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mony with legislators on a measure that would put the professionals out of. business January 1. University of Michigan board of regents met yesterday? but took no action toward a resumption of ath letic relations with the Conference. Matters to come before the board much be considered for a week, ac , A cording to an established rule, except in case of emergency. Next month the matter will come up for official action, and unofficial comments lean toward sanction for renewal of rela tions with the Big Nine. Michigan and undegraduate bodies are boosting for favorable action, and Conference authorities are in a mood to welcome the Wolverines. The Hyde Park high school wres tling and boxing club held forth yes terday with some high-class bouts, all being refereed by Profs. Howland and Kline of the faculty. The sum maries follow: Wrestling 120-pound class, Frank Horton defeated Ed Boyd; 145-pound class, Edgar Murphy and Willis Van derpelt wrestled five minutes to a draw. Boxing Heavyweight class, Rid ney Miller defeated Roth Powers in three two-minute rounds. In a spe cial three-round bout George Red mon defeated Gridley Thomas; 138 pound class, Vincent McGrath de feated Fritz Simmons. . Ray Wallace defeated Pete (Wild cat) Manttis, who substituted for Jimmy Peters (the Fighting Wop) in an eight-rouad bout before a down state culb. Wallace is open to meet all 142 to 145-lb. boxers, Reb Russel i or Joe Koska preferred. Wallace has $100 real money as a side bet He can be found at the Reo-Marrons i club, 1656 W. 14th st. During the winter of 1914 baseball writers began singing the swan song of Eddie Plank, for years premier southpaw of the American league and one of the greatest left handers of all time. Connie Mack had included Plank in his wholesale clean-up and it wa3 generally supposed that if Connie thought Plank was through there was no argument against it But Plank fooled 'em and is still fooling 'em. Plank will be in the harness this year and it is not at all unlikely that he will be out on the old mound serv ing up southpaw slants in 1918 and 1919. That is predicting far ahead. There are many things which might hap pen in two or three years, but with out accident Eddie Plank, now 42 years old, should be a factor in win ning baseball games in the majors for that time. There are three secrets of Plank's success as a pitcher and of his abil ity to stay in the game longer than any other fork hander. The first is his brain, which has caused him to conserve his arm to a remarkable extent. If records were kept on the num ber of balls pitched it would probably be found that Plank has pitched less balls 'to a season than any other hurler. The second is his iron will, which has made him a great money pitcher, a man who could go out and win against almost unsurmountable odds. The third is his Puritanical observ ance of rules which keep him in con dition. Plank has no bad habits, he lives as regularly as a government clock, he allows nothing to interfere with his condition. Plank has peculiarities. He believes for one thing that every pitcher has a certain number of pitched balls in his system. For that reason he has, always growled when he passed a batter. It was his belief that he lost the number of balls he had pitched lo that man without getting any re sults. For 16 years Plank has been in the big league spot-light Starting with the Athletics in 1901 he worked with Connie Mack for 14 seasons and only one year did he fall below an fever- imtmmmmmmmmmmmmam