Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-17
LACROSSE PRACTICE
STARTS At ACADEMY
WRESTLING Is OVER
LaerOgse Sqwad Es EspeelalIy ssroRg
Thls Year viii Six Old Men
Back In Game

IN
lacrosse practice has begun 1T the
Naval academy with much enthusiasm
and with eevry prospect Of success
fuI season. slx members og last sea-
sons strong twelve are again on the
Geld, and there II i large squad Of
other candidates The squad Is e.
pscially strong this year III seasoned
athletes from other branches Of sport
The team viii Be coached BY George
Efndlayson. The old Canadian player,
9Or the ninth consecutive season. Dir.
Yindlayson has arrived and taken &C
tive charge
The old men who are back are Gear
ing Gcaptain), Waters, Maichle. Bur-
ros, Shaw and Voinot The team will.
however. miss the services OF Dering-
er. who played such strong game at
cover point last season. He was also
centre for the basketball I'VE this sea
son, but met with severe accident ID
be OF the late games. breaking two
homes IN foot. He has Just been re-
leased from the hospital, and viii not
be able TO pay lacrosse this year.
Owing to the good men from other
branches Of athletics, particularly
football, the squad will be very strong
this year It'd defense Big Maichie,
captain OF the wrestling team and
heavyweight champion OF the academy,
~ one OF the old-timers, as ID Waters,
who played 8 great game at guard
on the basketball team. However,
football will furnish the largest mum
Der OF recruits for lacrosse, among
them Even, captain for next season
DenAeld. big guard; Murray and
Scaffe. the regular tackles and Butler.
Alyord, Benoiat and Severn, Of the
back held.
The twelve will be allowed to play
ave games The team Will probably
play Baltimore City College on the
opening date March 90. The manager
i dickering With Penn State for April
5, and the following dates are closed .
April IL, Johns Hopkins: April 10.
Swarthmore April as, Lehigh The
Naval academy has played lacrosse for
moro than dozen years now, and Is
uniformly turning ont one OF the best
Of the college twelve, Johns Hopkins
men we're largely their preceptors In
the early days, but recently they have
turned on their teachers. George Find
Lagoon has coached the team eight
seasons, and their rise In this sport
IL largely due to him.
Pride Taken In Wrestlers.
Great pride is taken at the Naval
academy In the remarkable showing
d the wrestling team, which has Just
concluded It's season Wrestling
against Ave or the best college teams
of the country, the midshipmen have
won all OF their matches, and scored
III points ID their opponents Ia They
lost one bout BY fall and two by de-
eisions, and ali OF the others were won
by the nidshipmen 13 on falls and
10 on decisions, II is doubtful II any
college wrestling team ever made so
good record
The Naval academy's opponents
were Lahigh, University 81 pennsyl-
vania; Columbia, Yale and Penn State,
the latter the intercollegiate champion
last year. Bevier, Lehigh. threw May
berry. Naval academy, IN the 1866
pound class. Lee, Columbia's stocky
Chinese wrestler. got q decision by d /
most narrow margin over Gallery In /
the 1i5-pound class and Avery, Yale.
won decision in the t75-pound class
over Isbell.
ct the Naval academy wrestlers, top
hOnors must be accorded to Swigarf.
1S6 pound wrestler, who won all five
OF bis bouts, three BY falls and two By
decisions. Gallery also wrestled Ia all
the matches, taking two falls and two
decisions. but marring his record BY
losing decision to Lee, Columbia.
These took all the bouts III which thew
contested either BY Eall or decision:
MalChie lcaptainl. s; Adell, 8: Lewis.
8 Wiiikie, 3; Gates. q: STAFFORD, 3
Tusler, q
Much % the credit of the splendid
showing OF the Naval academy wrest-
/ ieFs belongs to John Schultz. an old
member Of the Mohawk Athletic Club
Of New York. whoA has handled the
academy wreatlers during most al the
period In which they have engaged i'll
the sport. Schultz has met with uni
form success. but never has had
team which eauailed the record OF that
Of this season.