Groans From VOL XXI, No. 51 NANTICOKE ROUTS "ERIE HIGH PASSERS FOR STATE TITLE Has Little Trouble Defeating Lake City Quint 44-25 in One-sided Game POMZALSKI AND PRICE STAR FOR CHAMPIONS -Harrisburg Trounces Meyersdale 73-20 to Win Third Place After Final Round Tallying fifteen points befoie then ppponcnts could score, the flashy Nan ticoko high school cagers fought their 'YJ»y to 'a decisive 41-25 victory over srie Enst high in the finals of the Pennsylvania interscholastic tourna ment played off in the Armory Satui dqy afternoon' i The newly-crowned state champions were out m front at all stages of the game, leading 23-3 at half time Harrisburg Tech, after bowing to Jfgnticokc in the semi-finals Friday pvening by the score of 50-39, clinched third honois by running roughshod over Meyersdale, the final count being 73-20. Nnnticokc Clever Nanticoke jumped into the lead at the \ery outset in the contest with ?rie East and was never headed. Captain Domzalskt registered a brace of field goals in quick succession and looped in four fouls while Price as as pounting a pair of double-deckers and 0 foul Donahue, lithe foiwaid for the miners, boosted the Nanticohe to tal to fifteen before Clousei scored from the floor. The Nanticoke machine launched anothei offensive, scoring eight points on two-ply foul attempts by Sherwood and Donuhuo and field goals by Cap tain Domalski. The half ended when Gromncki tallied the thud Enc point Wjth a well-directed shot from the penalty mark. „ ~ . Erie camq back with such vigoi that outscorcd Nanticoke in the final half, 20-19, but the miners wcie too far in the lend to be overtaken Cuptam Dowler of the runners-up netted two of his numerous long attempts while Downing registered five points. Sul livan, bulky guard, contributed two field shots and five fouls to the grow ing total, making him high scorer for the loseis Price, toutney lunnei-up foi scoi ing honors, sank two held goals and a brace of fouls while his team mates were counting from the floor Erie East played hard and fast basketball with Sullivan in the leading lole, but the final whistle teimmated hostili ties with Nanticoke the undisputed state champion. The victois expect to tia\el to. Clu iContlnueu on lust page) PHI KAPPA TAU ANNEXES 1926 MAT CHAMPIONSHIP Defeats Sigma I*l 13-6 in Final Round of Interfraternity Wrestling Tourney For the second time in the last two years Pin Kappa Tau captured the Interfraternity wicatling cham pionship by taking the last two set tos of the meet from the Sigma Pi grappleis in the Aimory Saturday night, winning by a 13 to 6 count Until the final bout the outcome of tho contest was uncertain. Last year the champs were hard piessed to an nex the title, capturing honois only through falls gained in the last two weights. This ycai’s battle wus al most a duplicate. Fighting on even terns Cot the ma jor part of their scrap the feathei weights were evenly matched, but Jones annexed three points foi Phi Kappa Tau with a time decision over JJatier. Fohl, Sigma Pi, tied the scoie when ho won a time advantage over Gettig, Phi Kappa Tau. This was the hardest fought fiacas of the evening Even after Refoiee Pack ard commanded an extra bout of two minutes there was no mingm-hy eithei man and Coach Ralph Leonard or dered two moie one-minute periods. Signhi Pi went into the lend when Zuiby defeated Ober, Phi Kappa Tnu, with a small time advantage Dowd, Phi Kappn Tau, hurriedly legnmcd the lead for Ins colleagues when he threw Potter, Sigma Pi, with an unus ual hold. With the final verdict rest ing upon his match Hollobutigli, Phi Kappa Tau, clinched the laurels foi his fraternity when he pinned liunna after a shoit period of stienuous grappling. . . ®eml-,lAfe?olcly Penn 1 INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE PLANS CONVENTION HERE Arranging a program which will have ns its main theme "Transporta tion,” the annual Engineering Exten sion and Industrial Conference will be held the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth of May. The extension con vention will continue through Thurs day und Friday, while the industrial