URSDAy MARCH 29, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE, W~ith the WOLVERINES by BOB SANDELL Associate Sports Editor Br ans Blank oronto in Opener, 2-0 I 4 T HE BRILLIANT CAREER of gymnastics' "Mr. Trampoline" reaches a dramatic climax this weekend. Chunky Edsel "Tex" Buchanan of the Wolverines will shoot for hIs third straight national collegiate championship, and the indica- tioqs are he's in for quite a battle to retain his coveted crown. It's a little different from two years ago when Buchanan had things pretty much his own way in sweeping practically every possible honor on th6 trampoline. Even last year the competition was stiffer to the extent that Ed lost his Big Ten title, and this year there are at least a half dozen other trampoliners that have an excellent chance to topple k him from his lofty perch in the gymnastics' world. Even the fact that Buchanan failed last Saturday in his second attempt to regain his lost conference championship doesn't detract k mch from this week's show at the IM Building. Ed's unfortunate tumble in the Madison meet is only proof of the fact that in gymnas- tics one doesn't have a bad day ... and get a second chance. The Wolverine gym captain apparently had one of his few poor afternoons. Most of the contenders for Ed's NCAA crown will come from the Western Conference. They will be headed by Bill Harris of Iowa, last year Big Ten champ, Bruce Sidlinger, this year's con- terence winner from Illinois, Dennis Harget of Ohio State, and Verne Evans of Minnesota. Some of these lads have attempted and are successfully perforhing stunts that were unheard of a year or so ago, and therein lies an interesting side of the Bucha- nan story. - Ed doesn't even try to match the difficulty of some of the stunts that his rivals are trying. Instead he strives for what is called in the gymnast lingo, continuity or "swing time." It's been the secret of his success up to now and he will stand or fall with it this weekend. * * * -* IN A WAY ED symbolizes a sort of trampoline philosophy or theory. While the others, like Harris or Sidlinger, strive for more and more difficult acrobatics to impress the judges, Ed works for perfection of a moderately hard routine. With the officials judging performance and difficulty on a 50-50 basis, a miscue on a difficult performance just about knocks the gymnast out of the running. Buchanan has developed the "swing time" routine to its up- ipost. By this is meant that he is about the only known athlete who can run through his one minute trampoline routine without taking a free bounce between stunts to regain stability or attain greater height. His show is definitely a crowd pleaser, and so far it has favorably impressed most of the judges. Last year Ed used a triple twist in his tramp repertoire but de- cided to throw it out this year because the risk of injury and failure was too great. Harris, however, is reported to be working on a back doable full flivvis, in the layman's language-two back summersaults with two twists thrown in. It's almost impossible even to visualize. The trampoline itself is still in comparative infancy in the Western Conference, this being its fourth year of existence as a regular gymnastic event., With some of the aforementioned stunts being attempted, some of the coaches, including Michigan's Newt Loken, were afraid that the event was running away with itself. Loken, in an article for the "Athletic Journal," 4, year ago wrote that he forecasted with "consternation" the fact that even more difficulty would be attempted in the next few years. He felt that "it was time to take stock of the situation ... before an unfortunate accident resulted." The recent Big Ten meet pleased Loken to some extent, though, because it appeared that a leveling process was taking place and some of the dare-devils were beginning to strive for that thing called con- tinuity. In any event'the tramp is easily the most popular event on the gymnastic slate, and the sport would suffer immeasurably if it was thrown out. Getting back to Buchanan, it would be safe- to predict that the Wolverine ace will be out to redeem himself this week after his flop last Saturday in Madison. Ed, who has been unbeaten in dual meet affairs this year, will have the advantage of working on a tramp that is familiar to him. That can be an important factor in many in- stapces. SPRING FOOTBALL BLUES: New Question Marks Greet Oosterbaan * * /I\- By GEORGE FLINT Headaches come in bigger pack- ages than aspirins. In football coach Bennie Ooster- baan's case, the already problem- atic life of a collegiate mentor has been further complicated by a pair C a n d i d a t e s interested in coming out for Spring football practice may pick up. equip- ment at the Field House the re- mainder of this week. Practice will begin Monday afternoon, April 2. -Bennie Oosterbaan of new problems which present themselves for the 1951 season. WHEN OOSTERBAAN greets an expected 100 aspirants at the open- ing spring practice session this Monday, he must deal with the im- ponderables brought on by the draft and by the Big Ten's new freshman eligibility rule. The draft is a problem which WAA Needs Male Helpers For Conclave Michigan men will have the chance of a lifetime to meet 400 charming women from colleges all over the country when the Ath- letic Federation of College Women hold its biennial convention in Ann Arbor April 10 through 13. Highlighting t h e