SPRING ATHLETICS
Another Year of Characteristic
Penn State Success in Athletics.
Except for next Tuesday's base
ball game between the varsity and
alumni and ' Monday's Interclass
track meet, our college year in
athletics has been completed. To
day the Bucknell baseball contest
and the Colgate track meet are oc
cupying the attention of our Penn
State Commencement throng.
The football, basketball and
wrestling seasons have all been
reviewed in these columns previously
and the only mention made of them
will be for the purpose of showing
that Old State's athletics have
maintained their habits of con.
sistent winning during the past col
lege year. On the gridiron the two
encounters dropped to Penn
and Pitt were lost by as plucky a
lot of warriors as ever represented
the Blue-and-White in any branch
of athletics; the schedule was
inadequate for our needs, but a big
"Pennsylvania Day" throng saw
captain Gray's eleven win an over
whelming victory , over. Bucknell.
On the basketball floor captain
Blythe led one of the best fives
that ever played on the Armory
floor; not a game was lost at home
and nine , out of a total of thirteen
contests resulted in victo
ries. The principal basketball
triumphs were gained over Buck
nell (2), Lehigh, the Pittsburg Col
legians, Gettysburg and Pratt
Institute.
It was on the wrestling mat that
our alma mater has gained its great
est prestige during the last year.
Lehigh, Yale, Columbia and Cor
nell were clearly out-grappled by
our men and we surely deserved the
requested membership in the Inter
collegiate Wrestling association
but this was denied us. The mem
bers of our intercollegiate champion
wrestling team for 1911 were
captain Diehl, Glanville, Neidig,
Morrison, Shollenbc rger, Very,
Lesh, Engle and McVean.
Tennis forged, to the front this
spring and our racquet-wielders won
from Dickinson, Gettysburg, West
m nster and Grove City; Penn only
took the measure of captain Lloyd's
team while a tie was played with
the Navy,
On the track our development
has not been spectacular, but we
feel that the growth of cinder-path
athletics has been healthy and
sighted. ni,^T
-....:-Artecti'lell and Swarthmore
ve'been defeated by overwhelm
ingly large scores in dual meets this
spring, while captain Mathers has
lowerea our 220-yard-hurdles record
to 25 3.5 seconds and both Mabee
and Hoskins have set the new pole
vault mar at 11 -feet 2 1-4 inches.
In the Penn Relays our team ran
behind the Indians and Swarth
more, but ran ahead' of such fast
teams as Columbia, Lafayette and
Amherst. No team was entered in
the Harrisburg Intercollegiates this
year but captain Mathers secured
third place in'the broad-dump at the
Harvard Intercollegiates. The
A CONFERENCE BONFIRE
Let's have one twice as large at Pocono Pines !
Novice meet of May 20, on New
Beaver field served to stir up track
enthusiasm and uncover new back
material from the student body,
wh le the third annual Interscho
lastic meet of May 6 was a well
contested affair and will result in
some excellent "prep-school" track
men entering Pennsy State in future
years.
On the diamond, Captain Kelly
seems to have the best nine
in the State of Pennsyl
vania this spring. Our tossers have
won from
, Lafayette, Lehigh, Villa
Nova (twice), Dickinson, Susqueh
anna, Bucknell and Grove City with
out losing a contest to any oppon
ent within the limits of this corn
moM,yealth. Penn would not give
manager Chubbuck a game this
year but the Quakers were roundly
trounced by Lafayette. Our nine
has won nearly two-thirds of its
games abroad and is one of State's
best nines as the following record
goes to show:—
Score Place
state College 3 Be llefonte Aced 1 State College
State 7 Wash & Lee 1 , . Lexington
State 2 Wash & Lee 3, Lexington
State 10 Navy 1 i, .Annaoolis
State 6 Darthmouth 5... .Alan ii, Cit
St to 2 Brown Linty. 6. • Provid rice
state 0 Springfield T S 1 . Springfie d
State 4 St. Johns College oBrooklyn
S'ate 3 Princeton 8 . • Princeton
'State 8 Vickin on 3 . • . State College
State 3 Cornell 4 Ithaca
state 13 Syracuse 2. Syracuse
State 7 Buck nel 3Lewtsburg
,
State 8 Grove City 5 • Sta e College
State 16 Villa Nova 1 - ,State College
State? Villa Nova I . State Culler;
State 6 Lehigh 2 . • • S Bethlehem
state 2 Dartmouth 4. , . Hanover
State 3 Lafayette 2 . . Easton
State 4 St Bonevenerue 0 ' Slate College
State 3 Sasguehanna . • Sta e College
Penn State—Wori 9 out of 14 games away from
tome, 7 out of 7 at home
0 men Prevented by rain—With Virginia. MRII
- and Anthetst away from home. Me 11,0 am
Gettysburg and Sr Bonet, nture at home
Game cancelled - by Univ, of Pitt , bfirg
Runs scored—State 125, opponents 54
On the diamond we have won
notable victories over Dartmouth,
Syracuse, Washington & 'Lee and
the Navy besides those mentioned.
