VO SUAY, MARCH 8, 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREF. , .4 THURDAY MACH . 196 TE MCHIAN DILYPAG~ T1~S Sigma C/hi, Phi Guams Wiin 111 Basketball Tilits Delta Upsilon, Law Club Also Triumph in Cage Tilts By CARL RISEMAN Theta Chi 45-33 in the 3rd place The Sigma Chi 'B' basketball playoffs. team defeated the Sigma Alpha DU's Triumph Epsilon 'B' squad, 27-22 last night, The Delta Upsilon-Theta Chi in the semi-finals of the first place game was close until the final sec- playoffs. onds of the first half when Nels The Sigma Chi team will face Sherbourne made two baskets in Phi Delta Theta in the finals next a row, to enable the DU squad to week.. The same two teams hold an 18-14 half time lead. clashed in the finals last year, Inspired by Sherbourne's scor- with Sigma Chi taking the cham- ing spurt, Delta Upsilon pulled pionship. away from Theta Chi in the second Fouls Decide half. Don Mick and Bob Plaskett The score was close throughout tossed in 12 points each for Delta the game with the difference be- Upsilo nwhile Jim Beck dominated ing decided on the foul line. The Theta Chi's scoring with 16 points. Sigma Chi team netted 15 points Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Phi on free throws. Joe McKoan paced were tied 11-11 at half time. But the victors with 11 points, while the Phi Kappa Psi squad, pacedTy Mike Rotunno and Dave Rentsch- Ed Diethrich's eight points, man- ler each got nine points for SAE. aged to eke out a narrow two In the semi-finals 'of . the 2nd point victory, 29-27. place playoffs, the Phi Gamma In the semi-final round of the ,Delta 'B' squad rolled to an easy fraternity fourth place playoffs 33-20 victory over Sigma Alpha Delta Theta Phi eked out a 32-30 Mu. Leading 17-1 at half time, victory over Psi Omega. Mike Phi Gamma Delta staved off a Kelly sank two free1 throws in the Sammie rally to gain the victory. last 15 seconds to clinch the, game In the semi-final round of the for Delta Theta Phi. Phi Rho Professional fraternity 'B' basket- Sigma defeated Alpha Rho Chi ball third place playoffs, the Law 13-12, in the other fourth place Club defeated Alpha Omega 39-24. playoff game. In other semi-final rounds of In a fifth place pro fraternity' social fraternity 'B' basketball game Alpha Kappa Psi defeated 'F games, Delta Upsilon defeated Phi Delta Chi 27-11. Basketball Hopes Rise 'As Frosh Caers Star s K O BS fT CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE: Michigan Tech Pucksters Arrive Today By DAVE GREY Michigan Tech's hockey team is scheduled to arrive by plane today, a day early, for this weekend's slam-bang finish with Michigan in the WIHL race. After arriving at Willow Run at 3 p.m., the squad will travel to the Michigan Union, where they will stay until Wednesday of next week. Leave for Colorado Both Michigan and Tech will fly from here on Wedlnesday for Colo- rado Springs and the NCAA finals which will begin a week from to- day. Interest in Ann Arbor is heading for an all-time high in enthusiasm. Much of the feverish excitement of the series at Houghton last weekend has rubbed off here. home students are reported even to be planning to camp out overnight in order to be assured of tickets tomorrow. General admission tickets will go on sale for both of the week- end's championship contest, at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Athletic Ad- ministration Building. All reserved tickets have been. sold out. Police will be on hand to prevent "scalping"-the resale of tickets for more than the established price. There will be no standing room tickets sold. First Championship Both teams are up for the big series, which will determine the, WIHL's winner this year. Michigan will be gunning for a sweep over the Huskies, which would mean the first undisputed League title for the Wolverines since the Lea- gue's beginning in 1952. Tech has to win only one game to assure itself of the champion- ship. Both teams could end up in the final standings with the same number of points, but Tech is, at present, one game ahead in the "win column." Wolverine captain Bill MacFar- land has recovered after treatment for a minor infection on his back. The high-scoring senior, who will be making his final home appear- ance against Tech, got out of the infirmary yesterday and is ex- pected to be in top shape for this weekend. LEADING WIHL SCORERS (All Games) Goals Assists Pts John Andrews, Colo. Col. 27 25 52 Bill Reichert, N. Dak. .... 