oA _ ,_.,, _ _ _ blAB LINL IVIRUL Y COACH_ PONTIUS Line Coach Develops Fighters From Last Year's Unpromising Material FACTS SHOW FINE RUNNING AT YALE MAY COME BACK NEXT YEAR Perhaps no single individual deserv- es any more credit for the showing of the 1916 Michigan Varsity than Line Coach Miller H. Pontius. This is not intended to reflect in any way upon the work of Douglass. Doug- lass, however, was greeted by an ar- ray of backfield talent that could have wrung the tears of joy from the mar- ble and lifeless eyes of a statute. Yost stands by himself. But, poor Miller! Michigan's line the previous season had been notorious instead of famous, and Pontius was confronted by the task that would have made the slay- ing of the Nemean Lion and the cleansing of the Augean stables ridic- ulously easy by comparison. The former Varsity star took hold with a vengeance, however, and built up a forward wall that was a wonder- ful improvement upon that of the previous season. Fritz. Rehor and Bull Dunne, two men who had been follow- ing the Varsity with indifferent suc- cess the, previous two seasons, were developed into real stars and had Michigan defeated Pennsylvania and Cornell both of them would figure as prominent contenders for All-Ameri- can honors. Peach and Wieman. two new com- ers, were taken in hand and if one of these two men doesn't land among Eddie Carroll Finishes Within Record Time of One of Country's Hard- est Courses Michigan's work in the intercol- legiate cross country race at New Haven last Saturday appears the bet- ter the more light is thrown on the meet. The team placed a good ninth this yar as against a bad tenth last season. The men ran better than last year considering the coldness of the weather and the conditions of the Yale course. Michigan's Varsity runners finished in the following order: Carroll, sec- ond; Captain Kuivenen, 30th; Fox, 39th; Fuess, 58th, and Bouma, 64th. The team totaled 193 points. There were about 80 men running in the meet, picked men of the east. Two schools were entered in the race but failed to send any men over the course, Colby and Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology. The course, according to the con- sensus of opinion of the men who ran over it, was exceedingly hard. It was plentifully bespattered with hills and one in particular was extremely steep and high, and provd a serious obstacle for the contestants. Nearly all the men were terribly worn with the strain when they finished, the nu- merous and sharp grades telling heavily on the endurance of them all. So general is the feeling that the course was too hard and exhaustive that it is probable that it will never be used again should Yale get the an- nual classic. The work of Eddie Carroll was even better than supposed. He fin- ished only about 50 yards behind Over- ton, the Yale crack, instead of 100 yards as reported in some papers. Overton broke the Yale course record and Carroll also came within it. The race for individual honors was so close that had the condition been reversed and the Michigan runner been ac- customed to the course as Overton was, he might have beaten the cham- pion. The hills about Ann Arbor are not high and do not compare with those about New Haven. The grade that told so heavily on many of the contestants did not appear to bother Eddie as much as might have been supposed, and both he and Wenz of Cornell passed Dempsey of Maine in the last half mile. Whether the !act that Windnagle, the Cornellchampiondintercollegiate miller, finished so far down the list is any indication of the ability of the men who defeated him in the cross country race t& beat him in the mile is rather risky comparison, There is too much difference between six miles and one mile to afford ground for drawing such conclusion. The Ithaca star placed as well in this meet as he did in the one last season and he can unquestionably beat some of the milers who defeated him in the longer distance. Carroll and Wenz of Cornell have improved and the way they fin- ished in this meet is a splendid index to the endurance of both, with the edge going to the Wolverine harrier. The Varsity hill and dalers have the task of preparing for the race in De- troit on Thanksgiving day. The show- ing against the state teams at Lansing two weeks ago, where the Wolverines took first honors, and the fight the men put up at New Haven last Satur- day would argue a win Thursday. Explosion Breaks John W.s Rest Tarrytown, N. Y., Nov. 27.-John D. Rockefeller was aroused from his sleep early today by the explosion of a boiler in one of the large green- houses on his estate here. Servants were sentto find out what had caused the loud report, and when Mr. Rocke- feller learned what had happened he went back to bed. Many rare plants and flowers were destroyed by the ex- plosion. A watchman in the building at the time barely escaped injury. Flannel Shirts made to order. G. H. Wild Company. Leading merchant tailors. State street. tf AMEICANCINDER MEN REACH HOME Bring Tidings That Best Athletes in Sweden Will be Here Next Summer CAPTURE ALMOST EVERYTHING New York, Nov. 27.