The Detroit times., 1910-01-29

.oNcMaNss NOtIe Dame team
MOST PRICED who. a few years
4 POSSESSION. ago. was winning
fame and football
games for Michigan The former full
back grinned an affirmative when
asked T, gardng his intention of put
tins some of illgotten gains into cir
culation by means OF 1910 motor car.
'lll-gotICn gains YOU may call
''cm said he, hut | haven't regarded
EN- SO. even though IL fell To my LOT
20 teach team how 10 beat old Michi-
gan | don't think that view Is seri-
ously entertained by any OF my ola
I friends and team mates at Michigan.
I either They have kidded me lot
but my business is right AZ Ann Ar0or,
I YOU know. and it's improved 90 per
cent over last year so I'm sure there :
no .ill-feeling against me IN the old
! town where ! learned the game aud
took my degree.
OF course. have TO stand lol a lot
OF kidding The worst of il started
up the niEht 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 ana fellows who had played
on tie Michigan teams while / was
I'm school Every one Of them started
Oft with a congratulation and ended
up with a knock
i " Congratulations, old boy but you
ought 10 be shot, was what old Joe
Curtis wired and that was a fair sam
pie of the others. All were double
Ibarreled 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 l am
going 10 DO with EN-. but you NAV rest
assured I'm going to take good care
OF every one and preserve the whole
layout in some way that will give me
something 10 remember one of the big
gest. If not the very most important
of all the days OF my life"
I.ongman. BY the way. doesn't want
to have Eotre Dame counted out OF
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
/.
Is a halfback lust as good as Miller.
pin your prediction on the 1910
Michigan-Notre Dame game TO this
fact" Lonsman concluded. If 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 Stage. Williams
, and the other western coaches have
sought so many years in vain-a way
10 solve Michigan's defense. And he
!, is about the only one OF them with the
record TO back IL up.
, While they are 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 a pop-fy
TO the outield.
Boston has found superlative
which, II is alleged. Ats Fred Lake.
They call him the busiest of all the
baseball managers. II fussing will win
pennants, the National league race IL
doubtless as good as over right now,
with the Boston club winner.
A Conneaut subscriber asks the
Cleveland Press which is the better
draw poker hand four skies or three
aces and pair OF kings. There ought
to be marked migration of Cleve-
land sports to Conneaut if that is the
extent of the wisdom OF the natives
on the great national indoor game.
Hughie Jennings will doubtless see
TO II that, II Wild Bill Donovan
coaches Harvard. the rah-rah boys will
be bound to stay of the field when
the grass Is wet.