Do You Remember That ' Today •ia Lincoln's' _, Birthday? VOL )..IV. No. 6 STUDENT_ VOLUNTEERS TO HOLD CONFERENCE HERE Convention of Eastern Union Will Bring Internationally , Known Men to College ;MANY INSTITUTIONS TO BE REPRESENTED The fourteenth annual conference of the Eastern Union of Student Volun teem will be held hero February tv.entY first, twenty-second and twenty-third, and will bo ono o fthe largest confer ences of this kind over held at State College The Student Volunteer move ment is world-wide in Its scope and has organisations In nearly every college and university . Penn State in very fortunate In being selected as the meet ing place for this convention. for It will bring hero speakers of International rep utation for their ,work along various lines In all parts of the world The conference will be conducted un der the auaplces of the Y M. C. A. and Y W. C. A. of thin college. Arrange ments are being made for the enter tainment of several hundred delegates from other colleges mostly of Pennsyl vania and New Jersey It is probable that nearly a hundred advanced schools and colleges will be represented Among the prominent tpeakers echo will give addresses at the several meet ings of Um conference are Dr John Goody, President of the Anglo. Chinese College, Foochow, China Dr D. IC IV IC .nin, M. R G. 8, African meplorer and Secretary ofral - a Sedan United Ma hlon, Mr. Arthur IV Manuel, Interna tional Y. M C A Secretary for Brasil, and Dr P 51 T. terrine, missionary In the PhlMoine Islands and in Alaska ' The drat meeting will be held In the .Auditorium on Friday evening, Febru ary twenty-dust. The conference will be opened with an address of welcome by President Sparks. Ho will be fol lowed by Mr. Robert. Wilder, Religious Secretary.of the International Y M C A CoMmittee, and one of the founders of thb Student Volunteer movement. • odlately following the Fl9day even. log session *hone will'ho a social. oath - ening In the Armory where the delegates will havo an opportunity to got ac quainted among themselves and with thelr hosts. Saurdtw -11toirilug There will-bo a business meeting at nine o'clock en - Saturday morning and at ton an address will be given by Dr. Zwomer, President of Cairo University It Is to be - regretted that this mooting will conflict with some et the-Washing ton's Birthday activities, but this-is the ,only tide that Dr. Zwemer can be here Because of his wide and varied expert omen In foreign countries , his talk is ,sure to be of great Interest. - The Satur- (Continued on fourth pogo) Arnbulan.ce Men Made Fine Record Farther information ass contained in the Ambulance SertMe Notes of Jan uary 9 about the Penn Stain Ambulanco Section, ollicially known us No 629. In addition to the namu of the ones who received the Italian War Crosses, a brief account of their record is given Ex cerpts from the article follow: ..During the offensive, the entire, sec tion was working on the advanoo line from _Bunco and Croecotta before the •river Player was mussed, Working in two units, the Section followed separ ate divisions after the croslng. Ono group of six'cars followed the 60th Division up the east bank of the Piave, having posts successively at Vidor, Val> dobladone, Villa do Villa, Bribano, mid Sodico. The remaining nix cars fol lowed the 60th Ditision through Vidor, Col San Martine, Cambia, Milano and -"When the offensive had advanced an far that contact with the Cagsona boon nag Walcott, tho Section moved to Pollina where it is now operating. Tho Section Is still busy and all cars are kola on tho go. "T'ffe Section, unliko many' others In the -contingent, does not claim to be the first to sae action, the first to cross the river, nor the honor of carrying tho most patients. Due to various circum stances, It nns one of the last sections to reach the front. However, Its rec ord since reaching the front has been an enviable one. There have boon no accidents of a serious nature Thera hal been no sickness. During the two And one-half months - that the soction spent on the line, it did a credltablo Amount of work. Tito cars have trav eled a distance of 60,000 kilometers. Ono-half of this dlstanco was traveled At night. Tho SeoLlon has hauled over PASO patients - Tho Ponn State [non who received the War Crosses are as followa Fleet Sergeant-J. C. Herr 'l7; Sergeant S. M. Free '18; Corporal C. R. Beek ID, Cook—L, C Grove '18; Mechanics—H.' W. Adam '11), D. L. McKay 'lB, P. G. Musser 'lO, A. W Stoeltsing 10, Irina class privates—B C. CubbagO 'lB, C. W. Edgott 'l7, Victor Egbert 'll. A. B. Gass 'lB, H. C. Jester 'l5, T. C. Kern 'lO, J. W. Morrison '2O, It. L Potore '2O, F. M. 