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Show ! COLLEGES TAKE TI BASKETBALL GAME i Michigan Will Put Out Strong Aggregation to Represent the Tigers. Tribune Special Sporting Service. DETROIT. Oct. 10. Michigan will have varsity basketball this winter. Director Balrd mado announcement to this effect. "The lntorest taken In basketball Inst winter and the splendid material developed devel-oped then mndo mo feel that there would be somcthlmr laekln.? If wo didn't have a varsity team this year." he said. Lack of Interpst and only ordinary material ma-terial Influenced the athletic management to give up the game four years ago. Class IcAms were organized each winter. Tho championship series brought out little lit-tle material. Lost winter, however, a score and more of basketball players, who were up and doing nil the time, played in the class games. Tho Intcrclass series became a great attraction, and much in-toiv.st in-toiv.st centered about tho flnnl contests. Talk of varsity basketball began about the time of the indoor track meets. Men who had been playing the game were anxious tn see a representative team reinstated re-instated at Michigan. The rooters howled j for It. And the athletic manugomcnt began laying their plans. No schedulo has yet been arranged. Mr. Raird has opened negotiations with several schools, and Waterman gymnasium gym-nasium will undoubtedly see a Michigan basketball team matched against the teams of other big colleges and universities universi-ties lat In the winter. I Many of the old basketball men have graduated. Stanley Cox Is still at Ann Arbor and eliglblo to play. He Is one of the snappiest players that ever tossed a ball at Michigan. Before coming west ho played extensively in tho east. Wasmund and Torrey. both of Detroit, showed up xcecdlngly well last winter and ought to have no trouble in mnklng good. 13er-leski. 13er-leski. the Washington boy who blew in the other day. has an excellent record In ! basketball. He will be Ineligible this year, but would be of great value to the scrubs. There are a half-hundred others to pick from, and the men who make the team will do so only by hard work. |