South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-08
NOTRE DAME STARS
WILL COMPETE IN
MILLROSE GAMES
Quintet of Local Men Ready
For Meet In New York
City Tonight.

Notre Dame viii enter a quintet
Of its brightest track stars in the
Millrose A. A. games in New Yorl
City Tuesday night. the most repre-
sentative gathering of athletes since
the Olympics. Johnny Murphy. ma
tional champion high jumper, will
enter the same event after leading
the field at Boston. Gus Desch will
run in the 20 yard low hurdles. Bill
Hayes in the 20 yard invitation
dash. and DesCh, Hayes. Kasper. and
Hoar carry the gold and blue into
the special mile relay.
Press reports from Boston state
tl'at Murphy might have broken the
high jump record if the competition
had been keener; and local boosters
are hoping for his victory in the
Millrose jump over Landon. 10 whom
ne lost in the Olympics after out
jumping the former Yale star in the
tryouts on this side OF the water
Murphy's mark of feet - inches
in the National a. a. games has not
been equalled i'm recent contests.
viii Meet Buddies.
Desch will meet Olympic buddies
in Earl Thompson of Dartmouth
who took the 10 meter hurdles
and Frank LOOMS. of the Chicago
A. A. who won the 44G meter hurd-
les, both OF whom are national
champions in these events. Desch
ran bare two yards behind LOOMS
in Belgium; and both Thompson
ard LOOMS are running in excellent
shape. finishing first and second il
the so yard high hurdles in Boston
Saturday night
The competition which Bill Hayes
will meet is the stiffest Of the lot.
being almost a catalog of the sprint
stars of the country Included In
the group to greet the starters CUR
are jackson Scholz of the Detroit
A. c.. winner of the event last year:
Loren A1urchisOr who defeated
Scholz while tying the worlds rec
ord in Chicago recently, and repeat
ed thd eOse in the 80 yard dash in
BOSTON: Hal Lever. touted as the
coming sprint champ and who fin
ished second TO Murchison and ahead
of Scholz in the same race; the
LOOMS brothers of Chicago. and
other sprintcrs of note will complete
the field Hayes is a notoriously
slow starter and the short distance
will be an additional handicap but
his admirers are hoping to see him
finish well i'm the van of the field.
Hayes Must Show.
With Hayes. Desch. Capt. Kasper.
and Jerry Hoar flying the old gold
and blue in the relay. Coach Rockne
is confident that little old New York
will sit UP and witness a good race.
The competition includes Harvard,
Cornell. Pennsylvania, Dartmouth.
New York L and Columbia; and
victory over the cream of the elite
east would send Notre Dame stock
far past the heights to which the
"Fighting Irish" carried it last fall.
After four days rest. Coach Hala
will send his basket quintet against
the Western State Normal cagers in
the local gym Thur sday afternoon 10
retrieve the 1923 blow which the
teachers slipped under the Irish bell
last week Fans are still hopeful
that the actual power of the Notre
Dame tossers will he utilized in the
games against Normal and Armour.
which team is met Friday night OF
the home floor. Victories over these
teams would send the net men into
Nebraska next week charged with
confidence which might yet MAKE
the season a success.