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mmmmm TV DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday. March 13, '65 1 -fj iritfa' ings Give Ullman Boost for Har, rm 'W Red ophy wxr liA 4- is I (vv2y ff'Jji All I 4 i game's first goal six times, the Wings first goal nine times. Eleven times Ullman has scored the goal which broke a tie and twice he has scored the goal which hoisted the Wings into a tie. Eight of his tallies were insurance goals, ones that gave the Wings a two-goal margin. In addition to the 10 he has scored against Montreal, he has hit New York and Boston for seven goals each, Toronto for six and Chicago for four.

Ullman and linemate Floyd Smith top the Wings in assists on winning goals, each helping out on eight winners. That's not a bad season's work. In the Wings' current But Hull has had more problems in the second half than a giraffe with a sore neck. He scored 33 goals in the first 35 games and, with only six games left for Chicago, he has scored only five since. He has been troubled with two aching knees and a wretched slump.

MEANWHILE, Ullman has spread his considerable talent over the whole season. Here are a few figures showing his importance to the Red Wings and, according to the trophy wording, the award goes to the man "adjudged to be most valuable to his team." Ullman' 34 goal break down like this: eight winners (tops in the league), the far the Wings have been doing the impossible while climbing to first place. WORKING against Ullman are his lack of glamour compared to Golden Boy Hull and the fact that he never made an All-Star team until the mid-season voting this year even though he had scored 20 or more goals eight straight seasons. Also working against Ullman, and this is most important, is the split voting system which the NHL uses to select trophy winners. Hull, with a dazzling first half, collected 88 of a possible 90 points in the Hart balloting, while Ullman was second with only 22 points.

BY JACK BEKKY Fre Pruf Sport Writr MONTREAL Norm Ullman, heart of the red-hot Red Wings right now, just may turn into the Hart of the National Hockey League the Hart Trophy winner as most valuable player. There isn't much argument about that here. Going into the final regular-season meeting between the Canadiens and Wings Saturday night, Ullman had scored 10 of his 34 goals against Montreal, four of them game-winners. Ullman faces the almost impossible job of dislodging Chicago's Bobby Hull, but so Buries Dayton AP Photo LOOKOUT TITANS, here comes the LaSalle Explorers. A team of LaSalle enthusiasts, members of one of the school's dribble their way towards Madison Square Garden where the Explorers meet the University of Detroit Saturday in the NIT.

The boys dribbled the basketball in relays all the waj from the EaSalle campus in Philadelphia. Willie Horton 1 Pole Vaulting 16 Feet Old Stuff for Uelses Norm Ullman can he do 'impossible'? seven-game winning streak Ullman has 10 goal3 and five assists. "HE HAS BEEN our most valuable player," agreed manager-coach Sid Abel, a former Hart winner himself, "and we have a lot of valuable players. "Roger Crozler has been great for us in goal, but he has had the guys up front stopping some for him, too. Normie has gone out and got the goals, especially the big ones.

"If we keep going like this and finish in first place, I'd say that he definitely should win the Hart Trophy." For Ullman to win, Hull would have to be blanked on every ballot and it's doubtful the Chicago voters would do that. ICE CHIPS Ullman doesn't have any goal-scoring bonus clauses, and yet he has scored six more goals now than he ever did. "That's all right," said Abel with a laugh, "he has so many other bonus arrangements that I'm going to hate to look at his contract." The Wings skated briskly for 40 minutes Friday but had no contact work. "I'd like to play the game right now," Abel said. Forward defenseman Gary Bergman joined the club after being out three weeks with a knee Injury.

The Wings will carry an 8-3-2 series record into their final meeting with the Canadiens. It will be televised on Channel 50 at 8 p.m. From here the Wings will swing to Boston Sunday night, closing a three-game Swift: Will RV JOE FALLS Frc Prcw Sport Writer LAKELAND Someday Willie Horton will hit 40 home runs for the Tigers. That's the opinion of Swift, and frankly he'd like it to be in 1965. So the new boss of the Tigers is going to give Willie the Wonder every chance to win the left field job in Florida.

Swift announced that Horton would-be his leftfielder when the Tigers open the exhibition season Saturday against the Minnesota Twins at Orlando. GATES BROWN, who is Hor-ton's closest friend, is still considered the No. 1 leftfielder, but Swift said he is going with Horton in the opener because the Twins are using two left-handed pitchers. More important, Swift left the impression that the job is Willie's for the taking. "Willie can be a 40-home run hitter for the Tigers," Swift said during Friday' long hot workout at Henley Field.