'Mester '18; and Privates—D. B. Ellicott, Jr., '2O, J. H. Hayes ;20, B.' M Homan 'lll. The other members of tho mitt ore A. B. Tolohart, R. D. Maynard, W. S. Stool°, K. L. Burgnor, E. L. Burton, N. A. lifostoltor, C. T. Bryce, N. B. Bchroo. Storm Mot, B. C. Wear, I. V. IA C. H. Daugherty, Renato -- C. Coeditor, B. D. Hamlett. .. , - . _ ~,,,, ..41 34 ,,,,. .. , rim _ -, aft ,/(41 , ills ~../' .* ;::... . - JUNIATA NEXT TEAM ON STATE SCHEDULE Blue and White Five to Meet Op ponents in Huntingdon on Fri day—Freshmen to Play Here The Penn State basketball team will Journey to Iluntingdon on, Friday where It will meet the Juniata College team In the next game of the season on Friday night. This alit be the second time dur the present season that teams from Penn State and Juniata have met on the basketbah floor. The Juniata. team has not made a spectacular showing during the pro sent season The Huntingdon quin tet met Its Snit defeat of the year In the opening game of the Penn State sche dule when the Blue and White tossers handed it an overwhelming defeat to the tune of 40 to it Since the first of the season the Juniata team has lost almost centinually and In the game with the Conine team on last Thurs day night. the Beaver Falls ilvo managed to emerge on the long end of a 30 to 14 score 11111-Play ou Uomo Floor In the game on Friday night how evxer. the Juniata five will bo playing on its own floor and before a friendly crowd which may prove to put the Huntingdon team on Its mettle and en courage it to put up a harder game than was seen hero surlier In the season It is probable, though, that the Blue and White quintet will befit*: t 0,,. hand the Juniata another defeat as the showing made by the Penn-State live Is much more consistent than that made by the Juniata team. . The game on Friday night with Juniata -will be the only °neje. the ' Blue and White tossers before they will meet-the University of •PlltsburSh , fiY. In theArrnory during the Washington's Birthday colebtntion. Little is known of the Pitt team this year. but 'lt ,Is that the Penn. State team has,a game In which It can keep up Its pace borers. coming In contact with the Pitt cont. hinntion. Freshmen vs. Indiana Normal The Freshman basketball team will meet the Indiana Normal team on the Armory floor on Thursday night in the first game of the yearling's schedule. This will bo tho first time since last season that a team composed entirely of first year men has been the attrac tion on the Armory floor. Last year The Freshman team made an enviable record against many of the largest prepara tory schools In the state and oven reg istered Viefoil. over Freshman teams from other institutions. For this rea son there should he a great deal of in terest displayed In the game on Friday night. The Indiana Normal team can be .- 1 peeled to put tap a good game when It meets the first year team on Thursday. Teams from this normal school have a aide reputation and always put forth an melting context. The Freshman team has been handicapped by the lack of practice, the first. workout having boon hem on Monday night of thin neck For this reason the Indiana team will bear the closest watching and there is no doubt that when these two teams moot all exciting contest can bo expected Tickets for the game svill,be twenty cents and trill be on sato beginning to night They may bo secured from any of the second assistant manager. or at the door on Thursday night FINAL PLANS MADE FOR FARMERS' WEEK Lectures Will Begin on Monday, February 24th—Interesting Pro• grams Arranged From all Indications this year's Farm ers' Week which will begin on Fobruary twenty-fourth will bo the best attonded ;vont of Its kind over hold et Ponn State From tho number of inquiricre that have boon received It in Judged that thorn will bo not less than eight hun dred visitors hero for the week and it In very probablo that the number will mooed one thousand - Conditions aro peculiarly favorable this year for a. largo attendance. Fawn ors',Wook Is being hold at a limo when farmers have the leant work at home to prevent thorn from attending the pro gram which has been prepared. The many prominent men to be hero as !Manors and inatrcutoro will Woo help to bring a large'number of visitors. An evening program will ho proponted every night In the Auditorium. Tho most prominent of the