HUC SOFTBALL L stIP TO
START SE4SON MONDAY
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After being rained out this past•
week, the HUC Softball League will
open its season Monday afternoon at
four •o'clock at the South Cedar
Street playgrounds where the Swamp
Outlaws meet the Philosophers in a
seven-inning contest. In the second
game •of the afternoon, Seibel's Li
bels will clash with Krecker's Wreck
,
ers.
Syd Rudman, athletic director, has
announced that league managers will
meet every Wednesday during the
regular season at noon in Room
W-17.
The following is the week's sched
ule:
Tuesday: Outlaws vs. Libels; War
riors vs. Wreckers.
Wednesday: Freeland Aces vs
Warriors; Wreckers vs. Outlaws.
Thursday: Aces vs. Philosophers;
Libels vs. Warriors.
Friday: Wreckers vs. Philosophers;
Outlaws vs. Warriors.
All games will be seven innings
TWO MILLION JOBS TO
BE AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS
Last year a national young man's
magazine surveyed the summer job
field, and predicted that one million
vacation-time positions would be
filled by students. A recently-pub
lished government census revealed
that the actual figure came to about
1,001,900.
This year that same magazine
Varsity has surveyed the field
again, and predicts that twice as
many jobs will be available during
the summer months of '4B.
In an article that tells how and
where to get these jobs Varsity
splits the vacation employment field
into seven categories: self-employ
ment, governmental work, transpor
tation, sports and entertainment,
summer camps, industry, and service
and trades.
According to the article in the
current issue, the first two job cate
gories offer some of the best oppor
tunities in summer work. Jobs are
open in three branches of the Depart
ment of the Interior—in the Geolog
ical Survey division (for field assist
ants) ; in the Fish and Wild Life
Service (as refuge and hatchery la
borers) ; and in the Bureau of Recla
mation (for engineering aids, survey
aids, draftsmen and soil specialists).
Numerous other positions are open
in the National Park Service, and in
hotels, restaurants and concessions at
these parks.
• In each of the job .divisions listed,
Varsity Magazine points up the out
standing positions: in Transportation
for example, there are airline passen-
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
JilIG SPORTS
SPORT STAFF FAVORS
BOSTON - ST. LOUIS
The sports staff of The Collegian
has chosen Boston and St. Louis to
win the pennants in the American
and National Leagues, respectively.
The •staff choices are as follows:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
1. Boston.
2. Detroit
8. New York
4. Cleveland
5. Philadelphia
6. Chicago
7. Washington
8., St. Louis
NATIONAL LEAGUE
1. St. Louis
2. Brooklyn
3. Chicago
4. New York
5. Pittsburgh
6. Cincinnati
7. Boston
8. Philadelphia
ger-relations jobs available. In the
Summer. Camp field, public and set
tlement camps often give jobs to in
experienced 4plicnnts although
they pay less.
Job counselors interviewed by the
magazine, however, almost unanim
ously suggested a wide-open field for
self-employment: the small, one or
two-man day camp. As these author
ities noint out in the April issue, no
capital is needed—little practical ex
perience is necessary—and when the
venture is operated intelligently, re
turns are good. But—in this field as
in the others—opportunities are go
ing fast. So act to get your job
now!
It doesn't happen very often but
here's one case on. record of a batter
getting a, home. run on. a fly a fielder
caught. In 1936 a Portland player hit
a long fly to, Outfielder Jimmy
Graves, of San Francisco. Graves
caught it, but as he did he backed
into the outfield. fence.
The fence gave way and Graves
and the ball disappeared from the
park. The 'ball having been deflected
over—or throughthe fence by the
fielder, the batter was given a home
run.
Frosh: "I call my girl friend Fur
nace."
Soph: "Why?"
Frosh: "She goes out on me if I
don't watch her."
SPORTS CHATTER
By LEON BADEN
Inclement weather forced the
HUC Intramural Softball League
from opening its season last Monday
but with the assistance of Mr. Wea
therman, the Swamp Outlaws, led by
JOHNNY RILEY, will clash with
MRS. HAZELTON'S Philosophers
Monday afternoon at four .... JIM
MY LONGO, ace hurler for Gutsies'
in the City League, will take the
mound for KRECKER'S Wreckers in
the game against SEIBEL'S Libels
at five.
