THE MICHIGAN DAILT PAGE THREE nh iif *.fl~f,1.4 J . . .,_._.. n,. .., ... . ,..... ........... . ... ,. _. . A1 T FT b L .--. S. 4 i r-, I =.:---- i" .t e.. ".lr r ......,. .k...e... I 4 1 d __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _____ ___ INDOOR 9ASEALL A ES COMMENCE Each Team Must SPlay Two Games by Next Wednesday; Schedule Announced PLAYERS MUST BE EXAMINED A schedule for the indoor baseball league of class teams has been ar- ranged by the Intramural office, to take effect today. The chart provides that each team shall have played two games by next Wednesday, and that each game shall be of 40 minutes duration. Any team forfeiting two games on this schedule will be dropped from the league, although this does not mean that by losing two games the team will be excluded from further competition. All managers must have their eligibility lists in at the Intra- riural office before starting a game and every man on any team must be examined before he will be permitted to go into a contest. Players can be examined at Waterman gymnasium and Dr. May will be in the building on Tuesday evening to examine all prospective contestants, Managers must seeto it that this is done before- hand. Mr. Armstrong will umpire any game for which other officials have not been secured by mutual consent of the managers, but managers are ex- pected to get together and arrange for an official. Gams will be called promptly as the time for use of the gym is limited to the hours between 7:00 and 9:00 o'clock. For this rea- son no set number of innings can be played and scores will revert back to the even inning. Managers must provide their own official bats and the regulation indoor baseball. The official 17 inch ball will be used in all games. Intramural Director Rowe was very emphatic in insisting that men who played on class football teams are not eligible for any indoor baseball team This applies to those men who antici- pate playing on' class basketball or baseball teams. Three games were played for prac- tice at the last session: the J-engi- neers vs. the J-medics; the pharmics vs. the architects; the senior engi- neers vs. the J-lits. In the first of these the J-engineers trounced the J-medics by a 5-0 score. Only one medic even got as far as first base, and that on the occasion when Dar- nall walked. In the next period the pharmics walked on the all-architects to the tune of 5-2. Davenport pitched a good game for the architects and held the prescription boys down to scattered hits, and successfully pre- vented more than two tallies being an- nexed by his opponents. When time was called on the second game the senior engineers proceeded to wallop the J-lits by a score of 5-0. This was the game where Des Jardins, the star twirler for the engineers, connected with the ball for four bases. There was never any danger of the'lits gar- nering more than their share of the runs, although Harrison pitched a good game for his team and received good support. The lits were weak at the stick a d failed to touch up either Trelfa or Les Jardins for any serious wallops. The schedule follows: Tonight--7:00 o'clock, architects vs. fresh engineers; 7:40 o'clock, junior engineers vs. fresh laws; 8:20 o'clock. junior lits vs. senior engineers. Thursday, Dec. 9.-7:00 o'clock, pharmics vs. junior medics; 7:40 o'clock, fresh engineers vs. senior laws; 8:20 o'clock, junior laws vs. senior lits. Saturday, Dec. 11.-7:00 o'clock, junior lits vs. pharmics; 7:40 o'clock, architects vs. junior engineers; 8:20 o'clock, soph engineers vs. junior laws. Tuesday, Dec. 14.-7:00 o'clock, se- nior engineers vs. junior medics; 7:40 o'clock, fresh engineers vs. junior laws; 8:20 o'clock, senior laws vs. senior lits. FOOTBA1LOY WORK STARTS THIS WEEIK Coaches Allmendinger, Raynsford and McGinnis to Have Charge of Squads MFANY CAlN)II) L'ES APPEt FOR GIYM TRACK '!ORKOIT Plan to Have Runway in Shape fore Week is Over; Outdoor Track Attracts Many. Be- UNION DINNER GIVEN Candidates for the 1916 track team continue to put in an appearance for, the loosening up work, several men making their initial appearance yes- terday, and others who have been out before showing up at the gym again. The authorities. are planning! to have the runway in shape before the week ends, and with this put up, Conference Action Meets Disapproval Chicago, InI., Dec. 6.--Reports from the Big Nine colleges today indicate that the decision to abolish baseball in the conference met with the general disapproval of most .of the members. Both Illinois students and faculty did not hesitate to denounce the action in emphatic terms. Director Huff, of Illinois, said that this action would not solve the problem by any means, as did Fred Murphy, of Northwestern. Coach Stagg, of Chicago, declared him- self as favoring the ruling by saying that the abolishment would take away, all thought of studer ts perjuring them- TO DAYI Gymnasium work will start this week for the men who have been se- lected to compose the winters footbal squad. The men have been assigned to divisions best suited to their sched- ules of class work, and will work out twice a week under the direction of the reserve coaches. The first of a series of dinners, which will be continued at monthly intervals throughout the winter, is to be held tonight at the Michigan Union. The eats are to appear promptly at 6:00 o'clock, and all men on the squad are invited to be present as guests' of the "M" club. The purpose of these dinners will be to bring up points of general interest to the squad, and they will serve to hold the athletes togetllr throughout the winter train- ing. The men are urged to be prompt at each session of their particular group. Those who do not have a locker are asked to see Dr. May at Waterman gymnasium at once in order that they may be assigned to locker space. Sev- eral of the athletes have not, up to this time, returned the schedule cards which were sent out last week, and these delinquents should get this in- formation in to the athletic office at once, in order that they may be as- signed to some section. The divisions to which the men have been assigned are as follows: Monday and Thursday at 4:00 o'clock: Whalen, Sharpe, Weimann, Snyder, Nash, Beath, Mead, Edwards and Brown. Monday and Wednesday at 4:00 o'clock: Weske, Biber, Mac- lacklan, Thompson, R. G. Dunn and McCallum. Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 o'clock: Howe, Ewert, Johnson, Loucks and Bathrick. Tuesday and Friday at 4:00 o'clock: Zeiger, Smith, Boyd, Williams, Sparks, Bevens and Hanish. Wednesday and Friday at 4:00 o'clock: Raymond, Calvin, Peach, Willard, Meibeyer, Watts and Hawke. Wednesday at 4:00 o'clock: Rehor. The coaches have been assigned to the sections and will work with the men at the times stated, "Aqua" All- mendinger on Mondays and Thurs- days, "Jimmie" Raynsford on Tues- days and Fridays, and McGinnis on Wednesdays. YOST EXPJAINS CAUSE OF WEAK(NESS OF WOLVERINES the sprinters and shot-putters can selves in order to keep their amateur get to work in earnest. standing. Pole vaulters are looked for this- week, and as there is at present no d'Annunzio Challengel Deputy to (Duel man of tried caliber in the university. Rome, Dec. 6.-Gabriele d' Annun- it is hoped that all candidates for zio, the Italian poet, has challenged this branrh will put in an appearance Mazzoni Graziodei, an Italian deputy, scon. The outdoor track is attract- to a duel. The challenge was issued, ing a large number of men, many of because of an attack upon the poet whom seem to prefer the new board- by Mr. Graziodei in parliament on way to the old oval in the-gymnasium. Saturday. THE DAILY SPORTOSCOPE The current issue of Collier's Weekly offers C. E. Patterson's All- Western football. team for public ap- proval, or disapproval, as the case may be. Patterson's selections have ap- peared annually for several years in Collier's and are among the more or less significant lists, as Patterson rates high as an authority. Captain- elect Maulbetsch is placed at one of the halvcs, and is the only Michigan man on either the first or second team. Illinois has four representa- tives on Patterson's first team. Central A. A. U. athletes broke 54 records this past year, which have been officially accepted by the record committee. It is interesting to notei that three of these are credited to Joe Loomis, the Chicago athlete, who may come to Michigan in February. Loomis receives official credit for 9 4-5 seconds in the 100-yard dash, which event he. won in the national meet at San Francisco last summer. Loomis also established a new 50- yard indoor mark for the Central A. A. U., covering the distance in 5 3-5 seconds. In the running high jump Joe cleared the bar at the phenom- enal height of 6 feet 5 3-8 inches, smashing the former record in sen- sational style. Loomis will be a. valuable addition to the Michigan track team. He visited Captain Hal Smith at the Cornell game, and re- ported that he was immensely pleas- ed with Michigan and that it was pos- sible that he would enroll here when the second semester began. Coach Yost of Michigan has been called upon to settle ofte of those tri- angular disputes over a football ti- tie, the Indiana interscholastic cham- pionship hanging in the balance. Garfield defeated Wiley, Wiley de- feated Robinson, and Robinson de- feated Garfield. If we were Coach yo t, after having this problem pre- sented, we'd write back and officially confer the championship emblem up- on Muncie or Fort Wayne, and thus save the feelings of all concerned. Those optimistic "fellows who are firm believers in the doctrine that the world is daily growing more civ- ilized are utterly put to route by recent developments in New Yorx. Madison Square garden is again the' scene of a six-day bicycle race. If some N. Y. judge wanfs to be real mean and heartless instead of sentencing some poor murderer to the electric chair, he can merely compel him to sit and watch three or four days of the bike contest in. the garden. Personally, we'd prefer death. INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET PLANNED YRLECU 'Targets Will be Sent to Washington; Michigan Expected to Im- prove Grade EACH CLUB RECOMMENDS JUDGE Civilian, college, university, school, and military rifle clubs are now get- ting under way for the indoor league matches to be shot during the winter of 1915-1916. Already arrangements are being made for the coming season, letters notifying the clubs of the fact that matches will be shot, to- gether with entry blanks and condi- tions for entries, having been sent to the secretaries of the clubs by the Na- tional Rifle association at Washing- ton, D. C. The targets are being prepared for shipment to the clubs, and the clubs are being classified. The targets, af- ter being shot, are returned to Wash- ington where the scores are compiled weekly and the results sent out to the competing bodies. The first entries to close are those for the civilian clubs, and for the colleges. The second entry list, which includes all high schools, must be complete by December 11, while the date limit for the remaining classes has not been set. Due to its showing last year, when it finished well up in the class in which it was then competing, class "C," the Michigan rifle club team has been advanced to the distinction of being allowed to compete in class "B." With the added experience which the men on the team have this year, it is expected that Michigan's total for the year will be even