THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAC rou isville Cage rs Upset Dayton for NIT Crowi ' . Suff lin 1149... WITH PHIL DOUGLIS Daily Sports Editor FAR-REMOVED from the thunder and hoopla of big-time collegiate sports is the relative peace and quiet of Earl Riskey's cozy little Sports Building down on Hoover Street. For a little change of pace, we decided to drop in yesterday, after- noon and the following is what went on. The facts are not im- portant-they can be seen elsewhere on this page. But the fact that a group of guys had themselves a whale of a time is important-and that's what' our story .deals with today. We entered the vast gym-and it was the scene of only one game. The players were dwarfed by the gigantic room-scene of many a campus dance and many a thrilling sports event. Fourteen players, two umpires, three fans and a Daily reporter. And around them- just space-and more space. The game itself wasn't of too much consequence. The fellows were playing for a residence hall title in one of their four divisions. But to them, it was the most important game in the world. The tip-off-and the orange-shirted boys broke fast-only to lose their lead to the whites. The little scorekeeper on the sidelines bellowed "Defense, you guys-defense. They can't win if they can't score." 'How We Doin'..... HIS FACE suddenly turned into a picture of perfect agony, as the kid in the striped shorts let go a long one-and it swished. -A sweating paddle-ball player came upstairs and joined the throng. "How we doin'?" he asked the nearest friend. "Losin'," he was told. "Trim 'em, gang!" he shouted-and the players were getting warmed up. The pace picked up-one white-shirted player rambled by the scorer's table and panted, "What's the score?" "Look at the score- board," was the answer. "What do you think it's for, anyway?" On the next court over, a few sweat-suited boys picked up a ball and started a workout-completely oblivious to the drama unfolding on the court next to them. Suddenly the paddle-ball player drew a bead on the hardworking student referee, and screamed, "Hey, ref-that was a foul-are you blind or something?" The ref never even blinked. The game went on as scheduled. ~ The air was shattered by a siren-a wail that pierced the sweaty atmosphere for 15 long seconds. It was either an air-raid warning or the halftime horn. I assumed it was the latter. It was. Half-time. The teams huddled-drawing plays with' perspiring fingers on the floor. A few reserves took some shots. The scorekeeper added the totals. The gym was nearly at a standstill. Not Just a Game ... THEN that infernal siren rocked the room again. Seconds later the see-saw battle was underway. These boys no longer regarded itnas an I-M basketball, game-they regarded it as a personal project * and played accordingly. The tall guy with the blue shorts puffed heavily as' he was pulled1 from the game. His sub went crazy-hitting from all over the floor, until the Whiteshirts stopped him. The look of satisfaction on his face as he drove in-jumped, shot and scored-was a picture to be- hold. No Varsity athlete ever could have been more satisfied. The fellow in the dirty white shirt on the sidelines wheeled and shouted-gesticulating wildly with his flst-"Those guys can't shoot in1 there!" As an afterthought he added, "Take it away from 'em." The kid in the striped shorts was still hitting those sets. "De- fense! Defense!" pleaded his opponents. But the defense wasn't there-and the striped-pants kid hit another. His 'team was coming back now-and you could feel the tension mount. "Nail him!" shieked an Orangeman. An instant later theI orange-clad figure vaulted up and over the kid's back-and they fellI heavily. "Are you all right?" "Yea." The game went on. The ex-1 citement continued to mount. No One Knew ... KIDS in the white shirts were coming back. There was nol doubt about it. They pulled to within one point. The scorer frantically beat his hand on the table. "Hold 'em! Hold Nem'!" he pleaded. "How much time left?" another shouted. "Not a heck of a lot," came the reply. Since the clock is controlled from an office- no one knew-and that made it all the worse.1 Time flew-tempers flew-and tension mounted. Suddenly the Whites cracked. They. had come back-only to wilt. The Orange- men were hot. The kid with the striped pants tried to rally his team" but he couldn't. Things were out of hand. "Now we're operatin' "-came the shout. The Whites were onI the run. They missed six straight shots-and the face of the paddle-l ball player was contorted in horror. His paddle hung limply by hisl side Is he watched his corridor mates slip into defeat. The Whites had had it-and he knew it. It was all over. The siren shrieked its swan song, and the Orangesc had licked the Whites. But surprisingly there was no joy for the winners. They were too tired to be exhuberant. The teams trudged from the floor-and the huge gym echoed from only a