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Council to Present
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to Board in Control Saturday
FRIDAY OF THIIS WEEK THE CAMPUS WILL GET AN OPPOR-
TUNITY TO EXPRESS ITS APPROVAL OF THE MOVEMENT FOR A
VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM. ON THAT DAY, PETITIONS WILL BE
CIRCULATED ON THE CAMPUS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE STU-
DENT COUNCIL TO BE SIGNED BY THE STUDENTS AND PRESENTED
TO THE BOARD IN CONTROL OF ATHLETICS AT ITS MEETING ON
SATURDAY NIGHT. THESE PETITIONS WILL BE STATIONED AT
VARIOUS PLACES ON THE CAMPUS AND IT IS UP TO EVERY MAN
AND WOMAN IN THE UNIVERSITY WHO WANTS TO SEE A VARSITY
BASKETBALL TEAM AT MICHIGAN TO SIGN ONE OF THEM. THE
WEIGHT OF STUDENT OPINION WILL BE GUAGED BY THE BOARD
LARGELY BY THE NUMBER OF NAMES SIGNED TO THE PETITIONS.
THE STUDENT COUNCIL WISHES IT UNDERSTOOD THAT IT
DOES NOT OFFICIALLY FAVOR EITHER SIDE IN THE PRESENT
QUESTION AND THAT IT WILL TAKE CHARGE OF THE PETITIONS
ONLY IN ORDER THAT THE SENTIMENT OF THE CAMPUS MAY BE
ASCERTAINED.
Happenings of the past week show
the constantly growing strength of
basketball at Michigan. The sport has
appeared in four entirely new phases
in the last few days. Among other
things, the board in control will vote
on the proposition of the intramural
department to establish an inter-
scholastic basketball meet for the state
high schools. This meet will serve to
create an ever-increasing demand for
Varsity basketball as the boys who
play in these annual tournaments en-
ter the University and begin to look
around for the sport that first attracted
them to Michigan.
Then there have been established
two new basketball leagues to supple-
ment the class league. In past years
many men who wanted to play basket-
ball have been disappointed because
there were not enough teams in the
class league to accommodate them all.
It is especially for this class of men
that the boarding house and fraternity
leagues have been founded. They will
allow many men to compete who were
unable to do so before.
It was just a day or so ago that the
graduates expressed their intention of
forming a basketball team. This is
the first time that the degree men have
turned out a team in any kind of sport
and it is significant that basketball
should claim their first effort.
The coming of these various new
forces in the court game only means,
of course, that there will be an ever-
increasing demand on the campus for
Varsity basketball and in time the
board will have to listen to the plea
of the students. Student opinion at
the present time is overwhelmingly in
favor of the movement. The student
council at its meeting Monday night
voted that the individual opinions of
the members be recorded as favorable
to the establishment of the team. In
this case, it seems that the logic of a
certain well known advertisement
might easily apply-"Eventually, why
not now?"
Officers of the athletic association
and prominent members of the stu-
dent body expressed their opinions of
the question as follows:
P. G. Bartelane, director of outdoor
athletics-I think that Varsity basket-
ball at Michigan would be a fine thing
but I am afraid the time is not ripe
for it. The competition under present
conditions would never be satisfac-
tory. The students would soon tire of
poor home schedules and the same dis-
satisfaction that now exists in regard
to indoor track would become rfe
lies in the fact ,that the University
must have coipetition'in its Own class
to keep up the standard of its ath-
letics. The eastern teams would not
come west with any degree of regu-
larity. We might catch a game now
and then f-on some barnstorming
team but regular relations would be
next to impossible. I am afraid that
basketball would be more of a handi-
cap than an advantage in making up
the schedules in other sports.
F. A. Rowe, director of intramural
activities-If it were not for the com-
petition question, I would be heartily
in favor of instituttng the game as a
Varsity sport. There are only four
teams within striking distance that
could furnish us with consistently
good competition. These teams are
Notre Dame, M. A. C., Kalamazoo Nor-
mal, and Hope. Aside from them, we
would have to take oitr chances.
The proposition to include independ-
ent teams on our schedule is not feasi-
ble. In the first place, there is an
athletic association rule against com-
peting against any aggregations not
officialy representing a college. While
this might be repealed, there reallyl
would be no object in playing such
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MICHIGAN WANTED TO
JOIN BOWLING LEAGUE
:Meeting to be. Meld in Gy n Tomorrow
Evening to Consider
Q nestioll
Michigan's student council has re-
ceived an invitation from the Inter-
collegiate Bowling association to join
that organization.
To discuss the advisability of the
formation of a University of Michigan
bowling club a meeting will be held
at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening in the
trophy room of Waterman gymnasium.
The meeting will be in charge of H. A.
Taylor, '17E, of the council.
Letters have already been sent out
to the various fraternities and house
clubs requesting that men interest-
ed in this sport be present for the
meeting, which is open to the campus
at large.
The headquarters of the association
are in New Haven, Conn. Its present
members are Cornell, Lehigh, Syra-
cuse, Yale, Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute, and Stevens Institute. Western
schools which are expected to enter
the associaion are Illinois, Minnesota,
Ohio State, and Notre Dame.
