Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-05-30
LOSE MANY ATHLETES
BY GRADUATION
Delaware Teams Will be Hard
Hit This Season In All
Branches.


Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Newark, May 3o.--All branches OF
sport at the University OF Delaware
will sustain unusually heavy losses by
graduation this year. Probably In no
previous graduating class In the his
tory of Delaware has there been such |
a large number OF letter men as there |
are In the class to graduate on Jnne |
IL. Out OF a class OF probably 30 at
least half OF them have won their
letters In the four years at the uni
versity In one or another line OF ath-
letics.
In the graduating class there will
be thirteen athletes who have won
their ID" since entering Delaware, In
football. In this list are several men
who also won letters In other branches
of sport. George Gray Carter, of New
ark won his letter In four sports foot
ball, baseball. basketball and track I'm
his Freshman year but owing to an in
jury to his back while playing base
ball. has been unable to take part I'm
athletics since his sophomore year.
Robert Heath CARL OF Camden. n.
j.. won his ID" in both football and
baseball. Joseph Rothrock OF New
Castle. who captained the baseball
team this year and won his letter
pitching for four years, also got n
letter In football last fall and for sew
eral years was sub on the basketball
team. William Stavely Lilly. Jr., of
Philadelphia In addition to football has
also won a couple Of letters In track.
Other letter winners In football who
graduate this year are: Walter ID.
Holton of Newark who captained last
years team: Robert n. Foulk. John
J. De Luca. Howard Il. Young and
Robert Stewart of Wilmington: Leland
, Hurff of Elmer, n. j.; Harry S. Ivory
OF Camden. y. j.: Arley Il. Magee,
Jr, of Dover: and Louis Il. Roemer
OF Wilmington. as manager OF last
years eleven. Stewart won his d. In
football during the II. o. T. G.. year
Harmer played in tho backfield In
several games in 1920 but did not get
a %"
Next to football. track will be the
hardest hit by the loss of men through
graduation. Three OF the coming
graduates hold University of Della
ware record. They are w. Frederick
Harmer of Philadelphia, captain of
this years team, one OF the best run
ners who has ever worn the blue and
gold and holder Of the quarter mile
L record; Tom" Mcdonnell, record hold
er of the polo vault and Gray Carter
for the discus. Other track ID" men
y IN the senior class are J. Gilbert Christ
e field and Gerald c. Smith Of Whining
n ton; j. Howard Harper Of Still Pond.
Md: Lilly and Henry II. Geogbegan.
OF Delaware City a. manager. VIII
II liam l.. Aowids OF Edge Moor has
been point winner several times in
track but did not get ID"
Baseball also loses q group OF this
years stars. Chief among them are
e Rothrock who captained the team this
10 season and pitched all four years he
=. has been in the university; John Ed
win Wilson, Jr, OF Smyrna; Theodor,
Roosevelt Dantz of Vineland. n. j.;
Alfred T. c. zap OF Honolulu the
:, Chinese who has played a wonderful
game at third; Barclay Roberts Chal
% ienger Of Claymont and Milton l.
al Draper OF Wyoming. as manager. FREQ
q Harmer who has played the outfielC
ir. some games may also get his base
ball "D.' Carter and CARL won theii
Is letter in baseball in previous years.
of -Four members OF the graduating
- class have won their letter in tennis
They are Abraham Gutowitz of Lewes
Willard X. Triggs of Wilmington: b
II. Challenger of Claymont and Walter
AZ Dent Smith of Wilmington, as man
49, ager.
-Four of the prospective graduates
of were also recently awarded letters a:
=. members of the university rife team
this being the first year this sport ha.
been so recognized. They are, Rob
ert T. Fletcher, of Wilmington; J. II
( Harper OF Still Pond, Md; II. b. Geo
O ghegan OF Delaware City and Charles
w. Woodrow OF Wilmington.
The basketball ID men Of this
1. years team who will graduate are;
II Franklin X. Wills Of Wilmington who
captsined Nhe team: Thomas Munce,
Keith of Dover and William F. +
Jacobs, Jr., of Smyrna as manager
st Gray Carter won his letter in bas
i. ketball in previous seasons. Harmer
Rothrock. Wilson and Stanley +
Twoes OF Camden. n. j., played som,
= basketball but not enough to get thei
l. letter.
=, This makes total of 32 member
n Of the graduating class who have beel
n awarded a letter in some branch o
a, athletics while at Delaware.