THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950 T HE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE - Suprunowicz Leads 4m Cage Scoring Parade Michigan To Face Top Canadian Hockey Team wolverine Natators Major Factor - -, In West's Defeat Of Eastern Team VanderKuy's Pace Near 'Supy's' 117 Point Total .yam By KEN BIALKIN Michigan's natators, who spent .the Christmas recess in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were a major ~factof in the West's victory over the East in the East-West swim ~ meet held in that city on Decem- ber 25. The only blot on the swimming team's sojourn in the sunny south came in the form of rain which came down steadily for all but 'three days of their stay. Mann's mermen returned to Ann Arbor in top condition, tanned, cheerful and ready for their open- ing Conference meet against Purdue's Boilermakers which will be held a week from Saturday in the I-M pool. In the feature East-West meet held on Christmas day, the West overpowered the East team sweeping seven of the nine events. The 50-meter free- style and the 200-meter free style relay were the only events which were won by the East. BUT RAIN or no rain Matt YOUR PORTABLE 1.11 THE NEW GRAY MAGIC ROYAL PORTABLE TYPEWRITER", as low as 9.50 down, twelve months to pay EOffice Equipment Co. 215 E. Liberty i the headquarters for , SERVICES * Phone 2-1213 REPAIRS RENTALS KUOH N'S JANUARY The West took the 400-meter breaststroke, the 50-meter back - stroke, the 200-meter backstroke relay, the 400-meter freestyle, the 200-meter breast stroke relay, the 300-meter medleyerelay, and the 400-meter freestyle relay. MICHIGAN'S breast srokers, John Davies, Stu Elliot, Bill Austin and Charlie Moss completely dominated that event, while Moss and Bernie Kahn, backstroker, together with Chuck Thomas of Purdue made up the winning team in the 300-meter medley relay. Gus Stager and Matt Mann III, finished second and third respectively in the 400 meter freestyle event. Stager and Mann, together with Luis Child were three of the five fastest swimmers in the quarter-mile race. Matt Mann, Wolverine coach said that he was highly pleased and well satisfied with the show- ing the team made. Mann singled out for praise Gporge Eyster, Michigan's number bne diver who performed beautifully. The time spent at Fort Lauder- dale gave Michigan an oppor- tunity to see swimmers from all over the country and get some indication of the strength of this year's opponents. Iowa entered a very good team in the 200-meter free style relay. "M' Favored In Conference Mat Opener If recent records are any indi- cation of current sports trend, Michigan wrestlers should defeat defending Conference champs Purdue, in the Wolverines' home mat opener, this Saturday. Since 1943, Michigan has wrestled Purdue six times and has emerged with four victories. The record is doubly good due to the fact that in this period, Purdue has won the Big Ten title three times. * * * IN 1945, the Wolverines de- feated Purdue and the Boiler- makers went on to win the con- ference crown. In 1948, the act was repeated as Michigan took the duel meet and Purdue took conference laurels, with Michigan finishing a close second. Purdue took the title by a one point mar- tin over the Wolverines. Last year Michigan squad dropped a close match to the Boilermakers, 16-15, as the Pur- due men went on to another title and to national honors. Purdue will invade Ann Arbor with a star-studded line-up head- ed by two Conference champs, Arnold Plaza and Joe Patascil. Plaza has won 21 straight duel meets and was captain of last year's wrestling All-American team. He made a clean sweep of all major collegiate and amateur championships. He is easily the outstanding 121 pound college wrestler in the nation. Pastascil -von his championship in tfie 128 pound weight. Charles Has No Title Contender WASHINGTON - (A) - Ezzard Charles, the World's Heavyweight Boxing Champion as recognized by the National Boxing Associa- tion, finds himself in the position so long held by Joe Louis - no logical contender for his title. The N.B.A. issued its quarterly ratings yesterday without naming a single fighter it deems worthy to challenge Charles. Mack Suprunowicz, Michigan basketball's individual scoring champion for the past three years, has once again assumed the role of pacemaker of the Wol- verines. Unofficial statistics compiled by The Daily for the nine games played to date credited the fiery forward with 117 points for an average of 13 per contest. WITHIN EASY striking dis- tance of that mark was center LeoVanderKuy who already has held the lead himself five times this season. He has collected 112 of Michigan's markers. A good balance of scoring prevails among the next four player's on the list. Hal Morrill continues to be a big factor at guards with 81 points. Don Mc- Intosh is close behind with 76, the surprising Chuck Murray has 52, and Jim Skala is sixth with 41. These six men have played most of