The purpose of the association is to
supervise an intercollegiate bowling
league, every member of which is elig-
ible to enter a five man team. The
teams are to be divided into sections
according to the convenience of num-
bers and location. Each team will
bowl three games with each of the
other teams 'in its section, the scores
to be telegraphed to the headquarters
of the league.
The association will also hold an an-
nual bowling tournament. In this the
winning teams of each section will roll
the balls down the alleys to decide the
intercollegiate championship of Amer-
erica.
E. S. Jacobus' Five-Piece Orchestra
for dances, entertainments and con-
certs. 520 N. Fifth Ave. Phone 1487.
Ohio and Indiana whole lot of confidence in North-
wester's ability by itsow coach.
i ,, Wil Voe f' ron i Madison comes the announce-
PaesWill Vote
/ L ment that Northwestern is still being
considered, along with Indiana and
Boom! ZZZippp! ! Cccerraasshh! ! Iowa, for a game on the 1917 schedule,
-also fireworks! Dissention in the so after all, the only one of the "big"
conference! teams which really cold-shouldered
Poor li'l Northwestern is peeved. Northwestern was perhaps, Illinois.
And why not? Didn't Ohio State and Despite the harsh words issuing
the Purple battle for the Conference from the Northwestern camp, it is
championship a week or so ago? But ' hardly probable that the Purple will
then, on the other hand, Minnesota is withdraw from the Conference, as
said by the critics to possess the they would have a rather difficult task
strongest team by far in not only the finding competition if they tried the
western alliance but the whole west. seceding stuff. As long as Northwest-
The history of the little internal ern is in the Conference. however,
squabble resolves itself into this: there is no chance foi' them to book
Coach Fred Murphy. who represented a game with Michigan, as "one of the
Northwestern at the schedule meeting other schools in the east and west."
of the Conference delegates last Sat- because a Conference rule bars mem-
urday, tried to book games with the hers of the Conference from meeting
so-called "Big Four" of the league, the Wolverines. It is to be presumed
viz., Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin that the anger of the Purple will soon
and Illinois. Murphy claims they cool off and that the business of the
handed him the sauer line-at any Conference will again proceed in se-
rate he didn't get just what he thought rene'fashion as before.
he had coming. Result: Murphy says, w
and it is understood that the officials Ann Arbor's progressive merchants
of Northwestern are behind him, that use the Michigan Daily as their adver-
the Purple will abandon the idea of
booking contests with the "logical op- using medium.
ponents" for next fall, and will take
on other big college elevens of the Dancing classes and private lessons
east and far west. at the Packard Academy. 18-tf
It develops, however, that North-
western has booked a game with Chi-
cago for Oct. 27, and Minnesota offered GM SA
the purple Nov. 3. Murphy, however,
turned down Minnesota's offer be-
cause he didn't want to meet Chicago The ost Complet
and Minnesota on two successive Sat-
urdays, which isn't exactly showing Com plete *
Dan Cupid Scores
on Jimmie Craig
I) eiroit lDec. 5-James Craig, famed
in Michigan as a former All-American
hal f hack, has scored another touch-
down. Jimmy has confirmed a re-
port of his engagement to Miss Ruth
Thrasher of Cincinnati. No date has
been set for the ceremony.
Jimuny Craig is known to football
enthusiasts throughout the country.
Miss Thrasher, a graduate of Vassar,
is prominent in Cincinnati's younger
set, residing with her parents in the
exclusive Clifton district. The young
people have been friends since they
were children, their people having
neighboring cottages at Harbor Beach.
Mr. Craig said Miss Thrasher would
visit here soon at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Alice Craig, 240 Van'Dyke
avenue.
English Volunteers Receive Money
London. Dec. 5.-English. volunteers,
the force of family men who are de-
voting part of their time to home de-
fense, receive three shillings and six
pense in silver when they enlist. Their
wives have devised a decoration out
o0 this money, the three pieces being
gilded and aflixe to a gold bar pin.
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Snappiest Thing This Year
That Xmas Concert
OF THE
Glee and Mlandolin Club
HILL AU
Friday,
DITORIUM
Dec.
'5
5- lbs. Cand
for a
THOUSHT
We will give five
pounds of
For the best verse
of six lines or a verse
in parody on
Poe's Raven
Recommending it.
3 lbs1
for second best.
Post by mail, sealed
envelope.
CLOSING DATE
DEC. 7
Committe from stu-
dent publications
will give the deci-
sion.
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When Boston was a cow-path, Chicago
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THEN leather heels were good to use.
There was nothing to walk on then but
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NOW Broadway is paved ; bricks cover
Boston's cow-paths; you walk on hard
stone, not sod, in Chicago's streets; the
meadows are macadamized.
We've outgrown leather heels.
They are too hard, too jarring, too dead
for modern pavements. More people are
finding this out every day. They are wear-
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Under their feet the hard pavement of
today is turning into the springy turf of
olden days.
Don't wear 1716 heels in 1916.
When you buy your new shoes, buy
them O'Sullivanized. Up-to-date shoe
dealers now sell latest style shoes with
O'Sullivan's Heels already attached.
Insist on O'Sullivanized shoes; the new
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with the greatest resiliency.
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