The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-22
BIGGER SPORT
PROGRAM NEAR
AT ANNAPOLIS
Wrestling and Swimming Will
Swell Interest at Academy
Next Saturday.

A NNAP0LIS. Jan. 21.-While
~ basketball and soccer have
been able to close the gap be-
tween football and the winter sports
and furnish interesting athletic
events to the Naval Academy con.
tingent, two other sports, wrestling
and swimming. will bear part
next Saturday. and the month of
February will offer a particularly
interesting program along nuner-
GUS lines. ~ ~ s5Ak
Next Saturday. while che basket
ball team will be playing the UNI
versity of Pennsylvania at Philadcl-
phia, the Academy wrestlers will
meet the team Of Brooklyn Poly
on the mat, while the swimmers
will entertain the Pennsylvania Var
sity team in the local tank. Brock
lyn has been doing good work and
has the jump on the midshipmen by
contesting In several previous
matches. Pennsylvania has well
balanced team, and is expected to
give the swimmers one Of its hard
est tests.
The Academy wrestling team Ia
splendidly equipped in the way Of
coaches, there being three well-quali-
fled mentors. Schultz, who has de-
veloped the championship Naval
Academy teams In recent years, Is
again in charge, and Is being as
sisted by Frank Lynch, the Baltimore
professional and official, and by
Captain Swigert. Of last years team
Squad Cut to Forty.
Elimination bouts are over and thb
squad has been cut TO forty, and the
coaches are now devoting special at
tention to the men who viii represent
the Navy during the coming season.
Except for the lack of man Of
proper weight for the unlimited class.
the prospects are fine, and the
Academy is sure to be represented by
a thoroughly qualified man In every
class.
Carney, the big football guard. has
not pursued mat honors with much
ardor, and it is thought that he will
not go further in the sport. Wiedorn,
football tackle, but weighing about
IT'S pounds, win have to assume the
burden of the heavyweight class. He
Is powerful man and has been
wrestling several years. While there
is no doubt that he will give a good
account for himself; he will have to
meet regularly opponents who are
thirty or forty pounds heavier, and
this must prove great handicap.
With the massivolimbed and skill
full Lewis, captain Of the team, again
available, the Navy has little fear as
to the i75-pound class. Smith and
Morgan, regulars in the 1853 and 145-
pound class, respectively, are also still
In the Academy. The Adell brothers
and Hayes are the leading applicants
for honors In the 135-pound class, va
Gated by the graduation of Captain
Swigert. Sinclair end Nicholson, both
of whom contended in the 125-pound
class last season, are again at work,
while Palmer. the 115-pound cham
pion, appears to have met his match
In Undertake. new man..
Look TO Meeting Penn.
The wrestlers are looking forward
with great interest to the match with
Pennsylvania State at the home of that
team on March IL. Penn State has
been one OF the strongest, and most
sportsmanlike of the regular opponents
of the midshipmen for many years,
and Is its most valued and feared rival
In wrestling and boxing. Naval of.
ficials were happy to avail themselves
OF the first opportunity which the
tany lions In their den.
| Another interesting event viii be a
double-header which the navy wrest.
lers will attempt on February IS,
Brown and Virginia Military Institute
being their opponents the same after.
noon. All the dates permitted by the
authorities have been filled, but II Is
possible that another team win be
4 added to the list by arranging for q
second double meeting.
The full list Of wrestling matches
| follows:
] January rs, Brooklyn Poly.
| February 4, Washington and Lee; II,
| Syracuse; is. Brown and Virginia Mill.
tary Institute: rs. Lehigh.
I March 4. University of West Vir.
Rinia; IL, Pennsylvania State Cat Belle
fonte; IS. Massachusetts, Tech.