The Intercollegiate Champioiel Pinned Penn's Shoulders - - To the Mat _ VOL. XIV. No. 8 - LEHIGH - MATNN - TO BE MET SATURDAY Penn State Wrestlers ,Will Have Hard Contest -With Brown and White Team The Penn State wrestling team will meat another,otrong opponent next Sat urday, when the Blue and 'White gran t/10m Journey to South Bethlehem and wrestle the Lehigh University team. This meet rte iIL, furnish a somewhat stronger test for the 'Varsity team than the Penn wrestlers did lost Saturday. and Penn State's chances In the Inter -colleglates will bo determined to a large degree by 11M - results of Saturday's con test. The Lehigh mannen have been defeated sueceitsfully by Penn State for number of loam, and this year more than ever they will try to put a stop -,to the Blue and White's long not of victories. - .t,elilgh. yew.. tg. .There in a number of veterans back 'ln the Lehigh line-up Bevier, the cap tain, and 125-pound wrestler. is able ;the 125-pound Intercollegiate wrestling ,champlon, and-he Is counted upon by the Lehigh backers nil a sure winner. Hanover, ho will have a strong oppo neat In the Penn State 125-pounder, and ,this bout should prove one of the beat of the meet. - - _ Lehigh also has a veteran In Loeser. — the 145-pound wrestler. while Manley, 175-pound man, and Bergdoll, heavy weight wrestler, aro also old Lehigh men 'who are back In college. Tho Brown and-White team wan also a victim for the Navy nrestlers, and the score no Saturday will Indicate the chances of Penn State against the Navy team a week from Saturday The Le high matrnen lost almost no badly to the /- Navy as did the Penn team, Better, the Lehigh champion, being the only man to score for his team. He threw his opponent, Mayberry, 'of the Navy In about four and one-half minutes The Navy teani took every other bout, gain leg two falls and four decisions, the 11001 score being 26 to 5 The—Lehigh team, honever, still ho ono that has had plenty of merlon°. I In addition to having mot the Navy team, a moot %vas also arranged earlier In the sensory NOM the Allentonn V. C. A In this meet. the Drown and White was s Ictorlous, winning by - a more of 20 to 4. The only - haul lost was in Life 120-poUnd class,- v.hereNaarne, eubstitute, lost a derision boiler has unto rePideed,Nadine,," The Penn State team that will op pose the and hite on Saturday Brown will he virtWually theSmeniers same `tat wrottle knainst Penn In the Wash- Ington's Birthday meet. The prelimi naries were held Monday afternoon, the semi-ilnals yesterday afternoon, and the finals will be held this afternoon In the Armory at four-thirty The team Will - probably lease about Friday Cot South .Bethlehem - To hold WetCollet;}oleo It to I\o. - virtually cel lain that the In •tereolleglate Wrestling Championship,. .bouts will be staged. A favorable reply was reached from Cornell the past week. and the dates have been net for Friday and Saturday, 'March and 20th. ...• • At met it had been feared that it could be Impossible to hold the, meet this year, on account of the unsettled con ditions In the athletics of nil the col leges "However, because of the quick return of the counttY to peace time and normal conditions, athletics are again coming Into their own, and ate now neatly up to •altelo they were be fore the am As a result every college Is once,moreheing represented by teams in the various sports. and wrestling is_niptin in the foreground ,Engineering Alumni ' Conference Held ..Thout 10 alumni of the School of En gineering met Saturday morning for a conference . The program Included a de scription of the location of the various buildings necessary tot the School R. a result of the fire _These include.a Main Engineering Building—for 011100,, class rooms and drifting rooms, a 510. chanical Engineering lah?ratorY. Metal working Shop find Testing‘Laboratory., • . • . The equipMent which, hes boon oh, titlned and which It hip:noosed to pur chase sons also presented to the confer ence The whiner 'ems then thrown open for nuestWis and suggestions Professor Webber explained the pro posed Powor Mouse, its location and general arrangement, after which tho subject woo open for discussion Advisory committees were appointed of which theiolloning nro chairmen: Industrial Engineering Shops—J I. Minick, C. D. 'DO, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Altoona, Pa., Me chanical Engineering laboratory-4. it Rodgers, M. E. 'Pt, Ridgway Dynamo and Engine-Company, Pittsburg, PA: Main Engineering Building—John E Snyder, ➢I. E. 'O5, Contracting Cool- Imer, Philadelphia, Pa , Power Plant— A. G. McKee, M. E. 