go after them," stated head Wolverine cage coach Bennie Ooster- baan, "but it's going to be a tough battle," he added. Although the Green and White five have failed to win a Conference match thus far they have only been defeated by scant margins. League-leading Minnesota had a rough time ekeing out a one- point win over Wisconsin, while second-place Iowa, last year's . Big Ten champs, defeated it by a mere seven points. Michigan hopes to override the vaunted Badger might with its 'vet- eran starting quintet composed of Glen Selbo at center, John Mullaney and Bob Harrison at the forwards, and Dave Strack and Pete Elliott in charge of the guard assignments. In addition, Oosterbaan is taking Bob Baker, Walt Kell, Marty Fein- berg, Hal Westerman, Bill Dietrich, Gordon Rosencrans, and Bill Walton with him. On the Wisconsin side of the ledger the varsity five will probably read Jim Bloor at center, Eugene Mathews and Richard Bunke at the forwards, and Kurt Grimm and Bob Cook in the guard slots. Exserviceman Bob Haarlow, 6 ft. 6 in. center, and Exner Menzel, 23-year-old forward m a y possibly wind up in starting berths. At any rate it is reported that Badger Coach Harold (Bud) Foster intends to show these cagers lenty of action. If the Wolverines defeat the Wis- consin team tomorrow night their record will stand at five Conference games won, as against four lost. They have previously downed Illinois, Chi- cago, Northwestern, and Ohio State, while Indiana beat them twice and Ohio State and Northwestern bested them earlier in the season. Michigan Five Leads Big Ten. hI Totl Points By virtue of last Saturday's sizzling performance against Ohio S t a t e, Michigan's hot and cold cagers are now leading the Big Ten in total scoring and boast three of the top ten scorers in the Western Confer- ence. The Wolverine quintet has pumped 430 points through the nets in eight games for a 53.8 average, an amazing total for a .500 team. Only Minne- sota has a better average, 58.6, but the Gophers have played three less games. Defensively Oosterbaan's men don't measure up to their fine offensive record. Though they've been able to stop scoring stars like Max Morris of Northwestern, Bob Doster of Illi- nois, and Jack Underman of Ohio State, they rank sixth in defense with a 48 point average. Illinois and Northwestern lead in this depart- ment with 40 and 44.5 point averages respectively. Michigan's trio of goal-getters battling for top scoring honors in- clude Glen Selbo, Dave Strack and Bob Harrison. Michigan, Minnesota Renew Hockey Series at Minneapolis Wolverines Gluuingi for First Clean Sweep Over Golden Gopher Puckm en Since 1931- Aiming for its second double win over the Minnesota sextet, Michigan's hockey team has a chance to break another record when it encounters the Gophers tonight and tomorrow at Minneapolis. By taking both tilts, the Wolverines will have brought their total number of triumphs up to 14, surpassing the record established by the 1937-38 pucksters of 13 victories for a single season. Also, if Coach Vic Heyliger's charges can come out on top tonight A member of the Michigan Daily sport staff is in Minncopolis covering the two Michigan-Min- nesota hockey games. The Daily will carry reports of the tilts to- morrow and Sunday. they will have captured the Big Ten hockey title, and if they conquer the Northmen twice it will be the first time since 1931 that this feat has been accomplished. 15 Players Make Trip Heyliger selected 15 players to make the trip, including 10 forwards, four defensemen, and one goalie. Michigan's first line of Wally Gacek, Neil Celley, and Walt Grant will probably start the game, and inter- change with the number two trio of Bill Jacobson, Al Renfrew, and Gord MacMillan. There is a possibility that Renfrew will be sidelined because of a pulled leg muscle, and in that case Captain Connie Hill will switch from his defense position and fill in for Renfrew. In reserve, Michigan will have a third front wall consisting of Bob Arnot, Karl Sulentich, Dick Starrak, or Sam Steadman. If Hill plays de- fense then he will pair with Clem Cossalter and alternate with Bob Marshall and Ross Smith. Jack Mac- Innes will tend the nets for the puck- men. Wclverines Expect Tough Series Michigan's hockey team expects a stiffer series than the one which was held here on Jan. 18 and 19, and the Maize and Blue puck mentor summed it up by saying, "Minnesota is a tough t eam to beat anytime, let alone when it is playing on home, ice." Before leaving for Minneapolis, Heyliger put the squad through some drills, stress- ing defense tactics and shooting.' Leading the Wolverine pucksters in scering is MacMillan was has bagged 20 markers up to date. Right on his heels with 19 goals is Grant followed by Renfrew who has crashed the op- ponents' nets for 13 tallies. Hockey May Go To Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31-(VP)- Plans to bring a National Hockey League Franchise here were disclosed today along with announcement that a new $2,500,000 sports arena will be constructed. Mervyn (Red) Dutton, president of the NHL, told a reporter here he would back the move to bring the franchise of the dormant Montreal Maroons here under the direction of Canadian sportsman Leonard A. Peto. -- - :_ e - __ __ _ 1 ,. - _.. _ __ I - r> k>Y4 . w 2_ Blow yourself to a thrill! FLYING LESSONS of the L YPSILA TI AIR PORT ItRates arc only $8.00 per hour dual and $5.00 per hour solo. Transportation will be provided to the airport at your convenience. PHONE YPSI. 1384-3 or WRITE BOX 55, DAILY OFFICE -1 1= V i, BEER VAULT Beer - Wine - Mixers - Keg Beer 10 to 10 Daily 0 A.M. to 11 P.M. 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