New-York tribune., 1920-01-04

Winter Sports
Now Booming
At Annapolis
Special Interest Is Being
Shown by Middies in
Wrestling and Swimming
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. B With tho va,.
ing of the excitement over the sersce
football game and the ending of the
Christmas leave winter sports have be-
gun to loom large at the Nn+..; ssad-
envy. Preliminary practice mas hem
going OH for several weeks. but tho
work will begin in a regular way this
week, with a cutting down of the squads
and the assignment of prominent can-
didates to the training tables.
Special interest is being shown ia
wrestling, swimming and boxing, with
smaller squads engaged in gymnastics
and swimming, while basketball and
soccer, the teams in both of which arc
we'll into their schedule, are showing
steady improvement. fs
Boxing has been put on dcsiniA
basis by the selection of Mdshipman
Edwin w. Schell, Of Mount Pleasant.
Iowa. to captain and manage the tea N
during the year. This follows the first
official recognition Of boxing as a COM
petitive. sport by the academy authcri-
ties. The academy is in complete SYM
pathy with the move to indicate this in
the regular intercollegiate sports and
will have one match, against the Uni-
yerslty OF Pennsylvania, this season
and probably a schedule of several
matches next year.
The Navy has a magnetic boxing di.
rector in Spike" Webb, who was box
ing instructor Of the 29th Division.
A. E. F., and manager Of the intcr-Allied
matches on the other side. The call for
candidates was answered with such .
rush that speedy announcement WAS
necessary that no more would be re.
ceived. About ninety responded, but the
squad at the training table has been cut
to forty.
The training table for the wrestlcrx
has been started, forty men having been
given places. This is about half the
: original number of candidates. While
the Navy team was not recognized an
the collegiate champion last year, as il
did not wrestle away from home. there
is little doubt that it was one Of the best
IN the country. Not only did the Annap-
oils men win all of their FIVE matches
easily, but they defeated Penn State.
intercollegiate champion, in every one Of
the seven bouts. Yale, Lehigh, Colum-
bia and University of Pennsylvania were
also Dadly defeated.
The Naval Academy has Joined the
intercollegiate Wrestling Association,
and would have a team in the finals
this year except for the rule of the
association that year must elapsc
between the entry into the organisa-
tion and competition in the finals.
John Schultz, who has developed the
teams of high standard which have
represented the academy in recent
years, again has charge of this branch.
| Some Of the best men in the differ
ent classes are: Heavyweight, Will
kie. Carney; 175-pound, Post, VIE
dorm, Woodside; 158-pound, Lewis.
Cruise, Benoist, Conroy; 145-pol lnd
class, Pixton, Streetman; 135-pound
class, Swigert (captain), B. B. Adell:
125-pound class, C. C. Adell, Sinclair,
Hoff, Geering; 115-pound class, Palmer,
Cohan, Wood.
The complete wrestling schedule fol.
lows:
February 7, Lehigh; February II,
q, Princeton; February 2S. Columbia;
March 8, pennsylvania STATE; March
13, Cornell
The swimming schedule is:
January "a, Johns Hopkins; January
81, Princeton: February Z, Columbia;
February Ii, University Of Pittsburgh;
February 81, City College of New York;
February %, Massachusetts Tech;
March 6, Harvard. City College Of New
York will also bring its water polo
team here.