outside speakers will address these moeUnge On Thum day evoning. February twonty-aevonth, a play written by Miss Ethel Sparks will bo given under the dirootlon of Profes sor Marehman - Tho hat of Farmers' Week splatter; Includes the name. of over a hundred (Contlnuod on last peso) STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1 9.19. BOXING TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD FRIDAY First Inter-Class Meet is Causing Great Interest—Good Material Will Be Seen in Action The big amateur boxing meet to be hold In the Armory at lumen o'clock Friday evening will be ono that will furnish Penn State boxing onthuslasts a real treat. If the brand of fighting done by aomo of the men In the semi finals held Monday evening la any index to the character of the bouts to be ataged In the tournament, some Inter esting exhibitions of Relic skill may be looked for. While boxing Is a comparatively new sport in this college, it Is rapidly grow ing Into a position of prime Importance and popularity Owing to the fact that this Is the first your that any very ex tensive work along thin line has been carried out, the sport has been some what handicapped by lack of appreci ation and interest on the part of the students However, when calls were made for, candidates for the various weights, a large niZeber of men re sponded, and under the careful direc tion of Coach Harlow there have been developed in the short time some re markably skillful boxers. Finals Friday Night In Friday night's tournament the finale In the 11G-pound class will ho between Reese and Eberle, both Fresh men. Each of these mon has shown up very good work and a most Interesting bout is expected when they meet in the ring In the 125-pound class Jenkins and Hewitt, also Freshmen, will box The tact that there wore three mon In the field In the 136-pound chum made It Impossible to determine In Monday night's semi-finals, without making one man box twice, which two will meet on Frlday As it stands Schaffer '22, will box either Henley '22, or Shitano '22. The same situation exists In the 145- pound class and either I.alley-'2l, or Duelnborn, '2l, will box with Shifter +2l, in the finals Ono of the most exciting bouts of the evening will bo between Friedman '22, and Cooper '2l, In the' 160-pound class Boli of these men aro very good boxers - and they are evenly matched The spectators may look for a few minutes of hard lighting when these two aro in the ring together In the 170-pound class McKenzie '22, sill meet Black '2O and the finals In the heavy weight chum sill be_fought out between Stine '22, and Hollis '2l. Admittance to Friday night's tourna ment will be free and If the student body-shoos the .proper,lnterest thin and following moots it Is hoped that an Intercollegiate tournament with a team from one of the large universities may bo staged hero--• ORCHESTRA ,TO GIVE', . - . SUNDAY CONCERT The next of the aeries of Sunday af ternoon-concerts will be hold on-Webru ary 26, at`jthree-thirty In, the Audito rium, with 'tho 'college' Orchestra as the attraction.. This Will'lm'the second time that the Orchestra has appeared In the Sunday afternoon concerts. the Prat being early in the year. At that time a moat excellent program was rendered consisting of chemical and modern numbers and there Is no doubt that a concert of the usual high calibre wlll.be presented.. The program which will bo ➢resented on Sunday afternoon is as follows. 1 Mnrch 'The Governor's Foot guard" 3 M. Fulton 2 Overture "The Beautiful Cala- tea" F'.-V Suppe 3. (a) Allnuot from "Tales of Hoff- man" (b) “13urcarone" .1 Offenbach 4. Scene Characteristique ...Len Do- homiene Montolnnt G Selection from "The Pleat. of . Penzance Grunwald 6 Pal cho .. Scherratto" 11 Pallet Thespian Play Being Arranged At o meeting of the Thespian Club how during tho mot week, n doclolon was mado concerning tho policy of the Club during the romaindor of the col logo year and the nature - of the pro duction which the organization will Bingo during the coming season. • Last year duo to the fact that many members of the Club had loft college to enter the service It wail decided to Put on a centedy having the female Parts taken by the girls of the college With this Ida In mind trials wore held and a clever comedy. 