THE MICHIGAN DAIlY PAGE TflMZK. . ........... e mm Cage WolverineQ hio State a Michigan Seeks Sec: Ohioans' Home Con By SY SONKIN Michigan's cagers will try to cake it two wins in as many staits gainst Ohio State when they take n the Buckeyes on the latter's ome court tonight. Rated at the beginning of the ,eason as one of the best teams '.n the Big Nine, Ohio State's 'howing to date has been highly isappointing to Buckeye fans. THIS IS the Bucks' final game f the season, and they go into it vith a record of five wins in 11 onference starts. However, their won-lost rec- ord is no accurate account of the heights to which the Ohio State court squad can rise, especially on the home floor where the Buckeyes have lost only one game in five starts. Only the pace-setting Illinois uintet has been able to discover the formula for beating Ohio tate on the latter's court, and the Illini had to wait until the last minute of the game before they could eke out their 64-63 victory. INCLUDED IN. Ohio State's come court triumphs is a 48-39 in over Minnesota's second-place Gophers, which knoclked Coach COLUMBUS, O. - (/)--Dick Schnittker, Ohio State basket- ball scoring ace from Cleveland, underwent a physical check up here today. Hie was pronounced in perfect condition by Dr. Walter E. Duffee. Although Schnittker has been playing regularly for the Bucks, Coach "Tippy" Dye requested the checkup. In the last two games, Schnittker has scored only 18 points. The Clevelander was hospit- alized with a throat ailment in mid-January and, according to Dye, his play has not been up to par since. Following Dr. Duffee's an- nouncement, Schnittker is ex- pected to be in the starting line-up Saturday when Ohio State plays Michigan here. Battle Heads ichigan- ivalr Today uintet Tests SColumbus nd Win Over Bucks; rt Record Impressive has displayed a knack of get- ting his Buckeyes "up" for the big games, and he most certain- ly will try to do so for tonight's contest. There's no doubt that he'd like to take this one to bring the team's average to .500. It's also the old story of want-I ing to beat Michigan. BUT THE WOLVERINES have something at stake in this game too. Although they saw their chances for the NCAA tourney all but wrecked in losing to Min- nesota last week, the Maize and Blue would still like to keep that outside chance they have. A couple of major upsets in this league where upsets are the! rule would put them right back in the thick of the fight. Buckeye Track, Swim, Mat, Gym Teams Here Trampoline Big Nine Champs Rated Win Starved -7 M' Grapplers Features 'M' Over Michigan Runners p _B Oppose Bucks Gvm Contest Wolverines Seek Second Dual Meet Win; By JOHN BARBOUR Duff, Whitfield Pace Powerful Ohio Squad After suffering a 21-8 whippi Natators Seek To Extend Dual Meet Victory String ng ue, he Michigan Ready Five Mermen in for Ohio State Challenge Last Home Performance I EVEN WITHOUT considering the championship, a victory to- night is important, because it would practically assure Michi- gan of an undisputed third place in the final Conference standings. Dye will start Bob Raidiger at center, Dick Schnittker and Bob Donham at forwards, and Gene Brown and Bob Burkhold- er at guards. Coach Ernie McCoy's starters for the Maize and Blue will prob- ably be Leo VanderKuy at center, Mack Suprunowicz and Bill Mi- kulich at forwards, and Pete El- liott and Bob Harrison at guards. jayvee Cage Sqitad Meets Buckeyes, Too By NORM GOLD Seeking to end the season on a victorious note, Michigan's jayvee basketball squad will meet the Ohio State "B" team tonight at Columbus in a curtain raiser to the varsity battle. By CAL KLYMANI Stimulated by last week's moral victory over the Illinois Indians, Newt Loken, gymnast mentor, and his charges will be out to pile up a sizeable margin when they meet the Ohio State Buckeyes at 5 p.m. today, in the main gym of the' I-M Building. The contest will take place im- mediately after the swimming meet which will enable the fans to see one of the main features of the meet, the trampoline duel be- tween OSU's Bruce Harlan, Olym- pic diving champion, and Hobie Billingsley against the Wolverines' Ed Buchanan and Bob Shoendube, AAU trampoline champ. IIARLAN AND Billingsley can well be labeled Ohio State's claim to versatility. After they have fin- ished diving in the meet with Matt Mann's tank squad, these athletes will change their diving board for the less humid atmos- phere of the trampoline. Ohio's gym team has proven its ability to give the fans their1 money's worth. Last week the Buckeyes tied Michigan State who were barely edged out by Penn State, national champions for three