In the high-jump, the departure of A. W. Moffatt '13 will be felt, though J. B. Camp '15 has been showing up remarkably well this year. E. C. B. Danforth '15 and F. H. Mahn '15 are both good men. The real competition for Camp, however, will come from J. O. Johnstone of the Freshman team.
T. Cable '13 and P. G. M. Austin '13 occupied roles in the broad jump which it will be very difficult to fill. If, however, J. A. Garvey '14, D. A. Park '15, H. L. Allen, Jr., '14, develop properly, the weakness here may not be great. The real dependance will undoubtedly fall upon J. O. Johnstone, of the Freshman team.
The graduation of Cable also leases the hammer-throw an uncertain quantity. H. S. Sturgis '14 and D. Burch '14 are, however, good men, though not as yet in Cable's class. The Freshman team seems to have nothing to offer in this event.
In the shot-put, R. B. Batchelder '18 was unfortunately prevented from Ifvins. up to his enviable record of last year by a broken wrist. The responsibility will fall next year, as this, mainly upon C. E. Brickley '15 and H. R. Hardwick '15. R. T. P. Storer '14, J. C. Talbot '15, and J. A. Gilman, Jr., '16, should also prove valuable.
Brilliant Baseball Prospects.
The prospects for the University baseball team for 1914 are the best that have appeared for many seasons. Only four regulars will be lost by graduation, Felton, Tomes, Young, and Hardy; and the 1916 team, which defeated the Yale freshmen, has a number of men who will help to patch up the weak spots in this year's nine.
The main problem to be met next year will be in developing a battery. Young has caught regularly for two years and his place will be hard to fill. However, Osborn has been playing good ball this season and should be much better before the real games of the 1914 schedule are played. Richardson, of the Freshman team, has caught a consistent game all season and should fill in as a second string catcher. In addition to these men Waterman, who has been on the University squad all season, and Starbuck, catcher on the second team, will be available.
The pitching situation presents a more serious aspect. Felton, who has been the mainstay in the box this season, and Hardy, who played in the Yale series last year, will be lost by graduation. R. B. Frye '15, who has alternated with Felton, H. R. Hitchcock '14 and W. Whitney '16, of the Freshman team, will be back, however, and should form the nucleus for a fair string of pitchers.
R. R. Ayres '15 will be back to take charge of first base but he will meet with keen competition for the position in Captain H. L. Nash, of the 1916 team. Nash is considered one of the best all-around ball players who ever entered the University.
At second, S. P. Clark '14 will undoubtedly retain his position, while Captain D. J. P. Wingate '14 will again be at short stop. At third base more trouble arises as A. H. Tomes '13 will be lost by graduation. M. B. Phillips '15, who has played third base in some of the games this season, and F. G. Fripp and W. W. Demelman of the Freshman team will be the leading candidates for the position.
This year's outfield, E. A. Alsop '15, H. R. Hardwick '15, and R. T. Gannett '15, will remain intact for next year. In addition to these men, J. A. Milholland '14, who was prevented from playing most of this season by iliness, C. W. Curtis, Jr., '14, Fripp and E. W. Mahan of the 1916 team will be available for positions in the outer garden.
As a whole, then, there seems to be more available material for next year than has been the case for many years. With Doctor Sexton coaching again, and the men well grounded in his style of play, the 1914 baseball team should approach the high water mark of baseball at Harvard.
Promising Football Material.
About a nucleus of nine varsity players next year's football team will be built. It's preliminary prospects, though extremely uncertain, as preliminary prospects always are, are good. In the line there will be veteran players for every position, except one end, and in the backfield, the position of quarterback will call for the only new regular. More-over, twelve men who were members of the first varsity squad last fall, but who did not win their letters, will return to the game in September. Add to these a number of first class men from the 1916 Freshman team, and it will be easy to see the strength of the core about which to make the team.
In the line, Captain R. T. P. Storer '14 and H. R. Hitchcock, Jr., '14 at the tackles seem to be the mainstays from last fall's team. W. T. Gardiner '14, who was prevented by injury from playing on the 1912 team, will return this year and try for a tackle position, though it seems more probable that he will be a candidate for end. He and F. J. O'Brien '14, who won his "H" last fall, would make a formidable pair of ends. Inside the tackles, S. B. Pennock '15 and W. H. Trumbull, Jr., '15, guards, will probably find places, both of them being veterans of Freshman and varsity teams. And between them, there is every reason to suppose that Wigglesworth will take his place at centre. He will have a strong competition, however, in the person of Soucy, centre on the 1915 Freshman team. Gilman, right tackle for last fall's Freshmen, has been mentioned as a promising candidate for a place in the line.
The powerful backfield that C. E. Brickley '15, H. R. Hardwick '15, and F. J. Bradlee '15 will present from the beginning of the season, a string of backs who have already played a year on a Freshman team and a year on a University team together, should make a wellnigh unsurpassed backfield, lacking only Captain Wendell of this year's eleven. Miller and McKinlock from the 1916 team will make promising substitutes. At quarterback, however, will come the great problem of the season. Freedley and Logan, last year's substitutes, will return; but what seems a probable solution is the plan so try Mahan, captain and halfback on the 1916 Freshman team, at quarterback, where he was given a trial in spring practice. Watson, the Freshman quarter, will also be in the running.
To take Felton's place as a punter, there will be Hardwick, who, though not as sure nor as pretty a kicker as his team-mate, can punt on an average about as far. As for drop-kicking, Brickley is still in College. For line-plunging, where Wendell was so valuable, there is room for development. Hardwick and Brickley are both good men in a broken field and Bradlee shines on the defence, but none of them can compare with Wendell in line-tearing.
To drill the men the University is extremely fortunate in having secured the services of Coach Haughton again. His assistants are not definitely decided upon, but will probably include Coaches L. O. Leary '01, R. B. Wigglesworth '12, L. Withington '11, P. Withington '09, and D. C. Parmenter '13