THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE American Athletes' Hopes Falter at U.S. Maintains Fading Olympic Margin As Soviets Score with Gymnastic Win MANY SWIMMERS HERE: I-M VOLLEYBALL MELBOURNE (Thursday) (P)- Russian athletes have surged tol within 20 points of the United States in the ding-dong battle for the unofficial team honors at the 1956 Olympic Games, and Amefi- hopes of pulling out victory vir- tually disappeared today. After the Russian success in gymnastics yesterday, the score stood at 5381/2 points for the U.S. and 518/2 for Russia. This was under the system of 10 points for each first place, and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for the other five placings. U.S. Leads in Firsts In gold medals, the U.S. leads Russia 31 to 23. The Soviets lead in second places, or silver medals, with 25, as against 22 for the U.S. Bronze medals show 24 for Rus- sia and 12 for the Americans. Only a handful of swimming finals remain for the U.S. to pick up additional points, while Russia still has plenty to pick up in gym- nastics, Greco-Roman wrestling and fencing. Thus domination of the United -, States in the Olympics that began with the first modern games in Athens in 1896 alnmost certainly is coming to an end. Irony of Fate But by the irony of fate, Amer- ican achievement of 15 gold med- als in men's track and field and " one in women's track represents a record in this sport that is the center of the games. Despite the setback in unofficial points, yesterday was a great day for the red, white and blue. Pretty Shelly Mann from Ar- lington, Va., led a grand slam sweep of the women's 100-meter butterfly swimming event, and set a new Olympic record of 1:11.0. She was followed by Nancy Jane Ramey of Mercer Island, Wash., and Mary Jane Sears of Chevy Chase, Md. George Breen of Buffalo, N. Y., served notice on Australia's Murray3 Rose, winner of Olympic 400- meter, that the American must be reckoned with in the 1,500 or metric mile. Smashes Record Breen smashed the 1,500 meter world.record to bits in his quali- fying trial, setting a new mark of 17:52.9. Rose's old record was 17:52.5. They meet in the finals tomorrow. And in swimming, 16-yr.-old Carin Cone of Ridgewood, N.J., lost a heartbreaker to Judy Grin- ham of Britain in the 100-meter backstroke in which both girls were timed in 1:12.9 for a new Olympic record. There also was hope for U.S. points-possibly even one, two, three-in the high dive in which; Dick Connors, Pasadena, Calif., led after the six preliminary divest with 80.20. Joaquin Capilla of Mexico was second with 78.68 and Josef Gan- lach of Hungary was third with 77.77. The reason for American opti- mism is that the dives that lie ahead are of the optional and dif- ficult character in which the Am- ericans excel. Keen Competition Keynotes Swim.Meet By SI COLEMAN mer of the day was Carl Woolley, stroke, but Hopkins' performance In a tune-up for the coming who captured two first-places, inl and time were impressive, con- season, the Michigan pool was the the 100 and the 50-yd. freestyle siderinmehweryimp isine scene of an annual swimming meet events, a second in the 200-yd. in- g how early it is m the last Saturday afternoon, dividual medley and a third in the season. This year witnessed the largest 100-yd. backstroke. Displays Progress The main purpose of this meet representation of swimmers in re- But Woolley was not the only was to give the coaches andsswim- cent years.rThere weresbetter outstanding performer of the day. mers a chance to see how they swimmers from more areas, thus, Chet Jastremski, swimming for providing more competition. the Toledo YMCA, captured the were progressing at this point in th+w n-s on -Fftnm,,ana In the past, the final events were usually monopolized by Mich- igan swimmers, but this year's events produced some variety. Woolley Stars The outstanding Michigan swim- 200-yd. individual medley in a good 2:14. Michigan's coach, Gus Stager, points out that this time would have placed in last year's Big Ten and NCAA meets. GUS STAGER ... another season ahead 11 BOB PITTS 7 By BRUCE BENNETT There's an old saying in foot- ball: "The backs get all the glory." Applied to hockey, this might go, "The forwards get all the glory." Or it might be the goalie. These are the people the headline writers cite with their eye-catch- ing displays of ink. But, like the line in football, hockey has its unheralded group of players-the defensemen. Bob Pitts, captain of this year's hockey team, is a member of this This Week In Sports Friday, December 7 BASKETBALL-at Wichita Saturday, December 8 HOCKEY-Toronto-Coliseum-8:00 p.m. BASKETBALL-at Nebraska Monday, December 10 HOCKEY-Toronto-Coliseum-8:00 p.m. Big Ten Publicitors Ask NC AA for TV Revision the puck might just be wearing a big "5" on his jersey. Take notice sometime. This it Bob Pitts. Remembers