'Ol, President, Ar thur G. bfoliirie Consulting and ‘Contracting Engineera, Cleveland, 0 At the luncheon. about Oti woro pros: mnt. 2dr Mltelnall7 President ,of, the board of Trustee., acted as toastmaster And called en members of the Board of 'Trustees after he had explained the ;budget of the collego and asked tho support of the alumni. Tho unuannlly large number who name Is evidence of the loyalty of the alumni to the college and their willing noon at all times to lento their...Wel mess and give their counsel - IN COLLEOE ItOSPITAL One student, It C.-:Raney, a member of the Freshmen close, is In the college honpltol• Ho Is ,rotoverlng from a brok; on-log rocelvd In the oemi-final wrest ling bout., which wore hold last week before the meet with the Unif ermity or rennmylvania. ._.._ . _ ... . . . ,s . . , c'..,... ..„,.., , . #tin, tat . '1,,.Q. •,,,,n ...sr: ••,,,,...„4.,..„7.„,,. . _ ~.. ~.,,,5,,,., ~ ~..4:,....„ . . STATE FIVE STARTS WESTERN ' TRIP Blue and White Team To Meet Carnegie Tech.; Pitt and Geneva Daring Next Three Days - The Penn State basketball team will leave _on Thursday morning for Pitts burgh on Its annual western trip, when It Will - meet teams from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, and Geneva College The Blue and White quintet will come In contact with the Carnegie Tech tossers on Thursday night, the Pitt team on Friday, and aill meet the Genova Col lege team for the second time this sea son on Saturday night. The Penn Slate team is In excellent condition and nab the new combination which woo tried for the nest Umo on last Saturday ev,ning, the Blue and White tossers should be able to register several victories during this trip Replogle. who nos a decisive factor in the Saturday night. vlclory .oter Pitt, will again hold down the center job, and Wolfe will again be seen at the for ward position with Mullen This com bination pruned - to be the most consis tent and the most dangerous on Um offense which Penn State has been able to put onto the floor tills year. Having already registered decisive victories over Pitt and Geneva, the prospects for a oboe sweep are very bright. Carnegie Tech Tomorrow On Thursday night. the Penn State live wilt meet the team from Carnegie Tech In tee first game of the trip The Carnegie - Tech team has not been able to make a very effective showing during the present season and tine Blue and White cagoule° should be able to come through with a victory in thin game. The Pitt live registered tae victories (nor tine Tech tossers, while the Smoky City team was defeated by Bucknell by a 16 to 35 score The second game of the trip will be with the Pitt—team on Friday night. Tho slew, which the Penn State five gained over - the Pitt tossers on last Saturday night will tend to make this contest one of the hardest of the whole trip The Dine and White men will be playing on a. hostile floor and the Pitt tenor will be out to revenge the defeat which It suffered on the—Armory floor on Saturday night. The Penn State flve, honorer, should be able to come out - on top in this contest as considemblo Im provement has - been mode during the Replogle at center and Wolfe at for ward . • On Saturday night the team will Journey up to Beaver Palls whole Ben eta College live sill be mot for the second time this year The Western State champions failed to live up to ex pectations In the game nMt the Blue ' and White tossers on the Armory floor few necks ago and an overwhelming defeat by a score of 54 to 14 woo banded the Beaver Falls Jive 'Whether the Penn State team will be able to duplicate this performance in the game on Saturday - Mitt Is a mutter for conjecture only, but withlyne victory already registered oter the Western State champions, the State tossers should be able to Wing home the long end of the setae In the Saturday night contest Great Lakes Teunt On Tuvalu) Night On next Tuesday night the Ilnal game of the 1019 season will be played on the Armory floor when the Penn State team will meet the live from the ()teat Lakes Naval Training Station. The team from the Navel Training Station which meets the Blue and White live is rem ased of tile best basketball stars In the country at the present time. Dur ing the Present season the Great Lobed team has played Monty games and only two of that number have been defeats The University of Wisconsin Ilve_ints been defeated twice by this: team, and victories have also been registord over teams front Northwestern University, I the University of Chicago and the 'Uni versity of Illinois Several professional teams have also been defeated by large MOM. The game with the Penn State live on Tueaday night is a part of the east ern trip which the Great Lakes team is now tailing, The Blue and White team is one of the eight teems which make up the itinerary for this trip and some of the other