Page Two
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly daring the College year, except on holldals.
by minden. of The Penns3lvanitt State College. In the In ccccc t of the
College. the students. faculty. alumni. and friends
HUGH R RILE} JR '32 WENDELL KERN '32
Editor Business Manager
HUGO K FREAK '32 SAMUEL SINCLAIR '32
Managing Editor Circulation ',hanger
EDWARD W NNIIITE '32 LIN Y ERB '32
Assistant Editor Ad,ortising slnnager
THEODORE A SERRILL '32 EDWARD S SEEDING '33
Snorts Editor Foreign Adtt Manager
WILLIAM H IR% INE '32 COLLIN E FINN '32
heas Editor Asst. Circulation Manager
bTFI, ART TOWNSEND '32 JESSE C MeKEON '33
Netts Editor Asst Achertising Manager
MARL 51 It RIGHT '32 SIARGARET TSCHAN '32
Women's Editor Women's Managing Editor
LOUISE SIARQUARDT '32
Womtn's Netts Editor
in..% 1-1 BrnmTni,ll ROI. D Iletzel Jr '33 Rnben E 'Diann '33
. ' . ' on• 1 , Rollin C Steinmetz 'll Rlchnni V 801 l 'l3
B I Vitlitum. 1r 11 Ernest B 7.lknualo. .33
r=::Mlill
Assort tTE BUSINESS MANAGERS
Paul IV Blrr.toln SI Robert 31 Ilarrsnwtan . 33 Alfred IV Reuse Sr '33
Wlllnrd D No,. '33 Arthur E Phllll,B .33
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932
COLLEGE BOXING: ITS FUTURE
With the clang of a turnees bell anti a sharp impact
ci shining, new gloves, the finest college boxers in the
ration opened up the first National Collegiate Boxing
tournament yesterday afternoon. Tonight eight men
w'-e base sun ived the gruelling two-day battle will be
clowned as the champion bevels of America. Not only
do these men hold national titles, but they, uith the
three other semi-finalists in each cc eight, tall have the
opportunity to enter the final Olympic tryouts at San
Francisco.
Penn State has been moud to extend a welcome to
a splendid army of college athletes. It has been the
greatest wish of Penn State athletic officials to have in
attendance nt this tournament every fuend and every
foe of college boxing Surely those who believed that
boxing has no place in colleges could hardly make such
r statement after witnessing this splendid exhibition of
still, combined with the highest type of sportsmanship.
Although plans have not definitely been made to
hold this ON eat annually, the success of the tourney
this year certainly makes a careful consideration of its
rossible annual occurrence a necessity. Boxing in col
leges is on the upgrade. Its rapidly growing popularity
from coast to coast has been little short of phenomenal
Let the men who have been responsible for its success
continue to advance its cause. Let them guard religious
ly the amateur code of the college boxer Unless college
boxing Is kept clear of professionalism it most certainly
is doomed If strict amateur regulations are adhered
to, under careful management boxing will take its place
near the front ranks of American college sports.
EASTERN BOXING RULES
Dining the tw•else }eats of its existence the Eastern
Intercollegiate Bos.ing Association has made great
strides towards placing the fistic sport on a firm foot
ing in eastern colleges. Tsvo drastic changes in the
Association mules, however, both put into effect during
the last two vests, base met with opposition serious
enough in its char Deter to threaten the progress of
college boning in the east
Tho new rule changes did away with the judges,
placing the entire responsibility of decision on the ref
ace, and elinunated the heavyweight class from official
league contests In an effort to accumulate enough in
foi motion to render assistance in the formation of nes,t
tai's rules, the COLLEGIAN has conducted a nation-wide
poll to determine the concensus of opinion among a wide
assortment of boxing officials, coaches, and athletic di
rectors
The result of the survey has been very significant
It has left no doubt as to the opinion of officials on the
heavyweight question. It was a mistake to ban the big
men from college ring careers. Pointing out that the
darger connected with heavyweight bouts has been ovei
emphasized, that it is unfair to contestants and fans to
eliminate that weight, boxing solons seem to favor the
ietuin of the ling giants.