-Bringing back a cargo of trophies-169 in all-and the good tidings that a team of Swed- en's best track and field performers will tour this country next year, the American team of five athletes, who left these shores some weeks ago to show the Scandinavians how to run, jump, hurdle, and most everything else in an athletic line, landed safe and sound from the steamer Stockholm, which docked in Hoboken. Strong in praise of the treatment accorded them in Norway and Sweden, James E. Meredith, Jo G. Loomis, Andy Ward, Bob Simpson, and Fred Murray, walked down the gangplank happy to be safely over the Atlantic, yet sorry they were unable to remain on the other side for a while longer. It was Meredith who brought the tidings that Ernie Hjerberg, the Am- erican who is governmental coach of Sweden's athletes, had completed the plans which failed this year, of bring- ing his best athletes to the United States to show their wares in com- petition. Hjertberg, according to Meredith, has enlisted the financial support of many of Sweden's most prominent citizens, and will probably bring a team of ten or more men here next summer. Those who are certain to come over are Gill, a great pole vault- er, who gets 13 feet; Bolin, the mid- dle-distance runner, who led Meredith almost every time they met at about a half mile; Kullerstrand, a high jumper, who can clear six feet and probably slightly more; and Hultin, a hurdler, who while no Simpson, not yet a Murray, can top the timber in fine fashion, Swedish People Entertain Well Everywhere they went in Sweden and Norway-and they competed in Stockholm, Christiania, Upsala, Mal- mo, and Gotenburg, the Americans were received with open arms. Big crowds witnessed all their meets, and the last one at Cotenberg, no report of which had reached this side, at- tracted 35,000 persons on the last day of the two days of sport. The Swed- ish athletic committee was so con- siderate of the American youths that they refused to arrange passagefor them on a Norwegian steamer be- cause of the submarine peril to which they would have been exposed. The committee also sent a handsome cup for the Amateur Athletic Union. It was brought by Meredith to Frederick W. Rubien, secretary-treasurer of the A. A. U., who with Thomas Cassidy, A. A. U. commissioner for Hudson county. (Continued on Page Six.) AS' ///// tl HE road to Laundry Satis- faction leads to our ad- dress. The easiest way to insure the proper conditioning of your clothes is to send us your soiled linen and we will return it to you refreshed and renewed. Moe Laundry HARD0 FIGHT THIS YER IN GAMPUS FOOTBALL Many Tie Games Delay Awarding Numerals; Play is Tight and Scares are Small With the campus championship safe- ly in the hands of the medics and the junior lits in possession of second honors, there remains two sets of un- claimed numerals with three teams left in the argument. The fresh lits and soph engineers 1who played to a tie last week will have to battle again to decide the winner of the second div- ision. The fresh laws and the senior engineers who also fought to a draw last week will decide between them- selves who is to get third honors with the loser playing the winner of the second division for the fourth and last set of numerals. Evenly matched contestant teams have made this year's season success- ful. There has been a marked absence of large scores, one of the largest of the season being the 26-point count of the medics in the final game. On the other hand the season has been featured by the presence of an unus- ually large number of ties, particular- ly scoreless ties. The medics alone seemed able to reach the more advanc- ed stage of the series with no draws while in another case three ties were played before a definite decision was reached. The final victory of the strong medic team came more or less as the'expect- ed result after the form shown by the doctors in the earlier games of the season. Made a little uneasy by the showing made by the junior lits in the semi-finals, the team which now holds the championship was drilled long and hard by Bob Watson who de- serves great credit for the team work displayed last Saturday. The junior lits entered the dispute quite unex- pectedly. After considerable trouble in defeating their departmental rivals this team stepped up and defeated the fresh laws who had a well organized eleven of experienced players and who were rather expected to meet the med- ics in the final round. 'The senior en- gineers meeting the doctors in the semi-finals were forced out of the main bout after a stubborn fight. Both this team and the fresh laws have shown strength and the second di- vision winner will be forced to display football of extra quality to gain the coveted fourth set of numerals. (Additional Sport on Page Six.) 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Weske developed into one of the steadiest tackles that Mich- igan has seen for several seasons. The same goes for Gracey and Boyd. A very considerable share of the credit for these improvements goes to Line Coach Pontius. Miller command- ed the respect and admiration of his pupils from the day the squad report- edtand thdy were with him until the last. Pontius was a star of the first mag- nitude himself during his college ca- reer and he seems to have the gift for imparting to others the knowledge that he learned while actively engaged in mussing up the scenery on a num- ber of football pastures with opposing linesmen who were so unfortunate as to draw the assigment opposite him. When Pontius left Ann Arbor it was not known definitely whether he would return. A rumor on the cam- pus said that he would be back next fall, but he refused to comment upon this himself. If Pontius does come back to assist in directing the fortunes of the Wolverines, several of those 1916 linesmen who are booked to re- turn are going to show a brand of football that will attract the atten- tion of all the critics and the team and students are strong for his re-engage- ment next season. Watch for the grand opening of Ann Arbor's Finest Floral Shop. Nickels Arcade. 3-tf ~' rms ; hina to New X ork, and arouna tPIC W'V rd the other way, to London, el:" e I0 boy v hegis known and' Yvcd above all others--and that boy loin Sawyer. I) "im each man knows the image of !is own boyhood, of its dreams and its mnschief. In Tom Sawyer each man sees the renewal of hs i he Chinese mandarin chuckles when Tom makes the other boys pay him fdr doing his work. The little Russian trem- bles as he overhears Indian Joe plotting to rob the widow. The German in his trench tunnel, with death all about him, catches his breath as he reads of Tom and little Becky alone in the tunnel. 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