IRISH TO HAVE A BULLY TIME
Notre Dame Outfit May See Bullfight at Juarez
Four Horsemen and Rest to Work Out at El Paso
Rockne's Squad Will be at Border City Two Days
BY NORMAN WALKER
[EXCLUSIVE DISPATCH]
EL PASO (Tex.) Dec. 21.— Knute Rockne's light cavalry, including the famous Four Horsemen of his backfield, will have an opportunity to compare the national sport (so-called) of Mexico with the great outdoor sport of the United States in this season of the year when chestnuts and overcoat pawn tickets are ripe. The Notre Dame football squad will be in El Paso the 27th and 28th insts., and plans are being made to show them the sights in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande, and turn to the right. As the 28th falls on Sunday, according to Pope Gregory's revised calendar, there will be a bullfight scheduled in the old Plaza de Toros as surely as the town hack driver can get off from work long enough to participate with his lame, halt and almost blind cab horse as the principal picador.
No arrangements have been made to take the Notre Dame team to see the bullfight, but, if they run true to tourist form, they will go to Juarez, pay their good gold money for shade seats because they are higher when the sun seats are more comfortable this season of the year, will remain to see one bull and two horses killed, this being the average before an American becomes sickened and leaves without his rain check.
Local football fans are anxious to see the Rockne rock crusher doing its stuff but no football heroes have been located locally who are sufficiently brave to wish to oppose the South Bend pigskin warriors on the stadium field. An effort is being made to have the first-string men oppose the second-string men of Rockne's squad but there is little possibility of this for the stadium is as hard as a butcher's heart and has no more grass on it than Spring street at Sixth. The Irish team may have light signal practice while in El Paso, but Senor Rockne is too shrewd a feller to take any chances of crippling his light brigade before the intersectional game at Pasadena.
An effort is being made to have the University Club entertain the Notre Dame squad with a luncheon while here Saturday but the rah-rah boys of 1906 are too busdy making a living this Christmas season to waste much time idolizing the gang who made the halfback of Notre Dame famous.