The Washington herald., 1914-06-21
GRADUATION TO
AFFECT HARVARD
Two Of Five Major Sports
VIII Not Lose Much
Material.
CAPT. WNGATE DEPARTS
Football Eleven and Crew VIII No,
Be Weakened -Siorer
Also Lost
CAPT. WNGATE DEPARTS

Two OF Hervard's ave major sport
teams arc particularly fortunate In not
losing much material By graduation this
year They are the football eleven and
the crew The baseball team doesn't
lose much Numerically, but men like
Capt Wingate at short and Sid Clark
at second are hard 10 replace The
hockey team Is about 10 be all shot TO
pieces by graduation. with only Capt
elect Ciafiin and Philips returning to
college, but Princeton. minus Hobey
Baker. and Yale with only two vets
coming back to college In the fau. Is In
the same boat And the Harvard track
team. none too strong In ail-around
strength this year. loses men like Bill
Barron. Bob Boyd, and Al jackson. all
good men.
Bob storer. Rex Hitchcock. and Frank
o'Brien. the first two tackles. and the
last named an end. are the only mem
bers OF last fars championship eleven
who VIII be graduated Sweetser and
A. Curtis are men in line for the tackle
berths and r. Harte from last fall's
freshmen eleven. appears to be a likely
man to trot around In O'Brien's shoes
next fall. though whitney. Coolidge. and
l. Curtis are all likely end men Capt.
Brickiey has ali Of that powerful back
Held OF last fail to rely upon again this
coming campaign. all OF which would
Indicate that Yale and Princeton. also
Michigan. should worry.
Crews Lose Five.
Capt. Quentin Reynolds. Stroke
Chanler, and Tudor Gardiner are the
three varsity oarsmen who will be sent
out into the hard. cruel world this
week Saltonstall and Curtis Of the
second crew. are also going 10 be grad
uated- That leaves more than half OF
the varsity men eligible for the boat
next college year and thrse-fourths Of
the second crew. the so-calIed Henley
crew. one OF the fastest subsidiary
eights Harvard has ever had Brown.
Cabot Ely, and stebbins. all from the
present 1917 crew. are men likely TO
NIL in one or more OF these vacancies
Bill Barron. who scored four points
in winning second in the quarter at
the !. c. A. A A. A. meet for Harvard.
Is the only man who win be graduated
OF those who scored for the crimson in
the big meet. But Harvard scored only
a few points in that meet And Barron
was a good captain. Boyd didn't score
in the big meet. but he won the big
college cross-country run over the Van
Cortlandt Park course last year and
won the Yale meet two-mIle run. Al
Jackson wasn't in good shape this year.
due 20 a mid winter operation. but II
Pooch Donovan could only have him
wouldn't need to worry a LOT about the
wouldn't need to worry lot about the
hurdles.
Track Hit Hard.
Nelson. Foley. and Tesehner will
have to take care OF Harvard in the
sprints next year. Capper will be the
big man in the half-mile. and in the.
quarter Bill Bingham. Rock. Biddle.
and Wilcox will provide a flying quar-
tet which viii probably be as fast as
the one Capt Barron led this last col
lege year. both on the boards and on
the cinders.
MacLure VIII be back in the mile
stursis in the hammer throw. Camp in
the pole vault and high jump. Johnstone
In the high Jump. Randall in the high
jump. and Greeley and Richards In the
pole vault. will be the field men back
And then there Will be Brickley and
Hardwick in the shot. providing either
Dne OF them specializes and concentrates
on this event. In the hurdles "Puss"
Smith and Bill Meanix will be the re-
hablks.
VIII Miss Clark.
To offset the loss OF Barron and BOYD.
relies on Teschner, Wilcox.
Meanix, and Randall. all newcomers, 10
score many points.
In many ways the baseball outlook Is
wingate. at short; Clark.
1t second; Mnholland. in center field:
Pitcher Hitchcock and Catcher Osborn
are the only losses The battery men
will not be missed as much as the mid
diamond men Wingate Is well versed
IN baseball. also a good batter and a fine
eader Clark Is a great batter. abso-
utely without nerves in a pinch and
good fielder.
At present there appear no players In
tight who can hope to attain either Win
gates or Clark's value In one year. But
Abbott, from the present freshman team.
Fripp, Phillips. and Reed are prominently
mentioned as possible successors. Harte,
he freshman catcher. one OF the best
looking catchers seen at Harvard In
rears. apparently viii be very valuable,
rice Osborn