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Show SAYS BASEBALL MORE DIFFICULT JOHNNY MOD A BUT Baseball is more difficult than football Tyrus Cobb has clung to this contention con-tention for years. n the Detroit club is a player who will swear his manager is right Johnny Mohardt Is 'the athlete who backs up Tyrus. Mohardt has hats experience In both sports. As a football player he was the outstanding back of the west last year. lie was a big cog it Coach Rockne's great Notre Dame eleven Mohardt has jumped from the college col-lege ranks as a ball player to the majors He has shown enouph stuff to cause Manager Cobb to deride he will stick with the Tigers hen asked Which sport he thought was the more difficult, bate-ball bate-ball or football. Mohardt replied Baseball, of course Football is team play, baseball largely individual individ-ual effort In football there is time enough to get set after every signal The calling of the signal tellrs you Just what you are expected to do to put over the plo. Every player ha a chance t ffrmlj concentrate on in-task. in-task. "In baseball there is no such advantage. ad-vantage. Co-ordination between mind and body must be almost instantaneous in-stantaneous There Is never an opportunity op-portunity to get' set 'In baseball the ;reat weight is on the individual W hen 1 'o to bat I am up there alone. I cannot depend de-pend on anybody but myself for help When I am" on the bases it is up to me, nobody gives me Interference. Nobody can help me catch a fly or throw for me There is team play, of course, in baseball, but the physical and mental pari of it la all Individual, "It is easy to make football P'ay- ers. but from what I know of Wise-ball Wise-ball it is necessary to have natural ability and also be able to think quickly. "Developing football players Is easy. If a fellow Is physically fit the COacll will do the rest. " I have seen Coach Roekne make stars almost overnight at Notre Dame Every season brings forth scores of new stars in the football world In baseball I understand a new star a yesr Is the exception." Mohardt is qualified ' speak Ho had never played lootball until h-entered h-entered Notre Dame. He did not start play until his second ss r. Inside In-side of a week he was a first-string player. |