convention will be a co-recreation night to be held at the I-M building, Wed- nesday evening, - April 11. The Women's Athletic Association is acting as the hostess, but they cannot do their job properly un- less they recruit enough men to entertain each of the women rep- resentatives in the corecreational activities planned. * * * THE PROGRAM WILL be ar- ranged so that throughout the evening there will be rotation of the various sports available to the participants, namely badminton, swimming, volleyball, paddleball, handball, squash and square danc- ing, too. Interested men staying in and around campus during the spring recess may contact Barbara Moly- neaux of the WAA or sign up at Barbour or Waterman Gymnasi- ums, at the I-M Building or at the Union bulletin board. compete in varsity athletics be- ginning next fall, Oosterbaan stat- ed that he might well use freshmen in reserve or regular roles during the coming campaign. This, of course, would depend upon the calibre of material on next season's yearling squad. "We've used freshmen on var- sity teams before, so next season won't be an entirely new situa- tion," Oosterbaan said. He was referring to the frequent parti- cipation of freshmen during the war years and particularly in 1945, when the football team was almost an all-first-year crew. Spring practice sessions will be suspended for the vacation period starting a week from Friday, and will resume for a five-week stretch after the recess period. MOST OF THE MEN who'll take part in the workouts will be sec- ond-semester freshmen or sopho- mores from last season's junior varsity. The spring drills give the Michigan coaching staff an oppor- tunity to observe improvement on the part of these men, and check on the possibilities of filling the numerous vacancies left by the graduation of key backfield men and several topflight linemen, in- cluding 1950 captain Al Wahl. Outof Town Gymnasts Drilloday Gymnasts from throughout the country will practice their rou- tines throughout the day at the Intramural Building today pre- paring for the NCAA Gymnastics Meet which begins here tomorrow. Squads from California, Iowa, Temple and Syracuse arrived in Ann Arbor yesterday. and kept large crowds which gathered at the IM Building amazed at their tricky repetoires and polished performances. ILLINOIS AND Florida State, the two meet favorites, are ex- pected to arrive today, as is a potent Southern California ag- gregation. Preliminaries are set for Fri- day. The afternoon session, which begins at 1:30, will consist of rope climb, free exercise, side horse, high bar and trampoline. The 7:30 evening session will include parallel bars, long horse, flying rings and tumbling. PRICES OF admission are 50c for adults and students and 25c for children for the preliminar- ies, and, for the finals, $1.00 for adults, 50c for students and 25c for children. Rollins Hurt in Cup Semis; Ferguson, Dumart Counter TORONTO - (A) - The Boston Bruins upset the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-0, last night in the open- ing game of their semi-final round best of seven national hockey league Stanley Cup playoff series. Lorne Ferguson shot the Bruins into the lead with a goal late in the first period. Veteran Porky Dumart sewed it up with a goal shortly after the third period be- gan. AL ROLLINS, lanky rookie goalie of the Leafs, was injured in the first period and was forced to leave the game. Jack Gallineau, sophomore Boston goalie performed bril- liantly in the nets before 12,919 fans. The Bruins hadn't won a game during the regular season the Maple Leafs Gardens. Ferguson, twenty year old left- winger, got his goal by beating de- fenseman Fern Flaman to the puck when it was sleared from the corner to the mouth of the goal. SHORTLY AFTER Ferguson's goal, Rollins was injured. He strained a knee ligament when he came dashing out almost to his awn blue line to fend off a puck. He collided with Pete Horeck of Boston. BENNIE OOSTERBAAN . .. pigskin headaches again won't actually need solving until fall, but as far as long-range plans are concerned, mobiliza- tion is almost as great an enigma as the proper defense to use against Ohio State. "We'll probably lose some boys;" Oosterbaan said yesterday, "but a fair percentage are in ROTC and we shouldn't be in worse shape than most of our opponents." * * * AS FOR THE freshman rule, which allows first-year men to White Sox Top Yanks; Giants Beat Cards Carrasquel Chisox Star With PerfectDay at Bat WHITE SOX 10, YANKS 8 PHOENIX, Ariz. -(P) - Short- stop Chico Carrasquel enjoyed a perfect day with five straight hits as he led the Chicago White Sox to a 10-8 victory overthe New York Yankees yesterday. The Venezuelan infielder's fifth safety drove in the run which broke an 8-8 tie in the eighth inning. A pair of veteran pitchers, Ed Lopat of the Yanks, and Joe Dob- son of the Sox were hammered hard in the early innings. Lopat gave up seven runs in three frames before settling down. Dob- son was flogged for 14 of the 18 Yankee hits in five innings, in- cluding homers by Bill Johnson and Johnny Hopp. * *' * GIANTS 4, CARDS 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-(,P4)- Aided by third baseman Henry Thompson's three-run inside-the- park homer in the first inning, the New York Giants turned back the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-1, yes- terday afternoon to square their grapefruit league series with the Redbirds at two games apiece. Outfielder Whitey Lockman of the Giants and Catcher Joe Gara- giola of the Cards each made four hits for perfect days at bat. BRAVES 3, PHILS 2 CLEARWATER, Fla. - (R)-Sid Gordon's third inning home run with the bases empty provided the winning margin as the Boston Braves defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 3 to 2 in an exhibition baseball game yesterday. Gordon's blow was hit off Bubba Church. All the Braves runs came at the expense of Church who pitched the first six innings. Ken Heintzelman blanked them the last three frames. * * * BUMS 7, A'S 7 (TIE) MIAMI, Fla..