UNIVERSITY NINE TROUNCED, 20-1

Notre Dame sluggers pounded a trio of Harvard pitchers for a total of 21 hits, Saturday on Soldiers Field, and the combination of the barrage of heavy-hitting and Crimson errors sent the University nine down to a 20 to 1 defeat.

It was the seventh loss suffered by the Harvard team since it went into a batting and fielding slump nine contests ago, and the worst defeat suffered by a University baseball team since Pennsylvania gave a Harvard team a 26 to 7 trouncing way back in 1894.

Walsh Stars on Mound

Walsh a son of a former major league hurler, was on the mound for the South Bend outfit, and held the Harvard batters well in hand throughout the nine innings. He allowed only seven' hits and struck out ten men. Walsh also was a leader in his team's attack, scoring four runs and collecting a home run and two singles in four times at bat.

Nearly every crime in the baseball calendar was committed by the University players, who tossed the ball around wildly, misjudged flies and grounders in an exhibition of some of the worst playing seen on Soldiers Field in a long, long while. Five errors were chalked up against the infield.

The visitors played errorless ball, and hit almost at will. J. N. Barbee '28 started on the mound for the University, but was relieved by Willard Howard '28 with only one out in the opening frame. Barbee's shoulder was apparently still bothering him, and his hurling was far from its best form.

Howard stemmed the tide for an inning or so, but in the fifth, Notre Dame got on to his delivery with a devastating vengence. Every kind of hit, from a single to a homerun, came off the bats of the hard-hitting sluggers from Indiana. Howard Whitmore '29, the next Crimson twirler to see action, replaced Howard. He allowed only three hits in the last half of the game, although two more runs swelled the Notre Dame total to 20.

Harvard's lone tally came in the sixth when J. P. Chase '28 singled, W. W. Lord '28 walked, and F. B. Cutts '28, who was playing left field, followed with a single that sent Chase across the plate: Lord was the leading hitter of the Crimson team, with two hits in four trips to the place. He slammed out a double in the second, and was walked the next two times he came up. When Walsh finally pitched to him, Lord connected for his second hit, a Texas league single into left field.

The summary follows:

NOTRE DAME  a.b.  r.  h.  p.o.  a.  e.Schrall, s.s.  6  1  3  1  0  0Sullivan, 2b.  6  0  2  0  0  0Feehery, r.f.  6  3  3  1  1  0Colrick, 1b.  4  3  1  7  1  0Niemiec, 3b.  3  1  1  1  0  0Griffin, 3b.  2  0  0  1  0  0Moran, l.f.  6  2  4  3  0  0Bray, c.f.  4  3  2  1  0  0Wilson, c.f.  1  0  0  0  0  0Lordi, c.  3  3  2  9  0  0Wall, c.  1  0  0  1  0  0Walsh, p.  4  4  3  2  6  0  --  --  --  --  --  --Totals  46  20  21  27  8  0HARVARD  a.b.  r.  h.  p.o.  a.  e.Burns, c.f.  4  0  1  1  0  0Chase, 2b.  4  1  1  3  1  3Donaghy, 3b.  4  0  1  0  2  1Lord, c.  2  0  2  10  2  1Cutts, l.f.  4  0  1  0  0  0Todd, r.f.  4  0  0  1  0  0Prior, 1b.  4  0  1  11  0  0Barbee, p.  0  0  0  0  1  0Howard, p.  2  0  0  0  1  0Whitmore, p.  1  0  0  0  1  0Sullivan, s.s.  4  0  0  1  2  0  --  --  --  --  --  --Totals  33  1  7  27  10