Penn State collegian. (State College, Pa.) 1911-1940, March 09, 1926, Image 3

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    Tue&day, jvi.tvt.ii ii. liiiid.
Nate Cartmell Relates
Experiences on Track
{Thin fa the second of n xrncs of
tuhch'H ov (hr athletic hmtottett of
Penn State caarhex. These Into}
uhetthcu me (IcHif/iicd to acquaint the
xtndnitx with the men who me with
niti Pont State kfattiiy ni the field of
H/ltll (k).
A tal 1 voung Kentuckian, sinewed
like n thoioughbred and muscled like*
u p.inthei, tiled his name as an on*
tiant foi the Southern Intel scholas
tic 100, 220 and <l4O yard spunt cham
pionships in May, 1902. His looks
did not belie Ins speed, for that ycai
a new interscholnstic champion was
ctmvned in those thice events When
Nathaniel J Cmtmeli had signed Ins
enliy blank ns a paiticipaut foi the
Dupont Manual Tunning high school
o< Louisville, Kentucky, he had at the
“lime time indelibly inscnbcd his name
on the honor list of Amcncun tinck
-heroes
Nate Cailmcll’s cattvr earned him
to England, St Louis and llamhuig
He was foui yens at the Um.'crsitV
of Pennsylvania \vh_*'e he ‘ta* u*d
three yeni intei toll, m '*■■* champion
ol two distances. In 1901 and 1908
he was a point winner or the Untied
Stites Olympic tei*n He continued
a glouous caicci jn th> Hack and
letucd undefeated piofos-irnai ho'd
-11 of the 220-yaid ciown A c Hack
to.ith and tinnier N.*lj ‘.pent font
joins at the Umveisity of Noith Cai
ohnn, one nt Lafajecte, thiei* at Wusf
Vnginia and now is stalling his
fouith sen*-on hcie His teemd .s
icmaikable in that his teams alw
are improving
Full of quiet confidence this de
scendant of an ancient Kentucky
family enteied the University of
Pennsylvania m the fall of 1902 us a
student in the Whin ton school of bus
iness The swill of Philadelphia life
lew to the lad born in Umontown,
Kentucky, m 1882, and accustomed
to the h inks of the Ohio uvci, did
not dotci the future tiack king.
Three Times Dual Champion
In hts hist jeai nt Ponnsyhnnia
lie made the varsity team (In those
jears theie was no thiee jeai lulmg)
and m l'lO I laced to victories against
Cornell in the 100 and 220-yard dash
es llis tunes were xespcctivoly 10
seconds and 21 2-5 seconds That
same jeai he finished second in the
intercollegiate races in both those
e\ eats
Returning to the Umvcisity m
190 G nftci a lapse of one jeai Nnte
began a bidhnnt and umn/mg ca.cc>
I'm thice ye.us lie was undefcvtmi
into collegiate champion in the 100
and 220-yaid distances In 1907 the
Red and Blue tiack team won the
intercollegiate title largely as a icsult
of the individual achievements of
Cartmell, Haskins, Moffit and Tn>-
loi, a quaitet who coiialed thuty of!
Pennsjivnnia’s thntj'-tluee points J
On that team weio munv men now i
piomincnt in collegiate athletics One, I
nolablj, was Bob Folwell, who late j
became Navy gud coach In 1908 j
Nate was elected captain and led lus i
team to a second position in the In
tel collcgmtcs
Tours England
Following his ginduntion from
Pennsylvania the thice times crowned
mtctcolleginlc champion staitcd on
a tout of England that icsembles
Niumi’x and Hoff’s invasions of the
United States todav. It mniked his
thud test against European splint
eis In 1901, the jear of absence
fiom the Univeisitv, he was a man
bei of, the Olympic team and was
second to Aichio Jluhn m the Olym
]ue 100 and 200-nictci laces at St
Louis In the Olympic games of 1908
in England lie was again a point \vm
nci foi the United States
Returning to England in 1909 he
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won the woild's amateur champi
ship by defeating Bobby Keii, C
adu’s 200 meter Oljmpic champi
at Stamford Budge'track in Lorn
in a special 220-yard ia<e
It was while newspnpcis weie clam
ming for a match between Nate and
A B Postle, of Austinlin, the woild's
piofcssional titlcholdcr of the 220-
jatd dash,that Nate iceeived from
his Pennsylvania instiuctoi, Mike
Murphy, n lettei uiging him to ac
cept the position of tiack coach at
the Umveibity of North Caiolinu.
Nate signed n conti net and thus be
coming a piofcssional, he was able
to nice Postle, and did so, defeating
him handily at Stoko-On Trent, Eng
land, befoie live thousand followers oi
the cnulcrpath aitists, Dccembci eigh
teenth 19109 Cmtmell’s time, 21 1-2
seconds, was a new iccoul foi aiound
track. It was a pictuicsquc nice.