'lt Pays to Ad vertise" vats atoned with the most com plete success. There le no doubt that last year's production was ono of the boat which has been soon In State Col lege fora long time. Tide year, however, with the return of many of the old mon to college, It line boon decided that the production of the club will bo 10 the nature of a musical comedy as In former bare. Several comedies aro now being con sidered by the °dicers and It Is hoped that note/380r W. S. Dyo can be secured to direct the Club In Its annual pro duction. Manager Kirk Is now at work ar ranging a trip which will be taken during the Easter vacation and will take In Bollofonte, Sunbury, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Tyrone. Following Its policy or former years, the shoat will first he shown In State College early In April and again during the Commence wont week. - . . %'ry..outs for the cant and chorus will ha hold at two o'clock on Saturday at tornoon."Fobruary It. In the Old Chapel. Manager lark roquosto that all mon who have any musical ability or tho atrlcal ability roport In the Old Chapel for then trials. A. M. Drown '2l o and T. J. Stoveneon '2l, havo boon elected loot aoolotont managers of the Club. All momboro ot-the Proshman clam who whit% to try out for the managorlal staff will roport In the Old Chapel at 10th o'clock 9n Saturday afternoon "DOC" LEWIS RETURNS FROM SERVICE IN ARMY Former Wrestling i Coach Now an - Assistant in Physical Education —May Conch Basketball Team Lieutenant W. -D. Lewis, who v... formerly instructor'in ,Physical educe tibn and wrestling coach ut Ponn State has returned from service In the U. S Army, and - wlll - mrsist.in the uthletl. work at the college. Lieutenant Lewin, better known t. Penn State students as ;Doc," will hay charge of tho track work and v,lll ale. be an assistant to Hugo Bestlek. direc tor of physical oducatton It le ale. planned to have Lewis lake antic , charge of the gymnasium work for th , two under classes. and there Is a prob ability that be v.lll coa.ch the basket ball team for the remainder of the sea son. Lewis loft college early during the summer of 1017 and shortly afterward entered an officers' training camp: From this ho was grad.tated with the commission of first lien'enant Imme diately after being mosmissioned, he was stationed at Calm, Leo, Virginia During ono of his futloughs he re turned to the college and gave a week's intensive work in Ixtyottot drill to the cadet battalion. Later. Lewis was tmnferred to Camp Gordon, Georgia, here he was In charge of a company Before his enlistmentA "Doc" was in charge of the gym drill' and seas also wrestling coach In the latter depart ment ho was unusually 'successful, the honor of turning out Dine and White wrestling teams of chrmplon calibre going to him It will is remembered ...by the older students and alumni that It was Lewis who developed such stars os "Deg . ' Very, Levi Lamb, Czarnecki, Verger, the present conch, and It Long, who won the 131-round intercol legiate championship last tyear. After Lewis' departMe for camp, Ver ! ger, who is on the faeulta A the school of agriculture ' and who In previous years was an understudy to "Joe," was put In charge of the work in :wrestling In his first attempt at the , job last year, Verger developed a team on which there were six inter-coneglate , cham pions, and according to Present Pros pects, it looks as though he were going to reduplicate that feat this year 'Be cause of hi. - phenomenal success in the wrestling garnii,'lt has been decided to retain Verger as coach, nod Lieutenant Low 10 has been placed la oharge of the track work to take therl lace of Lieu tenant "BM" Martin, who is still in the service BASE BALL MEN TO ' BE CALLED OUT Se . ..ond SeMester Sees Number of Veterans iri:College—Bezdek-in Charge of Preliminary, Work = The prospects for a strong baseball team at Penn State this year aro ex ceedingly bright, and with the return of many of the old men to college there la no doubt that a winning combination alit represent State on the diamond during the coming season. Although several men of last year's team are still In the service and some have been lost by graduation there still remains a nucleus around which a good team can be built. .. George Wheeling, captain of last year's nine, Is now in college, but duo to the tact that he graduated last spring and Is now taking post-graduate work, he will_ not be eligible for the team this tear. Caplain-elect Blair Mingle's Heath lost Friday will soriouslY cripple the team as ho use being counted on to hold down his old position. Number of Veterans Bock There are quite a few of last year's *mud mho are stile In college and time non will furnish a start for a team when the call Is made for candidates Grande), Thomas and Strlckenburg ire the pitchers aloe are in college at ..he present time and Craig and Hall are the - men who have seen service be hind the bat. Korb and Baubllts are the only Infielders alio, aro left In college, and Mellon is the only ♦eternn out delder who Is In college now Haines, who has Just entered school this semes ter and played on the Lebanon Valley learn of last season, le another out fielder who will report for spring Prac tice Bc.dek to Coach The coaching of the team le present g lv,orlous probom and will probably not bo settled for some time. Duo to the fact that Coach Dem.