SAT4ZAY,.M'ARH_ M,1 950t THE MICRIGAN DAILY AZ", Gymnasts Face Powerful Conference 10 Favor CCNY To Win East NCAA Finals OSU, Holy Cross Contest for Third NEW YORK - (AP) -It will be City College of New York's tower- ing height against North Caro- lina State's blistering speed to- night in the finals of the Eastern NCAA basketball playoffs. The CCNY Beavers, seeking to become the first team to win the two big national tournaments in a single season, have been install- ed a four-point favorite despite the Wolf pack's record-smashing performance in the opening game. THE FINALS at Madison Square Garden, an 18,000 sellout for weeks, will determine an Eastern Champion to meet the Western titlist for the NCAA championship here March 28. City College's tall, basket- bopping sophomores are a nat- ural favorite until somebody cools them off. In the last two weeks the Beavers have bowled over the three .top-ranling col- lege teams in the country in their lust for post-season hon- ors. They took the measure of Bradley, No. 1 in the Associated Press poll, and Kentucky, No. 3, in winning the National In- vitation Title last week at the Garden. Thursday night they , adcI cd Ohio State's Big Ten Champions, second in the national rankings, to their growing collection of il- lustrious scalps. Ohio State and Holy Cross will meet in a consolation game at 8:15 p.m. (EST) tonight. The Eas- tern title game will start around 10 p.m. Undefeated Michigan Rated Chance To Capture Crown AP GRAPEFRUIT SQUIRTS: TigerRally Helps Edge Yanks, 10-6 -Daily--Alan Reid THE FINAL CLASP-Newt Loken gives his undefeated gymnastics squad a collective encouraging shake before the Big Ten finals. Weather Hampers Vital Outdoor .baseball Drills* 4.> By HAROLD TANNER It is a well known fact that ath- letic coaches make a practice of moaning about their shortages of talent. While Michigan's baseball coach Ray Fisher is not absolutely ad- verse to moaning of this variety, he is currently bemoaning the difficulty of thoroughly evaluat- ing his material without the ad- vantages of outdoor drills. FISHER, who has had his char- ges working out in Yost Field House for the past month, is hop- ing that the weatherman will co- operate and provide some spring weather during the next two weeks so that the Wolverine nine can en- gage in a few outdoor workouts be- fore the Southern swing starts April 7. The indoor sessions have help- ed Fisher to gain a partial in- sight to the playing ability of his charges but cannot compare Louis to Tell Decision. Today; Snead Leading at Greensboro. with the value of a few outside drills. The pitchers working in the nets for the past month have shown their abilityto pitch to the hitters but have not had to prove their worth when men are on base or in actual game situations. AMONG THE OTHER disadvan- tages of the indoor practices is the lack of normal lighting. With the season opener two weeks off, Fisher, starting his 30th year here, has narrowed down the field for most of the starting positions to only a few men. Many of these posts will be undecided until after the sea- son is underway. Only posts virtually sewed up are the shortstop and second base positions where Captain Bob Wolff and Bill Bucholz, veterans from last year, reign supreme. * *A * THE OTHER two posts in the infield left vacant by Ted Kobrin and Jack McDonald, at third and first base respectively, are almost wide open. Ted Berce and Gerald Dorr, both lettermen are the can- didates for the third base position while Hal Morrill and Ed Frosch- eiser are fighting it out for first base. Two sophomores - Lincoln Painter and Douglas Peck - both rather small, but promising catching prospects, are giving Pete Palmer a run for the start- ing backstop post. Palmer, a junior, saw action as a substitute for Captain Hal Raymond last year. Seven men are listed for pos- sible action in the outfield with three lettermen-Ralph Morrison, Vic Fryling, and Leo Koceski head- ing the parade. Morrison, a south- paw swinger, was a regular last year while Fryling and Koceski saw a lot of action as did Lee Hartzmark. * * * FISHER is also in a position where he can shift Morrill, who started in rightfield during most of 1949, Painter or Bob Fancett to the outer gardens. Fancett is a pitcher with the potential to be- come a good hitter. A big boost for