session will begin Friday noon and close Saturday morning. One meeting will be devoted • to “Pcisonnel” and “Personnel Meth ods” and will include a discussion on. the guidance of high school students in the selection of engineering ns'a life work. Dean R. L Sackctt is in New York at the present time in connection with the industrial conference. PLEBE GRAPPLERS DOWN SOPHOMORES Three Falls and Two Decisions • Give Yearlings 21-6 Win in Annual Mat Scrap FINAL BOUTS DECIDED IN ABBREVIATED TIME Gaming three falls and two decis ions, the freshmen wicstlcrs trounced the sophomores, 21-0,-in\he annual underclass mat scrap in the Armory Saturday night. This victory balanc es the slate of»thc plebes, they hnv mg lost to West Virginia’s yearlings ear lier in the season. In all but tin co matches the fresh men displayed decided superiority over the second-ycui matmen. Although scvcial bouts were slow, with the win ner holding a considerable time ad vantage, the tw'o final matches ended with quick falls for the yearling con tenders. Plcbe Captain Wins Captain Steele of the freshmen, started the- scoring for his team when he threw Fries in four minutes 15 sec onds The plcbe leader took tbe-aoph* omoro to the mat in short order and held the advantage until he -rl icd his opponent with a half-nelson and body-holch In the 125 ; pound class neithci Wil son, the second-yeai ginppp’er, or Schmucker vveic able to gain a e’e cision in the allotted nine irmutos. The efforts of onch contender to'gain a fall enabled the other to hold the advantage for short periods. Al though Wilson took the offensive in the first extra session, Schmucker worked out of the hold to come to the top The match ended with a lime (Continued on last page) W. S. HOFFMAN SPEAKS ■ AT CO-ED MASS MEETING Discuses Conditions in Near East, Macedonia and Syria in Appeal Svita, Macedonia und the Near Enst were brought to the foie in the minds of the Co-eds when Rcgistinr W S Hoffman, tulked about the wo men in the Neai East at a mass meet ing held in the Auditorium Friday at one o’clock W. S. G A Mass Meetings aie cus tomary on Fridays Here McAl lister Hall, Women’s Budding and the cottages meet together to listen to rcpiesentutivcs from all jigrts of the campus. No mere man is allowed un less he comes here' to speak as did Mr. Hoffman, who made a fitting cli max to the co-eds health campaign by his appeal for money' on.bchnlf of the Syunn women Mi. Hoffman spoke of those Fur Eastern Christians who were forced to live on grass and Icav es plus a few pounds of flour given to them by the Americans. He mentioned the' wo men who were not given the flour but fought for the privilege of'sweeping up the particles on the floor. Syua is like a college student who is "dead broke”, said the speaker. W. S. HOFFMAN SUBMITS NEW REGISTRATION PLAN Registuir W. S. Hoffman, who has duvised u laboi saving plan in the leg islation of college students, will de scribe his methods at the fourteenth annual convention of cojlege legts trais at Minneapolis on April foui teenth, fifteenth und sixteenth Dr G F. Zook, formerly head of the history depmtment here and now piesident of Akron university, will speak on the incoiporation end uc 'cl editing of colleges. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 30. 1926 NITTANY DEBATERS FACE WYOMING IN CONTEST TONIGHT Intersections! Clash Set for Seven-thirty—Audience To Determine Winner STEVENS AND BRENNAN SPEAK FOR PENN STATE Encounter Closes Season for Lions—Two-Man Teams ’ Argue Ex Tempore . Penn State will r.mg down the cur tain on the debating season tonight* w’hcn Wyoming forms the verbal op position in the Auditorium at seven thirty o’clock. The intcrscholastic clash will be extemporaneous in na ture with the participants given the subject twenty-four hours before the starting time The Wyoming forensic aitists have visited twelve enstem and middle western states on their present tour and have met with icmarknble suc cess. Their two man team is com posed of Herbert Lcbcrt and Albeit Pence with Mr. 11. P. Constnns as coach. During the season of 1922-23 the Westerners came through