The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-29
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Strolling through the automobile
show whom should l meet the other
afternoon hut Frank shorty" Long.
e------0 man. coach or the
LoNcNAN,s Notre Dame team
MOST PRICED who, a few years
POSSESSION. ago. was winning
4 fame and football
games for Michigan. The former tull'
back grinned an Affirmative when
asked regarding his intention OF put
ting some Of ill-gotten gains into cir
culation by means OF 1910 motor car.
Ill-gotten gains you may call
EN-" said he. "but | haven't regarded
'em so, even though IL fell TO my lot
to teach a team how TO beat old Michl-
gan. | don't think that view Is serl.
ously entertained by any Of my ola
friends and team mates at Michigan
either They have kdded me lot
but my business Is right AT Ann ArDoT'
you know, and it's improved % per
cent over last year. so I'm sure there
no ill.feeling against me in the OLD
town where l learned the game ana
took my degree.
"Of course, have 10 stand for lot
of kidding, The worst OF II started
up the night after we had beaten
Michigan and kept on through the sun
day that followed. | really didn
have time To do much but sign Tor
kilograms and giggle over the contents
of the messages as they came IN.
They were mostly from old class
mates and fellows who had played
on the Michigan teams while l was
in school, Every one OF them started
OF with q congratulation and ended
up with knock.
" Congratulations old boy. but you
ought TO be shot was what old Joe
Curtis wired and that was fair sam
pie OF the others. All were double
barreled somehow. like that.
They came and they kept coming.
Before they finished up. had stack
that was too unwieldy to go into one
pocket.
Il haven't decided yet what ] am
going to do with EN-, but you may rest
assured III going TO take good care
of every one and preserve the whole
layout in some way that will give me
something Ia remember one OF the big
gest. II not the very most important
OF all the days OF my life
Longman. by the way, doesn't want
TO have lSotre Dame counted out or
the race for the 1910 western cham
pionship at this stage OF the competi-
ton. He admits that he loses about
nalf his squad but says he has some
good material coming up. one OF whom
is n halfback lust as good as Miller.
pin your prediction on the 1910
Michigan otre Dame game 10 this
fact" Lonsman concluded. III Yost
plays his ends in close and uses them
next year as he did in the season that
is just over, Wen beat him again.
Shorty honestly believes that he
has discovered what Stagg. Williams
end the other western coaches have
sought so many years in vain-a way
TO solve Micnigan's defense And he
Is about the only one of them with the
record 10 back II up.
While they ere tinkering with the
scoring rules. why don't they give the
pitcher an assist on his strike-outs?
AS the play is now scored il gives the
twirler no more credit than pop-hy
TO the outfield
Boston has found a superlatiye
which. II is alleged. fits Fred Lake.
They call him the busiest OF all the
baseball managers. If fussing will win
pennants, the National league race is
doubtless as good as over right now,
with the Boston club a winner.
A Conneaut subscriber asks the
Cleveland Press which is the better
draw poker hand, four skies or three
aces and a pair OF kings. There ought
to be marked migration OF Cleve-
land sports to Conneaut II that Is the
extent OF the wisdom OF the natives
On the great national indoor game.
Hughie jennings will doubtless see
% II that. II Wild Bill Donovan
coaches Harvard. the rah-rah boys will
ne bound to stay of the field when
he grass Is wet.