THE MICHIGAN DAIT PAG Matmen Top Wildcats; Gymnasts Win. BULL 5.51N by b. s. brown, sports editor Grapplers Finish Season Billikens Set On Vctous Ide, - Stage for Till __ With Wildca Wolveri- u (ciaptjre All But One Mach;- -- t is Betzig, Cunningham (special to The Daily) EVANSTON - Michigan's wres- tiers wrapped up their season's mat calendar here last night by overpowering Northwestern, 25-5. The victory marked the Wolver- ine's second straight win in tshree days to give them a season total of two wins against five loses. North- C41AXPAIGN, Ill.-(AP)-Illi- nosi cinched at least a share of the Big Nine basketball crown yesterday by overwhelming In- diana 91-68-biggest Confer- ence victory score of the sea- son. western, on the other hand, failed to win a conference match al- though they did trounce four minor aggregations. ONLY THE Big Ten Champion- ships this weekend at Indiana stand in the way of permanently shelving the 1949 card for poster- ity. 11inning every boat except wne, the Wolverines scored two falls and five decisions. The y Wildcats, however, took top honors as Tom Ragouzis in an amazing demonstration of fury nailed Wolverine Jack Powers in exactly six seconds. Captain Bob Betzig ran his winning streak to seven as he overpowered the Wildcat chal- lenger, Herb Koshgarain, in the 165 pound classic. Betzig scorcd his pin at 3.30. COACH KEEN'S men were off to a fast start right from the be- ginning as cagey 121 pounder Bob Cunningham of Michigan scored his first fall of the season when he pinned Frank Wapples in 1.13 of the second period. George Halas of Northwestern was the next to meet the wrath of the Wolverines as he clashed with Jack Kellar in the 128 pound attraction. RA --ANEW YORK-(IP)-St. Louis U. 1, Carlson Triumph Yesterday accepted a bid to de- -_____-______fend its National Invitation Bas- yketball Tournament title and set Continuing the victory streak, the stage for a return game wtih Tom Miller representing the Maize Kentucky's mighty Wildcats. and Blue at 136 pounds won a de- It's all up to Kentucky now. cision in his bout. ! The Olympic-seasoned Wildcats, After Michigan's Jim Smith pol- NCAA champions and the Nation's .e oNo. 1 college five, also received ished off Bob Manning in the 145 an invitation to participate in the feature, the vaunted Nick Stevens tourney here, March 12-14-17-19. of the Wildcats fell before Wol- Bernie Shively, director of ath- verine Phil Carlson. .- letics at Kentucky, said the school Byron Lasky planted the final is "considering" the N.I.T. bid. nail in Northwestern's coffin as he Kentucky is understood to be keen decisioned Bill Ford in the heavy- on competing in both the NCAA weight classic. and N.I.T. tourneys. Ma1n- Heusner Battle Seen In 1500-Meter Free Style Ode' / . 6 /-VC/I E. C> 4 7 f-YE7 7-Af4g /ECM / ,A Nsoow,3 Down MSCI lily 13 Poiets' (81pe(iaI to TIhe Daily) LANSING--Newt Loken. Wol- verine gymnast Coach, and his tumbling wonders stretched their average 4 out of five wins by beat-j ing traditional rival, Michigan State, 54a-41,, yesterday, atj Jennison Fieldhouse. The Michigan acrobats out- classed their hosts in four out of six events. PETE BARThELL aided the Wolverine cause by corming' irough with his usual double win. Pete took first places in both tum- bling and parallel bars. Barthell split up the 12 points gained in the tumbling event with his teammates, Gor- don Levinson and Tom Tillman who finished in that order. Ed Buchanan bolstered the visi- tors lead by taking first place on the trampoline with Wolverine Bob Shcendube occuping the it iird place slot. 2-i ara HERBERT 0, 'RITZ CR.SLER agree that the most imperative phases of his ambitious building scheme for the University of Michigan concern the antiquated hockey rink and the broken-down baseball stands. I'm afraid the ceiling is going to come down in the hockey rink one of these days," Crisler said yesterday. He was equally critical of the condition of the diamond stands. It's for the Board of Regents to decide how the proposed building schemes are to be carried out, if at all. and the most important problem that arises is the question of finance. In Saturday's report, it was revealed that the athletic de- partment netted $265,775.34 in the fiscal year 1947-48, but almost the entire sum was used to pay off the bonds held on the stadium and interest on those bonds. With the bond payments finished, the Board can go ahead with a little less of a headache. But finances in these post-war days are still a problem. For instance, a new hockey rink would cost in the negihborhood of $750,000. That's a paltry sum when the outlay for a combination athletic plant housing hockey and basketball or a combined field house and I-M Building is considered. The prices for those endeavors rangs around the 51'2 million mark for the former and 3 