The New York herald., 1921-01-09
YALE SURE IT WILL
KEEP AQUATIC TITLE
Swimming and Polo Teams
Stronger Than i'm 1920
Cub Crew at Work.
specior Despatch to TIM Nrw YORK HERALD.

Special Despatch to THN NEW YORK HERALD.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. s.-Yale's
first important event on the midwinter
programme will be the swimming meet
with Columbia on Friday night next.
Last year the Yale swimmers won all
the honors in the pool. and this years
team is said to he even faster than the
1920 outfit.
Following the meet there will be a
water polo match, in which branch Of
sport Yale never took a lead. Among
the members of the Eli team to be seen
in action in the opening meet will be
Edwin Binney b. j. Wood and j. X. Pol
lard, respective intercollegiate cham
pions in the fifty yard SWIM the plunge
and the fancy diving events. Capt.
Thufston, Bob Solley and Blnney. menu
bers Of the team credited with the
worlds record in the zoo yard relay.
will perform in that event against Co
lumbia. while Dick Meagher. the human
battleshp Jeliffe, last years freshman
star; Marshall and Cooper will be on
the card.
Columbia has easily beaten c. c. n. Y.
and Pennsylvania this season and ex-
poets to give Yale a close match de-
spisd the fact that injuries and the eligi-
bility rules have robbed the team of two
OF three good men. Columbias water
polo team. led by Capt Kindelberger.
who is ably supported by Connie Sim
mons. Salmosn, Rogers and Jack Hyde.
expects little trouble in this treat em
rough" event
The call for the first indoor work for
the freshman crew was sounded this
week and on Thursday over fifty candi-
dates for the 1924 crew were tugging
away at the rowing machines in the
gymnasium. It's a likely looking lot.
and among the candidates are: Cham
berlaine. De Weese, Ewing. Forbes,
Freeman. Goodwin, Haines, Hall, Har-
mon, Lewis. Little. Rockefeller. White.
Appleton. Archbold. Behr, Chess, Dem
ing, Judd. Kounts. Law, Lunt, Morse,
Nair, Putnam, Rust, Sanford. Searles,
Willis. Bunnell. Carpenter, Corwin Es-
selstyn. Green, Hull, Levine, Lusk, Ryan,
Sheffield and b. Smith.
There Is no ice on the harbor and
so far as the weather is concerned,
practice could be held out of doors. II
is an open winter in New Haven, and
an early start In out of door work is
expected to be made.
The sorry showing OF the Yale basket
ball team Is the talk of the university.
No team in years has been so loose In
its play as Capt Flynn's and a rough
road ahead seems. to be tho lot OF the
basket tossers. The combination Of
Bailey. Alderman, W. Ohley, Flynn ard
Goodell, which is supposed TO be the first
five. does not work as well as other
combinations. and DIR. Sharpe Is at a loss
to know just what Ave TO pick Balm
ther. who usually gets into the games.
puts n great deal of pep in the play.
and he Is likely 10 supplant Bailey as
first string man in some Of the games
to come.
Flynn and Aldermen have been off
form all season, and their showing In
the opening game OF the year here
that with Fordham on Wednesday last
was n great surprise TO the followers
Of the Yale team. The next game for
the Yale team In scheduled for Tues
day with the Springfield Y. M. c. A.,
usually one OF the best TO make It's
appearance on the Yale floor. On Fri
day. the night of the swimming meet
Yale takes on Cornell at basketball,
this being one OF several athletic double
headers scheduled for the indoor teams