-TtYESDATV7AIR0f TI?4 t~~~IEJMCfl-NDAL cgaaces Holy Cross zirst ]VGA A &Con MANN-SIZE) JOI:. Swim Squad Faces Stiff Fiht in Conference Meet _Q Elliotts Honored In Hanle Town The Elliott brothers, Bump and Pete, of Michigan sports fame, had their "day" yester- day as they were feted in their home town, Bloomington, Ill. A gigantic testimonial dinner last night climaxed the day's Championship 0p&ener Pi's Colunibia Againitk Aoach Cowles 1 ltAlby In1 Iol-sidedTfriumph Over v iC i a ll State Tp HigCori Gym1A'Ensts Prepr-e fo r All-Arond' Event (Editor's Note: This is the first of three articles covering the competi- tion that Michigan will face in the forthcoming Western Conference Swimming championships. Tomorrow the 20-yard freestyle, both diving events, and the 3(X-yard medley re- lay will be covered) By MURRAY GRANT Having swept through a strenu- ous dual meet season with miracu- lous ease, the Wolverine swimming team now faces the task of re- 4gaining the Western Conference crown it lost to Ohio State in 1946. But it will be no easy task for Coach Matt Mann's crew, since the Buckeyes still have a strong club and the other teams have individual stars that might bite into the Maize and Blue to- tal. Thus, when the Conference meet rolls around Thursday at the 50-yard pool in Iowa City, Michigan may have a difficult time in trying to wrest the title from Ohio State. Thursday night the finals of the 1500-meter freestyle will open the meeting, and here the Wolverines have their greatest concentration of strength. Matt .Mann III is the leading Michigan hope having turned in a 19:52.6 clocking in time trials this year. Gus Stager, Johnny McCarthy and Jay San- ford have all turned in timings of better than 21 minutes. Chief competition in this event will come from the de- fending champ, Bill lleusner of Northwestern, who won the event in 19:5. last year. Tom- my Gastineau of Indiana is also another threat as is Lenny Adell of Ohio State. But from the records of previous times Michigan can look forward to a substantial lead at the end of the first night's festivities. And then after a strenuous day of pre- Law -eciwe TediI. r N frieinph ', 7643 KANSAS CITY, March 8--I%-- Lawrence Institute of Technology of Detroit cased past Appalachian State Teachers of Boone, N.C., with plenty to spare here tonight, 76 to 48, in the first round of the National Intercollegiate Bakt- ball Tournament. Norm Hankins, the No. 1 scorer among the larger college teams, became a crowd favorite as he net- ted 25 points for top marksman honors. Hankins left the game on five personal fouls four minutes before the finish. Charles Hope, with 16 points, was high for Appalachian. The Most Talked About Pipe Mixture in America Aromatic inf * the pack...a Aromatic in the ipe ) Holiday also comes in a 16 oz. & HumirSeal Glass Jar laru & 3rohcr ('upany icihmond Virginia liminaries, the second night's list of five finals might spell the dif- ference between victory and defeat for Coach Mann's squad. The first final of Friday night will be the 50-yard freestyle, and here the outside strength of other clubs may begin to tell. Wally Ris and Erv Straub of Iowa are re- garded as excellent sprinters as well as Keith Carter of Purdue and Don Benson of Minnesota. The oft-repeated race between Michi- gan's Dick Weinberg and Ohio's Halo Hirose will have some mighty fine supporting players who are li- able to steal the show from these stellar performers. Michigan is deep in every event and there may very pos- sibly be more than one Michi- gan man in the finals of the 50. Coach Mann has entered Bill Kogen, Bill Crispin and Dave Tittle in this sprint and all three of these tanksters are ca- pable of qualifying for the fi- nals. In the 150-yard backstroke it should be all Harry Holiday, for the Wolverine Captain is looked upon as the best in the country today. However, the Ohio State duo of Bob deGroot and Bill Ro- denbach must be considered as threats and the challenge of Duane Draves, Dick Maine. and Harry Griesbach of Iowa cannot be over- looked. Art Johnson, a consistent 1:40 backstroker will be the other Wolverine entered in this event. Bob Sohl, another "sure- thing" in his specialty, the 200- yard breaststroke, may expect the strongest bid to dethrone him from Carter of Purdue. 