MARCHI20,1948 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FAGE -~ ~ ~-~---- -- -- - - -,~- - -- ----~ -~ a- - :Ml-Columbia Met in NCA4Consolation Tonight Last Chance for Cage Team To Bring Back Garden Win GrapplersWll SPRING' FEVER iT7s )D1 [EUR: 'Match Talents Big Nine Showing Makes Evans OlympicProspect The Future . . By IRWIN ZUCKER Michigan's basketball team will get another crack at a Madison - Square Garden victory tonight when it battles Columbia in the consolation game of the Eastern NCAA play-offs. Both clubs were eliminated from the national tourney Thursday evening. The Big Nine champion Wolverines fell to Holy Cross, de- fending NCAA titlists, while the Lions, Ivy League ruler for the past two seasons, were blasted off the floor by vaunted Kentucky. Immediately following tonight's Michigan-Columbia contest, Ken- tucky and Holy Cross will tan- gle in the finals of the Eastern ~competition. The survivor will then meet the Western represen- tative at the Garden March 23. Budko, Columbia Threat For its scoring punch, Columbia' r depends mainly on its big center, Walter Budko, who set a new in- dividual scoring record at the$ Morningside Heights school this year. In his latest effort, he tal- lied 17 points against Kentucky before fouling out. The six foot five inch pivot man paced his Columbia mates to an impressive 21-1 record in over-all r1ay this year. That lone setback came at the hands of Princeton. Columbia boasts a pair of fine play-mskers in pint-sized Sherry A1t.shall, left guard, and Al Vogel, left forward, while Bruce Gehrke, and Alex Kaplan, the other start- ers, gave the Lions plenty of ag- gressiveness. Starts Same Team Coach Ozzie Cowles plans no change in the Wolverine line.up. As usual, he will lead with Mack Suprunowicz and Don McIntosh, forwards; Capt. Bob Harrison and Pete Elliott, guards; and Bill Rob- erts, center. Michigan and Columbia are both newcomers to all this tour- nament business. Tonight's their last chance to salvage any of the prestige it might have felt lost Thursday. The Past . By BOB LENT (Daily Associate Sports Editor) NEW YORK, March 19-Mich- igan just didn't have it, but Holy Cross did-that was the story here Thursday evening as the high- geared Crusaders pounded out a 63-45 victory over the Wolverines in the opening round of the NCAA play-offs. Coach Ozzie Cowles' quintet, in the under-dog role, surprised the 18,500 Garden witnesses by taking a 21-16 lead midway in the first half, thanks to some fancy tossing by forward Mack Suprunowicz. But the Crusaders, bent on de- fending their NCAA crown, began filling the basket with deadly ac- curacy shots to move to a 34-27 half-time lead. They kept up their pace the rest of the way. The big gun for the vistors was Bob Cousy, a shifty sophomore forward who dumped in 23 points for his evening's work. "Supey," who almost kept pace with high-scoring Cousy in the first half, was also responsible for The Michigan-Columbia bas- ketball game will be broadcast from Madison Square Garden tonight at 8:00 p.m. over WHRV. the greater number of the few re- boun'ds the Wolverines managed to gather all night. He collected 14 points in the process to lead his mates., With plenty of spring in their legs, George Kaftan and Frank Cfiring were particularly effective off the boards for the Crusaders, who were actually at a height dis-' adivantage. Michigan employed its famed zone defense in the first half, but the smart-moving New Englandersj broke through witp phenomenal success. In the second session, Coach Cowles ordered his boys to use the man-to-man play, but the damage was already done. Many Maize and Blue support- erys felt Michigan turned in its poorest ball-handling exhibition cf the year against Holy Cross. In AAUI Meet The state AAU wrestling tour- nament, classic of amateur grap- p.'ing for unattached matmen, will feature 18 Michigan men today at Fordson High School in Dear- born. The AAU tourneys are based on individuals competing against each other rather than by schools or teams. Today's meet will fea- ture, to a large extent, the new talent of Michigan and Michigan State. The Wolverines UAated for the trip were announced 3esterday by Ken Cameron, aching coach in the absence of Coach Cliff Keen who is witnessing the NCAA championships at Lehigh Univer- sity. Wolverines Entered Mat weight classes are not the same as those used in regular col- legiate competition. The following Michigan men featured: Gilbert Ross, 118; Byron Dean, 126; Jim Smith, 136; Martin Cranston, 145; Bob Timmerman, 155; Charles Nichols, 165; John Powers, 175; Jassus Martin, 191; and John Hess, heavy weight. In addition to these wrestlers, the following Michigan men will also be see; in action: Frank Bar- ney, Jim Bemis, Bernard Clark, Louis Kingscott, David Levine, Thomas McCann, Richard Roney, Harold Sandurock, and Bradley Stone. These Michigan grapplers will be entering the meet unattached. The University will declare their eligibility to maintain their ama- teur branding. Winners of the va- rious weight classes will be state AAU champions. . Only the Varsity Golf Squad was able to walk off witt a Big Nine championship for the 1946-47 Conference year. The Universityhof Michigan Sailing Club will hold its week- ly work party Sunday, March 22, 1948. Members will meet at the side door of the Union at 9 a.m. Save and Earn, 2% Current Rat. Savings insured to $5,000. Any amount opens your account. ANN ARBOR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. 