H E MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929 . . ........................................ _ - . . . . .... ... EIGHT CONFERENCE CAGE TEAMS TO -ii PLAY TONIGH PURDUE AND INA FV WILL RESUME 4 . 4k. A) nn LED B TEAM IN SGORING CONFERENCE BREAKS RELATIONS B LAGERS T UrrUOE AGAINST YPSILANTI FIVE WITH AMATEUR ATHLETIC UN] [ONI ULTRUIT CITY QUINTET. Detroit City college and final ex- aminations are still ahead of the Junior Varsity quintet. The "B" team is scheduled to go to Detroit on Thursday night to battle the champions of the Michigan Col- legiate conference last year. The scheduling of this game will. make it impossible for the Court- right five to ease off practice to any great extent until the day before final exams are to begin. The players took part in the usual drill yesterday with the Varsity five. Wbittle Aids Offense To Dal Whittle and Cushing can be attributed much of the success that marked the one-point victory over Ypsilanti on Thursday night when the Junior Varsity eked out a 27 to 26 win, thus securing rev- enge for a previous defeat. The "B" offensive moved rather slowly at the start of the game and it was not until Whittle was thrust ihto the lineup that much scoring power was shown. He sank four baskets in short order that aided in piling up a comfortable lead that Ypsi could not offset in the first quarter. IKanitz Forevld Out But his work could not offset the Teacher's strength that became apparent at the close of the first quarter and continued with even more power as the last half began.1 Kanitz also left the game with four personals on his record and his departure did not aid the Wol- verines in defending their margin. It was Cushing who saved the day when the Norial quintet forged into the lead, He connected with three baskets that accounted for six very precious points. Barley'sI cashing in on two fool shots also was valuable. The Normal squad had a big advantage in height, and this factor made it quite diffi- cult for the "B" team to get posses- sion of the ball. The Varsity squad of five took I part in its every-other-day practice ! yesterday in the field house. Most of the time was devoted to perfect- ing offensive plays, with an inten- sive drill on defense as well. The Varsity also engaged in a scrim- mage with the rest of the squad. Opposing the Varsity lineup of Truskowski and Orwig at forwards,! Chapman at center, and McCoy and Rose at guards,, Coach Court- right sent a team consisting of Downing and Weinstein as for- wards, Den Blyker at center, and Lovell and Cushing at guards. LAKE PLACID, N. Y.-Leonhard Seppala, of Fairbanks, Alaska, won the two-day second annual sled dog derby here, although he lost the second day's race.; BRAD0GEIR SPORTS CARD' F ULL THISWEEK END Mat Squad Opens Big Ten Season As Cagers And Pucksters Iiay Home Gaimes IIOCKEY 'I'IAM IS STRQNO (13y A\s f;iii, 1ress) j MADISON, Jan. 18.--tContests inS basketball, hockey and wrestling on' the coming week-end will affordk Wisconsin sport fans a full pro- gram. The Badger cagers will play their return game with Minnesota on Saturday evening, while the wrestlers will open the Big Ten; season with Illinois in the after- noon. Johnny Farquhar's hockey team will go into action Saturday' night. The Wisconsin winter sports chief has closed negotiations with Marquette for a game at Mil- waukee. The gymnasts and fencers will be idle until their Conference sched- ule gets under way in February. Art Masley's fencers exhibited un- usual skill in their first bouts last Saturday when they overwhelmed the Milwaukee Y. M. C. A. team there, 12 to 5. The puckmeu had little trouble in running their string of victories to five when they upset the invad- ing North Dakota Aggies in a pair of matches, 4 to 2 and 8 to 4. F'arquhar's aggregation is coming nicely. The Meiklejohn boys, Kreuger and Thompson, give the Badgers a clever. offensive group whose team play has shown steady improvement. Illinois, always a contender in wrestling, will test Wisconsin's strength this year to the fullest. Action Comes After Northwestern tired of its continual demands and And Ohio State Rebel At its general attempts to 'ominate Policies Of A. A. U. our affairs. Henceforth, we will! conduct athletic meets with clubs and teams that we choose and will I (Hy Associatcd Press not pay the regular $10 tribute toI ICHICAGO, Jan. 18.