their debates without a defeat to mar their record Two seniors, S. K. Stevens and J J. (Continued on last page) RIFLE TEAM WINS EASTERN DIADEM Captain Frcar Leads in Victory Over Fhc Teams—Scores 391 Points in Final MATCH SCHEDULED WITH _ GEOIIGEf WASHINGTON U. Firing its way to victoiy, the Penn State rifle team wound up the senes of matches.with five other colleges and carried off the Appalachian League championship on Saturday with'an undefeated record The Nittnny riflemen were schedul ed to fire against West Virginia, but the match was forfeited. Ilowcvei, the telegraphic match with the rest of the tongue wns carried out and re sulted m the Blue and White team taking the long end of the score with the highest team total mndc this year, 1933 points. The high seotei in Sntuiday’s match was Don Frcar ’26, captain of the team, with .391 points out of a pos sible 400. W A. Bird ’26, followed closely with a scoie of 390 while C. B Pritclmrd ’2B ran up n total of 388. S. L. Burt ’2B, scored 383 and W. G. Tumnn ’27 totaled 381 in the meet , t A spociul prone match was also fired on Saturday in which the Blue (Continued on last page) MACMILLAN TO RELATE . EXPERIENCES IN NORTH Donuld B MacMillan, famous Arc tic explorer, has been secured by the “Y” to lecture in the Auditorium on, April sixteenth This lecture will consist of his expeditions over th> ice fields of the north and will be illus trated by moving pictui cs. Mr. Mac- Millan is'a well known explore! anj speuker and*his talk should pi ova \uy interesting Players’ Stage Crew, Long Unnoticed, Commended for Invaluable Service Many u widely-cuculated press dis patch has heruldcd each success of the Penn State Players, cairying the names of actors, couch and playwright to thousands, but rareiv has the small est paragraph made mention of those who woik behind the scenes, laboring for wcoks to prepaie an appioprnte setting and to plan well-timed effects off-stage. In the picsentation of “The Seventh Guest,” responsibility for the success of the play fell almost entirely upon the stage crew. Barring the drops and scenes which ordinarily lequne a month oi’more of hard wore, the stage iutnds hud to assume the •but den of an extraordinary amount of bnclc-stage effects. Without the op portune ringing of bells, timely crash es and mysterious knocks, the ploy would have lost much of its thrilling | character in spite of splendid acting and clever lines.’ Foresters Plan Woodsman Show Pioneer exploits of covered wagon days will be reenacted when the For estry Society stages its first annual field day here Saturday, May fif teenth. Like the games of the west ern rangei, the stunts of the day will include rifle and revolver contests, en durance races over tfie mountains and streams and all sort! of woodsmen’s competition. • The new officers of tho‘society, C. 11. Hutt ’27, president; J H. Abbot ’2B, vice president; S. D. Bcichler ’29, secretary, and W. r S. Sheldon '29, treasurer, announce’that all foiestry, students arc cligibta to enter the events. SOPH BOXERS BOW TO PLEBE HIKER Yearlings Lose Featherweight And Middleweight Battles , In 5-2 Victory ABSENCE OF KNOCKOUTS FEATURES ANNUAL SCRAP In the game of sock and rock ’em. the yearlings proved "the better artists in slinging killing *mits when they took over thc_gamc but inexperienced boxing outfit from the sophomore le serves, 5-2, Saturday’ evening in the Auditorium. , Y The mob howled in glee, regardless of who gave or took* the smack, while the only time that the wrestling meet on the other end of the floor recen ed any attention vvas_betwcen the rounds. It was featured by 1 the absence of knockouts, although there was plenty of claret sprinkled in every' bout Whitesoll Takes Opener When the opening* gong sounded, Whitcscl! leaped at> the sophomore fighter but met'a stiffei opposition than wns ordinarily found. He took the first tvyo rpynds m the third T’alnici slipped a few'ffl’unhing rights over the gunfrl of the plcbe repre sentative The judges scratched then heads awhile, finally naming the fresh man the winner. Royc was the hero for the second ycarmcn when