few scattered rebounds-as new games were being formed. New games-new hrills-more fun-on a Saturday afternoon at Earl Riskey's cozy little Sports Building down'on Hoover Street. Read Daily Classifieds Tyra Paces Cardinals to 93-80 Win; St. Joseph's Takes Consolation Game NEW YORK (P) - Louisville's lightning-fast Cardinals and agile Charlie Tyra asserted their mas- tery over Dayton and Bill Uhl for the third time this season to win the National Invitation basketball tournament with a 93-80 victory yesterday over Dayton's Flyers. Highest Score for Final A noisy, excited crowd of 15,763 in Madison Square Garden - in spite of bad weather and television - saw Louisville pile up the big- gest score ever made in 19 NIT' finals. The tournament record is 110 points, by St. Louis University in the first round last year, but the top previous score in a final was LaSalle's 75 against Dayton in 1952.. St. Joseph's of Philadelphia, also threatening scoring records and setting an NIT mark with 31 suc- cessful free throws, trounced St. Francis of Brooklyn, 53-82, to take third place. Louisville then equal- led the free throw record in the final. Tyra, who won the tournament's most valuable player award, blank- eted the bigger but less mobile Uhl on defense and topped btoth teams with 27 points-mostly on hook shots from the foul lane. Frustrated Flyers For Dayton, the story of its fourth trip to the NIT finals was the same familiar pattern of utter frustration. Off to a bad start, the Flyers fought their way back to a 45-44 lead at halftime. But they couldn't match Louisville's race-horse pace and foul line ac- curacy in the second half. Dayton, losing finalist in 1951,: 1952 and 1955, actually outscored the winners from the floor, 32-31, but Louisville made its first 11 free throws in the second half and those were the points that put the Cards ahead. Uhl, who has yet to play a really first-rate game in Madison Square Garden, scored 19 points, but he never was really dangerous. It was Jim Palmer, deadly on outside shots, who kept Dayton in the game with -21 points in the first half. But Bill Darragh's tight guarding held him scoreless in the second. I-M Bowling Phi Sigma Delta won the social fraterntiy bowling title yesterday afternoon at the Union, besting Phi Kappa Tau, 2632-2302. The best three-line total was carded by Harvey King of the Phi Sigs-586. King and team- mate Paul Adams tied for the best single line, both scoring 223's. -Daily-John Hirtzel CAPTAIN BOB 1WMASTERS OF MICHIGAN GOLF SQUAD Golf Team Heads South i Three home meets in a full spring schedule lie ahead for Michigan's golf team after spring vacation. Immediate plans see Coach Bert Katzenmeyer's squad heading for Pinehurst, N. C., this Friday, where Michigan will again have the op- portunity to compete and practice in a warmer climate. With the weather here still cold and damp, the Wolverine golfers have not been able to get any out- door practice, and it looks doubt- ful that they will get out much this week before the jaunt south.' As to facing Duke University and the University of North Caro- lina during the middle of vacation, Katzenmeyer comments, "We. won't be fully ready." Both strong Southern schools will be reaching SPORTS Night Editor JOHN HILLYER the peak of their seasons as Michi- gan starts its. After returning, Michigan will have a chance to test some of the Big Ten's stronger contenders in. the season-long build-up to the Conference championships late in May. Opening home meet will be with Michigan State, here, on April 21. Katzenmeyer's crew, which tied for fourth in the championships last year, is' considered as one of the . Big Ten's title contenders. Most of the work will center around seven key men, all fairly equal in, ability. Only senior on the team is Cap- tain Bob McMasters. Hank Loeb, a pre-med junior here, will be playing his last season for the Wolverines, as he plans to enter Northwestern's medical school next fall. Four other juniors will see action again-John Schubeck, Fred Mick- low, Steve Uzelaand Skip Mac- Michael- while one sophomore, Stan Kwasiborski, is rated by Kat- zenmeyer as having a chance to crack the top six. Cooley Cagers Win Playoff Cooleytcamefrom behind to whip Scott, 46-38, in the second- place basketball "A" finals for residence halls yesterday afternoon at the I-M Building. Kim Greene let loose for thirteen points in the second half to lead the orange-clad Cooleyans to vic- tory. Their almost complete con- trol of the backboards was a deci- sive factor, although they missed many of the easy shots. The first half saw Scott House take the lead, hitting remarkably well from the outside. The fast break, used by Cooley, was made ineffective by Cooley's inaccuracy. The half ended with Scott leading, 19-17. The opening moments of the second period did not alter the situation. Then the tide, turned, and ScottH ouse couldn't seem to get the lid off Cooley's basket. In spite of the