million for the latter. To increase the seating capacity of Yost Field House by 2000 would cost the department an estimated $75,000. That's one plan the Board had better discard. It's hardly worth the money to expand Yost's seating by such a small figure. But only time will tell and any conjecture would be just that. IHENASKED ABOUT the recommendation that the allotment of student tuition that goes to the athletic department be increased, the master of Michigan's mad magicians of the 1948 Rose Bowl declared, "It's entirely up to the Board of Regents. We have suggested the raise as one possible method of aiding our finances. Tuition has been doubled in these past years," Fritz explained, "but the athletic department continues to receive the same $7 that it was given in 1923 when the allotment began." Costs have risen since their and it would certainly seem as though Crisler and the department should have an increase in fees. But there again, only time will tell. It's )ust about time for the tourists to pull up stakes down in 'Florida and make way for the invasion of the major league baseball outfits. Ten clubs begin spring training underneath the sheltering palms today. The world champion Cleveland Indians are pitching tents in Tucson, Ariz., a< stone's throw from Leo Durocher's Giants, who are holing un in Phoenix. The Browns, Pirates and both Chicago lubs added an insult to the refusal to train in Florida by settling in Cali- fornia for the six weeks. r. Seve oBRUNCH M~A Served on ~weekdays 1 1 A.M. -1 P.M. CLOSED ONMODY (EDITOR'S NOTE-This is the firstin a series dealing with the Western Conference swimming meet being held at Purdue Mar. 3, 4 and 5.) By MERLE LEVIN With Ohio State's natators suc- cessfully disposed of once, Matt Mann's undefeated mermen find themselves right back where they started from as they prepare to defend their Western Conference title at Purdue this weekend. Despite their loss here Saturday the Buckeyes are definitely the team to beat at Lafayette. asIOWA, LED BY Wally Ris, rates Sas thedark horse of the meet but if the dope chart runs true to form it will be Michigan and Ohio battling right down to the final race. The 1500 meters will be run off Thursday night and despite the fact that it will be the only event of the evening, those Thursday results will be of tre- mendous importance to Mich- igan fans. It is in this race that the Wol- verines should show their greatest concerted strength and offset some of those diving points Ohio is sure to pile up. MATT MANN III, twenty pounds heavier and enjoying his finest season, will defend his Con- ference title for Michigan in this event and probably will find his only important competition com- ing from Bill Heusner of North- western. Heusner trailed Matty at the Big Nine meet in Iowa's 50- yard pool last year but when he got into a 25-yard- pool at the NCAA meet here he won going away. Whether Mann's decided im- provement is enough to offset Heusner's more effective showing in a 25-yd. pool remains to be seen. BEHIND MANN Michigan will have Gus Stager and John Mc- Carthy who finished fourth and fifth respectively in the Confer- ence last year and who figure to move up a notch this season with Ohio's Bill Smith probably limit- ing himself to the shorter dis- tances. Fifth place secms to be a wide open race with Bunny Nakama of Ohio State rating the possible edge. Iowa has nobody who consti- tutes a real threat while Purdue has a good sophomore freestyler named Mike Kosometos who could conceivably finish in the money. THlE WOLVERINES have one i other entry in the distance. grind, ,ophomore Bob Wagner who has swum just one varsity race this Ther wllbbe ameeting o 'M" Room. All undergraduate "M" club members are urged to Jayvee Cage Squad Piuts Hfex !l T _- ",. o.7i 44 4 0 * rEt1 _- it v arsuty wW.t By PIRES HOLMES It would be an almost impossi- ble task to even try to explain the basketball team's loss to Ohio State last Saturday night. By the blank and bewildered look on the faces of loyal Wolver- ine fans, however, it would seem that explanations are strongly de- sired.. ONE THIEORY appears to be just as good as another, but one in particular is by far the most fantastic. Almost a month ago Michi- gan's jayvee coach, J. T. White, noted that in the two games which his team had played against the same schools as the varsity, the jayvees had set the pace and scored the same num- ber of points which Ernie Mc- Coy's crew made. later in the evening. Both Michigan teams piled tip 49 points against Michigan State, and both racked in 54 counters against Ohio St ate during the be- tween semester recess. IN AN ARTICLE in The Daily! February 1) it was stated that this rather tunusual cir'cumstance might foreshadow the then forth- coming g Inw a 2r iust the Buck-, eyes. White's vre'w I 0SS4d in a fot