---Take off the Christmas fat- Notre Dame has a REAL trY out for your basketball basketball team this .year. -team. You've all to gain, Urge it on-let it know you nothing to lose •. know it's a real team. ,__ ··vaL. 2. -NO. ·51 UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE -DAME; INDIANA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6,1924- PRICE 4 CENTS 8 NOTRE DOME WINS OVER-M.-U., ~9-25 lsst~I¥~ SLO~~::~ ~~~fvs :~~::::~:f~JJ;;~;.~Irf~ouo;ttb;:a~l:l~~-that is the champion of its own im- t~ea-am:s:~adrne~:J.:udSgfe:dc~_ utp:o~nt ' modiate neighborhood, it is much games won or lost, we will assume . Pity, I beseech you, pity poor me. NOr fh WeS tern Han de d Dru bb lflg, -more impossible to get any line of all risks attending the 'guess that Irish Gagers Sst -Fast Pace· for . Alone and friendless, in spite of my But lllinojs Wins from Our comparison that would permit a Notre Dame would defeat any team Wolverines; Visitors Fail to Over­ trorts to ke~p · you dear boys at -k team to be selected as the national in the country :with the possible ex- :lie University happy.. Still, I .am Bas et Team. champion. ception of Yale and a Notre Dame- come Lead in Overtime _Periods.- egotistical enough t~ thmk t~at 1f I Displaying the best form that has Nothing but harsh words would Yale game_ would be a feast for the Notre -.Dame's' Fighting Team , nnotinced an appearance (m per- be the reward of any critic who took football gods. :on) at .Hullie's _so!l:e night-well, been shown by- a Notre Dame. bas- upon himself the thankless task of Notre Dame was not beaten by playing the most brilliant brand of ~ouldn't there be qmte a crowd? ketball team in past years, the Irish even expressing an opinion on what Nebraska. Notre Dame was upset basketball that has· ever been wit- ' _0 _ _0 _ · · . five defeated the University of team was the best in the country. by her_ own schedule. Considering nessed .on the home court, defeated -- , · . Northwestern quintet 25 to 16, on The matter of expressing _the the_ greatness of Yale, California, the University of Michigan quintet, I fear that I can no longer ad- the "Y'' floor, Wednesday night, opinion -is nothing compared to the Michigan, Cornell, Illinois, and SY!- 29 to ~5, on the "Y" floor last night dress you truthfully as ''~entle December 19 .. - - obligation_ of the burden of_ proof _acuse, we do. not believe that any before a packed house of 1200.. l·e·aders,'' unless I am speakmg to s·pee d , · accurat e s h oo t'mg, and a that .would rest upon the critic who of these teams could duplicate· the W'th1 th e score .t-. 1e d 19 -19 a t · th e the five men wh.ose n.ame.s have not masterful·-defense were the high would venture his.. own opinion. feat of- Notre Dame in beating the end of the regular playing time, the yet been tak~n m vam. · lights of the game. that impressed Under the· conditions it would be Army, Princeton and Georgia Tech Ir1sh· cagemen battled for two over:-· -o~ -o:- the ·huge throng that packed the better to place the burden of proof on successive Saturdays. · time periods after Kipke _of the .Now to the society gossip of our gym. The ·flashy Clem. Crowe lived upon the other side ap_d ·approach Games like that take the sap out Wolverines and· Ward of the Irish note-book .. Oh; yes, yessir in fact, up to expectations and dazzled the the subject like this: · · of any t~?am, no_t considering the fa- tied the count again at the ~end- of 1· do keep a little red J?o~k. And visiting team by the -ease . with Notre Dame Great. Te'am tigue that cannot help but attend so the first overtime period with bril- what do you suppose I found· tuck- which he dribbled the 'ball through · "What team in the country -was much travel on. the road; Prince- liant shot~ from the :tioor. · ed a'vay in it? Literature! Writ- its defense. Tom Riordan starred better. than Yale?-California?- ton did not have a great team~ but ·With only ·a few minutes of the ten during summer-school, a scout at center, piling :UP a large point Michigan?-Illinois?-or Cornell?" Princeton_ took so 'much out of the regular -playing time left_; Kipke - tells me. And by someone whose total and displaying -some pretty And even with ample preparation Harvard team that Harvard was scored on a pretty shot from the initials are J. O'D., unfortunately, I basket shooting~ for the comeback: ."They· were de- hardly in. shape to play -t\vo weeks :middle ·of. the floor that_ gave. the . · missed ~he middle one. · Due to their great speed and feated !"