The team has been noted not as a
collection of individuals but as a
band of players working for victory
' and the glory of Penn State. Such
a spirit has characterized all our
athletic teams during the past year
and it is "The Penn State Spirit"
..,
that is mainly responsible for such
a consistent record of victories as
here given:— .
Athletic record for college year
1910-1911.
Sport Won Lost Tied Cantain
koot ball 5 2 1 "Alex" Gray
Wrestling 4 0 0 "Sammy" Deihl
Basketball 0 4 0 • Spi ' Blythe
T.-nets 4 1 1 "hill" Lloyd
Track 2 0 0 "Whiley"Mathe s
Baseball 16 5 0 Burd" Kelly
Total 40 12
Interclass Baseball Review
The success of the third year of
the interclass baseball league
Aricl2x6l, fp, ;7% .•
411 those directly inter
ested in athletics at Penn State. It
attained its real object, the devel
oping of new material,for our strong
varsity team and the affording of
more room for the large number of
men who wish to take an active
part in this particular sp nt. Owing
to the lateness of the league in
getting started, it was found neces
sary to cut down the number of
games of each team from nine to six,
thus scheduling ' each class to play
two games with every other clasS.
One of the striking characteristics
of
,the season was that not a single
game had to be postponed on
account of bad weather.
TIM MTATIII UOLLECIDEN
The freshmen triumphed over th,
sophomores in the initial struggle
played on Old Beavei . field on Apiii
29. From this date on, several
games were played each week until
Memorial day when the league
season closed with a,game between
juniors and freshmeh, the latter de
feating the upper classmcn m r 1 well
played game. The 3uniots failed to
win a game although at .times they
played good consistent ball and
looked like sure winners. Probably
the most impOrtant game of the
season was that between 1911 and
1913 on May 27 as the winning of
this game by the sophomores
cinched the interclass championship
for them.
The final standing of the league
follows:
W. L. Pct.
1913 5 1 .833
1911 4 2 .6b7
1914 3 3 .500
1912 0 6 .000
Y. 14.. C. A. Shdw
For the benefit of Commence
mtnt guests and his excellency
Chang Yin' . Tang, minister horn
China to the United States, the
"College Widow" will be reproduced
on Wednesday June 14, 1911, at
two thirty o'clock. The stage set
ting will be in the natural Amphithea
ter on the front campus, with sides
of grassy green, and a green pine
background. The cast and the sup
porting company ale to be given a
great deal of credit, in as much as,
that at Commencement—the busiest
time of the year, the visitors may
see something that is really charac
teristic of Penn State spirit.
The cast of twenty three members
with a supporting ccmpany of
thirty girls and men, chosen from
the student body and faculty, repre
sent, as they conclusively proved in
the first preformance, a'rema rkably
well balanced company, For days
past "Doctor •Witherspoon" has
been in deep thought, and as a
result, he has produced one of the
greatest speeches of the year. The
only change in characters from the
time previous will be the loss of
MisS Kri• bel as "Luella
and Mr. James, as "011ie Mitchell"
However Mr. P. Forsyth will play
the part made vacant by the loss of
Mr. James.