"Once he gets his confidence, there won't be a hall park in America that ran hold him. "He'll hit them out in every Hit 40 Willie Horton worrier with a future direction 1 eft, right and center." So Chapter II of the Willie Horton story will begin unfolding in Orlando's Tinker Field. LAST SPRING Willie the Wonder wa.s the sensation of BY GEORGE PUSCAS The clump, clump, clump of a dozen runners pounding around the new Cobo Arena track was enough to murder sleep, if indeed, sleep was what the man really wanted. John Uelses, the world's first 16-foot pole vaulter, was inclined to sleep, but the noise and his own feet betrayed him. Eliminations already had begun in the pole vault at the inaugural NCAA indoor championships with a dozen others striving desperately to accomplish what Uelses has many times.

But he was having none of it. HE SPRAWLED OITT over a deck of seats, seemingly bored by the activity of his rivals, closed his eyes, rolled over searching for comfort, and all the while his feet kept wiggling, slow, then fast, faster. And finally he gave up in disgust, brotight himself upright, and took a long look around the bright Arena which was becoming the weekend playground for a collection of some of the nation's foremost college trackmen. "Somehow," said Uelses. ''I've got to get myself psyched for this meet." he said.

"It's like fin old toy. You get enough of it. "The first time was fine, like a new toy, and it was fine for a while after that, but you can tire even of 16-foot vaults. I'm 27 and still In school. It's rime for of her things." He's not really sure what the "other things" will be.

He has reached 16-4 i indoors and 16-5 'i outdoors and he is not intrigued by the idea of pushing on to 17 feet. "When the outdoor season comes." he said. "I might even try the javelin. I'll keep vaulting but I have to try something different just to keep my interest alive." There is danger, you see, in a man becoming too proficient at his trade. ONE OF THE vaulters landed short of the huge pile of foam rubber which receives the falling vaulters under the bar, smacking feet first with a hard jar on the wood track.

"Oh, golly," gasped Uelses. "That's enough to finish a guy." He turned hack for a moment then to his own problems. He had spent seven year in the Marines, which explains his late college career at LaSalle, and there's an urgency now to be done with the fun and games of younger athletes. "Next year is the end for me," he said. "I'll finish at LaSalle (economics) and maybe I'll do some post-graduate work at Michigan State, or maybe I'll rejoin the Marines.

But what's the point of more vaulting?" Uelses' boredom with his own accomplishments led him to such distraction that even the prospects of joining the 1964 United States Olympic team could not arouse him. "WHAT WOULD It have been, one more medal?" he said. "It didn't mean much to me." And so he was not a part of the Americans' conquest at U-M Subs Finish 98-71 Rout In NCAA Wolverines Face Vanuerbilt Next BY BOB PILLE Frr Prw Sport! Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. Mighty Michigan unleashed its awesome rebounding power and some near-flawless shooting on Dayton here Friday night to destroy the Flyers, 98-71, in the NCAA basketball tournament. The top-ranked Wolverines will meet Vanderbilt Saturday night for a spot in next week's semifinals at Portland, Ore.

Vandy advanced with an 83-78 overtime victory over De- raul. Runninz its record to 22-3, Michigan pounded Dayton (21-7) into submission by crashing the boards and hitting the hoop earlv and often. The Wolverines bolted into a 44-27 Kaiftime lead and never let up. When it reached 76-47 with 11 minutes left, pubs fil tered into the U-M line-up and they helped open up a 31-pointi lead. BUI unun ifu with 25 points, while Oliver Darden added 17 and Cazzie Russell 14 to the well-rounded atack.

Henry Finkel, the 6-11 center, led Dayton with 21. THE WOLVERINES jumped out to a seven-point gap at 15-8 in a bit more than six minutes behind baskets from four of the five starters and three of the! baskets from Russell. Dayton got some points fromj Finkel underneath and Papp; outside along the way, but then; was held off by Darden for a while. Oliver, the last regular to begin scoring, had a hand In 11 of Michigan's next 17 points as the Wolverines rolled out to 33-21 in another seven minutes. He shoved in two baskets on tiD-ins.

rehounded to set up a Tregoning basket, then grabbed! a loose ball to throw it through the hoop and added the freei throw. Buntin got around Finkel fori a couple of baskets, but Cas- sidy scored from the outsid Turn to Page SC, Column 1 WIN, 98-56 school basketball champion- Aii-Biaie iorwru, i a slim Z5 points, while Kilts Hull with 19 and John Rud- ley with IS were other top Harbor scorers. n0Uge had to outhustle a int Frank price scored 15 pomtg for Rouge. SEEKING its first State team in the state, all the war A title since 1953, Ford- omers the Tiger training camp. He hit half a dozen homers and won a job in Detroit.

Or so he thought. But he didn't start on opening day in Detroit. That crushed him. It shouldn't have, but it did. For all his brute power and awesome strength, Willie is a sensitive boy and he brooded in the dugout while the.

old pro Billy Bniton, went out to leftfield to start the season. Willie the Wonder never recovered from that disappointment and a month later was back at Syracuse. Now he'll get another chance. Horton fires Swift's imagination as he did Charlie Dressen's. "IF WILLIE got off to a good start, there's no telling what he could do," said Swift.

