WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1954 TILE MI(C IIGAN DAILY PACE THREE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE n 1 r Pucksters Leave To day for NCAA Playoffs < - ATO Beats Sig Eps, 36-35, In IM Basketball Playoffs Ice Squad Opens Crown Defense Friday Evening Battle RPI in First of Two Game Playoff ; Michigan Picked as Tournament Favorite MOST VALUABLE CAGER: Wolverines Honor Teammate Barron By MARV SIEGEL Alpha Tau Omega parlayed the deadly marksmanship of gridder Lou Baldacci and some crucial re- bounding-into a 36-35 victory over Sigma Phi Epsilon in a second place "A" Fraternity basketball contest held at the I-M building last night. Paced by big Jay Schattley, who r netted 12 points, the Sig Eps jumped to an early lead, but with Baldacci pumping goals in from the outside and Bill Booth tally- ing from inside ATO led 20-17 at the half. IN THE SECOND stanza ATO blew its lead once, regained it, and staved off a desperate Sigma Phi Epsilon rally to prevail. Bal- dacci was high man for the win- ners with 15 points while Al Fey's 13 markers topped the Sig Ep out- put. In another' "A" playoff en- counter, Phi Gamma Delta over- came a 14-13 half time deficit to smash Pi Lambda Phi 36-27. Varsity tennis star Pete Paulus proved he was equally adept at another net game as his 13 points, spear-headed the Phi Gain attack. Mary' Cherrin was the big gun for Pi Lam with five field goals for ten points. Paulus and Howie Liverance, who deuced four shots, were the top sharpshooters for the victors. SIGMA Alpha Mu advanced a notch in its bid to, gain a third place playoff crown by humbling Tau Delta Phi, 39 to 10. The Sam- mies defense was so effective that the Tau Delts swished nary a field goal through the twines un- til after the second half had com- menced. Tom Kovan, who netted 13, and Warren Wertheimer, with COLLEGE HOCKEY Michigan State 6, Michigan Tech 1 six goals scored from the floor, were the men in double figures for the Lincoln Avenue five. Chuck Baruf countered with 9 of Tau Delt's final total of ten. Theta Delta Chi moved out to a 12-8 half time edge over Delta Sigma Chi and were never headed as it eked out a 28-23 triumph in a third place tussle. Ed Sichler's ten markers and George Benisek's all-important eight points sparked the winners. Bill Pollock racked up ten tallys in a losing cause. * * * BARRY KROLL, a lithe ball hawk of Alpha Epsilon Pi, led his fraternity to a 30 to 22 conquest of Phi Sigma Delta. Kroll, who scored six field goals and cooly made four charity tosses offset the Phi Sig scoring punch of Stu Sperling and Warren Singer. Nu Sigma Nu won the only game on the Professional Fraternity bas- ketball front last night when it drubbed Alpha Sigma Nu in easy fashion, 50-17. VIC HEYLIGER .**.seeks fourth straight Follows Icers In keeping with The Daily's policy of "on-the-spot" cover- age, Hockey Editor Hanley Gur- win catches a plane this after- noon for Colorado Springs in order to send back a first hand report of the NCAA hockey tournament. By PHIL DOUGLIS Michigan's hockey team takes off from Willow Run Airport at 12:15 this afternoon for Colorado Springs, where it will bid for its fourth consecutive National Col- legiate Athletic Association title. The small but physically sound 12 man squad will leave the Mich- igan Union at 11:45 a.m. for the airport. COACH VIC Heyliger's squad will open its title defense on Fri- day night, when it tangles with the Engineers of Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute in a semi-final contest at the Broadmoor Hotel Ice Palace. The winner of this contest will meet the winner of Thursday's Minnesota-Boston College tilt for the National championship on Saturday night. The Wolverines are slight fav- HoosiernTrackmen Show Unexpected Power In ConferenceMeet; Knock cM' Out of Second By DAVE LIVINGSTON Indiana served notice this past weekend that Illinois and Michi- gan no longer hold a monopoly on Big Ten track glory. The hustling Hoosiers won the two mile run and the mile relay, took four seconds, and placed men in