Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-16
NN SPORTS SCHEDULE
SOON FOR TIE ACADEMY
Extensive Preparations Being
Made For Swirp ming, Fencing
And Othes Sports
MANY MATCHES PLANNED

10 basketball. which has kept up
the program 0f sports at the Naval
academy since the close of the football
season, will sooon be added an inters
esting schedule of matches in swim
ming, fencing gymnastics and wrest-
ling, Special preparations are being
made for the swimming season, sport
in which every member OF the naval
contingent Is anxious that the midship-
men should excell
There ii d big squad Of tank men,
and they are working hard under the
Competent direction of Henry Ortland,
OF New York City, WAC nadeea Teputa-
fion representing New York university
and New York Athletic club. Incl
identaily. Ortland nov yeoman IN the
navy. Is the Hrst enlisted man ID be
the regular coach Of the Naval acade-
my team ia branch III which they have
outside competition. He believes that
| the Academy team will be as strong as
any In the east this season, and ia
ready to have Il meet all comers:
SIX Swimming Matches.
Though the dates are not definitely
fixed. the midshipmen will probably
have six swimming matches on the
last Saturday In January. the Satur-
days In February and the first Satur-
day III March. Four of the prospective
opponents are Columbia, Princeton.
University OF Pittsburgh and Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology
The midshlpmen made new figure
for the hundred and sixty yard relay,
with four swimmers. last season
] With the pick or nye such men as Cog
gins, captain of the team. Laudin.
Dickens, Frfar and Emory. they are
hopeful Of pulling It down again this
year Some fthe best men liz the
difg6rent events are: Two hundred
and twenty yard, Gal Iagher and Cush-
man hundred yards, Goggins and
Lamdin; forty yards. Dickens and Ern1
/ lory: back stroke. Weed and FeWell;
breast stroke. McAvoy and Koch;
plunge. Ryan, Pare and Esrinnhergs
Gallagher was ca plain be me Rntgers
swimming team last year
Pencers Hope For Inter G COlsegIa gIafes.
Much Of the interest Of the fencing
season depends Upon whkher the ,lAcad-
eniy will be permitted to send team
Et6'1the tournament of the Inter -Gollegi-
ate Fencing association, which lii held
| III New York In March The Enfdsflip-
men took first hon0rs IN this event hi
1915, 1915 and 1917, but last yeaf, the
war regulation oanfning games 20 the
Academy grounds. prevented q, navy
representation Everyone is hopeful
/ that the rule win be relaxed in time to
have the Academy represented this
year
Talent Lost BY Graduation.
OF the four best men of the team of
last year, three, DeKay, Kiernan and
IJeter. were lost by graduation, aud
only Calhoun, who Is captain. remains
However there Is confidence that the
losses will be made gQod By the deveI-
opment os new matsfial. Fencing is
part of the regular training or each
lInidshipmen, as well as sport, and
every class develops some who have
special aptitude for ii.
The instructors IN this branch.
Swordmaster George EIeintz, Jr.. and
Assistant swordmaster Frank Darrieu-
lat. are among the most proficient
gwOrasrnen and competent instructors
lin this country. and there Is iitale
doubt that they can develop q team
which will reach the standard Of their
predecessors at the Academy
There will be about six dual matches