INRAIRRNTS STRT
WORKING MONDAY
M~anager Jennings 3ays s Dsler
Lacks Ty Cobb "s self-Confidence
LEADER OF 1DETROT TIGERS ASSERTIS ThAT -ORE EIRE AND DASH
WOULD PLACE MICHIGAN MAVN ON PLANE WITH
GEORGIAN
COACH FARRELL STAS THAT
OFFICIAL CALL WILL 1E
ISSUED SOON
STEVE SILENT AS TO OUTLOOK
MichIgan's Prospects for Coming Year
D~epend Entirely Upon Future
Development
Real work for Michigan's 1917 track
tryouts will start Monday.
No intimation as to the date of the
annual call for track material in the
university has yet leaked out. Coach
Farrell explained yesterday that he
and Eddie Carroll would undoubtedly
get together sometime today or before
Monday at least, and arrange for the
opening gun of the season.
Though nothing definitely is known
as to the arrangements it is expected
that the annual meeting of cinder as-
pirants will be held sometime during
the early stages of the coming week.
Meanwhile a half hundred or more
athletes of both freshman and Var-
sity standards have been taking ad-
vantage of the last couple of after-
noons. Kinks are being straigthened
out of legs long unused to running
pants and heelless shoes are raising
blisters on soft feet. Necks are
growing accustomed to the lack of
collars. Waterman gym between class-
es of Dr. May's freshmen presents a
scene of thin clads going through
most every stage known to the first
process of hardening for the long sea-
son of track work.
Everything will be in readiness for
the reception of the athletes. The
new shot hoisting grounds down stairs
have been put in condition, and the
pole vaulters may cast their eyes with
joy over the pit especially prepared
for them.
Coach Farrell is making no state-
ments to what his men will do or
will not do this season. It is under-
stood that a better schedule of meet-
ings has been provided for the track-
sters than last season, when the Var-
sity had to get along without a single
indoor meet at'home.
From present dope it looks. like a
season of. great uncertainties and
much hard work on the part of the
coach. Last year Steve had some
thirteen points of intercollegiate cali-
bre back in school. With that num-
ber Michigan was able to amass just
an equal ratio of counters at Boston's
spectacle last May. This year Farrell
has but a quartet of intercollegiate
markers left in school in the person of
Captain Carroll, second in the mile
run'
The present sophomore class has
presentd material of possibilitIy a lit-
tle above the average to the coach.
Some of it gives promise of develop-
ing into more than mediocre Varsity
calibre.
The greatest oustanding trouble
with which Farrell has to contend at
present is the scarcity of material in
two or three branches of the cinder
sport. This embraces pole vaulting
particularly where Michigan was woe-
fully weak last season, and where
great. improvement is hoped for this
season. The freshmen of last year
were strong in the same positions as
the Varsity, and weak in the places
where the Wolverines were weak. It
is for material to plug these holes that
the captain and coach are especially
seeking.
"The only thing that prevents George
Sisler from being as great a ball play-
er as Ty Cobb is lack of aggressiveness
and self-confidence."
This statement is attributed to
Hughie Jennings, manager of the De-
troit Tigers since 1907, the year after
Cobb broke into the league, and the
man who has a better knowledge of
the "Peach" than any other man in
baseball.
All of which is a preface to the pre-
diction that there will never be an,
other Cobb, a prediction based on the
record of great stars who have fallen
short of Cobb's remarkable perform-
ances.
Sisler is one of the great figures in
baseball. He is particularly valuable
to his club on account of his ability
to pitch, play first or third base or
the outfield, combined with which he
is a great hitter, a lightning base
stealer and an all-round brainy ball
player.
But he falls short of Cobb, Jennings
says, because of his lack of aggressive-
ness and self-confidence, or maybe the
vhich makes it possible for him to
score from second on a bunt or go
from first to third on an infield out.
