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Li Ten Track, Wrestling
'earson, Marchello Spark Wolverines
n Conference Mat Meet at ChampaignI
Battles
Be in Toda
Illinois Contingent Favored
For Indoor Cinder Crown
By AL JONES
Special to The Daily
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.-It will take
a maximum performance from
every m e m b e r of Michigan's
wrestling team here today and
tomorrow to fulfill any hopes they
have of becoming Big Ten cham-
pions..
Actually, the Wolverines are
sporting a dismal season record
of three wins, one tie and six,
losses in dual meets, and have no
visible reason to think of possible
titles.
History Means Nothing
But in the grappling sport for-
mer performances mean nothing.
They are used only as a ruler to
pick pre-meet favorites. The team
that wins will be the one that
wrestles the best here at the Il-
linois field house today and to-
morrow.
Three teams, defending cham-
pion Minnesota, Iowa and the
host Illini, are conceded the best
chances to walk off tomorrow
afternoon with the crown.
Michigan, which under Coach
Cliff Keen has dominated the
Conference wrestling scene three
of the Past five years, will have
to come in the back door this year
if they hope for the title.
'M' Second Last Year
Keen's charges won the title in
1953,;1955 and 1956, and were sec-
ond last year as Minnesota edged
them 55-54. A number of these
fine finishes have been accom-
plished after mediocre dual-meet
seasons, an indication of what
may ocur today and tomorrow.
The Wolverines' main burden
will be' centered on" Captain Max
Pearson, defending champ at 130-
lbs., and 167-lb. Jack Marchello,
who will aim for the title he won
in 1956 but lost last year,finish
rihning second.
If victory is to come Michigan's
way, Improving performances will
be needed from the other six men.
Keen has switched his lineup
greatly in an effort to get each
man in the division he's best suit-
ed for.
Five Men in Regular Spots
Aside from Pearson and Mar-
chello, Wayne King at 157-lb.,
Karl Lutomski at 177-lbs., and
Fred Olm, heavyweight, will be
the only men in their regular
weights.
Larry Murray, usually a 130-lb.
competitor, has lost weight so that
he can compete at 123-lb. He
should be especially tough at this
lower weight.
Lloyd Hamady will fill in at
137-lb., for Pearson who has
dropped to the 130-1b. class, and
Tom Leith will move from 157-1b.
to 147-lb. to complete the line-up.
The preliminaries will be held
in all weights this afternoon at
2:00 p.m. and this evening at 7:30
p.m. The finals will be tomorrow
afternoon at 3:30 p.m.
FLYING HIGH--Wolverine star high jumper Brendan O'Reilly sails over the bar as he prepares
to fight for the Big Ten high jump title today and tomorrow at Champaign, Ill. O'Reilly is the only
returning Michigan track team member to finish as high as second place last year. This year he
faces stiffer competition as favored Illinois has entered three men who have cleared 6'6", O'Reilly's
best.
FINISHES ICE AGE:
Weekend Tech Hockey Series Ends Life of WIHL
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By BRUCE BENNETT
The Western Intercollegiate
Hockey League pulls down the
curtain for good this weekend,
and for one of the few times in
memory, when Michigan begins a
two game series with Michigan
Tech at Houghton tonight, a play-
off berth or league championship
won't hinge on the outcome.
Only sixth place in the seven
team circuit is at stake as Al Ren-
frew sends his skaters onto the ice
in ancient Dee Stadium, scene of
some of the wildest battles be-
tween these two schools h
Instead of focusing on the ice
sheet at the Dee, all college hockey
fans' eyes will be centered on
the arenas in Grand Forks, N.D.
and Minneapolis, where playoff
berths will be decided..
League leading Denver and
NCAA tournament bound-North
Dakota wind up their respective
schedules tonight at Frand Forks.
The Pioneers moved into sole pos-
session of first place Wednesday
with a 4-3 verdict over North Da-
kota.
North Dakota, however, is as-
sured of a tournament berth on
the basis of the won-lost mark,
which will be better than either
By JIM BENAGH
Special to The Daily
CHAMPAIGN -- Coach Don
Canham and 21 members of his
young "wait-'til-next-year" track
team looked gloomy as they,
viewed the all star pack of Big
Ten rivals warming up for to-
night's qualifying heats of the in-
door finals.
The Michigan contingent had
good reason for the bleak out-
look: in 14 individual events, 11
defending champions and 12 run-
Underdog 'M'
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By PAUL BORMAN
With its top two individual stars
sidelined with injuries,, Michigan's
underdog gymnastics team will
have to rely solely upon depth as
it takes on Illinois at Champaign.
Both Olympic star Ed Gagnier
and Big Ten trampoline champion
Ed Cole will be missing from the
Wolverine lineup.
Although Gagnier and Cole were
missing last Saturday, the Wol-
verine gymnasts were still able to
Michigan State. However, that
job will be next to impossible to
achieve tonight against the power-
laden Big Ten champions.
Returning to the Illini squad
this year are Big Ten All-Around
Champ Abe Grossfield, NCAA Side
Horse Champ John Davis and two
more spectacular performers in
Bob Diamond and Frank Hailand.
In predicting the outcome of
the meet Gym Coach Newt Loken
saw the Illini 12 point favorites
and conceded Grossfield three'
firsts: parallel bars, still rings and
the high bar.
