Friday, December 18, 1936 BETWEEN THE LIONS 1 By 808 GRUBB ■ Coach Roy Simmons is having: his troubles as the boxing season at Syracuse is about to open. Bo Dlus hi, who fought, in the light heavy weight division last year, broke his leg and will be lost to the Hill ring team for the season. Artie Me Giv ern, who is well known to Lion fans, having boxed in the 155-pound class last year, now weighs over 185 pounds and will have a difficult job training down to make the welter weight division. Two shakeups like that will have an important bearing on Eastern In tercollegiate ring competition, . for the two leading schools in this cir cuit always have been Penn State and Syracuse. Had McGivern been able to make the weight it would have meant a return engagement between him and Sammy Donato. - After fighting to a draw in the dual meet last year, Sammy defeated the Orange “tough guy” in the finals of the tournament. ’ Russ Van Atto, Lion hurler of a few years ago, is given credit for having appeared in the greatest number of games during the past major league season, a survey of the American League records re veals. .Russ, who-has been - on the pitching staff of the St. Louis Browns for the past two years, was in 52 games during the past sea son. . . Coach Galbraith uncovered a valuable piece of material during the freshman-varsity meet the oth er night in the person of Har Quick, a senior who. just decided to come out for the tank team this year ... Joe Kmpa, only member of last wrestling team not yet reporting, is working out in on Altoona gym where he is practice teaching . . . Mike Zeleznock Rbnman, now coach ing at. North Carolina dropped in re cently. In the first year of intra mural boxfng there,. 1500 persons turned out to witness the bouts, proof that Mike is inaugurating boxing in a big way. GREYHOUND’S LOW FARES bring first aid to badly battered Christmas budgets ROUND TRIP FARES AllisnotlosttYoucanstfflgethome for Christmas without mortgaging inwrennnr H 5 your future—or even your room wilkbs*uarrb 5.23 mate’s wristwatch. Go by Greyhound scranton 3.85 and satfe your money. You can go washingtondx. l I'll an ? on any schedule—yet rates Cleveland B*.Bs average 25% to 50% less than other new york. n.y. 8.20 travel ways. 10% extra reduction on PIIILLIPSBDRG, all round trip tickets! Start your lso Merry Christmas right , on a 'Johnstown 3.55 yranu Greyhound coach, HAB°mInURG-~S . STATE COLLEGE HOTEL PHILADELPHIA 5.93 College Avenue and Allen St.—Phone 73? PITTSBURGH $5.25 Above The Comer Ask about special rates lor 10 or more people GREYHOUND Stop for a Bite to /% /rTHHA T TT \ T T “A Century of Eat on Your Way /a Im/i I I ■ HAA I I Service for Home.... iliTll 1 1 A JL/ Travelers” COUR TMEN PREPARE FOR OPENER A T PENN Practise Tilt Arranged for Lion Quintet Basketeers To Return From Xmas Recess December 28 By WOODROW W. BIERLY With less than two weeks of prac tice to prepare for the opening game of the season which will be played on Wednesday night, January 6, Coach John Lawther is putting his baske teers to work in earnest. The cagers have been practicing every night for the past several weeks and scrimmages have become more; frequent as the opener approaches. 1 The starting line-up for the game at Penn has not been decided as yet. The showing the boys make during the last week of practice before the open tilt tilt will probably be the deciding factor as to who does or doesn’t play at Penn. Will Return Early The candidates for berths on'thc quintet will leave tomorrow for their Christmas vacation, but will return on Monday, December 28. Several practice games have been scheduled to be played during the final week of practice. December 30 has been ten tatively chosen as the date for the i Lions to meet a Y.M.C.A, team at Wil liamsport. When the Nittany basketeers tackle the Red and "Blue, they will be meeting a team that has been playing scheduled games for almost a month, and remains, to date, undefeated. So far they have played Lafayette, La- Salle, Harvard, and Swarthmore. Murray Won’t Play The odds seem to be against the State team, in so much as it will be playing its first scheduled game, un der a new system, as well as a new (Continued on Page h) Little Excitement