Friday, January 27, 1933
Between
the Lions
with
The Sports Editor
. Tomorrow night's court engagement
for Mr. Leslie’s Lions is probably the
most colorful tilt that will be seen ,on
the home floor this season. There is
something about service teams,
whether they ’be' up’to standard or
not, that stirs the imagination, and
_ we imagine the 1933 Cadet quintet,
-' .retarded as it has been by the influ
’’ cnza epidemic up at West Point, will
no except)qp.
About the campus and wherever
talk inevitabkly revokes back, to the
fortunes of this year’s court Lions,
~,( w e notice a feeling of confidence in
the team that has been lacking for
‘ ! 'years. Certainly, if anything can in
-1 ' still optimism, it is the powerful of
fense drive which the Lions have dis-
played in every game to date except
'"the ill-fated venture into Pehn’s Pal-
• Whether Army’s defense is
capable of bottling this up ,is ques
jflionable. At any rate, it should be
} real battle, and we expect to see
the biggest crowd of the season on
. rhand to witness it.-
,l ' The proposal of Mr. Harvey Har-
Penn’s colorful head football
coach, that college football teams be
.divided into “amateur” and “profes
sional” leagues is a highly interest
ing and a fits in per
fectly with our pet theory that col
legiate elevens will be bound, in the
future, to play teams in their own
v:f elass, athletically and academically.
That subsidization exists in inter
im collegiate athletics today, no one who
is not afraid to face the.facts, can
~dcny. That it will continue to exist
at some institutions is, we have be
come convinced, almost as certain.
Huge stadia anti cosfly athletic plants
cannot be paid off in a day. As long
as a financial burden remains, the
college will have to attract to its fold
the best athletes possible, discounting
the glory side of- the question en
tirely.
Therefore, is it not logical and sen
sible that the colleges who subsidize,
should declare openly on which side
of the fence they stand without dan
ger of being subjected to calumny?
And if they could then get together
and play each other solely, wouldn’t
it help the whole muddled question of
intercollegiate athletics? We think it
would. In fact, we haven’t the slight
est doubt about the matter,
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This and That
You might be interested''to know
tfihat Ernie Paul is now coaching the
hockey team at Syracuse • . . . And
A 1 Lewis, back in town for a few days,
assures us he Is not coaching, the box
"ing team'at W: .& J. . . . . A banner
headline. on the Record sports page
Wednesday had some of the boys
puzzled .... “Yale Beats Penn, 35-
#; Character Triumphs,” it read, re
ferring on the one side, to the Eli’s
victory over the Red and Blue court-
jnen and on the other to the winner
of a horse race .... “Did’ya sec
where Yale heat Penn?” asked one of
the brothers
Then, pointing to
the other end of the headline, he add
ed, “And look at the Philadelphia
papers, always alibing for a Penn
—S. H. B.
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NITTANY COURTME
LION QUINTET TO CLASH WITH UNTRIED
CADET BASKETEERS AT 7:30 O’CLOCK
Unchanged Blue and White Lineup of Henning,
Conn, McMinn, McFarlane, Thomas,
Announced by Leslie
By Wm. M. STEfiMEIER '34
Final exams aren’t the only things bothering the Lion court
men this week. What seems to be worrying them a lot more is
what sort of “dark horse” the West Pointers will'produce to do
battle with them in Recreation hall at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow night.
No one, from Coach Spike Leslie down to the meekest of the
second assistant managers, knows just what to .expect of the
Cadets. But everyone, from the" 1
meekest second assistant man
ager up to Coach Spike Leslie
can be sure of one thing—the
old Army "game
Although the Academy five was
scheduled for no less than six contests
before the State College trip, an in
fluenza epidemic at the Point neces
sitated the cancellation of five of
these games.' And even though it’s a
well known • fact that the cancelled
games never molded any team into
championship calibre, three full weeks
of uninterrupted practice drill is
something for the Lio'ns to reckon
with.
Epler Leads Cadets
Tomorrow’s opponents hove had
only one meagre chance to show how
deadly they are this year. Early, in
the season they managed to squeeze
in a game with Johns Hopkins, the
Pointers winning, 28-to-22, by means
of a last-minute rally. The count had
been tied at the halftime. 'Wednes
day night, the Cadets were scheduled
to meet Swarthmore but that game
tod was called'off.
Bruce, Epler, a lanky cadet who
measures three inches over the six
foot mark, captains the dribblers from
the center position. Hillis, the only
other regular carried over from last
season, will pair off with Meier at the
guard posts. Two men who’ gained
considerable experience as reserves on
the 1932 squad, Neely and Kenerick,
will probably start for the Pointers
as forwards.
Lion Lineup Unchanged
A number of football men adorn the
Army court squad as reserves, notably
Captain-elect Jablonsky, who de
lighted grid fans this past season with
his dazzling play at the guard berth.
Two other grid stars who may break
into the game tomorrow are Stancoek,
fullback, and Lawlor, an, end on-the
1932 football outfit.
