Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
ANNAPOLIS MAKES
ATHLETIC AWARD
Elliott Parrish, Jr., Chosen
for Making Greatest
Sports Contribution.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 25.-Elliott
Walter Parrish, jr., Of Savannah, Ga,
was announced as the winner of the
highest athletic award at the United
States Naval Academy yesterday. He
will be presented with the Col Robert
M. Thompson Cup, annually awarded
to the student whose personal influence
did most for the promotion of ath-
letics. The announcement was made
by Lieut.. Comdr. Harry Patrick, aide
to Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robson,
superintendent of the academy
Parrish Is a lieutenant and command
err of the 9Th Company of the Regi-
ment of Midshipmen. He was captain
Of the lacrosse team, member of the
foot ball team and a member of the
basket ball squad. He will be grad
uated next month.
Thomas Rex Wilson Of Ann Arbor,
Mich, will be presented with a sword,
awarded each year to the Midshipman
selected as the outstanding athlete of
the year. Wilson is Midshipman and
Parrish's first subordinate officer. He
was tackle on the foot ball team, a
heavyweight wrestler and pitcher on
the base ball team
The two outstanding athletic awards
OF the year are made by the Athletic
Association Of the academy.
June Week Preliminaries.
"The opening gnn" of the June week
exercises at the Naval Academy was
nred this morning when the members
OF the graduating class staged the an
nual mo More Rivers" celebration.
mo More Rivers" means that the
final examinations have been completed,
Each OF the final examinations at the
Naval Academy has been called by mid
shipmen since the first days Of the
Academy another river to cross" The
final examination for the class of 1929.
will be in Juice" the term used by the
middies and officers at the station for
electricity.
The celebration this morning was one
OF the most picturesque in connection
with the closing exercises. AS is the
annual custom, the members of the
graduating class knelt in front of the
statue Of Tecumseh. while the class his
tory was read by member of the class.
That was followed by the first throwing
away OF their midshipmen caps. Other
caps will be tossed to the winds at the
close OF the graduation exercises on
June s.
About 244 midshipmen will receive
diplomas on the morning of June 6,
from Secretary of the Navy Charles
Francis Adams, who will preside over
the exercises. Approximately 215 will
receive commissions as ensgnS in the
Navy. Twenty-Five will be commits
stoned as second lieutenants In the
Marine Corps. The others will resign
because of physical defects.
Graduation Program.
June week" will formally open on
May 81, when the first of the series of
dress parades will be staged at $50
o'clock that afternoon. The sermon to
the graduating class will be delivered in
the chapel at the IL o'clock services
June 2; the presentation of the colors
to the best drilled and most athletic
company at the dress parade on June 4.
A girl, to be selected by the captain of
the winning company, will present the
colors. The prizes will be awarded by
the Secretary OF the Navy at the dress
parade on June S.
The Marylanders who will graduate
In June are Williston l.. Dye, Garrett
Park; Edward c. Dyer, Ruxton; Charles
r. Fenton, Annapolis; Charles T. Fitz-
gerald, Baltimore; William A. Marchant,
Corbett, and Charles d. Warf1eld, Balti-
more.
Those from the District OF Columbia
are Willets A. Brewster. Raymond F..
Crist, jr; Arthur S. Hill, Richard c.
Hunt. John v. HcAlpin, jr: Edward G..
Stephan and George H. Wales. The
graduates from Delaware are Leroy G.
Simpler, Lewis and Albert w. Strahorn,
Newark.
The Virginians are Donald T. Eller,
Petersburg; Maurice B. Human, Falls
Church; William L. Kabler. Bristol; G.
Serpell Patrick, Norfolk; John Raby,
Norfolk; Frank H. SchWable, Qantico.