successive years. Much of the credit for tying the Spartans is due to Sam Manos, Buckeye all around performer, whom Newt Loken has labeled "the man to beat." BESIDE BUCHANAN and Schoendube, Captain Dick Fash- baugh and Tom Tillman will be on hand for the flying rings. Pete Barthell and Dave Lake will do the tumbling for the squad with Jeff Kn'ht and Bob Check- ley on the side horse. Bob Wil- loughby will face the visitors on the high bar. ,Sextet Gains T ourney Bid W ith 10-14Wi (Continued from Page 1) during the third period, with, much of the play centering around the Michigan net. Only great play by McDonald and Hill pre- vented them from scoring more. BONNER ADDED his second goal early in the session, firing the puck into the net at 0:55. Min- nesota pressed with five men, but was unable to score again until 13:43 when Ruben Bjorkman tal- lied. Between these two goals, Michigan had scored twice, Mc- Millan and Neil Celley beating McEwen around the mid point in the period. Celley and Owen McArdle end ed the scoring for the night with goals late in the stanza. By ROG GOELZ Paced by Lloyd Duff and Mal Whitfield, Ohio States' defending Big Nine indoor track champions will invade Yost Field House to- night for a dual meet with Michi- gan. The clash with the Buckeyes will round out the pre-conference title competition for the Wolver- ines and will give Big Nine fol- lowers another chance to rate principal contenders for the Bi- Nine track championships next week at Champaign. OHIO STATE will enter the meet as favorites over Michigan. chiefly on the basis of the antici- pated performances of Duff and Whitfield. These Buckeye standouts have been responsible for the greater share of State points in recent Big Nine meets this season, and carry the Columbus squad's hopes for a repeat in the cham- pionships. Jim Mitchell, double winner in last week's meet against Purdue and Illinois, will face stiff compe- tition in the hurdles from Buck-' eye captain Dick Maxwell in addi- tion to Duff.I THE VERSATILE Duff wil ,join Harry McKnight in an attempt to! capture the pole-vault from Mich-! igan's Ed Ulvestad. McKnight Indiana last week.. Whitfield, 800-meter Olympic record holder is expected to compete in the quarter-mile and 60-yard dash for the Buck- eyes. He will be joined by Harry Cogswell in the 440 run against the Wolverines. Jus Williams aind Fred Stoliker will face competition in the two-: mile run from State's Frank D'Arcy. IBuckeye hordes invading Ann Ar- bor this week-end as they meetI the Wolverines at 3:00 p.m. to- day on the Yost Field House mats. On their last invasion of Mich- igan soil, the Bucks met a Mich- igan State squad that sent them home with their tails between their legs and a 28-0 ring through their noses. THIE WOLVERINES have little hope of equalling the performanceI of their upstate brothers, but they s"> - - - - Iat the hands of powerful Pur di cleared 13 feet six inches against Ohio State's mat squad joins t isuct .eye nor..aes...,nva:.,.ng ...AnA- COACH D)ON C'ANIIAM will are intent on at least packing start Wolverine middle-distance away their first Conference vic- ace Herb Barten in the 880 and tory. possibly the mile. The extent of Barten's efforts With their squad badly de- will depend on the condition of pleted, especially in the light- .sustained i.l.pest-weight divisions this year, the his Jaryssa nps Maize and Blue matmen have Olympic running last summzrer. MieadBaez~tznhv a record of confusing scores, Tom Dolan. surprise winner in falling to one powerful Confer- 'the triangular meet against Illi- ence Illinois, 25-3, and yet fight- iois and Purdue will be out to sur- ing currently unbeaten, defend- hass his mark of 6'-< inches. ing champions, Purdue, to a 16-15 final tally: CANIIAI'M HAS NOTI'decided 1- 'who will run for Michigan in the The strong points of the Ohio 440 but Ron Soble has been listed State team lie in the 136, 145 and :s ready to face the Buckeyes in heavyweight divisions, but the fea- (,is event. tunre attraction of the night will The Buckeyes will send a strong undoubtedly be between Wolver- Foursome composed of a Cogswell ine Jim Smith, Conference title- "Vhitfield, Whitaker and Rcilly, holder at 136 pounds, who is ngainst the Wolverines. wrestling the surprising Buckeye Michigan will be represented by Bryce Keough in the 145-pound ,im Morrish, Soble, Bob Sergeson bracket. -VnCI 3~M Er 'c j 3 i . a a i i i l .; l .; .I By DICK HURST Michigan puts her two-year string of swimming triumphs on the block for real at 3:30 this af- ternoon when the Wolverines meet undefeated Ohio State in their last dual meet tune-up before the Conference