Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-06
NAVY BALLTOSSERS
BEGIN INDOOR WORK
Coach Breckenridge Arrives and
Squad of 40 Candidates Out
MIDDIES WIN FENCING MATCH.
Harvard No Match for Academy
FoiIsmen- St. Johns LoKola

baseball season got underway at the
Naval Academy yesterday afternoon.
Frank Breckenridge, former coach
Il Amherst College baseball team,
who coached the Navy nine last sea-
son, arrived in town and began work
with the candidates.
With the grind of the semi-annual
examinations over, a squad of forty
mldshipmen responded to the call for
practice in the Armory cage. Most
of the time was devoted TO throwing
and catching and other elementary
work calculated TO timber up the
muscles. Breckenridge gave over
much attention II the work of the
pitchers.
Vinson, one of last seasons stron :
men, worked for some time, as did
several of the others who will be can
didates for the mound position. Plac-
tice will continue daily from now on
until weather conditions will permit
outdoor work Prospects for turning
out a strong team are considered
good. The Middies' schedule, which
was published in The Capital a few
days ago, is pretentious one.
The schedule contains nineteen
games, several of the leading college
teams in the East being included,
and with the possibility of a couple
more games being added. fhs season
will open March Z2 with the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and close May 81
with the annual contest with the
West Point cadets, the later game to
be played at West Point.
Though there was no decided i'm
provement in their work compared TO
previous performances, the Naval
Academy fencers had no difficulty in
defeating the swordmens representing
Harvard University in a dual contest
held in the Armory at the Academy
six bouts to three.
So completely outclassed were the
Crimsons, that the Midlies took the
first five bouts with comparative ease.
This gave them a score sufficient to
win the meet. Then the Crimsons
braced a bit and took three straight
bouts by close scores. The ninth and
last bout was won by Gray, for Navy,
his opponent being Damon, Of Har-
ward. Though the regular teams were
composed of three men, each used
one substitution.
The master of ceremonies was
Lieut. Commander A. B. Hoff, and
the judges were Prof. F. W. Morrison,
and Assistant Swordmaster George
Heir tz, Jr., OF the Naval Academy,
and Mr. Aylem, of Harvard. The
summary:
First Round Lingo, Navy, de-
feated Won Nardroff, Harvard, &c,
3.3, AZ. Haas, Navy, defeated Put
nam, Harvard, S3. Dunn, Navy, de-
feated Damon, Harvard, III.
Second RouDd-Hahs, Navy, defeated
Won Nardroff, Harvard, 1O-5. Dunn
Navy, defeated Damon, Harvard 72
Damon, Harvard, defeated Lingo,
Navy, 6-5.
Third Round Won Nardroff Har-
ward, defeated Dunn, Navy, 1J-9.
Aylen, Harvard, defeated Lingo,
Navy, SO. Gray, Navy, defeated
Damon, Harvard, 1917.
The contest between Loyola and
St. Johns College basketball teams
in the State championship series has
been put off day and will be played
Saturday evening at the Fourth Regi
ment Armory, Baltimore. 1t was
expected to play tomorrow.
Manager McNut6 and Captain Clay
ton, of the st. Johns team, were in
Baltimore yesterday and had con-
ference with Manager Keelan, of the
Loyola quint. A return game be-
tween the two teams will be played in
this city on Tuesday, February 25.