TIDE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1957 THE --IHGNDIY USAJNUR 515 ice-Victorious Gymnastic Squad ks Towards Brighter F-ture NewStas Sark S 7,S With dual swimming competi- tion underway, the Michigan very sharp in the sprint, winning team has started off on the right both the 50 and 100 yard free- "stroke." style races. The Wolverines' first Big Ten Captain John Narcy turned in opponent, Purdue, was handled a fine winning effort in diving. with comparative ease as the He was bolstered with a sparkling Boilermakers bowed, 58-47. third place effort by sophomore Coach Gus Stager, commenting diver, Ed Cole. Cole's perform- on his team's performance Sat- ance was outstanding since he urday night in Lafayette, said thats "everyone looked great!" Myers Improves The Maize and Blue's outstand- ing senior, Fritz Myers, cut one and-a-half seconds off his own best time in the 200 yard indivi- dual medley. He won the event in 2:13.0, edging out Purdue's top returning letterman, Walt Evers- man. Cy Hopkins, one of Michigan's top sophomore prospects won the grueling butterfly breaststroke ace. In an exhibition race, Hop- kins revealed some more of his vast talents by winning the or thodox breaststroke race in 2:22.9. This time is better than the pres-s ent Big Ten record. Hopkins has shown vast improvement since the beginning of the season and is on his way to becoming one of the Big Ten's top swimming stars. Dick Lahde, another sophomore who has been progressing stead- FRED MOWERY ily, placed second in the 200 yard . . switches events backstroke. He bettered his best had just come to Lafayette from time by three seconds. Madison, where he competed on Stager made special mention of the trampoline in the gymnastics Fred Mowery who has been sub- stituted to the breaststroke this meet on Friday. year to help out the team. With finals starting Friday, the Promising Performance team will take a brief vacation Mowery was originally a back- from the pool but they will not be stroker, but he was willing to idle throughout the entire mid- change to the breaststroke to help year period. the team, and his performance Vacation Action Saturday night was promising The Wolverine natators will considering he had worked on the face the University of Western stroke for only two weeks. Ontario in London, Ont. on Jan- A couple of other promising uary 31 in an exhibition. Follow- sophomores have given the team ing this meet the swimmers will some needed depth. be in Chicago for a clinic at the Sophomore Dick Mehl looked Town Club on January 29. PRESENT THIS COUPON P y rTents CLINT-FREE CLING-FREE -' CLEANED - PRESSED O. A ttFor the ICA 1 gRPrice of SUITS - DRESSES - COATS 210S. Fifti+,Ave. Phone NO 3-4191 WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER Convenient Parking - Free '57 Calendars Charge Accounts Solicited. Offer Good Until Jan. 19, 1957 Gee from the Sr CCDELINES 4 by Dick Cram ner Troubles for Keen PROBLEMS are nothing new for wrestling Coach Cliff Keen, but this year they seem a bit bigger than normal. It's not unusual for Keen to have some of his stars scholastically ineligible. It has also happened in the past that he has had to re- sort to sophomores to fill many of the weight divisions. Even the fact that many of his wrestlers have had no pre-college experience is nothing new. But never have all three of these developments hit the mat squad with so much destruction as they have this year. Ever since Keen became Wolverine coach in 1925, he has over- come annual obstacles to produce an unbroken line of winning teams. Championship squads in 1929, '38, '53, '55 and last year. Eleven see- ond place teams. Only two teams as low as fifth in the Conference, and none lower. Now, however, three lettermen are sitting on the sidelines hoping, along with Keen, that this exam period will permit their return to eligibility. Capt. Mike Rodriguez is the most sorely missed grappler. He has won the 157-lb. Big Ten title for the past two seasons. Besides Rodriguez, here are former Conference 130-lb. champ Max Pearson and junior heavyweight letterman Steve Zervas hoping to see second-semester action. Many SoPhs .. AND THEN there's the handicap that those who are wrestling now are generally inexperienced' No fewer than four of the starting eight - 123-pounder Willard Root, 137-pounder Larry Murray, Bob Weber at 157 lbs. and Karl Lutomski weighing 167 lbs. - are sopho- mores in their first year of varsity competition. Some of these sophs, as well as i47-pound senior Lloyd Hamady, came out for the team at Michigan without ever having wrestled in high school. Inexperience has already made its mark on the Wolverines. They were soundly trounced by Pittsburgh in their opening dual meet and gained no more than a split against the two so-so Conference foes last weekend - Indiana and Northwestern. Even when, and if, Rodriguez, Pearson and Zervas return to the squad, things will, not automatically improve. The long layoff will leave these three far below their potentials. Many Conference rivals are much stronger. That Northwestern - last-place finisher in 1956- could win only its second meet from the Wolverines in 30 years last Saturday is an indication of this. Keen has reason for pessimism, but this apparently is not part of his nature. So often in the past he has been able to pull a lowly- rated mat squad into title contention that he can't give up on this one. Instead, he promises to keep working with his men, hoping to use the rest of the dual meet schedule to shape a top contender when Big Ten Meet time comes around March 8-9. Robinson icially Retires 1 1 1, I ' . 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