SATUTRDAY, FEIIUAUY 1, 1949 iE1tCGA DTV PAGE .. . .......... . . .......... --- ..... . ..... . . ...... Nodaks Shutter as Wolverine Puckmen Click, 14-7 WINDY CITY BLOWS IN: 'M' Gymnasts Host to Chicago 'oi-ighi Gacek Pulls 11at Trick In Free Scoring Gane Icemeniw Raze Visitors b)V Snaring Six First P+eriod Goals To Nab Eleventh Season Win Pep Decisions Saddler for World's Title By CAL KLYMAN' A treat is in 'store for followers of the gymnast trail tonight after the swimming meet at the IM Building when Newt Loken and his Wolverine Acrobats play host to the University of Chicago. Not only are the Chicago gym- nasts considered to be one of the top aggregations in the country but most of the team acts in a unique production called the Chi- cagoAcro-theatre which was fea- tured in a recent issue of a widely read national magazine. Citizens of the "Windy City" packed the university theatre foi two performances and de- inanded a third from this troupe who crossed ballet and gymnas- tics to create a new species of fascinating entertainment. This is the brand of competi-a tion which the Wolverine tumblers This impressive list ends with will face tonight. Gordie Levenson, trampoline ex- Sincesthis is the first meet of pert from Hamilton, Ohio and the season, Wolverine potentiali- Fred1 Thom))son. tumblr n aii,- VSU-mIllini TilIt Heads Conference CHICAGO--(P)--Front-running Illinois is host to Ohio State which still has a slim title chance tomor- row night in the feature brush of a four-game Big Nine basketball program. The Illini (6-1) will be battling } to stay ahea4d of second-place Minnesota (6-2) which entertains eighth-place Iowa (1-5). TOMORROW NIGHT'S card aiso sends defending champion Michigan (4-2) to Indiana andI W isconsin (1-5) against North- western (1-6) at the Chicago Sta- dium. Illinois defeated Ohio State (5-3) in a first meeting at Co- lumbus, 64-63, but the Buckeyes really are buzzing at the mo- ment with three players-Bob Raidiger, Dick Schnittker and. Bob Donham -- among the League's top ten scorers. Last Monday night, the Bucks belted Indiana, 72-59, and last Saturday night neatly trimmed Minnesota, 48-39, compared with the Gophers' only other setback of the season, a 45-44 loss at Illi- nois. Michigan's appearance at In- diana is important for the third- place Wolverines, who apparently hold the key to the Conference Championship. MICHIGAN FACES Illinois, Ohio State and Minnesota in three of its last four League starts The tilts with Minnesota Fe 19) and Illinois in a March 7 sason finale will be played at An Arbor, giving the Wolverines a much-desired home court ad- vantage against the two leaders. If the Illini hurdle Ohio State, they may be confident of at least a share of the confer- ence title, with only Iowa, Northwestern and Indiana to meet before the Michigan wind- U up. a a Minnesota, after facing Iowa, t plays Michigan, Purdue and Wis- consin, Besides the invasion of Michigan, the Gophers can wor- ry about formidable Ptwrdue' b~ visit Feb. 26. The Boilermakers from Purdue, who- handed Illinois its only league reversal, 55-53, at La Fay- ette, Ind., skip Conference com- petition tomorrow night for a non-loop date at Michigan State. Sharing Chicago Stadium bill- a ing with the Northwestern-Wis- N consin fray tomorrow, De Paul t and Loyola will renew their sharp , intra-city- rivalry. Loyola (16-3) p whipped De Paul earlier this sea- son. ties as a conference threat will be reflected by their performance with Chicago. Coach Loken can be comfort- ed by the return of five gym- nasts who contributed greatly toI Michigan's capture of third place in the Western Conference last year. Besides Dick Fashbaugh, cap- tam of the team and master of the flying rings, Bob Schoendube, na- tional AAU trampoline champion, an asset to any gymnast team and Bob Willoughby, cheerleader and high bar extraordinaire. In addition Tom Tillman whose versatility is brought out in his mastery of the flying rings, par-, allel bar, and trampoline in whi'h he placed a high third in the NCAA meets last year, and Dave Lake on the trampoline will be the lettermen on hand for the contest. If potential strength in the form of newcomers is criteria for a good team, Michigan fans have nothing to fear. The lettermen are backed up by: Jeff Knight, Glendale, Cali- fornia high school star on the side horse and, Pete Barthell, a fine sophomore tumbler from New Trier High School, Winnet- ka, Illinois. Edsell Buchanan who migrated all the way from Amarillo, Texas, where he specialized in the tram- poline, and Bob Checkley, a local, boy from Ann Arbor whose spe- cialty is the siderhorse will com-1 pete. from River Rouge, Mich. By HERB