South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-09
SCRUBS SLIP ONE
OVER ON REGULAR
QUINTET At N. D.
Varsity Five DoWned in PraC-
tiCe Contest Track Men
Are Out and Work of Train
ing Begins in Earnest.

Bewildering the regulars with a
Enappy, clever attack that brought
basket after basket in rapid success
sion, the second string basketball
men at Notre Dame walked away from
the tlrst team in a twenty-five minute
practice game yesterday. Judging by
the brilliant showing Of the scrubs in
yesterdays melee, there is going to
be one grand fight for regular places
on the gold and blue quint. The
scrubs worked like veterans. Their
teamwork and password was of high
order and they rarely missed a try at
the baskets.
The varsity five were a way off
color both in passing and shooting
Their teamwork was almost nil and
no one was able 10 cage the bGu with
any regularity Time after time, the
varsity players had excellent chances
to score but II was nearly impossible
for them TO locate the basket. Be
cause OF the beating that the varsity
suffered at the hands of the scrubs
yesterday Harper is beginning to feel
anxious about the Beloit game on Sat
lJrday, but more particularly about the
hard contests with Wabash and NJ. A.
G. at home and the games that will
later be played in the east
Bergman and Fitzgerald we're the
big guns IN the scrubs decisive vi
tory Bergmann's speed played havoc
with the first team defense. The elu-
sive little Dutchman squirmed his way
time and again to within striking dis
lance OF the basket and then rang up
two points for his side by deity drop
ping in basket from the field. Fitz-
gerald was the high scorer during the
practice game. The big fellow was
always dangerous if he got the ball in
his own territory. He startled the
fans by running in several long
throws, some of them from the middle
of the court. Fitz is a very fast man
for his size and with his accuracy in
shooting ne will make the regular for
wards hustle To hold their places on
the first team quint.
START OFF WITH RUSH.
The second team that Harper lined
up against the regulars yesterday
was composed of Fitzgerald and Berg
mann at the forwards, Pliska and Kell-
cher at the guards and Crilly at the
pivot position. The yannigans began
with rush and soon swept the var
sity players off their feet Toward
the close of the practice Harper sent
Smith in at Pliskas guard and gave
Kelleher a chance to work with the
first team by switching Finegan to
the second team and sending Kelleher
TO replace Finegan.
The big fault I'm the varsitys play
and the main reason why they were
humbled by the scrubs was their poor
teamwork. There seemed to be no
confidence, no ability to get together
and TO play a passing game that would
effectively work the ball up to the
basket. The men were also very poor
in shooting. The moving of one OF
the baskets from the wall may acco mt
for this because Mills and Newers
who generally are consistent scorers
could not find the basket at all.
Despite the weak showing of the
regulars there was noticeable a de-
cided improvement in the work of the
gold and blue forwards. Capt Cahill
is now hitting lively pace and Joe
Kenny accounted for several good
throws from the field The work of
this pair, however, was not sufficient
10 down the speedy scrubs. When
Mills and Viewers have profited by a
few more days of practice, for these
men were little late in reporting, the
varsity should hit a winning clip.
Harper will give the men another hard
workout this afternoon as he wishes
10 take no chances on dropping the
BelOit game on Saturday.
Track practice at Notre Dame is
now on In earnest for most Of the
varsity old timers are on the Job. Eich-
enlaub and ROckne in the weights.
Bergman in the dashes. Capt. Hene-
han in the quarter and Plant in the
half are getting in some good ticks
daily in preparation for the indoor sea
son. Heed and Birder have not vet
reported for the new year practices
but they will soon get down to bust
ness.
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