The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-09-28
DETROITERS ARE MAKING
GOOD ON COACH YOSTS
BIG SQUAD OF GRIOOERS
Craig, Torbet, Raynesford, Pat
erson. Barton and Pom
thus There
BARTON is A SENSATION
Former d. u. S. Star is Writing
His Name in Big Let
tiers Already
BARTON is A SENSATION

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Sept. U.s.
(SpeciaD-From present indications
the Wolverine team will have sever
al Detroit members this season, II
the boys from the City OF the Straits
continue TO show up as well as they
have so far. Craig. TorDet. Raynes-
ford, Paterson. Barton and Pontius
are the Detroiters who are attract
ing considerable attention. Any one
OF the bunch look good FOR place,
and some OF them are sure to land.
Barton, the Detroit University
school star, looks like a fixture at
right end. All he needs TO do to stay
there is TO play the kind OF game
he has been putting up this week.
It's a cinch that Yost would have
given his last box OF stogles for a
couple OF ends like Barton last sea
son. The tall fellow is a star at pluck
ing the ball out OF the atmosphere
on a forward pass, and he smashes
up plays around his end in the most
approved style.
Raynesford has had only one try at
the tackle position on the varsity
team, but he handled himself well.
and may develop into varsity pos
sibility.
Torbet is working like a fiend for
one OF the halfback positions. and In
view of the fact that there Is only
one about which there is any doubt
and two or three are working just as
hard to land 1t, his work Is cut out
for him. II is evident at this stage
of the game that the contest for
the honor OF acting as running mate to
Jimmy Craig lies among four men,
Torbet, Carpet, Hadden and Wyman.
All have shown up well this week,
Hidden probably playing the most
| spectacular game. Ii will be a merry
| fight and the man who lands IL will
not be at all sure OF a place from
one game to another.
The surprise of the practice this
week has been the improvement in
the work of "Hackenschmidt" ALI
mendinger, who last season failed to
land permanent berth at guard de
spite his size and strength Indian
Schultz has made il a business 70
tutor the big local boy, aided and
abetted by Big Bill Smith, and the
result is that Allmendinger Is be
ginning to look like a permanent fix.
| ture at guard.
| While Coach Yost is not doing any
| predicting as TO the caliber OF the
team OF football players he is whip
ping into shape on Ferry Field, the
close OF week of hard work finds
the Wolverines In better shape than
| they were at this time last season.
1 Ii is true that In the opening
scrimmage practice Thnrsday the team
looked very bad. The play was rag
ged, and the men lacked pep.
/ When Yost got the men together
on Friday morning he delivered a
lecture in the old time Yost style
and that lecture evidently has had
its effect. That afternoon there was
an Improvement which was distinctly
noticeable, and the following day the
team had improved at least so pei
cent over its form OF Thursday.
/ Every man on the team was figt
ing every minute, ana the result
was that the regulars romped over
the scrubs like backwoodsmen on q
holiday with a wood alcohol bun on
II was really pitiftn the way the var
sity knocked the scrubs down anc
waltzed over their anatomies: ,Ths
varsity line tightened zap, and the
scrub backs, who had been eccustom
ed to finding holes when they at
tempted to advance the ball ON Q line
discovered they were running againsi
with such a jerk that they almost
lost their taste for the great college
game every time they tried such
play.
Capt. Thomson, Jimmie Craig and
Wyman in the backfeid went on q
| rampage, and one after--the other
with the assistance Of Quarterback
Hnebel took the ball over, through
and around the scrub line with littlt
trouble. II didn't look like. the team
| which allowed the scrubs TO score
a touchdown and a field goal two
days before, and II wasn't True the
changes were felt, and doubtless had
little TO do with the result. The
boys have caught the fighting spirit
and Just as soon as they have had
work enough to get their wind IN
! first class shape they may be counted
upon to play some football.
Wiseacres have been sobbing be
cause nothing has been heard from
Hank Boyle. the man who put the
foot In football, but II Hank doesn't
hurry up and get here he may ind
that he will have quite q little job ex
| tracing the quarterback job from
Huebel The Menominee boy seems "a
have a fairly accurate idea OF what
is expected of quarterback. handles
the ball cleanly and on quarterback
run displays the same lodging ability
that made shorty" Mcmillan famous
The team certainly has not suffered \
great deal under his guidance, and he
Is looking better each day.
Yost shifted Musser. the big Akron,
o., boy from the scrubs TO the var.
city yesterday, sending the man from
rubber town in at left tackle, Maybe
this fellow won't land a berth, but tho
fellow who beats him out will know he
has been i'm a football game. He looks
slow, but he Is a bearcat in action,
| and with Bill Smith, indian Schultz
and Doug Douglass all coaching the
iinemen. he ought TO absorb the finer
points of the position in short
time.
Early prophecies about the makeup
Of football team are much like
weather prosnogtications. and Yost
may ao shift hfa team ahOut thai