RUSKIN With the final score looking more like a football result than a! hockey game, Michigan's red hot pucksters submerged a game but outclassed North Dakota squad last night, 14-7. l 7 SPOUTS The Wolverine in the openings I, four more in each periods for their of the season. NINE MAIZE sters shared in honors divided REGIONAI Minnesota 5, IV Gacek, who turnE and added an as, Gordie McMillai and four assists Michigan sta ball of fire an lociked like the s blasted six goals stanza and added DICK HURST, Night Editor h of the other two eleventh victory the NCAA champs had scored again, this time the goal going to and Blue puck- j Bassey with assists bo Starraic and the scoring with Owen McArdle. between Wally Michigan stayed hot and pumped two more tallies behind L HOCKEY Murray before the 11 minute mark Michigan Tech 1. of the second stanza. Grant scored at 6:59 from Burford and ed the "hat trick" Celley sent the count soaring to sist, and linemate 11-3 at :08 of the stanza netting n with one goal a shot from a scramble in front of the Nodak net. Grant got the as- Celtley, and Gacek whipped in one rted out like a Celtley, and Gacek whipped in one d for a while it Millan and Hill ac 10:29. y couldn't be a BOB SCHOENDUBE ... tramp champ I f a the uweiglits uGo 15 wounds Hopeful 'M' Wrestlers Clash with Iowa Today Tucking an improved and im- handled Ed Fox of Northwestern proving record under their belts, 5-0 in the 136 bracket. Captain the Wolverine matmen hit Iowa Bob Betzig will be up for Iowan' City for their third Big Nine meet Ralph Thomas in the 165 pound of the season, as they face a bracket. Hawkeve te mto VY .O John a 1 1 t stopped. They scored three times before North Dakota even could get a shot on goal, Defenseman Dick Starrak drew first blood for the 'M' squad with a long screened shot at 1:25, the assist going to Gacek. Then Gil Burford added another, thirty sec- onds later, on"'a high 10-footer in- to the upper corner. The Wolverines pierced thej weak Nodak defense almost at will, and Wally Grant made it 3-0 at the 7:35 mark with a beau- tiful fake on a two man rush, the assist going to Neil Celley. THEN, THE TIDE turned and' North Dakota got two quick goals, one with the Wolverines short- handed. Forward Jim Medved netted the puck for the visitors at 10:22 and with Connie Hill offl for tripping, "Ginny" Christians closed the gap to one goal with a tally at 11:21 high into the open corner of the net. Their ire raised by the North Dakota flurry, Michigan came back with a three goal outbreak, setting a new 'M' record by net- ting them within 55 seconds of each other. At 15:04 McMillan took the puck on a solo dash and beat Nodak goalie Bob Murray with a good fake. Al Renfrew continued with a goal from close in at 15:481 from McMillan and 11 seconds later Len Brumm made it 6-2 on a pass from Al Bassey. North Dakota closed the first' period scoring at 17:37 on a goal by Christian from Bob Grina. IN THE SECOND period it wasI all Michigan with a stout Wol- THEN BOTH teams cooled off and played pretty. ragged hockey until the end of the session. The Wolverines had several good shots on goal, but the puck just wouldn't go in for them. While the first two periods saw soue excellent hockey on the part of the Wolverines, the third' was marked by wild rushes which saw each team tally four times. NEW YORK-(/P)-Willie Pep, his face a gory mess from cuts around both eyes, recaptured his World Featherweight Title from Sandy Saddler, spindly Harlem slasher, on a unanimous 15-round decision tonight at Madison Square Garden. It was a sensa- tional form reversal of his four- round knockout loss last October. A jam packed mob of 19,097 who paid $87,563 for the first Garden sellout since 1946, roared through- out the 15 savage rounds as the little gamester from Hartford, Conn., survived a furious last- round assault by Sandy. Wild turmoil broke out in the Garden which was loaded with rabid Pep fans as announcer Johnny Addiengave thenunani- mous decision. Pep boxed brilliantly all the way against his heavier punching opponent, bouncing in and out with his dazzling array of jabs, hooks and right crosses. Almost always Saddler was moving forward, measuring Wil- lie with unblinking eyes, but the artful dodger from Hartford was too much for him with his coun- terpunching. Time after time in the thrill- packed brawl. Pep jabbed five or six times to Sandy's face. The pat- tern of the fight was an early lead for Pep, a middle spurt by the free - punching Sandy and then an eye filling display of ring craft by Willie in the final sec- onds. dwest Sail Clubs Confer Here Today ULL SESSION by b. s. brown, sports editor OLD FATHER