His absolute disregard for his op-
ponents shocks them so they fail to
get him when they would have easily
stopped a speedier man, who does not
possess the Cobb "fire."
It is the lack of that indomitable
ambition which Cobb has that kept
Hal' Chase from challenging Cobb's
right to the title of the greatest ball
player in the world a few years ago.
This same lack of "fire" has kept
others from equaling Cobb.
Bob Bescher and Bert Shotten are
both faster men than Cobb, but they
haven't the "fire" to make them greater
base runners than Ty.
Joe Jackson and Tris Speaker both
fall short of the Georgian in some par-
ticulars, and even this year when
Speaker beat Cobb out for batting
honors by points, Cobb led the Texan
in run-getting by 11.
When Jackson challenged' Cobb by
batting .408 in 1911, Cobb batted .420
and it was characteristic that the next
"fire" which has made it possible for year when Jackson told the "Peach"
Cobb to burn up the league for ten he intended to lead the league, Cobb
years. told him he would have to better .400
Cobb is always doing - something to do it.
surprising. It is not his speed so Jackson fell five points below that
much as his daring and recklessness mark and Cobb swatted at a .410 clip.
250 HIGH SCHOOLS
HHEBEEN ASED
TO ENTER SQUADS
WINNER OF TOURNAMENT WILL
BE AWARDED TITLE OF
STATE CHAIPIONS
VISITORS GET GOLD EMBLEMS
First and Second All-State Quintets
Will Be Picked From Show-
ing Made Here
Nearly 250 high schools of the state
have been invited to send teams to
compete in the first annual inter-
scholastic basketball tournament to be
held by the University of Michigan
Athletic association. The tournament
will be March 22, 23, and 24; will be
played on the four courts in the new
Waterman gymnasium, and the win-
ning team will be declared state
champions for 1917.
Gold basketballs, suitably engraved,
will be presented to the members and
coach of the winning team, and mem-
bers and coach of the runner-up will
be given individual cups. An official
Spalding basketball will be given to
each of the other teams in the semi-
finals. Special cups may be offered
for the individual scoring the highest
number of points, and for the guard
who is scored on the least number of
times.
Seven men is the allowed entry of
each team, whose only expense will be
transportation. They will be lodged
and boarded by fraternities and house
clubs while in Ann Arbor, and details
entertainments for the visitors will be
published later.
Opportunity will be provided 'to en-
able teams to meet teams which are
not on their schedule. This will allow
teams wishing to meet any particular
opponent to arrange games which will
not conflict with the regularly sched-
uled matches. W. Lee Watson, basket-
ball interscholastic manager, is re-
ceiving applications for entrance into
the tourney.
An all-state and a second team
will be chosen from the battlers ap-
pearing in the tournament. The ad-
dition of basketball to the list of var-
sity sports in the University will in-
crease interest in the interscholastic
by encouraging players to come to the
university in order to follow up suc-
cessful work in the tourney.
Orton Picks Hal
Smith for Dash
Also Mentions Work of Carroll, Ufer,
Cross and Simmons in
Track Comments
(RIFLE
Marksmen Will Us Unfinished Pool in
Waterman Gymnasium
Michigan's Rifle club has just com-
pleted a 50-foot range in the unfin-
ished pool of the Waterman gymnas-
ium. The marksmen will start their
practice at once and will have 12 fir-
ing points at their. disposal. Only
three weeks are left before the official
opening of the season. The team will
be made up of ten men who have
shown the most consistent work dur-
ing the practice period.
According to those in charge there
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Instead of 20 shots from the p
position, as was the practice last:
there will be only ten prone shots
ten shots from the off-hand posit
This will make it much harder foi
men to get perfect scores.
