Evening star., 1939-12-17
5ophs Color Winter
Athletic Outlook
Al Princeton
Newcomers to Varsity
Basket Boil Swimming, F.,
Hockey Bolster Teams
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PRINCETON, N. j., Dec. 16.-Up-
and-coming sophomores are making
Princeton's winter sports picture a
little brighter this year. All three
of the teams engaged in formal
league mpetition-basket ball,
hockey and swimming-are counting
on good newcomers.
Basket ball. for example, has Paul
Busse, a 6-footer who learned the
game at Newark Academy, ready to
step in and replace Giles Scofield,
Princeton's captain and high scorer
in 1889. In fact Busse, a good ball
handler, fine shot and a digger
for 40 minutes, already has won for
himself the pivot spot, making him
the only sophomore on the starting
five.
Busse. who also was a substitute
end in football and the best punter
on that squad, has another Sopho-
more rival in Bob Peters, likewise
footballer, who may yet beat out
Dave Lloyd for starting guard
job.
Court Outlook Rosy.
The Tigers definitely are expected
to be better this season, particu-
larly since they have absorbed more
thoroughly the system of play of
Franklin Cappon, the coach who
came from Michigan to take over
the Tigers in 1899. They have %
men on the squad and while some
are not yet of varsity caliber, at
least two will see action. They are
Johnny Meyerholz, a veteran, and
Dewey Bartlett, sophomore.
The hockey team, which finished
sixth in the 81 League and third
in the Quadrangular League in 1899,
has at least two outstanding sopho-
mores. The first is Bill MacCoy,
who never played before he arrived
at Princeton, but who Is going to
be great player before he. is
through. in the opinion of his coach,
Dick. Vaughan. The other is Dan
Stuckey, from Exeter, former fresh
man captain. MacCoy is a defense
man and Stuckey is center.
In addition to them Princeton
has a forward line which has PLAYED
together for three years in Bob
Bordley. Horatio Turner and Ralph
Wyer. Two veterans are availabl
for the defense posts. Dick Purnell,
captain and Ben Fuller. while John
Coleman and Lowrey Hammer are
veteran goalies. Other men being
counted on are Al Fuller, senior
wing; Al Lane and Dick Faxon,
sophomore center.
New Swimmers Good.
The swimming team will find 1t
harder to make requirements, but
it is ready for a good try at it. says
HOWE Stepp, the coach. The Tigers
lost Dick Hough. their record hold
ing breast stroker, but Ned Parke,
who competed in the free-style
events last year and did very we'll
may be rushed into the breach. He
originally was breast Stroker.
holder of the national interscholas-
tic title at 100 yards. But there also
are two sophomores ready for this
event. Bill Price and Stewart Pach.
Capt. Al Vande Weghe. intercol-
legiate back-stroke champion, is
back, but it is likely that he will be
shifted to the free-style events. be-
ing replaced in the back by Mark
Follansbee, sophomore, and Scott
Scammell, veteran.
Bernard Griffin appears best of
the sophomores in the sprints, and
he will be aided by Charles Boozan,
Jim Green, Art Mcclure, all veter-
ans, and Tom Sullivan, last year S
freshman captain.
Princeton has an outstanding
sophomore diver in Pete Priestly
who now is ineligible, but who may
be ready by January. Russ Adams
and Dick Mead are the current
choices. Vaughan Kendall, an
other sophomore, and Sheffield Hal
sey seem set for the quarter mile
event.