Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-09
MIDSHIPMEN KEPT BUSY.
Less Than One Hundred at Annapolis
Not Active in Sports.

Those officers Of the Naval Acad-
envy who direct athletics have been
unusually successful this winter in
realizing their desire to keep as large
a proportion Of the midshipmen as
possible busy with some branch of
athletics in which contests with other
teams are held.
Competitive athletics is warmly
supported by the authorities of the
Academy, and it is regarded as a
means toward strengthening the man
ly and military qualities of the mid
shipmen. The sports in which the
season has begun at the Academy or
in which the opening of the season is
near at and are basketball, fencing,
gymnastics swimming and wrestling.
There are good squads of candidates
in all of these. Soccer has also been
introduced and match games will be
arranged for next season. The soccer
squad numbers about forty. Many
midshipmen not engaged along these
lines are actively at work preparing
| for baseball, lacrosse, rowing field
and track and the other spring sports.
The whole number of midshipmen
not engaged in some form of athletics
is well under a hundred. As the bril-
| gade numbers about eight hundred the
/ proportion of those engaged in ath-
letics is probably the largest Of any
institution in the country. The gym
nastic team has felt the loss of Cap
tain Byrd severely. Byrd, who is the
| best man in the Academy on the fly
| in rings, broke a leg recently in prac-
| tice and is out of the game for good.
Among the men who are showing
good work in the various events are /:
Tdmbling, Kieffer. Gillette, Lahod-
ney horizontal bars, Bourne, Griffin,
La Bombard; parallel bars, Gillette,
Lands, Woodside, Hatch; flying rings,
Hull, Skinner, Fletcher; side horse,
Zacharias, Kieffet, Sacket; Climb swing
| ing, Kieffer, Cooper.
The only weakness in the wrestling
team this year is the absence of a,big
man for the heavyweight class. The
midshipmen have been meeting men
weighing from 100 pounds to 235
pounds in this class during recent
years and have never had a represen-
| tative who weighed more than $50
pounds An effort was made this
year to get Brown and Ho We, of the
football team. each of whom weighed
we'll over 200, to take up the Crap
ping game, but both decided not to
make the trial.
Vaughn will be the Navy represen-
! tative in the heavyweight class.
He is strong and fairly clever, but as
he weighs less than $50 pounds he is
likely to be greatly outweighed by
most of his opponents. Officers have
been selected by the Navy Athletic
Association to give special attention
to the midshipmen engaged IN the
different branches Of sport. These
officers counsel and help the particular
teams in every way they can and as
sist in any way which does not conflict
| with the coach.
The officers appointed in the differ
| ent lines are as follows: Lieut.. Fred
II. Poteet. baseball; Lieut.. Louis NJ.
Farley. rowing: Lieut.. Commander
Allan Buchanan. football; Ensign A.
w. Fitch, field, track and gymnastics !;
Lieut.. A. w. McClintock, small arm
pra etice; Lieut. f. J. Horne, fenc-
| ing; Commander b. f. Hutchinson.
| lacrosse and minor sports