The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
SPIKE ANDERSON TO
meet BASEBALL Men ]
Athletic Outlook Pleases Follow
ers Of the Gopher's Spring
Game.

Starting the collegiate series with
decisive victory over the strong iii
nois quintet, the university basketball
team has won right to be considered
an important factor in the coming fight
for the western championship. In the
game with Illinois the gopher team had
the advantage of playing on the home
floor, but nevertheless the work was
revelation to basketball followers, and
it will take strong aggregation to
lower the gopher colors.
The Minnesota team is now IN CON
dition for the coming games OF the
schedule. The center position is the
only one which still worries Coach
Leach, and if Ely, who played against
the nlini, improves his play during the
next week as he has during the past,
the team will be a well-balanced,
speedy aggregation when it leaves ON
its tour of the big nine colleges. 80.
Garfield Brown deserves credit for
the major share in the Illinois victory.
The veteran held his opponent safe at
all stages Of the contest, and threw
baskets with unerring accuracy. Cop
tain McRae, the other veteran on the
team, was not accurate In his basket
throwing Wednesday, but his guarding
was one Of the best features Of Mime
sofa team work. McRae, in condition,
| is one Of the best basket-throwersa lin
the country but a strained tendon kept
him out Of play for two weeks at the
beginning Of the year, and he has not
recovered his old-time accuracy.
| Clark Conner.
Clark is rapidly developing into one
of the best basketball men Minnesota
ever turned out. He is steady and
fast, with the happy faculty of beng
| in the right place at the right time,
and continuous gymnastic training has
left him in perfect physical condition.
Larson, the other new man on the
team, is doing excellent work, and has
outstripped the other candidates for
the quintet. ~ 9
Basketball holds the boards at the
university, but commencing tomorrow
baseball candidates will take their
/ place with the track men who have
Ibeen conditioning in the armory dur
ing the last week, and the student fol
lowers Of the great American game will
be given an opportunity to size up the
gopher squad. The. candidates for the
baseball team will meet in the armory
tomorrow afternoon, and "Spike. An
: derson, the recently elected baseball
coach, will outline his plans for the
: year. -.- =
, Anderson is a great believer in pre-
' liminary training for baseball men and
0 he will institute system of calistken-
= tics and indoor gymnastic work for the
: purpose Of getting aspiring gophers in
a condition for the outdoor practice of
n the spring HandbalT will be recon-
e mended as an indoor game calculated
s to help the baseball player, and there
g will be daily meetings of the baseball
Q candidates.
Who Will Play.
Among the old varsity players who
r will try for the gopher team are Brown
q Gleason, Linde, Tyler and Berg. OF
l. these men, Gleason and Brown are
n pitchers, T yler is second baseman, Berg
It an outfelder and Linde a third base
e man, Other. men who have been promi
IS nent in department baseball ands who
% have announced their intention of Try
ing for the team, are, Spooner, Lima
n han, McGroarty, Labbitt, Merstein and
n Marshall. q
1t In addition to this list Of old men
le at least thirty freshmen will become
le candidates for the team. Among then
E. are several high school players Hht
or have Been prominent in preparatory
1T school athletics:
N Track men have been training Toy I
IS week at the university and althe th'
st Minnesota team will not be one OF th'
q. strongest in the west, DR.. Williams ant
RS CAPTAIN Graves are much pleased witt
I'd the outlook. Stub, Woodrick, Wood
re ward, Dougherty, Murphy, SCHNEIDER
Colburn, Spague and Morkenson3 ar
IS among the candidates for the team VIII
o. have had track experience at the uni
CT yersity, and several promising fresh
u men have appeared for practice. Moor
ne and Hubbard, former members Of tn
u freshman football team, are two o
u: the most promising Of the freshmen
g. candidates, and with Dougherty, th
= trio should make good in the shor
re sprints.
tte The Weight Handlers.
e. In the weight events, Minnesota vii
Is have Jim Kremer, Dan Smith, Georg
to Oeeh and Eakins. Eakins is fresh
m man Of powerful build and is locke
G. mon as one of the coming footba
PLAYERS Of the institution.
be Track men are much interestedFai
az the project to build an indoor track
IT, the university armory and in the 7oplI
re ion of track team followers the erectlo
he of such a track is absolutely necessar
Ill that Minnesota may be represented 3
no a creditable aggregation of track me-
st. e.
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