MICHIGAN D/ - t : A '%I ;fir ." "" " cot r Q r ITHERN DIAMOND TRIP OMPETITION TIGHTENS Jiather Proclaimed 7liracle 71an" Of 1921 Basket BalI Year By Critic Remarkable Rise of MichiganrTeam Attribfted Largely to Work of Wolverine Coach ° ANN ARBOR TRACK TEAM TO EVASTON FRATERNITY VOLLEY BALL FOR MONDAY ANNOUNCED FRESHMAN SWIMMING NOTICE SECOND BASE, RIGHT FIELD AND PITCHERS STILL DOUBTFUL Competition on the Varsity squad for the 15 places that will be open for the Southern trip has narrowed the field down until now only second base, right field, and one or two pitching positions are in question. In. all probability Coach Pratt will car- ry a regular nine, four extra hurlers, an extra catcher, and a utility player. iAt shortstop Capt. Pete Van Boven has his position cinched, and Uteritz is apparently the coach's choice for a third sacker. Vick has 'the{ first callt for the regular receiver, while Coates will probably be the alternate. Through his recent heavy hitting, Johnson has been playing first regu- larly, and Shackleford has been shift- ed to right field, where he is compet- ing with Roby fpr a berth. The other two garden positions, center and right field, are being held down by Perrin and Genebach, respectively. The development of Klein in the past few practices has caused him to be placed at second, and unless Kar- pus' stick work improves, the basket- ball captain may find himself dispo0- ed. For pitchers Pratt is depending upon Ruzicka to show his 1918 form and carry the nine through the sea- son. Considerable stuff is being shown by Liverance, however, who comes close behind the veteran. DPion and ' Schultz are likely candidates for the Southern trip, and Mudd and Torrey will fight it out for the other berth. For a utility player the coach will take some man who .can play in the infield and outfield. Karpus, Hickey, and Klein are all possibilities. With Shackleford in thle outfield he will have a man who can be shifted to first in case of injury to Johnson, and any one of the infielders or utility men could handle practically either of the th'ee positions. Practice contests between the Var- sity and Yannigans are being held daily with heavy hitting by both sides being the feature. In yesterday's duel some pretty fielding plays were exe- cuted by the regulars, and the steady improvement of team play by the Var- sity indicates that the Wolverines will be in the race for their fourth con- secutive Conference championship: Get the habit. Follow the "ones who know" to the Chinese Gardens.-Adv. Fraternity volley ball games, have Ann Arbor High school will be rep- been completed through the second resented at the Tenth Annual Mid- round: The following third round Western Inter-Scholastic Track meet games will be played Monday night: to be held at Evanston in April. The Phi Sigma Delta vs. Phi Chi at 8 p. meet is to be under the auspices of m.; Alpha Delta Phi vs. the winner at Northwestern university and the Pur- 8:45; Alpha Sigma Phi vs. Sigma Nu pie officials expect 175 prep school at 8:30; Trigon vs. Phi Sigma Kappa The following men have be awarded numerals by the Int mural office on the recommen tion of Coach Goldsmith. TI are requested to ' leave th sizes at the office at once. K neth Babcock, Jack Bowen, Fra Corby. R. C. Leonard, and E Mildner. Ineligible' freshmen receive no awards. (By Frank McPike) Coaching a team, which four weeksj from the end of the season is a hope- less tail-ender in a Big Ten basket- ball race, is a thankless task at best and one which any man might be ex-: pected to disclaim. Taking that same' team and converting it into a power- ful fighting aggregation which is able to win eight straight games againstt the hardest kind of opposition andf climb to a triple tie for the champion- ship of the West in four short weeks, is an achievement which borders onf the unbelievable and lends some color to Mr. Aesops' justly celebrated yarns. It was just such a performance which placed E. J. Mather, coach of the Var-i sity basketball team, familiarly known to his men as the "Skipper", squarely in the public gaze during the last few weeks and firmly fixed him in the fav- or of Michigan athletic followers. 'Here Since 1919 t Coming to the University in the fall of 1919, Mather found Michigan ath- letics in general and basketball in particular in a disorganized condition< following the general disorder of the war period. The basketball team faced its third season of Conference competition with only two or three veterans on hand as a nucleus for a championship squad. The Skipper, called is men before the football sea-f son was closed that year and devel- oped them into a team which won ar fair proportion of its games and fin-, ished in about the middle of the Big Ten standings. All of this time he was watching the All-fresh five close- ly and his work with the yearlings brought to the Varsity this year such men as Miller, Whitlock, and Cappon. Ineligibility Hits Hard At the beginning of last season in- eligibility dealt 'the basketball pros- pects a blow in one or two places and the team could not seem to get start- ed, losing games to teams it defeated with ease later in the season. After the fourth successive loss to a Con- ference quintet Mather had on his hands a broken, spiritless squad, one which seemed destined for the sub- cellar in the campaign. Things began to move after that, Mather sent Dunne MASONIC NOTICE All Masons on the campus are in- vited to the meeting of the Craftsmen's Club this evening at 7:30 P. M. at Masonic Temple. Third Degree.-Adv.' entries. at 9 p. m.; Kappa Beta Psi vs. Delta - Upsilon at 9 p. m. 11F COACH MATHER to center in the Iowa game and in- jected the fight necessary to win the first game of the year. He shifted Rea, a fair forward, to the running guard post and there the captain- elect played a game which placed him among the three best in thesConfer-, ence. This transformation resulted in the showing of the team which caused Mather to be dubbed by critics, "the Miracle man of the 1921 season". M iather All-around Athlete Although Mather's specialty is bas- ketball his attention has not been cen- tered in the court game alone as he starred in four major sports during his college career. At Lake Forest college, where he graduated in 1912, he captained the football, baseball, bas- ketball and track teams during his senior year. In addition to his success- ful work with the basketball team here he coaches the All-fresh football team and in two seasons has had teams which have given Yost's Varsity stiff- er competitign than some of the small (Continued on Page Six) Girls-See Mrs. Eugene Crum, at Vogue Shoppe, in Nickel's Arcade, for your Spring Frocks.-Adv. Miss Mary F. Minnis, Chiropodist, formerly with Mack and Co., will be at the Saunder's Hair Shop, Tuesday of every week. Phone 2673-M for ap- pointments.-Adv. INDOOR BASEBALL NOTICE Fraternities wishing to enter the interfraternity indoor base- ball tournament call Director Mitchell at the Intramural office. Phone 2268. }. E .. I 'Get Fitte j Attention. n101S Now Foi CAPSGOWNSHODS AllDepA Deatmen Patronize Daily Advertisers.-Adv. DSADDLE PONIES 427 US. MAIN Phone 1687-R STUDENT LIVERY 1693W Made by COTRELL and LEONARD GEO. W. 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