The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25

Gopher Baseball Candidates Are
Working in the Indoor
@ ,M
Cage.

basketball victory of Wisconsin over
Minnesota on Friday evening. One
faction of the university basketball
enthusiasts believes that Minnesota is
down and out of the race for the west
ern championship, while the other
claims that the closeness of the score,
! 81 to "a, shows that the Minnesota
team made a good fight on a strange
floor and will even things up with the
badgers in the return game, to be
played next month on the local floor.
y Which of these sentiments is more
nearly right will be determined by the
team in the remaining games of the
trip, and basketball rooters must re-
member that the Wisconsin team was
an unknown quantity until the Mime
sofa game, and the badgers may have
developed an aggregation of unusual
strength. The strange floor argument,
too, must be taken into consideration,
as every follower of the game knows
that one great drawback to basketball,
as a. college sport, is the fact that
there are no rules governing the size
of the floor and that a team is invari-
ably handicapped away from home.
f. Track Athletics.
j. Track athletics are suffering as a re-
suit of the baseball craze, which seems
to have invaded the campus and des-
plte strenuous efforts by Captain
Greaves, not over fifty candidates for
the track team have reported at the
armory. Many of the track men have
declared an intention of giving all
their athletic efforts to baseball, and
sSpike" Anderson is overseeing the
conditioning of over one hundred hope
full ball-tossers. With the installation
of baseball at the university after a
three-year recess, varsity athletes
seem to think that the great Ameri-
can game is to hold the boards during
the spring and the candidates for
glory on the cinder track are not re-
porting in sufficient numbers to please
track athletic authorities.
Gopher hopes for track prominence
rest largely in two men, CAPTAIN
Greaves and "Mike' Dougherty. At
the conference meet in CHICAGO last
year Greaves, who was not considered
IN athletic forecasts, took third place
IN the .half-mile run. a feat that was
remarkable considering the adverse
conditions in Minnesota last sprino
and the act that over twenty of the
best runners in the west started in the
event. The point won by Greaves was
the n solitary record of gopher par
tlc1patlon in the meet, altho Dough-
erty, the little sprinter. finished a close
ourth IN the 100-yard lash and won
the attention of Chicago sporting writ
Should Get a Place.
This year Dougherty should be able
to get a place in the lOO-yard dash
and he is a possibility in the 220. With
the varsity track in good condition
and average weather conditions both
he and Greaves should be able to cut
their records and 60 to Chicago with
a certainty of bringing back more
points than Minnesota has been able tc
win in the contests of the last foul
years.
Manager Reed is busy on a baseball
schedule and it is certain that the Min
nesota fans will be given an oppor
tun1ty to see the best big nine team.
OF the west on the gopher diamond
The schedule is practically completed
and when it is announced gopher base
balloon will be well satisfied.
1t IS too early to predict the Min
nesota chances in the intercollegiate
baseball schedule, but there is prob
ably no institution in the west wher
2 more interest is being taken at thi
time than in the local college. No
only are the men turning out for pre-
liminary work, but the rooters ar
journeying to the gymnasium to siz
up the squad and there is every il
dieation of a successful year at base
ball.
Last week a cage was installed i
the university armory and the cand
dates are limbering up with real base
ball paraphernalia. The cage is larg
and will admit of batting practice 3
4 well as pitching and catching.
Many Play Pros.
1t has not yet been decided wit
what aggregation of ball tossers tt
university players will go thru sprin
practice, but it is probable that SON
Northern league squad will line i
against the university players for tt
week before the collegiate seasc
starts, and Spike Anderson, varsit
coach and possible manager of ii
Grand Forks team, may decide to tt
out his varsity protegees against b
wards of professional baseball.