Twenty-one years ago, Dutch Her
mann led the last Nittany five that
registered a victory over the military
floormen. Last year, when the series
of Penn State-Army games was re
sumed, the Cadets took honors by a
46-to-37 score. Now, once again, the
Lions begin to look leather hungry.
No changes'will be made in State’s
lineup. ’ This means that Conn, Mc-
Minn, Henning, McFarlanc, and
Thomas will doff their sweat suits
just before the starting whistle.
May Use Reserves
The definite .selection of Henning
for the center post is a logical move.
Although Wittum gets around a lot
faster and seems to be a bit more
capable on the defensive, “Legs”
should get the tap-off for the Lions on
at least a fifty-fifty basis.
- However, .Spike will probably make
frequent replacements . throughout
game'no mattei* .which way the tide
of battle may be i*unning. The re
serves have been pushing the first
stringers 'rather hard in scrimmages
lately,-which gives Spike a fairly com
fortable feeling. In practice Tuesday,
a combination of Wittum, Stocker,
Heyison, Blylcr, and Fletcher shamed
the first club by chalking down a
winning score of 32-to-20.
Injuries, for a change, have ceased
to haunt Leslie’s team. The entire
squad, with the exception of Jack
Fletcher who turned his ankle in
scrimmage, is in perfect condition.
Opponents 9 Scores
BASKETBALL
Yale—33; Penn—23
Pitt—i 7; W. & J.—27
Geneva—32; Carncgjc Tech—3l
Lion Wrestling Teams Victorious
In S 3 Percent of Collegiate Meets
ny n. h. no:
Eighty-three percent victorious—|
such is the enviable achievement of|
Penn State wrestling teams in the
'past. Since the inception of the grap
pling art in the field of the Nitcany
Lion’s athletic endeavors, the Blue and
White banners have fallen less than
once a year, on the average—a record
probably unparalleled by any univer-'
sity in the East.
From the 130 dual meets enteredj
into by Nittany teams since 1910,
when intercollegiate competition was
first begun by Lion matmen, the grap
plers have emerged victorious 10S
times, and have been tied but twice,
a study of the athletic records show.
Victory, it seems, has always been
the inalienable right of Penn State
grapplers, and only four teams in the
country can boast of ever having
twisted. the Nittany Lion’s tail.
Navy, with eleven victories against
eight defeats and one draw, and lowa
State, winner thrice and loser once,
have the edge in their series with the
Blue and White.
. Cornell and Lehigh are the only
other teams ever to administer de
feat to the State contingents. The;
Ithacans have won. five and lost six
teen contests up to this year, while
Lehigh, can boast of but 'one victory
as against fifteen suffered at the
hands of the Lion wrestlers.
Entering the intercollegiates for the
first time in 1918, the Lions proceeded
at once to establish their supremacy
in Eastern wrestling circles and’
coached by H. C. Yarger, took first
place. The Nittanymen retained their
championship in the East "during the
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FortrialGame Rumor
Revealed as Untrue
Contrary to rumors that tomor
row night's'basketball game with
Army will be formal, the game will
be informaland will be held at 7:30
o'clock, a half hour later than the
games have started so far this sea
son, officials of the Athletic associ
ation have announced.
Officials-pointed to the use of
formal attire at meets with service
teams in the past as the basis for
tho runiors. It is customary for
athletic officials of West Point to
attend athletic contests in formal
dress uniform.,
ISENZWEK '34
| next three years,-and in 1921 were
considered the national title-holders.
During the eight years following 1918
Penn State was crowned the intercol
legiate championship team six times.
Since the advent of, Charlie Speidel
as coach only two . teams have been
conquerors of the Nittany grapplers. j
1 During the six years under Charlie's
I tutelage, the Lion matmen lost a total
of seven meets to Navy and Cornell,
and tied once with' the Ithacans.
Thirty victories have been run up by
the wrestlers during .this period.
With a team superior to last year’s
both in strength and experience, the
Lion grapplers may well be expected
to make a strong bid this year for the
resumption of its former champion
ship position in the .Eastern intercol
legiate circle. Only two regulars are
missing from the last year’s team,
which only lost one meet and tied one,
while a promising group of sopho
mores are pushing the veterans for
the varsity berths.
MONT ALTO BOXERS TRAIN
About twenty members of the Mont
Alto’ Forestry school, under the su
pervision of William C. Sechrist, in
structor in forestry, are training daily
for a boxing team at-the school, ac
cording to Prof. John E. Ferguson,
head of the Forestry school.
CO-ED RIFLE TEAM TO SHOOT
Tho ‘wonten’s rifle team will com
peto with the University of Tennessee
in a telegraphic match at the Armory
this afternoon.
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Ca rtmell Sco res Proposed
Adoption of Metric System
Believes Measurement
Plan Will Cause
Difficulties
Ily JAMES M. SHEEN* *3l
Coach Nate Cartmell pointed out
salient defects and scored the propos
ed adoption of the metric system for
track and field by th c Intercollegiate
Amateur Athletic association of Am
erica in an interview yesterday.