KNICKERBOCKER is still rubbing his eyes in dis- belief. Seven million people running around never bothered the old boy, but the goings-on in the sports world is enough to make him pack up and head across the Hudson for the greener fields of Jersey. The old codger began to wonder what was happening in the shadows of his many sky scrapers last year when Lippy Leo Durocher took a jaunt across the Brooklyn-Manhattan straits to replace the Jint's beloved Mel Ott, as the Polo Grounds' boss. Dodger fans, who once cheered every antagonistic act by Loqua- cious Leo when the two New York teams tangled> began to ride their former idol. And the Manhattanites, who once called the "Lip" everything but "the guy who married Lorraine Day," hopped on the Durocher bandwagon saying, "Mel is our boy, but he just isn't the manager type.") Sten gel and Bombers Unite Casey Stengel, new MGR of the Bronx Bombers, caused a few more of the fans and Father Knick to shake their heads. Though the animosity between the Yankees and Dodgers never reached the pro- portions of the battle that raged between the two National League teams, there was no love dancing back and forth between the hor- oughs. Yet Stengel, another ex-Dodger chieftian, wore a broad smile when he announced he was moving into "the house that Ruth Built." As if that weren't enough, along came the Tournament of Champions protesting Uncle Mike Jacobs' monopoly in the boxing world. Poppa Knick really began to blink his eyes when he saw the programs Uncle Mike put on in Tex Rickard's gardens to off- set the whopping shows the T of C sponsored over in Jersey. But New York town had a chance to recover from the initial shocks even though Frankie Frisch was finally signed to a Giant coaching job (after he had consistently stolen the coaches' signs for two years from his radio booth) and a couple of cage bribes were revealed. Then came the blow which sent the old man reeling for the count. The grid Dodgers and their AAC cousins from across the watery border, Dan Topping's Yanks, merged into one outfit. Everyone ex- pected the Dodgers to drop out of the loop (they were losing money) but no one ever thought they would become half of a Yankee-Dodger label.d 44 Wolverine Reunion Nixed For followers of the Michigan alumni, the merger had special' significance, because there was the possibility that two Wolverine all- Americans would be carrying on in the pro ranks next year at Yan- kee Stadium in an attempt to bolster the shaky status of the AAC. But because the Chicago Hornets (nee Rockets), now operating be- hind new financial backing, had the opportunity to grab off some of, the Dodger players, the reunion of the two former Wolverines will xlwgsy bu11L'11,1LW1 usu' John Powers at last week drew their first con- Maize and Blue t ference blood downing Northwest- hands full withI eIn 19-9. Scarpello, if the 0 Iowa, led by veteran coach Mike j tier's eligibility ge Howard, started the season with c ned around. only three men who had inter- Byron Lasky will collegiate mat experience. One ofIWolver'ines against these was Joe Scarpello, 174! r, j i , 1 i.. th 175 for thej will have his Hawkeye Joe lympic wres- ets straight- stand for the Iowan Bob pounder who was Olympic alter- nate in that division. Scarpello was also winner of NCAA, NA AU, and Big Nine, titles. He wasout of competi- tionslast semester due to schol- astic deficiencies but may be back in time to compete against Michigan. Besides this weight group Iowa also ..holds the strength at both ends of the weight scale. At the bottom end is diminutive captainj Vern McCoy at 121 pounds and at I the top end is Bob Geigel who I finished third in NCAA Heavy- weight competition. Coach Cliff Keen's Michigan squad was set back in both of their Big Nine starts, but showed great improvement. Illinois floored the Wolverines 25-3 in the first meet of the season, but Purdue, ast season's Big Nine champs, lust squeezed by with a 16-15 vic- tory as the Michigan squad fought back. Phil Carlson, Maize and Blue 155 pounder will face sopho- more George Tesla, who has shown some fine mat work in his first season of inter-colle- giate play. Bob Cunningham will come up against Hawkeye captain Vern McCoy in the 121 battle, while eammate Jack Keller will work ver George Halis in the 128 pound bracket. Wolverine Tom Miller challenges Ed Steinhoff who last week man- Op eg9e I n e heavywergn t dvision while Michigan's Jim Smith will handle the 145 pound post against Iowa's Ken Keith. Frosh Cagers Trip Jayvees It was a day for regrets as the l The Midwestern Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association will begin a series of conferences at the Mich- igan