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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920
PAGE TWO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920 f
THE SEASON ISN'T OVER
The critical game in Michigan's 1920
football schedule is a thing of the past.
The teams are leaving the field and
the stands are emptying, but each of
th two universities represented on
Ferry field today have more hard
games ahead of them. Officials andl
authorities have said that today's con-
test would probably be a deciding
factor in determining the standing of
both schools on the "dope" books,
but with more Conference games yet
to come, winners and losers have a
chance either to climb or fall down
in- the season's standing. The spirit
of both must be-kept up. The good
loser is ever the deserving winner, and
overconfidence has many times spelled
staleness and later defeat.}
THE NEW "BIG GAMES"
Athletic contests with Illinois have
grown -to be a big feature of Michi-
gan's'program. Illinois has shown it-
self to have excellent material in all
branches of athletics, and to be pos-i
sessed of a fighting spirit which more
often, than not, during the last 12
months, has driven its opponents to
defeat. This year and last, moreoverl
the Illinois-Michigan football game
has been looked forward to by all
Michigan students as one of the best,
atid probably the most decisive battle
of the year. From now on, all indi-
cations point to the ascendancy of the
Illinois and Chicago teams to the posi-
tion of Michigan's strongest and most
respected opponents, the elevens we
will go the farthest to beat.
Good-bye, Illinois; and come back'
again.
OUR ATHLETIC GRADS
"Once a Mason, always a Mason" is
an old saying, but. it is just as applic-
able to the field of athletics as it isi
to any other line of endeavor and we,
in college, can find examples of it all
about us if we but look for them.
. Take for instance our pinch hitter
of last season's baseball team, "Mike"
Knode, '20H. As a graduate medic
one would naturally suppose that Mike
would now be out somewhere practic-
ing the profession for which he was1
tiained, -but instead we find ourselves;
confronted with the news that he is
still being depended upon for his skill
*ith the bat, playing the season with}
the St. Louis Cardinals.
And Mike Knode isn't the only ex-
&mple of the college man turned pro-;
fessional - athlete. There is George
Sisler, '15E, now playing with the St.,
Louis Browns, and there is Johnny
Lavan, '14M, a "pro" with the Car-
dinals. Both are college trained men,;
as are also Archie Hahn, '04, Carl,
Lundgren, Branch Rickey, Derrill Pratt
and a host of others.
It may seem strange to some that
college men should wish to enter the
field of sports in preference to other
professions which possibly may- be
considered more dignified. But there
is no doubt that their academic train-
ing will serve-them well even on the
diamond.
One of the known advantages of a
college education isthat it trainsefor
leadership and whether or not these
old graduates ever leave the field of
athletics for their originally planned
profession, certain it is that, in the
long run, they will have won rather
than lost by their years spent on a
college campus.
A new animal appeared to have been
,discovered by the- M. -A. C. players ai
ast Saturday's game-the football that
bites.
- Have you heard about the absent-
-minded freshman, an ex-service man,
who saluted the dormnat tl }nio ?i
Y elect Karpus, Rea, Pearman and
!! Weise, forwards; D~unne, (.enter; Wil-
liams., Wilson antd Peare, guards, is
practically intact. In additiont to these
men the Wolverines have the 19201
freshman quintet which will make the
><;, veterans hustle to retain their old
Ijobs.
Twelve Conference games are on the
schedule, as well as several prelim-
inary contests. Last season Michigan
was hit by a jinx in the absence of
Ka rpus, the high-scoring forward, and
Williamsz, an All-Conference guard. As
a result the team was slow to start
but finished stro~ng when these men
were injected into the laly.
With Karpus and WNilliams arouind
whom to build a team, and the addi-
tion of Derrill Pratt as assistant to
Coach Mather, basketball hopes have
risen. if Coaches Mather and Pratt
get together a combination equal in
strength to the one which finished the
191.9-20 season, the Wolverines should
have a quintet which will make itself
heard in Big Ten circles.
COACH PRATT, MICHIGAN'S LATEST MENTOR
Enviable Record In Three Sports,
That Of Coach Derrill Pratt
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(By Frank MPike)
When the New York Yankees wound
up theft season on Sept. 29 last, Der-
rill Pratt, the club's star second base-
man, had completed his eighth consec-
utive season in the big league. During
this time the man to whom all Mich-
igan men look to keep the Conference
baseball- title here, has been among the
leaders in his profession.
Both as a player and a gentleman
he has made a record for himself that
stands high in the annals of profes-
sional baseball. His arrival in Ann
Arbor has been eagerly looked forward
to since notice of his appointment was
first given out, and since his appear-
ance on Ferry field he has impressed
those with whom he has come in con-
tact by the thoroughness with which
he attacks his work.
Will Stick to Coaching
"I do not intend to go back into
baseball as a player," said Pratt re-
cently. "I have definitely decided to
take up the coaching game and I came
here because Michigan's record in ath-
letics is especially impressive. I like
Michigan men and the Michigan spirit
and my work here has been most
pleasant." This is Pratt's estimate of
Michigan.
That Pratt's athletic experience has
;not been confined entirely to baseball
is evident by a look at his record.
After a football career at the Univer-
sity of Alabama that makes his Alma
Mater hail him as one of the four
greatest players in all her history,
Pratt spent five years coaching col-
lege elevens at Washington and Lee,
Alabama, and Washington University.
At the latter place he assisted "Big
Bill" Edmunds, former Michigan line-
man, and at present a member of the
staff that is assisting Yost.
Good Basketball Man
It was this work that induced Pratt
to enter the coaching game as a per-
manent profession and he has deserted
baseball at the height of his playing
career to promote his ambition. Dur-
ing his undergraduate days Pratt was
considered one of the fastest basket-
ball players in the south and later
took up the court game with inde-
pendent teams around St. Louis as a
means of-keeping in condition for base-
ball.
The experience gained in this way
will be invaluable. when he -takes
charge of the all-fresh basketeers this
season. Track is the only collegiate
major sport that the new coach has
not starred in and it would seem that
this is due to a lack of time more than
lack of ability.
Eyes on Him as Coach of Nine
It is as head coach of the Varsity
nine that Pratt's work will be watched
with the greatest interest and in which
he will hay? the greatest responsibility.
Sisler, Lavan, Knode and others have
given Wolverine baseball a national
reputation and continued successes in
intercollegiate competition have placed
the Maize and Blue among the leaders
in academic circles.
(:It is 'Pratt's task to maintain this
Everybody who knows a girl within
radius of a thousand miles seems to
have a sneaking suspicion that the
Block M ought to get along without
him.
standing. A knowledge of the game
learned from past masters of strategy,
and personal experience gained in sev-
eral hundred hard fought diamond
battles coupled with a wining per-
sonality makes him the best equipped
baseball coach in the country.
COURT PROSPECTS
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(By Harry B. Grundy)
Varsity basketball will soon begin
in earnest. Next week when the court
men are called out for the initial
practices Michigan will begin with
much brighter prospects than it has:
had in previous years. Basketball is
an infant among the Wolverine major
sports, having been a Conference sport
for only three years at Michigan.
The task of building a team from
green men or those with no Varsity
experience has usually been the
stumbling block for the coaches. This
year Coach Mather will have as a
nucleus eight letter men with which
to construct his team.
Last year's squad, including Captain-
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