By thc proposed system all IC-4A
meets will be conducted ynder the me
tric system, with dashes, hurdling
races, distance runs and weight events
measured in meters instead of by the
present system of measurement in feet
and yards. Thc arrangement now
used in all Eureopean countries and
in the Olympic games- was adopted by
the Amateur Athletic Union last fall,
and it was generally considered that
tho system would be used by the
IC-4A.
“The American sporting public is
educated to the present system of
I track contest measurement in feet and
yards and because it knows very little
of the European system the people
would probably lose a great amount
ol* interest in track,” the Nittany
mentor stated. He believed that much
bewilderment would be expressed over
the proposed plan, and that it would
lake a long period for American peo
ple to get acquainted with such a sys
tem of measurement.
.Another difficulty to be encountered
would be that all of the present Am
erican records in feet and yards would
have to be changed, Cartmell stated.
“The present arrangement, complicat
ed as it is because of the several
claimants to every track record, would
become much more complicated if
if the proposed plan for measuring;
distances in track contests by meters
Is jpassed,” he added.
* objection advanced by the
Lion track coach is that if the pro
posed plan is passed by the IC-iA,
then all of the colleges in that organ
ization will have to change the length
of their tracks, and in many schools
which have indoor tracks for dashes
this lengthening would cause a great
amount of expense.
“With many colleges already drop
ping a large amount 'of their spring
snorts, because of burdening costs, it
seems unwise to adopt thc metric sys-
Decries Change |
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tern and cause added expenses because
of the necessary 'changes in the size
of tracks that, the new system will
carry with it,” Coach Cartmell
stressed. “Although the Olympic
games' use distance in meters, the
average American college does not
point toward tho international con
tests,” he emphasized.
Several athletic clubs, members of
tho Amateur Athletic Union, have
stated that winter track contests spon
sored by them will revert to the Am
erican system of track measurements.
Included among these is the New York
Athletic club which lias already dis
carded thc metric system in favor of
the-former plan for its annual winter
races next month.
FIRST ROUND COMPLETED IN
I. M. BASKETBALL TOURNEY
’ Intramural basketball has coni-j
pletcd its second round of play, ac
, cording to Charles R. Gies *34, who is
in charge of the tournament.
Winners include Delta Sigma Phi,
. Delta Tau Delta, Beta Sigma Rho,
Delta Theta Sigma, Sigma Chi, Sigma
Tau Phi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Delta
•Chi, and Phi Sigma Kappa.
Others advancing to the third round
are Phi Kappa, Alpha Chi Rho, Phi
Kappa Tau, Frear Hall, Phi Delta
Theta, Unit No. 3, Theta Nu Epsilon,,
Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Lambda Theta, |
and Unit No. 6.
PHONE 292-W
Pago Three
BOXERS SPAR AS
MEETS APPROACH
Houck Stresses Active Fighting
Among Mitmen—Ralston
Returns to Ring
By CHARLES M. MYERS Ml
"Spare the rod and spoil the child’’
is an old maxim in the boxing game
as well as in any other, so Leo is
sparing no sparring aibong his mit
men as the opening meet approaches.
Ralston, after recovering from a
temporary lay-oil* in the infirmary,
was hack again this week trading
punches in the ring with other ban
tamweights. He looked good against
Daley, a freshman, and Watkins, a
135-poundcr.
Johnny Napoleon and -Mike Zelez
noek, featherweights, have gone at it
hammer and tongs for the last couple
of nights. Mike is a brute for punish
ment and takes plenty from Napoleon,
but he’s always back for more.
Ferrero, I’alasin Fighl
Ferrero and Palasin arc another
pair that like a good scrap, even if it
is only in a sparring bout. Palasin
charges in, gets a couple bounced off
his nose, and manages to land a few
himself.
Captain Johnny McAndmvs, with
out much competition in his new 1-15-
pound berth, keeps himself warmed
up by sparring with his brother Fran
cis, freshman intramural and inter
class champion, and others above his
weight. Kessler, 155-pounder, has
been boxing with Johnny, as well as
with Dick Woolbbert, sophomore
heavyweight.
In the upper weights especially,
there have been quite a few unmatch
ed sparring bouts, probably because
of the lack of enough men in each
class. Consequently, Woolbert, Nebcl,
and Slusser arc often lighting men
under their weight,
j Marty McAndrews, intercollegiate
175-pound champion and captain in
3930, has been punching with Nobel
and Woolbert. Nebcl usually gives
the ringside watchers quite a slug
fest, and Woolbert has a left jab
which is developing into a powerful
ramrod at his opponent’s chin.
Marty was continually pulling his
old trick of backing into the ropes and
swinging out again at bis opponent
or the rebound. His success with it
in college several years ago indicates
| that some of the present boxers might
master it with good results.