Union Saturdayamorning. This is the third annual meeting of the Midwest Sail Clubs which! boast a membership list of all the Big Nine schools plus Bowling{ Green, Notre Dame, Ohio Wes- leyan, Illinois Institute of Tech- nology and Denison. TIHE NATIONAL Collegiate Sailing Championship which is to be held here June 11-12 will be the main topic under discussion by the group. In addition the associa- tion will elect officers and discuss plans for enlargement of the Sail3 Clubs at the various schools. The National Championship Re- gatta is something entirely new and has all the prospects of estab- lishing a competitive relationship between the nation's Sail Clubs. The Regatta will include many tiew western clubs as well as the old established salt water clubs of the eastern coast. j TURDAY EVENING the growl ISATURDAY evening the group will hear talks from three notable speakers on various phases of sail- ing. not take place. Bob Chappuis, the man with the arm, and Dick4Rifenburg, the man with the hands, were the two in question. But Ray Flaherty, new Hornet mentor, announced that he would use the - Ssinglewing next year and he promptly picked up Chappuis, whose training at Michigan suits hinm for the system. It would have been interesting to watch Chappuis and Rifenburg in action together again. Chappuis lugged the mail (he and Bob Hoern- schmyer did it practically single-handedly) for the Flock last season, while Rife announced that he would sign a contract with the Yanks for the '49 and '50 seasons. Those two lads compiled quite a record" when they played together for the glory of the Ann Arbor institution. In the 1947 grid season, which saw Michigan undefeated in nine games, Rife snared eight passes for 156 yards and three touchdowns. All of the scoring flips came from Chappuis, one for 40 yards in the Stanford tilt, another for 51 in the Hoosier rout, and the last for seven yards in the Wisconsin battle. Yes, a reunion might have been very interesting. Incidentally, sketchy details of Rifenburg's contract reveal that Topping's outfit is going to make an effort to start the husky end on a sportscasting career, possibly with Mel Alien, the ace Yankee announcer. And this brings up another switch in the New York sporting scene. Allen's sidekick, Russ Hodges, recently left the Alabama Yan- kee's fold to take up broadcasting from a new locale - just across the Harlem River in the Polo Grounds, where he'll replace Frisch in airing the Giant diamond activities! - - -t Jayvees dropped an intersqaud game to a fighting frosh team 35- GORDIE McMILLAN 28 yesterday. oreo. . . four assists Though the frosh won, Jayvee *V*j center Bill Eggenburger was thei l ist. Then Gacek added the lid to high scorer of the day, sinking' i It iyV his "hat trick" scoring at 8:47, five field goals for 10 points. assists going to McMillan and Freshman Guard Jim Scala was Renfrew. high scorer for the winning neo- verinc defense holding the Nodaks I phytes as he collected eight count- scoreless. Goalie Jack McDonald MEDVED GOT North Dakota's erIs. looked good on several occasions, fourth goal and then, even though H-e also turned in one of the kicking out several tough shots.r they were a man short, Michigan best all-around performances of 1 Michigan's offense was "on"' got two quick tallies, Burfordand the day. Frosh forward Tom Tier- and the forwards put on a beau- Starrak netting the puck. But nan and center Dick Williams tiful exhibition of passing. from this point it was all North each added seven points to the Gacek got the first of his three Dakota, as they scored three more total. igoals at 4:04 from McMillan. timnes. The jayvees took an early lead He slipped the puck into the The two teams meet again to- butTh twot it in thmeetoadahalto- but lost it in the second hal as lower corner of the net on a night with game time at 8:00 p.m. the freshman turned on the pies- screen shot. Tickets will be on s622 at th2 Coh- sure. The jayvees were leading ath - Less than a half minute later! seurm before the game. the half 17-12,.________________ The Freshmen came close to duplicating their December win which read 37-31. - -- T - "O- r NOW AE TI ME it* CLASSES FORMINC by Henry Karner } N, Ask us about , f -, __fe su._ - -_ _ . : I r Nut, the for hard- economy size, fired plants. For Comfort and Economy We Recommend WHITE OAK SMOKELESS COAL BUSINESS TRAINING Secretarial ...Accounting Cor cer Cours~ e',fading to per- monent positions. Graduates in gcat demand in business an government o fices, at be- c ,nning solaries of $100 to $300 per month. Individual advancement, Col- legc grude student body. 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