South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-29
Cinder Paths to
Burn When Irish
Track Stars Run
Rockne Plans on Producing
Fastest Mile Relay Team
in the Country.
ny VINCENT ENGELS.

Ill NlNAtIs.N l-s-h0AAA@ns
with the basketball season ssh
in the future. Notre Dame students
are filling these days OF athletic in
ertia with long and windy specula-
tons on the Track prospects for the
winter. The coming season promises
20 bring NOtre Dame som e big
things I'm the way OF track, and the
school IS counting on the spiked
athletes TO carry more than one
noteworthy victory back 20 the
gymnasium.
That Notre Dame will be repre-
eanted by an extraordinarily good
track team may be gathered from
the following dope. In the first
place. Il appears that Rockne viii
be able 10 assemble a mile relay
team capable Of clicking off the dis
lance in 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
That team could win any mile race
in the country, for It has been years
since any squad has been able 10
better that time. The Penn relay
was won last spring in 3 minutes
and 81 seconds. Now. on paper It
seems that the Notre Dame relay
team-to-be will make tia mile at
least one second faster. Four men
no do the quarter in so seconds or
better will compose it-Luke Walsh,
John Montague. Gus Desch and Bill
Hayes or AL Ficks.
Strong I'm Dashes.
Notre Dame Will be strongest In
the dashes again, just as they were
a
good for 10 points in practically
every meet he entered, including
the western conference outdoor
meet in the spring, has returned and
ought to be in tip top shape by
February For the benefit OF the
few who do not know. it may be
said that Hayes is one OF the most
prominent figures on the cinder
path today. He has done the humid
red consistently in 9 As seconds,
and his mark for the 900 is 21 3-5.
His favorite race IS the 220, at which
distance he perhaps is the only SER
ious competitor for PaddOck's title
OF national champion.
In addition to Hayes, Rockne will
have Gus Desch, another man good
for a bunch of points. Although
| Gus is by preference and reputation
a hurdler. he Is not unwilling 10
use his great speed in the dashes.
in order to pile up points for the
team In the hundred, and the 22O
he can race Hayes a mighty close
second. But it is when the dashes
are over and the hurdles begin that
Gus comes into his own. The
gpeediest thing that ever flashed
across the sticks ne has been an in
ternational figurr for two years;
has tied several world records and
broken the world record in one race
the 44O low records. twice. With
Hayes and Desch entered. the Irish
will be able TO clean up the dashes
in any track meet.
Old Favorites Ready.
Two more big point getters are
Chef Wynne and Johnny Murphy.
Chef, who IS captain Of the track
SQUAD this year, happens TO be state
champion OF Indiana in the nigh
hurdles. annexing that honor last
spring by making the race In 10 2-5
/ seconds. Chef ran second TO
/ Wright of Nebraska at the Drake
relays last spring although he was
not in his best form at the time.
I Johnny Murphy IS another high
/ stopper. whose fame hardly needs
/ recounting. He is western confer
/ ence high jump champion, winning
kthat title over Alberts and Osborne
I of Illinois last spring; is able TO do
} feet 8 ID consistently and has
gone an inch higher on several &C
/ casiOns.
Notre Dame promises to be some
| what stronger in the distance runs
! this year. Chick DOran, Banner
and Ruether are distance men who
ran last year, and have been going
better this fall. Kennedy. a fresh
man last winter. should make the
mile IN 4:3O or better this season.
He also has been running In good
shape this fall.
Rockne may decide to call the
candidates out about the middle OF
December. although no real work
VIII be done until after the holidays.
1 The schedule has not been arranged
and viii not be arranged for some
time II IL known however. that
an indoor meet Will be held again
with Illinois at Urbana. but the date
+ has not been given out.
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