28 23 51 Jack McManus, Mich. Tech. 28 22 50 Pete Aubry, Mich. Tech... 23 20 43 BILL MacFARLAND, Mich. 18 25 43 Tom Kennedy, Mich. Tech 13 27 40 Jim Ridley, N. Dak....... 20 20 40 Ken Yackel, Minn. ....... 19 20 39 Cliff Wylie, Mich. Tech. .. 13 25 38 MICHIGAN SEASON SCORING Goals Assists Pts Bill MacFarland........:.18 25 43 Tom Itendal ............. 20 13 33 Ed Switzer...............16 12 28 Dick'Dunnigan........... 9 18 27 Neil McDonald............ 7 14 21 Don McIntosh............. 4 17 21 Wally Maxwell............ 7 4 11 Neil Buchanan (D)........ 2 5 7 Bob Schiller (D).......... 2 4 6 Bernie Hanna (D),.......1 4 5 Dot Pitts (D).............. 2 3 5 Jay Goold................2 0 2 Jerry Karpinka........... 1 1 2 Mike Buchanan (D)...... 0 1 1 Lorne Howes,(D).......... 0 1 1 GOALIE Ganes Goals Ave Saves Shut- Against outs Lorne owes .. 20 41 2.1 592 1 JAY GOOLD, Michigan hockey forward, shows jubilance in the Coliseum after scoring one of his 13 goals during last season's play. JAY GOOLD By LYNN TOWLE Bill MacFarland. Every team has a comedian. MacFarland, who has played The Michigan hockey team is no along with Goold for three years, excetion. Dueht his atis Jay noticed that injuries never slowed exception. Due to his antics Jay him down and he has had his Goold has been tagged with vari- share of those. s nicknames, and is considered In the first hockey game he by his teammates to be one of played as a sophomore, Goold the Wolverines most colorful play- broke his kneecap in four places ers. Goold also rates as one of I'_chi- and missed half the season. ga's bes skates is eclir Clutch Play gan's best skaters. His peculiar Probably his best clutch play manner of skating has gained him occurred last March in the NCAA the nicknames, "Bep" and "Slink- Playoffs in Colorado. Michigan e. ,had eliminated Harvard with a Team Jester decisive 7-3 victory in the semi- Both Coach Vic Heyliger and the finals. Colorado College had hockey team refer to Goold as the emerged the other victor in the "team jester." They agree that he first set. Now only Colorado Col-I has a lot to do with the spirit of lege stood between Michigan and the team. "When the. team is the championship, down, Goold succeeds in bringing For the first two periods Michi- them up." gan was leading by a slim 2-1 One quirk that Goold adheres margin. In the final period at 6:18 to is taking a hockey stick with a Goold made a solo dash up the ice much lower "lie" than any of the to drive the puck past Colorado other men use and cutting four goalie Jeff Simus, which made the inches off the top and then using score 3-1 and took some of the it. "Everyone wonders how he can pressure off, the Wolverines as they possibly use it," comments Captain surged on to triumph. Places 12 Men in Finals v RON KRAMER ... cage captain Junior center Ron Kramer was elected yesterday to the captaincy of next year's Michigan basketball team. The 6'3" East Detroit star scored 448 points over the past season, an individual all-time Michigan high. His 20.3 per game average makes him the first Wolverine in history to top the 20 mark. M' Grap piers Star in Big Ten Finals By JIM BAAD It sounds like the same old story, but Michigan's basketball team should be better next year. Granted this optimistic view has been expounded before, and things never seemed to work out. Granted also that the predictions were us- ually made on future talent from the freshman basketball team, and then the talent never came up to expectations. Again this year however the freshmen players have undergone some sharp scrutiny from the eager beavers who want to learn what they can about what to expect down at Yost Fieldhouse in the winter of '56-57. Top Forwards Here's what the hopeful prophets have been seeing to get excited about. Headlined are two of the best forwards that freshman coach Dave Strack has seen- in a long time at Michigan.' George Lee and M. C. Burton have been causing a lot of dis- cussion among the Wolverine bas- ketball fans ever since they led the freshmen to a 70-61 victory over the varsity in the annual, scrimmage just before Christmas. "Lee is a hard driver with ex- cellent speed," reports Strack, "while Burton