WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 ,1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE 'ItI19 TH IHGA AT ' i l i{dl i / it;iiVL%1 Sextet .Faces Spartan ousins 1 JONES THE REASON: 'N' Tankers Strong in Individual Medle * * . MSC Contest First of Three Crucial Tilts for Wolverines Three Fraternities Advance In First Place Hoop Playoffs Sigma Phi Epsilon Annexes 44-40 Verdict; Pi Lam, Phi Gamma Delta SquadsTriumph u I By HANLEY GURWIN Vic Heyliger's puckmen, return to Mdiwest Hockey League compe- ]tition tonight when they battle the Michigan State Spartans in a loop tilt at East Lansing. The Wolverines will be trying to return to winning ways again after k two setbacks this past week-end at the hands of the Redmen of Mc- Gill University. On three previous occasions this season, the Maize and Blue found the Spartans to their liking, and defeated them each time. DESPITEdPAST victories of 6- 0 10-2, and 4-0, the Michigan squad will be out to win this fourth game in convincing style. A victory over State coupled with two wins over Michigan Tech this coming week-end in Ann Arbor is needed to assure the pucksters of a tie for first place in the MCHL. Michigan, currently resting in fourth place in the league, has compiled a total of 14 points on 9 wins and 4 losses in confer- ence activity. However, Denver and North Dakota, who rank ahead of the Wolverines in the standings, have completed their schedules. Johnny Mariucci's Minnesota Gophers, now co-holder of first place with the Nodaks, have racked up 17 points in league play and can add two more points to that total if they defeat last place Michigan State this week-end., THE WOLVERINES, by win- ning their three remaining games, can add five points to their total and tie with Minnesota for the ti- tle. By winning only the games with Michigan Tech, the Maize and Blue pucksters will finish the season with 18 points, which is still enough to finish second in the league and guarantee them a spot in the NCAA cham- pionships a# Colorado Springs later this month. Getting by Michigan State is the current problem, however. Des- pite the Spartan's poor record to date, Amo Bessone's icers have on several occasions this season lost extremely close hockey games with strong MCHL teams. LED BY sophomore center John- ny Mayes, the I Michigan State squad forced both Colorado Col- lege and Denver into overtime be- fore dropping decisions to each. Against North Dakota, Mayes scored four goals while his team dropped a 5-4 decision. Adding to Heyliger's worries is an injury to Pat Cooney, left wing on the second line. Cooney was slashed on the foot by a hockey stick in the McGill game last Sat- urday'and will not be playing at peak efficiency tonight. All factors of team strength aside, Michigan is still in no posi- tion to look at past records. After dropping a pair of decisions to a supposedly weak McGill sextet, the Wolverines will have to be at their best if they expect to turn back the Spartans for the fourth time. PAT COONEY ... limping lineman Michigan, Illini Thinclads .Duel This Weekend in Big Ten Meet By JIM DYGERT Rooters for both teams have long awaited the 1953 showdown be- tween the Wolverine track squad and the University of Illinois cinder- men. The duel will take place on Friday and Saturday of this week in the guise of the Western Conference Indoor Meet at Champaign, Il- linois. Michigan, headling the entry list with 34 men, rates ,,as pre- meet favorite because of excellent team balance and great strength in the middle distance runs. * * * * ILLINOIS, however, has taken two straight indoor titles and holds a like record for the 1951 and 1952 outdoor championships. On the basis of dual-meet performances this year and individual cham- pions, Michigan and Illinois are expected to completely dominate the meet. Only Iowa is conceded even an outside chance of upset. The other Big Ten members are concentrating on individual titles, leaving Illinois, the defending champion, and Michigan, runner-up by six points last year, to battle for team honors. Three Wolverines return as defending champions while Illinois boasts two title-holders. For Michigan, Fritz Nilsson will defend his his title in a shot-put; John Ross will try to better his Big Ten indoor record of 4:094 