HOCKEY RIVALS CRIPPLED IN 1915

The Yale hockey team will be severely crippled next year by the loss of four men through graduation. Besides Captain Heron, these are Ordway, M. R. Herron and Gore. Schiller, goal, Sweney, rover, and Macdonald, forward, of this year's team, besides Burgess, Sproule and Dickey, substitute forwards, and Driscoll, substitute goal, will return next year.

Burgess, who has alternated with Ordway in most of the games this season will be capable of taking Captain Heron's position at wing. For centre, there are Sproule and Dickey, this year's substitutes, and two other promising freshman candidates, Blossom and Benner, who played excellent hockey at the Taft School. As forward recruits, Spiegle, who was ineligible this year, Bangs, Marlowe and Mudge will be available.

The places of Gore and Herron will be hard to fill. There is a possibility, however, of Herron's return, but if he does not, Washburn, of this year's freshman team will probably secure this position. Gore's place will most likely fall to Captain Murray of the Freshman team, who entered this year from St. Paul's. Schudder, goal of the 1917 team, will be a good second string man.

The Yale team has improved rapidly since the acquisition of the new Arena, and with the excellent facilities now afforded should turn out a strong team next season.

Capt. Kuhn and Baker Lost.

The prospects for Princeton's hockey team next year are even more dim then Yale's, for six regulars and one substitute will be lost through graduation. They are Captain W. S. Kuhn, H. A. H. Baker, F. H. Winants, E. B. Kilner, T. Emmons, and J. R. MacColl, and Laughlin, substitute goal.

There remain for next year's seven, G. A. Peacock '16, who played point at the end of the season in the absence of his brother, R. B. Peacock, A. L. Haskell '16, substitute defensive player, R. S. Cowan '15, A. G. Shenstone '15, and A. Crawford '15, all substitutes on the forward line.

The most promising material, however, upon which next year's championship hopes are based, comes from this year's freshman class. The most prominent men are Fors, of St. Paul's School, and Alexandre of Pomfret, who are rated among the best goal-keepers in the country. They are expected to compensate for the loss of Winants. Other freshmen who have displayed ability during the past season are W. Y. Humphrey, J. Humphreys, Hilliard, McAdoo, Hills, and Straw, all of St. Paul's; Eberstadt, of Newark High, Taube, of Kent School, Donner, of Hill. The two Humphreys and Hills have been playing against the univesity team in scrimmages in the St. Nicholas Rink, and are expected to fill the gap made by the loss of the Kuhn-Baker-Kilner combination which formerly played at St. Paul's and later three years for Princeton.