Offered In I.M. Mit Tourney Finals Wilson, Simkow, Leskin, Sandson, Ricketts, Lessig, Nemeth, Quailley Win Crowns By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR, Contrasting sharply with the spectacular performances of the early rounds, Tuesday night’s final intramural boxing bouts provided few thrills to the 2,000 fans that sat unmoved in the balcony of Recreation hall. Whereas the semi-finals Monday afternoon were scrappy affairs, Tues day's were for the most part listlessly contested struggles where the fellow that was least stage-struck won. , After encountering some very tough competition in the previous fights, the finalists suddenly grew wary when in the ring at the pay-off. It was mostly that there had to be a pay-off* that anything was accomplished. Kermit Wilson '3B, Delta Theta Sigma, won the 115-pound title by clearly defeating George O'Malley '4O in an awkward performance. O’Mal ley showed something in every fight j up until this one and then seemed 1 i amazed as Wilson became an aggres sor for the first time'in the tourney.; 125 Fight'Best ! It was two lively 125-pounders who provided the most excitement of the evening. Desider Sinkow '3B, Phi i Kappa, won this one from George I Settle '39, Tau Phi Delta, after a lot' of hard blows had been landed on: every part of two anatomies. Sinkow j was bleeding at the finish but wasi adjudged ahead in a close fight. | Another bleeder .took the 135-pound class title as Joseph Leskin '3B, Phi Kappa, took over Richard Smith '4O, independent. Leskin' was the aggres sor the whole way as Smith relied on a long left arm. Bernard Sandson MO, Sigma Tau Phi, ended National Champion Fran kie Goodman’s sympathetic perform ance in his corner early in the second round by TKO’ing Frank Whitman MO, Chi Phi, with a murderous as sault of right hand punches. Good man, who had followed every second of the struggle with pantomime, a la Speidol, in his frat bro’s corner, re tired to the bench after the fracas far more worn than Sandson. This was a 145-pound go. Ricketts Wins Again By far the cleverest and most con sistent performer of the tourney, Ed ward Ricketts ’37, Alpha Chi Sigma, then stepped in the ring to take the 155-pound title, with Joseph Korsak '3B, Tau Sigma Phi, as game opposi tion. It'was boxing on the part of Ricketts that gave him the nod over the wilder-swinging white-haired lad. • In a comedy fuss between Hcber Lessig ’3B, independent, and John Kauffman ’39, Delta Tau Delta, the former gained the decision by simply landing the only blows of the fight. He used a' stiff chopping uppercut to land, while Kauffman used nothing to accomplish the same. Theodore Nemeth ’4O, independent, well-built football tackle, took the 175-pound crown by besting Marvin Angstadt '3B, Pi Kappa Phi. Ted was the aggressor and landed more blows. But on the whole it was not a very spectacular performance. Bless’d Be the Ties That Bind Two Phi Delta Thetas, Harry Cromwell '37 and Charles Quailley MO, were the heavyweight finalists, (Continued on page four) Best Wishes for a State College Diner 110 E. College Ave. Boots Ripka, Prop. WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND IT IS OUR FURTHER WISH THAT WE MAY CONTINUE TO SERVE • YOU DURING THE COMING YEAR HILLSIDE ICE & COAL CO. THE PENN STATE..COLLEGIAN 58 Frosh Boxers Report for Team Coach Tommy Slusser Expects Good Season Despite Lack of Stars By JERRY WEINSTEIN Although freshman boxing pros pects are not as bright as in recent years, Coach Tommy Slusser consid ers this a good sign. The absence of so-called amateur stars will give the new coach the opportunity to start from scratch, and with several pro mising sluggers in -view, pie expects a good season. ‘ 1 Of the fifty-eight that reported Wednesday for the yearling team, several boxers that showed well in the intramurals, including Adler, Sandson, Simkow, Quailcy, Smith, Handler, and O’Malley were present. With these as nucleus/ Coach Slus ser will begin work immediately on the largest squad ever to report. After the vacation, the freshmen will go througlh a two-week condition ing period, with ring work scheduled to begin in mid-January. Practice will be held on Monday and Friday from 4 to 5:30 o’clock and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6:30 until 8. Problem at 115 Pounds ■Slusser’s biggest problem, like Leo Ilouck’s with the varsity, is in the 115 pound class. Only two > men turned out in this class and the first work to be done will be to find a man for this weight. Those who reported: 115 pounds—O’Malley 'and William Smith. .. 