strong teams which will be met are from Allegheny College. University - of Buffalo. and Syracuse University. Tile game' on Tuesday night will be called at notes o'clock sharp and tickets will be forty cents which Includes war too Tickets will be on sale the and of this sleek and next week and may bo purchased from any of the assistant managers PENN STATE MAN WINS FAME AS ARMY INVENTOR IM °cognition of his achlevoments as an inventor of valuable ordnance equip ment for the army. Lieutenant Colonel Wallace L Clay, a gradutto of Penn Stete,in the class ofl.ooo, has boon pro moted to his prosont•rank from a first lieutenant In one year. Tho high honors that havo coma to - Colonol Clay aro to wards for Ills astonishing,roloarch work with various types of projectiles. Colonel Clay perfected the armor Wareing tracer ballot as well as thein condlary bullet, both of which gave the Allied forces marked advantage over their adversaries, In the war. Tho ef- Ilcioncypf those missiles is said to hays far oyrEeeded anything - that tho Germans had developed of that nature.. Entonto airmen found the Ponn State man's In ventions of Insaluable service In driving the Ilan aviators from the altios. Government ordnance oxperte aro now with acclaim Colonel Clay'. most recent - invention—a throe-inch , ' lllumi natinc eholl.. They assort- thin shall, when exploded, will' Illumlnato art area of ton square miloo: Her, le nor chief of tho Frunkford araonal laboratories InPhiladelphia, whoro ho le in chargo of a ll oxperlmontal work for tho Army Ordnanco Depart ment. STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919 MATMEN AND PITT TOSSERS DEFEATED BY BLUE AND WHITE PENN Blue and White Five Gains --- Decisive Victory Over Old Rivals WOLFE AND REPLOGLE STAR IN EXCITING GAME Playing the best brand of basketball which has been seen on the Armory floor during the present season, the Penn State basketball team administered an overwhelming defeat to the University of Pitts• irgh five by a score of 39 to 19 on last Saturday evening, The game was played before a large crowd of visitors who . were in State College for the Washington's Birthday celebration and the contest was the most exciting which \ has been seen here this winter: The victory which the Blue and White five gained over the Pitt quintet made a clean sweep for the State teams, the Penn State matmen having gained a decisive victory over the University of Pennsylvania grapplers in the afternoon. The game with the Pitt team on last Saturday night was the third time in as many years that Pitt has met Penn State in basketball on Washington's Birthday on the Armory floor. I:.ast year - -and the year previous the Blue and White team had been able to register a defeat over the Smoky City quintet only after having been forced to the limit and it was natural to expect a hard game with' the Panthers. Consequently the ease with which Penn State managed to capture the game was very much unexpected and the result of- the game left no doubt as to the superiority of the Blue and White quintet. Prom the very firm the Penn Siam& /he managed-to obtain the lead and ] this was held throughout tho game, HERE Man the plucky Penn State gurnd, MANY VISITORS HERE Mans the first Blue 0101 White man to FOR FARMERS' WEEK register when he chopped a nice shot Into the bashet on a play thorn scrim. range. Mullen and Wolfe. who replaced lints at forward for the first turns this season, each registered ono of the two pointers, while the only way the Pitt Me could tally woe by the free shot method {Volt° managed to In ref's-4 2t.i,e t o e- eFgaf-2 . ...r taTni 4 :l again fauna the basket for a field goal, which was ,followed by another too pointer by Replogle. Captain Wilson Inctemed the State count by two points, and Robinson, the Pitt center, tallied the only goal made by the %Whore dur ing the first half at this point. In the first half an In the entire germ, A. 13reman managed to keep the Pitt team in the tanning with his exceptional four:Mooting, Ile secured eight of•the one-pointers during the Initial period while Wolfe managed to increase the Slate score by Iho Points from Ire° throws The half ended with the more 10 to 10 In Slate's favor Pitt Makes Vain Attempt With the start of the second halt the Pitt team took a decided bravo and for a while It looked as If it was going to be able to top the State score Wolfe scored the lost hold goal during this half, but A. fireman and Leo too each dropped one of the two-pointers into the Pitt cage befoto the half _man moll started This with several points by A. Lk omen obtained by the tree shot method made tho scoro 18 to 21 and hero It stood for sovoral minutes whilo the audience mas kopt in suspense as to (Continued on Pago Three) THESPIANKCHTISE THIS YEAR'S PLAY `The Magistrate" by Midi) Will Be Presented During First Week • In April Instead of presenting it muskal-com edy as in pre-war days, or oven a popu lar comedy such as wan presented boat year, the Thosplane aro departing from their usual custom and this year their production Nk ill bo In the form of a farce 'rho play which hoe been chosen in "The Magistrate." and was written by Sir Arth u r Wing Pinero, a popular Eng- Ilsh dramatist, In the yaw 1883. How e, er, thin date is deceiving, as the play, iinmenhat changed, Ilan been revived and presented during the last month in Neu York City, as a Musical comedy. It Is not tho desire of the Thosplans to make such a radical chango as this, but with a row minor alteration in order to bring it up to giodorn times, the prosen. Lotion will Tie practically tho same as the original -The farce Is one of the oldest, most nucconsful, and best known of Pinoro's writings. There are sixteen characters in the plot, tweivo of whom are men, and the ploy to divided into - throe acts.,_ Tho story Marta with a mooting botwoon ah English widow and nn English Polioe magliftmto, on the continent. They are In:aided, but na the magistrate boa been 1 a confirmed bachelor, hie ways are oomowitar-hard to chango, and trouble ensues Tho former widow has ono son; whom Oho declares to be fourteen yearn' old, when ho Is really nineteen.--She also ntated her own ago novoral yearn loss than It really la The boy, in add!- ' tion to being nlnoteon years old, lb IL gay life. Ho has his own rooms In somwhot of a sport, and enjoys a gay life: Ho 1100 his own rooms to the any, whore at tlmoslio entortnins with con siderablo revelry. - A. sioton of the former widow miters the plot at this. point She. of course, knowe'tho real aeon. no does a retina Major. who hoe just returned from ser vice In India. Naturally the woman (Continuod on loot pap) Addresses Made By Prominent Speakers at Annual Meeting of Pennsylvania Partners - - • .-- 1 mer s Weak activiUtai in.gan .on Mon day with an evening Meeting In the Auditorium The tint gPosion of Fur morn' Week this year wts perhaps tae best attended of any eve{ held hero and It - marked the beginning of a genetal gathring of practically all of tile county farm agentsand other extension representatives of the college Visitors began to anti - ear In town on Monday morning and before registration cloned in the evening-mm.ly four bundled bud entered their names Many more or rined on Tuesday and some am still coming In for the closing meetings of the seek. There Is little doubt that the total registration will exceed ono thousand The regularly scheduled Farmers' Week lecturers began on Tuesday morn law and will continue until Friday noon These lectures 010 covering all phases of agricultural work and aro arranged so that one ran) take a complete, al though very abort course on one partic ular subject, or broaden hie knowledge by attending meetings devoted to the study of several different lines of work As mar* at the farmers as facilities will Permit are getting practical experience In the operation and care of form tractors A-special series of lectures and demonstrations by memliers of the home economlce evtension stuff aro "roving of Interest to the women vis itors Special exercises have also been arranged for the lament of the hoe and girls in attendanCo.• The evening programs thus far halo been very ri•ell attended and each - night the audience has not only been treated with interesting and instructive ad dresses by men of national-fame in agri cultural work, but also with a ball-bout prognun presented by members of the various college musical organisalloim On Mondiii evening the preliminary program consisted of a piano and a vend solo, a selection by,threo members of the girls - gliee club and eoveral slum bers by a lamp quartette and the man dolin club Dean Watts delivered an address of welcome to the visitors and Dr. W. J. Spillman, Associate Editor of the Farm Journal, gave a lecture on 'The Outlook for Agrlcultut o after the War." In till“ lecture Dr Spillman e•piulnod fully the present food atte ntion and made 010211' many of the prob lems that ntv being faced by farmers and dealore In re-establishing their (Continued on fourth page) Dr. Sparks 11l From Nervous Exhaustion Presidont Sparks le confined to ble limo on account of elokness duo to ner vous oxhaustion. Ho' has boon ill for eomo elm°, beginning shortly after tho mooting of tho Building Committee of the Board of Trustees, which wan bold In Philadolphia a couPlo.of weeks too. Dr. Sparks had boon - to Atlantic City for a short root; and on hie return home ' lest nook, Dr. Rite:lour ordered him