TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1948 THE MICHIGAN D A ILY .......... . .. . ............ .. . . . .................. . . . . . . . .. . ..................... . - - - ---------- Wolverinesto owa 51 -35 To Take CageCrown O1d 'M' Stars In Jui'K IIBITZTG By DICK KIRAUS Daily Sports Editor Team Moms Mi chigan Scores Double KO Baseball Practice Lund, B1anchardI Dapper Work Out With WoIverine Aspirant Batsmen g7 Watch Cagers In Netting Grvid, Cour tle I * ("-..., air t :a r °r- Bq HERi RUSKIN Baseball practice, now entering its seventh dlay in Yost. Field House, has attracted not only the usual crop of newcomers but also several professional ball players. Two former Wolverine diamond stars, Don Lund and Bruce Blan- chard have been working out with Coach Ray Fisher's charges, along with Cliff Dapper, catcher for the Mobile club of the Southern As- sociation and voted the most val- uable player in that league for last season. Both Lund and Dapper are the property of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Blanchard's con- tract is owned by the Detroit Tigers. It was Lund who sparked the Wolverines to their last Western Conference diamond champion- ship in 1945, when the Wolverines took '0 out of 21 games played, losing only the opener to Western Michigan. Aftcr his graduation, he was signed by the Brooklyn club and assigned to the St. Paul Saints, where he saw action for the entire year. He remained with St. Paul during the first part of last sea- son and batted .280 before he was called up to the home club before the World Series. During his stay with Brooklyn, Lund batted .300. Blanchard, cne of the finest L- infielders who ever wore a Michigan uniform, saw action last year with the Williamsport club of the Class A Eastern league, batting .298 for the sea- son. This pre-spring training prac- tice has run along the lines thatI coach Fisher has prescribed for his hopefuls and includes such things as batting practice, fol- lowed by a pepper game and then a few laps around the field house track. All this has been done without the slightest interference with the Wolverine tryouts, the trio doing their batting before regular practice hours. Both Lund and Dapper will leave Ann Arbor Saturday night for New York to join the Dodgers for their trip to their southern training grounds. Irish Defeat NVIYU Violets FORMER WOLVERINE - Ilon Lund joins in daily baseball practice at Yost Field House. 'M' Seen as Track Threat In Fure Michigan resurgent tr ack team SCENE: Western Conference Faculty Representatives Meeting, a 1945. Discussion, Perry Moss eligibility. Professor Richart of Illinois is By REV BUSSEY speaking. Mother's Day came early for Richart: But gentlemen,'the issue is clear cut. Moss attended sum- three of the women who watched mer school the two weeks between receiving his discharge and the end their sons bring home the coveted of the summer session. He has received his eight hours credit and is Big Nine championship to Michi- naturally eligible to play football this year. gan last night. Board Member: Eight hours for two weeks work.He must be a bril- They sat in the same vicinity liant student. What courses did he receive credit for, behind the Wolverine bench, Richart: Four hours for camping, watching, their boys-Bob Harri- son, Mc Suprunowicz, and Iry Entire Board: Camping! Wisniewski-turn the trick that Richart: A very difficult course, gentlemen. He was forced to carry hasn't been accomplished since the his own frying pan. year that "champs" Harry and Board Mm.: What else? Supey were born back in 1927. Richart: A philosophy course. The aesthetics of football. For Mrs. Harrison, who rides The scene fades with Moss receiving the blessings of the board the bus from Toledo for every and its probable result was the Conference title for the Illini. game to lend her unfailing sup- And with the memory of that "eligibility controversy not yet faded port, it was the biggest moment in away, the same Richart announces that Bump Elliott has been denied all her years seeing Bob play ball. another year of eligibility because the rules must be tightened. There was a twinkle in her eyes as It is an odd coincidence that the elibility rules are tightened ghe rushed of f to send Bob's around the "Most Valuable" player in the Big Nine. Mrs. Suprunowicz, arriving Sat- If Elliott didn't have a sound case, Prof. Ralph Aigler, Michigan urday from Schenectady, N. Y., faculty representative, would not have reacted as strongly as he did. with Mr. Suprunowicz and Mack's The ruling, Aigler pointed out, was discriminatory a lesser cog in Mich- teen age brother Walter, saw the igan's machine would never have been denied another year of compe- sparky Wolverine forward for the tition. first time since he's been here. She The ruling in effect penalizes Elliott for having been in service. A : was pleased as punch with the en- student (and in Elliott's case, unlike Moss's, the term is used in its tire team, and couldn't get over dictionary sense) is entitled to three years of varsity competition, with how Mack had improved over his a fourth year granted under the wartime rules. The rule stipulates hi schol rays.Wisniewski, who that a competitive year consists of a calendar year. Elliott's two sea- knows the road from Lambertville sons with Purdue, the school chosen by the Marine Corps not Elliott, to Ann Arbor blindfolded, she fell within a one year period. tugged+at Mr. W's sleeve and whis-1 Disregarding the written rule, the Faculty representatives have pered. "l34tter get out the map and chosen to play politics, to hamstring the champions and give the other look for the shoriest route to Newl schools a better chance. York." So Elliott, a pre-law student, and an amateur, not what Wally Weber used to refer to as 'migratory athletes," is the goat. The decree doesn't work any hardship on Bump. It simply forces 1.i0,)1 him to play pro football for around 15,000 dollars. But the fact that he y tried to receive another year indicates how important it was to him. # + I 1, One of his reasons for coming to Michigan was to play football with his brother, Pete. Everyone on this campus knows that they are practically inseparable. For two years Pete has been unable to oust Michigan annexed its second Howard Yerges from the first string quarterback berth. This season ktball champish bnferenceaBas- probably would have been the first opportunity Bump and Pete to get Iowa 51 to 3p5. pbyd ing together in the same backfield. On two previous occasions the But Bump Elliott was the most valuable player in the league last Wolverines had to be content with season and the logical target of any move to "tighten the rules." a share in the title having tied Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp supposedly terms the Purdue in 1921 and Wisconsin in Western Conference, "the Holy Land." After the Elliott decision, I'm 1929. sure he must have meant the "Hooey Land." Western Conference e . I If I Dron ht Ends 1 Got nued from aI'ige 1 held a 27-18 lead with two min- utes to play. At this point Cowles came thiough with a wonderful gesture. With the Conference title at stake Ozzie sent in Bump El- liott, a B-team plugger all season who had not seen any varsity ac- tion all year. The crowd all but tore down the rickety rafters of ancient Yost Field House in ac- knowledging their appreciation. Team Show The Wolverine win was strictly Halftime score: Michigan 29. Iowa 22. Free throws missed: Michigan -(7)-Harrison, P. Elliott 3, Wis- Iowa (35) W ier, f .......... Magnusson, f..... Finley, c ......... . Spencer, g.. . .... . Schultz, g ......... Vollers, f ......... Hayes, c ......... Mason, f .......... Straatsma. f ..... Giuzowski, g........ Hall, g .......... . Totals.......... Michigan (51) Suprunowicz, f Mikulich. f ....... Roberts, c....... Harrison, g ....... P. Elliott, g...... Mcitosh ..t >vlrrill. . WAisntioxwski ..... Mch-(aslin I. . .. .. Wier(a, f Bla trle, f ......... Poretta, g ......... FgFt PfTpI ....6 2 . 0 2 ....2 3 ....2 2 ,.. ,.1 0 0 1 . 0 0 . . . 1 0 . 0 0 ..0 0 4 1 1 4 4 1 2 2 0 1 14 2 7 6' 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 niewski, C. Elliott, McCaslin. Iowa .-(2)-Wir 4, Finely, Spencer 2, Schulz 2, Vollers, Hayes 2. a team show with every one com- ing in for a fair share of the plaudits. Suprunowicz paced the scorers on 14 points, with the rest of the scoring pretty evenly di- vided between Roberts. Harrison, McIntosh, Pete Elliott, and Mor- The victory capped two seasons of painstaking coaching for Oz- zie's cagers4 From the time he first took over until the Iowa climax, which will probably bring an invitation to the National Col- legiate Invitational tournament, Ozzie has been preaching defense and control basketball. That was the doctrine his cagers used to bring him the Big Nine title, Michigan outshot the Iowans 89 to 74 and counted with 17 shots while holding Weir and company to 11. 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D A ORDS,Mass. winning streak of New York Uni- versity in a pulsating, nip-and-j luck basketball game tonight at! Madison Square Garden, 64 to! 59. A sellout house of some 18,4001 saw the Irish, led by the sparkling Kevin O'Shea, turn on a late scor- ing spurt to gain the verdict after the lead had changed hands re- peatedly in a rousing demonstra- tion of fire-engine play. 9 The lead alternated every few seconds in the final half until O'Shea started hitting to push Notre Dame into the front. The Fighting Irish led 60-55 and 62- 56 but NYU pulled up to within three points, 62-59, shortly before the verdict was iced. BIG NINE CAGE SCORES Illinois 52, Indiana 51. Minnesota 46, Wisconsin 41. Michigan 51, Iowa 46. o! I