ODNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE 1agers Down arquette VanderKuy, Putich Top Night's Scoring for irst wiin0 0-37 AA U CLASSIC SATURDAY: Frosh Swimmers Shine in'Detroit Meet By TED PAPES The Hilltoppers of Marquette became Michigan's first basketball victims of the season last night when they bowed to the Wolver- 'ines, 40-37, in the Yost Fieldhouse. It was the fifth defeat for the yisitors against a single victory. Michigan broke loose with a scrappy attack and defense mid- way in the first half to turn the tide against Marquette's six-foot- seven center, Grant Wittberger, and his mates who had jumped off to an early lead. DURING THE contest the win- ners came from behind six times. They failed to score until 5:24 when Bill Putich broke loose to drive in for the first field goal. point-a -Minutle MARQUETTE (37) G Schramka F ............ 1 Basarich F .............. 2 Wittberger C ...............4 Sievers G ............. 4 Geldmacher G...........0 Marek G ................ 2 BarnettG............... 1 Vanlanduyt G.......... 0 Powers G ................ 2 Sattilli G.............. 0 Siverling G...........0 Totals .............. 16 F PF 1 3 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 12 TP 3 6 8 1 5 2 0 4 0 0 37 Putich stepped out of the Wolverine Rose Bowl backfield long enough to provide the spark which ignited the bas- ketball team. He racked up ten points, second only to center Leo VanderKuy who scored 12. In addition he and Charlie Murray put power into Michigan's rebounding as they outfought the Hilltoppers under both boards. Three consecutivebaskets by VanderKuy and a long one-hand- er by Jim Skala at 11:50 wiped out Marquette's early advantage and gave their quintet a 12-11 edge. THE WOLVERINES again fell behind, staying there until Pu- tich deadlocked the teams at 23- 23 with a long set shot from the center court shortly before the initial half ended. After the intermission Coach Ernie McCoy sent his most ef- fective combination onto the floor. Skala and Paul Geyer manned the forwards with VanderKuy at center and Murray and Putich guards. Skala took an out-of- bounds pass from VanderKuy and hit a long shot from the corner to send Michigan to the front. THE LEAD changed back and forth until VanderKuy took final command for the Wolverines with a hook shot from in close for a 34-33 margin with eight minutes left. Bob Olson replaced Skala at that point and fired a looping one-hander through the netting from far out to widen the gap. Putich, who played the entire game, pumped in a basket and free throw and that was enough to hold off the pressing Hilltoppers as Michigan effectively controlled the ball. * * * THE VICTORS switched their defense at halftime from a man- to-man to a tight zone and al- lowed only six field goals from that point. Wittenberg and forward Glenn Sievers led the 'Toppers on of- fense with eight points each. Their starting guard, senior Rus- sell Geldmacher, injured his trick knee early in the contest and had to be removed. The game produced few fouls. Michigan converted six of its doz- en attempts from the charity line and Marquette capitalized on five out of nine. The Wolverines are idle until Saturday night when they will meet Butler's cagers at Indian- apolis. By HERB NEIL. The showing of the freshmen natators in their initial meet of the year last Saturday should give Michigan fans no worry about the future of Wolverine swimming teams in the next ifew years. Participating in a Michigan AAU meet in Detroit, the Wolver- ine swimmers swept the first four places in the 100 yard free-style, the first three places in the 400 yard race, and first place in the 40 yard free-style. * * * TOM BENNER, one of Michi- gan's brightest free-style pros- pects, turned in a double win, an- nexing both the 40 and 100 yard tests. The freshman won the shorter race in 18.3, good time for the 40 ,and took the 100 in 55.5. Pete Bargrow, Bob Byberg, and Don Ferguson followed Ben- having to go back and touch the More Sports ..