South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-13
BULK Of GAMES
WILL Be STAGED
ON LOCAL FIELD
NOtre Danes Schedule Calls
For Is Games Here and Nine
on Foreign Fields - Will
Meet Michigan.

Notre Danes 1914 baseball sched-
ule calling Cor Is home contests and
nine foreign games. is one of the most
attractive cards arranged for the Aold
and blue in recent years Many col
lege mines of national reputation will
Michigan have. for the past three
years, been among the leaders in west
ern baseball. Both schools have taken
trips east, and have been regarded
as representative of western intercol-
legiate baseball. This year Will find
these teams in a battle for supremacy.
Michigan will have all the advantage
IN the first tilt, fer the Wolverines
viii then have just returned from their
southern training trip, while Notre
Dame Will be playing only her sec
ond game Of the year. The series be-
tween NOtTe Dame and Michigan viii
have much bearing on the intercol-
!egiate championship. for both mines
play the cream OF the big eastern
schools
one of the features of the home
schedule is the game booked with the
Chinese university team of Hawaii
Last spring. with Rusty I.athrop on
the mound, Notre Dame trimmed the
invaders TO l. In the March num-
Der Of the Baseball Magazine. the
captain of the Chinese team stated
that Notre Dame was the strongest
college team played by his men last
spring
Michigan Aggies will play at Notre
Dame on May .. and month later the
gold and blue Will meet the Farmers
at Lansing. The Aggies are always
represented by a clever team and the
series with the Farmers stands next
in importance 10 that with Michigan
university The schedule would not
be complete without Wabash College
for the Little Giants and the gold and
blue have been playing each other for
more than a decade. The DOWNSTAIRS
are booked TO plaX at NOtre Dame on
May % and so.
Prominent among the home games
will be those with Arkansas that are
scheduled for May and Z. Arkansas
has been coming north for the last
five years, and their appearance AT
Notre Dame has always meant hard
fought games.
Four new teams appear on this
years varsity schedule. OF the new
corners. Princeton is the most prom
inent, for the orange and black turns
out yearly one of the best OF the
eastern college teams. The tilt with
Lake Forest this spring will be Of un-
usual interest Last year the Forest
eTs were the only team 10 trim the
gold and blue at Notre Dame.
Six of the best of the eastern mines
Will be met on this year s trip. To was
thought best TO limit the eastern i'm
vasion TO six games. NOtre Dame has
defeats at the hands of the Army and
Navy to even up this year, for both
the military Institutions took the
Ioosiers into camp in 1913. 1t is pos
sible that ante-seasOn games viii be
played with the South Bend club, II
the Benders are to have ball team
this year.
The schedule follows:
Home Games
April Il, Olivet; April Is, Michigan
University: April Is. West Side Nor
NAL: April IS, Armour Institute; April
20. Bethany College; April p. Ohio
Wesleyan; May .. Michigan Aggies;
May e.. Arkansas; May g, Chinese L.
of Hawaii; May 20. St Niator: May %,
Beloit: May 26, Lake Forest May %
so, Wabash College.
Games Abroad.
May Il. West Virginia at Morgan
town. ". Va; May y. Georgetown at
Washington. =. G; May ., Army at
West Point y. y: MAY IA. Princeton
at Princeton. y. J.: MAY i, Catholic
L at Washington. y. c.; May IS. Navy
at Annapolis, Nd; June 4, Michigan
Aggies at Lansing, Mich; June 80.
Michigan at Ann ArbOr, Mich