I 9 + Mystery yourme, The rapidly improving Wolver- ines must now be considered any- thing but an also-ran in this week-end's Western Conference track and field championships in Champaign. By no stretch of the imagina- tion can the Maize and Blue be considered pre-meet favorites to dethrone the defending cham- pion Illini. however with the re- cent eligibility squabble at the Illinois school the outcome of the affair remains somewhat in doubt. Contrary to what has been the case during the past several years the Wolverines have exhibited a good deal of strength in the field events. It was here that things were evened up with the Spartans Friday night. Charlie Fonville hasn't failed to surpass 55 feet at any time this season and will be a big point gatherer for the Maize and Blue, along with the high jump "twins" Tom Dolan and Bob Harris. Dolan and Harris tied for first against Stag and have been steady, dependable point grab- bers all year and Ed Ulvestad continues to surpass 13 feet with little difficulty and has risen to promience as one of the Big Nine's top vaulters. Undoubtedly the biggest neme- sis to the. Spartans was Michigan's captain Herb Barten who more than lived up to the expectations of Coach Ken Doherty by soundly whipping MSC's Jack Dianetti in both the mile and the 880. It now appears likely that Bar- ten will retain his conference crown in the half with little diffi- culty and may grab a second or third in the mile. Val Johnson turned in the top indoor quarter mile of the conference season. His 49.4 was the best effort of his career. Alex Morris running with an in- jured leg in the two mile grind led the pack at the half way mark but was forced to drop out. His per- formance indicated, however, that he is coming along and with a little more practice can return to top form. Mann Praises Swimmers, For Rousing Defeat of OSU cage chnampionships : Year W. L. Pet. Pts. Op. 1920-21 8 4 .667 273 250 1926-27 10 2 .833 414 302 1928-29 10 2 .833 341 262 1947-48 10 2 .833 647 556 at? Matt Mann added his own words of praise to those accolades al- ready bestowed upon the Wolver- ine swimmers in tribute to their rousing victory over Ohio State Saturday, snapping the Buckeye dual meet win streak at 19. Mann said, "The boys swam like the champions they are andI I was proud of every one of them." He especially beamed whenever the 400-yard freestyle relay was mentioned. "There was one of the finest races I've ever witnessed," the genial Michigan mentor con- tinued. Fans Exhausted And well might he beam over this race, for it had over 2,000 fans on their feet for the entire distance and left many as exhaust- ed as the swimmers. It was one of the closest races ever seen by most of the scribes at the press table at the Ohio State Natator- ium. At its start Tom Coates and Buckeye Bill Zemer matched each other stroke for stroke as Zemer pulled away to a scant lead at the end of his leg. Then Bill Kogen of Michigan picked up where Coates Fg Ft . . . 2 2 . . .1 2> 0 ...2 2 ..2 3 . 2 2 .0 1 . . (.}0 .0 10 t ...0 0 ...1 0 p f 1 0 1 4 4 tj 1 0 0 Tp 14 1 4 6 7 6 C 0 I. I) r HoW tied Purdue Clear Title tied Wise. Clear Title Totals ............17 17 23 61 YOUR HAIRCUT-- is blended, shaped to your facial features -- it's the Personality Style. Our Crew-Guts and Flat- 'rops are smart, collegiate, and suave. Tonsor1il queries invited -today!! 9 BARERS - NO WAIEING The DASCOLA BARBERS Liberty off State had left off and outswam Bob de- Groot to give the Wolverines an advantage of a foot at the end of the second leg. Play It Safe But the Maize and Blue tank- sters were playing it safe and Dave Tittle made sure he didn't disqualify the team by diving a little late in his leg against Mr. Swim, Bill Smith. But Tittle matched the "Flying Hawaiian" stroke for stroke and at the end of the third leg it was still all even. By/this time the stands were quaking with excitement as Dick Weinberg and Halo Hirose hit the water with one splash. Weinberg and Hirose were even at the 25 yard mark and at the half-way point. At about 65 yards the Michigan swimmer began to pull away and that was it as Weinberg touched Hirose out with about a yard to spare. That too, was the meet as the 8 points for first given to Michigan clinched the meet and spelled defeat for the men of Mike Peppe. Coach Mann was also lavish in his praise of other Wolverines. We have hundreds of titles by the world's best authors. Come in and get one, and read it for just a nickel a day! LENDING LIBRARY 14 Nickels Arcade Phone 4326 I Shades of' .;E r1 a jA AN O '' 41 l ..rl ry JJ L 1 r Z F ; TEAM W MICHIGAN 10 Iowa ....... 8 Illinois ..... 7 Wisconsin . 7 Purdue .... 6 Ohio State 5 Minnesota . 5 Indiana .... 3 Northwestern 3 L 2 .4 5 5 6 7 7 9 9 Pet. .833 .667 .584 .584 .500 .416 .416 .250 .250 927 Pts. 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