Swimming Team Plans and Prospects

The candidates for the University swimming, diving and water polo teams will be called out on Wednesday at 4.30 o'clock for the first practice of the season. The practice this year will be held in the Craigie tank owing to the impossibility of securing the Dunster tank, which has been used in previous years. Practice will be held regularly every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon.

On January 8 the trials will be held for the class relay teams which will compete in the class swimming races on January 10. Besides the class races on this date there will be an exhibition game of water polo between the first and second teams and also several short sprint races. There will be six men on each relay team, and every man will swim four lengths of the tank. It is planned to give cups to the members of the winning team.

Immediately after the class meet a University squad will be made up of the members of last year's teams and those who show the most promise in the class races. On January 18 a meet will be held with Brown University in the Brown tank at Providence. The annual meet with Yale will take place either just before or immediately after the mid-year examinations, probably in the Brookline Swimming Association tank at Brookline. It is hoped that a meet with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia may be arranged for the third week in February. A contest may possibly be held with Columbia at New York. A second meet with Brown is planned for the first week in March either in the Brookline or the Brown tank. In addition to these intercollegiate contests several meets may be arranged with local swimming teams.

The team this year will be coached by W. T. Harrison '06, who was captain last year. Prospects for strong swimming diving and water polo teams are good, as the following members of last year's teams have returned to College: R. R. Hellmann '06, T.S. Farrally '07, J. V. Quinian '07, E. H. Sherburne '06, L. Howe '07, D. G. Noyes, J. Cunnif, R. K. Tomalin '07, W. Petres '07, O. N. Shepard '06, J. Palmer and C. D. Daved '08.