Although officials favored a referee's decision lath
e. than the judges, one very important factor must be
pointed out. The reason advanced by a majority of
those who thought the referee should be given the entire
light of decision was that it is too hard to supply the
colleges with competent judges. Is this sound reason
mg, With so much at stale shouldn't it be the duty of
Association officials to find competent judges? Cer
tainly these arc enough men engaged in college boxing
to provide the sport with efficient judges.
RINC PERSONALITIES
Interesting studies in psychology on why crowds so
speedily become attached to some boxers and gain a dm-
Hot for others were presented in the Olympic matches
hem
Thioughout the rounds the audience was quick to
pick favorites. AlthOugh they kept close watch for ring
generalship and clever boxing, spectators responded
most heartily to men who showed willingness to engage
in busk exchanges and in the more spectacular punches.
As is always true, the most popular boxers were rela
tively obscure fighters with comparatively mediocre 'rec.
ds who toppled opponents boasting formidable con
qt.ests nod established reputations.
From the first, spectators singled out their hoped-for
champions because of some appeal in personality or
style The unfolding of then character's saga of con
qrest or defeat was followed as eagerly as any boy
scads tethriller" while the uncertainty of the calibre
of their favorite's opponent added the necessary dash of
1 The Ring Around
We might just as well build ourself another ark
(Noah (Oohs') and heave a rainbow over the bossy,
nosy that the influx for the Olympus: is about no.
What with Alligators, Tigers, Wildcats, Bisons,
Mules, Panthers, Bulldogs, Cougars, Wolves, Grey
hounds, Yellowjackets, Owls and Game-Coels, we will
float merrily away on the Green Wave fearing no
Terrors with a doughty cress of Mountaineers, Orange
men, Tartans, Dukes, Co ahers, and Presidents There
you have them, in a not shell.
We could produce a spectrum from all the college
colors thnt would Jar our physicists and even put
some of the new spring outfits m the shade, with
orange, blue, red, black, white, maroon, cherry, garnet,
crimson, gold, al ay, green, purple, and olive. And if
they wore laid end to end, what a string of knockouts
that would be. As one of the gels from Ifag Hill
(Grange Dom to you, Mr. Dope) put it, the end of the
depression for the oculists is m sight.
As soon as you figure that one out, get the photo
graphic cerebration in order and picture something.
Picture, for example, a hoses front Duquesne taunt
rug a Georgia man.
"G'svan, you're yellow "
"Put up ye Dukes"
Or a Loyole Southerner sticking his tongue out
at one of the Baltimore Loyolas
"You're nothm' but a big Greyhound bust"
"No? Wolf fer two cents I'd Loyolova you"
Pitt's Panther and the Nittany Lion are sisters
maim the skin, the nature ed, pipple tell us. It
wouldn't be so bad, if only Pittsburgh didn't get under
our skin so much
If Princeton throws in the towel, can use call it
the Tiger Rag ,
Most uncloubtlessly, the neatest tile of the wk.
prize goes to the good old publicity dept As a matter
of fact, the dept has a good chance to cop the gland
award for the fiscal yr. with this effort. Hine is the
diet. The Public Information boys got together and
decided that they ought to send out pictures of some
of the bosses who were coming here for the Nteel,-end.
So they pasted a bunch of the pictm es together on a
suitable background and made a mat of the whole
thing.
Up to that point, everything Ntas Yacob But lily
gliders rear their ugly heads in the best of dents , and
this one is no exception. So %stint' , So the artists
snore called in to don bit of gal nishing, and said art
ists hit
_upon the idea of doing said garnishing by
hanging a fen pails of boxing gloves about in appro
priate places. Except for the fact that they mould
probably requite a good set of brass knuckles inside,
the first pair designed wasn't such a bad job
They looked like this • 41orro
But 'lotus fin the second pair. Maybe
the artist was in a hairy, or peihaps lie was
used to doing landscapes. Anyboo, here is the Rem
biandt that stns sent out on the mat to the Curuens
villa A e, old, the Philadelphia Bid/ciin, and umpteen
other papers scattered taer this well knoun Common-
poverty
Maybe the boxfighter who was expected
'to do battle with these had his right thumb
out of place. 01 maybe he was just left
banded and didn't caie who knew it
Speaking of Pitt, tan ringmen Eton Mr Mellon's
garden patch were talking the other day, and got
into a discussion as to what each was going to be in
later life. Said the Si st octet in out little ~ ignette
to the second actor, said he, "Hey, Simko, what are
'you going to be in Intel life ,
The second sacristan of the Cathedral of Know
ledge pondered n bit, since he neighed 175 lhs, and
sins pretty ponderous, then said, "I unto think I
would niake a good engineer, on account of how I can
hold nty hewn pretty well, but since I bloke my
schnozzle in a door, there is nothing left but profes
sional hosing"
More than 22,000 students
have paid all or a large part of
their way through college by
the Real Silk Undergraduate
Plan. Today many of these men
are in permanent executive pos
itions with this company.