in the mile; and captain Jack Carroll will start the 440 as defending champion. ILINI JOE McNULTY and Willie Williams will be defending their titles in the high and low hurdles respectively. Michigan will coun- ter with the speedy Van Bruner in the hurdles who will also have stiff competition in the lows from Tom Hughes of Purdue and Joe Corley of Illinois. - Nilsson's only serious threat is expected to come from Illinois' John Bauer, who threw the 16-pound weight 52 feet 21/ inches in a dual meet earlier this season Nilsson won last year with a toss of 53-7%. The mile event may produce the feature of Saturday's finals. Back to challenge Ross are such brilliant performers as Walt Jewsbury of Illinois, Jack Hagan of Indiana, Iowa's Rich Ferguson, and John Stayton of Purdue. The 880 will be filled with excellent performers spearheaded by Siders, conference outdoor champion, LeRoy Ebert and Ted Wheeler of Iowa, and Roy Christiansen of Michigan. By PHIL DOUGLIS Sigma Phi Epsilon, Pi Lamda Phi and Phi Gamma Delta fought their way into semi-final first place playoff berths in the frater- nity "A" Basketball league last night as they triumphed in quar- ter-final games. The Sig Eps roared from behind to nip Phi Kappa Sigma 44-40, as Syd Cook led a fourth quarter ral- ly. Cook, high pointman with 11 tallies, was the key man as the Sig Eps hit for 17 points in the final period to Phi Kappa Sigma's 5. The win pairs Sig Ep in a semi- final bracket with Sigma Chi in the first place playoffs. PHI LAMA PHI, sporting a rugged and well balanced attack defeated Alpha Delta Phi by a 43- 34 margin. With Howie Guggen- heim netting 12 points for high point honors, the Pi Lams led all the way. In another first place playoff quarter final game, Pete Paulus netted 25 points to lead Phi Gamma Delta to a runaway 53- 31 win over Sigma Alpha Mu. Although the Sammies were only two points down at the half, they couldn't cope with the Phi Gam attack, and completely disintegrat- ed in the fourth period, being out- scored 15-2. The triumphant Phi Gams will face Pi Lamda Phi in the other semi-final game. THREE SECOND place playoff games saw Phi Delta Theta, Sig- ma Nu, and Beta Theta Pi gain- ing semi-final berths. The Phi Delts squeaked by Lamda Chi Al- pha 32-30, with Rusty Swaney leading the attack. Daily Scribes Journey West For BigMeets Michigan Daily sports report- ers will be there in person cover- ing the biggest weekend in win- ter sports this Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Associate Sports Editor DICK SEWELL catches an overnight train to Iowa City tonight where he will handle the Big Ten Swim- ming Championships. Track expert ED SMITH journ- eys down to Champaign to bring Daily readers direct coverage of the Big Ten Track Championships, while DAVE LIVINGSTON takes care of the Championship wrest- ling festivities at Bloomington. Two writers travel to East Lans- ing, scene of the Conference Gym- nastics Meet and the Michigan- Michigan State basketball game. DICK BUCK will relay the gym- nastics story while DICK LEWIS is scheduled to report the cage action. To complete this rash of in- person coverage, stay-at-homes PAUL GREENBERG and DAVE BAAD remain in Ann Arbor to bring you news of the Michigan- Michigan Tech hockey action. Sigma Nu also won a thriller, edging Chi Psi 34-33, Gary Hobbs notched 11 for the win- ners. The other second place playoff clash saw Beta Theta Pi run all over Alpha Sigma Phi, 49-18, as Dave Preston scored 14 points. In three third place playoff games in the A league, Zeta Beta Tau, Delta Sigma Phi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon emerged trium- phant. Bill Gardner was the big gun for Zeta Beta Tau, as it topped Tau Kappa Epsilon 52-16. Gardner hit for 14 markers. In the other third place playoffs, Delta Sigma, led by Bentley Crane who tallied 13 points, blasted Del- ta Chi 33-22, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon gained a forfeit win over Chi Phi. ' The two fourth place playoff battles on last nights "A" card saw Tau Delta Phi, headed by Dave Sanders who hit for 10, de- feat Theta Delta Chi, 32-28, and Acacia slip by Delta Kappa,.Ep- silon, 24-23. * * * INDEPENDENT SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP Newman Club 56, Standish-Evans 18 Michigan