---,-it might be in point to later with an· off-Saturday inter- Wolverines a one-point lead. The -o- -o- .their ability- to· weave through the ask: · vening and Princeton played just-as referee declared a technical foul ._I .: T~-My Lady's Toothbru~h ~· Irish defense. for short shots, the ''What teams ove1: the season were hard against Notre Dame. · on the Michigan captam ior l1aving ' As a ,\rind may wander- over Illini defeated the' Notre Dame better than Notre Dame or ·syra- - (Contil).Ued on Page 4.) siX men on the floor, while the gaine Dazzling fi,elds. of-snow, quintet 29 to 21, last We"dnesday was in progress. Kizer, who proved So, :toothbrush, you're . a rover night before 'a large crowd at the his worth at the crucial moment ··-And into heaven can go. Urbana school. during the 1923 season, lived ·up ·to ·. If Circe lived, my dearest; · The Illini took a big lead at the FR o· WALSH_ . SPEAKS. DRAM-A CLUB· · _ ·'HAS . his reputation and scored~ on· the. rd surely ask to' be . _ _ start of the game; running up 12 · ·. · free thr_ow, making the count 19-19. , :The brush that' may be nearest. points to four counters for the. Vis- TO FT WAYNE MEN. NEw· DI R' Ec r·o R Shortly after the overtime 'period- \_ Your whisper~s m~stery. -· iting Hoosiers. _Captain May! and o • · ·. · started; the flashy Kipke, Michiga:n's his men rallied before tlie half was ___ ___ All-American half-back, raced doWn -o- --o- . out and the count stood 14 to 11 in the side of the floor and dropped a- -And I da'n•t think that I am vy- favor of Illinois· at the ·start. of the Speaks _o. f Ghange __S at- University "One Act Plays, to .l~ad to .Big basket, giving Michigan -a. two-point ing.,Vith "The Ink W:ell'~ because I second frame. lead. The time was almost ~ut and -·use _a. typewrit_er' (no adv.). The. Mayh~en continued their During Past Years'; Breen Medal . Presentation in June," Says with Notre Dame fighting desperate-- . -o- .,o~ · pace ·in the next. period and- came • - ly for a shot at the basket, Mayl . But now to those individuals' that within one point ·of: tying the score, Donor Present -Director. - passed to Charlie Ward, who tlrib.: -of·late .. have ·had 1TIY all-seeing-eye which stood 21 to 20 about the mid- - . bled around the Wolverine defense upon·· ,them. One _knave, better dle or the last half._ ·The Illinois Seventy~five Notre_ Dame alumni The Notre Dame .Dramatic club and tied the score ~-~kn_o;v_n_· _as_ Na~i~'- .hap}~,u~~e~ :~ou_d: _£~g_E;rl'i.;~reH~ci. Q.ff --.~UslJ.L. poii}ts_)n and. s~l_lde1_1t~- 'Yere · e_n~ertai~ed_ a~-~- h~_s ___ ~e_er.: ___ ~_f5.m~~te.d__ ~~ ,s.~~u!i~1~ _,The--~-second- _ ·overtime--·--period,. __ -'-- _. -'-' .~nd)ong ·t~at-:he~was. not 1~clu~ed quick-'succession .and. succeeded _m banquet given by·tli~ Fo_rt Wayne- the s_erVIces of- a direc.or and re- found ·Notre Dame fighting -harder· · m. th~::s.oci~t~ B 1 ~ 'F1v:e ·(h1s con- h~idin'g 'Notre. Dame till_ the final Notre Dame ·Alumni associa~ion _at h~arsal man, Josep~ Re:'r-nold.s, ·of than before, and in quick-succe!>~ion science IS _gmlty)·. That was the whistle. · · the Ke_enan hotel on. the mght of Lawrence, Mass., a graduate o~ t~e chalked up four goals due to the fault Of a: careless scout who has . · - - · December 27. _ . Lela;td Powers . School, and It Is Isuperb playing of Kizer and Ward. '.been .• severely reprimanded.. How- ·=··-u-.--:·-·-()-)_<l_U_<_<I_..n ...:. R:ev: Matthew Walsh, president of makmg preparations for a busy final Michigan 'fought with every ounce of ' ever, by dropping Joe'Nyikos from I ,.. T. H.. E. DA: IL'Y.-.' I the University, was t_he guest_·_of s:rnes~er~ ~fr. ~eynol_ds, who ':1:! sb:ength- that ·was-theirs· af_t~r the the list, who claims: hiE?. ·appoint~ ' ! honor; he talked_ o,n ·~otre Dame "cr~ _m COnJunc.,IO~ With P;I:ofesso~ long gruelling battle :and suc~eeded ·.. merit to tne-. order was faulty, I find i .· Q_ UES T_ IQ N__ NAIR E 1 and alumni·· associations.. Fn;ther ~ulhvan ~f the D~partm~e~t of P~b- in ringing another pair· of counters; . that -I have room for Looie. ·.Permit ! - - Thiele, pastor of St. Peter's Church, !1c. Speakmg, h~s ~cen _v__ery.