OCR Text |
Show MICHIGAN PLAYERS ! GET HEADY FOB PEHBSY : Big Crowd Expected Jo Attend Football (ianip on Xo- i vein be r 16. Tribune Special Sportlnp Service. J DETBOIT. Mich.. Sept. 7. The ath- j letic association of the Univcrsil3' of , Michigan is making elaborate prepara- i tions for the football game with" Penn- ) v-vania. which is to bu played at Ann Arbor on November 16. Graduate , Manager Raird. who has chare of the j work, said recently: "I think the j Ponn-Michigan cnnie will, in point of ' interest and attendance, eclipse any ' football game ever played out ytlu's way. The onlv other big struggle in ' the west next fall is that between Chi- ; cngo and Minnesota, at Minneapolis, and it will not hold a candle to the ?iuaker-AVolvcrine battle in our lowi. f we do not draw close ,to 28,000 spectators spec-tators at that Pennsylvania game it ! will bo because something has gone wrong. Let Michigan put up a good tight all through the season up to No- vember 1G. and the crowd will be there. Detroit, alone will contribute about 8.000 rooters, judging from the sentiment I hear expressed where life is worth tho living. "We have been making arrangements arrange-ments to take care of a whopping crowd. We have scats now for 1S,000 persons. We can put from S000 to 10.-000 10.-000 on the ends of the field and T think we'll havo them to nut there on Novembers 1(5. too. Speaking of the field, Michigan has today thn finest athletic grounds in the United States. Harvard, with her Stadium, is pretty ' well fixed, but Soldiers' Field is not a ! circumstance to Ferry Field as a whole. ' With the completion of the operations we are making this summer, the total j expenditure for permanent improvement improve-ment of the field will amount to .?150.-000. .?150.-000. On it we have a gridiron for practice, another where the old field ! was, and the splendid new one. drained, ; leveled, sodded, surrounded by a con- t crcte wall, flanked by our great new stands, a beauty of a baseball diamond ! with a brnnd new covered grand stand, two running tracks, one of them without with-out a peer in the country; twelve new tennis courts and plenty of leveled, sodded ground for other purposes thirty-eiht acres in all, enclosed xon three sides with a handsome brick and white berea stone wall. The Michigan plaj'ground is in all respects a model one. nnd a delight to the eyn of au3-man au3-man interested in athletics.' |