South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-02
BASEBALL TO TAKE
SPORT LIMELIGHT
AT IRISH SCHOOL
Fifty-Five Diamond Candi-
dates to Work Out Daily at
NOtre Dame GYM.

with basketball matter Of am
cient history. coach Walter HAAS
is now free TO devote his afternoons
% the developing Of a winning base
ball team Every afternoon from
now on. the IS candidates viii as
semble In the gym FOR two hours Of
steady batting and helding practice
The batteries have been working out
daily. the veteran pitchers taxing
their places beside the rockies and
working as hard as anyone else.
The completion OF the hockey season
mas relieved Paul Castner from the
ice rink, and the big sOuthpaw viii
begin training soon.
Notre Dame wants a winning team
ths spring more than DO has wanted
anything in athletics for some time
There are two reasons for this. In
the FIRST place Notre Danes base
ball teams have not been highly
successful the last three years, and
the danger that tho wonderful rep
utatiou OF the gold and blue i'm base
BALL made years ago may be lost is
arousing the interest Of both stu
Irish threatened 20 have a winning
team. but after starting the season
In whiriwnd fashion, tho team
struck hoOdoo luck and wound up
in mediocrity. The second reason
is that while three months ago. in
their enthusiasm for football the
Notre Dame fans we're Indifferent
about other sports, the football
scandal opened their eyes, and they
are farming tO baseball with iucrcas-
cd interest. 4 winning baseball
team will do much 10 restore ath-
Ietic confidence at Notre Dame.
which was severely shaken by the
successive defeats sustained by both
basketball and track teams.
Outfield Shattered.
winning baseball team will not
be the easiest thing I'm the world 20
develop however. considering the
material that liz available at Notre
Dame. Not one member OF last
springs outfeld has returned. TO be-
Gin with Morgan. Barry and Mo-
hardt have completed athletic COM
petition for Notre Dame. and Halas
must fU their places with men
drawn from the interhall teams or
from the substitutes bench Of as
year.
In the infeId. Halas faces almost
as difficult a proposition. Micky
Kane. the diminutive third base
man who won his monogram a year
ago will be available. but he is the
only veteran infelder 20 return.
Frank Miles. whose brilliant playing
an shotstop featured the perform
auce of Notre Dame baseball teams
for three years. left last spring, as
did Fitzgerald. who had been hold
ing down the first baseman's job
for a similar length Of time Roger
Riley. who played at second base, is
not available Here again Halas
must turn 10 the interhall teams.
although IL is more than likely that
ne will use Capt Blievernicht at first
base Blevernicht caught last year.
but his favorite position is first base.
and IL McCarty Noss. Gene Murphy
or any of the other candidates can
make good behind the bat. it il al
most a certainty that the captain
viii go to first He is the hardest
hitting man ON the squad, and one
Of the heaviest slugEers in collegiate
baseball. Conference outielders
early learned to back way up against
the fences when Jerry came TO
bat last spring
Several. Catching Prospects.
Among the candidates for the
back topping Job is Bill Voss. who
did some catching last year Bill
is famous in interhau baseball cir
cles. making his debut with Badiu
two years ago. The hest battery IN
the iuterhaII league that year was
Castner and Noss. Bits battery
mate mas made good. and now he is
training TO make the same step.
NcGarty is another candidate who is
familiar 20 local baseball fans
Mae alternated regularly with