FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE m PAGE THREE 1 Michigan, Illini Co-favorites To Cop Big Ten Track Title I By ED SMITH Special to The Daily CHAMPAIGN - Twenty-eight Maize and Blue Thinclads left Ann Arbor yesterday noon, deter- mined to return as Michigan's first indoor Big Ten track and field champion since 1945. The Wolverines are currently rated co-favorites with Illinois to grab the crown, .with Iowa, Indi- ana and Michigan State expected to trail the leaders in that order. TONIGHT preliminaries will be held in six events and semi-finals in two others. Tomorrow the finals will be run in all 12 events. Three of the five returning champions will wear the Maize Gym Squad In Big Ten Meet Today By DICK BUCK The Michigan gymnastics squad enters this afternoon's Conference gymnastics preliminaries at East Lansing in the dark horse, role. With powerful Illinois, Minne- sota, MSC, and a rough Iowa contingent in the running the Wolverines are picked for no bet- ter than third or fourth. * * * COACH Newt Loken has taken a six man-team to Michigan State to compete in six team events and two others counting only toward individual all-around scoring. Defending parallel bar cham- pion and fourth all-around man in the Big Ten Harry Luchs is still on the ineligible list along with Lee Krumbholz, who placed sixth in all-around. Michigan entrants may prove to be the spoilers in their individual events. MARV JOHNSON ranks among thet best on the horizontal bar and parallel bars. He is the Wol- verines' best prospect in the all- around category and will probably go in five events. The Wolverines have a good chance to pick up points in trampoline and tumbling with Captain Don Hurst, Frank 1 Adams, and Jack Eckle in the former and Hurst and Adams on the mats. Hurst has piled up constant firsts and seconds in both events all season. Dick Bergmann has shown great improvement on the flying rings # during the current campaign and foreseeably could edge into one of the top spots. S* * MAIN MICHIGAN stalwart on the sidehorse sophomore Jim Bar- bero is good enough to place if in top form. Chief competition in the all- around field will be furnished by Illinois' terrific trio of Bob Sul- livan, and Gil Brinkmeyer, a top side horse competitor. Ranking with these are Ken Bartlett of Minnesota, 1952 flying rings title holder, and Spartan Carl Rintz. The Hawkeyes of Iowa boast a powerhouse in the tum- bling and trampoline events, sparked by co-captain Robert Hazlett. The preliminaries of the meet will run through tonight and the finals are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. and Blue, John Ross, mile run; Roland Nilsson, shot put; and Jack Carroll, quarter mile. The remaining two Willie Williams, low hurdles; and Joel McNulty, high hurdles, are from Illinois. Nilsson will run into the stiffest competition he has met this sea- son in the person of Illini John Bauer, who tossed the 16-pound ball 53 feet 3 inches last weekend. ROSS WILL BE running against another outstanding field in de- fense of his crown. Illinois' Walt Jewsbury and Ocie Trimble, Jack Hagen of Indiana, Ted Wheeler of Iowa, John Stayton of Purdue, Spartan Jim Kepford, and Michi- gan's John Moule are all topnotch competitors. Gary Scott of Iowa, second last year, will be back to chal- lenge Carrol for supremacy in the quarter mile. Other probale point getters are Meade Bur- nette of Ohio State and Michi- gan State's Lou Vargha. The Wolverines were hurt in this event when Grant Scruggs' pulled tendon failed to respond to treat- ment. Coach Don Canham has not definitely decided, but will most likely run him in the relay to avoid his having to run trials. * * * THE HIGH JUMP, which is wide open, could make or break the Wolverines. At the moment any of four men, Jim Harper of Indiana, Spartan Jim Vrooman, or Michigan's Bob Evans and Dave Heintzman could take the title. The meet may go down to the final race the mile relay, in which returned champion Iowa is fa- vored, before a champion is deter- mined. Though the Hawkeye's have the same quartet that won last year both Michigan's aggregation of Dan Hickman, Scruggs, Bill Bar- ton and Carroll and Illinois' quar- tet of Ralph Fessendon, Joe Cor- ley, Stace Siders, and Williams are rated highly. Big Ten Sets New Schedule MONTICELLO, Ill.