is the better out- court shot. They balance each other in these respects and both are great rebounders." "Another thing in their favor is both -have a griat enthusiasm for the game. However, neither is very tall," added Strack. Lee stands 6'3" and Burton is 6'5". Prahst Improved A player who has improved since the early winter scrimmage, and who Strack figures to be close to Burton and Lee in talent is Gary Prahst, a 6'4" forward. He has rounded out the freshman fiont line this year at center, and has been an especially strong reboundI- er. Prahst is also a football player of excellent quality, and therefore will not be able to start basketball until late in pre-season practice. Williams House qualified 12 men last night in the I-M swimming. preliminaries to take a command- ing lead in the Residence Halls swim meet. The finals will be held next week during the I-M Open House. SPORTS SHORTS: Warriors Clinch NBA Divisional Title By The Associated Press Boston The Philadelphia warriors, led by Neil Johnston with 34,points and Paul Arizin with 23, won the National Basketball Assn.'s east- ern division championship -Wed- nesday night by defeating the New York Knickerbockers 108-87. The Warriors clinched the east- ern division title while winning their 43rd game against 24 losses, with only 5 games remaining. Johnston, Arizin and Tom Gola were the key men as Philadelphia exploded for 38 points in the final quarter to pull away from the Knicks, who trailed only 70-67 after thiee periods. The loss was a bitter one for New York, battling for third place and playoff 'spot with Syracuse. The Knicks are in last place in the eastern division with a 32-36 record. * * * Miami Eight racing greyhounds ban- ished frustration Tuesday night. They caught up with the mechani- cal rabbit. Five thousand fans at the West Flagler Kennel Club here roared with laughter when the motor failed on the little cloth bunny that races around the track just ahead of the greyhounds. Eight greyhounds leaped glee- fully upon the bunny and tore it to bits. The fans got their money back. * * * St. Petersburg Mickey McDermott, who has been with the New York Yankees only a month, was named Wednes- day as opening day hurler on the "Citrus Circuit." Casey Stengel, manager of the American League champions, selected the left hand- er to face the St. Louis Cardinals Saturday. McDermott, who was obtained from Washington in a trade Feb. 7, will work the first three innings and be followed by a pair of rookies, lefthander Rip Coleman and Ralph Terry, Bob Turley will hurl against the -Cardinals here Sunday and Whitey Ford will face the Chicago White Sok here Monday. Johnny Kucks and Tom Sturdivant will succeed Turley and the other two pitchers against Chicago will be rookie George Maier and veteran Gerry Staley. * * * New York The National Broadcasting Co. Wednesday was awarded the na- tional television rights for college football in 1956 at a meeting of the television committee of the NCAA. The schedule of national games is expected to be announced shortly. Although none of last night's efforts will go toward the final standings in the meet, Williams must be-ruled the favorite since they placed twice as many men1 in the finals as did runner up Wenley. In third place was Reeves with 5, followed by Chicago with four, Taylor, VanTyne and Gomberg with three each, Allen-Rumsey and Anderson with two apiece and Cooley, one. Double Winner The big gun for Williams House was Bob Denison, who swam to victories in both the 100-yard free style and 50 yard free style, in ad- dition to swimming the anchor leg on the winning 200-yard free style relay team. Denison was the only double winner of the evening. Two other swimmers, Bert Getz of Reeves and Kazer Pearce of Anderson, narrowly missed this honor, how- ever, garnering one first and one second. After taking second place in-,the 50-yard backstroke, Getz came back to win the 50-yard breast stroke. Pearce won the 200-yard free style and came in second to Denison in the 100 yard free style. The only other individual win- ner was Reeves' Chuck Pickett, who' captured the 50 yard back- stroke. NCAA Cag e Tournament Set to Open By The Associated Press When the University of San Francisco, which has won 51 straight basketball games since the early part of the 1954-55 season, takes