The Saint Paul globe., 1904-04-11
ROSE Of MICHIGAN
STRONG WITH SHOT
Wolverines Expect Much of the
Giant Athlete This
Season.

ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 10.-Keene
Fitzpatrick finds Rose, Michigan's young
est, tallest and heaviest, athlete, an enig
ma to all authority while trying his
master stunt, the shot put.
Monday night Rose picked up the shot
for his first outdoor trial. In the bitter
cold he could do no better than forty
five feet. He at last demanded that his
trials be measured. saying:
L have TO know how far 1T goes be-
fore l can do much better than foTty-five
feet" The trials were measured and
Roses shot began creeping out. But at
40 feet inches another coaXing prank
had to be tried. Rose demanded a stake
set in the ground as mark
Some students assert Rose puts the
shot so far that he must have target
TO know in what direction to throw. Each
time this year that Rose broke a record
where the record lay. Stakes were ac-
cOrdingly set out Monday night, after
which there was more steady improve
ment. FOrty-SiX feet six inches was re-
corded and then another put which looked
poor.
Measure that" said Rose, and Fftz-
patrick replied: IT is not as good as the
other, one. Yes but measure it any
Before complying the trainer assured
Rose that the put was short, even Of 46
feet. The tape showed it to be the long
est put of the night 46 feet inches.
Rose repeatedly makes absurd predic-
tions about his shot, and then proves
them to be right. He seems to succeed
by different laws than ordinary athletes
use.
On Monday also Rose made his first
try with the hammer in six months.
Working for form he repeatedly threw it
over 140 feet. with consistency.
Fitzpatrick announced this week that
Michigan has already picked seven men
to meet the East at Pennsylvania this
month. The four mile relay team is set
tied on. Archie Hahn in the 100-yard
dash, Rose in the weights, and Dvorack
in the pole vault Others will go if they
get into condition, notably Schulz in the
hurdles. Rose may train only for the
shot put at Philadelphia, hoping to set
a new worlds record. He has said that
he would try to break each of the three
worlds weight records this spring by
training especially for one Of them at
some previously chosen meet
Apparently AIichigan's four mile relay
team will be the best ever turned out
here, or perhaps in the country. On it are
two men who have done 4:30 mile al
ready this spring. another who went in
less than 4:40 without trouble, and now
Michigan's half-miler, Hall, is out train
ing for the fourth place
Dvorack Vaulted this week for the first
time since last June. He set the bar at
10 feet inches and cleared it ''by a
foot it looked.
The two-mile relay project has been
abandoned, for Ramey, the newcomer, and
Michigan's best half miller. will not com
pete this year. Being ineligible in West
ern meets he will be saved entirely.
Garrels, freshman, this week threw the
discus 118 feet.
Michigan's baseball coaches are still
working hard and keeping mum. The
squad numbers thirty-fiVe men. and on it
are more veteran and seasoned players
than Michigan has had before in recent
years Nine pitchers have Weathered the
wedding out ordeal, and a fine team is
looked for.