to bed. Dr. Ritenour roporte a marked Improvement in 'his condition. It in °mulcted that with caro:and rest, presi dent Smirks will steadily Improve and regain hie health By special action of the Board Of Trustees, Dr. Ovation has' boon 'granted a year's leave of abeence - for.recuporn. Con. In tho Interim, the Trusteee have further provldod for tho conduction of collage affairs, by having Doan Pond take his place. Dr. Pond will bo found daily` in tho 'Preoldont'e 'office to moot the setudents 'and tako'illargs "of any matters requiring attention, Totirgiatt. BIG CELEBRATION ON WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Large Number of Attractions Brings Many Visitors—Athletic Teams Victorious ---_ One of the most successful and largest celebrations of Washington's Birthday In the history of Penn State was hold lust Saturday and Sunday. Although weather conditions were not Ideal, thorn was a largo number of attractions scheduled for the students and the many ,Isitons who warn In town over the week-end, and, had the day boon better doubtless a much larger number would hate been on hand As It was: tile only thing on the program that had to ho cancelled was the review of the cadet regiment on Saturday morning, on account of the large amount of snow which had fallen (luring the several du)s preceding. With the omission of the review. the dist etent on the program was the an nual convocation, which was held in the Auditoilum at 11 o'clock Tho en tire cadet regiment was present, In ad dition to many visitors, which gave an unusually largo attendance Colonel Morrow and Set ern! of his staff officers gate the inincipal talks of the morn ing. In the absence of Dr. Sparks, who Is confined to his home on account of Slane., Dean Pond presided. •Colonel Moires., who Is attached to the general staff at Washington, marl the first speaker lie began with some of his esperiences In the-early part of th war, he hosing been a member of ono of the Brat divisions to , be sent across He stated from Ills observations made on a 51511 of the serious Allied training Camps In France, that America is not so far superior to the English In the lino of athletics as In commonly supposed. Ho said that he had found a vely large majority of the English Tommles participating In some tiled of sport at the different camps In his closing remarks, he emphasized the value of milinul training for the Jorge amount of physical and moral good t e'" ed member of the medical corps, who spoke on some of the conditions the physicians had to face when the various drafts came In. He brought out Jim fact that the American people are not In as good a physical condition as a mholo, as Is the common belief, but stated that there were many men who had to be com pletely turned dome or else accepted far limited seitice only, duo to various de fects The main attractlonr of the after noon and melting acre the arertling meet a Ith the Mal evilty of Pennsyl vania and the basketball game with the University of Pittsburg Complete donate of these events are given In an other part of this issue. The Sunday Chapels were in charge of the Student Volunteer Missionary Conference, which atm held at Penn State over the past neck-end. The usual Sunday afternoon concert ren dered by the Cadet band, was the - final etent of the holiday program proper. A large number of visitors and old graduates of the School of Engineering came to attend the conference of Engineering Alumni to talk over plans for the now Ellginneting Buildings, which non held at noon on Saturday STUDENT VOLUNTEER' CONFERENCE ENDS Meeting of Eastern Union Closed On Sunday Night—To Meet At Juniata Next Fall The loot Hesston of the Student Volun teer conference V.!10 hold In the Audi torium last Sunda, moiling and wan one of the best attended and moat interest meetings of the whole conference. The convention opened on last Friday evening end between that limo and the closing session thorn were heard aev oral vem Interesting speakers ahe hod spent their lives in variant kinds of missionary work. Delegated MPresont ing nearly a hundred of the higher in stitutions of learning in - the cistern part of the United Staten were present, the total number of those who registered being about three hundred. Thin in cluded the Penn State mon and women nlio signed up as delegated At the opening mooting of the con ference on Friday evening Dean doll gave an address of welcome in UM Place of President Sparkewho had hop ed to bo able to bo present at that time. Tho principal timelier of the evening fund Mr E. C. Lobenoteln, formerly a missionary in China. A business meet ing was hold on Saturday morning at which officers for the coming year wore elected and IL meeting place for the next Daatern Union Conference was decided upon. Tho result of tho elections of of deers were as follows: President, Stot• tier, Juniata College; Mei-president, Meg.night, Penn State; Secretary treasurer, Mins Conklin, Dickinson Col lege., It was decided that the next an nual conference would be held at Juni ata College during the Thanksgiving recent] next year. Immediately following the Saturday morning business, mooting ,Dr. S M. Zwomer. President of Cairo Univorsity, gave an address' on mission problomo In tho afternoon. Rev. P.