The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-27

Dali, field and track and tennis con
lacrosse at West Point. The latter
schools in this line.
The victory, by ten bouts to
seven, Of the Yale fencers over the
Naval Academy, Saturday, gave
Naval Academy bladeSmen rather
bad start. Still, there will be a
chance for redemption in the finals
or the Fencing Association, and
Navy athletes are famous for come.
backs. Grandfield and McDill are
good men with the foils, while
woodward is probably the best
Wielder Of the saber in college
ranks.
Prospects Of the Navy in base
bah, lacrosse and tennis are excel
lent, and those in field and track
not so good. Peterson, with two
years experience on the squad and
a record of good performances last
year, when he pitched nearly half
the games, and Dyer seem to be
the only pitching prospects at pres
Snt. Dyer was used only slightly
last year, but gave much promise.
Captain Harris will catch if his
Knee gets back into shape, but If
ne IS not available the coaches will
nave difficulty in getting a salts
factory receiver.
Carney, first base, and Bracht,
third base, are the only regular
infielders still i'm the Academy.
with Waid, FOrsberg, and Ellis as
good secOnd-string men. The out.
field, with Ward. leslie, and Nc.
Kee, is intact. Chief Bender is head
coach, with Eddie Miner as as
sistant, and work in the cage has
already begun.
The lacrosse team should have
the most brilliant attack Of any
team in the history Of the Acad-
envy during the coming season. It
was fast and accurate last year,
and not one player or substitute in
that position has been lost by
graduation.
Among the best men are Cullen
(captain), Bertschey, Coleman, AL
bertson, Laidlaw, Beakley, and Bill
ngs, and the strongest kind of a.
combination should be picked from
such material.
: Other veterans still available are:
. Taylor, center, who has been elected
captain of the football team; Devens
and Brown, also football men; Flip
pin, football and basketball player,
and Barnes, center on the basket
ball team. All of these are defense
players. Big Gus Lentz, football
guard, and Craig, fast basketball
forward, will play lacrosse this
year.
! The squad expected a promising
recruit in Shapley, the star of the
football team, but, owing to his in
jury, a fractured collarbone, in the
University of Washington game,
the medical department advised him
not to play.
The Naval Academy has the
best record of any college in the
j, United States i'm this game, aud
has not been defeated i'm seven
seasons, the nearest to q defeat
being the 2-tO-2 tie at Syracuse
last year. The game is rather
young at West Point, but the
soldiers have made splendid prog
reSs in it, and had a completely
successful season last year. They
will not be moderated here.
. The Naval Academy is making a
Tar better record in winter sports
than the Military Academy this
season. In one sport, boxing, the
navy has already established its
superiority, defeating, by four bouts
, % three, Colgate, which won from
the Army by the same score II
Is also having much better record
In wrestling and swimming. Basker.
bah is the only winter sport in
which the service school meets, but
the Naval Academy has long ago
announced that it is ready to ex.
tend the list to include any SPORT in
which they both engage.
OF the basketball team which de-
6eated West Point Saturday, the
!. Naval Academy will lose by gradua.
ton Mckee, captain and right
guard, and Barnes, center. Both
losses are serious, but the outlook
for next year is still very bright.
Day, Leggett and Craig, Of the
regulars, will be on hand, with
Shapley, who could not play this
year on account of his injury, and
q fine reinforcement from the plebe
squad Of this year.
Among the latter is Herbert
Proudfit, of the Kansas City QIan-
! aas) High School, champions of the
Middle West. 1t is claimed that
Proudfit, a forward, is the most
brilliant school player that the Mid
die West has ever produced.
1t Is hoped that Lieut.. J. Ross
Allen, head coach for the last two
years, will remain in charge for
another season. He is the only
officer acting as head coach of a
, team at the Academy, and per.
forms his work as coach in addition
to his regular work as an in
structor.
Last year, he did fine work with
an almost green squad, and this
season, in spite of, tremendous diff.
ficulties at the start, developed a
team which won from the Military
Academy, a veteran organization
and, admittedly, one of the strong
est college teams in the country.
Cap LoWd Is Star.
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