Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-27
MAI. FLEMING GOES
FROM POINT IN June
Has Had Many Other Duties,
Besides Doing Fine lob
in Athletic Way.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, January 81
M Maj. Philip Fleming re-
l Y turns to West Point today
after a we'll earned and
richly deserved months leave Of
absence. Picking up affairs with
characteristic energy, the major
will launch into momentum
which will carry him through to
next June, when his tour Of duty
at The Military Academy will ter
inmate.
With his departure the following of
fees at the National Service Institution
will be vacant:
Graduate manager of athletics.
Commanding officer Of West Point
engineering detail.
Senior instructor in military eng1-
neering, in the department Of tactics.
Water supply officer.
Post engineer officer.
1t will be graSped from the above that
Maj Flemings four years at West Point
have been full ones. They have been,
certainly. Years crammed with eXecu-
tive detail with multiform duties, with
deviSing and with diplomatic situations
to be handled such as the institution on
the Hudson never knew in any previous
period of its athletic history.
Arranges Yale Series.
From the very outset, 1927 to be pre-
else, when Maj. Fleming negotiated his
first coup, the annual Army-Yale game
at the Yale bowl, to the present month,
when the new hockey rink was dedi-
Gated at the Point, his career has spar
killed. with achievements.
Relationship with Harvard, a program
which has brought to West Point in the
Fall an overwhelming national repre-
sentation in the matter of foot ball RI
valry, the hewing Of a splendid polo
field out of the mountainside, o new
road from Niche Stadium TO Highland
Falls, StorehouSeS, garages and shop for
the Athletic Association, a hockey rink,
new outdoor board track, general
housing facilities for various major
sports, conversion Of Delafield Pond on
the mountain top into an attractive
outdoor swimming pool establishment of
ski-jumps-one could go on and On cit
ing his constructive operations.
He had. in addition, the responsibility
of handling the Army-Navy break,
which occurred in 1927, and has done
signal service in most delicate situa-
ton.
A brilliant engineer and thorough
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shed luster upon the branch Of the
service he represents. On field or
stream, with an engineering detail or
at his desk, he is the man Of exact at
tainments, scientific precision; polit-
ically, his tact and savoir faire adorn
whatever emergency, and at the festal
board no one can turn so neat phrase.
Whether. in uniform or in mutt, he
compels attention.
To just what duty the major will be
assigned upon leaving West Point may
not be said. Personally, the writer can
see him representing the Army at some
foreign capital, as military attache, per-
haps. Certainly, in view Of his brilliant
service as an engineering officer before
he went to West Point and his subse-
quent achievements at the Academy,
Fleming has earned recognition which
the War Department will not be slow
to vouchsafe.
With the passing of Maj. Fleming at
West Point, there will come into being
there new athletic administration.
Admiral Robinson will be leaving the
Naval Academy. where he is superin-
tendent, this year, and there viii be
changes in the athletic directorate.
Who knows what may be the outcome
as regards renewed relationship between
the two service institutions?