A dark horse in the loop are the
Philosophers who have most of the
lineup from last year's cellar-dwel
lers, BROADLEY'S Misfits .... The
team favored to win the league pen
nant is the Outlaws .... Speaking of
baseball, I wonder if you readers
know that a certain faculty member
once signed a written contract to
hurl for the Atlantic City (N. J.)
Bachrachs .... The Bachrachs were
one of New Jersey's better colored
nines ... , Ask MRS. SEIBEL about
it .... Little did we know that we
had a second JOE "Satchel" PAIGE
in our midst .... Re , ports have it that
AL "BUSHY" DURBACK, ex-HUC
student and eager, is trying out with
a Philadelphia Athletic farm team at
Red Springs, N. C Imagine that
it is in a Class D circuit .... The Ju
nior College State Champs will be in
itiated into the Knife and Fork
League next Saturday evening when
they will be guests at a banquet in
their honor at O'Gara's in Conyng
ham .... Many prominent sports fig
ures will be on hand to pay tribute
to the best court squad ever turned
out of the Center.
Bringing added recognition to the
Center are JOHNNY HUTNYAN
and STATZ LAGANOSKY .... Both
members of the HUCsters won berths
on the All-Star team of the Freeland
YMCA tournament . . . . Hutnyan
was voted as the Most Outstanding
Player of the tourney.... We don't
know whether HUC intends to enter
any tennis competition, this year, but
we have the Luzerne County singles
champion here in sophomore JIMMY
HOWELLS Well, that's all we
have for now.
First Round In 'Ping-Pong
Tourney Completed
The first round of the HUC ping
pong tournament has been completed
with the following results:
(Winners in CAPS)
HOWELLS—Maurer,
NARROW—Balliet.
RlLEY—Meikrantz,
SHULMAN—PuciIIo.
SHUPTAR--Sitoski.
KLlNE—Feeley.
A first round game between Ber
nard Carr and Don Smith remains
unplayed.
'O7
--.44tpto
What's Wrong
With College
Baseball?
If baseball's the national pastime
—why has it fallen to third rank be
hind football and basketball on the
nation's 'campuses ? Why is it a dying
sport at colleges—played by few and
watched by mere hundreds ?
When these questions were asked
of Babe Ruth, Branch Rickey and
Red Rolfe among others their an
swers blamed it on failures ranging
from weather to baseball thievery.
Let them tell it in their own words.
BABE RUTH
"What hurts college baseball is
mainly the colleges themselves.
While they permit our national pas
time to lag on their campuses foot
ball has received such over-emphasis
that one poll showed that the average
salary of football coaches is twenty
percent greater than professors'
salaries. They offer college baseball
players no publicity, no scholarships,
and they rarely go out to hunt for
high school talent."
BRANCH RICKEY
"A national magazine heard col
lege >baseball put the blame on or
ganized baseball—but I've told col
leges that if they'd stay out of the
pro field, we'd stay out of the college
field. There isn't a pro ball club in
the country that doesn't have written
evidence —in quantity that some
colleges have induced talented ball
players to enter school. The boys are
then kept in college on such terms
as we'd call professionalism."
RED ROLFE
"Back in the days when I coached
Yale, I found no lack of interest in
baseball. I think the situation today
'can be remedied and so I'll use
these columns to suggest the follow
ing points to college authorities:
1 Organize baseball. coaching
staffs the way you do in football.
2 Emphasize games with out
standing rivals, and invite certain
classes to have reunions . . on those
dates.
3 Get better publicity for the
players and games.
4 --- Provide better uniforms and
equipment.
5 --- Support and promote the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
championships—since the idea of a
national 'collegiate champion stirs the
imagination, and will revive public
and student interest."
Blondie: "Oh, Mike, you're so
slow."
'Mike: "Pm afraid I don't grasp
you."
'Moodie: "That's the trouble."