___ __ _...__.____ __.__.__8 ~ m j 'kW W,/ES t12A -70 /117-1OQET/7/ A/ &17 4SA VJQI 41 /pj'Lm M ae Among Top TenP Scorers NIT Selects Five Squads 101,four e NEW YORK --)The selec- tion committee of the National In- vtation Basketball Tournament solvred a thorny problem yesterday by adding five more teams--in- stead of one--to make its annual extravaganza a 12-team event in place of the usual eight-team af- fair. Loyola of Chicago (22-5). Bowl- ing Green of Ohio (21-6), and three New York schools, Man- hattan College (18-7), St. John's (15-8), and New York University (12-7), joined the seven other quintets for the March 12-14-17- 19 tourney in Madison Square Garden- 'lHE FIRST seven picked prev- iously were Kentucky (29-1, St. louis 21-3, Utah (24-7), West- ern Kentucky (25-3), San Fran- cisco (21-5), Bradley <25-6), and City College of New York (17-7). With the field increased, af- ternoon sessions were put on the p~rogram for this Saturday and next Monday. Kentucky's NCAA champions and the nation's No. 1 tam, was Seedecl first followed by St. Louis, the defending N.1.T. champions, Utah and Wostern KCil \V'e 'fere ' a t n rt!Ci'IN SA~tIUDA Y AFT I,""RN00 Bradley vs. New York U. San Francisco vs. Manhattan. SATURDAY N11T Bowling Green vs. St. John's. Loyola vs. CUNY. MONDAV Al i tliNOON Kentucky vs. the CCN -Lioy - la winne. Western Kentucky vs. the Bradley-N I winner. MONDAY NIGITI St. Louis vs. theB owlin Green-St. John's winner. Utah vs. the San i ranciso- lManhattan winner. A complicated local situation brought about the decision to add five teams instead of just one. It served to mollify the New York schools, some of which were op- posed to a local playoff to decide the eighth team. It also served to still criticism of the committee, headed by Asa Bushnell, by local basketball writers and others, for ignoring Bowling G reen and Loy- ola. By adding; Bowling Green, the N.I.T. wound up with six of the first ten ranking teams of the country. BASKETBALL Columbia 58, Yale 54 Arizona 54, Baylor 47 ' s_ ULL ESSION by b. s. brown, sports editor DOESN'T DIVE SiT: Versatility Labels Ioss Highly" -Vlubl rtii4 110 Byoston S. ew York 1 CKEY Anti Arbor Two Maize and Blue cagers, forward Mack Suprunowicz and guard Bob Harrison, finished the Big Nine season with more than 100 points. Supey's last half scoring spree, which saw himi dump 111 points in the last six Conference games, gave him third place in the final standings, while H'arrison's 123 markers tied hin with Iowa's Charlie Mason for the thirteenth spot. CENTER S grabbed the scoring honors as three of the top five men held down the pivot post. Top man in the Conference was Wisconsin's bon Rehfeldt with 229 points, the sixth man to ever hit more than 200 points in a 12-game Big Nine schedule and the third highest total ever posted in the Conference. The other pivotmen among the first five were Minnesota's Jim McIntyre with 182 markers and for second place Ohio State's Bob Raidiger who hit for 171 points to take fifth spot. IN FOURsTVplace, between Su- prunowicz and Raidiger, is. Pur- due's Howie Williams, who tallied 172 points. Williams plays either guard or forward, and does well at both. One of the oddities in the scoring shows that Illinois, the highest - se or in g aggregation ever put together in the Big Nine, placed nobody in the top I five and only one man in the first 10. Dwight "Dike" Ehlkma nll we Illini's All-Conferene secontid- team forward, split the twine forI 144 points and tied with Ohio{ State's Dick Schnitt.ker for the seventh spot. BUT THE NEW Conference ti- tleholders showed the fine offen- sive balance they possess by plac- ing eight men who dropped in 50 points or better, at least two more men than any other quintet. Other Wolverines who racked up over 50 points were Leo Van- derKuy, the sophomore who stepped into the starting center spot in the first game against Ohio State, and guard Pete El- liott. "Vandy" hit for 94 markers to tie Northwestern's Jake Fendley for number 21 in the standings, while Elliott scored 69 points. The top 10 with their points are: Player and Team Points Rehfeldt, Wis .............229 McIntyre, Minn. ..........182 Suprunowicz, Mich. ........178 Williams, Pur. ............172 Raidiger, OSU...........171 Skoog, Minn.............166 Eddleman, Ill. .............1141 .Schnittker, OSU ..........144 Sticklen, NU ............. 140 Butchka, Pur. ............ 