The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-21
FIVE OF COLUMBIA'S
+ TEAMS IN CONTESTS
Gymnasts. Fencers. Swimmers
and Water Polo Men Will
Meet Penn Tomorrow.
WRESTLERS ASSAJL YALE

Columbia's annual minor sport indoor
carnival will he held tomorrow night.
when four of the Blue and White teams
will clash with Penn in intercollegiate
league contests and a Nth will meet
ale. The gymnasium floor will re-
semble a several ring circus. as all the
coutcsts will be going on at the same
hour.
Perhaps the feature will he the meet
between Yale and Columbia on the mat.
Since this is not a league contest Capt.
MAJ Pendclton intends to wrestle in two
weights. the i75 and unlimited classes
Yale tried to limit him to one bout. but
since II is not in the league Columbia
couldn't see why such a special ruling
should be adhered TO. IL they can't
agree on II Howry, who weighs 161
pounds, probably will start in the UNI
limited weight bout.
The swimming and water polo teams
expect to Penn. but will have
= hard time of it. That will make the
fourth meet in nine days for the Blue
and White amphibians. The fencing
team will he strengthened by the return
of Capt. Mouauin and ought TO van
quieh the Quakcrs. Mouquin also will
play water polo. The carnival will mark
the opening meet " the gymnastic
team, which since 1t was threatened with
abolition last fall has taken a decided
brace for the better.
Eight home meetings and two abroad
compose the schedule of the Columbia
tennis team, which was approved by the
university committee on athletics yester-
day. Practically every college in New
York Is scheduled. so that 1t will he
possible to decide a local championship.
The season opens on April 16 with City
College at South Field. Fordham. with
the first team in the history of the
Maroon. will be met on April II.
For the first time in many years
neither Yale nor Cornell appears on the
card. In fact Princeton is the only one
Of the blk six that is scheduled to clash
with the Blue and White or the courts.
The season closes on May s with Lehigh
at South Bethlehem.
An attempt will be made to have the
team play on the old West Side Tennis
Clubs courts. 117th street and Amster-
dam avenue. which the university bought
for half a million dollars last fall. The
courts have been flooded for the winter
and have been converted into "A hockey
rink, but will be drained off and used
in the spring. They are far superior to
the South Field courts. The schedule:
April Is. CITY. College at south Field:
~, New York University at south Field;
n. Fordham at south Field 20. WESLEYAN
al South Field "a, Trinity a. south Field
-, Bowdoin College at south Field May
1. williams a, South Field. .. Princeton
Ct South Field; !. LAFAYETTE at Edston,
pA-: s, Lehigh at South Bethlehem.
Because the rise in temperature had
melted the ice of the outdoor rink AZ
Columbia the hockey game between the
Rlue and White seven and New York
University scheduled for Yesterday af-
ternoon had to be postponed. Capt. Tor
rcy Webb said that the game In all
probability woul he played Wednesday
night AT the 81. Nicholas Rink. This
makes the sixth game scheduled for the
Columbia rink that has been postponed
and although IT has been completed since
Christmas a game Is yet TO he playei
on IL.