The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-19
BADGER STORIES
DO NOT BRIGHTEN
Minnesota Authorities Not Wor-
RED by Threats to Gust
the GOphers.
BY BILLY MAC.

Anxious to be fair with the Michigan
team, we must permit the question as
to whether the Wolverine folks did
suggest to Wisconsin the throw-down
Of Minnesota, or whether or not the
Radger following, fearful of a defeat
at the hands of the Gophers, are send
inc out stories telling that the entire
question of Minnesota's future depends
on it's gentlemanly actions in the game
at Madison Thanksgiving day.
A mere special from Madison would
have compelled the belief that the
Badgers were endeavoring to brighten
Minnesota into standing around help
less like, while the Wisconsin team
Tsed number of touchdowns in mud
ding I'D the championship, but this
sDecial to The Globe telling OF the
suggestion to drop Minnesota came
from Madison only after the Milwaukee
newspaper men returned from tne
wisconsin, Michigan game at Ann Ar
Dor.
Before Madison began to send out
the news of the Michigan proposltlon
the Milwaukee writer's had already told
of that meeting of Wisconsin ana
Michigan football men at the BLACK
Friars in Ann Arbor, and the Milwau-
kee and Madison stories fit in with a
smoothness that forces one to peleVe
that at least a few hints and sugges-
lions about embarrassing the Co
pliers were spread about.
1t is hardly believed that Wisconsin
will listen to Michigan's suggestion
if the story of Michigan's undetermined
work is true-and it may be that WIS
consin is only using this rumor 10
brighten the Gophers into playing a
nice easy, gentlemanly game that VIII
give the Badgers the victory and send
back a battered and bruised set OF de-
luded ones to Minnesota.
Rumor Is Ignored.
At the university little attention is
being paid to the tale of the plan to
assign Minnesota to games with Man
kato and high school teams. as prom,
jsed in the Madison dispatches. Prof.
JONES' Minnesotas representative IN
the big nine" conference, declares that
until something more definite is learn
ed he must consider the tales mere
newspaper stories. but at the same
time, in his interview given I h e
GIobe last night, the Minnesota's
representative clearly tells Wisconsin
that it cannot expect to send a scare
into the Minnesota camp by lnslnua-
lions and threats.
Prof. Jones said:
81 take no stock whatever in this
story, and until something more than
a newspaper report is shown, MinneSo-
ia will not begin to worry about it. l
have received a very friendly letter
from Prof. Pattengill, the faculty adj
wiser at Michigan, and there was not a
word to indicate any ill-feeling in that
direction. Perhaps few of the play
ers felt sore. but the general sentiment
was not against us.
prof Schlichter, of Wisconsin. is
frin q rQnnpf Lot
ter he spoke in pleasant anticipation of
the game, and invited me to stay with
him while in Madison.
so it seems that the authorities Of
both institutions appear well disposed
toward US. and until some official an
nouncement to the contrary arrives I
shall give more weight to the letters
newspapers. We are going to keep
quiet and let things go their way. for
that is the best course for us.
"When they say that Wisconsin's flu
ture athletic relations with Us will de-
pend on our conduct in the game
Thanksgiving day they are greatly
mistaken. That would look too much
like bid for the game from Wiscon-
sin, and although the cardinal is very
anxious to win, they do not ask Min
nesota to give them the game in that
fashion
con the face of them these reports
bear evidence of fakes, and we will not
notice them any more than we did the
stories of the roughness in the Mich
igan game"
The tale of Minnesota roughness is
gradually assuming a muSty odor and
it is almost time that Michigan stopped
talking and Wisconsin decided to wait
until it can make personal inspection
nf tho minnesota Of hoH
The Gophers played Illinois and went
on the field expecting hard game. In
this game the Williams machine work.
ed like it worked against the team from
Michigan. Illinois was defeated, but
We have yet to hear any tales of rough
and unsportsmanlike play. Prof. Jones
has heard from the faculty director al
Illinois and this letter Is full of praise
for the sportsmanlike work of the Min
nesota men. This director files but one
criticism-during the game he heard
one of the Minnesota men using rather
undignified language.
Minnesota is not denying the charges
of Michigan. All who saw that game
at Northrop field know that it is not
necessary to file a denial. Michigan
has not made good on a single charge
Her men went home battered up, but
other football teams have returned tc
their colleges more crippled than the
Yost troupe.
The whole thing is becoming tire
some from Minnesota standpoint and
many are beginning to feel that a de-
cision on the part of Michigan to sever
its relations with the maroon and gold
would not create any particularly no.
ticeable amount of mourning in the
North Star state
What Wisconsin may decide to dc
remains to be seen, but one thing is
certain, and that is, that the threats
that Minnesota must play in a fiddle
wink, ping-pong form at Madison tc
save her face will not reduce Mime
sota's position as favorite in the bet
ting on the Minnesota Wisconsin game
To win the game Wisconsin will
have to defeat the same sturdy, hard
fighting game set of men that, when al
hope looked gone in the Michigan
game, refused to quit and pulled What
really was victory out of certain
defeat
The Minnesota team stands on It:
record.
Tornadoes to Play Vanderbies.
The Tornadoes will play the Vanderbies
on the afternoon of Nov % on the Posi-