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Show ST.' si? ETE Km NOTRE DAME, Ind.. Fob. 28. ! i 'By The Associated Press.) When Johnny Mohardt ict Notre Dame university Int.- this month to go south! 'with the Detroit American leagUo I i baseball club, organised baeebal) captured cap-tured a man who closely approaches the Id al college product. Mohardt has reached the pinnacie in colli!;.' j baseball and football and is a monogram mono-gram man in track. He h.-.? rom-, I Pleted one of the most difficult j courses a university has to offer v. i'.h a general average of over DO per cent for iiis four years' work and In regarded as one of the most brilliant bril-liant -students who has ever left l otre Dume. Mohardt came into national prom- I Inence late in the football season of I 192Q when he rivalled George Glpp'tc ; performance in th football game ct j Wesl Point which mad..- Glpp in all-Atnf-r.i-an. Snort m, i ,.,-r. -nized the eanu Mohardt as flic cap-' I tain of the Notre Dame baseball nine of 1921, but tho first major league offers that came his way were referred re-ferred to Coach Rockne. Mohardt retained his amateur standing I turned for the last year on the grid-Iron grid-Iron which stamped him as one of the pasting marvels of the game and one of tho greatest backfield men o' the year. Pitt-burgh Cleveland, Cincinnati. Detroit, and ih' national ie;JKUe clubs from Chicago and St. Louis sent rep- 1 ; tlves with flattering offer to U tardt and several medical schools! OXtered hlui places on their coach-; coach-; ng staffs after he had announced I I his Intention to continue hid study;! of medicine. He finally cast his lot ; with Ty Cobb and President Navln oil Detroit upon receipt of their prom-' prom-' Ise that he would b aiiowe.j t i leavefl major league ball in time 'o enter hool in Hie fall where he w'll our-! sue- hio ambition to becomo ur-1 geon. ( Mohardt has every natural o.uoil-1 flcution of tho baseball player. He1 has an exceptionally strong arm. Is 1 a speedy base-runner, an a morogvm in the 40-yard dwsh v. ill testifv U a finished fleldor and haa batte.l near 80 during his three years competition compe-tition at Notre Dame. He played! centerfleld and has don an occ -frional turn in the pitching box. He I has a powerful p.oi.;,,. . nlthougn weighing but 160 pounds, snd except I fr a broken nose received in ono of the ladt games of tho last year has never been seriously inlured in his thrco years of football. |