South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-13
STARS EXPECTED
To COMPETE IN
DUAL MEET HERE
NOtre Dame and illinois Ath-
IetiC Club Stars Will Clash
on Feb. Fl - Basketball
Game This Afternoon.

One OF the features OF the Notre
Dame indoor athletic season this year
Will be a dual meet with the Illinois
Athletic club Of Chicago. Feb. IL.
The l. A. G. was seen here in two
meets last year. Early in the season
the Chicago men bowed before NOtre
Dame indoors by the slender marsin
OF one point. The /. A. c. We're again
taken into camp by the gold and blue
on Cartier field, III which meet the
varsity was able to win out by five
counters.
Because OF the fact that the !. A.
g. has on its roster athletes who have
been famous for their work in col
lege and for their performances after
leaving school. this meet Will be one
Of big attractions on the local sChed-
ule. Last year such men as Alva
Richards, winner OF the high jump in
the Olympic games Of 1912, Ira Dav-
export, former conference champion
In the quarter and in the half, and
Scruby, a shot putter who once COM
peteo for Chicago o., won points for
the /. A. G. The varsity athletes have
q stiff proposition before them when
they come TO take on the ChicagOans,
but from their success in past years,
the gold and blue men expect to take
first hOnOrs again next month.
The freshman ineligibility rule in
troduced this year at NOtre Dame,
does not apply to meets with ath-
letic clubs In the contest with the l..
A. G. or with any other club that may
be scheduled Coach Harper can call
into service his star youngsters and
NOtre Dame is well favored with
clever freshman athletes this year.
Bachman, the giant shot putUer, was
a member OF the j. A. G.. last season
and at one time defeated Eichenlaub
in the weight event. Bach" is also a
IL a. 10.
ed into service on the relay team for
he has done the quarter in % sec
onds.
kirkland is another first year man
who should come in handy in the club
meets. This athlete halls from Co
lumbia academy. Portland, ore. He
was regarded last year. as the best
prep hurdler on the Pacific coast and
is able to take the high sticks in fast
enough time to land him up with the
leaders in the coming meet Neager
has gone higher than eleven feet i'm
the pole vault and with training and
coaching this clever freshman can be
counted on for a few points. Among
the other first year men who have
shown promise Of being valuable in
the club meets are Hardy, NOnThrOn,
Hayden and McDOnnOugh. The first
two men are sprinters, the others run
the 440.
Harper began the weeks campaign
in Basketball yesterday by sending
the men through a fierce twenty min
ute practice game. "Deac.' Jones,
captain OF the football team for 1914
was out in basketball togs but did not
get into the scrimmage. The scrubs
gave the varsity men a stiff fight at
all times and finished the fray but a
basket or two behind the regulars.
"Rupe" Mills, the star varsity cen
ter. was laid out in the first few min
utes of play but toward the end of the
fray he returned to his old place.
Capt CahiH and Kenny at the for
wards Mowers and FInegan at the
guards. and Mills at center will form
the personnel of the NOtre Dame team
in the Polish seminary game this aft
ernoOn. These five men made up the
regular squad yesterday and account
ed for some clever basketball.