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Y, MARCH 19, 1949

THE MICHIGAN -DAILY

BIL SESSION
A by b. s. brown, sports editor
B ACK ON NOVEMBER 2, 1948, an underdog came through with an
upset victory which stunned the nation, and ever since then, the
party on the short end of the odds has been making life rough for the
bookmakers. I
Guys like Walter Winchell took a beating when they offered fan-
tastic odds like 100-1 on Governor Dewey winning the 1948 election;
then came the Army-Navy game and the Middies used the motto,
"Harry's on our side." Unbeaten Army found itself the target of a
salvo from all of Navy's re-charged big guns and wound up the day
with a 21-21 deadlock. The sports world was well on its way to provid-
ing some of the biggest upsets this modern era has seen.
A FEW WEEKS LATER, the highly-touted Irish of Notre Dame
took on Southern Cal in what was expected to be another rout for the
South Benders. But the west coast team had upset on the brain. Final
score: 14-14. The same day, Southern Methodist scored a last-minute
TD to tie a favored TCU eleven.
But that was only the beginning. Though Northwestern came
through as expected in the Rose Bowl, two underdogs, Texas and
Oklahoma, marred the record of the lads who lay the odds, on New
Year's Day, by taking the measure of Georgia, 41-28, and North
Carolina, 14-6, respectively.
Things quieted down for a spell though Michigan's Big Nine
Championship basketball team lost the opening two games of the
Conference season to Minnesota and Purdue. There were the usual
amount of upsets during the cage season. St. Louis had found the
mark on New Year's Day in nipping Kentucky, 42-40. Oklahoma's
Aggies pulled off the highly-improbable when they handed a pair of
setbacks to the Billikens. Ohio State put the finishing touches on St.
Louis, defeating the "sills" on the Buckeye court.
WHEN THE WOLVERINES dropped out of the title, race by fall-
ing to Ozzie Cowles' Northlanders and the Hawkeyes of Iowa, they de-
cided to entertain the sports followers with an upset victory of their
own-over the 1949 Conference champs, Illinois-in the season finale.
Then the roof fell in. In one mighty sweep, all of the fa-
vored teams in the National Invitational Tournament were elimi-
ated from honors at Madison Square Garden. Loyola, the "rain
check" squad which had been added to the roster to complete the
tourney line-up, amazed everyone with a 67-56 triumph over top-
seeded Kentucky. To stay in tempo, Bowling Green rose mightily
in clubbing St. Louis, 80-74; Bradley Tech out-ran Western Ken-
tucky, 95-86; San Francisco nudged Utah, 64-63; and the sports
fans pulled off a double flip in amazement.
Thursday night and upsets galore. The Windy City's pride and
joy, Loyola, blew a kiss of death at another favorite, Bradley, 55-50;
Frisco took the cue and walloped the new NIT favorite, Bowling Green,
49-39. Chalk up a triple flip for the sports fans.
* * *
TWO HOURS AFTER the Frisco-Bowling Green score came in,
the wires carrying' the results of the Michigan-Dartmouth hockey
game looked at each other and stammered, "Who are you trying to
kid?" Mighty Michigan had fallen by the wayside. The Dartmouth
Indians had accomplished the near-impossible, setting the Wolverines
back on their haunches, 4-2.
When the Wildcats fell to Loyola, Kentucky coach Adolph
Rupp said, "We were flat. It's just too bad that it had to come at
this time." Daily correspondent Herb Ruskin told me early yes-
terday morning, "Michigan just didn't have it. And Desmond (the
sensational Indian goalie) did." Maybe so, but it's too bad it had
to come at that time.
On the basis of the past freaks in the sporting world, I want to
go down in the records as predicting that, in 1949, Iowa (who didn't
score a point in the indoor championships) will take the outdoor Con-
ference track championship, the Chicago White Sox will win the AL
flag, the Cubs will cop the senior loop title and the Pale Hose will take
the Series in four straight. Further, Notre Dame will lose all of its
games, Michigan will beat Army, 55-0, and Bergen Junior College will
be acclaimed as the top football power in the nation.