139 PICKING ALL-CONFERENCE and all-American cage squads and running a poll on the top hardwood teams in the nation has be- come as much of a, farce as the hotly-contested football polls. Whether it is basketball, football or curling, the all-he's-my-boy or all-that's- my-team selections have about as much value as the recent beauty inquiry which discovered that Jane Russell has the most outstanding cheek bones of the year. As follish as they might have been, the pollsters went one step too far when they released the all-Conference cage teams the other day. The voting took place before Michigan met Illinois in the season finale. I'm not saying the selections are not valid because of that, hut if the polls are t~o be, they should at least be conducted at the end of the season. One of the more striking examples of the fallacy of these all-you- name-it teams is provided in the listings of the all-Conference and all-American cage squads. Illinois' Dike Eddleman was named to he econd all-Big Nine team behind Dick Schnittker, OSU forward, but on the all-American squad, Eddleman took a second team slot while the Buckeye star had to settle for a third team position. T WON'T BE A DAY fori an April fool joke come the first of next month, if the St. Louis Browns have their way. Brownie prexy1 Bill DeWitt has been singing a waltz to his counterpart of the St. Louis Cards which says in effect, "You're through, Mac. Our stadium (Sportsman's Park) is ours, so git." With the sports world in a turmoil and every other hot- headed character putting the blade to his competitor's throat, it seemsi a pity that two major league diamond outfits have to start in on a little war of their own. And the whole dispute revolves around a name. It seems that when Sam Breadon sold the senior loop club to Bob Hannegan and! Fred Saigh, the new owners changed the name of the organization from the St. l Jouis National Baseball Club to National Sports. Inc. - 1 )eWitt claiis t.hat h tilCard, ".attempted to assign" the park lease. whi clh is valid until 1951, to National Sports, Ine. without, the written cioniIent of the park-Oiniie 13'rowns, Since the ar-uinnt4 begatt and the Browns tiled an eviction notice, the Redleg front office has gone back to the old moniker used by Breadon, adding an "Inc." to the original title. But the switch has not changed the minds of the Brownie bigwigs. Saigh and DeWitt got together for a confab the other day and failed to readh an agreeinent. If they ean't come to terms, the probability is that A. It "llaltpy" Chandler will make his legislative voice lea rl. 'lhe ex-senator has enough mtroubles now-he's probably figuring out a way to handle Lippy Durocher and then there's the baseball suit which Max Lanier, Fred Martin, Danny Gardella and others are levelling at, the national sport -so why not have a peaceful settle- nent without bringing in the big boss? DeWitt had a legal notice printed in one of the local news- papers and intends to have it run on four Mondays, a prerequisite for a circuit court suit. DeWitt explained, "We had to publish the notice, because the St. Louis National Baseball Club is non-ex- istent; it is not to be found. The Secretary of State, at Jefferson City, told us it was dead." Maybe so, but who are those guys down in St. Petersburg Eddie Dyer is pushing around the base-paths? Bathing beauties???? Oh well, another cold war, more or less, doesn't seem to matter any longer, what with Joe Louis and Mike Jacobs, the T. of C. and Mike Jacobs, the AAC and the NFL, the BAA and the NBL, Michigan and Michigan State, and Michigan State and the University of Detroit. But this one is in Missouri. I wonder if Harry will step in?.??? Harrson Eliot Get Hontorable Mention on AP All-America By KEN BIALKIN "Jack of all trades and master of all of them." This phrase aptly describes Charlie Moss, one of the most val- uable swimmers to be found on Matt Mann's star-studded en- semble. Easily the most versatile. swimmer on the team, Moss is equally impressive in both the free style and the breast stroke and, if needed, can turn in a good job in the back stroke. CHARLIE OFTEN doesn't knowI which event he is going to swim in until Mann tells him just be- fore the meet. What he swims is usually determined by the com- petition facing the team and just which events Mann is particularly anxious to win. Coming from a family of swimmers, Moss has been at it , for at least eleven years. In high school and at Mercersberg Academy (Pennsylvania), he swam the back stroke. But Moss became a. little tired of the back stroke and started practicing the crawl. When he came to Michigan he began swimming free style. In his freshman year here, Moss was par~t of the 400-yard relay team J Swhich bioke the freshman mark with a 3:33.8. LOOKING FOR greener fields presents it's 7th Annual ICE CARNIVAL MELODY on ICE Cast of over 150 ALL NEW COSTUMES COMIC, GRACEFUL, and SPECTACULAR ACTS CLUB FIGURE SKATING CHIIARLtIE MOS,1 to conquer, Moss began, "Sort of fooling around" with the breEst stroke in his spare time. H kept working on the breast stroke and then one day his chance came. In an effort to determine who was the best breast stroker on the team, next to Bob Sohl, Matt Mann was running a series of races. "Just for fun" Charlie raced against Sohli and the rest of the field and, to everyone but Moss' surprise he placed right behind Sohl. That solved the problem of who the number two breast stroker was, and lie's been