South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-10
\. D. TRACK TEAM
ENDS GOOD YEAR
Makes Excellent Showing
Against Opponents Under
Guidance of ROCkne.
BY ohas. W. Call.

this spring the football achievement
u last fan By developing for Notre
Dame a formidable track team from
ne most mediocre material. Dashed
TO pieces was the team ne had built
up through four years OF careful
coaching; gone 10 war were the
men upon who mhe had confident
" relied for great championship
team In 1918. Al the battle front
or on their way thither are the Won
derful track men OF year ago
Bergman. Bachman, Sjarrett. Kirk
land, Douglas, McKenna, Edgren,
Neaser. Coughlin. Mnles. Melon
ough, Kasper. Meehan, and Noonan.
Stars they we're and are; and the
Huns are fated 10 feel shortly some
Of the night that was fostered in
them on the cinder paths al Notre
Dame.
Few Left OF Mighty Team.
only four of the monogram men
o. last year remained when the cali
for track men was sounded last
January. Capt Mulligan. Splinter;
Rademacher, pole vaUter, McGin-
mis-, broad jumper: and CAL. dis
lance man. These were all that
were left OF mighty team. which
had literally gone To war Atoms
with the scarcity OF veteran mate
rial was the additional draw back in
the poverty Of new material from
the freshman class of the year be-
fore. Gilhnan was the only tried
performer in the sophomore ranks.
open Gym Against L. OF I.
After SIX weeks Of intensive train
ing. the indoor season opened I'M the
local gymnasium with the Univers-
ity Of Illinois for an opponent. Ris-
ing above the hopes o. ardent adj
mirers, and treating themselves to
big surprise, Coach Rockne's men
fought TO an approximate victory i'm
a score Of ~ 2-3 points against
AZ Is for Illinois The outcome of
the meet was in question through
out the evening until the relay race
had been run. In the contest of car
rying the baton Rockne had no four
men who could cope with the select
quartermilers from Urbana.
Debut of Gilfllan.
This meet was the debut of Earl
Joliet high school and the man
who was to have the largest share
in gathering the honors for Notre
Dame throughout the season. The
versatile sophomore lived up 10 all
the advance notices, csoriag in this
FIRST intercollegiate meet no less
than q points, by taking first in the
shot put. the high hurdles and the
high jump, and third in the 40-yard
dash incidentally ne annihilatei
the gymnasium record in the broad
jump when he leaped - feet ~
inches. Capt. Nulligan demonstrat-
ed anew his caliber in the 40-yard
dash by beating in record time the
champion Carroll OF Illinois Hi
nois proved weak in the mile and
the half-mile and both races went
10 Notre Dame.
At the second annual indoor re-
lay carnival at Illinois the following
SATURDAY. Gnfilaa gave himself
much prominence by winning the
eli around championship. He scored
heavily IN the hurdle races, the
dashes. the shOt-put and the broad
jump. Lang Of Illinois gave him a
splendid race for hOnOrs during the
entire evening, but the gold and
blue won out by n margin of sol
points Rademacher tied for sec
ond in the invitation pole vault
event The Notre Dame four mile
relay team just managed 10 nose
out Illinois. with Chicago. Ames
and Wisconsin winning in order the
FIRST three places.
There was no denying the well
balanced team Of track men Coach
steve Farrell brought down TO Notre
Dame from Ann Arbor on March
20 represent the University of
Michigan Despite the war. and
the enlistment OF several OF his
stars. Farrell had a band OF young
fellows that would make an excel
lent showing even in normal times
NOtre Dame was defeated 81 10 IS.
Michigan Wins Relay.
Capt Muligan again won his pet
event. the fO-yard dash. over zoel-
lin. but lost 90 the same rival in
the longer route of the two twenty
event Johnson, the Michisan fash.
beat Gndllan In the 40-yard low
hurdles and the 4O-yard high hur-
dies. Giidllan, by winning first in
the shot-put. and taking third in
the 22o yard dash mad the high
jump totalled IS points Rade-
mscher tied Cross of Michigan tn
the pole vault and Powers was
third Notre Dame could achieve
only second and third places in the
distance events. Michigan having a
man in the half-mue and another
in the mile who were too fast for
the gold and blue runners Michi- I
gan won the relay.
Authorities az the Drake relay
games ia Des Moines have como TO 7
look each spring for some surprise |
from Coach Rockne Of Notre Dame.
This year the gold and blue mentor
introduced a quartet OF dark horses. 7
who in a binding snow storm had
enough speed and fight 90 step past
Chicaso and Nebraska though they
had 20 bow % the veteran four
mile squad from Ames.
on April - Gilhllan entered the
alI-around championship compe-
tion at Franklin field. Philadelphia.
He would probably have duplicated