Botli men were pinned foi the host
spunks of their caicers The Spoil
ing Chiomcle, an English daily pub
lished a small edition that told of the
achievement of each peifoimer. On
the cocci of these editions weie the
pictuies of both runners. Nate was
stjled always as Nat J Cartmell by
the English pi ess.
Account of Postle Race
t Says one cot respondent on a Lon*
I don ncwspnpci the day following the
lincc: “By defeating Arthui B Pos
j tie at Stoke yesteiday, over 220-jards f
| the young Amenean undeigraduate,
Nat J. Cnitmcll, realized n much cher
' ished ambition, and will take up his
: duties ns the athletic coach nt the
Umveisity of Noith Carolina the un
disputed champion of the wmld oici
a fuilong It is a pioud position and
Caitmeli gained his new title by rs
line a piece of running ns has been
known in the history of athletics .
i He won by piacticallj foui yards m
| the e\tiaoidmniy time of 21 1-2 sec-
I onds which is the woild’s piofcssional
liccoid "
j Nnte letmng as an undefeated 220-
Ijaid champion letuined to America
! in Match 1910 and after a splendid
foui year iccoid as tinck coach at
Noith Caiolmn went back to England
in 1914 Nate wiote track articles
loi the Louisville Courier-Journal in
1913 The future Penn State coach
was in Hamburg when the Woild Wai
broke out Coming back to England
and thence to Ameuca, Nate again
letumed to college activities In
1915 he was trainei of the Lafayette
football team that humbled Ins Alma
Matci 17-0 and ciushed Lehigh 29-G.
At Penn State
During 101 C and 1917 Nate was con- I
noctod with the Dupont Powdei peo
ple and with the Amenean Interna
tional Shipbuilding Corpmntion In
1918 he was commissioned fust lieu
tenant m the au service Aftei the
war Nate became coach of the West
GLEE CLUB WINS FIFTH
HONORS AT NEW YORK
(Continued from first page)
placers. Winning song competitions
is no new experience to the Connecti
cut collegians as in order to appeal
in the annual New Yoilc contest Wes
loyan was lorced to piovc their su
pcriority over a .large field in the
New England contest.
Even though the judges-plnccd sev
eral glee clubs nheud of the Nittanv
Valley oiganizntion in the linal count
ing, Diiector R. W., was sat
isfied that his protges had peifotm
od to the best of their ability Ac
cording to comment buzzing through
the large audience following their ap
pearnnees, it was apparent that the I
Penn State Glee Club outdid all itsj
previous New York perfotmances
Today will mail: the last showings!
of the Club in Coatesville aftei which i
they will entrain for Atlantic City!
where a concert m the Ambassndoi I
Hotel will officially end their East-1
cm jaunt. In Coatesville yesterday
the singers appeared once in the nf-1
ternoon while in the evening they [
made two showings, all of which j
were of twenty minutes duration
The performances in the lut.ter city
weie run m conjunction with a vnude-*
ullc show in the local theatre
On Sunday night a progiam’was
licadcast by the* glccmcn from Sta
t.on WLIT, Lit Brothers in Philadel
phia For half an hour radio listen
ers heard “To Arms, Mulligan Musk
eteers, Indiun Love Call, The Lamp in
the West and Nittany Lion" ns sung
l>y the Blue and White organisation
In addition the Vaisity Quartet en
tertained with a group of light sel
ections.