* * For additioal sports news see pages eight and nine. ner across the finish line in the 100 with little space between the first and fourth men. Byberg and Luis Childs, 400 yard free- styler, were the lone upperclass- men making the trip, all the nest of the men being freshmen. Brenner's time was slowed in the 100 due to the fact that he missed all three of his turns, twice HIGH JUMPS-Paul Geyer (14) and Leo VanderKuy (8) display the aggressive form which the Wolverines showed on rebounding, in their 40-37 victory over Marquette as they battle for the ball with Grant Wittberger (46), Hilltopper's 6'7" Center. Martin, varsity free-styler, and Don Hill, freshman, will challenge Benner in the 50 yard free-style. ** * CHILDS will face varsity swim- mer Wally Jefferies in the 400 in the coming AAU meet. Another standout in this event will be Bur- well Jones, a distance man from Detroit. The AAU meet which official- ly inaugurates the Wolverines' season and Coach Matt Mann's 26th year as coach of the Mich- igan natators will attract an ar- ray of stars from the state of Michigan. The diving competition will be keen with Jim Hartman of this year's squad facing George Eyster, leading diver of last year's team, and Alex Canja, captain of the 1947-48 team. John Davies, Olym- pic performer for Australia, and Rusty Carlisle, both present brest-. strokers, will meet Charlie Moss from the 1949-50 team in the (breaststroke attraction.. Michigan in New oce Loop end of the pool. He has previous- ly recorded times of under 52 sec- onds for the 100 yard free-style. * * * CHILDS, a sophomore, scored a victory in the long 400 yard race with a 4:37.3 time. Barry Way- brum and Ed Burrows placed sec- ond and third, respectively, in this test. 1 All of these men will get their second look at competition in the 17th Annual AAU meet at Ann Arbor this Saturday. Entries are expected from Michigan State and a number of athletic clubs in Detroit. Benner expects to see stronger competition this Saturday than he saw last week in Detroit. Dick MICHIGAN (40) G F PF TP SkalaF..............3 0 2 6 Gutowski F .............. 0 0 0 0 GeyerF.......3 00 6 Olson F ................ 1 0 0 2 VanderFKuy C.......... 5 2 3 12 L. Smith G ............ 0 0 0 0 Putich G .............. 4 2 0 10 Murray G .............. 1 2 2 4 Totals ............. 17 6 7 40 Halftime score: Michigan 23, Mar- ,quette 23. Free throws missed: Marquette - Schramka, Wittberger, Powers 2; Michigan-Skala, Geyer 2, Vander Kuy, Putich, Murray. As soon as the finishing touches can be added, a Midwestern Col- lege Hockey Conference will be set up with Michigan counted as an unofficial member. Since the Big Ten has refused to recognize the new league, West- ern Conference teams are forced to submit to unofficial member- ship. MICHIGAN STATE and Minne- sota are the other Big Ten schools that have accepted unoffical membership (Minnesota's accep- tance is still tentative, however) in the seven team league that will also include Michigan Tech, Col- orado College, Denver University I and North Dakota. As far as the Big Ten is con- cerned, no such thing as the new league exists, but Michigan's Athletic Director H. O. "Fritz" Crisler said "if Western Con- ference teams wish to play other teams and have the re- sults entered onany standings that might be set up, it would be perfectly okay." Thus Big Ten teams can parti- cipate in league play but are not permitted to commit themselves to either a definite schedule or a constitution and by-laws which tie league may set up. THE NEW conference will func- tion similarly to other hockey leagues in that the leader in the standings will be determined on a point basis (two points for a win, one point for a tie and noth- ing for a loss). A maximum of 12 games, two with each opponent, will be per- Limit Hockey Ticket Sales To Game Day Tickets for Michigan's home hockey games will no longer be subject to advance sale but will be limited to distribution the day of the game, according to Ticket Manager Don Weir. Both student and reserved seat tickets may be purchased at the Ticket Office in the Athletic Ad- ministration Building from 8:30 to 4:30 on Friday for the game that evening and from 8:30 to 12:00 on Saturday for games that night. STUDENT TICKETS are $.60 each and reserved seat tickets $1.50. In addition, tickets may be bought at the Coliseum box of- fice the night of the game from 5:00 on. All home games start at 8:00 p.m. The policy of limiting hockey ticket sale to the day of the game was instituted after it was found that last year's policy lead to unequal and unfair distribu- tion. mitted to be recorded on the standings. Thus, with teams that might be playing each other four times in home-and-home two-game series, the results of the first game of each series will be recognized in the standings. Presumably the champion andj runner-up in league play would receive bids as the West's repre- sentatives in the NCAA hockey championship playoffs with the two top teams from the East. 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