0 TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE I PAGE THREE Cager, A.P. A-vards Top Honors To Kentucky By The Associated Press New York-t's Kentucky again as the No. 1 college basketball team in the nation for 1952, just as it was in 1949 and 1951. For the third time in four years, Kentucky's Wildcats won the top rank in the final Associated Press ranking poll of the 1951-52 sea- son, easily holding the place they assumed six weeks ago. * * * ONLY ONE other team the 1950 Bradley outfit, has finished on top since the AP poll was begun four years ago. The Wildcats, who breezed through to their ninth straight Southeastern Conference cham- pionship andran their winning streak to 22 straight when they beat out Lousiana State, 44-43, last Saturday in the conference tournament finals, won by a comfortable margin. They polled first place votes of 39 of the 121 sports writers and sportscasters who participated in the final poll and a total of 1,033 points. * * * THE UNIVERSITY OF Illinois, one of the few teams to challenge } Kentucky's right to the No. 1 po- sition this season, finished second with 750 points and Kansas State third with 672. Stop Purdue in Finale, 68-60 badger, Gopher Matmen Expected to Stay Buried- * * * * Skala Scores 23 Points Illini Clobbe To End Michigan Career Lowl 'Cats; r 33Y DICK SEWEL Michig an's much abused basket- ball team put a successful end to the 1951-52 campaign with a 68-60 win over Purdue at Yost Field- house last night. The easy triumph lifted the Wol- verine cagers out of the Big Ten cellar and into ninth place with a conference record of four wins and ten losses. At the same time the defeat left the Boilermakers in sole possession of last place. CAPTAIN Jim Skala, playing his final game in a Michigan uniform, poured 23 markers through the hoop to lead both squads in the individual scoring column and boost his three year varsity total to 508 points. The lead changed hands five times during the first half. An over-the-head bucket by Ray Pavichevich put the Wolverines ahead, 29-27, a minute before halftime and7'Purdue never caught up. Another basket by Pavichevich and three points by freshman cen- ter Paul Groffsky helped the Maize and Blue to a 34-30 margin at the midway mark. ' IT WAS MICHIGAN'S. strong third period spurt that put the game on ice. With Skala pacing the way the Wolverines built their lead into a comfortable 13-point margin late in the stanza before a last second fielder by Carl McNulty cut the lead to 52-41 as the buzzer sounded. The Boilermakers outscored the Wolverines 19 to 16 in the final period, but the damage had been done. McNulty's inability to maintain his 20-plus average greatly hin- dered the visitors. John Codwell, Milt Mead and Skala all shadowed the Boilermaker ace, holding him to only two points in the entire first half. * * SHOT AVERAGES for both quintets were good. Michigan fired 27 of 79 attemptsthrough the nets for 34.2 percent, and Purdue man- aged 30.9 percent from the field. Don Eaddy followed up his fine showing at Michigan State Satur- day with 19 counters, 14 coming on long two-handed set shots. His effort also topped the Boilermak- ers' best. McNulty and forward Take Crown .. Champaign, Ill ,-Illinois rolled up its biggest score of the season in drubbing Northwestern 95-74 last night and won its second successive Big Ten basketball title as Wisconsin upset Iowa 78-74 at Iowa City. The Illini victory, one of the team's most impressive of the season, was its 13th against one loss. Iowa, ending its Big Ten campaign, wound up with an 11- 3 mark to take second place. Illinois, ranked No. 2 in the AP poll this week, was paced by cen- ter John Kerr, Sophomore Kerr funneled in 34 points while play- ing only three full quarters. It was the best sharpshooting of his col- legiate career. INDIANA 70, MSC 67 Bloomington, Ind. - Fourth- place Indiana edged fifth-place Michigan State last night, 70-67, in the Big Ten basketball windup for both teams. Indiana refused three free throws in the last minute after breaking the tenth tie of the game. BADGERS 78, IOWA 75 Iowa City, Ia.-A redhot Wis- consin team upset Iowa 78-75 last night and ended the Hawkeyes' chances of sharing the Big Ten basketball title. -Daily-Bruce Knoll THROWS STONE-Milt Mead, 6-7 Wolverine center drives un- derneath for a final quarter bucket. Trying to stop the Bay City sophomore is Jim Stone, a 6-3 reserve forward for Purdue. (This is the first of a series of three articles to deal with the forth-1 coming Big Ten Wrestling meet to be held this weekend in Ann Arbor.) By HERB COHEN The Big Ten's wrestling teams can be divided into three classes this year-the excellent teams (Michigan State, Ohlo State, lli- nois and Michigan), the good teams (Indiana, Iowa, Purdue and Northwestern), and the u n - knowns (Minnesota and Wiscon- sin). This series of articles will try to treat each of these categories in a separate article, the first of which will deal with the Badgers and the Gophers. MINNESOTA, although not a" likely title threat this year, has come up with, a team that should fare decently in the Big Ten meet. The Gophers have managed to break even in their first six meets, and though they have met defeat three times, the losses were at the hands of three of the country's best teams, Ohio State, Iowa State and Iowa Teachers. Coach Dave Bartelma has come up with a team with very little varsity experience before this year, but one which possesses great potentialities. WIT/r# 4 GU W OR How do you know when your best foot's forward? ' Once there was a Senior who ( It permits certain liberties "as Sly. (Look, this is a sry with the truth.) He'd call up a Girl, stamn. mer incoherently through the Preliminaries, gurgle help. lessly through the Bicuspids, and hang up. Dateless. One day his room-mate took him in hand. "Herman, old buddy," he said, ... and unfolded a Plan. Next day the Big Girl on Campus got a Telegram. A terse message. Simply: "Will pick you up at eight P.M. Friday. Regards. Herman H. Glockenspiel." She was In-j trigued. Friday evening she was bibbed and tuckered and waiting when Herman sheep. ished up the steps of her Sorority house. "Are you Herman H. Glockenspiel?" she cooed. "Ulp," said Herman. "Oooooh," she said, taking his arm, "I just love Orig- inal, Masterful Men." Herman was on his way. Now Herman has more dates than the Syrian Desert. ,Still makes 'em all by Tele. Igram. No fool, this Herman. When you've got a Date in mind - Whether it's with the Campus Queen, a Smith Siren or a Big Moment Back Homne -a Telegram has the Man-of-the-world Ap- proach that pleases. Equally effective, too for birthdays, Mother's Day and Easter Messages, congratulations, or yaps to Pop for Cash, or to Sis to Airmail you The Baggy Sweater. Just call Western Union and see. SERVING YOU THE KEY TO TOP VALUES DICK. MUEL16ER, a 123 pound freshman from Minneapolis heads the list of outstanding Gophers. He is undefeated in. dual meet competition this year, and prob- ably will be one of the most pro- nounced threats to Michigan's Larry Nelson, Conference cham- pion at that weight. Willis Wood, heavyweight newcomer, and Don Zastrow, the only senior on the squad, are other very prominent threats in the Gopher lineup. Wisconsin likewise could do some heavy wrecking in the meet this weekend. THE BADGERS are paced, as they have been for two years, by two-time Big Ten champion Don Ryan. Ryan before this year was undefeated in 19 straight dual" meets over a two years span. He stretched that out for six more meets this year before he finally met defeat last month at Colorado State. I POTENT MERMEN: Michigan Pins Hopes on Davies, Eliot Jack Runyan each to the losing cause. contributed 14 z, 2. , , 3. 4. 5. 6. s. s. 9. 10. Records Points Kentucky (39), Illinois (10) Kansas State (1) Duquesne (2) St. Louis (1) Washington (1) Iowa (1) Kansas (8) West Virginia (7) St. John's 28-2 18-2 17-4 20-1 21-5 24-4 19-2 20-2 22-3 21-3 * * * BIG TEN STANDINGS W L Illinois 12 1 Iowa 11 3 Minnesota 10 4 adiana 9 5 mSC 6 8 Ohio State 6 8 Wisconsin 4 9 Northwestern 4 10 MICHIGAN 4 10 Purdue 3 11 1033 750 672 565 453 403 377 355 266 213 Pct. ,.923 .786 .714 .643 .429 .429 .308 .286 .286 .214 i c l f i 1A f r F C (Editor's Note-This is the second in a series of stories spotlighting the Western Conference swimming meet, scheduled for March 6, 7, and 8 at East Lansing, Michigan.) By HERB NEIL Strength and weakness are con- trasted in the Michigan breast- stroke and backstroke departments on the eve of the Big Ten cham- pionships. The Wolverines boast two na- tional champions and the defend- ing Big Ten winners in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke races, Stew Elliott and John Davies, re- spectively. * * * ON THE BACKSTROKE side of the picture the Wolverines have been able to garner first place in only three dual meets this season. A close, fast race is expetted in the 200-yard breaststroke when Davies, Iowa's Bowen Stassforth, and Jerry Holan of Ohio State tangle. Holan finish- ished second to Davies in the 200 last year in the Big Ten cham- pionships. Stassforth, who was not in school last year, defeated Davies when the two met at Iowa City ten days ago. The Iowa star's time of 2:19.7 in downing Davies bettered the American record for the dis- tance in a 50-yard pool. * * * AGAINST Ohio State last week Davies inched out Holan on the last stroke with a time of 2:16.3, the best time recorded in the Con- ference this year. The race was swum in the usual 25-yard pool. In the 100-yard breaststroke the Wolverine co-captains, El- liott and Davies, will be out to duplicate their feat of 1951 when Elliott won the race and Davies finished right behind in second place. Both Stassforth and Holan will challenge the Wolverines in the shorter race; but both the oppon- ents are better at the longer 200- yard event. Illinois' Jim Pendle- ton is another potential scorer in either the 100 or 200-yard breast- stroke. THE BACKSTROKE seems to be all Ohio State with defending champion Jack Taylor leading the Buckeye contingent. Taylor took both the 100 and 200-yard races in last year's meet after garnering the 1500-meter free-style event. Taylor should have no trouble in winning both races again this year, and probably will break his own 200-yard Conference record of 2:08.7. The Buckeye backstroker's best 200 time for this year of 2:07.1 is nearly five seconds better than the second best in the Conference. TAYLOR'S CHIEF competition will most likely come from his teammates Yoshi Oyakawa and Joe Prata. Prata, who placed fifth in 1951, was the last of four Buck- eye backstrokers who scored in the 200 in last year's meet. The Wolverines' best oppor- tunity to score in the backstroke evehts rests with Bumpy Jones, who holds the third best time for the 200 thus far this season. However, the versatile Jones has swum the backstroke in just one of Michigan's meets this season and may confine his swimming to the free-style and the medley this weekend. (Tomorrows Divers and Medley) PURDUE Runyon F Calhoun F Stoner F Schorr F McMullin F McNulty Brewster C Toeppe (G Blind G Banas G Server G Dermody Totals........ 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