Michigan's basketball so far this season. IN THE MATTER of field goals Suprunowicz is far out in front with 48, 11 more than his nearest rival VanderKuy. The latter leads in free throws converted having made good on 38. The best percentage at the charity stripe goes to Morrill, however. He has missed only three times in 22 attempts. The next most consistent Wolverine is Murray with 24 of 35 success- ful. Michigan has outscored its op- ponents 508 to 470 while winning six and losing three. Oddly enough the team has made only two more baskets than the op- position, but has received and converted more foul shots. The team totals show 187 field goals, 221 attempted free tosses, and 134 made for a percentage of .607 from the line. The opposi- tion has been slightly more ac- curate in this respect with a .614 mark. The Wolverines face their first Western Conference test this Sa- turday at the Yost Fieldhouse when they meet Iowa's Hawkeyes, perennial tough customers on the hardwood. LateSports NEW YORK-(A)-Tony Les- wick's goal early in the third period gave the New York Rang- ers a 2-1 victory over the De- troit Red Wings last night and moved them into sole possession of second place in the National Hockey League. * * * TORONTO-(MP-Gaye Stew- art's third-period tally while the Toronto Maple Leafs were two men short gave the Chicago Black Hawks a 4-4 tie with the Stanley Cup Champions in their National Hockey League Game last night. NEW YORK-(AI)-Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, the fellow who got up from a sick bed to lead the New York Yankees to the American League pennant, made sports' greatest comeback in 1949. Twenty of 93 sports writers who answered the Associated Press' annual year end poll voted for DiMaggio, who did not even get into a league game until June 28. The Jolter barely nosed out the Yankee team as a whole, which clinched the pennant on the last day of the season after trailing the Boston Red Sox by a full game two days before the end of the campaign. Nineteen writers nodded toward the Yanks, but in the process many of them noted that they were voting for the team with a big assist to DiMaggio. To make the Yankee comeback monopoly almost complete, Manager Casey Stengel received six votes to tie for third place with the Louisiana State football team. NEW YORK-(P)-St. John's of Brooklyn, a smooth, poised club with victories over the winners of last season's two big national tournaments, yesterday was rank- ed the top college team of the na- tion in the Associated Press' first basketball poll of the campaign. The Brooklyn Redmen, who were toppled from the unbeaten list last night by a red hot C.C.N.Y. quintet, 54-52, nosed out Ken- tucky's once-beaten Wildcats in the battle of the ballot box. St. John's (12-1) received 30 first place votes and a total of 696 points from a nationwide panel of 88 sports writers and sportscasters to beat out Ken- tucky (7-1) by 66 points. The Blue Grass lads were accorded 11 first place ballots and a total of 630 points. Bradley (10-2) a pre-season favorite for top ranking, was vot- ed third place with 485 points, followed by Long Island Univer- sity' "B1,aQkbirds (10-1). L.I.U., team with plenty of height, col- lected 470 points and 18 first place nominations. Bradley, incident- ally, got only two No. 1 ballots but was supported strongly for second and third. EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY Your training, interest in psychology, sociology, edu- cation, nursing, fine arts, or social sciences may qualify you for career as psychiatric aide. 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This year the Carabins have another crack outfit as they are currently tied for first place with the University of Toronto in the Canada's Intercollegiate Athletic Union Hockey League. The two squads have met twice so far with Montreal blanking the Blues, 5-0, in the first contest and then succumbing to the Toronto Sextet 12-7 in a wild- scoring second game. On the basis of these two games and Michigan's hotly-contested battles with Toronto before Christmas, the weekend tussles shape up as a pair of extremely fine hockey exhibitions. The Carabins, as other Cana- dian squads, have the advantage of being able to use their fresh- men and graduate students and consequently their team is studded with three and four year veterans. On the Wolverine side of the picture unofficial statistics com- piled over the first seven games reveal that the Maize and Blue will have to bank heavily on their talented first line of Neil Celley, Wally Grant. and Gil Burford to offset the expected power of the Montreal Lean. Led by Burford's 12 goals and 10 assists, tLhis trio has amassed 29 of the total of 44 markers gar- nared by the Wolverines thus far. Celley has an 18 point total on 10 tallies and 8 assists, while team Captain Grant has successfully netted the disc seven times and helped on nine others. 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