_r... . I NJ )1 FOR BASKETBALL FRIDAY m Council to Present Signed List . 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 (Continued on Page Six.) 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. VPPLIES e Line In The City Tn Suit $2.00 vv'ai J w 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. GET BUSY BUSY B E E MWm /-'-*l !I 1 You will notice the difference in these Gym Suits. They are made up especi- all for Michigan Students, GE0eIJ MOE "SPORT SHOP" 711 N. 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