THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREU uck sters in Crucial Contests * * * * FIRST DUAL MEET: Wolverine Thinclads Face Notre Dame 4 * * * [umping Wolverines Face eague Leaders at Coliseum (Continued from Page 1) e also been sparkplugs for Nodaks. Finkeistien has al- ed only 44 goals for a 3.1 av- re in league play. an all out effort to win these clutch contests, Coach Hey- is revamping his lineup again. weekend the line combina- ;, originated after Earl Keyes' >ility ran out, failed miser- at Minnesota, scoring only goals in the series and one .ese was notched by defense- Reg Shave. * * * VI HAAS, who has been per- ing as the center of the sec- line, is being moved up to irst combination. He will play wing alongside Johnny Mat- s and Doug Philpott. oug Mullen, after playing S er on the third line all year, been transferred to the sec- line for tonight's contest. will skate between fleet rge Chin and Pat Cooney. Ily Mascarin, Ron Martinson Bert Dunn make up the third ination and Alex McClellan, Paolatto and Reg Shave will ill time action on defense. * * * YLIGER, however, expects to hie first two lines most of the time be a Jim and if the game turns out to tight one in the late stages, Haas will probably take a regular turn on the defense. Willard Ikola, as usual will be tending the nets. He has allowed an average of 2.8 goals per game.1 In another important MCHL series this weekend, Denver hooks up with Minnesota in a pair of one point games. * , ,*, North Dakota Minnesota Denver Michigan Colorado Michigan Tech Michigan State w 11 12 10 7 4 2 1 L Pts. GF4 3 17 71 4 15 64 4 15 62 4 10 52 10 8 50 9 3 37 12 1 24 GA 44 39 39 34 55 62 59 Games this weekend: North Dakota at Michigan (2 games) Denver at Minnesota (2 games) Western Ontario at Michigan State (2 games) KEN JOHANNSON ... Nodak center 'M', Gophers, Wildcats Vie inGymnasticsMeet An Open Letter to the Michigan Hockey Team What's happening with you guys, anyhow? You've been playing so poorly that the national hockey championship you've held for two years goes down the drain unless you win these two games from North Dakota. It's easy to see that, just by looking at the standings. It's a bit more difficult to understand why you've lost three of your last five games. If you can still play hockey, now is the time to show it. A lot of fans are beginning to doubt it. You've scored only six goals in the last three games. Four of those six came against Michigan State-a bunch of hacking hamburgers that don't belong on the same rink with you. That was your last home appearance, and not too pleasant, at that. The defense was im- mobile and lackadaisical. The forwards wouldn't backcheck or fore- check, and your passing was wilder than a hog with a shotgun. * * * * PLAY THAT WAY against the Nodaks, and Cherski and Johann- son will have you in a hole before you know it. According to the latest summary from Bob Bowie, your sportswriter friend in Denver, Cher- ski and Johannson were fourth and fifth in league scoring. That pair is right behind Minnesota's Maysich, Campbell, and Daugherty ... the trio that made things so miserable for you at Minneapolis last weekend. Some observers say you really tried hard up there, but the puck just wouldn't go in the net ... either because playing hard was so strangely new, or you wasted half your energy in first fights. (The crowds like fights, but try to save them for the last part of the game. If you. can't win the game, you can always go to fighting.) Anyway, the Gophers let you have only two goals in two games. They whitewashed you the second night .. . the first time any team has shut out Michigan since 1946. * * * * SURE, YOU'VE BEEN HURT by the loss of McKennell and Keyes, but that won't go into the record books. Ten years from now the record will simply say whether Michigan lost to North Dakota; it won't say why. If you lean on excuses, you're no better than Cheddy Thomp- son and his Colorado Cry Babies. They spent all last season com- plaining about their bad luck. They're likely laughing up their sleeves right now at the way Michigan has flopped after losing two players. There's a very thin line in any sport between champions and contenders. Those on top are there because they want to win. The also-rans just don't give a damn. This North Dakota series will separ- ate the champions from the also-rans. A lot of people are won- dering which you'll be shortly after 10 p.m. tomorrow night. Respectfully, Ed Whipple Sports Editor Indiana Retains Cage Lead In Struggle for Big Ten Title Phi Delts, Allen-Rumsey Record Top Relay Times Coach Don Canham's star-stud- ded track squad will depart today for Notre Dame to open tonight its first dual meet of the season, and its first indoor competition against the Irish since 1944. The last encounter between the two teams, an outside event last spring, saw the Wolverines on the long end of a lopsided 92% to 39%/ score. The Irish squad, however, is much stronger than last year's competitors. * * * THIS YEAR the Irish have made a sprinting start with an easy triumph over Purdue's thin- clads. But the Wolverines have displayed balance and power in For that Hard-to-find TEXTBOOK try Michigan is both favored and rated underdog in tonight's tri- angular gymnastics meet with Northwestern and Minnesota at Northwestern. The \Wildcats do not have an outstanding man in any event on their team who can be counted on for sure points, and the Wolver- ines are picked to come out on the! winning end of this one. * * * WINNING all their meets so far this season Minnesota has per- haps the second strongest squad in the Big Ten, ranking behind top-notch Illinois which downed Michigan, 63-33. Leading the Gopher contin- gent is Ken Bartlett a good all- round man. Bartlett took eighth on the horizontal bar in last year's Conference meet and was fifth in