"He could tear up the league." Swift understands Horton's sensitivity. Two years ago Swift was the manager at Syracuse. Horton was his leftfielder. Syracuse was opening the season in Atlanta and 15 minutes be- Turn to Page 2C, Column 1 OPEN IS EEWIS CAUGHT :47.8 1C.S. 440 Mark IToppled at Cobo BY GEORGE PUSCAS Theron Lewis of Louisiana's Southern University shattered the American indoor record for the 440 Friday night iri the colorful inaugural of the National Collegiate indoor track championships at Cobo Arena.

John Uelses Psyched "Sure. You know, up, enthused, ready for the competition." THREE YEARS AGO Uelses stood the track world on its ear by accomplishing the first 16-foot vault, something not even Cornelius Warmerdam, long known as the greatest poleman who ever lived, was able to do. Uelses now has done it 32 times and the prospect of another does not excite him. "The next time will be 33 and the time after that 34," thebroad jump ahead of Michi man State's Big Ten champion Jim Garrett, leaping 25 feet. one inch, and Oklahoma State' Tom Von Ruden took the 880: in 1:51.8.

special invitational mile for non-eligibles in the college portion of the competition, former Big Ten champion Al Carius of Illinois surprised favored Gerry Und-gren, over-hauling the ambitions coast star In the final 150 yards to win In 4:09.4. Except for this newly titled quartet, all the others from the the Arena Saturday after-! noon- i The glistening new track, Tokyo last summer. m. 1 TIGERS An enthused crowd of 8,640 watched the slim Lewis, a mem-i ber of the 1964 United States Olympic team, pound over the new, wood oval in :47.8. clip- ping three tenths of a second off the record set a year ago by Yale's Wendell Mottley.

I 6-io jf champions to be crowned as indoor track made its debut in the Motor City. RANDY MATSOX, huge sophomore who has been reaching 66 feet consistently in the shot put, won his specialty with a toss of 63 feet, 2i inches. B. Harbor, Rouge Roll Merrily On BY HAL SCHRAM Friday was another Benton Harbor-River Rouge night Mike Cole of 350 collegians were waiting for the big showdown in the 40th annual State high ships. Benton Harbor is the defend- streak.

River Rouge, which has won the Class crown seven of the last 11 years, is bidding; banked steeply on the curves Class A champion and and reqmring 11 laps to thejowner of a 30-game winning THE TRADITIONALIST CHOOSES A GANT SHIRT for a fifth straight title. Ispirited St. Johns quintet in the The- night was a frolicsome final four minutes. one for Benton Harbor and itj heid a 13-point lead should have been. The the seCond half walloped outmanned Hastings, sparked by center Dave 98-56, before an overf lowjPage with 25 pointg SL Johns throng of 10,000 in Western; battled back within four-points Michigan's Reed fieldhouse.

before vieldinsr the game's last Turn to Page 3C. Column 2 All-State Team if Is Sunday Here's the news high school basketball fans have been waiting for: The announcement Michigan's OFFICIAL All-State Team, as usual a ree 1'ress exclusive. Staff Writer Hal Schram, the state's top prep sports authoritv. has consulted with the high school He takes his shirt styling seriously. So does Gant they're hard to please when it comes to fit of collar, its roll, its profile.

And they're fastidious about the way the shirt body drapes and folds. Gant tailors their shirts in beefy weave oxfordcioths and soft broadcloths, with button- Hastings had a lackluster: i 1 3 1 10-9 record and finished third in a predominantly Class J5. league. ROUGE sidelined a fighting Jackson St. Johns quintet, lk High reached next Wednes yoke back, barrel cuffs.

Oxfords and assorted stripes. Broadcloth sizes 14-17; sleeve lengths 32-36. 6.50 and 6.95 coaches to select the top :,50, for its 20th victory in jday's quarterfinals with a clean-cut 55-50 victory over Jackson at Trenton High. SATURDAY TO 3 P.M. down collar, contour in white, blue, maize, in stripes only.

Collar SHELBY STATE WOODWARD EASTLAND NORTHLAND MACK (exceptions: Birmingham open to Shelby open to 5:45) five players in each of starts before spectators Michigan's four enroll- at Eastern Michigan University, ment classifications. Meet fsi After a slow start the Tigers these top prep stars on 1' sprinted away to a 15-point the sports pages of SUN- i lead after seven minutes and DAY'S FREE PRESS. f.were ahead, 48-26, at halftime. The Yikings kept the pressure on Fordson, No. 7 rated but finally yielded to Neimer Turn to Page 2C, Column 4 AT MONTCALM ARBOR LAND PONTIAC MALL GRAND RIVER MOROSS WESTB0RN LINCOLN FARK JACKSON LIVCNIA MALL GREENFIELD WONDERLAND MACOMB MALL BIRMINGHAM PHTL SHINMCK 3rd in Broadjump i f-, p-.