The principal members of "At
water College" are T' W. Piolett, as
"Billy Bolton", wh° PtiT s — ; :ca'to
I make, on campus, one of
Lie largest end runs ever produced,
Professor W. D. Crockett as "presi
dent of Atwater College", one of
the "finds", theatrically, of the
year; Dale Mason who ows that he
will not forget this time several of
his funniest expressions as "Hiram
Bolton"; Professor W. S. Day as
"Honorable "Elam" Hicks'; and
"Matty" McGowan, played by J. E.
Watson. Miss Ancona will again
appear in the reproduction as "The
College Widow"; Miss Butiows as
as "Bessie Tanner"; Miss Sharp, as
"Flora Wiggins" and Miss Snyder
"Mrs. Primley Dalzelle"—a reliable
chaperone.
It is to be hoped that a large
crowd will be present to see what
promises to be one of the most
noval and original entertainments
of the year.
Mining 'Notes
Dr. E. S. Moore has a paper in
the June and July numbers of the
Journal of Geology on the "Evi
dences of differentiation in the
Keweenavv.in diabases in the vicin
ity of Lake Nipigon, Ontario "
He also has a paper in the Uni
vi.rsity of Toronto Monthly for July,
on " Observations on the relative
value of the lecture and recitation
methods in university instruction."
A girl was born to Mr. and Mis.
R. G. Aungst, of Mahanoy City.
Mr. Aungst is a member of the
class of 'O9.
HISTORICAL EXHIBIT
Room Q 'of Library Devoted to In
teresting Relics.
, Under the direction of Dr. Runkle,
a my interesting display has been
arranged in room Q of the Library.
The exhibit contains a large number
of articles of historical interest con
nected with the college, and is
intended to serve as a nucleus for a
fully comprehensive collection.
, One section contains personal
relics of ereat interest: the old bell
that vs ae the first in use; apparatus
, and charts used by Dr. Pugh, our
first president, a letter written to a
college organization by' President
Lincoln; a stool and candle-sticks
used by the students in 1859, and
many other entertaining relics. It
lis interesting to note in connection
kith the first lighting system of
,
'Old Main" that the students were
allowed one candle to two students
six days a week.
In the college history section
proper, are found photographs of
the buildings and campus at all
stages since the very foundation of
the college; a list of the "College
Rules and Regulations" as they have
changed from time to 'ime, begin
ning with "The Farmers' High
School"; and files of all the college
publications, including books, bul
letins, etc, student publications, and
commencement, programs• A
swinging rack contains photographs
of former professors and instructors.
Numerous other articles of interest
are also included in the exhibit,
Every day during the Commence
ment festivities the room will be
open to visitors from two o'clock to
five. The exhibit will undoubtedly
be of great interest to all returning
alumni, but it also offers an excel
lent opportunity fdr the men now in
college to learn something of the
history of the institution. Let us all
ma ke'an effort to visit a display
which is at the same time so 'enter
taining and instructive. The libra
rian and his assistants in the work
have procured a re.ult which is
well worth seeing•
I School of Mines Summer School.
The summer work of the School
of Mines will consist of three dif
ferent trips. The first week will be
given over to Geological Wcrk, and
Professors An d wan' , and Ziegler
.1:61 1 -:,tee - a party consisting of all
the Junior Mining Engineers, Metal
lurgical Engineers, and Mining
Geologistß, to do ',tactical geol
ogiciil work in the vicinity of Bel
lefonte. This work will last for one
week, and immediately following this
the Mining Engineers, undo - the
direction of Professor We.gel will
go to Nanticoke and Shamokin to
spend four weeks in the mines of
the Susquehanna Coal Co. The
Metallurgical
,Engineers will spend
four weeks under the direction of
Professors Linville . and Pallister
studying Meta lurgical methods and
appliances', in the eastern part of
Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of
New York, About two weteks
will be spent at the Bethlehem Steel
Co, at South Bethlehem, and the
remainder of the time at such
plants as, the Pennsylvania Steel
Co, the Thomas Iron Co, the Dist
son Saw Works, the New Jersey
Zinc Co, the Dixon Crucible Co,
Atlas Portland Cement Co, the Bal
bach Sme'ting and Refining Co,
the Raritan Copper Refining C.),
the United States Smelting and
refining Co, and several other
smaller plants.
