New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Penn and e., C.N. Y. Swimmers
Open Season Here Next Week
Many New Records Ex-
pected From Intercolle-
giate Stars This Winter

7 The Eastern collegiate swimming
season of 1922 will be launched
with dual meet between Pennsylvania
University and the City College Of
New York in the latter's pool on Fri
day. It promises to be the most brill
liant season in the annals of varsity
water sports. Unless all signs fail,
most Of the national collegiate aquatic
records will 60 by the board.
The feature of the competition will
be the annual tournament for the inter-
collegiate team championships in swim
ming and water polo, which has re-
ceived entries from Yale, Princeton,
Pennsylvania, Columbia and c. C. N. Y.
but no less interesting should prove a
planned engagement between the win
ner of the swimming title and the team
Of Annapolis, strong candidate for
leadership this year. AS for the indi-
vidual championships, slated to take
place at the University of Pennsylvania
on March 25, everything indicates a
record list of entries and the keenest
rivalry ever Witnessed
The race for the league pennant in
swimming seems to rest among Yale.
Pennsylvania and Princeton, with the
odds decidedly in favor of the Blue.
Most of the stars who scored an over
whelming victory for Yale in 192O-'21
are back at New Haven, including
Pratt, now captain Of the team; Jel-
life, Solley, Higgins, Marshal, Cook,
Pollard, Crane, Wood, Cooper and
others, so the squad seems as formida-
BILE as ever.
Pennsylvania, however, has splendid
material in Armstrong, Genthner, Hoist,
Bechtel, Martyr and Koehler, at least
while the Princeton contingent is far
lc%y 10 ~yS+
Stinson, Smith, Shriver, Montgomery,
Newly, Pawley, Selden, Moser, Prime
and few more stars.
Notwithstanding Yale's apparent su-
periority the Quakers and Tigers are
! likely to put up great fight. Columbia
4 and G. C. N. 7. do not seem to have q
chance in the team series, but tha<M orn-
ingside squad harbors two dangerous
candidates for individual honors-Bal-
bach in fancy diving and Mahar in
plunging.
4 In the water polo tourney Princeton
4 will be extremely hard to beat, for it
i has retained intact the champion group
Of last .year-Tait, Botting, Hardin,
gartner. Still, Columbia has high
rating players in .Schiff, Cooper, Al
trurium, Curry, Andrews, Hinch and
Hirsh. C. G.. N. Y. will present a
strong front with Ornstein, Hayter
Menkes, Lilling, Dondero, Weinstein
Shapiro and Tannenbaum. Yale pos
sesses the nucleus for powerful
aggregation in Jelliffe, Usher, Orth-
vein and Higgins. These teams may
have to be reckoned with. Only Penn
sylvania seems to lack the necessary
material to be in the running.
One Of the particularly interesting
features of the season, from the local
point of view, will be the series of dual
meets for the collegiate middle At.
. lantic championship. Rutgers, favor.
ite for the title, will depend chiefly or
New York A. C. stars to win. Giebel
Ross, Redmond, Chase and Galbraith
the reliance contenders, wear the Mer.
curry Foot in A. A. u competition. II
seems a foregone conclusion that the
New Brunswick watermen will defeat
all opponents in the league engage
4 ments.
Meanwhile iconoclastic performances
may be expected at any time. With
one exception, all the swimmers who
broke records in the meets of 1920-'21
are wearing varsity colors again, ane
some of the former near-champions are
said to have improved sufficiently tt
threaten the marks listed at present.
Those most likely to hang up new
figures, however, are Jones, of Brown
University, holder of the 100-yare
standard; Kanakanui and Sinclair, Of
Annapolis, to whose credit stand thu
forty and 220 yard marks, respectively
Jelliffe, of Yale, who went under the
classic 100-yard line in an A. A. u. racs
in Honolulu last August; Damon, o.
Amherst, the fiftv-yard champion, re
ported to have beaten the record fol
this distance at practice. and Wood, O.
Yale. credited with outplunging tn,
Y standard for the seventy-fve-foot glid
in trials.