PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1953 Gymnastics, Wirestling Teams Should Be Strong _ F Loss of Key Performers Hurt Title Chances of 'M' Gymnasts Last Year * * * * * * * * * * Grapplers Won Big Ten Championship Last Season By KEN COPP 71 Ji By DICK BUCK Michigan's gymnastics squad came up with a disappointing sea- son after the loss of two key men due to ineligibility. Looking like the team to beat after taking its first three meets, it came as a blow when Lee Krumbholz, number two point- getter, and Harry Luchs, defend- ing Big Ten parallel bar champ, were dropped from the Wolverine lineup. COACH Newt Loken went into his remaining meets with a re- vamped lineup that placed the bulk of the burden on the shoul- ders of all-around man Mary Johnson and Captain Don.Hurst, a tumbling and trampoline spe- cialist. The best Michigan could do in its last four meets was to win one out of four, losing to Min- nesota, Illinois and Michigan State, and going on to capture a distant sixth place in the Con- ference tussle. Illinois chalked up 133 points, almost twice as many as second place Minnesota, in successfully defending its Big Ten title. The Gophers tallied 61 points and Michigan back in sixth place counted 37 points. * *~ * MARV JOHNSON proved chief contender for the Wolverines in this meet. They placed four men for the finals in seven events, with Johnson competing in four events. Taking a second in free exer- cise finals behind Illini star Bob Sullivan, fourth on the horizon- tal bar, seventh on the parallel bars, and a ninth on the flying rings, Johnson finished fifth in the all-around ratings. Don Hurst was the only other Wolverine to place in the final rankings, annexing eighth place on the trampoline. JUNIOR Frank Adams and Jack Eckle, in his first year with the team, managed to make the finals on horizontal bar and trampoline, respectively, but could do little against the surplus of experienced talent from other schools. Getting off to a good start the Maize and Blue swept its first dual meet of the season with Indiana, 68-25. The Wolver- ines collected the blue ribbons MEN OF MICHIGAN! Sam's Store welcomes you to Ann Arbor WHY PAY MORE?. in every event while their Hoos- ier competitors had considerable difficulty in staying on the apparatus. Johnson chalked up firsts on both high and parallel bars; new- comers Jim Barbero and Eckle placed second behind more exper- ienced men on the side horse and trampoline, showing promise of future greatness. * * * EDGING BY Ohio State, 50%/2- 451/2, and Wisconsin, 51-45, Mich- igan ran its win skein to three meets. An 11-42 margin over OSU on the horizontal bar gave the Wolverines that contest as Luchs picked up their lone first place in this event. Lee Krumb- holz paced the win over the Badgers, racking up 132 points including a victory in his top event, the sidehorse. It took the championship- bound Illinois contingent to level the weakened Wolverines, 63-33. Illini star Bob Sullivan grabbed three top prizes and two seconds to completely steal the show. * * * ADAMS GARNERED the only Michigan win with his brilliant1 performance on the trampoline. Michigan misfortune contin- ued when Minnesota repeated the Illinois score, 63-33, in a triangular meet at Northwest- ern. A stellar demonstration by Bartlett, who repeated Sullivan's feat, a triple-triumph and plac- es in two other events, supplied the Gophers with an easy mar- gin. Consolation for the Wolverines came in taking the other end of the meeting from the Wildcats, 67-28. Hurst was hero of the day as he bounced out a victory over Gopher tramp star Verne Evans, and whipped off easy firsts on: both trampoline, and tumbling mats in opposition to Northwest- ern. The Maize and Blue swept all top places in the latter contest. IT WAS A heartbreaker at East Lansing in the dual meet finale. The Spartans backed into a 48%- 471/2 victory. Rintz and Johnson staged a heated scoring duel which Rintz finally won 21 points to 17 points, but the real show was on the "tramp and mats." MSC cap- tain John Walker took close wins over Hurst on both. Johnson, who led Michigan scorers in almost every meet, was voted most valuable player at the close of the campaign and Luchs was installed as new team captain, replacing Hurst. Prospects for the 1954 season appear bright with Hurst's loss overshadowed by an additional year of experience behind the re- mainder of the squad. Johnson, Luchs, Adams, Krumbholz, Bar- bero, Eckle, and Dick Bergman all return to the foray and could make Michigan a Big Ten power. DID YOU KNOW: that Michi- gan is the only Big Ten school to have won four consecutive foot- ball championships? The Wolver- ines turned the trick in 1901-02- 03-04 with the famed 'Point-a- Minute' teams of the late Fielding H. Yost; again in 1930-31-32-33 with the teams of Harry Kipke; and still a third time in 1947-48- 49-50 under Fritz Crisler in 1947 and Bennie Oosterbaan in 1948- 49-50. The only other school to even win three straight titles is the University of Minnesota. The Gophers of 1909-10-11 turfed the trick. NEWT LOKEN . . . gymnastics coach M' Gridders Face Rugged '53 Schedule (Continued from Page 1) is how to keep the team "up" for Ohio State, which will move into Ann Arbor to close the season on November 21. * * * t 7 i' E' t , The Michigan wrestling team led' by Captain Norvard "Snip" NalanI finished an impressive 1953 season as it captured its fifth Big Ten Championship topping co-favorite Michigan State by a 27-22 score. In the season's opener with the Rockets of Toledo, the Wolverines won a hard-fought contest by a' score of 17-11. Then after a twoj week layoff the University of Pitts- burgh Panthers toppled the Mich- igan grapplers by a 19-9 score. FOUR DAYS later the matmenE swung into conference competi- tion