When the University, in its third game this week, meets Holy Cross this afternoon it will face perhaps the strongest team that has played on Soldiers Field this year. With a record of 22 victories out of 23 contests, it began this year with a line-up even stronger.

Horan, twirling for the visitors, has a combination of speed and a puzzling hook rare in intercollegiate circles. The Dugan brothers, in the van of the batting order, are a pair of sluggers who have been registering well above 400 this spring. O'Connor, a brilliant though less steady batsman, is a left-handed first baseman of experience and speed.