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 ______ 0 Close Competition Predicted As. Tumblers Face Badgers I 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. i i 'I 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. . MAN ABOUT TOWN *pl9. hh~ Uh Jat61he Youth Has Its Day as Loyola And Dons Clash in NIT Final v 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 explosion at 8:45 p.m. Always a favorite . . . pullover and sleeveless classics of 100% all wool. Trim looking and long wearing. Real values at 2.95 to 7.95. RAB I DEAU-HARRIS 119 S. Main I ...... FAMOUS FOOD AT A FAMOUS PLACE # SSs .~ FOR LENT AP Sports Round-Up 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- -........ Mmm All-Campus Rendezvous of SUMMER ESCAPADES Learn About These Summer Projects - thing in public about the foot- 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. i w * * * 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. 126 E. Huron I I SONG OF THE STREET 0 \ DANS LES RUES 4 ENGLISH TITLES Why Not Try a Trout Dinner! We're featuring tempting fish dinners during Lent that are bound to satisfy your tastes. Drop in today for your favorite salt or fresh water fish served the way you like it. ADEQUATE BANQUET FACILITIES are always avail- able for groups up to 250. 17finff ALLENEL HOTEL SAM'S STORE 122 E. Washington Snappy dress pants of Cavalry Twill. Part wool in blue and tan at one wonderful low price of 4.88. 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