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When the Dallas Rebels took the
Boston Red Sox on April 2, by a 7-4
score, one Gotham columnist wrote,
"The Rebels work the shift to end all
shifts on Ted Williams. All but the
pitcher and catcher retire to the right
+field bleachers and sit down when Ted
approaches the plate. After three
minutes of silence, players return to
their original positions and the game
returns to normalcy."—Ray Mueller,
the iCincy backstop who set a Nation
al League standard of 233 consecutive
games played last season, will sit out
this year's opener because of a
chipped bone in his right thumb.
(Harry "Cookie" Lavagetto's try at a
comeback has failed, oo it looks as if
the veteran Brooklyn infielder who
turned down a minor league manager
ship will probably be offered a differ
ent post in the farm system of the
(Dodgers. —The team most likely to
wind up in the basement of the Na
tional League is the Cincinnati Reds.
Powel Crosley, the Rhinelanders' ow
ner, won't shell out a cent for better
Material, so it is almost a certainty
that Johnny Neun will find himself
managing the cellar occupants this
season. --Snuffy Stirnweiss, heavier
and slower than ever, may be feeding
himself right out of the American
(League. The Yankees' roster lists him
as tipping the beam at 175 but he ap
pears to be much more than that fi
gure. Although he belted the horse
hide for more than .300 in two war
time seasons, Stirnweiss will probably
wind up closer to .200 this year now
that the pre-war hurlers are back in
uniform. 'Stirnweiss can no longer
'be regarded as a base-stealing •threat.
—Johnny Evers, one of the greatest
diamond stars of all time, died late
last month following a stroke. Johnny
was the second sacker of the famed
Chicago 'Cub double-play combination,
Tinker to Evers to Chance. Succeed
ing •Charlie Keller as the most "un
photogenic" player in the 'American
League is 'Larry "Yogi" •Berra. Berra,
who may land a permanent post in
the Yankees' outer garden patrol, is
from St. •Louis, Mo., wound up last
'season with the Newark Bears with a
.314 batting average.—Connie Mack's
hapless A's are predicted by all wri
ters to end up in Bth place this year.
--George Kurowski, infielder of the
St. Louis 'Cardinals, has a brother
Ray who is holding down the keystone
sack for the campus ball club.—Ron
Northey, the Phillies' outfielder who
hails from Frackville, Pa., made such
an impression on the Phils' manager
when tried at the hot corner in a
Grapefruit Circuit game against the
Washington Senators that he will
get the (first call at third base in case
Jim Tabor falls into a slump or goes
on the injured list. In such a case,
Buster Adams, recently acquired from
the Cardinals, will replace Northey in
the •outer garden.—A good article ap
peared in one of the recent issues of
the Saturday Evening Post about Ed
"Stinky"iStanky, the Dodgers' second
baseman. Stanky, though hitting a
weak .249, has a knack of unnerving
opposing moundsmen. He set a record
last year in the National League for
drawing the most walks. Durocher
claims that Ed is one of the most
valuable men on the Flatbush nine.—
GEM OF WISDOM
Mr. Kostos to a student dozing off
in Math. "Zip": "I've put better
crowds than this to sleep before."
SIP C UTI C lUI Alf TIE IU
ENGINEERS BEAT
LIBERAL ARTISTS
IN GRUDGE BATTLE
In a game played prior to the Potts
ville U.C.-Keystone J.C. game which
opened the Eastern District Basket
ball Tournament, the Engineers of
Broad St. beat the Liberal Artists of
Walnut St. 46-24.
The winners sewed up the game as
early as the first quarter when they
hopped off to a 14-4 lead and were
never headed.
The second period found the pro
teges of Mr. Kostos keeping up their
pace as they scored twelve points to
their opponents' four. Halftime found
the Engineers with a comfortable 21
point lead.
The second half was hard fought
all the way with the Engineers edging
out the L.A. boys in both quarters and
finally emerging with a well earned
victory.
For the winners, 'McHugh and Kos
tic lead the attack garnering twenty
six points between them. Kowalick
and Wagner gave nice support with
eight tallies apiece.