- S.,Whito, do mdstlo aecrotary of the Missionary So ciety of the Protostant Episcopal church In the 'United States; 'nuvoka most in torestlne- talk. iOn Saturday oven -1 (Co:Maned on loot-page) 'Varsity Wrestlers Triumph Over Red and Blue Mat men By 24-4 Score YERGER'S MEN WIN FOUR FALLS AND A DECISION The Penn State wrestling team opened the season auspiciously last Saturday afternoon in the Armory, when it easily defeated the University of Pennsylvania matmen, before a large number of studen' and Washington's Birthday visitors. The final score was 24 to 4 and this just about shows the superiority of the Blue and Whit. grapplers over the Philadelphia team. Four falls and one decision are credited to Coach Yerger's team. while Penn was able to secure only one decision. The visitors' heavy weight man was injured and was unable to accompany his team ti. State College, and this bout went to Locke by default, so that thi. final score, correctly speaking, was 29 to 4, in favor of the Blue and White team. The results of Saturday,s meet were extremely gratifying, to say the least. The film that faced Penn was one on which there were no veterans. Horst, Long, Shultz, Nelan, and Czarnecki, intercol legiate champions in the 115, 135, 145, 175, and heavyweight classes, respectively, were all lost by graduation, and Captain Brown. the 158-pound intercollegiate champion, was unable to wrestle on account of an injured knee Deter, the 125-pound sensational wrestler of last year, who was counted upon as a sure winner this year, with •Qdrew from college In Not ember to enter Inn officers' training school. and he has decided not to return to Penn State until next frill Conch Verger, therefore, had to de velop a team out of second string and green material, and the nay his proteges shooed up last Saturday, proves that Penn State again hos an excellent op portunity to; keep the Intercollegiate Championship Wrestling Belt at this collei,e for another , year The Penn team came here with sw ami voteraminine-up Gouty, je the 153-pound class, were men SN ' irl represented the Philadelphia Institution on the mats het year Rhoads, the 125-pound wrestler, who Is also cap tain, Is in his first year of 'varsity wrestling Bevies In the 115-pound clam and Fell, in the 135-pound class, are substitutes on the team, and sire , t ied because of injuries to Gallon' and Netter, who participated in tho Navy meet a little over a neck ago. The Penn State team. however, also antlered the loss of two had won out In the finals These lucre Craig, In the 135-pound class, who dislocated his shoulder a few dais before the meet, and limes In the VG-pound elms, satin Injured a rib in the final tryouts. The -places of these men were taken by Bab cock and Crimes respectively, both of n horn showed UP OSCOptfOrlanY well, as each was successful In pinning his op ponent's shoulders to the mat. INTERCLASS BOXING TO BE HELD FRIDAY Annual Meet Between the Four Class Teams To Take Place In Armory l sulliTgt.M.lneivioleTn snorts y Acting • under the desire of the war dLpartment, , boning is being promoted with the usual Penn State vim and vigor Each class Is now represented by a team and sev eral interclass meets are , planned for the near future. The athletic associa tion is attempting to schedule a meet with another college, but as yet nothing 111111 dot eloped along that line Coach Harlow is certainly to bo com mended on his splendid work with the men, and they have progressed wonder fully under his careful tutelage The'; Senior and Juniors have responded to the call and thero is keen competition between the men - for places on the: teams. Honney, Gross, McFadden and ]teller, 'ID men, and Emory, Lasser and Dunbar, Juniors, hate all -seen action with the gloved and have presented some gomLeyamples of belie skill On Friday evening, February 28th, there will be a boning tournament In the Armory, In the shape of a dual meet between the four classes The Seniors will contest the Freshmen and the have a set-to with the Sophomores. The elimination contests for this moot - begun I , ,fonday. Feb ruary 24th ' This meet promises to be the biggest all-college athletic event in the near