at it ever since. As far as Moss is concerned, he would rather swim in the indivi- dual medley than any other event. In this race, he explains, he gets a chance to use all three strokes. MOSS' FAVORITE competitor used to be Harry Holiday, former Michigan backstroker and indivi- dual medley star. While at the Keo Nakama Swim Meet in Hono- lulu during the summer of 1947, Moss finished second to Holiday in the 150-meter individual relay. Smith New Mat Captain Jim Smith, Big Nine champion last year and runner-up in this year's meet at 136-pounds, was elected to captain the next edition of the Wolverine wrestling squad. Coach Cliff Keen also an- nounced the letter winners of the 1948-49 season last night. There were eight major letters given and one reserve award was made. The eight lettermen: retiring captain Bob Betzig, N. Merrick, New York; Phil Carlson, Birming- ham; Byron Lasky, Detroit; Tom Miller, Plymouth; John Powers, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Jim Smith, Shaker Heights, Ohio; and Bob Cunningham and John Keller, both of Ann Arbor. The one reserve letter went to John Hess of Grand Rapids. f 1 Blut n ihe l "meets last sptig o 1 iiii-d thirdl in the individ l mmd b.y, beating llolid.' andwl iiitgbehind Joe r 'of l R Sae an Bob I)'root of (AmmoSlakc Mos is a a aJ0ma Lm'u student and plans to cumti tih t field after he graduates in June, 1950. LOOK WELL-GROOMED DASCOLA BARBERS Lih iv yt stace i'irneydi am! J)irc'IeJ b A&i An Powmr SATURDAY, MARCH 12 SUNDAY, MARCH 13 at 8 P.M. TICKETS 100 each, including tax Available at University Rink, Ulrich's Slater's, Wahr's, Michigan Union C rdErTI IS THE THING onchI! TO ADD COLOZ dash to your wardrobe, Sport Jacket. Fully lin- ed. Vent back. Four flap pockets. A real standout in grey, ma- roon, green, tan, , and brown. $95 ALL WOOL SLACKS to complte outfit . $10.95 up I SPORTS FLASHES COMPTON, CALIF - Former football star Tommy Harmon yes- terday was named an advisory backfield coach for the 1949 Compton Junior College football team. Harmon, the one-time Michi- gan All-America and later a star back for the Los Angeles Rams professional team, joins head coach Ray Brown's staff for spring training. PASADENA, CALIF.-Manager Jack Onslow of the Chicago White Sox will hustle his players through their first full nine innings today in the fourth intra-squad game. Allen Gettel, Howard Judson and Walter Pierce will oppose the St. Louis Browns in the first exhibi- tion at Hollywood Saturday, each working three inning relays. SPPRING TOPCOATS a l ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.--The St. Louis Cardinals regulars bare- ly nosed out the rookies 4 to 3 in an inter-squad game yesterday. Hardest hitter of the rookies was Hal Rice, outfielder up from Rochester who pounded out a triple and two singles. TAMPA, FLA -How arct Fox and Bud Lively combined on a three- hit pitching job yesterday to give the "Sauers" a 2-0 victory over the "Hattons" in a Cincinnati Reds intrasquad game. Herm Wehmeier yielded a run in each of the first and second innings, a wild throw by second sacker John Lane making the sec- ond marker possible. LOS ANGELES, CALIF-Char- lie Grimm, manager of the Chi- cago Cubs, is so impressed with pitcher Dewey Adkins, a curve ball specialist, that he is counting on him to be a regular starting pitch- er this season. j* LAKELAND, FLA-The Detroit Tigers' 54 - man squad went through a four-hour workout yes- terday with manager Red Rolfe showing little regard for a boilingM sun and 80-degree temperature. Outfielders Pat Mullin and } Johnny Groth hit the longest drives of an extended batting practice. S DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings all but clinched the Na- tional Hockey League champion- ship-their first in six years-by beating the defending cliampion Toronto Maple Leafs, 5 to 0, be- fore 13,664 delighted hone fans here last night. Two Michigan cagers, guards Bob Harrison and Pete Elliott, re- ceived honorable mention selec- tions in the Associated Press All- American Collegiate Basketball selections, as chosen by 404 sports- writers and broadcasters. Elliott, a great defensive ball- player, amassed a total of 55 points in thu voting, while Harrison gar- nered 37. Five points were given for each first team selection, and two for second team. Figures in parenthe- ses denote number of first team votes: PLAYER, TEAM PTS. Ed Macualey, St. Louis (331) 1,735 Alex Groza, Kentucky (325) 1,131 Ralph Beard, Kentucky (246) 1,400 Tony Lavelli, Yale (243) 1,357 Vince Boryla, Denver (117) 859 Second Team: Wallace Jones, Kentucky (75); Bob Harris, Oklahoma Aggies (58); Dwight Eddleman, Illinois (54); Bob Cousy, Holy Cross (50); and Vern Gardner, Utah (40). Third Team: Ernie Vandeweghe, Colgate (42); Kevin O'Shea, Notre Dame (36); Jim McIntyre, Minnesota (27); Dick Schnittker, Ohio State (24); and Meyer Skoog, Minneso- ta (17). 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