and piled up an enviable rec- ord of seven victories over seven Big Ten opponents, with the Spar- tans of Michigan State being the. only ones to come close in the I scoring. The seven teams that were whipped by the Wolverines in- cluded Indiana, 22-6; Iowa, 20 -6; Northwestern, 26-8; Michigan State, 17-13; Illinois, 23-3; Pur- due, 26-5 and Ohio State, 25-9. Three of Coach Cliff ;peen's charges, Andy Kaul, Nalan, and Dick O'Shaughnessy finished dual meet competition undefeated, while Nalan and O'Shaughnessy went on to win Conference crowns in the 130-pound and 177-pound classes respectively. NALAN, who was named along with Illinois' Pete Compton as the outstanding wrestler of the Big Ten meet, secured his champion- ship when he downed Phil Dug- gan of Iowa, 8-3. O'Shaughnessy dumped the defending champion, George Myers of Iowa, and grabbed the CLIFF KEEN . .. wrestling coach * * * title by a score of 7-3. Kaul, who had been the only man to de- feat Compton in dual meet com- petition, lost to Compton in the final round by a score of 8-3. Joe Scandura, who was complet- ing his last year of college compe- tition, also placed in the Big Ten meet in the runner-up position at 157 pounds when he lost to Indi- ana's Chuck Parkow in the finals. HOWEVER this was not all the Wolverines' scoring as Miles Lee added valuable points when he downed Purdue's Tom Hankins, 6-2, in the consolation finals to take third place at 157 pounds. Then Wolverine teammate Bron- son Rumsey added some more points when he took fourth place after being blanked by Don Hea- ton of Iowa in a 167-pound match. Three weeks later at State College, Pennsylvania Coach Keen entered five men in the Na- tional Collegiate tournament. Two of the men Nalan and Lee, had competed the year before with Lee capturing third place in the 157-pound class. Two other Wolverines, Kaul and Scandura, had ' takep runner-up laurels in the Big Ten while the fifth man, O'Shaughnessy,. had copped the 177-pound conference championship.. * * *. KAUL WAS dropped in his first match, 6-5, as he lost to the Big Seven 137-pound titlist, Oklaho- ma's Ron Scott. Scandura and Lee lost out in the quarter-finals with the former losing to Kent State's Ian McEwen, 6-4, and the latter being beaten in a very close match by Hoosier Jim Elis, 11-9. However both Lee and Scan- dura had gotten off to impres- sive starts in their first tus- sles on the mats. Lee had top- ped Kansas State's Les Kramer, holder of the Big Seven 157- pound crown, by a score of 13-9 and Scandura had pinned Mat- thew Midea of Lockhaven, Pennsylvania Teachers Col-lege in 5:02. O'Shaughnessy had won his first match by an 8-1 score and then went on to defeat Southern Con- ference champ Jack Shanahan by a decisive 10-1 score. This put him in the semi-final round of the NCAA meet against Al Paulekas of Army, but he was blanked, 4-0. * * * NALAN WENT into the semi- final facing Bob Datteri of Colo- rado A&M, then went on to dump him with a 7-4 score. In the finals, Nalan stunned Penn State's East- ern Intercollegiate champion Dick Lemyre by the identical score. With this victory Michigan's captain added the NCAA crown to the Big Ten trophy he had won a few weeks before. Both Nalan and O'Shaughnessy are juniors and will be returning this fall for another year of com- petition while Kaul has two more years to go. Coach Keen, whose squads have now garnered in addition to five Big Ten Championships also nine second and ten third places, will begin once again this fall to-build another team around this nucle- us of' champions. DID YOU KNOW: that Coach Matt Mann has tutored more Olympic swimmers than any other coach in the business? The Mich- igan swimming mentor has also seen his teams win more national titles than any other school. In all, Michigan has won the Big Ten crown 16 times and the Na- tional swimming championship 13 times. Try FOLLETT'S First USED BOOK at BARGAIN PRICES ' > X ; I HANDS FIG LEAF BRIEFS 85c U.S. NAVY "T" SHIRTS FIRST QUALITY I THE BUCKEYES are rated al- most on a par with Michiganf State as favorites for the Big Ten title, and playing both teams on successive Saturdays is; a mighty rough order. Ohio defeated Michigan at Columbus last year to knock the Maize and Blue from the con- ference championship and Rose Bowl invitation. The Bucks should have the na- tion's best line with All-America candidates George Jacoby, Mike Takacs, Jim Reichenbach and Bob Joslin all returning from last year's squad. In addition there are 21 other returning lettermen around which Coach Woody Hayes should be able to fashion a pow- erful team. THE PRE-SEASON experts have the 1953 conference title chase figured as a two-way affair be- tween Michigan State and Ohio State. Close behind are supposed to be Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- sota and Purdue. Given an outside chance are Northwestern and Il- linois. It all adds up to the greatest Big Ten race in history. Never has any conference had so many powerful teams in one season. There might be a surprise at season's end however. That sur- prise might be Michigan at the head of the conference. It is dan- gerously early for such a predic- tion, but this could be a big year for the Wolverines, who have missed the top by only the nar- rowest of margins for the last two seasons. DID YOU KNOW: that Michi-' gan's football coach Bennie Oos- terbaan is one of the greatest col- lege athletes of all time? Bennie was a three time All-American selection at end in 1925-26-27, a two time All-American in Basket- ball in 1927-28, and a nationally recognized first baseman for Ray Fisher's Michigan baseball squad. Bennie also managed to win the Western Conference medal for pro- ficiency in Scholarship and Ath- letics in his senior year. 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