-(P)-After 10 months of intermittent wran- gling, Big Ten football coaches Thursday agreed upon 1955 and 1956 schedules while athletic di- rectors ordered basketball coaches to return to a 14-game schedule next season and discard the 18- game, home-and-home schedule used this campaign. The football schedules give In- diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon- sin, Purdue and Northwestern sev- en conference games both years. The other school, Michigan State, Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio State, get six. MICHIGAN STATE, entering Big Ten championship competi- tion for the first time this fall, will have three home games in 1955, its centennial year, and two in 1956. The Spartan school also has two home games in 1953 and 1954 schedules previously drawn. The basketball coaches were d- rected to meet in Chicago March 14 to arrange a 14-game confer- ence schedule for the next two seasons. The maximum number of games which can' be played by each school remains at 22, leaving eight dates for non-conference op- ponents. 'M' Matmen Given Edge In Title Bid By JOHN KOVAL Michigan and Michigan State are co-favorites for the team championship as the Big Ten wrestling finals embark on their two-day elimination tournament at Bloomington, Indiana, this eve- ning. The Wolverine wrestlers are conceded a slight edge by virtue of their 17-13 conquest of the Spartans earlier in the season. IN A SURPRISE move Coach Cliff Keen announced that the Michigan squad will be represent- ed by only seven men. Dick O'Shaughnessy, who has been fighting as a heavyweight all sea- son, has been switched to the 177 pound class and the team will make the trip without a heavy- weight. It has been explained that O'Shaughnessy, who is the de- fending 177 pound champion, has been constantly spotting his opponents anywhere from fif- teen to twenty-five pounds in the heavyweight class and that if he can fight against men of his own weight he would have a better chance to annex another conference crown. Last season on the basis of a strong finish the Wolverine mat- men edged out Michigan State and took second place behind the de- fending Illini. * * * IN ADDITION to Michigan State and Illinois, the Wolverines will face strong contention from the darkhorse entry, Minnesota. The Gophers are also undefeated in conference play although they have not faced any of the three powers, namely Michigan, Illinois, or Michigan State. In what might be the head- line feature of the entire tournament Michigan's Captain, "Snip" Nalon will defend his 130 pound championship. In addition to their two defend- ing titlists, the Wolverines have three other outstanding perform- ers. At 137 pounds Sophomore Andy Kaul, unbeaten in nine matches over the season, will be attempting to wrestle away the title from Captain Pete Compton of Illinois. * * * JOE SCANDURA is another of the outstanding maize and blue matmen. Fighting at 147 pounds, Scandura is unbeaten in confer- ence tilts and has only an early season defeat suffered in a non- league contest with Pittsburgh to mar his record. Rounding out the quintet of Coach Keen's potential champions is Miles Lee at 157 pounds. Lee has only two defeats and one tie in nine matches. IM SCORES BASKETBALL Phi Alpha Delta 44, TuEpsilon Rho is Phi Alpha Kappa 47, Shysters 21 Canterbury 47, Roger Williams 25 Wesleyan 30, NCF 27 Dearborns 65, Cardinals 32 Newman Club 32, Standish Evans 27 Chemistry 32, ERI 26 Lucky Seven 42, Pharmacy 24 Lester Co-op 42, Actuaries 11 PADDLEBALL Phi Delta Theta 3, Triangle 0 Chi Phi 2, Theta Xi 1 ALL-CAMPUS PADDLEBALL FINALS Weinstock-Mitchell 2, Potich-Skala 1 VOLLEYBALL Political Science 4, Economics 2 Museum 6, Public Health 0 Physical Education 4, Minerology 2 Education 6, WRRC 0 Konno Puts OSU Natators in Lead I By DICK SEWELL Associate Sports Editor Special to The Daily IOWA CITY-Ohio State's de- fending