New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
General Tournament OF Con
tests With Gloves Planned
King To Be Coach

NEW HANEN, NOhH, DeN' iV' 49,
spring without athletics and ialI
in which only class and informal foot-
ball were played, Yale has shifted its
athletic policy to the extent OF pro-
noting it's winter sport teams, with
the exception Of hockey. Two OF the /
indoor sports, boxing and fencing, will
receive greater attention than ever be-
fore. because both are conceded to
De of such direct and practical benefit
in the development Of the Reserve Of
ficer's Training Corps, 70 which every
Yale athlete must now belong.
A general boxing tournament Is
planned at the university, and the
longest and most general fencing team
schedule ever arranged will be carried
out. Fencing has been put in the
hands of Professor Bartoli, OF New
York City, as coach, and boxing has
been turned over 20 Nose King, o.
the university gymnasium stsf, for
merly Connecticut lightweight cham
pion.
Hockey has been omitted from the
winter sport programme not because II
is not considered an aid in the military
training, but owing to the tact thsC
the New Haven skating rink, the arena,
has been closed because of the ilnanclal
a.harrasror. of its owners. Nat
ural ice is available in New Haven
onlv about half the winter, and hockey
teams. previous to the building Of the
Arena, we're compelled TO go to the 81.
Nicholas Rink, New York City, Tor
both practice and games.
MAY Form Freshman Team
Informal and freshman hockey teams
NAV be formed after the Christmas
vacation, but their scheduled games
will be few because of the inability
of the members Of the hockey squad
10 90 to New York freqently. Their
military training work will prevent
frequent absence from the university
Hockey has been Yale's leading winter
snort for several years, and raising IL
TO the rank of major sport has oeen
discussed, but the movement has re-
ceived a setback by the failure 10
form a team under war conditions.
uockey's successor, as fale's lead
ing indoor sport, is wholly uncertain.
whether the new boom for boxing and
fencing will project one of these into
it's place. or whether the honor VIII
eventually 70 TO the swimming and
water polo teams or to basketball Will
he determined by the attendance, en-
thusiasm and interest which greet
these teams when their schedules
start after the Christmas vacation,
Basketball is the first sport to De
reorganized thoroughly enough LOT
a varsity team TO take 1t upon the
road for a definitely scheduled series
of games since the war began. Inc
FIVE will 90 the coming week through
Pennsylyania and New York State on
holiday trip of eight games, which
will all be played during the Christmas
vacation.
All of Yale's winter as we'll as its
other athletic teams were swept clean
of regular members by the enlistment
from the university at the opening OF
the war, but the freshman basketball
team of last year, combined with ham
mill. Stradella and Borders, who
were substitutes last season, gives the
present varsity team a nucleus which
is being we'll developed by the two
graduate coaches, Orson Kinney ana
Mckinley Barber.
StradelIa New Captain
Kinney was elected captain for the
present season, but is in military SER
vice and can spare only time for oc-
casional trips to come here TO coacn.
Stradella has been chosen as his sue
cessor.
Yale's swimming and water polo
teams have been thoroughly organized
and are practising for their events,
which begins after Christmas. Mat
thew Mann, who has produced four
intercollegiate swimming team cham
pions. is in charge of the swimming
squad. and Ogden N. Reid, OF New
York City, of the class OF 'O4, is di-
recting the coaching of the water polo
squad. He organized water polo at
Yale and captained its first two teams,
which were champions. He is fale's
graduate adviser for the swimming and
water polo teams.
R. B. Mayer, of last seasons SWIM
ming team, is captain of the varsity,
and Lawrence p. Thurston, of Homo
lulu, the former Lawrenceville inter-
scholastic record breaker, has been
.L.so, aontaip of tha freshman team.