h'erine 'UDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE SUMMER OF TLE UNIVERSITY 0sI MICHIGAN. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Afternoons. Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street,. .ones: Business, 960; Editorial, 2414. OFFICE HOURS: :oo Daily; 1:30o 0 5:ooDaily, except Saturday. rns not to exceed 3oo words, if signed, the signatures to be published in print, but as an evidence of ces of events will be published in The Wolverine a of the Editor, if left or mailed 'to the office. mmunications will receive no consideration. No be returnedl unless the writer encloses postage. ne does not necessarily endorse the sentiments ex- communications. W. SARGENT, Jr................Managing Editor Phone 2414 or i2o. EIILLERY....................Business Manager Phone 960 or 2738. INESS ASSISTANTS John J. Hamel, Jr. Robert L. Kersey ISSUE EDITORS, H. Rileyk UHamilton Cochran COLUMN EDITOR Howard Weeks; TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1920. 4YMPC REVISION NEEDED ent conduct of the Olympic tryouts siows astic 'revision of the systenri'is needed is more acutelys f elt her, because of the t cost Michigan. representatives on the the fact remains that ther were things :h resulted in inferior Oren being picked ically every case where thereWas 'acon- >osition between the athletic clubs and the s,, the clubs /ere the ones that received :ages. It iust be admitted that the ma- the men on the team were once, or still its of the univetsities, and yet the athletic always favored. In picking coaches, men oked, who had developed the best talent ntry, for a n 'of an athletit'club, who a good showing because mainly there have ge coaches to trai his inen. re several instances of the power that the ibs wielded ad of the unfairness of the s selections. In the quarter mile, Larry ished sixth, ahead 'of' Driscoll who was - the squad:. The' reason given, for this s that Driscoll was boxed, and that his -ecords showed le could do better, if .it een for' this unfair positio of his. Of anyone That knows much about racing, it rident that a man, who gets boxed,'is an oner oi- he ould not get boxed In addi- ;, Butler has past records as good as Dris- yet he was'not picked. What are the tryy- except to pick the winners ? But the ommittee seemed to think that it .,was a past performances. Perhaps some season Ifs choie ies in that he was a 'member of 1 Atlletic association to which club eight mpic committee belonged. a. .nstanc 'was in.thepentathlon rials. 3 'Irving 'of, 0Idaho, tied for fifth inthe they were not picked because of the pro-~ )unne of Michigan,. and an arnpy man.' rotests may have had some merit as he :ood ,performances to his credit, but the did Ionly mediocre work and had little his claims. Again the fairness of this ich omitted Baker and Irving, is seen.. 100Iyad dash Michigan's representative' d for'ane heat, but a man, whom Hart :, protested against his' running in that probably because the rival was an athletic :he protest was allowed. The rival qual-, te finals in a slow heat; the'Michigan man d in to the fastest heat of the day and urth a yard 'behind the winner. Athough rig among the first six in the trials, the ob representative, was picked for arelayf abl because ofhis powerful connectiyns. re a few of the instancis of the fine and s which the Olympic commjttee made, and ndoubtedly many similar cases. The idea the American team should be to get the but if the above incidents are As true as to is, such was not the- entire idea this n, who did the best in the trials, were not t seemed to be-a matter of choosing the had the most influence or protested the nothing that can be done about the work r's committee, but iA four years there will r Olympic. Inasmuch as the universities most of the men to the team, it is now he universities to commence a campaign, result in their getting a square deal and GOOD FAIIURES Most of us dislike the word "failure." We say that it will never be part of our life, that we intend to be successes,g and that failure will never, enter into our vocabulary. But a good failure is much to be desired. We will never appreciate success until we have known failure. If we have never known a failure, we have never known what it is to be spurred on to a greater effort,