efforts of Scott, the boys in orange began to pile up the points. Outstanding for the losers was Bob McElwain, whose long set shots consistently swept through the net. McElwain also did a fine job of rebounding. Golf Slate April 5-- Duke at Durham, N. C. April - North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, N. C. April 21-- MSU-hel-e April 28-- OSU-Purdue-Indiana at Columbus May 1- Univity of Detroit-here MayI Purdue-OSU at Lafayette May 12- Purdue- OSU-Northwestern here May 19-, MSU-U. of D., Detroit May 25-26-- Big Ten Championships at Evanston YOGI BERRA ROY CAMPANELLA M , V in American .. . NL's snost valuable IT'S AN OLD BASEBALL STORY: SDodgers, Yankees Rule as Favorites To Repeat' By DICK CRAMER (This is the first of three articles previewing the 1956 major league base- ball season.) It's always hard to bet against the winner. This year it's tven harder than usual to predict that the World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees will not repeat as pennant-winners in their respective leagues. Former-Cub third baseman Randy Jackson has been the chief acquisition of Brooklyn's general manager Walter O'Malley. Jackson represents a 25 point increase over the batting average of lastyear's hot corner occupant, Don Hoak, and he's more likely to produce the long ball. Another top infield prospect has been brought up from the minors to further fill the gap if utility man Jackie Robinson and short- stop Pee Wee Reese begin to feel their 37 years . Chico Fernandez brings with him a .301 batting mark for a full season at shortstop last year at Montreal. Montreal has also supplied Wal- ter Alston's squad with their two other best rookie prospects. Gino Cimoli is rated a good chance of solving the annual left-field prob- lem on the basis of a 1955 average of .306. His competition - Robinson, Sandy Amoros and George Shuba -provides excellent outfield in- surance behind such National League stalwarts asucenter-fielder Duke Snider and right-fielder Carl Furillo. Ken Lehman, with a '55 Mon- treal hurling record of 22-9, is an extra support to Brooklyn's already solid mound corps. With reliefer Jim Hughes as the only pitcher over 30, the staff looks almost un- beatable. Even if some of the pitchers don't fulfill expectations, there should still be 'enough remaining talent to take up the slack among such stars as Don Newcombe, Billy Loes, Carl Erskine, Carl Spooner, Clem Labine, Roger Craig and Don Bessent. Catching No Problem Catching should certainly be no problem for the Dodgers. The league's most valuable player, Roy Campanella, is expected to repeat his iron-man .300-plus perform- ance of last year. Besides, Al Walker and possibly rookie Charley Thompson will be on hand to give the great back-stopper occasional relief. The Yankees situation is just as promising. General manager. George Weiss made on important trade, called up several minor league flashes and has outstanding returning servicemen to bolster the American League champs. Mickey McDermott is a good bet to improve his 10-10 record with last season's eighth-place Wash- ington club. This seems to be all that is needed to insure another great year for the Yankee pitching staff-a delicate combination of youth and experience. McDermott joins "Bullet" Bob Turley (17-13), Don Larsen (9-2), Whitey Ford (18-7) and Bob Grim (7-5) in the nucleus of hurlers under 28 years old. Tommy Byrne (16-5), 36, and relief-whiz Jim Konstanty (7-2), 39, (are the older mainstays of a crew that set a league record for fewest hits allowed in a season- 1,163 -- during the 1955 pennant race. In the infield a quantity of talent is .available. Tony Kubek and Army-returnee Jerry Lumpe vie with proven utility man Gil McDougald for the chance of taking on most of the shortstop- ping duties from Phil Rizzuto. Jerry Coleman, service veteran Billy Martin, Bob Richardson and Andy Carey promise capable handling of second and third base. Yanks Strong At First First base presents a similar situation. The threesome that combined for 41 home runs and 148 RBI's last year-Joe Collins, Bill Skowron and Eddie Robinson -returns along with rookie Mary Throneberry who was a 36-homer slugger at Denver. With a regular outfield of such good field-good hit men as Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer, Irv Noren and Elston Howard, the Yanks have solid first-line strength in the garden. Serviceman Norm Sie- burn and Lou Skizas, a .348 hitter at Denver, are making serious Pap's Golf Range --- Open Saturday -- U.S. 23 off Packard Rd. spring training efforts to remain with the squad all year. American League most valuable player Yogi Berra, at his peak at the age of 30, is enough to make the Yankee catching the best in the league. Howard and Charley Silvera supply better than average reserve strength. Keep Well-Groomed with a collegiate hairstyle, that is: suave, indurdualistic, smart. 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