%lc must leave early In the spring to fulfill bin contract with the Pitteburgh Notional Lenguo Club It will ho Impoasiblo for him to have direct auporvision over the team except for two or threo v.ooks. Ho will have full chargo, howmer, of all the preliminary workouts and will oxerciso tumoral supervision over the work for the entire season. Schedule Dying Arranged Mazinger Moore Is now working on the schedule for the coming season and full announcement will he made no noon of the permanent selledulo le arranged Preliminary arrangements aro being made, however, for a western trip of uvo games and an eastern trip corn prising the alma number of contoste. Negotiations ore now being mado with a number of colleges for games and on effort le being made to bring tiro Unl vereity of Pittsburgh team hero for two ;tomes during commoneemont" week. Tho baseball contexts with Pitt have always boon a feature of the commute.. mont week 'program but In ease thoeo negotiations fail, somo other big team will ho brought hero for contests with the Blue and White, Candidates for the Wain will be, called out for preliminary Indoor practise about the first of March. Thorn urn oulto a number 'of berths on the team which aro'vacant and thorn le ample oppor tunity for new mon to show their ability In this lino of sport. Tottrgiatt. PENN MATMEN HERE ON FEBRUARY 22 Blue and White Wrestling Team To Open Season Afternoon of Washington's Birthday During the past week. tho Penn State athletic authorities have received offi cial notice from tho University of Penn. ',Amnia to the effect that the latter will send a team here on Saturday, February 22, to wrestle the Blue and White matrnen. This meet, which will be hold in the afternoon at 2.30, in conjunction with the basketball game with the University of Pittsburgh In the evening, will form one of the beet sport combinations that Penn State has had in a number of years Regarding the strength of the Penn team, little can be said, While It was defeated by the Slue and White in the Interco]!creates last bear, it Is never theless worthy ornate that each team will have but few of Its former rarest lon In the thin season Many more candidates have reported for wrestling at Penn this leer than over before, and the Interest among the un dergraduate* is keener than It has been for a long time. The Red and Blue team was scheduled to open its Benson last Friday evening with Columbia but the latter always has a weak team and little can be judged from the results in that meet. The mettle of the Penh wrestlers, honorer, will be tried this coming Saturday night, when they Journey to Annapolis, and meet the Navy, a team which Penn State will also urestle on March Bth Thus it alit he seen that the Penn team will have had the experience of too meets, chile the Blue and White men alit be practically untried. However, the lat ter are elegise full of light and the precedent of loot season In view,- can not help but take the measure of the Philadelphia aggregation May Bold Intereolleginlos There Nue been a change In the no timont regarding the holding of the In tercolleglates. While some teams have been in Cava of holding them, mid others opposed, It In now definitely planned to settle the matter once and for all. Thin will he done at a meeting of the Intercollegiate Wrestling Asso- elation, to bo held In New York In about two weeks An of the members of the League have teams with the exception of Cornell, and there BCC= to be no reason why the Intereolleglntes should not be held on the Armory floor on Inarch 21st and 22nd Brown Unable to Wrestle . „Brown, the Blue ited White :168-pound champion, will be unable to wrestle In the early meets of the seasons, on ac count of his Injured knee It Is hoped, however, to have him In shape for the final meets In March. At the present time, the strongest