he crushed the ardent attack of Dale, yearling feathei weight The sophomoic had little tioublc in gaming the decision aftei producing a*seml-groggmess with the powerful rights to the face of his opponent > For the first time the yearling cun (Contlnucd on third page) PURINA REPRESENTATIVE INTERVIEWS PROSPECTIVE AGRICULTURAL SALESMEN L M. Kishlar, representative of the; Ttirina Mills Company, the largest manufacturers of mixed feed in the United States, spent the latter half of last week inteiviewing students of the agricultural'school Mr. Kishlar, who visits most of the large colleges in the country in the capacity of Put mu representative, was loud in his praise of the Penn State Agricultural school. Mr. Kish lnr, lajin interview', stressed the fact that students who receive then edu cation at n good ognc\ilturnl school are fit for almost any kind of a po sition. He pointed out that compan ies selling any sort of equipment to a farm owner want agricultural stu dents to fill tlicir positions Mr. Kishlar spoke highly of Penn State men and rated the agricultural school of the Pennsylvania State Col lege with those of Cornell and Mich igan as the finest m-thc-United States. The ciew selected by A. C. Cloc tingh and D D. Mason, ducctui. of the Penn Stntc Players, included liv e men, each with a separate dutv to perform. R. L. Paterson ’2B wa-» ap pointed stage manager, with C. B. Gilbert ’2B as his assistant. “Props' were placed under the caic of A. C Blnncy ’27, and L M. Yingst '2B. Responsibility for lighting and elec trical effects were placed with.E W. Bailey '2B Entire supervision of the work was placed m the hands of the directors and E. G. McElheny *26, who. is sentoi stage munugoi With the assistance of H. N. Pendle ton '2B, the ciew worked night after night building up the huge sets and painting the fiats as designed by J D. Witmer '27, adveitising manngci. At the same time it was necessary to gather stnge propci ty, furniture and pictuics, an<l to prrnngc the business (Continued on third page) (tttfUwjfeut PENN STATE BOXERS PUCE SECOND AS NAVY RETAINS INTERCOLLEGIATE CROWN METALLURGISTS TO VISIT I MANY INDUSTRIAL CITIES Undei the direction of Profesor O. B Matin, the senior metallurgical en gineering students will leave here Wednesday April seventh for an in spection trip through severnl plants in New York. Ten days will be snont in visiting copper, lead, zinc , and other moatllurgicnl plants in Raritan, Newark and Perth Amboy, New Jer sey; Brooklyn, New York and Phila delphia and Palmcrton, Pennsylvania The group will return to Penn State April seventeenth. The junior metallurgical engineer ing student*, accompanied by Profes-. sor O A. Knight, will leave here Wed nesday, April seventh. They will vis it steel mills and other metallurgical plants in Johnstown, Latrobe, Pitts burgh, Youngstown and Cleveland, Ohio, returning about April seven teenth. TASK CONFRONTS BASEBALL TUTORS Poor Weather Conditions Hinder Drill Sessions As Juniata Clash Draws Near WEALTH OF INFIELDERS BATTLE FOR POSITIONS Coaches Bezdek and Killinger will hiwe a perplexing problem confront ing them before the 1926 diamond combination takes the field for the opening baseball clash of the season here with Juniata college a week from Saturday. _Fndny’a_ , snowstorm, brought brought n sudden conclusion to the first week of outdoor practice. The batterymen continued their daily dulls under the protection of the Stock Pavilion while the remainder of the squad had an enforced layoff. Four sophomoic huilors aie show ing up well and are expected to make stiong bids foi vurslty berths. They arc Tlamcs, Dell, Jordan and Clay baugh The work of Hnmcs has c>i pccmllv attracted the attention of the nientois. The eligibility of Stybors ki. Slate and Van Attn will be decicU ed within two weeks as soon as then, grades for the initial eight weeks are compiled Should the ban be lifted, Penn State can bonst of an exception ally powerful stuff of moundsmen. Ilarnngton and Peterson will but tle it out foi the backstop post left vacant bv the failure of Captnin-clcct Kcrstettei to return to school If