The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-11
GOPHERS ANXIOUS
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
Basketball, Track Team and Base.
ball Work Keep the Ath-
letes Busy.
The university athletic eye Is look

ing forward to the basketball game to
be played with the Wisconsin team on
Saturday next and the gopher rooters
are confidently expecting that Mime
sofa will be the acknowledged champion
of the west in the basket throwing
game at the conclusion of the Saturday
night contest. Wisconsin, however, has
lost only one game during the season
and unless Garfield Brown, the star
Minnesota guard, can recover from an
attack Of tonsilitis in time to partici-
pate in the contest Minnesota will have
no edge over Wisconsin in dope fore
cast.
During the week, with the exception
Of last evening, there has been de-
cided letup in the work Of the basket
ball team. The letup was due to the
physical condition of the men who re-
turned from their recent trip tround
the big nine circle in shape that would
discount the physical condition of any
sion of a tripA :.
and innum cradle bruises testified to the
strenuousity Of the trip and also to the
gameness of the men, who, in poor
physical condition, and almost hopeless
ly beaten in the first half of their last
game at Chicago, took a new lease on
life and trounced the maroons in the
second period of play.
Brown Is Needed.
If Brown is unable to get into the
Wisconsin game his place will be taken
by Uzell, whose playing since Brown IS
illness has won ! the admiration of
gopher fans. Brown, however, is the
basketball dean of the team and his
steadiness and GOODNESS has been an i'm
portant factor in the gopher victories
Of the last three years. With Captain
McRae, the other veteran of the squad,
he has participated in some of the best
play ever seen on a university floor.
The letup in the work of the basket
ball squad has not extended to the 9th
er branches Of university athletics and
baseball and track candidates have
been taxing the gymnastic facilities at
the university in their effort to get in
condition for the opening of. the spring
athletic season. Track men have been
combining their work to the gymnasium
proper, where work on the apparatus
and indoor practice in jumping, weight
throwing and pole vaulting has given
DR.. Williams and Captain Greaves an
opportunity to size up the men who will
compete for places on the university
team.
The indoor meet, an annual affair at
the university, has been arranged for
March II, and at this time the uni
versity track athletes will get a taste
of their first competition Of the year.
Relay races between class and frater-
nifty teams will add to the excitement
of the occasion, and the board of con
troll has offered medals and banners to
| the winning men and team in each
event Of the afternoon. Twin city high
schools and Shattuck military acad,
envy will furnish teams for the pre-.
paratory school part Of the program.
Baseball Cage Crowded.
With the installation Of a baseball
cage in the armory, aspiring baseball
players are taking turns with the off
cial spheroids and sore arms ano
strained tendons have been the order
of the week. The men are gradually
warming up to the exercise, however
and by the latter part Of the week
they should be ready for strenuous in
door work in the baseball coop. Coaci
Anderson will work the men in groups
at different times of the day.
The list of baseball candidates il
gradually growing and more than 10(
men have announced their intention o.
trying for places on the Minnesota
team. This number is twice as large
as the 1904 list and if signs are tru.
Minnesota is to have team that will
revive the latent baseball energy a.
the university. Fans are already con
gregating for discussion Of the merit,
of the different men and among tn,
sportier of the undergraduate follow
ers of the great American game
few bets have been posted on the abil
ity of the favorites to make the team
Coach Anderson seems to have hi
principal work cut out in the develop
) ment Of a strong infeld. The pitchin,
staff, with such men as Brown, McRai
J and Gleason, should be sufficient,
strong to hold down the batters O
other western teams, and with Der,
and Linnehan, old varsity players, a
nucleus for an outfeld, there shout,
be little trouble in filling the cute
gardens.
! In the infeld, however, there will b
close fight for the positions, and j