five other events to snare the. Conference indoor runner-up tro- phy that has been in the exclu- sive possession of Michigan for four straight years. INDIANA'S amazing perform- ance was an especially bitter pill for the Wolverines to swallow, for, while Coach Don Canham and his lads had entered the meet with at least faint hopes of unseating the Illini, as it turned out the Maize SWEATSHIRTS 4 personalized - WITH HOUSE OR GROUP NAME A FREE ONE with every order of 12 or more Burr Patterson & Auld Co. 1209 S. University. and Blue was relegated to the third spot. Only Michigan's two peren- nial champions, Fritz Nilsson and John Ross, came through' with the peak performances it takes to win Conference crowns. Each captured his third straight title, Nilsson with a 52' 7%" toss in the shot put and Ross with a 4:11.2 mile, the second fastest of his life indoors. * * *3 NOTHING CAN be taken away from such Wolverines as Pete Gray, Grant Scruggs, and Mark Booth, who finished right on thel heels of three of Illinois' most bril- liant performers, or Roger Maugh who hit 13' 6" to tie for second in the pole vault. There were others who turned in top efforts, too, but for the most part Michigan's widely heralded depth was significant- ly lacking. In three events the Wolverines didn't place a man, in four events the best they could take was a fifth, and in just four events did more than one man finish among the point scorers. * * * SIMILARLY, Illinois paced more than one man in only four events, but the Fighting Illini, as had been expected, hit the jackpt with six individual championships. Of particular note was Mich- igan's poor showing in the three new events, which had previous- ly been figured as a boon to its title chances. The Wolverines didn't even qual- ify a man for the 300, took a fifth in the 600, and managed to take seconds in the 1,000 for a com- bined total of only five points in the three races. * * * WITH A LEAD that couldn't possibly be overcome Illinois scratching its relay team in the concluding event, leaving a pair I-M9Scores VOLLEYBALL AFROTC defeated Museum (forfeit) Psychology 'B' 5, Mineralogy 1 Social Research 4, WRRC 2 DIVING 1) Coleman (Sigma Chi) 57.8 points 2) Shannon (Phi Delta Theta) 46.8 points 3) Lutz (Pi Lambda Phi) 46.0 points 3) Fox (Pi Lambda Phi) 46.0 points 5) Wesinstock (Sigma Alpha Mu) 42.1 points 6) Watson (Sigma Chi) 36.0 points 7) Woodruff (Sigma Chi) 32.4 points 8) Rown (Theta Chi) 29.9 points I _____ of star-studded Indiana and Mich- igan quartets to fight it out for the points that would clinch sec- ond place in the meet. The Wolverine foursome of Pete Sutton, Bob Brown, Jack Carroll, and Grant Scruggs sped the mile distance in record- breaking time, yet Hoosier Len Robinson fought off Scruggs in the stretch to win by half a step, giving his team credit for the new Big Ten mark of 3:17.6 and at the same time edging Michi- gan 423/ to 422 for the runner- up position. Amid' the host of Coach Leoj Johnson's Illini stars Gene May- nard stood out as one of the finest middle distance men ever to com- pete in the Big Ten. * * * from behind on the final turn in first the 1,000 ,and then, 40 min- utes later, in the 880 to win both races going away. As it turned out, though, May- nard got credit for only one title as, almost an hour after the event, the judges announced that he was being disqualified in the 880 for changing lanes too quickly and for "shoving., His time of 2:10.7 in the 1,000 shattered the Armory record by 5.3 seconds and was less than two seconds off the American standard for the distance. Only a week ago he ran a 1:52.3 half mile which is four tenths of a second better than the Big Ten record. * * * THE CALIBER of the over-all competition in the Championships can readily be shown when it is considered that Michigan's Car- roll ran the second fastest 600 of his career, yet finished fifth in the event Cage Scores NAIB Lawrence Tech 75, Carrol (Wis.) 70 , Pasadena 79, Bridgeport 60 NCAA Notre Dame, 80, Loyola (NO) 70 Bradley 61, Oklahoma City 55 NIT Holy Cross 93, St. Francis (Kan.) 69 SOUTHEAST Kentucky 63, Louisiana State 56 NATIONAL JC TOURNAMENT NE Mississippi 84, Ft. Lewis A&M 61 orites to win the big one again, mainly as a result of the twin victory over Minnesota here lastl month. Michigan, not counting a 12-8 exhibition loss to the Grand Rapids Rockets last Saturday night, steamrolled all opposition during the second half of the sea- son. THE MAIZE and Blue sextet went 11 straight games without a defeat, and finished in second place in the Western- Hockey League sporting a 14-4-2 mark R.P.I. is led by diminuitive Ab- bie Moore, who challenged Min- nesota's John Mayasich most of the season for the national scor- ing lead. The Engineers piled up a respectable 16-5 mark during the season's play. Rensselaer has knocked off such teams as McGill, Yale, Boston Uni- versity, Brown, and Princeton to name a few, while bowing to Den- ver, Colorado College, Xavier. andj St. Lawrence.j * * * R.P.I.'s UNHAPPY mid-season Colorado swing, was summed up by Engineer Coach Ned Harkness, when he said, "Man, they play real tough hockey out there." However these same teams that gave Rens- selaer nightmares, crumbled before Michigan by a combined score of 30-10. Heyliger, however, isn't too confident over the up-coming tourney, for he only has two real lines to make use of. The tour- ney draw, which has the Wol- verines playing twice in two days, is also none too helpful to the Michigan cause, especial- ly in Colorado Spring's rarified atmosphere. Still, the Wolverines are favored to cop their fourth straight title. Pacing Michigan is the crack first line of Doug Mullen, George Chin, and Pat Cooney. Mullen was Mich- igan's top scorer during, the league season, tallying 18 goals and 34 as- sists for a 52 point total. Flashy winger Chin was second in the scoring column with 20 goals and 25 assists for 45 points. Slick skating Bill MacFarland, bul- wark of Heyligers second line, was third in the scoring department with 43 points. MacFarland led the team in goals with 26, and as- sisted on 17 others. Ladies! HOLLYWOOD BLENDED HAIR STYLING by 715 N. University Cand idl.a tes FOR ALL SPRING OFFICES Have your picture made into an engraving for your p ost. COME AND INQUIRE ABOUT OUR NOMINAL RATES 1n BUSINESS OFFICE 'i 420 Maynard (Behind Betsy Barbour),' By WARREN WERTHEIMER Jim Barron, Michigan's flashy sophomore cager, was accorded two honors yesterday-it was an- nounced that teammates had vot- ed him the Wolverines most valu- able player during the past season and he was chosen on the second All-Big Ten team in a poll taken by sports editors of the conference newspapers. It marks the second year in a row that a soph has been named Michigan's most valuable, Paul{ Groffsky, the new captain having been so designated after the 1952- 53 season. BARRON led the Wolverine cag- ers in scoring this year tallying 374 points for a 17-per-game aver- age. His 14-game Big Ten total of 244 was good enough to rank him among the top ten scorers in the conference ahead of such veteran stars as Bob Leonard, Chuck Men- cel, Ed Kalafat, and Al Ferfari to name a few. The Chicago product, posesser1 of a deadly set and driving jump JIM BARRON . sophomore sparkplug shot, plays one of the most ag- gressive games in the Western Conference. However his aggressiveness also results in his drawing a lot of charging fouls and because of this he spent a lot of time on the bench with four or five personals. This not only cut into his scoring totals, but probably cost him a chance of breaking the Michigan single game record. AFTER a 20-point first half against Washington of St. Louis, Barron quickly drew his third and fourth fouls and wasbenched. When he returned to the contest in the middle of the last quarter, he could only bring his total to 26 and missed the record by two points. Those who watched him perform this year accord the six footer a good chance of eventually cracking the mark. The all-star quintet that Bar- ron made is annually voted on by the Big Ten sports editors. 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