swimmers have held their own this season when it comes to the breaststroke, back- stroke and individual medley events. The individual medley is defin- itely one of the strongest depart- ments on Matt Mann's squad. This is due of course to one man, soph- omore Burwell (Bumpy) Jones, who prepped at Detroit Redford High School. JONES IS perhaps the number one individual medley man in the world today, attested to by the long strong of records he owns, and his unbeaten season record. Mann has two men behind Jones in this event. They are Ed Furdak, a *speedy 19 year old sophomore from Dearborn, and Barry Wayburn, a Detroit soph- omore. Furdak came into his own dur- ing the latter part of the season, taking a first against Minnesota, a second in the Iowa State meet, and a third against Ohio State. WAYBURN, who a few years ago was seriously injured inan auto accident, has come a long way toward regaining his old form. This was in evidence recently when he took a second against Minnesota. Also among his ac- complishments was a third against Northwestern. Backstroke at Michigan can be summed up in just two words -John Chase. The 19 year old junior from Grosse Point is def- initely the Wolverines biggest threat in this event. BUMPY JONES . . . medley master Chase, consistently in the run- ning, looked excellent as he rolled to first places against Iowa State, Northwestern, and Iowa, and sec- ond places against Michigan State and Ohio State. * *.. MICHIGAN has only one othe backstroke threat, and that7 jack-of-all-trades Jones. Mann en tered Jones in this event just one this season, against Minnesota Jones obliged by taking first plao Breaststroke is also rather weak this season, with again only one outstanding man. He i a speedy Detroit sophomore Glenn Miller. Miller swims the breaststrok as did Michigan's former Olymp great John Davies, hanging bac until the final lap, and then pou ing it on to grab first or secon at the finish. This crowd pleaser has shdw this as he took first against Mir nesota, Iowa, Northwestern, sec onds against Michigan State an Ohio State and a third again Iowa State. Behind Miller there-is 17year old Detroit sophomore Bob Maran who took thirds against Minne sota and Northwestern. 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The current edition of Maize and Blue talent opened the cam- paign before the home folks three months ago with a resounding 80- 72 triumph over Marquette, while Monday night Coach Bill Perigo's basketballers rolled up a record 99-81 score in their Yost Field House finale. * * * IT HAS BEEN the 18 contests played between these winning ef- forts, however, that have bothered Perigo-to say nothing of Wolver- ine fans. Michigan notched four victor- ies in that long skein, including only a pair in Big Ten competi- tion. But Monday's high-scoring win managed to give the local cage pic- ture a little brighter hue, lifting the Wolverines out of the confer- ence cellar a half game ahead of their victim, Purdue. * * * PERIGO'S FIVE now has a loop record of 3-13, as against a 3-14 ' mark for the Boilermakers. With two more tilts to be played (at *Michigan State and Ohio State), Michigan holds anmathematical chance to tie Northwestern for the eighth slot in the Big Ten title chase. To accomplish this the Wol- verines would have to cop both ADVENTURE h EUROPE-60 Days $475 (al-fexpense inl. steamer,). Bicycle, Faltboot, Ski, Mo- tor, Rail. Other tours to Latin America, West, Orient and Around the World. their starts while the Wildcats drop a pair. Purdue finishes its season Saturday night at Iowa. With some shooting such as they exhibited against the Boilermakers Michigan's cagers could give both the Spartans and Buckeyes rough times in their coming battles. * * * THEY BLISTERED the Pur- due nets with 37 of 90 field goal attempts for a potent 41.1 per- centage, their best of the season. For the first time Perigo had a chance to clear the bench as nine Wolverines broke into the scoring column, six of them reaching double figures.. Center Paul Groffsky added 15 points to the cause to maintain his spot as the team's top point- getter, while Don Eaddy netted 19 to gain honors for the night and stay right behind Groff sky in season's totals. 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