contender for Brown's place seems to be Mowrcr, who showed. up exceptionally, well In the Intirchiss meet a little over a week ago. Moore '2l and Holmes '2l. 136- pound wrestlers. have returned and re ported for the team SeNeral more heavyweight candidates hose some out among-whom are Black '2O and Grimes '2l Hayes '2l. who left college some time ago, has returned and will he an opponent for Shaulls In the 176-pound class The trials for tho Penn meet on Washington's Birthday will be held this week. The preliminaries will take place In the Armory this afternoon at 1:30, the semi-finals tomorrow at tho soma hour and the finals on Saturday afternoon at 1.30 Tito men who win out this 11 a el< will bo the representatives of tho 'varsity against the Red and Blue team About the only candidates sure of winning In the trials ore Garber, 115-pound class. Mills, 145-pound clans, and lgowrer, 158-pound class. In tarry other class there are two or three good mon outand just who will ho the rop rasentatites of those classes Is only a. matter of conjecture. Tickets for the Penn meet win ho on solo :gondol, Wednesdny and Thurs dal melting, of next week, February 17th, 10th, and 20th. Dr.* Armsby:Tells of European Work Dr H. P. Armeby, head of the Insti tute of Animal Nutrition, hoe returned from hie work overee's where ho was a member of tho Inter-Allied Food Com frifesion as a roproaontative of tho Linked Suttee. Ho returned to thin country about too wooke ago and ar rlvod in Stet° Collego last 'Nook and has taken up his duties as head of the Institut° of Animal Nutrition. Since hie return to Stela Collego, Dr. Armeby hoe boon confined to "hie bed on account of Illness, but managed to write an articlo dealing with the work of the Food Comminsion and some of ids merioncea while ho was connected with It. It Is with the greate"t pioneer° that the COLLEGIAN prints tho which Dr. Armeby has proparod. "When It becamo evident that a our ficiont suppls of food from the United Staten and Canada wan essontial to en able tho Mon to continuo the struggle against the Central Powers, tho ques tion of a fair distribution of this food among the novoral non°ns at once arose. It was to aid In tho notation of this question that there was formed the In ter-Ailed Scientific Nutrition Commie. lion consisting of representatlyes of Great Britain, Franco. Bab, Belgium and the United Staten. It has been my privilege to attend tho second meeting nor the Commission which nos hold In home, Deo. 10 to 12 with n. concluding session at Naples on Doc. 19th. Tho first meeting hold early In 1918 had already formulated the scientific principles upon which an oquitablo ansignmont of the food flaunty should be made, being guided largely by the advico of the two American roprosentativos, Chlttondon and Lusk. It was expected that our tank would bo to apply those principles to the date for the current crop yoar. "With anothor. member of the Com- (Continued on last pored BLAIR MINGLE KILLED IN FLORIDA Captain-Elect of Baseball Team Meets .Death in Airplane Acci dent—Left College Last Spring Tho college sustained ono of its most serious losses when word was received on Friday night that D. Blair Mingle had been killed In an airplane accident at Pensacola. Florida, on Friday after noon Mingle entered college with tho 1918 class, but changed his course, thus placing himself with the 1919 class, and was ono of the most Influential and popular men In college eshon he left to enter the service last spring. Left College Last Spring • Blair was ono of the many Penn State men who entered the sorties Immedi ately after the closing of college last spring . Ho collated In the aviation corps of the navy and received kin preliminzu y ground school work at the ' Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston to August, 1918, he gas as signed to Hes West, Florida, where he nan In training for three months taking his actual flying merit During his pre liminary instruction in flying ho was nmigned to :Maud for a few days, but during the first of September ha woo j sent to Pensacola to the Naval Air Station at that place Ho was com missioned an ensign in Naval Aviation on November 12, 1918, and since then has held the rank of instructor at 'Pen sacola. In a letter from - Enclgn B. J Connell 'lB, ho said that Mingle had had an ecidont during the first meek of Do ember alien ho fell from quite a height n a gunnery plane Sc Inch ho man pilot rig Connell says his escape from death sus nothing short of a