Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-18
M|DD|ES HAVE PLENTY Of
WINTER SPORT EVENTS
basketball, Wrestling, Fencing, Gym
hasticS and Swimming to BE Feat
ured During Cold Months.
MEET COLLEGE
ATHLETES
Excellent Schedules Arranged With
fale, Columbia, Princeton, Penn
sylvania State and Other Repre-
sentative Institutions.

no AEi IN, i, Us: December Il. There is
s1 t lastatItion i'm the country where
than at the United States Nav;,l A"nd
envy. There are teams in almost every
Stpott which has shown itself adapted
10 the colleges, and i'm all OF Them "a
good squad OF candidates. compctont
GohcheS. ana systematic practice have
insured strong teams for many seasons
Lhis is due i'm a large measure to the
system at the Academy. by which attn
thnss ,n are encouraged. particularly
competition with other institutions.
Successful In Fall SPORTS.
cos ne ,hidshipmcn have been mos; sue
snort e' M IN the late fail ana winter
ioSt Il game in two seasons. and INC
Sfninasium team has Il clean record Of
F'G I,s Tor the past three seasons.
me wrestling team has won :; do
cided ma ioriiy of it's matches ror M
past half dozen years, the fencing team
IN, ,,.;, SWIMMERS, though hardly on a par
win those IN the other sports arc
showing much Improvement. last sea
son being the most successfui th"y
have ever had.
Both the gymnastic and wrcs,lin.
SQUADS have retained most OF last sea
uleS. arc anticipating an intcrestinr
season In gymnastics. a strong and
Vel balanced team is expected. Those
doing the best work ut present are:
horizontal bar Small tcaptain>, Hnrdi-
son. svec, Giifford; parallel bars, Ber-
Wind Hrm,s lands; Nicholls side horse.
rings. LA Motto. Council: tumblng
Clarke, KimIall. Lyle: Indian clubs.
cooper, Wothcrspoon. Fallon. l.. II
Mang is the coach in this branch.
The schedule is:
February G--Ncw York University.
February i2-lIaverford.
February oO-Yale.
February 27-Columbia
March 6-princcton
March 13-University OF pcnnsvl
vania 0ikeIy).
Good wrestling Material
The wrestlers have. as a nucleus for
their team, the following Of las; years
special weight: Broadroot. middle.
weight: Ward. light heavywciuh,. Thc
most serious loss is that OF the heavy
weights. Howe and Vaughan ana no
one within many pounds of their
weight, is available at present. How
ever. "a call will be made TO the foot.
- competent heavy from Perry, Graf
or III. Harrison, all of whom have. done
some wrestling, ara who. II IL hopcd
VIII make up in spirit and apgressivr-
ness what they lack in weight Tho
wrestling coach is John Schultz Thc
schedule follows
February 6--Pennsylvanin state Col
lege.
:
February o0-u'nivcrsity OF Pcnnsvl-
vania. :
February 27-Yale
March 6--Cornell.
March 13-Princeton, likclv).
one of the reasons for the bis. squads
th;t turn out for winter athletics is
the system at the academy by which
every midshipman Is required to en-
ter the squad OF one of the branches in
which competitions are held or ioin n
squad, which takes long cross country
The squad is not popular, and gen
orally the midshipmcn manage TO nicl,
sport In which they would rather
engage IMAM take these walks. Just
now the squad is rather large. those
who stopped football at the end OF the
season do not always start in some
other. line ut once. It is grnduoIiy
growing smaller, however. as the foot.
pail men take up other branches. and
At the height OF the winter and snrinr
season it does not generally number
ever twenty or thirty, this being ali
or the midshipmen out of 900 who arc
not engaged in some active sport