Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-14
VISITORS BEATEN
BY NAVY OUINT
Middies Put Up Hard Fight and
Won From Crescent Athletic
Club--26 to FL
BUTLER BEST OF VISITORS.
New Workers Finish Strong, But Fai
to Overcome Early Margin Of
Widdies.

to Overcome Early MargIn OF
Middies.
The basketball team of the Crescent
Athletic Club of New York. composed
mostly of former college athletes, met
defeat before the midshipmen in a rat
Ting good game Saturday afternoon
by a score of 26 TO 21
The New Workers put up a game
fight and outplayed the sailor boys i'm
the second half but the Middies OBJ
tanned a margin of points in the first
stanza which the visitors were unable
10 overcome. Conspicuous in the line
up of the Crescent quint was Butler
former star football man and all-rOund
athlete at Cornell
Butler played a splendid defensive
game. and got in some good work in
the second half when he shot two
goals. one OF which was from the cen
ter of the court. 1t was a remarkable
heave, the ball striking on the outer
edge of the basket, bounding about five
feet in the air, and then falling square
" through the circle.
All of the Middies got into the scor-
ing. although the brunt of the work
was borne by Calhoun Allan and
Wilkes, Beaven, Nicklas and Heath
were the shining lights for the Cres-
cnts. Summary:
Navy-Calhoun, forward; Gregory,
forward; Allan, center; Wilkes, guard
Carson. guard.
rescents-Heath, forward; Nicklas
IL. - 10 flrtfs
guard; H. Halstead, guard.
Substitutes Navy, Lockhart for Al
Ian Crescent Club. Beaver for Heath
Navy scoring goals from court-Allan
3: Calhoun, % Wilkes, . Carson. .;
Gregory. Goals from fouls-Calhoun
6. Crescent Club scoring goals from
court-Heath, 3 NickIas, s. Butler. 2;
G. Halstead Goals from fou,s-Nick-
las. 8. Referee-Mr. George Collifow-
er. of Georgetown. Umpire-Mr. Ar
thur Wheatley, of Annapolis. Time of
halves Twenty minutes each.
Navy Wins From Penn 10 to in The
Wrestling Bouts.
Although handicapped by the loss Of
the regular men in the heavy. light
heavy and bantamweight classes. be-
caus of delinquency in scholastic work
the Middies scored a decisive victory
over the University of Pennsylvania
wrestlers Saturday afternoon by the
score of 10 to s.
The Middies won four bouts against
two by the opponents and one resulted
in a draw The victory was especially
pleasing TO the navy contingent, as
three of the bouts scored by them were
the result of falls. The Quakers' two
victories were on decisions fall
counted for five points and a decision
four. The heavyweight bout was the
one that resulted in a draw, even
though the contestants were at il for
an extra period of six minutes.
Probably the most interesting bout
of all was that between Captain Multi
gan, of Pen. and Erickson Of the Mid
dies, in the welterweight class. The
Navy man finally was given the deci-
sion for the most aggressive work
Wyatt, of the Navy, crowned himself
with glory He secured a fall over
Olsen. of Penn. in the special weight
class, and later, consented to contest
in the lightweight event and succeeded
} in throwing Lindsay a much heavier
man. The summary:
/ Bantamweight- -Servias. Pennsylva-
mia. won from Ansel, Navy; decision
Specialweight-W Wyatt, Navy, threw
/ Olsen, Pennsylvania, with a forward
! chancery hold in 3 minutes % seconds.
I Lightweight-Wyat Navy, threw
I Lindsey, Pennsylvania with a bar and
( handbook hold in minutes "a seconds.
Weiterweight-Er Ericsson, Navy. won
from Mu.ligSn, Pennsylvania; decision
Middleweight-B Broadfoot, Navy
/ threw Malakis' Pennsylvania, in S min
utes SO seconds. using crotch hold
4 Light avyweight-SaIter, Penn
( sylvania, won from Biesemier. Navy:
decision after an extra period of six
minutes
( Weitzel, Navy, and Titzel. Pennsyl-
/ vania, wrestled to draw in the regu-
/ lar period, and also in an extra period
/ of six minutes
Midshipmen Swimmers Win.
I The midshipmen swimmers won from
: the tankmen OF the City College. Of
( New York, with comparative ease Sat
: uIudg. ue cNCIE Was JU 10 Il.
The Middies captured the relay race.
| the opening event, and also took first
| place in five of the other six contests
/ Jones, of City College. proved good
I plunger, and won the distance event
1 over Post and Conely, the Navy cracks.
4 The New Workers took one second
place, and finished third in four other
events Summary.
( 160Yard Relay-Won by Navy Cook,
+ Griffiths, Herndon and Dashiell): New
York Swimmers (Howay, Bosworth,
Schenberg and Baehr). Time. 1.21 Is
40-Yard Backstroke-Won by Post.
Navy: Borden. Navy second: Baehr,
/ City College, third. Time, 25 seconds.
40Yard Dash-Won by Herndon.
Navy; Browning, Navy, second; Baehr,
City College, third. Time, q Is sec.
60Yard Breast Stroke-Won by w
tlacil, Navy; Babor, City College. sec
ond; Caldwell, Navy, third. Time. 26
1-5 seconds.
100-Yard Dash-Won by Cook, Navy I;
Dashieil Navy. soecnd. Boswortf,