miracle, and said hat Mingle WAS confined to the hospital or some time litilod While Piloting At the time of hie death, Mingle was Instructing in a hydroalrplano with two other ensign.. when the machine fell Into the bay from a height of the hun dred foot. People who were on the shore thought that the aviators were mtmon ering when the machine went into a nose dhe and waited for the machine to rise from the meter. Mechanics. how ever, thinking that engine trouble might have developed, went to the piano only to find the bodies of the three Mere floating In the wreckage of the plane Coptaln•Elect of Baseball Nine Mingle was one of the mainstals of the_Penn State baseball team last year and had served two years on the team when ho left college Last spring ho um elected' to' captain the -1911 rate and•was being counted upon to hold down his old position on the team the coming season He paid a visit to State during the first week of January and while here add ho Intended to return to college within a very ahOrt time. His death robs the State nine of one of Its most depenable players. Mingle entered college with the clam which-graduated met spring but In his mphornoro year changed his course to Industrial Lagineering which put him back with the present Senior class. Ile was very active in college activities and had played an Important part In clam and college affairs Ho was al ways an exponent of the beet things In college activities and In his death the college as a whole sustains a great loss TRACK SQUAD IN NEED OF MORE MEN `Doc" Lewis Will Have Charge of Work—Only Forty Candidates Respond to Second Call At tho second cull for track candi dates last Saturday afternoon, about forty candidates responded. Thin Is about ono hundred per cent Increase over the number that had previously tenoned, but oven thin number In far litlow that which has shoat, up in pro- ceding yearn rho equad le far too nail to do tho things that moot be done, — and and abeolutely much larger number of mon must report, If Penn Pinto In to Iho up to the reputation Oho has made on the track herotoforo . . . Lieutenant W Lewis, commonly known an "Doc", who was formerly M ob-mator in physical education, but who hus been at Camp Cordon, has returned and will assist In the coaching of the team. Very little in known concerning the pin. of Lieutenant "Dill" Martin, who in the pant has been track coach and athletic trainer. Lieutenant Martin Iv nt present in the aviation corps, and Is stationed at Love Field, Tex.. Whether he will return in the near future is not known, an it 11011 once reported that he contemplated remain ing in tho army The election of it captain has been deferred until later In the season when the nark in - In full sway, and the candidates Mine shoun white they can do. Nogotlationo which have been under way for u moot 011th Lehigh Univer sity have boon dropped. no no satis factory data could ho nrranged. No reply has as lot boon recohed from either trtfasette or the Navy regarding a dual moot with each of those two cologes, nor hno further dellnito In formation been received concerning the Penn relays, or much rogarding tire Bfeadowbrooks the last of March, but as previously announced, the probabil ities aro that a team will be entored in each of these contesto. In addition to Grimes, Parent. Dam ming, members of the Freshman ono- • . . mile Intercollegiate relay championship team, mho have reported for practice, several other rormor track man have come out. Among these aro Thomas TO, Hooker TO, and •Nowcoinor Tl. Thomas Is a quarter•mllor, Hooker is • -• , • a sprint man, and Non comer Is a com bination of both, running In both dis tance and sprint events. Any other mon wishing to come out for the team should report to "Doc" Lowls' Wilco In the locker room in the Armory. At the present time, prospects are (Continued on laud page) Well See The Matmi In Action Very Soon PRICE FIVE C GENEVA EASY FOR STATE Western State Champions ' Lire up to Expectations i Friday's Game Tho Penn Stato - bnalietball ten ed a decisive victory over the 4 College team when It captured tl end of a. 54 to 16 score In a . game on the Armory flour last night. The State quintet exhibit best team work and passing will. been seen on the local floor thl. and mminged to hold a canal lead over the Eraser Falls team times during the contest. The game on Friday night w like the other two contests widel been seen on the Armory door In the setuion In that the Geneva showed some of the beet fight