21; 1 M ", THE- MICRIGAN DA1TV- "m Now Swimmers Face Iowa; Cagers Top Free Styler Ris Paces Hawkeyes in Big Nine Tilt All-American Tanker To BattleWeinberg Wolverine tankmen will go all out today when they face a strong Iowa swimming team led by All- American Wally Ris at 8 p.m. in the Varsity Pool. Coach Matt Mann will give his crack 300-yard medley relay trio z of Harry Holiday, Bob Sohl, and Dick Weinberg the opportunity to get the Maize and Blue pff to a 4 good start as they attempt to low- er the world's record of 2:50.5 that they established last year. The feature races of the eve- ning will pit the amazing R.is against the top Wolverine strength in the 220-yard and 100-yard free- styles. In the 220 Ris will have to beat the Michigan one-two punch of Matt Mann III and Gus Stager while in the 100 he'll face Wein- berg and Bill Kogen. Crispin, Tittle in 50 Bill Crispin and Dave Tittle will go for ichigan in the 50-yard freestyle and Gil Evans and Ralph Trimborn .will handle the diving assignment against the Hawkeye ace, Dave Brockway. Holiday and Sohl will perform in their specialties against some top-notch competition. In the 150-yard backstroke Holiday and Art Johnson will face Duane ,- Draves 'and Henry Griesbach, while Sohl will team up with Irv Einbinder in the 200-yard breast- stroke as he attempts to lower the mark of 2:17.5 he set last week against Purdue. DICK WEINBERG . . . faces Wally Ris ** * In the 440-yard freestyle little opposition is expected when the duo of Mann and Stager battle it out in what looms as a thrilling down-to-the-wire finish. 140 Rleay Close The last event, the 400-yard re- lay, should be one of the most closely contested of the evening. Last week the Iowa quartet of Draves, Ken Marsh, Erv Straub and Ris set a new pool record against Ohio State. This quartet will face a team of Wolverines chosen from these five: Kogen, Tittle, Tom Coates, Holiday and Weinberg. 'M' Thinclads Test Strength Against Ohio (Continued from Page 1) specialties will be closely contest- ed by Wolverines Bob Fancett in the broad jump and Ed Ulvestad in the pole vault. Ulvestad's best vault to date has been 13 feet 41/4 inches while Duff is consistent at thirteen- four. It can go either way. At the Michigan State Relays the Buckeye leaped 23 feet 6%/ inches in the broad jump, a full six inches etter than Michigan's Bob Fancett has done this year. Fancett is capable of equalling Duff's mark, however, and can conceivably beat him. Buckeye mentor Larry Snyder will be able to throw two of the country's top quartermilers, Jerry Cogswell and Russ Owens into the fray against Mich- igan's aces George Shepard and Val Johnson. On the basis of this year's per- formance the outcome of this oneI is a toss-up. All four men can run around 50 seconds although Johnson and Shephard have not been tested yet this year. Justin Williams will be the Wol- verine's only claim to a place in the two-mile. He ran a good 9:45 last week but he cannot be con- sidered good enough to beat, Ohio's Ralph Washington who's best effort to date is 9:47. It will be close in the 60 yard dash with Val Johnson and Jim Morrish running for the Maize and Blue against Buck- eyes Johnson and Foster. All four men have done 6.5 and an expanded chest could make a winner. In the final tally it will be ex- perience that can make the dif- ference, and in that category the Buckeyes must get the nod. All their top point getters will be seniors with two or three years experience while the Wolverines will be depending on many soph- omores and juniors in their quest for triumph. . . . DO YOU KNOW that Michigan has faced the Buck- eyes of Ohio State more times on the gridiron than they have any other schools. Out of 44 contests played thus far, the Wolverines emerged victorious 29 'times, dropping 12 games with three tilts ending in ties. First in Big Nine standings, of- fense and defense-these are the three honors Michigan's basket- ball team will attempt to uphold this evening when they tangle Minnesota at Minneapolis. The Wolverines, who vaulted into the league lead last Monday, will be gunning for their seventh Conference success in nine out- ings. Meanwhile, considerable atten- tion will be also focused at Iowa City tonight when the Iowa and Wisconsin, both tied for second- place with 6-3 records, clash in a crucial battle. 