the Wolverines diamond fortunes, however, would be a shift in the weather and some of that sought after sunshine. By MARV EPSTEIN The largest field in the history of Western Conference gymnasts begins competition in the twenti- eth annual Big Ten champion- ships at Iowa City this morning. Michigan and Illinois top the nine-team entry attempting to wrest the team championship from Minnesota which has domi- nated the meet for the last two years. * * * ALTHOUGH ILLINOIS is fav- ored, the Wolverines are rated about on a par with the Illini, and have a better than an even chance to walk off with the honors. Maize and Blue gymnasts have finished third in the Con- Name Rehfeldt Most Valuable Big Tenagter CHICAGO -(P)-Don Rehfeldt of Wisconsin, Big Ten scoring champion, yesterday was named most valuable basketball player in the conference in the Chicago Tribune's annual poll. The 23-year-old Chicago center becomes the fifth player to re- ceive the silver basketball awarded by The Tribune. He was selected by vote of Big Ten basketball coaches and conference officials after being chosen most valuable player by his Badger teammates. * * * REHFELDT is the second Wis- consin cage star to win The Tri- bune trophy. The other was Glen Selbo, who won the honor in 1947. Walter Osterkorn of Illinois was runner-up in the final tabu- lation. Rehfeldt, a senior, scored 265 points this season. He tallied 229 in capturing the scoring title last year. THE TROPHY will be presented to Rehfeldt at a time and place to be selected by Harold (Bud) Foster, Badger Coach, and Harry Stuhldreher, Athletic Director. Previous winners were Max Morris, Northwestern, 1946; Selbo, Wisconsin, 1947; Murray Wier, Iowa, 1948, and Dwight Eddleman, Illinois, 1949. Baylor Whips Cougars, 56-55 ' KANSAS CITY - (P) - Don Heathington's free throw with seven seconds remaining advanced the Baylor University Bears to the finals of the Western NCAA bas- ketball playoffs last night with a 56-55 victory over the Brigham Young Cougars. Heyliger Names Frosh Awards Coach Vic Heyliger recently announced the following Fresh- man Numeral award winners. They are: John Matchefts, John McKonnell, Gordon Naylor, Peter Steuerwald, Harry Stuhldreher, Jr., and Rusell Wivell. ference tournament for the past two years. With an undefeated season behind them, the first one in the history of the sport here, they are slated to show considerableaimprovement over their 1948 and 1949 efforts. Michigan has finished in the upper brackets fourstimesisince the championships were initiated in 1926. In 1931 and 1932, the Wol- vernes came in fourth. Gymnastics as an intercollegiate sport was dropped in 1933, and the third- place team of 1948 was the first entry in Big Ten trials since that time. ILLINOIS AND Minnesota bring the longest string of Conference titles into todays meet. Both teams have a record of five team crowns to their credit. The Gophers, be- sides their victories in the last two years, won also in 1936, '38, and '40. Illinois was Big Ten champion in 1929, '35, '39, '41 and '42. The Orange and Blue get the nod this time on the basis of tre- mendous strength in tumbling and all-around plus good bal- ance in the other five events on the program. But the seven-man Michigan contingent wil present an equally good balance and an equivalent strength in trampoline, and paral- lel bars. * * * COACH NEWT LOKEN will have Captain Pete Barthell and sophomore Connie Ettl working all-around for the Maize and Blue. Barthell will also defend his crowns in the tumbling and paral- lel bars, and will work side horse, flying rings and high bar as well. Ettl will be entered in the high bar, parallel bars, rings and tumbling. Although he has not tumbled in regular meets this season, Ettl has been working out this month on the mats and is pronounced a definite con- tender by Coach Loken. Michigan's strongestbdepart- ment, trampoline, will be headed by defending titlist Ed Buchanan, Gordie Levenson and Tom Till- man. Levenson and Tillman will double in tumbling. Working side horse and high bar will be Bob Checkley. Aiding him in the horse will be Jeff Knight. The championships will conti- nue through this afternoon with apparatus and tumbling as well as trampoline and all-around. LAKELAND - The Detroit Ti- gers pushed over seven runs on five hits in a big sixth inning