Highest scoring honors went to
'Patterson of the losers who hit the
laces with eight field goals to account
for 16 of his team's 24 points.
HUC SWIM TEAM
ENTERS TOURNAMENT
The HUC swimming team will jour
ney to York this coming Saturday af
ternoon to compete in the Pennsylva
nia Junior College tournament. The
local aggregation includes many for
mer high school luminaries and should
cop some awards. York and Hershey
will have teams entered and both
these cities always come up with
strong clubs. Hazleton will be repre
sented by the following members:
Jim Higgins, Norby Leonard, Dick
, Golias, Bernie Boyle, Mary Yeager,
Chic Steiner, George Kannuck, Bud
'McGrory - , and Art Hutchinson. Coach
ISyd Rudman will accompany the
team.
Apichella and Riordan On
DUC All-Opponent Team
Johnny Apichella, ex-HHS court
ace, and Jack Riordan were' selected
by members of the Dubois U.C. bas
ketball team to posts, on their All-Op
ponent Team. Jack Riley, HUC's other
high-scoring forward, was placed on
Dubois' second All-Opponent squad.
He told the shy maid of his love
The color left her cheeks;
But on the shoulder of his coat
It showed for several weeks.
Back row, left to right: Clarence Sipple, Francis X. Fatsie, Georg Tomsho, Richard Ba
roger, George Gorda, Donald Smith, Neil Polumbo.
Front row, left to right: John Apichella, Leon Baden, Miss Margaret Campbell, Miss
Pearl Garbrick, John Hutnyan, Joseph Cortese, and Morris Deitch. Richard Evans and
Aaron Marsh were not present when the picture was taken.
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
HITS AND MISSES
The Hazleton squad made a gallant
bid for state basketball supremacy,
but lost out in the final game to York
Junior College.
Most of the HUC men were on the
team that represented the Campus
13hoppe in the Freeland "Y" tourna
ment. They lost out to the Bethlehem
Stags in the semi-dnals in a thrilling
contest.
Basketball season is over, but the
old cry of, "Wait 'till next year", is
already being heard.
Softball teams should turn in their
team roster to Mr. Rudman sometime
this week. There should be fifteen
men on each roster.
Many of our students will spend the
summer playing independent baseball
or softball.
Al ,Dutbach, cage star, was seen di
verting his talent in another pastime
when he climbed aboard Ferdinand
the !Bull on the Feeley stage.
John Apichella and John Riley
brought added honor to HUC when
they were selected on the tournament
all-star team.
Wilson Barto is interested in form
ing a quoit team.
We understand that Hugh Close is
quite an authority on Major League
batting averages. Ask him how much
your favorite star batted last year.
This comes under the believe it or
not department. Al Rossi runs at
least two miles every morning before
breakfast.
Retreat Sanitorium
Visited By Psych Class
Mrs. Ann Hazleton conducted her
psychology class on a field trip to Re
treat iSanitorium. The class saw the
shock treatment given, and also ex
amples of various mental diseases. An
interview between the class and pa
tients was held so that the class could
observe the reactions of mental pa
tients.
After the interview the class visited
the home of Mr. Jack Riordan where
a luncheon was served.
Plans are being made by Mrs. Ha
zleton for more field trips in the near
future.
RADIO THESPIAN GROUP OF HUC
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BASKETBALL SQUAD
TO BE FETED
Plans are being made for a banquet,
to be held sometime in the near fu
ture, honoring Hazleton Undergradu
ate Center's basketball team. The
HUC five, under the tutelage of Syd
Rudman, carried away the Eastern
District title by defeating Schuylkill
U.C., last year's title-holder, at the
West Hazleton High School Gym.
However, the locals dropped the state
(final to a strong York Junior College
quintet.
Arrangements are being made to
secure Johnny Lawther, head basket
ball coach at Penn State, as the main
speaker for the evening.