This is a company with fac
tories located in Indianapolis,
Indiana; Dalton, Georgia; Ham
ilton, Ontario, Canada; and
London, England, doing busi
ness in the United States and
forty-three foreign countries.
• Real Silk
Hosiery Mills, Inc.
World's Largest Manufacturers of
Silk Hosiery
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
College Boxin
Popularity
Intramural Contests
Began Mit Sport
About 1880
Receiving impetus from the Cheat
Wai, in the not tep}ems boxing has
grout, lion, its former minor place in
the college world to a position where
almost all major colleges and univei
sales non boast tennis in competi
tion.
Although intramural contests date
as far back as 1880 and have been
carried on in ninny institutions since
that time in unorgamzed fashion, the
traminx camps of the war peuod did
mugh to popularize the sport and to
pave the May for the present situa
tion mimic boxing has or many col
leges come to supplant other snorter
sports in contestant and spectator ap
peal
Among the earliest colleges to place
tennis in intercollegiate competition,
Penn State and Penn first met in
1919, the Quakers ',inning .1-to-S In
the nest few years Navy, Springfield,
Massachuhetts Institute of Technol
ogy, Yale, Army, and sevelal Can
adian tennis comprised the competi
tion in the East.
Form Neu League
In 1921 when the National Colleg
de Athletic Association recognized the
Intercollegiate Boxing association
which consisted of Navy, Penn, M. I.
T, and Penn State, another step had
been made nn fathering boxing Not
until 1921, liossevei, seas the fast
touinament held among the chanter
membeis, with the exception of M.
T. whidln was n enlaced by Syracuse's
newly foamed team
Harvard had earned boNing as an
intramural sport since 1880 but did
not give formal msti action until 1890
and finally placed a team in intetcol
legiate compehtion nn 1030. Carnegie
'lnstitute of Technology, the Univer
sity of Pittsbmgh, and Bucknell are
' other institutions wheie tine sport has
des eloped only in the last several
years. So great has the development
been in colleges that a new league
arts organwed this spiting consisting
of fin merlv unattached schools and
those in Western Pennsylvania and
West Vnginia. The Eastern Inter
collegiate tournament Inns been held
annually since its inception in 1924.
Virginia Takes Lead
In the New England states, inter
collegiate boxing is a growth mainly
of the last ten years and had its ori
gin in intiamtuals, according to W.
II Cowell, dirgtor of the physical
education department at New Hamp
shire Univet. and district official
for the tournament here. In his opin
ion the sport is still in an experimen
tal stage 111 that region and its fa-
TAKE HOME A USEFUL SOUVENIR
HANN & O'NEAL - JEWELERS
132/ 2 East College Avenue
To serve You faithfully and conscientiously
has been our earnest desire and highest aim.
The First National Bank
Of State College
JOHN T. McCORMICK DAVID P. KAPP
President Cashier
WHERE?
, A'2 THE
Green Room
—FOR—
A GOOD MEAL OR ,
A GOOD STEAK
---_
Phone 731, - 142 EAST COLLEGE AVENUE
.STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Sprang Into
ollowing War
Olympic Boxing Head
"*.;44*
Sczoct<
Hugo Bezdek, Ducetor of the
School of Physical Education, heads
the reinitiate° that oi gunized the
Collegiate Olympic ti yout% hero. He
1005 appointed last spring at a
meeting of the Olympic Games Com
mission, and since that time has
done the weak', amount of tooth
connected WA an latigiug the boots
He 'aired as coach of the Lion
football leant Imo yang ago, and
since that time hos held his tumult
position as head of the newly creat
ed School of Physiral Education
turn depends on wise sup°, vision of
coaching and competition.