Appearing in Abington, then fust
slop, Friday evening a ciowd that
pecked every available space m the
Abington high school auditorium lis
tened to a varied program as present
ed by the travellers. Taking the ap
plause as a criterion the Vaisity
Quurtet outdid any. other appearance
and time after time the continued
plaudits of the ciowd brought the
four perfoi mors .back on the stage
Following the concert m the Phila
delphia suburb a dance was given m
the school gymnas'ium in honor 6C
VtolatOflo shrdlu etaoin vbgkq pym
the Penn State Glee Club
Vuginia university track team in
1920 and produced teams that set a
standaid there He also assisted
Doctor Spears, now with Minnesota,
m training the Mountaineer eleven
until January 1923 Fifteen days af
ter his return from the Coast wheie
West Virginia defeated Gonzaga 21-
19, he signed to coach Penn Slate
tiack teams as succcssm.to Bm Mai
tm, a fuend who«had diiecled the
tiack destinies of the Blue and White
for nine years
The amval of the famous athlete
aroused dormant hopes and cicatcd
an enthusiasm for the cindci path
Dunng Nate’s thiee j’ear penod tlie
: Nittany Lions suffcied only a single
dual meet defeut which Navy admin
istered bj 11 points at Annapolis in
192.1. Penn State’s best iccoid in !
the outdoor intoicollcgiatcs was made
m 1924 when Caitmell’s pioteges
Enck, Helffrieh and Mooic annexed
21 points for a fifth place, Yale the
winner, scoring only seven moic
points
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THE PENH STATE COLI.EGiAN
(SOPHOMORE AFFAIR
ACCORDED OVATION
BY MERRY CROWD
Bestor’s Melodies Keep Dancers
Milling: in Armory Till
Two in Morning
DRAPERIES TRANSFORM
ARMORY INTO BALLROOM
Combination Program and Card
Case Suffices asTavory
For Annual Hop
Amid a goigeous uiiuv of deenra-
I tions and a splendoi of twinkling
| lights, mme than live bundled couples
I leveled to Don Bcstot’s ningic stuuns
■ in tiue collegiate stjlc Fudny night
| in the \tmoiv when sophomores and
jfieshmen disciudcd academic ic*
j sti amts and lost themselves in the
; icnlm of the Chmleston and the mag
ic chaim of tlie fifth annual Soph Hop
And if the ciowd, the music and
the beauty of the fan ones reveals
im>tiling, buiely it n, that this jear’s
function exceeded in gaiety and sui
parsed in giandeui anj vet staged,
fhe bubbling jolhtv of the mcmlj
swishing dunceifi, the intoxicating
ijllim of Bestor’s ucations, the cap
tivating ch.iim of the ladies gave the
dance an atinospheie hoietoforo un
attamed
Stead) Stream of Dancers
As the towei clock stioked nine
| the In st couples began aim mg and
the hue steadih inei eased until mid
night, when the ballroom seemed
rendv to oveiflow with dnnccis. Nor
did the sti earn cease until almost two
o’clock Sti oiling in thiough the can
opy leading in the doois of the hall
the visitnis weie giccted with neat,
guiv combination favoi and progiam
Just inside the loom n bank of
spiuce tices'vvns placed Diooping
fiom the ceiling in a sunburst effect
weie the l‘)28 colois, mange and
black The walls were hodockcd with
smilax leaves on n bnckgiound of blue
and white Small white puititions
with oak loaf deem itions indicated
the booths Oveihead in the center
a clustei of colored lights behind a
film of blue and white colon, and
simlnx leaves nddAt to the eficc^
Hosier Music Deluxe
And Bestm. Bcsfoi the deft l millet
of the keys, sat smiling upon the
platfoint at the fnt end of the ha’!.
A sounding booth,sent his music to
eveiv nook in the Aimoiy Nov urg
ing lus bojs on, now coaxing 1 lie ut
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BLUE AND WHITE HOWS
BEFORE ARMY MITMEN
(Continued from first page)
j the dnningmg punches of Gans.
'(.am, took the aggressive, held his
advantage and came buck in the third
period with blow.s that renederd lus
opponent groggy. The judges award
ed the decision to Gans.
! In the featherweight class, Filegor
'lost lus first round by a heavy nmi-
I gin. Jlc cuinc back in the second
and third but was unable to discount (
the supcriorit) that Beattie had es
tablished mid lost by judges decision
The fight throughout was hard with
Pil taking and giving blows that
counted.
Throughout the battle in the foitj
fivc pound division, Graaier seemed to
have the edge on Lovell of Army but
the scrappy fighter fiom the ranks
of the cadets had nn advantage m
i ggressivcness At one tune he coi
ncted tlie Nittany pugilist and lashed
telling blows to Grazier’s fjcu and
bod) which gained for him the judges
decision nt the end of the thice ses
sions
Entering the ting for the sixtj
pound battle with four uctoiics to
i.is uedit, Keil was unable to solve
1 the attack of the long Watlmgton
_V ho had seveial inches to spare in
leach. Keil went to the Rosin in the
first bout but was back at his man
at the opening of the second period.
Keil led with his favonte left jab but
it failed to land Instead he receiv
ed a down stroke from Ins opponent
Again and again Keil tried to get
on the inside of Watlmgton but was
repulsed with crushing blows on each
oicusion Near the close of the me
lee an opiate right fiom the Armj
middleweight «c*nt Kul to the carpet
foi the second time as the gong end
id the round When the bell sound
ed foi the opening of the final canto,
Keil stepped into his opponent and
clearly outboxed the cadet pugilist
as aiound the floor to a upping fox
trot or lulled them gently to and fio
to the soothing airs of a wall/ Es
pecially did he play'the N.Uany Lion
to perfection, the frohek.*!-, Jeraantl
ing one encore aftei another.
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lcsttng place but Jvcil took Hie lotmd
ci.sih. llmvevei, i f was not enough
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Lion foi t>-hv e-pound fighter was
vcnlied when ICiuppu went into the
ling with I-nt/che in the seventv
fivc-poum! division His vvntmcs*
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1 ritzche lashed out sleep pmducing
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Bui the nggiossive attitude of the
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A stiff sti up on the part of Hoi
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be stayed with lus man, lie failed to
i*\lubit the biand of boxing which he
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