Collegian's Predictions
For 1947 Baseball Season
American League
1. Boston Red Sox ?
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2. Cleveland Indians •
3. Detroit Tigers
4. New York Yankees
5. Chicago White Sox
6. Washington Senators
7. St. Louis Browns
8. Philadelphia Athle,tics 5
National League
1. Brooklyn Dodgers I
2. St. Louis Cardinals,2 \
3. Boston Braves S
4. Chicago Cubs
5. New York Giants I.
6. Pittsburgh Pirates '7
7. Philadelphia Phillies 7
8. Cincinatti Reds 3
Table Tennis
Tournament Under Way
The annual table tennis tournament
will get under way this week with all
matches to be played at the Y.M.C.A.
All games will be decided on the best
out of three basis with the final match
going five sets. The winner of the
tournament will have his name en
graved on the table tennis plaque that
is in the office.
First round pairings will be as fol
lows:Jßaden and Hutchinson, Boyle
and Wilson, Barkanic and Faltz, Ap
pichella and Fatsie, Bayer and Riley.
ISzot, Barnes and Durbach will draw
byes.
LOST, yesterday, somewhere be
tween sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each set with sixty diamond
minutes. No reward is offered, for
they are gone forever.
—Mrs. Sigourney
Written and Read
When much has been written
Little of which is read
The author and the subject
Are usually both dead.
These are still living.
"Thieves In The Night"
MacMillan and Co.-337 pp.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
This story is centered on one of the
powder kegs of present day world af
fairs. This single lethal charge, while
apparently unimportant in itself, is
causing, by its mere sputterings, re
percussions in the political centers of
the world. The scene of the story is
Palestine—the problem of Jewish im
migration into that country, the plot.
The Jewish National Fund, finan
cially backed by Jewish people the
world over, has been buying plots of
land of a few hundred acres each in
Palestine for the past several years.
The immigrants are trained to live in
a purely communistic society. They
are then segregated into groups of
twenty or thirty males and females.
When ready they are sent to their
new home, usually a swamp, a desert
plot, or as in this ease, a rocky hill
where they start out from scratch to
work out their• fate for themselves as
best they can. Their objective is to
set up a model community which in a
year or two will be able to absorb up
to two hundred members. They are to
make it a permanent residence. It is
easily noted by the reader that a com
mune society is very efficient. The
common sharing of the necessities of
life allows the members time to con
centrate on the important details of
improving their environment, physic
ally and mentally. Quite a bit of this
time is spent in preventing the local
population from removing them by
force or legal methods. Previous ex
perience had taught these modern col
onials that the price for this land in
cluded blood.
These communes soon became quite
numerous. Since the Arab officials of
the small towns operated on the igno
rance of the people, the Jews soon be
came unwelcome customers, because
they exposed the outgrown system to
the core. Their numbers also gave
them a voice in politics, another very
desirable effect. All this alarmed the
Arab officials and they soon began to
suppress the immigration of the Jews.
Because of their numbers these peo
ple would not be silenced and the cri
sis became an international question.
It wound up in distinctive political
style double talk, double cross,
bloodshed and suffering.
This is the gist of the story. The
characters are fashioned as nearly
like the original as possible. The prin
cipals in this story are Joseph, half
English, half Jewish, who becomes
the free lance financier for the organi
zation. Diva, with whom he is in love,
was a victim of persecution in Europe
—persecution from which she had ne
ver fully recovered. Bowman, head of
the illegal Jewish resistance force,
'Hogivah (illegal in the Arabic sense)
is the most interesting character. The
recognized patriarch of Ezra's Tower,
official name of this particular com
mune, is Semeon, a shrewd idealistic
individual. The background of each
character is a story in itself. The au
thor personifies himself in the Ameri
can correspondent, Mathews, the an
tagonist of double talking British offi
cials.
Mr. Koestler, Hungarian-Vienese
by birth, is an author of broad repute.
He has written several books previous
to this one. He was educated in Vien
na. In Cairo he worked as an editor
after tramping the Near East for two
years. Sentenced to death by the Loy
alists during the Spanish Civil War,
he survived to serve in the British ar'T
my in the second world conflict. His
hooks have brought him the distinc
tion of being one of the most pro
found literary men of our day.
"Suicide is a national habit."
—And it's one habit that's especial
ly hard to break, once you succumb
to it.