'M' Tops Scoring Michigan's front-running quin- tet, which has split four road games with Big Nine teams this year, tops the league with an im- pressive average of 56.7 points per game for eight loop tussles. Conference opponents have av- eraged 50.6 points to tab the Wol- verines as the best defensive five, too. While the trick of subduing the Gophers in their own back yard has been turned by only one Con- ference team in two years (Pur- due on Feb. 9 of this year), Michi- gan has nevertheless been in- stalled as the favorites for to- night's tussle. McIntyre Totals 203 Clearly, Michigan's task today will be to stop Jim McIntyre, the Gophers' six-foot-nine center who has amassed 203 points in nine league encounters. McIntyre, the nation's most prolific scorer, tallied only four baskets against Michigan when his mates dropped a narrow 43-41 de- cision here January 10, but he added eight foul shots that eve- ning for 16 points. The rest ofGopher starting line-up will include footballer Bud Grant and Jack Young at forward, while Buz4 Wheeler and Ed Ker- nan will hold down the guard posts. No Changes Planned Coach Ozzie Cowles plans no changes in his roster. As usual, he will lead with Mack Suprunowicz, and Don McIntosh, forwards; J-V Wrestlers Win Michigan's j ayvee wrestling squad swept seven out of eight events from the University of Illi- nois' Chicago Branch yesterday afternoon to send the "Fighting Illini" back home on the short end of a lop-sided 32-3 score. Bob Cunningham, Ed Grimes, Phil Carleton, and Byron Lasky were creditedwith falls in the 128, 145, 155, and 175 divisions, respec- tively. Capt. Bob Harrison and Pete liott, guards; and Bill Rob e El- berts, I center. The Wolverines wind up their road trip for the year Monday evening when they meet Purdue's revenge-hungry Boilermakers at Lafayette. A brace of home vis- tories last week-end over Purdue (69-56) and Indiana (66-54) put the Maize and Blue on top. Another pair of triumphs this week-end, or even a split, would give Michigan a firmer hold on the crown, for the last two Con- ference games will be played on the comparatively healthy timber of Yost Field House. Ohio and Iowa Here However, those last two battles bring dangerous clubs to Ann Ar- bor---Ohio State, already conquer- or of Michigan in one game, and Iowa's Murray Wier and Company, on March 1. Wolverines Battle to Retain Lead in Conference Race High Scorers Suprunowicz, Mcintyre SparkRespective Teams in Crucial Game GOPHER STOPPER-Pete El- liott, Michigan guard, will at- tempt to halt the Minnesota of- fense in tonight's crucial con- test. Ilartei, Acclaimed (SAll-Time Great A on g 'M' Thi chls Wrestlers Face Tough Indiana Mat Squad in Tonight's Bout Life is just one hardship after another, and nobody realizes it ?more than wrestling coach Cliff Keen. Having recently lost a heart- breaker to Iowa, Keen will jour- ney with his squad to Blooming- ton, tonight, to take on another' powerful grappling machine in the Hoosiers of Indiana. Keen says that we've got about as much chance to win Saturday as we had prior to the Iowa meet. He stated, that the Hoosiers have a lot of good boys and that the outcome is highly unpredictable. Coach Charley McDoniel has a Former national AAU titlist in Herb Farrell, and a two time Western Conference champ in Chester Robbins, both competing for the 114 pound assignment. Rounding out the Hoosier roster will be Milton Lamm in the 165 pound slot, Andy Puchany at 145, James Conklin in the 155, Rich- ard Fisher at 175, heavyweight Lloyd Wagnon, and two sets of twins Henry and James Moore, and Bob and Bill Brabander, both seeking 121 and 128 pound berths. Always boasting a wealth of wrestling material, the Hoosiers have copped the Big Nine title ten times since 1924, the last com- ing in 1943. By POTSY RYAN Early this week, Herbert Otto Barten was selected by the Mich- igan track team to be its cap- a 3 HERB BARTEN : * ** tain during the coming indoor and outdoor season. In naming Barten to lead them over the cinder paths of the Big- 9 this spring, the thinclads have picked one of the outstanding per- formers ever to don spikes for the Maize and Blue. The little guy with the big stride canme to Michigan back in 1945; a native of Des Plaines, Illinois, a product of the Chi- cago school system, and holder of four track titles in Windy City prep school competition. Last year, as a sophomore, Bar- ten topped the Big Nine's middle- distance men, and in doing so he inked his name into the record books by turning in a 1:53.9 half- mile. The Hawk is no "one race" inan however. He is also an outstanding miler, capable of turning in a 4:14 for the distance; and he ran the anchor leg on both the one and two mile relay teams in last week's Michigan AAU meet at the Field House. Just for the record, he turned in a 1:53.5 performance in the latter event which is .4 of a second better than the conference mark mentioned above. Barten's fame bias become nation-wide; and during the early part of the year h par- ticipated in many invitational events throughout the country. Last January he showed that he can hold his own with the best of 'em by grabbing a first place in the Knights of Columbus 1,000 yard dash up in Boston. BIG 'RIS' INVOLVED: Iowan Threatens Weinberg's Olympie (Chance I iteed4 Coitpibutioit4 lit litead Xidte~i, q By MERLE I EVIN When Dick Weinberg takes his mark against Iowa's Wally Ris this evening he will be attempting to bolster his position as one of America's topflight Olympic swimming prospects in the most conclusive way possible-by beat- ing the best. Weinberg, holder of the NCAA 50 and 100-yd. freestyle titles, met Ris in seventeen exhibition matches last summer in Hawaii and was touched out by the Iowan sixteen times, hardly an imposing record. However Dic'ks time in the 100 has been steadily improving and the 51.6 timing he turned in against Purdue was two-tenth of a second under the Big Nine rec- ord. Showing Phenomenal Since Weinberg was hardly pressed in this event, his showing becomes even more phenomenal. Termed "about as fast as they come" by Coach Matt Mann, Weinberg started his competitive career at the ripe old age of 14. Swimming for Saginaw Arthur Hill High School in 1945, he an- chored the 400-yd. relay team which set a national high school record. Entered in 1946 Dick entered Michigan in 1946 and in his freshman year was ranked No. 4 man in the 100-yd. freestyle on the Collegiate All- American Swimming Team. Taking up last year where he left off as a freshman, Weinberg anchored Michigan's sensational 300-meter medley relay team as they sped to a new world's record of 3:15.3 in the NAAU Outdoor Meet and continued to shine in- dividually. He was named to the All-Amer- ica Swimming Team in the 50-yd. freestyle and captured berths in both the 50 and 100-yd events on the Collegiate All-America. Slow Start This Year Dick got off to a slow start this year after being ill in the closing weeks of 1947. He didn't exactly set the world on fire in the swim- ming team's recent tour of the East, but he is rapidly rounding into shape as Purdue's highly- rated Keith Carter discovered last week. The elongalted C ar ter rwas touched out by Dick in a 50-yd, freestyle thriller in :23.2 only a tenth of a second over the Western Conference record. With Ris, Carter, Yale's Ed 2L-e a tei! Ietwser' and Ohio State's mighty duo of Halo lhirose and Bill Smith barring the path to Olympic fame, Weinberg will not loaf into a swimming berth in the Olympic qualifiers this summer; but if there should exist any doubt concerning his ability to beat these men it is quickly dispelled by Coach Mann. 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