The New York herald., 1922-11-05
LEAD HOCKEY, CREW
AND TENNIS SQUADS
Cross Country Team Also Has
New York Runner as
Its Captain.
ATHLETES HONOR MEN
Many Leaders in Sports, In
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ATHLETES HONOR MEN
Many Leaders in Sports, In
Guiding Thomson. Best
Among Students.

Special Dispatch to THE NEw YoRK HERALD.
PRINCETON, Nov. New York city
has given Princeton more sport cap
Ntains this year than any other city in
the country. John Pirie, captain OF
crew; Howell Van Gerbig. hockey
leader; Steve Conger. cross-count,y
captain, and Harold Taylor, captain OF
the tennis team, all hail from New
2 York. Oil Afford Of Flushing, l.. L.
will captain the lacrosse twelve next
spring.
Mel Dickinson, captain of the fight
ing football eleven which foxed Chi
cago, is resident of Binghamton
N. Y. Jack Jefferies of Narbeth, Pa, Is
one of those rare individuals who are
elected captains of two Tiger teams.
He will lead the basketball five this
winter in it's attempt TO clinch n
league championship once mere ana
will also captain the baseball nine
next spring.
S. Harrison Thomson, track captain,
lives in the borough of Princeton; J.
Crossan Cooper. soccer captain, is ma
tice of Baltimore, and Rudy Knepper,
captain of the golf team, as almost
everybody knows. comes from Sioux
ident of the varsity club, is considered
Princeton's most representative athlete,
makes his home in Omaha, Neb.
Hank Garrity, halfback on the Tiger
elevens of 1919. 1920 and 1921, and second
all-American back OF 1920. is the proud
father of a girl, Miss Mariona Ely Gar
rity. Hank is acting as assistant foot
ball coach at the University of Missouri
Harvey Has Three Jobs.
Hal Harvey. football and baseball star
of three years. is now connected with
the Groton school in the threefold ca
pacity of baseball coach, assistant foot
ball coach and instructor in mathe-
matics. Burr Carter. who before his
graduation last June used to win almost
every tennis tournament in sight, is
teaching at Taft School.
Capt. Bill Jackson is the only mem
Der of last years pool team back IN
college. There is an abundance of ma
terial however, among the sixteen
members of the squad The team re-
Gently. opened the season by defeating
an officers team in five chukkers by
a score of to 8.
That uncommon combination of ath-
letic prowess and scholastic ability Is
found in a number of Princeton ath-
letes. Some OF the leaders in sports
who are honor men are 5. Harrison
Thomson captain of track r. w. Cow
ington, star two miller; Henry Miner,
Henry Guthrie and Bob Laidlow. crew
men; John Martin and Charlie Wood
bridge. soccer players; Jack Mckee.
baseball man; Bill Hubbell, lacrosse
star. and George Wiggin, crew man
Although football holds the chief posi-
ton of interest in Princeton athletic
circles, nevertheless a large number of
undergraduates are directing their ener-
gies toward out of season sports. Large
squads are reporting daily for prae-
tice in baseball, crew, lacrosse and
track Great interest is also being
shown in swimming, tennis, polo and
golf
An unprecedented number of men re-
ported for fall baseball this year and
Coach Clarke is we'll pleased with the
abundance OF material series of in
terclass games was held. which the
seniors won without much difficulty.
Coach Clarke expects TO gain by these
workouts valuable insight as to the
caliber of the various contenders for
positions on next springs varsity.
zoo Tigers out for Crew.
Rowing attracted more men than
any other sport this fall. over two
hundred reporting for crew the first
dav. An abundance of material is on
hand, and the Tigers have hopes OF
realizing their dream of a champion
ship crew next spring. DR.. Duncan
Spaeth and Assistant Coach Fttzpat-
rick are in charge, and are giving the
men daily workouts. in which endur-
ance rather than speed is emphasized
Members of the varsity are helping
coach the freshmen. many of whom
show considerable promise. The var
sity crew, which is stroked by Perie
is composed of men left over from last
years squad. This crew, however,
has been forced to exert its best ef-
forts in races with the second crew.
which is stroked by Scull of last
year's yearing eight. Besides the six
varsity shells, there are eight $50 pound
crews and almost twelve freshman
eightL reporting each day. The out
door rowing season will end November
16 with the annual intersquad fall re-
gatta
Lacrosse. which was revived at
Princeton last year. has ALREADY become
established as one OF the favorite sports.
T-rder the direction of Coach Mes about
fbrty men are being given daily work.
outs. No games have as yet been sched-
,led for this fall. but arrangements are
pending for 4 contest with the Montclalr
A+hlettc Association.
Tournaments have been held in golf
the golf team. who was one Of the
bright lights in the amateur tournament
held at Brookline this summer, won the
tournament without much difficulty.
The winners of the class tournaments
were ~. L. Taylor OF the senior clasA
]. e. Howard OF the Junior class, w.
Avdelotte. sophomore class, and l..
Hicks, freshman class.
IN polo there are over twenty-five
men competing for the several vacan-
cies on the university quartet caused
hv the graduation OF members OF last
Years squad, which carried off the in
tercolleg'ate championship honors.
Coach sullivan famous swimming and
water polo mentor. has inaugurated a
new system of preliminary training for
the water sports by calling out all
aspirants for the aquatic teams and
putting them through vigorous drill
in cross country running TO improve the