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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