Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-17
MIDDIES WIN ROUGH
GAME FROM CADETS
COllegians Put Up PIucky Fight
But Lose As to 80.
LEHIGH GRAPPLERS ON TOP.
And New York Varsity CymnasIs Also
Gave Sailors Hard Rub Fezcing
Exhibition.

With the annual basketball game
between the midshipmen and ST.
Johns College cadets as the big fea.
ture. Naval Academy athletes had
another busy time of il Saturday
afterooon and night. The days pro-
gram included three other events. viz
wrestling, gymnastics and fencing.
The basketball game re solved itself
into rough and tumble affair, and
though the cadets put up a very
plucky fight, the middies won by the
rather decisive score Of as TO 80. The
middies were bested on the wrestling
mat, the grapplers of Lehigh gaining
| decisions in five of the seven bouts.
The gymnasts Of New York Univer-
city also gave the middies hard rub,
the sailors only winning by nine
points.
The fencing engagement with the
representative of New York Turn
verein was purely an exhibition
affair, but the expert New Workers
bad the better of the bouts.
The basketball game was, perhaps,
the toughest that has ever been
played in Annapolis, although the un-
fair tactics did not reach the extreme
where the referee was called on to
dI squalify any Of the players. Both
teams touled on numerous occasions,
as may be indicated by the fact that
Mckee, for Navy, threw ten baskt Is
from the foul line, while Welch, for
st. Johns, registered the same uum-
beI.
The st. Johns boys seemed to
force things and were the offenders
eftener than the midshipmen. Welch,
Of st. john, however, was somewhat
better in throwing from the mark
than was Mckee. He only missed
one chance, while six of McKee's
throws were failures. Ii was the all
important game of the local season
and naturally attracted large
crowd. Rivalry between the two
institutions was, in a large measure,
responsible for the roughness that
was INDUCED in.
The players mixed it up for fair
when they got in tight places, and
on couple of occasions they were
on tne verge of exchanging blows. II
just happened that they managed to
compose themselves at the proper
time. The Iniddies clearly had the
advantage of the first half, which
ended with the score standing rs to
10, but in the second period the coll
Ie gians found themselves and the mid
dies only went them three points
better during the session. In fact the
strong rally by the cadets had the sail
or lads bewildered for a time.
At the beginning of the game things
did not look we'll for St. Johns, as
the middies early rolled up a count
Of 10 to 2, but the collegians kept
plugging along and were satisfied
with the figures of 25 to 10 when the
gong sounded for the close of the
half. By fighting hard and display
ing better degree of teamwork, the
collegians managed to keep well up
with their opponents in the second
half. The middies eiGher went into Q
slump or were overcome with surprise
by the strong brace on the part Of
the collegians for their work did not
measure up to the first half.
The middies started the game with
two substitutes in the lineup: Smith,
the strong forward, was soon sent in
to relieve Nichols, however,, while
Captain Wild went in for Winks at
guard. Navy's greater weight prob
ably proved handicap to st. Johns,
but their real advantage lay in the
fact that they were faster and their
/ defense was somewhat stronger.