Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-29
SWARTHMORE HAS
STAR in JUDGES
Prep School Basketball
Team Will Meet Penn
Fresh Tomorrow
CHAT OF SCHOOLBOYS
BY PAUL PREP

In view Of the recent victories over
the Wilmington Friends and West
town School quintets the Swarthmore
Prep basketball team and its rooters are
inclined to look forward with expecta-
tons Ct victory to the big" contest with
the Penn Freshmen tomorrow afternoon
in the Swarthmore gym.
Tn, team has struck its proper stride
aad at present is the best squad that has
represented the Garnet school In many
years. The majority of the team are
around or over the siX-foot mark, and
this Is one Of the several reasons why
they expect to break the winning play of
the Red and Blue yearlings.
In the Wilmington fracas Coach
! Harry's players held the Wilmington five
without n field goal during the second
half until within a minute of the final
whistle, wnen Captain Taylor dropped
! in two tallies in succession. During this
! period the Swarthmore team added nine
! teen points to the seventeen they scored
! in the first half.
This contest uncovered Judges, the
Z former scrub player. in his first varsity
contest and he scored more points than
any other payer. caging six goals froin
4 tie fed Scarcely less brilliant was the
| performance of Ailliken, another pro-
! uoted scrub who Gagged three goals from
the field. For time Coach Harry mad
feared for ,he success of his team when
! I.ungren dropped the game and LeFranc
did not come up to expectations. but
these two substitutes have filled the Dill
Swarthmore beat Westtown by an
clevcn-point margin. In this game Var
nall scored eleven field goals, or twenty =
two of Swarthmore's forty points. west
towns best player, Captain scout WAS
jumping center opposite harhai''
Although the baseball diamonds are
at present buried under the recent hea's
SHOWS. baseball comment is III ti,e an.
The Episcopal Academy students alreaos
have taken stock and found that Coach
1 McCarty will nave only four members
of last years team around whom to form
his nine. "Sr' Sellers. who was honored
with the captaincy at the close OF last
season, Is the latest to be numpereo
among the gone but forgotten.
In his place James Y. Hazlett has been
elected to head the team for the coming
season. Hazlett and Johnny carp, both
football players. are both strong at the
bat and VIII De tne HidH'Stdy VI tie
team in the matter of score-getting. but
the greatest promise of the team seems
to lie in Bud" Starr, the youthful short
stop of the 1917 team. who has the ear
me- rks of a real ball player.
Indoor batting practice will soon start
In the academy gymnasium, and the
opening game will be played the hrst
week in April.
There is talk at the Friends Select
already of the coming baseball season
Manager Illingsworth has only couple
of games to settle upon before he vii
have the schedule ready to give out
The season is rightly looked forward tc
with much enthusiasm with such an at
tractive schedule and the many members
of last years team who are In school
Remmey was elected captain and ex
poets TO lead another successful team.
Coach OBrien Of Central High, ha'
been unable to have the track team
practice during the last week OH ac
count of the lack of heat and light
Now that the exams are In progress III
will be unable to get the candidates
together until after February /, whei
they start to get in shape for the open
ing of the indoor track season on Feb
ruary 16. when the Crimson and Golt
meets the Northeast High team. Th'
outcome of this meet will give thu
scholastic track fans a chance to dop
out the result Of the indoor quads OF
March IL.