The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Trainer Fitzpatrick Has 161
Varsity and Freshmen at
Work for Various Events.
STRONG IN BASKETBALL
Bright Crew Prospects of the
Orange and Black-Base-
ball Team Promising.
by w. o. McGEEHAN.

ny We ".
Spring at Princeton decidedly con-
tradicts the popular superstition that
college athletics are maintained for
minority in the student body. At the
present writing Princeton athletes are
concentrating on track, baseball and
crew. In these three branches of col
lege sport they have greater numbers
of candidates than ever before in the
history Of the university.
The academic requirements at Prince
ton are most rigid which makes the
athletic showing all the more surpris-
ing. In fact, they are quite as stern
Princeton as they are at West Point
There are no special favors accorded
to athletes. That is why they are
somewhat exercised over the general
opinion that athletic prowess might
earn little academic dispensation-
The Princeton track team to-day in
cludes 161 men, both varsity men and
freshmen, under the veteran trainer
Keene Fitzpatrick. During the indoor
season just passed Princeton was
placed fourth in the indoor intercol-
legiate and won the A. A. u. intercol-
legiate point trophy. Hills, in the shot
put, won the national senior champion
ship.
The varsity track men are now work
ing for the big events in May. the meets
with Harvard and Yale and the inter-
collegiate meet on May 26 and 27. The
outlook for Princeton in these meets is
man and McKim in the sprints and in
the middle distance races Capt. Steven
son. national A. A. U. title holder in the
quarter mile; Conger. Hitzrot, Johnson
and Taylor. Thompson and Massey are
expected to be point winners in the
hurdles. Lourie. the crack back at foot
ball, graduates this summer. but, with
Mckim, will compete in the broad jump.
Jrinceton will send the track team to
the Penn relays on April 81.
Baseball Prospects.
In regard to the baseball prospects
they are inclined to be a bit lugubrious
this early in the spring. Originally
eighty candidates for baseball reported
TO Coach Clarke. and thirty-four OF
these were ambitious to be catchers or
pitchers The squad has been cut to
thirty-six. which includes fifteen sur
viving battery men. The warm weather
Is lust bringing the men outdoors.
Jeffries. who is regarded as the best
man in the box for the Tigers. will be
occupied by the final basketball game
for while. Besides Jeffries, Capt. Nc
Namara in the outfield, Gilroy, also
football star; Gottschalll at third. Berg
at short. MaoPhee at second, Bob Slim
son behind the bat and Bottling in the
outfield sem fairly certain at the pres
ent writing to make the team. Jeffries
won from Yale last year.
This year Princeton has one game
With the Giants at the Polo Grounds.
Their first game of the season will be
with New York University but natur-
sly the two games that excite the most
interest are the ones with Yale and
Harvard
Eighty varsity men and fifty fresh
men have started to work out on Lake
Carnegie after a winter at the machines
in the gymnasium. The system inaug-
lrated by DR.. Spaeth at Princeton is to
get the greatest number of good oars
crew. This system while it created
some skepticism at the start is now
backed by considerable faith. Princeton
crews won every race In which they
started last year and the chances are
;hat they will come pretty near to re-
reating this year, though any specula-
ticn as optimistic as this would be
frowned upon in the vicinity Of Lake
Carnegie.
Nine Letter Men.
The letter men from last years
crews who are ot6 at work now are
Milne, Morgan, Sinclair, Cresswell,
Cooke. Newlin and Page and two cox
walns, Soul land Gardner The first race
probably will be the sternest test for the
Tiger oarsmen for they meet the Navy
and Harvard on May 6. Princeton beat
tire Navy last year and they have been
vowing down at Annapolis that the
landlubbers from the little lake near
hassaus Halls shall not repeat.
The three other big regattas IN pros
ect for DR.. Spaeth's men are May IL.
( Columbia and Penn at Princeton May
"a. Yale and Cornell on the Housatonic,
and May 81. the American Henley on
tho Schuylkill at Philadelphia.
The Princeton basketball team de-
feated the spectacular Penn five last
Saturday. and Is now tied for the In
tercollegiate League championship. The
playoff Is scheduled for next Tuesday
night at Princeton. The game last
Saturday was something of surprise
for until il was played the Penn five
had beaten everything IL met during the
season.