e Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, February 27, 1970 ~Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY # r - -- - -- t f [aravich continues torrid pace lead scoring derby--Rudy tendth POVERTY AMIDST PLENTY Women s i Sx and the doll r NEW YORK ()-Never have so nany major college basketball layers scored so much with less ecognition because of Pistol Pete daravich. Nine players have an average f at least 30 points a game-most ver this late in the season - hrough games of last Saturday, ut attention is focused mainly on ist one of them-Maravich. The Louisiana State star has an verwhelming lead in the scoring ice, with 1,143 points in 24 games or a 47.6 average, according to CAA statistics released today. Maravich's average is 11.5 bet- er than that of runnerup Austin arr of Notre Dame, while 11.5 is that margin that separates Carr from the No. 3 scorer. Since the Tigers were invited last Wednesday to the NIT in New York, Maravich will have a chance to set the all-time scoring record for both small and major college competitgrs. LSU could play as many as four games in the 16-team tournament. Michigan's Rudy Tomjanovich dropped into tenth place but is less than one point per game out of sixth. Tomjanovich's average fell below the 30 point level for the first time this season as the result of several below-par per- formances. However, Tomjano- vich has started on the upswing again with two big games in suc- t t r i cession, producing 36 and 37 points. The 6-8 center-forward will be probably the Wolverine's secpnd leading career scorer, as he needs only 18 points to surpass B ill Buntin's 1795 O~nl Cn 7.i Ri Q By TERRI FOUCHEY and BETSY MAHON (We gratefully acknowledge the immeasurable assistance of Mike Keller). Daily Sports Analysis 0 ~lt,1 6 1 D. sell scored more FREE UNIVERSITY FESTIVAL SAT. FEB. 28 Michigan Union Ballroom 8-12 P.M. entertainment bring food and drink SOME CLASSES STILL OPEN Free U phone: 763-2130 He popped m an average of 2 however, figures of 72. Although thr main on the sch have a hard tim tin's rebound to needs 50 to dest] he only pulled Tuesday against Vic Bartolome leads field goal a .654 mark;:A Jacksonville is to 472 for a 23.6 av England of Tenn free throw perce Jacksonville is sive leader witha 21 games throu while Army tops a 51.8 average it Marvelous f I. Pete Maravich, Louisianarst. 24 2. Austin Carr, Notre Dame 24 3. Rick Mount, I Purdue, 16 I4. Dan 155cR, Kentucky 22 5. Cal Murphy, Niagara 23 6. Ralph Simpson, Mich. State , 7. Willie Humes, Idaho state 22 8. Bob Lanier, St. Bon'v'ture 20 3. Rick Yunkus, Georgia Tech 23 10 Rudy Tomjanov Michigan 20 pis.y LaW 1e'us From the splendor of the car- points. peted locker room in Yost 2164 for 80 games, Fieldhouse where in each lock- 8.6. Tomjanovich, er hangs a choice of home and to play in a total away uniforms to the luxury of a chartered jet; so f a r e the young men carrying the talents ree contest re- of Michigan's men's varsity hedule, Rudy will teams. Compare this to the e breaking Bun- plight of the young ladies up- )tal of 1037. He holding the honor of the maize roy the mark, but a n d blue as members of fe- down seven last male extramural teams. Indiana. The girl's teams, who have of Oregon State their home games in Barbour percentage with Gymnasium, get to change in krtis Gilmore of the swank caverns in the base- )p rebounder with ment which passes for the lock- erage, and Jimmy er room. The swimming team, nessee is No. 1 in however, is treated to the mod- ntage at .905. ern facilities at the Women's the team offen- Pool. In these excellent facili- ties the girls change into non- a 101.7 average in matching threadbare swimsuits gh last Tuesday, to represent their university. the defense with While wearing these nonuni- n 23 games. forms the girls also travel to away meets, provided they dis- cover a car somewhere which S Miravich doesn't rent for too much or if fg ft Pts. Avg. they can afford the gas to get them to their destination. It is 4 437 269 1143 47.6 only within the last five to ten 4 344 179 867 36.1 years that a new philosophy has been developing in women's ath- 219 108 546 34.1 letics across the country. This 282 171 735 33.4 philosophy is t h e reason be- hind the growth in extramural 261 183 705 30.7 and the beginning of intercol- legiate competition for women, 26 3 At Michigan, the idea of in- 250 163 663 30.1 tercollegiate competition for wo- men has been thought feasible 247 108 602 30.1 for about the past two years. 