South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-30
NOTRE DAME. BALL
TEAM IN SLUMP
Men Fell to Show Usual Snap
IN Workout Saturday on
Cartier Field.

Maybe the day was TOO chilly for
real baseball and maybe not but
there is no gainsaying that the
Notre Dame squad looked like a
sandlot aggregation instead of a col
lege nine in the game yesterday aft
ernoon. Most Of the men seemed &c
aave sprung from the bushes. at
least their play stamped chem as re-
cent products Of the tall timbers
True there were "a few exceptions
who played regular ball. but only a
few.
TWO teams. the Yannigans and
the Colts. wrestled through nine in
nings of errors and ivory exhibit
tions. The Colts. with Murray and
Kipp doing the hurting. wound up
with a lead of one run, for which
they should thank fortune. not
themselves The Colts were bad. the
Yannigans went them one better.
Lavery. Wrape and Mcclure did
the battery work for the Yannigans.
Bahan played first. Sjoberg second.
Miles short, and MOZART short.
Barry. Scofeld and O'Connor at
tempted to take care of the gardens.
Murray and Kipp shared the pitch
ing burden for the Colts. with Halo
ran on the receiving end. Doyle
played first base. Pearson second.
Sullivan short, and Moore third. In
the outer gardens Hanrahan, Dono-
van and Kelly cavorted about.
Hitting was light. fielding unfor-
givabie. The players as whole put
about as much spirit into their work
- the kaiser will put money into the
fifth Liberty loan Their playing
was listless throughout
The workout yesterday marked
the close OF the second week of out
door practice. Judging from yester-
days display, the team is advancing
backward. That seemed to be the
consensus of opinion Of the fans who
could work up no more than leth-
argic interest in yesterdays pathetic
attempt
Bahan. Sullivan and Miles did the
best work yesterday, Scofield fell
down on an easy chance. His indif-
ferent attitude has caused consider
able adverse criticism TO be hurled
in his direction. He has the max
ings OF ball player, but most Of the
day-in-and- day-out fans believe he is
not trying. O'ConnOr also slipped
up on an easy chance.
Erratic playing, however. could
have been easily overlooked had not
both teams assumed a glum, almost
dumb attitude. There was none OF
the old-time chatter on tap. And
chatter cuts a big figure in baseball
games.
Football Coach Rockne uncovered
some promising gridirOn materia
for the fall, after staging a 4O-minutt
scrimmage on Cartier field YESTERDAY
afternoon. Both teams were evenly
matched and made q very creditabl,
showing. convincing the Gold anC
Blue director OF their earnestness t.
acquaint themselves with all tn,
plays and shifts that they were in
formed OF during the first two weeks
OF the preliminary drill.
The Cubs, led by the backfelC
combination. which consisted o
Mehre, Wynne and Walsh, won
well-earned victory by the score o
IA to over the squad pnOted b,
capt. Owens. After being checked
in a few attempts TO cross the goal
NIshre, aided by good interference
got away'for a touchdown after run
ming 60 yards. The second score 70
the Cubs came I'm the last few min
Utes OF play when Wynne wen
through the line on the eight var,
line.
For ti'c Yannigans. Prokup caugh
a neat forward pass behind the lin
and scored the losers. F'ribley mad
CONSTANT gains throughout tn
scrimmage, but an injury forced hin
90 retire. The playing OF Hunk
Anderson and Shaw on the line wa
another feature OF the scrimmage.