"dagnier and Grossfield are the
two top all-around men in the
Conference.i With Ed out, it looks
wide open for Abe,"' he declared.
Davis and Diamond combine to
for mthe best side horse combina-
tion in the country and since that
event also has the reputation as
being Michigan's weakest, an- Il-
linois sweep seems emminent.
Hailand adds to' Loken's wor-
ries as a result of hip talent on.
the trampoline an dinl tumbling.
He has yet to be defeated in the
latter event this year.
Tomorrow the team travels to
Bloomington to take on Indiana
in an afternoon meet.
contending Colorado College or
Denver, win or lose.
. Denver Needs Help
Denver's chances for a playoff
spot depend on a victory tonight
and a Minnesota win from Col-
orado College in the two games
at Minneapolis.
The playoffs will beheld in
Minneapolis March 13-15 in con-
nection with Minnesota's centen-
nial celebration.
Getting back to action in
Houghton, Renfrew will be minus
three forwards this weekend. Don
Gourley is still out with a cracked
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Gary Starr did not make the trip
for personal reasons. But Bob
White returns after a week's ab-
sence.
Three Men End Careers
Three Michigan seniors will be
making their final appearance in
college circles. Neil McDonald,
team captain and most valuable
player, Ed Switzer and Don Mc-
Intosh close out their careers this
weekend.
With this action on three fronts,
the rapidly disintegrating WIHL
will call it quits after this week-
end's play. Once considered the
cream of collegiate ice circles, the
league now embraces only two
teams, Denver and North Dakota,
following Colorado College's an-
nouncement Wednesday that it,
was withdrawing from the league.
This announcement by the Ti-
gers followed 'closely on the heels
of Coach Tom Bedecki's resigna-
tion because "I want to quit while
I'm on top." Bedecki guided the
Colorado school to its second
NCAA title last winter, but his
team is not yet assured of a berth
in the playoffs this year. Being
mentioned as his successor is ex-
Michigan mentor Vic Heyliger.
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the championships, held here at
the Illinois Armory.
Of those returning stars, only
high jumper Brendan O'Reilly-
second last year - will be wear
ing the Michigan "M'" He will be
matched against the best field
of jumpers ever assembled in a
Conference meet, including three
Illini who have cleared 6'6".
There are 11 sophomores, four
juniors and only six seniors on
Canham's squad. Back home in
Ann Arbor are members of the
best freshman team ever to enter
Michigan, including many who
could do well this weekend if eli-
gible.
"We won't take a first place in
any event," Canham said earlier
this week, "and- If we got every
break in the world we still an't
win."
Illinois Tops
Canham expects Illinois to walk
off with the team title.
"They could score u~p to 5
points," he predicted.
Last year, the Illini finished s
disappointing last in the indoor
meet, scoring only 11 3/5 points.
In the outdoor finals, they hit
the comeback trail by bouncing
to fourth place.
Last year the indoor champion-
ship was won by Indiana with
372/ points in a hectic finish. The
Hoosiers dropped their baton in
the final relay, g'ifing Ohio State
hopes of a victory if they had won
the relay. But the Buckeyes were
disqualified later in the same race .
and had to settle for second, de-
spite Glenn Davis' record 16
points.
OSU- Coach Differs
Ohio State coach Larry Snyder's
opinion differed slightly from
Canham: "Illinois and Indiana.
will battle it out for the title, with
Ohio, Michigan State, Michigan
and I-don't-know-who-else fight-
ing for the rest of the glamour."
"The tougiest thing for us will
be getting through tonight's
qualifying heats," noted the Mieh..
igan mentor, "and this will be
even harder than placing in the
finals."
Qualifying races in all track
contests except the mile, two mile
and the relay will be held this
evening. Also tonight, all but six
broad jumpers will be eliminated.
Finals will be held tomorrow aft-
ernoon.
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Tennis coach Bill Murphy will
start his sorting process Monday
with an elimination tournament.
His job is to find suitable re-
placements for graduates Barry
MacKay, Mark Jaffe and Dick
Potter, last year's top three net-
ters, who led Michigan to the Big
Ten and NCAA championships.
The first division of the elim.
inations includes four returning
lettermen, three from last year's
squad. Captain John Harris, Jon
Erickson and George Korol are re-
turnees from the 1957 team, while
the fourth, Bob Sassone, earned
his letter as sixth man on the
1953 team.
The second division consists of
the four freshman returnees from
last year plus one war vet, a pre-
vious letter winner.
The new sophomores include
Wayne Peacock, Bill Vogt, Frank
Fulton and John Wiley. Ron Mor-
gan, a former Wolverine netter
who interrupted his schooling to
go ainto the service concludes the
quintet.,
The eliminations are scheduled
to be completed before spring va-
cation at which time Murphy will
take his selected team to Wash-
ington to compete in the Cherry
Blossom Tournament.
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Denver 12 7 0 16 1
North Dakota 14 5 0 15 1
Colorado College 11 7 0 15 1
Minnesota 11 11 0 11 11
Michigan State 9 11 0 .10 14
MICHIGAN 6 10 0 g 8 14
Michigan Tech 4 14 0 4 1E
Games This Weekend
North Dakota at Denver (Friday)
Colorado College at Minnesota (2)
MICHIGAN at Michigan"Tech. (2)
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