-(A)-The Brook- lyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Athletics played an 11-inning 7-7 tie game. The game was called because of darkness yesterday. Shortstop Tod Davis and out- fielder Sam Chapman hit homers for the A's. Eddie Miksis and Pewee Reese clouted four-baggers for the Brooks. * * * REDS 13, INDIANAPOLIS 2 TAMPA, Fla.-(A)--The Cincin- nati Reds spotted their lineup with rookies yesterday and then proceeded to blast the Indianapo- lis Indians of the American Asso- ciation to a 13 to 2 defeat. Cin- cinnati's hitting hero was rookie outfielder Bob Hazle. He combed Indian pitchers for two doubles and two singles. INDIANS 11, BROWNS 7 TUCSON, Ariz. - (R) - Third baseman Al Rosen smashed a grand slam homer in the ninth inning with the score tied yester- day to give the Cleveland Indians an 11-7 triumph over the St. Louis Browns. It marked the Tribe's sixth straight victory and the fourth four-bagger in five games for last year's American League home run leader. PIRATES 11, CUBS 2 EL CENTRO, Calif.-(,?)-Out- fielder Gus Bell rapped out two doubles today to pace the Pitts- burgh Pirates to a 11-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The Pirates collected 15 hits and the Cubs eight, one of them a home run by second baseman Wayne Terwilliger in the first in- ning. /Or spring .. . 1500-METER RACE TONIGHT: ' Losing NCAA Swim Prominence A? by SANDLER OF Bt DSTON rite c1' g * ct ig ? Perfect to the lost By ROD COOK Thirteen is the traditional un- 'lucky number, and it is certainly doing a magnificient job of up- holding its tradition as far as the Michigan swimming squad is con- cerned. Matt Mann's forces copped twelve NCAA first places from 19-1 27, when the meet first began, to 1941. That, by a simple bit of arithmetic, shows that Michigan was the top college swimming team in the country for twelve years out of fifteen.' * * * THEN CAME the chase for vic- tory number thirteen, which the Maize and Blue gained the hard way seven years and five second places later. That 1948 Michigan team battled an Ohio State squad which was rated about on even terms with them, throughout the season. After winning the Big Ten Crown by about the length of a six o'clock shadow, 62-59, the Wolverines went on to the NCAA meet. There, although they took but one first when the 300-yard med- ley relay trio of Captain Bob Holiday, Bob Sohl, and Dave Tit- tle closed out an undefeated sea- son by getting what was then a new 'meet record, Michigan .won the meet 47-41, nosing out-you guessed who-the Bucks. * * * THAT MICHIGAN squad boas- ted little in the way of National Champions, but much in the way of excellent swimmers and spirit. Getting up to thirteen cham- Featuring Genuine Bu A I I A L pionships was tough, but get- ting out of that bracket is a whole lot tougher. The outstanding reason for the trouble is not the flirtatiousness of Lady Luck, but simply our lit- tle friends down in Columbus, O. ': * * SINCE THE late 30's, Ohio State has been moving more and more into the center of the swim- ming stage, or, more accurately, diving into the middle of it. Buckeye Coach Mike Pepje's stranglehold on the board ev- ent, together with a great many other stars he has gathered to- gether and trained, has put Ohio State very much into the cham- pionship picture. This year, boasting one of the strongest college swimming teams ever brought together into one aggregation, the Buckeyes are Jat Avtozed n0~S1 os9 trying for their third straight NCAA title and sixth in the ser- ies. A YALE TEAM stands in their way, however, which boasts depth and championship po- tential equal to that of the Big Ten Champs. Yale has two NCAA crowns to its credit, in 1942 and 1944, and stands a first rate chance of making it three. The Elis will begin their battle with the Buckeyes starting to- night when the grueling 1500 me- ter race is run off prior to the bulk of the events scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Yale's hopes rest upon Jimmy McLane and possibly John Mar- shall, while Jack Taylor who set a record of 18:38.1 last year is a doubtful starter, for the Buck- eyes. SrACO ... FRONT SLANT .O-BAN-COLLAR Oblique Angle Stays $395 and $495 SAFFELL & BUSH State Street on the Campus Buy Your Student Train Ties Special Rates to Chicago and New York via New York Central A special train consisting of students only will leave Ann Arbor at 7:30 for New York and points East. Reduced rates will also be offered on special coaches on the 1:11 train and 5:27 Twilight Limited leaving Ann Arbor for Chicago. All trains leave on Friday, April 6. The coaches are modern air- conditioned coaches with, reclining seats. The reduced rates below are round trip fares from Ann Arbor, leaving on the SPECIAL COACHES, and returning at your convenience. 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