Gymnasts, Fencers See Action

Scimitar Club Plays Host
For State Sword Tourney
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Close Competition Predicted

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Tumblers Face Badgers

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By CY CARLTON
Big time fencing returns to
Michigan today.
For the first time in 15 years, a
major sword meet will be held in
Ann Arbor.
* * *
MANY MICHIGAN colleges and
universities will assembly for the
State Intercollegiate Three Weap-
on Tournament in the I-M Build-
ing auxiliary gym, starting at 12
noon with the finals scheduled for
eight tonight. Admission will be
free.
Fencers from the University
of Detroit, Highland Park Jun-
ior College, Lawrence Tech and
Wayne University will do bat-
tle with Michigan's Scimitar
Club swordsmen for the individ-
ual medals and the team crown.
The team title will be decided on
total number of matches won.
All defending champs will be on
hand, attempting to retain their
titles.
* * *
THESE ARE Ed Micllef of
Michigan in Foil, Art Bruce of the
U of D in Epee, and Dick Watson
of Wayne in Sabre.
Bruce heads a strong U. of D.
aggregation, hoping to defend
their team title won last year
and keep the Bela de Tuscan
trophy.
However, Michigan's Scimitar
Club ha s hopes, of taking the
crown from the Titans.
A STRONG OUTFIT headed by
Ed Micllef will enter the lists for
the Maize and Blue. This includes
. Anyone on campus who is in-
terested in competing in newly
formed baseball and lacrosse
leagues is invited to attend ia
meeting Tuesday, March 22, at
4:30 p.m. in the I-M Building.
-Earl Riskey.
Pete Young, runner up in last
week's state Junior Foil Cham-
pionship, and Andy Turner relia-
ble Wolverine stalwart.
Young will compete in Foil
and Sabre while Micllef and
Turner will ply their wares in
Foil and Epee.
The trio's optimism about their
titles ° chances is further en-
hanced by the fact that they are
defending state amateur titlists in
Three Weapon competition.
LAWRENCE TECH has high
hopes of taking its share of indi-
vidual and team honors since the
Blue Devils have in their line-up
Jim Campoli, state junior Foil
titlist, and Dick Yasenchek, who
took third in the same event.

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Wayne and Highland Park's
hopes rest on the shoulders of
Watson and Bob Derderian, re-
spectively.
Highland Park will have the
honor of having "the daddy" of
the tournament. Dick Perry,
coach of the Parkers, originated
the competition last year and it
was held at his home school at
that time..
THE MEET, jointly sponsored
by The Scimitar Club and the In-
tramural Sports Department, will
be highlighted by the appearance
of the two best midwestern fen-
cers, Byron Krieger and Bela de
Tuscan, who will demonstrate
some of the fine points of Foil and
Sabre play in an instructive ex-
hibition.
The medals will be awarded by
Earl Riskey, who is in charge of
the I-M Building and the team
trophy by its contributor, Bela de
Tuscan.

DICK FASHBAUGH
... leads gymnasts

By HERB MUNZEL
In what promises to be the clos-
est dual meet of the season, the
Wolverine gymnastic squad will
take on the Wisconsin team at 8
p.m. tonight in the I-M Building.:
The Maize and Blue sports a sea-
son record of five victories in six
starts, dropping a decision only to
Illinois.
A NIP AND TUCK affair is!
ahead, according to Coach Newt
Loken, as he points to the fact that
the Badgers trailed Michigan very
closely in their two meetings last
year.
The first event will find Wol-
verines Edsell Buchanan, Bob
Schoendube and Dave Lake
competing on the trampoline
against Bill Kennedy, Ed Kan-
arek and Gene Gilbert.
John Matheus, Wisconsin's
humber one man in three events,
works with Ed Magnuson and Jim
Barland on the side horse where
they will find ample competition
from Dick Fashbaugh, Jeff
Knight, Bob Checkley and Pete
Barthell.
* * *
BOB WILLOUGHBY is the
Wolverines' best man on the high-
bar where Fashbaugh and Check-
ley also will try their hands
against Matheus, Les Troyan and
Gene Gilbert.
Working on the parallel bars
for Michigan will be Barthell,
Fashbaugh and Wally Niemann
with Wisconsin throwing Ma-
theus, Magnuson and Allen Hida
against them.
Competing in his fourth event
of the night will be captain Dick
"Tarzan" Fashbaugh on the fly-
ing rings. Willoughby and Lake

are also entered in this feature Coach Loken thinks is would be
where the Wolverine trio encoun- good to get the boys used to the
ter Gilbert, Matheus and Kennedy. idea before the Big Nine meet next
SOPHOMORE Pete Barthell of
the Maize and Blue, undefeated in week, in which the entrants will
tumbling competition this year, also be timed.
will be followed in this last event
of the evening by Gordie Levenson All managers of Independents
and Tom Tillman. interested in sponsoring a soft
For the first time this season, ball team are urged to attend
there will be a limit as to the a meeting at the I-M Building
length of time each contestant Monday at 7:30 p.m.
is allowed to show his stuff in an Chuck Orwig.
event.
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ABOUT
TOWN
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Youth Has Its Day as Loyola
And Dons Clash in NIT Final