'the angular Boilermaker pushed Sohl to the fastest time of his career when the two met earlier this year. Wolverines Irv Einbinder and Bill Upthegrove stand excellent chances of making the finals, and their main opposition should come from Earl Trumble of Ohio State, Dave Lake of Iowa, and Al Craig of Northwestern.- honoring of the Elliott broth- It's Michigan versus Holy Cross ers- in the Eastern NCAA basketball, Bump, the All-American half- championships at Madison Square back, was honored last Satur- Garden Thursday evening, March day evening between halves of 18. the Michigan State-Michigan Announcement of the Wolverine basketball game. He received a special trophy from the Chi- cage opponent was made yesterday cago Tribune for being the afternoon by Al Nixon, NCAA most valuable player in the Big chairman and director of athletics Nine last fall. at New York University. Brother Pete, coincidentally, In a telegram to Coach Ozzie was selected by his basketball Cowles, Nixon stated that Mon- teammates as the most valu- day's drawings pitted Michigan's able member of this year's Big Nine titlists (15-5) against squad. Holy Cross (22-3), the defending NCAA champions, in the night- W olverine Thinchuis Come Close in Conference Title Bid Duff, Cogswell Turn in Fine Performances To Capture Indoor Title for Ohio State Michigan's performance in the Big Nine track meet Saturday af- ternoon was far more impressive than the 'score might have indi- cated. The Wolverines came closer to winning the big affair down at Champaign than anybody who did not attend could possibly imagine. On Saturday morning the ex- perts assembled at the Inman Hotel, put their heads together, and came up with a prediction that made even the veterans shud- der. Looked Close If everything went right, they figured, only 1% points would sep- arate Michigan, Illinois and Ohio State. That's how close it looked after the prelims. Everything didn't go right how- ever--the unpredictable happened more than once and Ohio State crawled out the winner. Two men, Lloyd Duff and Jerry Cogswcll put the Buckeyes on top. In the clutch both performed bet- ter than they ever had before. In beating Johnson in the quarter Cogswell ran a full second and a half better than he had ever done before. Duff Breaks Record Duff's 16 points, however, was the big difference. He went 13 feet 8 inches in the pole vault and his record breaking time in the high hurdles was even more sur- prising. Illinois' George Walker, on the other hand, was a tired, discour-; aged young man.. The so-called great came through with a second. fourth and fifth. If he had come through as expected Illinois would have won going away. As far as Michigan is concerned, coach Ken Doherty is quick tc point out that he is making no ex-! cuses. They finished fourth and that is all there is to it. Actually the Wolverine's per- formance was nearly champion - ship caliber. Herb Barten's vic- tories in the mile and the half re- assured everyone that he is among the country's top three middle dis- tance men. Johnson Ran Well Val Johnson's great perform- ance in the quarter elevated him to a distinguished circle of Michi- gan trackmen. His 48.9 in the 440 was the third fastest ever run in- doors by a Michigan quarter-miler. .The Wolverines were almost a sure thing to win the mile relay and had it not been for the baton mishap. Bob Sergeson, running second for the Maize and Blue, was at- tempting to pass Bill Whittaker when the Ohioan accidently knocked the baton out of his hand. By the time it was retrieved the damage was done and the Buck- eyes had won the relay and the championship. ,1 cap of the March 18 double-head- er.. Kentucky vs. C'olumbia In ihe lid-lift1r, Columbia 's de- fending Ivy League champions (19-1) will meet Kentucky's Southeastern kings (31-3). The Eastern finals of this meet, also held, in the Garden, will be, played March 20. The survivor then will battle the Western NCAA king-pin, March 23. "We'd just as soon play Holy Cross," commented Coach Cowles' when informed of the pairings. "Do you think the boys will have the Garden jitters playing to those huge