--The Western obtain the heretofore required Conference has broken off relations sanction. with the amateur athletic union of "The Western Conference is big America and henceforth will con- enough to handle its own athletic duct its own athletic meets inde- affairs. It does not wish to govern; 1pendently, Major John L. Griffith, neither does it wish to be govern- Conference athletic commissioner, ed. It will strictly adher to the revealed today. amateur rules, of course, but will The action, which Major Griffith ee totally independent of A. A. U. said was agreed to by every mem- domination. aer of the Conference, culminates "The A. A. U. was organi ed 40 a quarrel between the two organi- years ago with a noble purpose- zations, which has been simmering to foster amateur athletics. DuringI for years but which reached its the past decade, however, it has1 breaking point .this past week when over-stepped its bounds and actedl Northwestern university and Ohio as a muffler on the progress of! State rebelled at A. A. U. policies. amateur athletics. The - Western! Griffith Makes Statement Conference can brook its interfer-1 Northwestern decided to break ence no longer.."E with the A. A. U. when the latter Others May Follow organization refused to sanction a Major Griffith predicted the Big swimming meet between the Pur- Ten's action soon would be follow-t ple and the Chicago athletic associ- ed by other members of the na- ation because several of its swim- tional intercollegiate athletic asso-1 nmers had competed in an unsanc- ciation, which he said was "tired tioned meet last summer. Ohio of A. A. U. domination." State followed suit yesterday when Avery Brundage, Chicago, presi- it decided to rui the Ohio Relays dent of the A. A. U. has de-i without seeking A. A. U. sanction fended his organization vigorously. as in the past. throughout its quarrels with the "No longer will the Western Con- Western Conference, asserting the! ference benc under the yoke of union's only purpose was to guide the A. A. U.," Major Griffith told and not to dominate amateur ath- The Associated Press. "We are letics. FRESHMAN COURT PLA YERS DISPLA Y ABILITY UNDERFISHER'S TUTELAGE1 Coach Ray Fisher, who handleser has cut the squad until he nowI the yearling basketball squad, has has a group of about 25 men. Ofk given his men a chance to study these players there are nine who c for their first examinations as col- 1 have shown the most cage talentt lege students by ordering practice and who appear to be the besti only twice next week. Already the Varsity prospects.- freshman mentor has found it The select forwards, Priest, Weiss,. necessary to let some of his candi- Jones, and McDonald, are all fast dates go from the squad, as they and have good eyes for the basket. seemed to be getting behind in their Jones and McDonald are both tall . work. men, but Priest and Weiss are not The squad as a whole has dis- much above the average in height.- played a marked amount of ability, Daniels and Burnham have caughtt and although the best of them need Coach Fisher's eye at center. Bothl a lot of work, there are several men are big players and handle them-. who show signs of developing into' selves well on the floor, besides, Varsity players. Size, which was possessing a good eye.a noticably missing in last year's Three men have stood out at the i yearling squad, is more than ap- guard posts with Crouch, O'Neil, parent in the group now working and Ricketts all about on a par-c out under Coach Fisher. i O'Neil is the only one of the triol From the large number of fresh- who is not over six feet, but he is men who came out for the team at fast enough to make up for his4 the beginning of the season, Fish- I smaller size., STAR INDIANA FORWARD TO FACE BCILERMAKERS s. Branch McCracken Sharpshooting forward on the Crimson cage team, who is expected to engage in a scoring duel with "Stretch" Murphy of Purdue to- night. ALPHA OMEGA'S TEIAM Alpha Omega won the fraternity handball championship by defeat- ing the Sigma Alpha Mu team, 3-x, in the finals of the inter-fraternity handball tournament in the new sports building yesterday after- noon. The increasing interest, shown in this sport is indicat- ed by the fact that there were three professional fraternity teams in the semi-finals of the tourna- ment. Alpha Omega won one singles and one doubles event from Sigma Alpha Mu to cinch its claim on the title. Muscovitch of Alpha Omega defeated Ritt of Sigma Alpha Mu in one of the singles matches while Collins and Katzin disposed of Duckman and Tenenbom in the doubles match, Sigma Alpha Mu won a lone singles match when