lb been neen here for a long time, the outcome of the contest was vl. settled after the, rst few minu • play. the Geneva lite still cantina light hard and it can be said II disla‘ed the acrappiest brand or ketball which the Blue and White ban as yet mot on her homo floor. Slut° Leads During. Entire On The game started out ofth a deal of fight and for the first fee ' ores neither side could locate th ket bloomer, IGMager, the p State guatd, soon managed to nag goals from the field and these oer lowed by ono each by Malian, and 'Wolfe Wolfe added too points to the Penn State MVO b free shot method, which acre fol In quick order by too more goa Mullen and KSlinger Acklin the first points for the Geneva II the form of too tallies from free and Loeffler managed to cage of the two pointers Malian contri. too more goals from the field, tour more from Wolfe, Rats. and . lan ended the scoring for the first pc During this half Acklln managed to five points from free shots ohllo shooed good form by caging the of one pointers . out of eight attempts XlSinger started the scoring agai the second half with too goals f the field ohne Ritts followed with more. Stringer tallied one of the pointers for the Geneva team, and 'A lan caged another goal for State h pretty shot from scrimmage Fe managed to get another for the • era quintet, and. Kllllnger atntin one for State, oldie Wolfo midst , too galls from the field In quick cession Stringer scored another f or.d is team by it 111 .M.:( Aida: o hitt: followed by one each by Mullen Ititts Acklln and Wolfe each caged one pointers during this half, xi completed rho scoring Wilson, alto loam elected last Soar captain this 2111.011 . 8 team, 0105 seen action tot the first time on Fri night. Although he was the only on the Penn State team v.ho tailed tally a point, his guarding of the C ma roman's was one of the features the game It loan due to his guard that his running mate, IClllinger, mi aged to sage six goals from the It would be hard to lick the star the Penn State team in the game Friday night, due to the fact that e man played stellar ball at all ti Malian and Wolfe, houmer, hero t far the honors of highest individ scoring, each securing sixteen poi during the contest Kl[linger dispia> his usual steady game and urts able cage six goals from the field Ack was the best point getter for the B o'er Falls team,, securing eight poll on free throas. Goma Team Dlmppointlng Altho the Genova twin display° scrappy brand of basketball, It fa to Me up to expectations' Au West State Champions last season it c floored most of the large colleges the Mate is bile this year she has ei mined defeats at the hands of IV J and State The Geneva team slid o considerable opposition to the State femto but at no time did it pass or e (Continued on fourth pogo) EX-'lB MAN WINS PRAISE OF COMRA Word was recently method .1 0 Hummer, of Rhersido, Pa., her son, Joseph Hummer, a fo Penn fatale man. has recently Orr , In , Now York and Is now In Deba don Hospital, No. 2, Staten 101 Hummer, or "Joe as he v.as Inn. during his years at Ponn State, wa. , ox- . 1.8 man and roan taking the Co In Horticulture when he loft to e the service Hummer *MB In the Ist tdachine Troop end received his early train at Camp Hancock, Georgia 110 sent overseas early lost near and In the thick of the lighting last s mer. In a letter which his mot received from ono of his friends, nays that "Son's splendid service on field of battle for the suffering when shells worn dying thick and foot, No his life to the men lying seconded beyond value, nes of the highest call and ho would tease sold Ills life • haps for tee cents and considered t be had tnrtdo a good exchange bravery and endurance will long be membered by tho men of his organ! Lion." -In all his lettere. Joe npealm of War!cs very lightly but It seems t It was a miracle that he over earn with hie life ne was dont wounded September and ens gassed on Oeto 4. OnlOctober 5 ho was wounded a and four bourn later ho wan in a sec. which was shelled with muntard shells and the Munn which he Mined were of the moot nerloun natu In all he received seven wounds a bin body was noverely burned In lava places His wounds were, brat treat In a lionpital at Vichy. Franco. and Is now convalescing at Staten Inland fore being discharged Ile expressed t most °orlon. disappointment when learned that it would bo Impossible him to return to college at the first the nocond cementer.
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