its perfect record into the National Collegiate Ath- letic Assn. tournament, the rec- ords will show the defending cham- pion Dons have beaten only three other teams that qualified for the playoff. Most of their 25 victories this season have been at the ex- penset of lesser opponents. The 25-team playoff starts next Monday.. Of the 24 teams already quali- fied for the tournament, two haven't been tested in the kind of big time competition they'll en- counter, some others have played so infrequently outside their own leagues that there's no real line on them and some haven't been able to win from the tournament teams they have met. A few teams have faced their sectional NCAA rivals with greater frequency but the results still leave a lot of uncertainty- as to Co-Captains Nick Wiese and Wayne War- ren were elected as Michigan's co-captains for next years gym- nastic team. Ed Gagnier was voted most valuable player of the year. how they'll fare. Oklahoma City, for instance, has played six games against three western NCAA en- tries to compile a 2-4 record. But it hasn't faced its first round op- ponent, Memphis State. San Francisco beat NCAA en- trants DePaul and Holy Cross in December tournaments and also knocked off UCLA, its first tour- nament opponent. The only other NCAA entrants with comparable records against other tournament teams are Temple, Utah and Iowa. Temple beat Kentucky and Man- hattan this season; Utah downed Idaho State and Oklahoma City and Iowa took a decision from Southern Methodist. 51. By DAVE RORABACHER (This is the last of two articles re- viewing Michigan's Big Ten Wrestling win. Tuesday's article dealt with the breaks, good and bad, which brought the championship 'to the Wolverines.) From Michigan's point of view there were many exciting and crucial matches during the two- day Western Conference Wrestling Tournament at Evanston last weekend. Best Matches But, unquestionably, the two outstanding matches of the meet were the 157 pound battle between Mike Rodriguez and Larry TenPas; respective captains of the Wolv- erines and the Illini, and Jack Marchello's duel with Gary Kurd- elmeier of the Hawkeyes at 177. The Rodriguez-TenPas match was more than a battle for the Big Ten championship. It was a matter of personal pride and a grudge match which dates back to the 1955 season. In the Illinois-Michigan dual meet of that year, the two stars met in the 167 pound match, Ten- Pas winning a close 9-7 decision. At the conference champion- ships Rodriguez moved down to the 157 pound class and so the expected battle failed to come off; but a sharp exchange of words in the locker room, after the Maize and Blue had been awarded the cup, led to bitter feelings that were not soon forgotten. And so when it was learned that TenPas planned to move down to All-campus tournaments are about ready to start in: table- tennis, bowling,, indoor tennis, badminton, codeball, diving, fencing, gymnastics, and rifle shooting. Entries must be com- pleted by Saturday of this week. Call NOrmandy 3-4181. --Earl Riskey 157 at the conference meet for the express purpose of meeting Rod- riguez, interest soared throughout wrestling circles. And the match was all it was expected to be and more. In the first period action was fast and furious and at the horn TenPas led by an unusually large 6-5 score. Tied Score Rodriguez escaped after half a minute of the second stanza to knot the score at 6-6 and '1 NORTH AMERICAN HAS BUILT MORE AIRPLANES THAN ANY OTHER COMPANY IN THE WORLD from then on the action was almost phenomenal. Both duelists grappled to the mat and repeated- ly gained successive "reversals" and near falls on one another. The referee discontinued award- ing points as he vainly sought to discover whether a fall had been gained. Suddenly at 4:36, with Rodriguez holding his opponents shoulders to the mat, the referee slammed down his fist indicating the end of the match. Marchello's tussle with KUrdel- meier, though slower, was nearly as exciting. No one gave the Wolverine a chance. All thought, Iowa had the title sewed up. But Marchello fought the battle of his career. After a scoreless initial period, the Wolverine be- gan the second stanza on the bot- tom but escaped after about ten seconds to gain a 1-0 lead. 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