its representative, Friedman, downed Steinburg of Alpha Omega. In the semi-finals Alpha Omega defeated Phi Beta Pi and Sigma Al- pha Mu beat Phi Lamba Kappa. These teams were the survivors of a field of the 42 teams that started the tournament, ILLUNI "'0 FACE MA ROONS Sectional rivals will do battle to- night on Conference courts when, with the exception of the league leading Wolverines and Ohio State, all of the Big Ten basketball teams will see action for the last time until the mid-year examinations are a matter of history. Tonight's cage card is excep- tionally notable in that it will bring together teams from the same lo- calities, with Purdue invading Bloomington to oppose Indiana, Chicago meeting Illinois on the Champaign hardwood, Minnesota plays host to the fast stepping Iowa five at Evanston. Crimson Start Poorly Probably the feature clash of to- night's basketball offering is the Purdue-Indiana game. Both teams shared the Conference title last season, but this year Indiana has failed to show her former court prowess, having fallen before the close guarding Illinois five and only, winning out by an extra point in an overtime period over Minnesota last Monday. Purdue, on the other hand, with an oversupply of vet- erans available, has as yet been unbeaten and shares the Confer- ence lead with Michigan. An added feature of the game will be the individual contest between l "Stretch" Murphy, the Boilermak- er's "six foot six" center and high point scorer in the Big Ten, and Branch McCracken, Indiana's stel- lar forward. Both of these men were prominently rated as the class of the Conference last year. On paper Purdue looks considerably better than the Crimson but it ap- pears that the Hoosiers are slowly rounding into form and may spike the guns of Murphy, Harmeson, and Cumiins, the Boilermaker's scor- ing aces. Chicago Lacks Offense Chicago carries with her to Champaign the determination to, follow in the van of the Michigan basketeers and win over her Illinois rivals after a dissappointing start. The Maroons have shown a lack of offensive power this year but have a scoring ace in Captain Gist, who is dangerous at all times.' Illinois, winner over Indiana, has TRADITIONAL RIVA'LRY ON ROOSIER COUif Murphy And McCracken To Vie For Scoring Honors In Classic Game At Bloomington one of the best guarding outfits in the game, but has been unable as yet to show any particular capabili- ties offensively. Coach Meanwell's Wisconsin quin- tet is expecting a lively time with Minnesota tonight despite the traditional weakness of Gopher cage teams. The Minnesotans seemingly have found themselves overnight, and with their impres- sive showing against Indiana are not to be discounted. Wisconsin, boasting an unusually large and rangy outfit including Bud Foster, whose basket-shooting proclivities are well known, has a fast breaking five which is expected to finish well up in the standings. Northwestern's hopes of e;ctend- ing its victories to two straight by virtue of a win over Iowa tonight were considerably dimmed yester- day when it was announced that Frank Marshall, star guard, .will be unable to see action against the Hawks. Marshall's play has been the only bright spot in the Wild- cat's mediocre showing in Big Ten compctition to date. Rated as a pre-scason favorite, the cagers from "out Evanston way" have been only able to gain one victory, down- ing the "in and out" Ohio Buck- eyes last Monday night. IHawkeyes Are Favored Iowa, whose Conference recprd has only been sullied by Michigan, will take the floor at Evanston to- night a decided favorite. Despite the last minute loss of Freddy Geneva, sophomore forward, the Old Gold will have Tenhopen and Plunkitt available for first line duty, and Nelson, leading scorer for the Iowans, held in reserve. With the idea of holding Rut Wal- ter, Wildcat center, who has been one of Northwestern's main scor- ing threats this season, Coach Barry probably will return his sophomore guard, Mike Farroh, to the lineup against the Purple. Farroh, who held down .the position of blocking halfback on the Hawk's powerful grid team, has shown to advantage in deensive work, al- though his understudy, Kinnan, is markedly superior in basket shoot- ing ability. Its hopes for remainiing in.the thick of the fight for Conference cage laurels resting on the out- come, Iowa has been none too im- pressive in practice since her defeat at the hands of the Wolverines. 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