championship next weekend. Two years ago it was the Buck- champs and they have the vic- tory streak with longevity. OSU will find it an up-hill fight. Michigan's team is approaching its finest showing of the season. The times are down and the team is in good shape for the first challenge for Big Nine supre- macy. MATT MANN will stick to his veteran line-up for the meet. Bernie Kahn, Bob Sohl and Dick Weinberg or Dave Tittle will prob- ably go for the Wolverines in the medley relay event and Matt Mann III and Gus Stager will fight it out with Bill Smith in the middle distance events. Bruce Harlan and Jack Cal- houn, OSU's one-two punch. ini the diving, will meet Ralph Trimborn and fast-improving George Eyster in that event. Kahn, Tommy Smith or Jack Arbuckle will swim for the Wol- verines in the back stroke withl Charlie Moss and Bob Sohl going for the Maize and Blue in the breast stroke. * *' * IN THE FREE STYLE sprints Mann will select his entries fromt the Weinberg, Bill Kogen, Dave Tittle, Jay Sanford, Moss, Tom Coates crew. This will be the last home ap- pearance for Weinberg, Sanford, Kgoen, SoN, and Trimborn, who conclude their varsity eligibility this year. Tickets for the meet today;Will go on sale at 1:30 in the I-M Building. CLEVELAND - First baseman Mickey Vernon arrived in town to- day and, after a conference with President Bill Veeck, signed his contract with the world champion Cleveland Indians. BROOKLYN-Marvin Ratckley, Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder who led his mates in hitting last sea- son, came to terms yesterday on his 1949 contract. Rackley batted .327 in 88 games. Five Dodgers still are out of the fold. tizu Illuu YY di i Cxl. "Ozzie" Cowles bunch out of a The Buckeyes will be seeking re- first-place tie with Illinois, and venge for an earlier loss to Coach appears to have changed any J. T. White's proteges here, 54- plans the Minnesotans may have 47. had for a trip to the NCAA play- High scorers for the Wolverines offs in New York. that day were Jerry Burns, Bill OSU .has been playing erratic Eggenberger, and George Royce ball all year-when the team who scored 33 points collectively. was "on" it was almost unbeata- Going into tonight's game, the ble; at other times the Bucks jayvees are sporting a record of were guilty of playing a poor five wins in eight starts. brand of high school basketball. The squad has been victorious On February 14, the Buckeyes over Michigan State twice, Hills- traveled to St. Louis where they dale College twice, and Ohio State surprised the basketball world by once while losing once to the handing "Easy Ed" Macauley and Ypsilanti varsity and twice to the the highly-favored Billiken quin- Lawrence Tech Blue Devils. tet a 68-60 beating. At the moment, Michigan is suf- 4: fering a two-game losing streak JUST FIVE nights later they After winning four games in a returned to the Big Nine wars row, the jayvees bumped up and saw the cellar-dwelling North- against Lawrence Tech and found western Wildcats take their second themselves on the short end of Conference victory in 10 starts. the score in the two gamse of their Coach William "Tippy" Dye home-and-home series, losing the game at Ann Arbor, 59-49, and the one away, 51-40. LATE CAGE SCORES White will start the same line-! South Carolina 58, Citadel 45 up as he has in the previous North Carolina 64, Duke 40 games, Hal Pink and George Royce Loyola 57, John Carroll 50 at forwards, Bill Eggenberger at N.C. State 81, Wash. & Lee 46 center and Jerry Burns and Oscar Colgate 67, Penn St. 45 Agre at guard. 'M' Baseball Squad Prepares For Season's Opener April 1 By HAROLD TANNEIR ieran competing for the catching Hoping to compile another suc- post is Walt Hancock. cessful record this season, Coach Although minus the services Ray Fisher has begun the long, of number one pitcher Art Dole, hard process of readying Michi- the pitching staff weathered gan's baseball team for its 31- the strain of graduation quite game schedule which opens April well. Veteran hurlers Bud Ran- 1. kin and Bill Taft are both re: Over 60 aspirants for varsity turning to hurl for the Maize positions have been working out in and Blue. the Yost Field House during the The departure of Jack Weisen- past two weeks. Fisher has had burger, Dom Tomasi, and Howard his men concentrating on batting Wikel, last year's regular infield- practice in the nets placed at the ers, leaves Fisher with only Ko- south end of the field house. brin of the 1948 starting infield. '" Infielders of limited experience. TIlE VETERAN diamond men- however, are Bob Wolfe, Ted tor, starting his 29th season at the Berce, and Morrill. helm