The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
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WORKOUTS NOW
Jimmy Lemon Reports to
Champion Princeton Basket
ball Squad With Prospects.

BASKETBALL is making more
N friends every year. From
every section of the country
enc hears reports of increased in
terest in the game. This is es-
pecially true in the Middle West,
where the gymnasiurns are not
large enough to hold the crowds
who wish to attend the contests.
Here in the East one finds the
amphitheaters where some of the
games are held too small to ad-
NIT all who wish to attend.
The six college teams, Princeton.
Penn, Yale. Cornell. Columbia and
Dartmouth, which make up the
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball
League are already hard at work in
preparation for the preliminary con-
tests on their schedules, contests
which will serve as tryouts for the
league games which begin on Janu-
ary 8.
Before that date, however. every
one Of the above named fives will
have played from six to ten games
with various college and club teams.
A4hNS tNEhC SLocAls
The race last year was the most
interesting in the history of the
league. The leading teams kept
close together during the greater
part Of the season and when the last
game Of the schedule was played
10 was found that Princeton and
Penn were tied for the leadership.
In the playoff game on the Jungle
Hnuun ha
by a score of IS to %. This victory
came as a big upset to the Quaker
five.
No league team went through the
season with a clean slate last year.
Princeton threw away several
chances to keep a spotless sheet on
Its scoreboard- The Tigers finished
with a percentage of .SlS and Penn
had a percentage of 1921 to her
credit.
PRINCETON INTACT.
The championship Princeton five
have returned intact. Despite this
there were thirty-fiR other aspirants
on hand following the call for the
initial workout last week. Coach
Hill Zahn, who piloted the Tiger five
TO a championship on his first at.
tempt at the directorship, and Cant
Jech Jerterles addressed the men re-
Gently.
In addition to Capt. Jefferies.
AIass. a regular forward last year:
Loeo, Foster and Berg, guards, and
Games. the regular center of the 1921
campaign, were on hand for the first
workout OF the season. Davis, a.
center. and Lemon and Hynson of
ld&t wars fra=hn,a,x
ported to Coach Zahn and all will he
given a thorough trial before the
regulars are sure of their positions,
Penn, under the direction of Coach
Eddie J. McNichol. former Quaker
star, Will be a powerful factor in
tne race again this year Several
men nave been lost by graduation.
put a large squad of veteran and
freshman material from last year
are already hard at work in prepara-
ton for busy season.
CORNELL TO BID.
Cornell will make a strong bid
tor league honors this winter Coach
howard Ortner, a former star in
harness for Cornell. will have 4
wealth OF high-class material IL
choose from this winter and will
ANN bN NOiAipClltu W use ulSSTunIleIl
stars, as was the case in the early
contests last winter.
Columbia has four of the five
regulars who represented the in.
stitution last year back again.
Several regulars. including Captain
Pulleyn and Moe Reilly. have been
on the football squad and will not
report for a week or two.
Coach Joe Deering had a squad
OF forty men report for the first
practice of the season about ten
days ago and among them were
several high-clasS players from the
great freshman team OF last year,
which won eighteen out of the
nineteen games played.
Captain Pulleyn. Reilly. Spring
horn and Brophy are the regular =
from last year out to defend their
positions against all assaults.
Yale will try hard to get going
this winter. Coach Bernie Tommers
has a real task in front of him,
however. and the Xii floormen are
not figured as capable of getting