Evening star., 1924-02-05

Service contests have never quite
reached the point in any sport where
the championship for the year is de-
cided. This is the ambition of those
having charge Of athletics at both
schools, and it looks as if in this one
line of lacrosse their wishes will be
compare with the Naval Academy in
this line over series of years. and
though the game is younger at the
Military Academy, it has developed
there rapidly.
Findlayson Capable Coach.
Much of the proficiency in this
sport at the Naval Academy is due to
the work of it's fine coach, George
Findlayson, an old Canadian player.
On the other hand, there is always an
ABUNDANCE of the best kind of ma
terial. The Naval Academy was. in
fact, the first institution to encourage
it's foot ball players to come out for
lacrosse in the spring. others nave
followed in this line i'll recent years.
There is a particularly good oppor-
tunity for the service schools to take
the lead in lacrosse, as the great ath-
letic universities have not rated very
high. The teams at Harvard and
Yale are generally quite weak, while
Pennsylvania, Princeton and Cornell
have done somewhat better, but have
not been able to attain rank among
the best.
Syracuse will offer the big home
game of the year on May IL Last
year Syracuse declined to play off the
tie, which existed at the end of the
regular period, and the midshipmen
have been anxious to secure Ver-
dict ever since.
Plays Maryland in Washington.
Navy will play the University OF
Maryland in Washington on April II,
and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on
April 26 Both of these teams have
played good lacrosse in recent years
and have given the midShipmen hard
games. Hopkins was, in fact, the
Navy's chief rival for some time, but
seasons. The Navy was glad to get
these games away from Annapolis, as
it will accustom the players to other
fields and help in the preparation for
the clash at West Point.
Other games on the midshipmens
schedule are: April 5, Rutgers:
April 10, Stevens; May 3, University of
Pennsylvania; May 10, Pennsylvania
State; May IA, ST. johns.
Findlayson's chief problem this year
will be to organize powerful de-
fense. He lost his fine defense line of
foot ball players, Conroy, SOuCen ana
Hamilton, by graduation, and it will
take good deal OF work 10 replace
lnGUl however, lHeTe Is HuCleuS III
Devens and Brown, foot ball back and
end, respectively, both of whom Were
regulars, and Fiippin, also foot ball
back, and Barnes, a basket ball guard,
who started the game last year. ought
also to make excellent defense men.
Attack should BE Strong.
The squad has a high grade center
IN Taylor, who has been elected foot
ball captain, and most brilliant Sc
lection of forwards in Cullen (cap-
tain), Bertschey, Beakley, Billings.
Albertson and Coleman. With this
aggregation Of exceptionally brilliant
and experienced forwards the Navy
should have the best attack it has ever
had.
Among the valuable recruits will be
Shapley, the foot ball and basket ball
player, and Craig, the fast forward Of
the basket ball five. 1t is believed
that Shapley, with his sped. lodging
ability and stamina, will make an ex-
ceptional lacrosse player. Last year
he was a track man, but it is expected
that he will turn his attention to la
crosse this season.