The sun., 1919-01-05
STAFF COACHES AN
ANNAPOLIS FIXTURE
Success Of Navy Instructors
Points Trail for Other
Colleges.
MANG HIGHLY PRAISED

ANNAPoIIs. Jan. 1.-The athletic coach
as n regular member OF tho stan OF
instructors has passed beyond the ex-
perimental stage at the Naval Academy.
In fact, this has been tho rule for years
In several of the branches OF sports
In which the midshipmen have been most
succe sSul. In gymnastics. wrestling
and fencing. in which the sndshipmen
have done notably we'll. the instruction
Is given by regular official OF the acad-
envy.
In gymnastics which Is handled by
Headmaster In Athletics Louis II. Mang.
tho former Mohawk A. C. athlete OF
New York. the midehipnen have lost
but two contests In ten years, having
met the best college teams in the coun-
try IN more than forty affairs.
Wrestling under Instructor John
Schultz has been em!nently succe ssful,
, with q percentage Of victories against
the strongest college teams OF well over
eighty Swordmaster George He!nts and
several assistants coach the fencers. and
1t ia seldom that any team secures a VIC
tory over the midshipmen, excepting the
West Pointers who are trained under
q similar system.
usually strong representatives for both
gymnastics and wrestling. MIdsh!p-
man Charles r. Woodson is the manager
of both sports. and Is arranging
schedules which will properly test the
navy athletes, The Lehigh wrestcrs
will open the season here on Feb, S.
and Pennsylvania State Will wrestlc
here on March S,
Expected Contests.
These additional contests are pr able ::
Feb Is, University of Pennsy 4Nanla
Feb. 22. Columbia or Princeton; March
l, Yale March Is. Cornell.
Pennsylvania. Columbia. Yale and
Princeton are expected to bring gym
nasium teams on the dates they wrestle
here. and an additional gym date will
probably be arranged with Haverford.
An effort IL also being made to have
the University OF Chicago bring teams
OF wrestlers and gymnasts here.
Large wrestling.
The captain OF the wrestling team
Is Frank NJ. AGaichie OF Now York. He
wrestles in the heavyweight class, as
does big Willkie. the football guard.
Other men now on the squad who got
in competition last season are: Avery.
lilo pound class fflH, 100 pouilu CLASS ;
Scaffe. the football tackle. and Anderson.
l75 pound class. Among the best Of
the others who are trying fdr places at
the different weights are:
l15 pound-Cohen. Bern. Palmer,
Bull
1875 pound-Mayberry Jones. Sim
clair. Londahl, Higgins. Hopkins, Adell,
Latta.
1875 pound-.Swigert, Kenyon. Street
man. Keith. Sackett.
145 pound-Swafford. Pixton, Kiehl.
Morgan,
1853 pound--Lewis. Cruise. Tusler.
Baker, Selby.
17b pound-Gates, Kappel. Weldon.
Snively
Lunsford Y. Mason, who is n tum-
bier and does stunts on the parallel
bars, is the captain OF the gym team.
Instructor Mang. who has handled the
mtdshipmen In this branch during the
decade in which they have done such
fine work, says that his material is the
best he ever has had. The best men
are:
Horizontal bar, Mercer Fletcher,
Cory, Smith flying rings. Hales, Spraguc,
Mold parallel bars Ten Eyck. BenvIst,
Davies, Jones' Silverman side hnrs"
Crist Barrett. Herring, Strang. Pew
tumbling. Edwards. Harrison. Cranum.
Comp; club swinging, criN. stranx and
Pew.