The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
Army Swimming,
Wrestling Teams
AT Yale Saturday
(Snecial to The DemOcrat


New Haven, Feb. 6.-The Army
will invade New Haven tomorrow,
not with fixed bayonets but with
squads of strong, husky cadets who
come to the Payne Whitney Gym
nasium to compete with Yale IN
swimming ard wrestling in one OF
sport thus far this winter. SWIM
ming against one Of Yale's strnog-
the most colorful afternoons OF
est teams in years, the West Point
ers will start their attempt to down
the Ellis at 800, while up in the
wrestling room, the cadet grapplers
will 20 into their first bout at 400.
Coach Bob Kiphuth Of the varsity
swimming team, isn't holding the
Army SWIMMING squad lightly.
Beaten by Princeton, which has
crack swimming team herself, the
Army tankmen have much strength
in each event and that the meet
will be the closest of the year local
ly, seems certain. Its a well bal
anced team" Kiphuth is quoted as
saying, land ought to give us some
fine competition"
FrOSh VS.. MerccrSburg
There is another swimming meet
scheduled for New Haven tomorrow
which should hold as much interest
as the meet with Army. 1t will be
between the unbeaten, Freshman
team and the all-poWerful MERGERS
burg Academy Mercersburg, always
one of the strongest teams among
the country's preparatory schools,
is better than ever. Star of the
squad is Alan Ford of the Panama
Canal Zone, who according to
Coach Kiphuth, is the outstanding
swimming prospect in the world to-
day. Ford is the Interscholastic 220
yard free style record holder and
lately broke the old mark made by
Dave Tyler back in 1888. Ford swan
the distance in 2.11.8, clipping 2.5
seconds off Tyler's mark.
The 220 free style relay team OF
which Ford is the anchor man, is
of varsity caliber and according to
Kiphuth would make it Interesting
for any quartet in the tanks today.
Richard Baribault, a native New
Havener, is the leadotf man on this
team The two others are Walter
Kruger and Alan mcdonnell, al
most as fast as Ford
This swimming double header
should provide more thrills than
have been felt around the exhibi-
ton pool this winter. It will be
full afternoon of swimming at its
best
The wrestling meet with Army
ought to be the best of the year
locally Yale'S only loss has been to
Penn and among the wins was one
over the strong Lehigh team last
Saturday. 1t will be Yale's first
home sweet. A large crowd is eX-
pccted to witness this contest as
West Point is always a well condi-
toned and aggressive aggregation.
They have several outstanding men,
including Changarris and Three
Star" Hennessey. Hennessey has
been undefeated this year and is
matched with Culley Weadock.
Yale will lose two of its star
performers who won against Lehigh
for the West Point meet, John
Chafee, who has joined the Marines
and Fuzzy Perry, who is going to
with the ROTC. re-
volver team. With this loss Yale is
expecting close meet. George
Hauer and Pete Brown will replace
the two absentees.
Yale's lineup will be as follows
l2l lbs, J. Garvan; 1873. Capt, |
BROOKS Parker, 1856 j. Castles; las, |
G. Hauer; 1855, Pete Brown; w. |
IT'S, d. Miller; unlim-
tied, G.. Weadock.
A preliminary meet starting at |
2:30, between the Freshman and |
Exeter teams will be another fea-
ture of tomorow's lively afternoon
in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Yale's still unbeaten freshman
team will play Exeter at 300 in the
The varsity squash
team meets Pennsylvania at 200
and the freshman racquetmen play
Stevens Institute at $3.50.