future and will he of especial interest to the boxing enthusiasts at Penn Slats In the moot next Friday between tho Sonlora and Freshman. the tumoral... men hate as yet no representatito for the 115-pound clans. while the Froshmen have the choice of Reese, Eberly, Mowry and Lichonstein to defend their Inert of the clash Marko 'lO and Hewitt or JO:thine '22 will clash In the 121- , pound bout: Keller will probably ho the choice for the Seniors In the 136- ! pound bout, whilo the Freshmon will bo represented by Shaffer, ReilleY or Roman McFadden, 'lO, who recently returned to college, will be called upon to taco either Rosen, Carey, or Kelm, Freshmen in the 141-pound bout. Cross, 10 will prehably moot the Freshmen alugger, Friedman In the 160-pound close Rooney 'l9, who beat every coiner while at Wiesahlekon Barracks, will boa both the light-hoary and heavy weight, bout for the Seniors. In tho light-hoavy bout. he will bo opposed by either Stein '22 or \\ - else '22 The homy-weight class will and Mackenzie or Stein. Froshmen anal= him. Al though tho upporclassmen will be moro experienced. the Freshmon wilt be well represonted by enmors, and newly do yelped, but'apirlted boxers. The Junior-Sophomoro meet, -the same manikin. will bon hotly contested scrap for honors. These two teams will bo more evenly baltinced as far , an az Varianco In boxing go., and an into, eating moot. Is looked for Solochtor '2O will meet Friedman '2l in tho 116. pound class. Swan.. '2O will probably meet Laliey '2l In the 130-pound bout, and tho 141-pound class 'will bo a emir lied bout botwoon ,Dunbar '2o' and I Sohiffor '2l. Lasser '2O will be called upon -to moot' oither Cooper '2l otr Dusenborry '2l In the 160-pound clans; and this bout should be of °spode' In. torent, since ouch of the contestants boa shown a knowlodgo of natio skill beside the ability to put In the required Minch.. 'rho light-heavyweight' bout will be fought out botwoon.either Black or Farthomor '2O and Alkon or Haler '2l. The hasty-weight class will ho ropre eented by Emory- '2O and Hollis '2l. Tho man urn all working hard for the coming moots. , and from the nuMbor of right hooks, straight lobe, body punches and' bloody noses soon In the Armory during the peet'wook, 'there le evidence that on Interesting time •is in store for Penn State boxing tone. The Cainpus Presents Quite A Rurai Appearance This Week PRICE FIVE CENTS I=l The first Penn State man to wrestle this year In an Intercollegiate meet, and the first to win a fall age Garber, the wiry little 115-pounder. His oppo nent was lloWes, of Penn, who watt a (Continued on Pogo Three) Musical Clubs Plan Extended Activities The munlcal organizations or the col lege are working hard to keep up the standard of other years and to suit ably lit the nchedule oat for them. Tho CO. and - Mandolin clubs have the same organization but aro practicing separately for the concert., while the 'Varsity Quartet has several engage ments booked, and the college chorus is practicing hard to render a cantata. Trials for tho Mandolin club were hold recently and from the numbdr who re ported twenty were selected. The club thin year promises to excel the ono of last year A distinctive feature of the organization will be an Hawaiian and banjo quartette The club_will play In conjunction with the Glee Club and will render their concert at the same time. The first concert was given Saturday morning 'in the auditorium and a few soloctionn were given by the club on Monday, the first day of Farmers' Week The Glee Club has been seriously hampered this year by the Ides of many of the mon but in now ready to appear before the public Trials ware hold and eleven wore selected from the who reported. It Is hoped that the club wit coon bo on a firm working basis and !tromp to its reputation. No trips have boon arranged but they will render a Sunday afternoon concert In the near future. Two wooke ago a call was made for a. portion to , fill the position of cocond tenor In the 'Varelty Quartote.. George P. Carl, who roturned between samostars, was chosen A trip has been planned which trill cover ir week end toward the last of March, and will take In Curwons villo,nnd Phillipsburg The Quartet le also endeavoring to make a trip to Wilkes-Barre and' Binghamton. N. T.. and will sing In. the Glee Club concerts In the near future. Tho college chorus tinder the direc tion of Mr. Dorn avocets to render Sbtiner's "Crucifixtlon" In the Auditor ium on the Sunday before Caster. Tho solo part of thliteuntata will he handled by Miss Geist soprano, Mr Catanach tenor, and Mr. Dorn baritone. The se lection le a. One one and will undoubtedly bo ably rendered. '•
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