The Detroit times., 1914-06-25
Has Best Right to Championship
From Comparisons of Teams
Made on Paper
LUNDGREN DESERVES THE
CREDIT FOR GOOD CLUB
Umpires Dineen and Cobb in
Penn-Michigan Game Were
Worshiped
ny RALPH L. YoNKER.

uy lot 1914 as far as IL can be doped
out on paper. The Wolverines have
defeated every university and college
team in the south, have defeated
Notre Dame two out OF three games
and Notre Dame has In turn defeated
the conference leaders, and finally
Michigan has defeated decisively
both Cornell and Pennsylvania, who
are alone in claiming the eastern hon
ors.
The greater part of the credit for
this undertaking goes to Carl I.und.
gren, the efficient coach at the uni
Yerslty, and not a small part of IT
goes TO Branch Hickey, now man
ager or the st. Louis Browns and
former coach at the university.
Lundgren has proved himself a
very valuable man to Michigan and
the university is to be congratulated
on the retention OF the former Cub.
Ut is practically assured now, accord
ing to z. G. Bartelme, in charge OF
the business side OF athletics at Mich
igan, that Lundgren will come back
next season.
In having Lundgren to follow up
the excellent work of Hickey, Michi-
gan is very fortunate. That Hickey
Is an excellent baseball man, goes
without saying, now that he has made
such success OF the ST. Louis
Browns. Rickey's efforts at ST Louis
have opened up new possibilities for
the great baseball coaches at the
various universities of the country.
They have shown that college coach
can be a successful big league man.
ager.
Lundgren was not an inexperienced
coach when he took up the work at
Michigan this spring. He had been
helping at Princeton two years be-
fore he came TO Michigan. His work
at Michigan was the first in which
he was his own boss, however.
Michigan's greatest encouragement
was the failure OF George Sisler its
finest star, TO retain his prowess as a
pitcher. The game that Sis pitched
against Cornell In which he beat
Turnure was undoubtedly the last
that he will hurl. He said at that
time that his arm was not right. But
he pitched so we'll that had he been
in perfect form there would have been
no Ddll BdlHt at III. ne ldlleu W
show his usual speed according to
his friends and he was wild, but he
held the Ithacans easily.
Then there was a period Of doubt
in which he was supposed 10 have
seen Bonesetter Reese at Youngs-
town about his arm He appeared in
some Michigan games, being used in
the outfeld because OF his hitting
wired to Barney Dreyfuss, manager OF
the Pittsburgh club. that he would
never be able to pitch again. He was
practically signed with the Pirates.
The fact that he cannot pitch may
not keep him out of baseball, how
ever, as his hitting and base running
are valuable. Sisler finishes his ca
reer at Michigan this year.
Slsler was the Walter Johnson OF
the Wolverines and when he fell
down IL was believed that the club
would slump the way the Nationals
have because Johnson slipped. But
Lundgren was equal to the occasion.
Seeing that he would have to de-
pend upon some new pitcher, Lund-
gren started working with Ferguson,
the long and lanky Highlander.
Fergy was a raw recruit at the be-
ginning of the season. He was the
cause OF the Wolverines only defeat
in the southern trip when he got
mixed up in his fielding.
Lundgren worked with him patient.
ly for a long time. He taught him
first OF all to get his body into his
pitching. Ferguson has a long length
OF arm and body and when he gets
both OF them into his work, he can
get a lot of stun on the ball. He
made him pitch lot TO get control
and he made him field by the hour to
learn how TO handle bunts.
The warm weather brought Fergu.
son into his prime just before these
final crucial games with Penn. With
Sisler retained In the outfeld and
Quaintance falling through poor field.
ing, Lundgren Wednesday called on
Ferguson for the second time In two
DAYS and for the second time Fergy
beat Shorty Sayre, the great Penn
pitcher whom big league scouts were
looking at yesterday.
President Frank Navin and Coach
Burke sat in the grandstand yester.
day and saw the Penn-Michigan game,
They saw some OF the finest and poor
est college baseball ever played
This man Baker a shortstop for
Michigan, started out TO make him
self famous but fell down later some
what. II he could have kept going
at the rate he started, Burke would
have been on the field right after the
game offering him a contract
The umpires at the Penn-Michigan
game were almost worshiped.' The
crowds in the stands feared to boo
Bill Dineen at ALL because hes an
American league Umpire and they
can't kick on his decisions" He
looked pretty bad on few at that.
Cobb. hardly recognized cgt OF uni
form by the many who boosted that
they had once seen him play, was the
Geld nunr,i-..-, ITO ',nd very easy
cuu,s - "a, "a. O. N srnrticsl
moments. heing the o1ny
which he had 20 be at all keen. CUo.
apparently got both OF them correct
without any difficulty.