<f Russell Sage said : "Your real estate will make your old age comfortable.” State Vol. V. No. 24, The Wrestling Meet at Cornell. Defeated, but happy in the thought that the White and Blue had been by no means disgraced, in the first important collegiate wrestling meet in the history of Penn State, our grapplers returned from Cornell after the bouts there last Friday night. But three falls were obtained in the seven struggles and Craumer 'O9 secured one of these; to the captain much praise is due. The other half dozen State men fought with a will all through and inex perience was their only disadvan tage. Against a team containing three intercollegiate champions, an aggregation of grapplers who won this year from Princeton o to 2, from Pennsylvania 6 to 0, and from Columbia 7to 0, Old State’s war riors fought to the bitter end and extra time was required in several of the arguments. Here are the results : 115 pound class —Glanville ’ll, State, lost to Johnson ’ll, Cornell; 125 pound class —Diehl ’ll, State, lost the de cision to Philips ’lO. Cornell: 135- pound class —Brown ’ll, State, dropped the bout to Botsford ’ll, Cornell; l-t5-pound class—Smith 'lO, State, kept Mason TO, Cornell, busy for an extra three-minute period but the Ithacan was finally awarded the decision; 158 pound class —Craumer ’O9, State, threw Miller ’O9, Cornell, in 2 minutes; 175-pound class —Hall 'll, State, lost to Bayer ’O9, Cornell; Cyphers ’O9, State put up a sturdy defense but the decision went to the giant Talbot ’ll, Cornell, after 7 minutes of strenuous work in the heavy weight class. Coll STATE COLLEGE, PA., APRIL 1, 1909 Our men were more than pleased with the treatment received at Cor nell. On the other hand the Itha cans were anxious to continue re lations on the mat with their Penn sylvania neighbors and suggested that they come down here on Fri day or Saturday of this week Ef forts were made to have Old Ezra’s grapplers here either tomorrow or Saturday, but word was received on Wednesday that it was impossible for them to come. The impression made by our men at Ithaca was so good that it is now being serious ly considered that State take Co lumbia’s place in the intercollegiate Wrestling League next winter. Our Rivals This Week, Our nine will open its season this week with a game today at Annapo lis, one tomorrow at Georgetown and finally a contest with ihe University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on Saturday. It is interesting to note that we have defeated the Midship men in the only games evet played with them on the diamond; in ’O3 it was 1 to 0 and two years later cap tain “Harmony” Ray’s team won at Annapolis by the overwhelming score of 11 to 1. At Georgetown we have not been so successful since the Capitol City aggregation defeat ed State 7 to 4 in 1902; that was the only game played with Georgetown in baseball. Away back in ’94 the White and Blue played its first game with Penn and the Red and Blue has won five times in all. Several of these have been extremely close battles and we are profoundly hop ing that captain Hirshman’s team will return from Philadelphia with a baseball scalp this time. egian. Graduate Manager’s Statement of Football Account, Season of 1908, Bellefonte, Pa., Mar. 25th, 1909. To the Students of The Pennsyl vania State College: In conformity with statements made before your Athletic Associa tion in December, 1907, and in line with the policy to make everything as public and plain to you as pos sible, the Alumni Advisory Com mittee of your Association has in structed me to make the following statement covering the receipts and expenditures during the football sea son of 1908. As this is the first statement I have issued as Graduate Manager of your Athletics I feel it incumbent upon me to make some explanations and a few suggestions : It has been absolutely impossible for me to cover the period of your Association expenses during the Spring of 1908, for the reason that it was late before you accepted the proposal of the Alumni to take charge of this part of your affairs; consequently your basketball, track and baseball schedules had been made and supplies ordered before the new system could be put in force. As a result of this I did not feel like exercising that strict super vision of all the financial arrange ments that has characterized my ef foits since June of last year. I did, however, gather up all the old out standing bills against the Associa tion and was surprised to find them in such great quantity. In fact there were so many of them that when the college year opened in Septem ber and the student assessment of $2200.00 was paid to Mr. McDow ell, your Treasurer, it required Price Five Cents
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