Alumni Notes.
Fifteen men of the class of 1891
will hold a dinner at,the Blue Goose
on Monday night June 1.1. W. M.
Camp is making the arrangements
for ,his class.
Catholic Services
Catholic services will be held
Sunday June 11, at 9.00 a. m. in
the Auditorium instead of at the
usual time of 9 40 a. m.
TENNIS RE VIEW- k ' l
'
Varsity Team Wins Five Mak,'
Loses One, and Ties One. '14 ,- !)1
Tournaments About College.
With the establishing of
';1
minor sports department at ii,,
State this year, came the forr4 ;
of the present varsity tennis ti;;„;
which has been great credit toy j,
college. , Lloyd successfully
tallied the team while Cuthbertlo
I equally successful in managine'i:
State opened its season at home
April 29 by decisively defea'4,',,
Dickinson. On May 5, the tei
if.i,
met and defeated its second .4
nents, St. Johns College, while;i,
the following day the State rp, , ,
tied with the Naval Academy.
Annapolis. The next match iy4
held at home with Gettysburg,S64
winning from the Gettysburger4 . 4
a narrow margin. On the sec g:
trip the team invaded New „,i,,,
mington or' May 20, and Grove (t,
on May 19. In the match at IVti,
Wilmington, State found 1/1V
minster to be on easy proposid;,:,
and succeeded in winning elr'p
match from that college. The t. 4-1
was again victorious on the dit',
ceeding day scoring four pointoyfe
Grove City's none: May 27 e - ;,,
the one disastrous day for the tt
nis team and it received its only li,:
feat 9f the season at the hanclolo
Penn. The score of all the mat”.
held this spring are tabula* ',
.
below:—
i
Penn State 4, Dickinson 0, Pit 4
State 4, St. Johns 0; State Penn, } ;„
Annapolis 2,Penn State 3,Gettysb'i4
2 ;Penn State 4, Westminster;li
Penn state 4, Grove City 0, Pcii;
State 0, Pennsylvania 4.
Of the various tournaments litg
about college, one of the MO
important was the open , colle[o4
singles which was won by Lloyd tg4l
who defeated Knerr 'l3 to
finals. Hastings,
,Alpha KapiW2,;
Delta won the inter-fratc . rnii,+
tournament by defeating Murplo;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Cuthbfe,
'll was the successful man in
interdepartment tournament, whj
Walton 'll won 'the intercla4„
championship by defeating Hathr,
of the class 1913. In the collecol
open doubles Lloyd and Canfielo
winr Srsur Caihrlert' nd Akurph;;;;i
thus the names of the former . 1%(1
men will be engraved on the SteV ;: ,,l
enson cup. The winners of all 01,6:
tournaments, with the exception 0):
the college open doubles wet*'
awarded gold and silver medal
which were donated by the Meelr j
Drug company.
Y. M. C. A. Notes.
George Weidman Groff .1907,;
Penn State's representative of Forc
eign Missions in China is no*
visiting the College.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L, Huston
of Coatesville Pa., will address the
combined meeting of the Y. W. C.
A. and the Y. M. C. A. Sunday
evening at 6:30 on the front campus.
Dp not forget to pay up your
Groff fund and the Y. M. C. A.
dues.
' The Y. M. C. A. has made
arrangements by which any man
desiring to borrow money to be
used at the Pocono Pines conference,
can repay the same after grad
uation.
1914 Wins.
The juniors dropped anothergame
to the freshmen Tuesday, May 30,
the score being 9to 4. The juniors
secured six hits off Nagle while the
freshmen connected o with Anne's
curves for nine singles. This was
the final game of the Interclass
League schedule.
Struck out, by Anne, 4; by Nagle
7. Bases on balls, off Anne, 2, off
Nagle 2. Stolen bases- - by 1912 -
6; by 1914-8, Umpires Nelson
and Ludwick. Time 1.40.