crowds of 18,000?' asked one reporter. Crowd No Woriy "The crowd is the least of our worries," replied the Wolverine mentor. "Psychologically, it's no jump for us. Any Big Nine repre- sentative would feel at home play- ing at the Garden, for Conference teams are used to crowds ranging anywhere from 8,000 to 14,000 every game ." Cowles was pleased with the way his Wolverines (aIped the regu- lar season here S'turday night as they crushed Michigan State, 69- 28, for the most decisive victory ever recordred between the two schools. And rivalry lates back to 1909! Squad lelaxed Against MC With the p rssure ofi after a he'tie Bi g Nin: rae, Cow ' ('lt I that the aer' played a relaxed game against t ta"lty-iOOtn 11 Spartais. ' visitors connectedi oil only thri' per' (1'('1t of their floor shots in the f rst half- their accuracy ('hart read 11 per cent for the entire game.) Michigan': over-all wont-lost record of 15-5- represents the best mark of any Wolverine quintet since 1937. That year, the Wolver- ines, finishing third in the Confer - ence title-chase, won 16 games while losing four. Re T hIeI e A pa'i of prominent Wolverine gymnasts-Bob Willoughby and Dick Fashbaugh-have their work all cut out for them this week. ,rheir task fc the next. frw days is to maseri the "all-around" event, which means working on a half-dozen different pieces of gym apparatus - -high bar. side horse, flyin--rings, parallel bars, free exercise, and long horse. The "all-around' evens, almost equivalent to the decatholon in track, is one of six scheduled for Saturday's Big Nine gymnastics meet at Chicago's Navy Pier. Coach Newt Loken expects to GYM MENTOR-Leading the gymnasts to the Conference fi- nals being held in Chicago will be Coach Newt Loken. Wo11g Takes Second Place Pete Wong of the Scimitar Club, Michigan's fencing outfit, took second place in the State Open Foil Tourney. which was held at the St. Clair Recreatipan Center in Detroit on March 7. First place was won by Byron Krieger, who represented the Salle de Tuscan, a Detroit fencing club. A Lawrence Tech contestant, Jim Campoli, ended up third. while Ed Micllef, another' mem- ber of the Scimitar club, took fourth spot. Besides Michigan, Lawrence Tech, and Salle de Tuscan, there were representatives of Grosse Poinet Sword Club and the Uni- versity of Detroit. YVOUR tHAIR We soccialize in * Personality Styles " cl-ew-Cuts * Scalp Treatments For Service, Workmanship, Sanitation 9 Barbers - No Waiting L aseolf Bartters Liberty ofl Staie 113 South Main at men Kept from Conference CrownbReferee's Judgment A I Michigan should be the new Big Nine wrestling champions; any Conference coach will tell you so. The only thing that kept the crown from the Wolverines was a referee's judgment as to the legal- ity of Captain Bob Betzig's much used cradle hold. Betzig, who pinned two men previously in the tourney with the same hold, was twice penalized one point in his match with Ken Marlin of Illi- nois. As the Wolverine captain was applying the sure-pin hold, Marlin complained that he was being choked. Betzig was given two points for a near-fall while at the same time being penalized one point for use of ,an illegal hold. In the third. period Betzig again pinned Marlin with the same hold and again he was penalized one point, but this time without gain- ing two points for a near fall. Marlin clinched the match late in the third period when he received two more points foi a reversal, winning 7-4. Coach Cliff Keen vigorously protested the referee's decision but to no avail. Had Betzig been allotted the 155-pound championship he would have given Michigan three more team points; two additional ones for a first place and one for the pinning. This would have put the Wolverines on top with 26 points and dropped Illinois to fourth with 21. Michigan had to fight for every point it received. Only after calling the wres- tling rules authorities in Colo- rado was Keen able to prove to the officials that his team de- served another point for a match forfeited to 114'A-pound- er Gil Ross in the consolation finals. This bolstered Michigan's score to 23, enough for a three- way tie for second place. 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