116 N. Fourth Avenue Opposite the Aset Over Court oue $11,00,000 By MERLE LEVIN A new Olympic prospect came to the fore last week when red-~ headed Gil Evans settled down to the most consistent performance of his career to place third in the Big Nine high and low board div- ing events. Splitting the mighty Ohio State diving dynasty right down the middle, Evans left little doubt that; he ranks next to Ohio's Miller Anderson and Bruce Harlan as the country's top diver, and some who saw the Conference meet came away convinced that Gil will be beating Harlan before long. It was a serious, hardworking Evans who went to Iowa City to turn in a performance that brought a wide smile to the genial face of Coach Matt Mann who had been working with the joking redhead with mediocre sucess ever since he arrived at Michigan from Mercersburg Academy. Competing on the same team as Harry Holiday and Yale's Alan Ford while at Mercersberg, Gil had copped the National Prep Hockey. (Continued from Page 1) its fast skating, Boston drew the first blood, tallying at 10:23. Giles Threadgold grabbed Joe McCus- ker's pass at his own blue line and outskated the Michigan defense to beat Wolverine Goalie Jack McDonald on a low hard shot. Connie Hill tied things up at 17:13 as he fired a long shot from the Boston College blue line, 70 feet out, to beat Boston's net- tender Bernie Burke. During the first period, McDonald had only three saves as against 13 for Burke. The second period opened fast and furious, with six penalties be- ing handed out during the course of the stanza. It was during the first of Michigan's three penalties that Boston moved out into the lead 2-1 on Bob Mason's shot on a pass from John Corcoran. Mc- Donald's timing was off and was too late to stop the 25 footer. 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Gil managed to salvage his greatest thrill out of that sea- son, however, by outpointing Anderson in his specialty, a full twisting front one and one-half while competing in the AAU low boards. With Anderson, Harlan, Jack Calhoun, and former NCAA cham- pion Hobie Billingsley returning to Ohio this year, things appeared black indeed for Evans and after his poor showing at Columbus, his chances of showing well in the Conference meet were rated al- most nil. Track Squad EntersRelays LAFAYETTE, Intl., March 19 ---,)-Ohio State's Big Nine in- door champions and 12 other schools have entered 142 ath- letes in the sikth annual Purdue relays March 27, Coach Dave Rankin of Purdue announced to- day. Early entries include Michigan with a squad of 21, Ohio State 19, Indiana 17, Butler 15, Mich- igan Normal 13, Michigan State 11, Kentucky 10, Chicago 10, Loy- ola (Chicago) 7, Indiana State 7, Drake 6, Monmouth 5 and Mar- quette 1. BASEBALL SCORES St. Louis (N) 12. Philadelphia (N) 8. 6. -1 DON'T M I ss I Miss What? AN ENJOYABLE EVENING OF DANCING at L The WOLVERINE DEN TON IGHT! Refer to our ad in today's Daily IF * i[ Bank the EASY Way! -Courtesy Daily Iowan. HALF-HALF-ONE AND A HALF-Gil Evans, Wolverine diver, goes through his favorite dive, a half gainer with a half twist and a one and a half somersault in the recent Western, Conference championships. Evans, constantly improving, took two valuable third places in the big and low board events at the Big Nine meet. OFF TO AXGOOD BOUNCE! Gymnasts Post Good Record Despite Lack of lExpertcie'ce 7 v CUSH ING MOTOR SALES, INC. brings you _ASKITBAL L UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VS. COLUMBIA Direct from Madison Square Garden Saturday, March 20 - 8:00 P.M. JOHN RICH at the mike I WHRV and Ypsilanti 1600 on your dial Ann Arbor 11 Althiough 1ovcrwi eim ed by (1Ic' muscle-might of Minnesota a~nd Illinois in the Big Nine chai- pionships last week, the Michigan gymnastic squad can look back with pride on a highly successful season of competition. Possessors of a 6-2 record, the first Wolverine gym team in 15 years showed tremendous promise in nosing out Wisconsin and Ohio State in the Conference meet. Most observersattributed the Gopher and Illini avalanche to superior experience and ability. These same observers noted that while Michigan lacked the neces- sary ability to win the meet, they did not lack the capacity to be- come winners in future confer- ence showdowns. Schoendube Tops Outstanding among the Wol- verine performers was Bob Schoendube who copped the Big Nine Trampoline title. Coach Newt Loken described Schoe- dube's performance as flawless. "Bob was tremendous. He execut-, ed every maneuver with perfect ease." The one stuiit that put Schoe- dube head and shoulders over the rest of the competitors was the difficult 'fliffis.' This is a double front somersault with a half-twist, the important function being the early twist. Schoendube executed this particular stunt twice, both times perfectly. A product of Brodener High in i iia, Sulioendube is a J1. ior in Physicail Education. This is his second year on the tricky canvas table. President of the Physical Education Club, he has one more year of varsity competition left. Most members of the squad are continuing workouts under the watchful eye of Loken, although the season has ended. Michigan high school basketball finals: Jenison Fieldhouse, East Lansing (Class A) Port Huron 43 Benton harbor 34 (Class B) Detroit St. Andrew 13 Fremnont 31 (Class C) Milan 36 Charlevoix 34 (Class D) Bridgman 54 Dimondae 42. Mass 79 Merrill 51 T YPE W IIT EIIS Of fig and Portable Models of all makes Sold, Fought, . Rented, Repaired STATIONERY & SUPPLIES 0. 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