outburst yesterday and it was enough to beat the New York Yankees, 10 to 6, in an exhibition contest. First baseman Dick Kryhoski, who cane to the Tigers from the Yankee _ in the Dick Wakefield deal, h ghlighted the Tiger up- rising by clearing the bases with a three-run double. LOS ANGELES - An exhibi- tion game between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Browns was called off at the end of five innings yesterday because of rain. The score was tied, 6-6. Roy Smalley and Carmen Mauro homered for the Cubs. Smalley drove in two runs in the second inning and Mauro accounted for three in the fifth. The Browns knocked out Klipp- stein with a four run barrage in the first inning. They collected 10 hits to eight for the Cubs. ST. PETERSBURG-The Bos- ton Braves snapped a nine-game losing streak with a bang yester- day as they handed the St. Louis Cards an 11 to 1 shellacking. The Hub City crew pounded three Redbird flingers for 16 base knocks, including a grand slam homer by Bob Elliott and a three- run double by Sid' Gordon. Gordon also tripled home a run. ORLANDO - The Philadelphia Phillies blasted Ray Scarborough and Lloyd Hittle for 16 hits to crush Washington, 13-3, yester- day in an exhibition game. Fif-, v:-. t . ,. .'' - -M1 .. HIT!! The UNIO N DANCE 7, * TONIGHT,9 till,1,2 Music By FRANK TINKER $1.25 per Couple teen of the Phillies hits were singles, Dick Sisler accounting for four of them. SAN DIEGO - A 450-foot home run by Larry Doby with Bob Ken- nedy on first base, enabled the Cleveland Indians to come from behind in the seventh inning yes- terday and win an exhibition baseball game from San Diego, 6-5. SARASOTA - The Cincinnati Reds combined five hits and three bases on balls for seven runs in the eighth inning to break a 1-1 tie and gain an 8-2 decision over the Boston Red Sox before a 2,092 crowd yesterday at Payne Field. Ted Kluszewski started the ral- ly with a single and then came through with another safety be- fore the inning ended. t's a AUSTIN, Tex.-(P)-Joe Louis, r who is considering a contract to tour with a circus, said he would like to win the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship from Ez- zard Charles in late September. He said he will announce his de- cision on a comeback definitely tonight at Waco. 4. * . "I THINK a comeback to win the Championship would be as great an honor as retiring unde- feated," he told reporters. "Nobody ever has done that." Money may be the biggest stumbling block to a Louis- Charles fight. "I wouldn't take less than 35 per cent," he said bluntly. Louis admitted he was consider- ing a contract to tour Canada with the Dailey Brothers Circus this summer. *, * * HE SAID the tour would end in tim9 for him to train two months -- if he fights Charles. Louis talked to Ben Davenport and Harry Hammill in Gonzales yesterday afternoon about join- ing their show. They made him an offer last year, but he turned it down. Louis confirmed that the re- ported offer of $1,000 a day he would receive from the circus was "about right." Earlier yesterday, in a hurried interview at the Municipal Air- Port here Louis denied his con- ference with the circus men would affect his future fight plans. GREENSBORO, N.C. - () - Picking up where he left off a year ago, defending champion Sammy Snead slammed a 33-33- 66 yesterday to lead the first round of the $10,000 Greensboro Open Golf Tournament by a stroke. The White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., veteran, leading money winner last year and again to date this year, shaved two strokes from par on each nine of the 6,720-yard , Sedgefield Country Club course's par 70 layout, a long, heavy strip after considerable rain earlier in the week. * * * SNEAD, winner of this tourna- ment three times in the 10 years it has previously been held, need- ed all his famed power off the tee to gain his slender advantage over burly Clayton Heafner of Char- lotte. The big blond Tar Heel, who once was a pro at this course, had the day's best nine-hole score, an outgoing 32, and he finished with nine pars for 67 and second place. In third place, another stroke off the pace with 68, came Paul O'Leary, young Bismarck, N.D., professional. He, in turn, was one stroke -ahead of four rivals, only others to better par. 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