A membership campaign will
started soon and it is stated th
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'SDx MANA9GERSHIP
Speedy Infielder Offered
Position :is Leader of
Champions
Cai3Llgan's
Wor~rld's
WILL MAKE DECISION TONIHI'i
Boston, Jan. 5.-Jack Barry of the
Red Sox was today offered the posi-
tion of manager in the place of Bill
Carrigan, by the owner, Harry S. Fra-
zee. Barry will give his answer at 7
o'clock tonight. This announcement
came after a long conference between
the two at the Hotel Touraine here
this afternoon. Barry came here from
Worcester and went back directly aft-
er the conference. It was stated the
money offered was satisfactory, the
only doubt being whether the position
will hurt his playing.
INTERCLASS AND FRATERNITY
BASKETBALL TEAMS AT WORK
Although interclass basketball will
not be played until after examination
week, Waterman gym will be kept
busy with the boarding house and
fraternity basketball leagues, in
which official play will start Mon-
day night, Jan. 8 and continue until
Jan. 24.
Practice periods for these teams
were allowed in the gym before vaca-
tion, and the schedule to be started
next week includes 24 teams in the
boarding house league and 43 in the
fraternity league, all supposed to be
ready to play at the appointed time.
Indoor baseball will have to wait
until next semester because the gym
,will be used for basketball and guard
nets ,are not yet ready.
The Michigan Daily for service.
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* which time she hit her thumb *
* with the hammer only once, Miss *
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GROVERALEANDER
HAS BEST RECORD
Schupp Is Nominal Leader of National
League Twirlers But "Alex"
Makes Great Showing
DISPLAYS MARVELOUS CONTROL
New York, Jan. 5.-The test of pitch-
ing greatness, the ability to hold runs
to a minimum, and still keep from put-
ting every ounce of strength into the
effort, is slapped right up in front of
the baseball public and made to stick
with greater force in recent pitching
records, perhaps more than ever be-
fore.
Ferdinand Schupp, John McGraw's
young sensation, was at the top of the
list in the National league for last sea-
son, but he scarcely counts in such a
computation of figures. But Grover
Cleveland Alexander, the real leader
of the league, shows what a real
pitcher, one with oodles of control,
can do.
Alexander appeared in 48 games dur-
ing the season, and he pitched 38 com-
plete contests. Only one man, Meadows
of St. Louis, took part in more games,
52, but even he did not approach Alex-
ander's record of completed games.
The figures credit him with going the
distance on only 11 occasions.
Not only did the Philadelphia marvel
finish best in 33 of the games he fin-
ished, but he pitched baseballs to more
batters than any other man, having
faced an even 1,500 batsmen. Yet
with all those men facing him he held
his wild pitches down to just three and
hit only ten men. He issued only 50
bases on balls, slightly more than an
average of one in each game. He was
touched, however, for 323 hits and was
the only National league hurler to pass
300.
Other pitchers faced more than 1,000
batters, and nearly every one of them
has a wilder record than Alexander
shows. When it is considered that the
Nebraskan .established a new record
for the number of shutout contests, his
superb method of working is best ap-
preciated. He kept the opposition away
from the plate on 16 occasions. Not
another hurler ran his shutouts high-
er than six.
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George W. Orton, former Pennsyl-
vania track coach, places ex-Captain
Hal Smith on his All-American col-
lege team and he mentions Carroll,
Ufer, Simmons and Cross of the Maize
and Blue as being athletes prominent
in their respective events.
In speaking of Smith, Orton says:
"I have chosen Smith, captain of the
University of Michigan team, for first
string man in the 100. He went
through the season practically unde-
feated, finally winning the I. C. A. A.
A. A. championship. At the University
of Pennsylvania relay races he de-
feated Smith of Wisconsin, who later
won both sprints at the western con-
ference championships."
In referring to the half-milers, Orton
mentions Ufer's performance of
1:551-5 in the Leland Stanford meet.
Carroll's showing at the eastern inter-
collegiates is commented upon. Sim-
mons and Cross were both named as
prominent men in their respective
events-the high jump and shot put,
while Cec also draws a word with
regard to his work with the discus.
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