The University of Viiginia intro-1
duced boxing to the colleges of the
South in the winter of 1922, with the i
aid of Washington and Lee Univer
sity. The Cavaliers were the first in
the. South to recognize the sport of
ficially and to make it a major ac
tivity. Since 1926 a tournament in
the Southern Conference has been
held annually Fourteen of the sec
teen schools with boxing teams in the
conference last yeas lepoited that
boxing diew large,. crowds than bas
ketball to rank as the most popular
winter sport Louisiana State has
one of the strongest teams in the far
South and Florida was the lust team
in its region to Introduce the sport
following Virginia's lead in making it
a major activity
In the Southwest hosing has a good
field for development Entirely un
oigamsed, according to Dr Harry A.
Scott, of Rice Institute, Texas, and
district representatives for the Olym
pic trials, intramural competition is
the extent of boxing in that legion.
1,500 Towels See
Service in Locker
Room During Tilts
More than 1,500 towels will be used
during the National Olympic Boxing
tournament, according to Harry Pen
nington, locker room attendant at
Recreation Hall. Each mitman will
require approximately nineteen mas
sagers.
If placed end to end, the towels
used here yearly would be long
enough to reach from here to Altoona
on the main highway, with enough
left over to give oue to every Inhab
itant of State College and Bealtburg
Approximately . 00110 towels ar,
used each month by athletes and pby
steal education clisess, Pennmgt.°
states. Nearly 80,000 towels an,
needed for the whole year.
BALFURD
TAILOR SHOP
Under the Corner Room
CLEANING -- PRESSING
REPAIRING
"Suits Made to Order"
Delivery Service Phone 811
SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR
NEXT LOAD OF
COAL
YOU WILL SAVE MONEY
STATE COLUGE. FUEL AND SUPPLY Co.
Phone 35-M
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR QUALITY
ME
America's ARKLKORN Amenca's
OriFinal Original
WHIPPED CREAM FUDGE
Just One Shop in State ,College
For Quality Products
Call The
State College Bakery
Phone 0 'Nest College Avenue
t r .,_----
. .., The Nittany Lion
HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL
• COLLEGE DANCES
MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW
FOR INTBRFRATERNITY BALL
BUFFET SUPPER SERVED AFTER BOXING
SATURDAY NIGHT-$1 00 PER COUPLE
JOHNSTON'S
MOTOR COACH LINE
STATE ,CELLEGE—WILLIAMSPO
Through Expreos Service
Read Up
Daily
PM. PM AM
3.00 10.40 State College 8.00
245 10.28 Rock View 815
289 10.10 Bellefonte 8.80
2.00 9.50 Hublersburg 8.50
9.25 , 9.80 Mill Hall 9.20
1.15 9.10 Lock Haven 9 30
1.07 8.57 McElhattan 9.38
1,06 8,55 Woolrich X Roads 9.40
1.00 8.50 Avis ' 9.45
12 50 8,40 Jersey Shore 955
12.10 .8.00 Williamsport 10.30
AN_
10 45
10 30
10.16
9.65
9 25
9.15
0.02
9.00
8 55
8 45
8.06
STATE COLLEGE TO BELLEFONTE
80 a, m., 1.2.16 p .m., 2:15 p. m., 4.10 p. m., 5:10 p. m,
6:80 p. m., 10:30 p. m.
11ELLEFONTE TO STATE COLLEGE
7:15 n. m., 9.40 a. m., 10.15 a. m., 1 20 p n: ,
2:30 p.m., 3:05 p. m., 5.00 p. m.; 10.00 p. In.
Saturday, April 9, 1932
GRIDDERS MAKE IIONOR ROLL
Eliminating any possible worries
over scholastic eligibility which
Princeton's new conch, Iliac Cruder,
may have next fall, fourteen football
players, including Captain-elect Fred
Billings, have been listed an last
term's honor roll,
POPULAR REQUESTS
AT THE CORNER
Oysters and Clams
on the
Half Shell
Seafood Platters
at"''
The Corner
A Complete Food Service
EIEaMM
East Maser Asenue
L. G. TREADWAY, Mgr. Dr
JOHN LE VINE, Res. Mgr.