The Detroit times., 1914-10-30
~ Dope All Against Them,
Yostmsn Refuse to Coacede
Probable Defeat
uCHIGANS STOCK
STRONGLY SOARING
Nttle Reason to Give Western
eES Chance, But Another Up
ret May Mark 1914


By HAROLD Y. WILCOX.
Ven have TO tip our chapeau to the
Eichigan spirit. We have seen q shat.
|1Pod team. just beaten by q school
~ = hardly accorded q place among
Ne nations second best, invade the
nntry Of football aristocrats with
~ only determination to win some
wi but even with Q supreme conn
(nce that Il win win.
Nobody knows how crippled the
0ofmen are better than the Wolver-
~ players themselves, yet they have
Dtounded the correspondents that
~ est with them with their expec-
1&5oa a. victory. and the scribes who
~ than st Auburndale report SINH
"a omaaement It's not q jaunty. ju-
u1lo cocksureness, they wire us. The
Ix4oogD Of tina Maine and Blue are
1ch that fate has voted In their IA
~ an4 they cannot be denied . VIC
NJ Yoot has gloomed and pessim-
~ until he n % blue as q con-
ulnod murderer denied . reprieve.
q - hasn't convinced his men that
~ are doomed. They belong 20 one
N hat won't be beaten before 1t
~ the fleld.
NJ natural conclusion would be. OF
ugDo, that the wolverines are In
- Of over-confldence. The eastern
11oopondents that have looked them
~ oay not. It's Just q case Of the
dent lighting spirit that has car
~ Yale through q seemingly hope
RAmo TO victory, and the same
Flk although the east doesn't know
W, ~ which. Michigan licked Chi
- and Minnesota In the old days,
Ponnsylvauia and Cornell more
ooofly. Heres hoping John Harvard
~ o0ne nrst-hand information along
~ 1lne Saturday.
Bore's . tangle that 10 little hard
unrAvel The experts are picking
k1nr4 20 win the intersectioual
- That should bring Joy to the
orts o. the Wolverines. for In the
~ year 1914, the best thing that
happen to IN aggregation Of ath-
~ - 70 have the experts vote
11not them.
ut the betting in Boston. instead
Doing IT big odds, a. was announc-
oorlier IN the week. II now at even
1oy- That means the professional
oculatOrs have decided that Nichi-
~ chances have scared In the past
v days. That would be very en-
aging. were II not for the fact
~ these same spectators who have
1ood down the odds are the lads who
oDped some big rolls on the Athlst-
and are looking for q good thing
Which to recover. Thus the anti
D1rt dope II nullined.
- = matter OF fact. strange O. Il
~ seem. Michigan's stock has soar.
lote In the week. despite the an
~ IT. fun strength In the field, with
y inception Of Brickley and Soucy.
n possibly Pennock. This has not
- hue OF Haughton's eleven In
1cr the w. 3 J. and Penn State
noos, when Harvard showed surpris-
u woaknesses and came very. very
- to disaster. The Crimson was
ton practically no chance TO lose I'm
D4lnto1y after Syracuse mopped up
- the Maize and Blue, but O. the
Dck- crew older. there came into evi-
80 = very perceptible swing toward
o Wolverines, although the news
- Hughitt and Splawn would be In
Ut of the game was known 60 early
= Monday afternoon. There seems
- some such hunch. based on
fhlng but o bunch. as that which.
1nfing Boston-ward, swept the coun-
II }ust before the world series. The
- n all Harvard, but each day, In
nnaf a vrall a. Shn vasf Micht-
- has been conceded IN increasing
onco. and that In spite Of the fact
~ Harvard early withdrew from the
1tf)e Of alibis, leaving the field to
poE Il looks like o poor hunch. but
No 1914 y bum year for dope, and
~ unexpected can almost reasonably
\ oxpected.
me Yostmen can count themselves