last y ear’s y curling lender can develop a butting eve it is probable lie will re ceive the catching assignment foi the opening tilt A meiry fight will be waged befoie (Continued on third page) TWELVE GREEK QUINTS REMAIN IN TOURNAMENT Four Teams Eliminated Thurs day Night—Games Played on Length of Floor Four more teums were eliminated fiom the intcrfratcrnity basketball tourney Thursday night in the Ar mory when Sigma Nu defeated Alphq Chi Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau and Delta Sigma Pht lost to Bctu Theta Pi and Theta Clu respectively, and Thetu Kappa Phi emerged victouous from its struggle with Delta Upsilon. All the games were linid-fought through out. Unlike previous tilts, when the side basket* were used allowing two games to be run simultaneously, Thursday’s games weie run off one at a timej Hcnccfoith teams Hint have demon strated their superiority will have the whole flooi at their disposu! Six more games must be plnycd in this lound, but it is unccitmn whether or not any contests will be scheduled this week. | Collegian Will Not * j | Be Ibbucd April Ninth j 2 There will be no issue of ■ j the COLLEGIAN on Friday j i* April ninth immediately follow- § ing the Eustei recess I Keil and-Fileger Annex Individual Ring Titles—Four Teams Closely Biinchedat Finish IKam Conflicts Must j Bo Reported at Onco { AH students who have con flicting examinations in their final cxaritination schedule must report at once to the Registrar’s office, as no adjustments can be made after the Easter recess BLOCK AND BRIDLE STAGES EXHIBITION Manager of Hayficld Farms Picks Champions From Fifty Animals MEAT-JUDGING IS ADDED FEATURE IN STOCK SHOW With close competition in all class es, the Block and Bridle Club's nnnunl live «tock show "Little International,” was staged at the Stock Pavilion Sat urday afternoon Fiom a field of neatly fifty animals Mr. Jack Hnxton, manager of Hnv* field Farms, of Wilkesbaire, Pa, picked the following champions the I McTanish horse, gi oorned by C W Lepper ’26, Beikslmc hog, raised by *S E Isliler '27; m the coarse-wool ! sheep class, D. L Ilcxiode ’26 with a 1 Marino owe and the beef animal | “Nonesuch," a short-horn white steei I entered by G. E. Baker ’2G 1 'ln-the*meat identl r Anlhm Contest, I two sets of puzes weie given. The winners of the women’s class were .first, Miss L L Johnston ’2B, second, Mis C L Goodltng, third, Miss D. Flank ’2B and Mis. Rebecca Acker man. In the men’s division, awards weie made as follows* first, Mr W Dean Johnston, second. Dr. I. P Rit enour, third, T. F. Steele ‘2B Thcst winners are icquestcd to call at the Animal Husbandry office. Room 203 Agriculture Building, for their prizes 1 At the end of the exhibition, “Bill" ! Connell auctioned off some choice cuts of ment. The piocecds will be used to dcfci the expenses of staging the exhibit COMBINED GLEE CLUBS END WINTER CONCERTS Bus»h and Graham Delight Large Audience—Mrs. I. O. Grant Gives Organ Solos In their last jippun.inte litre tin* _>enr the Penn Stale Men’s Glee Cluti in conjunction with the Gills’ Glee ( tub gave a recital in the Auditotium Sunday afternoon The opening numbon was an oigan .010 m winch Airs liene Osborne Grunt rendered Kindoi’s “Roccata in D Majoi” in *n mnnnci which dtevv loud applause from the audience. The Men’s Glee Club, under the hndciship of Dueetor R W Grant, then took the stage “Border Bullud” and “Tile Two Roses” weie sung, R W Gialuni ’2b taking the solo part r the latter number. D. P Bush ’26 led “Noah” for the last time of bis college caieei Hummel Ftshbuin ’23 then directed the GirlWGlee Club in three solec lions, “Little Mother of Mine," “But terflies,” and “Wvnken, Blynkcn and Nod” with Miss Ada Ronug taking the solo part in the lattei D P. Bush ’2O rendered Russell’s “Vale” nnd "Keep On Ilopm,” by Maxwell so well that a lound of ap plause lasting foi fully three minutes was teiminated only by an encore . Mrs. Giant again delighted the lis teners with a solo, this one being “Of fertory* in G Major” by Baptiste “Annie Laurie” and “The Mulligan Musketceis” weie sung by the men’* organization, followed