277 137 691 30.0 The philosophy took a while to ich, get here, but once it arrived it 231 124 586 29.3 found many supporters includ- Sgirls ecaches teachers and d'partment heads who think t at the whole idea is "great." THE SWIING team is a prime example of girls who wish to represent their school well and an example of a coach who knows her girls are of intercol- legiate caliber and who would like to allow them to meet with comparable competiion. Miss Sandi Hittleman, a teaching fellow in the Physica l Education Department, is t h a first real coach the team has had. She describes her team and t h e basic predicament facing all women's sports wishing to go intercollegiate. "Compe t i t i v e swimming can't be recreational. You have to h a v e meets to know just how good you are. Our girls have done very well in meets and in the Midwest- ern we placed second to Michi- gan State. "The girls would like to go to the nationals in Chicago b u t there's no money. They should go because they're so far under the established minimum times for placing in the nationals that it's obvious they offer ex- cellent competition." So to get to the nationals the team has sold candy and cokes at the men's swim meets. As Miss Hittleman states, "The girls are working because they really want to represent t h e University. Yet they have had to pay almost the total cost by themselves. The fact that thoy have to pay for away meets out of their pocket has caused some girls to dirop out and this has caused us a problem with depth. We have barely enough swim- mers to cover all the events. "The girls may. e a c h have swum two events during o n e IJIG TEN TUREAT mee but all of them are willing to e n t e r another event if it means earing soime points for the cam. All the girls put their whole effort into just making poins for the team and winning for their sch-ol." TEAM MEMERS Tanja La- hti and Cathy Mancino state t 1 e poblem in these words; dW don't receive any money from anyone. Our allotment from the Women's Athletic As- sociation (which is n o w de- funct) was used to pay for re- freshaments after our first home meet. We keep trying to think of different ways to raise mon- ey that all women's teams can use. We can sell at the men's meets but a team like basketball can't because there's already a concession deal at t h e men's gaines. Their teammate, diver Lani Loken sees the financial aspect as the m a i n problem facing probable intercollegiate wo- men's teams. "In order to be- come intercollegiate the teams need soime sound financial basis. We need some definite funding source for our away meets and uniforms. We're willing to do all. we can but it would help if we had some backing "from the University." The men agree that women's athletics should become inter- collegiate but also see financ- ing as the big problem. As Ath- letic Director Don Canham put it "I'm very much in favor of women's intercollegiate athlet- ics. It's a coining thing and will be on a fairly large scale even- tually. In fact, the NCAA has a committee setsup studying it." HE ALSO pointed out that the girls' track team has used athletic department facilities for several years for their mee and that the National Cham - ionships in field hockey were held on Palmer Field last fail. He adds, however, "Money is, of course, t h e main problem. There are several club sports which would like to become in- tercollegiate but there just isn't the money to let them. The on- ly basis for a women's program~ to begin is with some plannc d financing. It would probably have to be based on admissions or gate receipts. Girls basketball draws very well in some stat=s and with enough publicity it could be on a similar le v e 1 here." LACK OF publicity and stu- dent support are two obstacles to women's athletics becoming intercollegiate. As Miss Hittle- man sees it, "There isn't enough student support right now to charge admissions to games and meets. The Daily doesn't help with o u r publicity either. If someone did want to come they wouldn't know about it because we're never included in the week's events and when we call in our results they are either not published or somehow come out wrong." There are two solutions to the problem of financing women's intercollegiate athletics. One is to somehow reincarnate the now defunct Women's Athletic As- this was where club teams re- this was where clum teams re- ceived the money to travel to away meets and to offset their other expenses. All the member clubs paid dues to the WAA and each was assigned a specified amount to cover their needs. The other solution is to go cumplev ly intercollegiate such k as the women's team at Michi- gai S