the all-around class. The side horse is Bartlett's second best event. - early season relay meets to rate a bookmaker's edge over the Fight- ing Irish. Leading the Michigan cinder contingent are three defending Big Ten conference champions and Olympic team members. Captain Jack Carroll, who ran for Canada at Helsinki, will start the 440; and Canadian John Ross, who set the Big Ten record of 4:09.4 for the mile last year, will go to the post in the mile. Sweden's Fritz Nilsson, defend- ing Big Ten shot put champion, will compete in his specialty. Be- sides this trio, Michigan has strength in the hurdles in Van Bruner who took the high and low hurdles in the Michigan AAU meet two weeks ago and retained his high hurdles title in the Michigan State Relays last week. * * * WITH AN INDOOR mark of :48.9, Carroll is favored in the 440. Ross is expected to receive his strongest opposition from John Alexander, Notre Dame's out- standing miler, while Nilsson will be tested by the Irish's best, John Cunningham, in the shot put. Geoffrey Dooley and Roy Christiansen, both capable of running 1:57 or better in the 880, will match strides with No- tre Dame's Al Schoenig. The Irish, with Jim Harrington and Joe Springer, are favored in the pole vault, Michigan's weak spot. Wolverine leapers Bob Evans, Howard Liverance, and Dave Heinzman can be expected to meet strong opposition in high jumper Tom Hassinger who has topped six feet, three inches. * * * JOHN MOULE, a miler, will team with Lynch and Bob Hall in the two-mile for his initial start in the longer distance. Sophomore dashmen John Val- lortigara and Ross Coates and junior Dave Stinson will repre sent a young but competent en- try in the 60-yard dash. The other chief Minnesota threat is Verne Evans, much im- proved over last season when he took fifth in his specialty the trampoline at the Big Ten clash. * * * COACH NEWT LOKEN has im- provised some changes in the Michigan lineup in a desperate hope to fill in the gaps left by the ineligibility of Lee Krumb- holz and Harry Luchs. Trampoliner - tumbler Don Hurst will give the flying rings a spin while rings specialist Dick Bergmann will try his luck on the parallel bars. Promising young gymnast Frank Barbero takes a turn on the high bar besides the side horse on which he is fast becoming adept. STILL MICHIGAN'S top threat Mary Johnson will operate in five events. Johnson is noted for his prowess on the parallel bars and high bar. The Wolverines now possess a 3-1 record in Conference dual meets but have a rough road to hoe facing Minnesota today and a good Michigan State team in re- maining meets. By WARREN WERTHEIMER Phi Delta Theta ran a 1:43.7 half mile relay to post the best time in the qualifying trials of the annual I-M relays. Allen-Rumsey was first in the residence hall division as four fraternities and four residence hall squads qualified for the finalshto be run February 28, the night of the Michigan-Ohio State track meet, * * * WITH TOM Edwards, Jan We- genka, Dick Cota and Ted Kress running, the Phi Delts finished a half second ahead of second place Sigma Chi. Sigma Phi Epsilon and Pi Lambda Phi were the other two fraternities to make the finals. I-M Scores BASKETBALL Law Club 61, Alpha Phi Omega 56 Nu Sigma Nu 39, Phi Delta Chi '7 Tau Epsilon Ro 16, Alpha Chi Sigma 7 Delta Sigma Delta 38, Alpha Kappa Kappa 27 MCF 29, Roger Williams 12 Lester Co-op 39, Standish Evans 25 Newman Club 59, Hawaians 18 Reed's Raiders 31, Cardinals 27 Chemistry 46, Dearborns 32 Trojans 52, Pharmacy 13 PADDLEBALL Theta Xi. 3, Phi Kappa Tau 0 Alpha Sigma Phi 2, Tau'Kappa Epsi- ion 1 Chi Phi 2, Phi Sigma Delta 2 Phi Delta Phi 3, Phi Delta Chi 0 Sigma Phi Epsilon 3, Lambda Chi; Alpha 0 Pi Lambda Phi 3, Beta Theta Pi 0 VOLLEYBALL Museum s, Minerology 1 Economics 5, Physical Education 1 Public Health 6, AGCL 0 SOPH CAB PICTURES ON DISPLAY in the Administration Building FRIDAY 10-5 SATURDAY 10-12 Bob Whitacre, Ron Malis, Paul Anderson, and Dave Maloney ran the 880 yards in 1:45.3 as Rum- sey's time was a tenth of a second faster than Cooley House. Gom- berg and Hinsdale round out the four qualifying residence hall finalists. In the Independent division, Newman Club defeated Standish- Evans in the time of 1:45.9 to cap- ture the relay title. LAST TIME ON DISPLAY J.HOP PICTURES in the Administration Building FRIDAY 10-5 SATURDAY 10-12 league record for game average set last season. Illinois kept pace with the Hoosiers as they rolled by Iowa and Purdue the past weekend with very little trouble. The II- lini, two games behind Indiana, will have a chance to avenge their early season loss at Bloom- ington when the two teams meet February 28 at Champaign. Minnesota, currently in third place with a 9-5 record, seems to be the only other team on the In- diana schedule capable of defeat- ing the Hoosiers. The Gophers have been strengthened by the re- turn to action of Chuck Mencel who scored 26 points while leading Minnesota to a 90-83 overtime vic- tory over Michigan. * * * IN GAMES this weekend, Indi- ana may have some trouble with Ohio State Saturday when the Buckeyes, led by Paul Ebert, the Big Ten's second leading scorer, invade Bloomington. The Hoosiers have a comparative breather Mon- day, in preparation for the big clash with Illinois, as they are at home with Purdue. In less important encounters, Michigan State -is at home for games with Purdue and Wiscon- sin, Michigan meets Wisconsin and Northwestern at Ann Arbor and Ohio State plays Iowa at Iowa. p ........, . ... :?tip *.*:;:{ {:}*.*.;:. .i' .. . wbare supper Iub i for the ultimate in excellent food and pleasant atmosphere OPEN 12 to 12 Daily 3715 Jackson Road U.S. Highway 12 IT'S OPERA TIME ON 11 I RCA VICTOR EPlayRCORDS These superb performances have now been released on the new, improved speeds. 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