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By The Associated Press
NEW YORK - In college the
seniors are supposed to be the
smart cookies, with much more
brain power than the lower class-
men because they've been there
longer.
But here's San Francisco Uni-
versity and Loyola of Chicago in
the finals of the National Invita-
tion Basketball Tournament at
Madison Square Garden tonight.
Both teams are packed with soph-
omores and juniors. Nary a senior
is on either outfit.
* * * .
THE KIDS got there by consis-
tently outsmarting, outscrapping,
outshooting and outhustling the
opposition. And they played taller
teams all the way.
San Francisco asn't supposed
to beat Bowling Green last
night, but the Dons hadn't
heard about that. The smallest
team in the Tourney went out
and scrambled the dope and the
Bee-Gees from Ohio, 49-39.
Loyola, a beaten NIT finalist 10
years ago, also wouldn't be stopped
in the St. Patrick's night semi-
finals. Trailing at halftime, 22-31,
the Chicagoans came back to hang
it on Bradley, 55-50.
A STANDING ROOM crowd of
18,301 whooped and hollered for
the kids in the two upsets.
Another sellout is expected to-

morrow, and the betting gentry
probably will make the San
Francisco kids the favorites.
This, if for nothing more, than
the persistentdrive the Dons
have displayed all through the
Tourney.
Both San Francisco and Loyola
disdain the fast break, and have
reached the finals with a methodi-
cal, deliberate attack.
A consolation game between
Bradley and Bowling Green is set
for 7 p.m. (CST) with the main
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NEW YORK-(P)--Dropped for
a nine-count in the first round,
Lee Oma, cocky Detroit veteran,
came back to punch out a de-
cisive, unanimous ten-round vic-
tory over Cuba's Omelio Agri-,
monte in Madison Square Garden
last* night.
* * *
KANSAS CITY - (P)- Jack
Shelton's lay-in shot in the last
four seconds gave the Okla-
homa A. & M. Aggies a 40 to 39

victory over the Wyoming Cow-
boys in first round play of the
National Collegiate Athletic As-
sociation's western basketball
playoffs last night.
* * *
SALEM, Ore.-Forrest Evashev-
ski, en route to Corvallis where
Oregon State College needs a head
football coach, got the full wel-
coming treatment yesterday.
But Evashevski didn't say any-

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ball job. OSC Athletic Director
Roy S. "Spec" Keene told him not
to.
It added, up observers thought,
to the probability the one-time
Michigan star would get the job
if he wants it.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Cary
Middlecoff, hottest golfer of the
tour, and E. J. (Dutch) Harri-
son, also of the top five money
winners, blasted six under par
66's for the first round lead of
the Jacksonville open yesterday.
* * *
PHOENIX, Ariz.-(IP)-The Chi-
cago White Sax mauled the New
York Giants, 22 to 13, yesterday
in a game that dragged for more
than three hours.
The game produced 35 base
knocks, three of them home runs.
KANSAS CITY-Oregon State's
Beavers outclassed the Arkansas
Razorbacks, 56 to 38, last night to
join Oklahoma A. and M. as final-
ists in the National Collegialte
Athletic Association's Western
basketball play-offs.
EXHIBITION BASEBALL
Cleveland (A) 10, Chicago (N) 3.
St. Louis (N) 2, Boston (N) 1.
New York (A) 5, Boston (A) 0.

Vaughn Wins
Bowling Title
Vaughan House reigns as
Residence Hall, "A" division,
bowling champions.
In an elimination tourna-
ment, the Vaughan keglers took
the measure of Greene, An-
derson and Tyler Houses, then
soundly trounced the Prescott
squad in the finals, 2537-2475.
Wally Simmons was high
man for the. winners with a
531 score, while Mike Drick-
man bowled a 529. In the meet-
ing with Anderson, Simmons
had a 619 total, Drickman a
536, Al Jokela a 552, and Phil
Genser a 550. The team score
was 2717.
Peter Rosko is the fifth
member ofsthe championship
squad.

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