bv “Imhun Love Cull," a song made famous m the musical comedy Rose Mane, de livered by the combined clubs. The hist numbci' was rendered bv Ihe Men’s Glee Club in Protberoe’s “Invictus," which proved to be u fit ting climax to the Sunday ufteinoon conceit series Love Thy Neighbor At. _ Thyself PRICE FIVE CENTS Placing three intercollegiate cham pions, Navy lompcd away with the boxing crown with a scoie of fifteen points while Penn Stntc came second with a tally of tlmtecn and two cham pions. Colgate and Yale divided the Ivvo remaining places and tied with eleven mnikcis for thud position Penn and Syracuse, seoiing tluee counts on second places, tied foi fouith honois Fileger sprang n suipiisc when In defeated Cordnsco, Svincuse, in tin* semi-finals and tumbled Ritchie of Yale in the finals to gam the light weight championship Cans although beaten bv Collins of Navy added tluee to the Lion score by cuptunng second place Keil Gets Diaren ** Keil, although defeated twice dui ing the season, gave an exhibition of boxing that proved tho downfall of Oiloff of Penn m the pteliminaucs nnd Ross of Colgate in the finals The Lion fightci staged a comeback nnd ndmmistcicd a thoiough drubbing to the Quake! pugilist, who bested the Nittnny favonnte last week Lentz bad little oi no opposition m the unlimited division and won foi the Midshipmen by defeating Clark of Penn. Cinik was game and caused the Navy heavvwcight sciappei to miss often but it was not enough to discount the advantage which tho An napolis candid ite piled up in the c.uly pail of the fight Collins vs Cans In the bantamweight bout, Guns lost the first round but came* buck with a stiong attack in the second and third Collins used the Navy ug giessive system thioughout and al though the fight wns close, succeeded in captunng sufficient points to take the decision One of the best buttles in tho finals came when Allen of Navv gamed a close decision ovei Lnvden of Colgate Botli boxeis landed telling blows, i,ut the Middle lentheipushet appealed to have a stiffei punch Lev dun was the taller and gave the waiv* seaman a little tioublc The Maroon feather weight sent clean blows tow.ud Allen but mum failed to pcnctiutc his c.ue ful gnaid The lefeice’s decision brought the Navv scoie to ten Penn State Tallies About equallv matched, I’lllegci and Ritchie of Yale to an exlia peuod befoie the nidges decided that (Continued on insc page) o OLD MAIN BELL GOES : TO PRESS THIS WEEK Editor Decries Lack of Student Manuscripts—First Issue Within Month I Despite the fact that ft w stmlint 1 conti (buttons have been iceuved the j Old Ut'll will be placed into i the hands of the pi inters Ibis week, | it was announced following a nu cling i of Pi Delhi Epsilon, honoiaiy juuinal iistic fraternity, Thursday This action was taken m oid( i that the publication Qe leady foi distubu tion within two weeks attei the con clusion of the Haslet holiday licc-s H F Tuyloi ’2O, editoi-in-clnef, slat ed that although the student body was tmdy in responding with mateii.il there are enough numuset ipts at lun I to make the venture a sucu ss The Old Mum Hill lcccivcd its stmt last vein when membeis of Pi Delta Epsilon, feeling the need fm a student publication to fill wants not covered bv the COLLEGI4K und tin* Fioth, published the initial issue of the magazine in Mav When the publication appeals on the campus next month it will be the second issue of the hteiuiy* journal Leading nitides Unit have been turned m by both iacultv membeis and students me “Timl bv Ncw«- papci” by Prof. W F Gibbons, u featuie strny wiitten first for tin Chicago Duily Join mil by' W 11. Moignn. ’2G, foimer editoi of l-mth, “Being Dogged" by Di F. L Puttie. “Modem Music" by Di O F. nuncio , a lev lew of Alice Bi own’s “One Ad ; Plays” by I) D Hcmv ’2(i, "A Chang ed World” and “On Helping OuL Piov- I idence” by Piof A 11. Espenslmde | Profs M M. Ham* ami W L Wctn lei will have manusenpt* m pi nit I These together with scurnl student J articles will make up the contents ot I the second th- Old .V»r n /»’••//.
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