ATHLETICS
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v ofj Penn! State Athletics
, During 'QB-’O9.
1i ' I
With, but three baseball) (games re
maining after' today’s battle against
Bucknell, andi;with Monday’s track
meet against Pitt the only]remaining
event on the,'track schedule, our
athle:es,have almost completed an
othei successful 5, prosperous
year. ' prosperity is (evidenced
hy graduate manager Meek’s foot
ball repoit madje se me pme ago and
his s atecient fnat to the oest of his
know ledge the Athletic Association
will tie more nearly out of debt at
the close of this Commencement—if
not entirely so —than it Has been at
any time durjng tile pa!st ten years.'
Our ;che iulek have been ekceedingly
heavy in every branch of sport dur
ing tie past ten months and the fact
that :he victory column is still the
A Revie'
the twb speaks well for
bf Old State,
ill the jcountry' was pitted
ongerj drray of opponents
McCleary’s jelevejn last
with I 1 that indomitable
* * ,
tj>igg?r Q
the athlei
No’tei
against
than
fall
it of half!the games, laid up
utiek, the White j and Blue
fo|gtit on {undaunted and
victories pver 'West
tßuckhell and Pittsburg. ’ It
[at we were beaten by Cor-
Indians j and Penn but so
.injjj
i'ors i|
sp!j
inia^i
won
Virgii
is tfii
nell,
small
each
these
that I
State
team!
te thi
toiei
is margin of victory in
e and so difficult was it fpr
lied teams to wiV
foB|eleven must
annuls as one o
'[ ; i ■
| ■ Basketball
les lover Bucki
se
liege teams wen
of our basketl
ptain Funston ai
rig captain Wal
it rejoicing over
:he Lewisjburgers
i frojn us a year
cas<
:|not
the i
ires
i
r ca
grea
of I
won
TIIE (pi
victory over tjhe Allegheny five ,
sturdy aspirarjts | for championship.
honors, was £ feat wqll-worth record
ing.! - 1 1 1 i- i " ‘'l I
| A^restling
! During the [winter Wrestling be
came more * pijomhient than it, has
ever before ibljen 1 beneath the shad
iows of Nittany. Under.,
[president of the |Wrestljng
jAssociation apd captain Craumpr.
greht interest was j manifested ir| the
grappling .game ajnd the excellent
showing of our wrestlers -at Ithaca
on March 26th resulted Vin -Penn
State being njentioned as'
la member ofifnextl. year’s Intercol
legiate Wrestling Association, an or
ganization whjich includes Cornell,
1 Pehn, Princeton add Columbia as
jmembers. ■ |J (i ’
While our hasqbcll season hap not
: been completedthe White and
I Blue nine has ! shown the true Penn
‘Stateform, and while thepercentage
of victories has sofar, been consid
erably .smaller] than tnat during the
past five or'jsix yet some
- notable triumphs have been gained
with the hardest schedule at
tempted. On May 22 the Univer
; sity of Michigan,„ again champions
of the Middled West,' went dowp to
1 defeat at the hinds of Captain) Hirsh- ■
man’s trusty]]nine, and a baseball'
viqtory over gave us a clean
slate with . the Opange and'. Blue,
which, we hope will not be mhrred
by today’ s game. iWhilje ]the Sched
uled “contests 1 with] Princetoh, Cor
neil and Penns ylvariia| were prevented
by rain, fifteen contests have
played, all but five being on [foreign
dianendsi ai d oir| pdrqentage is
no w .60C. The form action of an
In ei;class Baseball League ir which
eightden interesting game:; were
playep was a pleasing fqiturP of the
’O9 baseball season. - !
-Thei completion of State'
. BeaVer field j with j its. Worn
good track his beien ji a great
; tive for Captain Maprhoff
from us
[0 down in
: Her best
ell, Alle
veral other
the main
tall season
id later un
la. ' There
the smoth
-1 since thev
[o, and the-
1 r it i
track-mento do good work.for their
Alma Mater tjiis spring. We wop
easily from both Dickie son and
Swarthinore .nj field meets and came
in third in- thhi Harrisburg Intercol-i
legiate J Heet, where ten colleges were 1
entered The Indians were.first and
they were tt e only rival who won
from us on the cinderpath Jut a dual!
meet. Probab.y we, will soon be
able to jdowr ihe Redskins in this
branch of sport, too. for thje success
'df.our iirst prep school meet held ati
the decijfeation of the New! Field on
May 7 |augujrs well for our future
.I'track ti
Boston
'this yi
I’State’s
footing
ams.
aluir
ar- ii
tr£ck
This
form:
Foothal
Basket!
Track
Basebal
Contests at
Football,
fain; P. 8.,
‘ Basketball,
tain; Track,
captain; LL ]:
Baseball, 1
tain; E. A. ')
Wrestling,
taiii; J. MJ 1
Order of |E
x The acn[
; vocation, 1
- lain of ti
ture; ’ the
I "ldeals,"
Pittsburg;
senior clas
the, confejn
|
bachelor’s
degrees tB
I awarding of
i presentation
statement; It
's new
lerfiilly
ijicen
ind his.
PAGE SEVEN.
The New York and
i have liberally!
nelping 1 to put Old
tfthletic? oh ,a better,
In
s record in cbncisej
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;ome, 18—Abroad, 23
J T. McCleary; cap
oStlethwaite,! manager.
I. G, Fupstop, cap-
P. A. L. Maurhoffc,
. 1 Lindemuth, manager.
3. L. Hirshman, cap-. :
Wilcox, manager t -. l ' ’’
,R. E. Craumer, cap*
jcKee, manager.:
tercises for Commence
ment Day. Jj'-j >'
emic procession;, in- •
! Rev. Dr. Gill,' chap* L ’
college; music* over-j
ommencement address, ;
ulian Kennedy.Ph.D.,
re valedictory for the :
Karl
ing of degreis, the
degree, the advanced
e j college, hfmn; ',th(S’
prizes and
>; the President’s annual
p recession. _