The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-21
BA QUINTET
FIGHT AMONG CANDIDATES
FOR PLACES ON VARSITY
TEAMS TO BE RESUMED
Places Are Still Open for Varsity Contenders in All Winter
Sports-Princeton Rife Team Awarded Trophy-Sug-
gestion of Yale Fails to Find Favor at Harvard.

New York. December 2o.-Candidates
for places upon tho various winter and
spring sport teams OF tho colleges and
universities In all parts of the country
will resume training Immediately after
the Christmas holidays. Places are open
for varsity contenders IN basketball,
hockey, gymnastics, swimming baseball.
ls crosse, track and crew combinations,
and competition win continue from early
in January to late in June. Some idea
of this athletic activity In the leading
universities of the east and west can pe
gained from the schedule laid out at
Harvard.
The hockey squad Is training at the
Boston rink and will soon leave for prac-
Etice games at the Syracuse arena, where
Several informal intervarsity matches
Fwfu be placed. Track team candidates
are training twice a week on the board
ktrack at Soldiers field and competitions
Ewfl be held semi-monthly with silver
Ecups as prizes for the leading point
winners. Entries will also be made in a
number OF the big indoor meets at Bos-
ton and New York. Machine and tank
l
mediately after the midyear examina-
tions. Gymnasium and cage practice for
the baseball players will be started early
in January, while the swimmers will
plunge into the pool about the same time.
The wrestlers, fencers and gymnasts are
already on edge for the opening of their
season of competitions.
! For spartan simplicity the valedictory
tpf the 1918 Notre Dame football eleven IS
a. welcome relief from the fusome praise
accorded teams which fell short of the
record established by the Indiana COM
bfnatfon. The team which scored 26i
points to its opponents Al, and defeated
West Point, Pennsylvania State and
Texas university during the season was
accorded the following paragraph in the
university publication after its final VIC,
tory at Austin, Tex:
1.-THE 1913 varsity eleven passed into
HISTORY Thanksgiving Day on Clarke
field, Austin. It's history has been the
most glorious of all Notre Dame elevens.
We cannot say how proud We feel bur
to the men of '13 we say: You have done
your work WE'LL"
AS a result of recent ruling of the
National Rifle association, the Princeton
university rifle team has been awarded
the eastern non-military college rifle
shooting championship for the season of
1928. The readjustment of awards was
made when the score of the Harvard
team made against the Massachusetts
Agricultural college was protested by the
latter on the ground that the Harvard
team used long rifle cartridges instead OF
short as called for under the conditions
of the match. The claim having been
acknowledged, the executive committee
of the National Rifle Association OF
america threw out the Harvard score
and gave the championship of the East
ern league to the Massachusetts Agrcul-
tural college. with Princeton in second
place. The special trophy given to the
college not having a military department
which had been won by Harvard, vert
to Princeton by this ruling.
The suggestion emanating from Yale
that the annual Harvard-Yale football
game be played on the Saturday follow
ing Thanksgiving instead of the Satur-
day before fails to find favor at Har
ward. The Harvard Crimson in an edi-
torial on the subject states: