The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-05
Am I Right !?

mr.. Il. f. Baur, Michigan, 1892,
~ takes decided exception to the
attitude of his Alma Mater in her eff
forts to secure an eastern game for
the football season OF 1904. DR.. Baur
thinks Michigan should not get down
on her knees in the endeavor to secure
date from one Of the easterns. In
a communication printed in a recent
issue of a Chicago paper, he says:
Apparently the athletic board
smarting under the one-man criti-
cism Of the country, SO far have for
gotten themselves that in a spirit of
resentment they have given their con-
sent to an eastern game, when they
know perfectly we'll that the east cares
English colleges for contests with
American athletes.
Now, believe that the logical op-
ponent to Michigan for championship
honors is Minnesota. I also believe
that the average student at Ann Arbor,
as we'll as the majority Of the alumni,
would like to see that to tie that
Minnesota gave the team last fall
wiped out on next Thanksgiving
Day, but I see that this game can
hardly be arranged. now that Mime
sofa has taken on Iowa on that day.
However, I think that if the proper
authorities went at it other arrange
ments could be made for Iowa, and
a real championship game could be
seen in the west again this year.
ITO the western alumni In general,
and especially the alumni Of Chicago,
who have so nobly supported the game
from the time OF standing room
behind rope about the gridiorn at
81 to that of a seat in the snow at So,
think Michigan owes its Turkey day
game" f4 .<&
Without discussing the relations be-
tween Minnesota and Michigan, 1t is
rather a shumiliating position for a
western university, with the athletic
standing of Michigan, to PROSTATE
itself before the fasteners. None of
tutions will schedule a game with q
western team, without great conces-
sions on the part of the latter, simply
because the east has nothing to gain
and everything to lose by such a con-
test. 1t would add nothing to the rep
utation Of Yale. Princeton, Columbia,
or Harvard to beat Michigan or Min
| nesota, but it would hurt them might
lily to lose to one Of the western
,elevens.
Handicapped by playing one thou
sand or more miles away from home
a western team would have to hustle
to win from one of the crack eastern
organizations. Moreover, the long
eastern trip is likely to play havoc
with the teams western games. Alto.
gether the advantage gained in play.
ing the east is hardly enough to jus.
tify a western team In kowtowing te
Yale or Columbia to secure a contest
Minnesota has been wise in combining
her attention, to her natural rivals ir
the west, and it is to be hoped tina
| she will stick to the same policy, I'm.
Hess the exclusive tactics of othel
teams should force her to go out o:
= her own territory. ~,1:@7'@ 49,.
TT is refreshing to: see an importan
i pugilistic match arranged with thu
total absence of dispute and bick
ering which characterized the negotia
lions as a result Of which Jeffries ha
been signed to meet Jack Munroe il
. | he
tween Jeffries and Corbett, Corbet
and Fitzsimmons, Young Corbett an,
Britt, and others Of the fraternity
the indifference to details shown b.
the representatives Of both fighter
, when they met Monday to complet
! arrangements, deserves commenda
} ton. Both men evidently, wanted t.
fight, and within a few minutes al
details were settled and articles signed
. Whatever else may be said agains
: tJeffries-and it may be remarked her
that no fighter ever got SO little credi
t it must be admitted that he has on
Of the ideal qualities Of a champion
He is always willing to take on an
E white man who has the slightest clair
h to battle. He has nothing to- gal
and everything to lose, pugilisticall,
!, by meeting" Munroe; but he has show
s no hesitancy about making a mattel
= and the affair was settled within forty
y eight hours after Munroe met Sharke
4 last Saturday night. Thor.
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