champion swimming team moved out in front in the race for the 1953 Western Conference Crown here last night on the strength of Ford Konno's decis- ive triumph in the 1500-meter free style, the only race of the day. The smooth-stroking Hawaiian was followed to the finish line by MSC's Bert McLachlan, Michigan's Captain Wally Jeffries, Buckeye Rocco Cirigliano, Dave Anderson of Minnesota, and Iowan Ross Lu- cas. -* * * TEAM POINT totals going into today's six events are: Ohio State 10, Michigan State 5, Michigan 4, Minnesota 2, and Iowa 1. Konno's winning time was a mediocre 18:37.0. The spunky Buckeye and Spartan McLach- lan stayed neck and neck at the head of the pack for the first 20 lengths, but then Konno gradually pulled ahead to win by 15-yards. Jeffries provided all of Mich- igan's counters with his surpris- ing third place finish. Swimming fifth in his heat (the best seven times were all recorded in this, the second of two heats), the Evansville, Indiana senior moved into the third slot in the final twenty lengths, and beat Cirigliano by ten yards. A' * WAYNE LEENGRAN of Michi- gan won the first heat easily, but his 20:39.9 was not good enough to place among the point-winning first six. Ohio State hopes fora repeat championship were bolstered considerably when Coach Mike Peppe announced that his star free style dashman Dick Cleve- land has recovered from the mumps and will swim in both the 50 and 100-yard free style events. The meet continues today with preliminaries and finals in the 50-yard free style, 200-yard back- stroke, 220-yard free style, 200- yard breast stroke, 400-yard free style relay, and the one-meter fancy diving events, PROBABLY the best race of the meet will find Konno match-' ing strokes with the Wolverines' Burwell (Bumpy) Jones and Ron Gora in the 220. Michigan State's ace, McLachlen should provide a real threat to this talented middle distance trio. Last week in the dual contest in Ann Arbor, Konno nosed out Jones by an eyelash in the final 20-yards. Gora, who had led most of the way, finished a close third. Last year Konno won by better than two and a half sec- onds over McLachlan and Jones. His 2:06.7 stands as the Big Ten record. Today's other five events ap- pear fairly clearcut as far as the winners are concerned, except for the 50-yard freestyle where Mich- igan's swift Don Hill and defend- ing champ Cleveland are expected to battle it down to the last yard. * * * BUCKEYES Jerry Holan and Yoshi Oyakawa are expected to have an easy time of it in the breast stroke and back stroke re- spectively, and teammates Bob Clotworthy and Morley Shapiro rate as co-favorites in the one- meter dive. Shapiro is the defend- ing champion. FINAL MCHL CONTESTS: Sextet Closes Season Against Tech By BOB MARGOLIN Michigan's hockey team takes the ice against weak Michigan Tech tonight and tomorrow night at the Coliseum in the last two scheduled games of the season. Both tilts start at 8 p.m, * * * THE WOLVERINES, currently tied with Denver for third place in the Midwest Collegiate Hockey League, can do no worse than vault into a first place tie with Minnesota if they dump sixth place Tech in both contests. First and second place fin- v ishers in the MCHL will receive invitations to the annual N. C. . A. hockey tournament in Colorado Springs next week- end. Michigan is defending na- tional champ, having won the title the last two years. A split with the Engineers will leave the Wolverines in a second, place tie with North Dakota. How- ever, in view of their two pre- vious wins over the Nodaks, they would probably get the invitation to the tournament. EXCEPT' FOR goalie Willard Ikola, the squad is in good physi- cal condition. Ikola received a painful groin injury in, the sec-, ond McGill game Saturday after- noon which has not been respond- ing to treatment. He started against Michigan State Wednes- day but the pain was too great and he had to leave the game after the first period. If "Ike" doesn't start, his cap- able understudy Bill Lucier will' handle the netminding chores. 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