better than it was last year, in spite of the graduation of several of the club's best shots. The conditions governing the college and school clubs will be the same as last year, with the exception that the one and one-half inch sighting target will be used. For the college matches the shooting will be done from the prone position, shots being fired from a distance of 75 feet. Ten men will shoot, and 10 targets will be sent in, the five highest counting as the score for the team. The official National Rifle association gallery target for 75 feet, having five counting bulls of two inch diameter, will be used. To certify to the authenticity of the targets, each club is supposed to rec- ommend a judge whd will supervise all the club shoots. The members of the winning club in each of the four -leagues will receive medals, in accord- ance with the custom of former years. The" single bull's-eye target, which formerly sold for $2.50 per thousand, is no longer available, but the Na- tional Rifle association has for sale the five bull targets selling at $3.50 per thousand. CRAIG COACHES FOOTBALL TEAM ATMRCERSBURS "Jimmie" Craig Introducing Ideas of His Old Mentor, Develops Strong Mercersburg Team. "Jimmie" Craig introduced some Yost ideas of coaching, along with some distinctly his own, to the Mer- cersburg students this fall, and de- veloped an eleven for that prep school which lost but one of its seven games. Of the remaining six, two were won, and four tied. Mercersburg's schedule for the 1915 season was no easy path to glory, and his men had an uphill fight to condition themselves for the stiff sea- son. The former Michigan half-back had about 100 candidates out for the Mercersburg team at the beginning of the season, and from these was able to train a machine of eleven which was quite effective in holding its op- ponents, but it was able to score no more than its opponents in four of its games. The first game resulted in the first tie, Mercersburg holding the Carlisle Indians' second team scoreless, but at the same time was unable to count against the Redmen. Somewhat dis- couraged after this game the prep men played their worst -game of the season in the next tilt, when the Princeton freshman eleven defeated Coach Craig's proteges by a 3 to 0 score. The sting of this defeat put them on their mettle, and they took the next two games, beating the Lafay- ette second team 8 to 0, and the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania freshmen 16 to 0. Marshall had just beaten the Red and Blue yearlings by an 11 to 9 score, and the fact that Mercers- burg pushed ove- a more severe de- feat than had Marshall was a big feather in the Craigmen's caps. With the defeat of the Penn Fresh, hwoever, the victories for the season closed, and three tie games followed. Lehigh's second team played a score- less game with Mercersbrg, and this game was followed by a 7 to 7 tie with Conway Hall. The Conway Hall game should have been a victory for Mercersburg, the Penn State Fresh having beaten that institution 91 to0, but Mercersburg redeemed itself the following week, tieing Penn State's freshmen, 7 to 7. Viewed fromh the aspect of develop- ing material, the season was a suc- cess, and Mercersburg was -more than satisfied with its Yost-coached coach. Two Pennsy Stars Out For Coach Philadelphia, Dec. 6.-"Bill" Hollen- back and "Bob" Folwell, the latter the sensational coach of W. & J., and both Pennsy backfield stars in 1906, have proffered their services as foot- ball coach in 1916. While in Philadelphia with theI Varsity team for the Penn game, Coach Yost wasrasked by someone why Michigan, with her 6,000 stud- ents was not represented by a bet- ter team of gridiron huskies than the Maize and Blue boasted of the past season. The Wolverine tutor became some- what riled and replied in words which contained far more truth than poetry that the schools which are allowed to play four year men have a tremen-. dous handicap over the three year schools for the reasons that many high school stars would rather go to four years schools than remain out of varsity competition for their first year, also that many of our best gridiron heroes come from families of only little means, and that conse- quently they would rather go to the small schools where the cost is not so great. Going on, Yost unburdened himself so far to say that the size of the stud- ent body did not make so much dif- ference. To quote the coach's exact words, "I'll take 15 real football. players and trust to getting the sec- ond string out of a student body of 25 or less." Buy your Mazda lamps at Switzer's, 310 South State. oct23tf Plebe Is "Strong Man" at Annapolis Annapolis, Md., Dec. 6.-Eugene R. Smith of Illinois, a plebe in the Na- val academy, won the title of strong man with a total of 8,325 points. Smith was a guard on this fall's football team. The record for the Academy is held by "Babe" Brown, the All-Ameri ican guard on Camp's 1913 football team, with a record of 9,010 points, but this record was not made until his last year in the academy. It is theught that Smith will eclipse this mark before he graduates. 2255 2255 2255 2255 I DINNERS AND DYSPEPSIA These two killjoys have left woe in their wake ever since Eve banqueted on the fateful apple. Why not change all this and take a new lease on life by dining regularly at THE RENELLEN A PLACE OF DISTINCTIVE SERVICE HOSPICE In order to feel well you must have good food-in order to work you must feel well- the sick man has no chance in the strenuous life we now lead. He is licked before he starts. Eat with us and keep keen. o w "'TENTION S [UDES!" For quick MESSENGER CALL see last ad on BACK OF TELEPHONE DI- RECTORY. 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