The Detroit times., 1914-10-30
With Dope All Against Them,
Yostmen Refuse to Concede
Probable Defeat
|luCHIGAN'S STOCK
STRANGELY SOARING
Little Reason to Give Western.
'ers Chance, But Another Up
set May Mark 1914
BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX.

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Wen have to tip our cbapeau to the
Michigan spirit. We have seen shat
tefed team. just beaten by Q school
that II hardly accorded place among
n the nations second best. invade the
4 country Of football aristocrats with
q not only q determination to win some
4 how. but even with supreme conf
s. Gonce that IL will win. sa ~ 81
Nobody knows how crippled the
n Ypstmen are better than the WolverS
. ne players themselves, yet they have
<ootounded the correspondents that
rode east with them with their expec-
g <otion Of victory, and the scribes who
<mot them at Auburndale report SINH
2 Iay amusement It's not q jsunty, 1u-
venile cocksureness, they wire US. The
warriors OF the Maize and Blue are
imply obsessed by an optimistic
lunch that fate has voted In their IA
7 var and they cannot be denied VIC
: 1ovy. Yost has gloomed and pessim-
4 I'D until he Is as blue as con-
10mned murderer denied q reprieve.
Dut he hasn't convinced his men that
1&ty are doomed They belong to one
0okes the feld
The natural conclusion would be. Of
F.. UourDe, that the wolverines are In
that have looked them
Dgor say not. It's just case OF the
A0dent, fighting spirit that has car.
~ Yale through seemingly hope
- game to victory, and the same
0rit. although the east doesn't know
yet, by which Michigan licked Chi
80 and Minnesota In the old days,
Nd Pennsylvania and Cornell more
ooeitly. Here's hoping John Harvard
- some 1rst-hand information along
~ line Saturday.
Here's q tangle that Is little hard
= unrayel The experts are pic ing
Award to win the intersectional
Dtap. That should bring Joy to the
ARTS Of the Wolverines, for in the
Dod year 1914, the best thing that !
- happen to an aggregation Of ath-
~ Il to have the experts vote
INST them.
Hut the betting In Boston. instead
being at big odds, as was announc-
earlier In the week, Is now ut even
hey. That means the professional
culators have decided that Michf-
~ chances have scared In the past
~ days. That would be very en-
1taging. were 1t not for the fact
~ these same spectators who have
ood down the odds are the lads who
DDped some big rolls on the Athlet-
and are looking for good thing
which to recover. Thus the anti
MT dope is nulli6ed.
~ matter OF fact, strange as II |
~ seem. Michigan's stock has soar
ate In the week, despite the an
moement that the Crimson would |
He IT. full strength in the field. with |
exception Of Brickley and Soucy. |
y possibly Pennock. This has not |
- true Of Haughtons eleven In |
1or the w. q J. and Pean State |
noD. when Harvard showed surpris- |
Weaknesses and came very, very |
- TO disaster. The Crimson was |
(o0 practically no chance to lose Inn |
1iately. after Syracuse mopped up |
. the Maize and Blue, but as the |
~ grew older, there came into evil |
nee very perceptible swing toward |
Wolverines, although the news |
- Hughitt and Splawn would be In |
~ Of the game was known as early |
Monday afternoon. There seems !
BE- some such hunch, based on |
hing but bunch. a. that which, |
Uniting Boston-ward, swept the coun- |
y just before the world series. The
- u all Harvard. but each day, In |
~ east ~ well as the west, Michf |
~ has been conceded an increasing |
once, and that In spite Of the fact |
~ Harvard early withdrew from the |
1fklo Of alibis, leaving the field to |
- Il looks Ike poor hunch. but |
~ 1914 n bum year for dope, and
= unexpected can almost reasonably |
sxpected.
The Yostmen can count themselves