New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
NO HOLIDAY FOR TEAMS
Columbia Athletes to Work
Hard During Vacation.
TEST FOR THE TRACK MEN
Basketball, Hockey and Swim
ming Teams Prepare
for Games.

There Will be no rest for the greater
part OF Columbias athletic teams durihe
the Christmas recess. which began yes
terday. despite the fact that reci'a''oiis
will not he resumed until January u
Nearly every team which will represent
the Blue and White. with the exception
OF the crew. will be busy preparing loi
the contests that begin shortly after the
university opens for the new term. some
of the teams Will have games. aIthoush
none of them will take any eXtehdeu
Christmas trip.
Although the policy OF the track au-
thorities at Columbia is to reduce the III
door work to a minimum, practically t'e
~ntire squad excepting the weight ileh'
will work out three or four tunes
week. The varsity relay team VIII ke'
into condition for the opening race AZ INC
list Regiment games on New Years Eve
when It will meet the New York Athieuc
Club and sh-American quartets III a
one-mile handicap.
II. G.. Harvtt, the freshman sprin'er'
will be Columbia's only entry In the sixty
yard dash at the national indoor chaih-
pionships on January 4. Harvitt mas oeen
running the short sprint surprisingly wen
in the last fortnight. Alva It. Meyer. the
METROPOLITAN champion, has worked out
with Harvitt. and has found that II Is all
he can do to hold the young Columbia
runner.
Bernie Wefers will spend most OF his
time with the relay squad. for ne believes
| that with Bonsib, Patton, Macdonald
HarvItt and Brady at his disposal he VIII
! be able 10 select four that should come
| close to winning the indoor title that VIII
he at stake at the Columbia games In the
| list Regiment Armory on February To-
The team will not be entered in as many
races as Il was year ago, and follow
| ing the Columbia meet in February II
will disband. and will not resume prac-
tice again until April. when Wefers VIII
| try to get ii in condition for the Penn
| sylvania relay carnival on April g.
| The basketball team will get only a
weeks rest after its hard game with Cor
nell Practice will be resumed for the
five on December 30. and with the excep-
ton Of New Years Day Fisher will drive
the team al top speed in order 20 get It
ready for the championship game with
Princeton on January 10.
Meenan's bad ankle is the cause OF
much anxiety 10 the basketball people on
Morningside Heights, for he is without
doubt the strongest and most aggressive
player on the team and his absence from
the game minimizes Columbias chance OF
40 "a
been bothered with weak ankle, but II
las responded 10 treatment and is almost
as strong as ever. He and Lee. the star
guard OF the team. Will spend the holidays
in New Hampshire, ana Captain Jaques,
with Meenan and Fisher. will probably
go up state for a few days and endeayor
to forget about basketball for a while.
During the course Of ten days in Janu-
ary the team has three hard games or
the schedule, two with Princeton and one
with Cornell. The midyear examina'
tons break into the schedule after Janu-
airy 81 and the first game following the
tests will be played on February Z, with
New York University.
In hockey and swimming there will be
as much activity az II the university wee
holding daily sessions. They hockey squad
has lost so much practice by reason Of lis
/ enforced rest that Captain Bates and
Tom Howard. the coach. do not think II
wise to have a further let-up at this time
| for fear that the members Of the squad
would lose interest and drop out alto
gether.
/ The swimming team has its first meet
| ing shortly after the new term begins
and H G.. Mefferts, the coach, will keel
| tie relay squad and water polo men harC
at work right through tho holidays. The
wrestlers will practise only three times q
week instead Of going on the mat daily
as at present, but otherwise there will bC
no vacation unless an individual lives out
Of New York and has gone home fol
| Christmas.