Mistakes This "standing off in the back- ground," so to speak, befits Pitts' temperament quite well. The mild- mannered, soft-spoken native of Nelson, B.C., remembers much more quickly a mistake he made in a game or a fine performance by a teammate, rather than a per- sonal feat. For example, in talking with him, it was meintioned that he once scored two goals in a game- quite a feat for a defenseman, who often times doesn't even get two shots on goal during a game. Pitts vaguely remembers this, Dut couldn't recall whom it was against or even whether it was last year or the year before. But he quickly recalled the following incident in the opening round of the NCAA playoffs against St. Lawrence in Colorado Springs last March: "I failed to handle a bouncing puck late in the game and a St. Lawrence player got around me and came in on Lorne (Howes) on a break- away. Lorne made a beautiful stop to keep us in the game. -The score was tied, 1-1, at the time and we eventually won in over- time, 2-1, but I'll never forget that one." Played Best Hockey Pitts can't recall a high point in his career, unless it was win- ning the NCAA championship for the last two years. Teammate Mike Buchanan thinks that Pitts played his best hockey in the NCAA tournament last March. "In that game against St. Lawrence, igan's especially, but also against Michi- shape gan Tech, Bob played defense as it Junior should be played," said Buchanan. Diving Pitts is majoring in petroleum A t geology and has a definite plan State for his future. He has already ac- Reinke cepted a position with the Hudson Cy Ho Bay Oil and Gas Co. in Calgary, Alta., only about 100 miles from C his home town. I11ini Recommended Hope One might wonder how Pitts Tem: landed so far from home. He and Duke fellow defenseman Bernie Hanna Dayt came here upon the recommenda- Colu tion of a former Michigan star hockey player, Wally Gacek. Pitts, who was married last sum- mer, plays golf for relaxation. He shoots "somewhere around par." As for hockey after graduation, Tr he plans to play in a league in Calgary sponsored by the different oil companies who have operations in that territory. His immediate goal? A rather obvious one-to help Michigan win its third straight NCAA title. SUITS DRESSES Ce COATS )D TROUSERS Pres SKIRTS A i CHICAGO W)-The Big Ten yesterday appeared to be heading toward another squabble with the National Collegiate Athletic As- sociation on the televising of col- lege football games. Big Ten athletic publicity dir- ectors yesterday opened the annual conference meetings by recom- mending the athletic director re- open the television matter at the NCAA convention in St. Louis next month. The publicitors urged limiting NCAA control of football televis- ion. They charged the present NCAA plan is not in accord with NHL SCORES Chicago 2, New York 2 Montreal 3, Toronto 1 original provisions of the regula- tions passed by the NCAA in its 1951 convention at Dallas. The policy adopted at Dallas was to have been a television ex- periment and not rigid control. Monopolistic Control However, the publicitor said the NCAA has created "an undesirable monopolistic control of football television ... and by so doing.. is endangering college football by failure to capitalize in the public- relations values of college games." In addition, Big Ten football coaches recommend liberalization of the present substitution rule and also proposed to expand ex- change of scouting movies of games. The coaches, during the winter business session of the conference, suggested to the National Foot- ball Rules Committee that any player be permitted to appear .- twice within the same quarter of a game. The present rule allows only the player who starts a quar-. ter to return within the same per- iod. Movie Exchange The coaches suggested, for ap- proval by the athletic directors, that any game movie be exchang- ed no later than two weeks before the meeting of the two schools in- volved. In addition, a movie of a game the week immediately ahead of the game between the two in- volved schools could be exchanged by mutual agreement. The current agreement on exchange of game movies permits swapping of only one movie." Another proposed rule change called for a modification of the timing situation on replacing an injured player after the maximum of five time outs. This would re- quire that an injured player re- quiring an official time out could not be replaced by a substitute un- til after he left the field. The clock would start immediately when the substitute went out - on the field. BOB PITTS ... follow this man latter group. You don't see Pitts' name in the scoring column often -in fact, it appeared there only twice all last season. And you won't see him leading those dazzl- ing rushes into an opponent's zone this winter. 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