of the Maize and Blue nine, *a made the first cut in the squad THE OUTFIELD was the hard- early in the week. est hit with all three regulars. Of the ten lett-ernen returning Bob Chappuis, Bump Elliott, and ol' ;etionu this year, eight are Ralph Morrison lost tor the team. working out with the team right Leading contenders for the now. Hal Morrill and Jack Mc- outfield berths will include Mc- 1onald will be unable to join Donald and Willard Baker, both the diamond forces until they of whom saw action last season, t l :I i l C i ,, ) / 1.. /7. ~kjl Q4110/c-7 5 > A1,14-,- A 4 © Ft O ' - lea /AIT2Ei,'4 C LLEc/4T-E ac4 j4... ,AG TlIS IS Keough's first year of varsity competition and he has! figured remarkably in every Con- ference clash. At 136 pounds the Buckeyes are presenting the captain of their team, and one of the best , of this weight group in the Big Nine, Dave Ewart. Ewart was upset by Farina of Purdue last week, but will be up to give Wolverine Tom Miller a lot of trouble today. MICHIGAN'S captain, Bob Bet- zig, will face Dave Perelman at 165. Betzig has not lost a match' so far this year. At 121 pounds Buckeye Dick Payne will find] Wolverine Bob Cunningham. 1 In the heavyweight divisionf Wolverine Byron Laskey will face one of two Buckeyes, Carl Abell or Bill Miller. Daily--Maria BOWS OUT-Wolverine Ralph Trimborn will be making his last home appearance in Maize and Blue garb this afternoon when he faces OSU's dynamic diving duo of Bruce Harlan and Jack Calhoun. eyes who kept their long victory streak rolling when they dumped Michigan in the last dual meet of the season. THEN LAST YEAR, the Wol- verines caught the OSU team in another toss - up battle and knocked them off to put the Buckeyes in the loss column for the first time in three years. It's a different story this year. Michigan is the team to beat; the Wolverines are the defending Big Nine and NCAA Carl Abell is tried men in the ence. Bill Miller more year and Nine wrestling. one of the best Western Confer- is in his sopho- his first of Big i TOWVARDI TIDE end of the game, Heyliger juggled his line-up with the result that McMillan and Wally Gacek were back on de- fense for the Wolverines, with Hill playing in the center slot. I I The game was unusual from the penalty standpoint, with only one misdemeanor being handed out, going to Wolverine defenseman Fleming for board- ing late in the first period. Neither Michigan nor Minne- sota displayed the "fighting mad" mood that has characterized their games of the past. Only once or twice did a flare-up threaten, but nothing came of it. The two teams will meet in the final game of the series tonight, the tilt beginning at 8:00. COME ONE, COME ALL Urge Ring H01)Chls To Enter AWlCainpusIJoxUing loiiriie Now hear this, all you boxers! It's time to shake the mothballs out (f thoee glwc; ad et 'et for the university's biggest fistic show, th::z A l-Capusi fLexing Tour- n1ament. There'll be competition in all weight classes from 115 pounds through the heavyweights.! Anyone can enter but each contestant must step through five supervised workout sessions with boxing director, Lee Setomer, at the I-M Building. A series of preliminary bouts will be staged beginning March 12th, in preparation for the finals which will be presented as a part of the annual I-M Open House to be held in the Sports Building on March 23rd. According to Setomer, the best all-around boxer in the tourna- ment will be awarded a trophy. In addition, the winners in each of the weight divisions will receive individual medals. Several hopefuls have already begun training for the fights. Among the early birds who have shown progress are 145-pound- ers, Jim Kanemoto and Pete Angelides, light-heavyweights Jim Brown, iuss Kavanaugh, and Jim Williams, and 155-pound Hal Martellc, a veteran of Bataan. SPECIAL! OUT'l OF THlE season so fai' Miller has suffered only three de- feats, two to top men in the Con- ference: Chuck Gottfried of Ill- inois, and Vern Gagne of Minne- sota. His other defeat was very close to Bob Maldegan, Michigan State's Olympic contribution by a close match, 7-6. Jack Powers faces Buckeye Toin Rath at 175, while Phil Carlson will have his hands full with Buckeye Milt Klein at 155 poulds. Jack Keller will clash with Bill Weber of Ohio State at 128 on the Wolverine-Buckeye card. -' TI roc things 1 p j..,..:r. o11egaman s hould know! r . in a "MA n hutton " sportshirt. r .. This isr- a " .Mnhattan" sportshirt. Covers anchto.y wh ease. Ligiitwerght rayon gabardine As smart as it is comfortable. k TRACK Illinois 84, Iowa 30 I1 T1fi1I~ Stationery j" IS DA I LY DEN FEATURE Burger in the B asket i I'll I !I! I