125 pounds—Dciber, Jones, Sypherd, Eno, Gillespie, Simkow, Clarke, and Booth. 135 pounds Weisberger, Ketter- (Continued on Page Four) A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year Gernerd’s . S. Allen St. MatmenOpen 29th Season Next Month Jack Light Will Form Nucleus of Team; 6 Men Return By FRANCIS SZYMCZAK State’s twenty-ninth intercollegiate wrestling season opens next month with Princeton’s Tigers at Princeton, New Jersey, on January 16. The Nittany wrestlers are hopeful of retaining the championship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association. Coach Charles Speidel is beginning his eleventh season here. During the past ten seasons State; has lost only nine meets, winning fif-i ty-one and tying two. The Lions have a schedule of seven dual meets, the Eastern Intercollegiate tournament, and the National Collegiate wrestling tournament scheduled during this season. Light to Wrestle Jack Light, 135 pound intercolle giate champion for two years and still undefeated in team competition will be the Lion nucleus. Captain Joe O’Dowd, heavyweight; Ross Shaffer, light heavyweight, and Joe Krupa, 165 pounder, are the members of last year’s team who finished as runners up. Aldo Zazzi, Jctin Calvin, Ray Brooks, Bobby Reynolds, and Fred Stegmaicr are leading contenders for the other positions. Speidel has in structed all of the inexperienced men to participate in the intramurals. One hundred and eighty-one students have registered for the competition to date. During the week Coach Speidel has instructed the grapplers in the var ious switches, wrist locks, and the fundamental starting offensive and defensive positions. He pairs the | wrestlers in six-minute matches out side of their weights in order that the same weight men will not know each other’s style for the intevclass meet on January 9. Season’s Greetings Jft| bob fgjp 1 TAYLOR Plumbing and Heating Dial 2722 m • £ 0. s m i The First National Bank EXTENDS THE SEASON’S GREETINGS AND TAKES THIS OPPORTUNITY TO WISH FOR YOU A FULL MEASURE OF HEALTH, HAPPI NESS AND INCREASING PROSPERITY DUR ING 1937. McEwan, Osterlund, Barnes Make All-East Soccer Eleven Penn State dominated the Associ ated Press ali-Eastern soccer team as Captain Bill McEwan, Frank Oster lund, and Phil Barnes were placed on the first team. Eddie Mandel made the second team. Yale and Navy players were grant ed two positions each, while the other first team berths went to hooters from Princeton, Springfield, Lehigh, and Lafayette. | The all-Eastern team was chosen for the first time by eight coaches in the Eastern Intercollegiate soccer as sociation. Included in this group were mentors from Yale, Harvard, Princeton. Navy, Temple, Syracuse, Lehigh, and Coach Bill Jeffrey of Penn State. McEwan was selected by six of the eight coaches. It was the third time the Nittany leader was honored at the center forward position. He was called “a great opportunist” by the selecting body. Osterlund made the first team aft er receiving second team mention last Make Merry . . . f-' m %\ 'VI m s i & Page Three season. He hat] quite a bit of compe tition due to the fine quality of the forwards playing this year. Barnes was the outstanding full back in the East. He clearly won first team selection, receiving no op position, and there was a wide scram ble for the other fullback spots. The selections: First team —goal: Haines, Navy; fullbacks: Barnes, Penn State;. Sing niaster, Princeton; halfbacks: Spahr. Springfield; Orth. Yale; and Lucard, Lehigh; forwards: McEwan and Os terlund, Penn State; Sanderson, Navy; Lasell, Yale; and Elienewski, Lafayette. Second team—goal: Geuther, Tem ple; fullbacks: Beck, Swarthmore; Forbes, Penn; halfbacks: Pearson, Swarthmore: Kelly, Navy; and Man del, Penn State; forwards: Patterson, Penn; Hughes, Syracuse; Margeson, Brown; Morgan, Princeton, and Wood, Harvard. ' Other Sports on Page •! the day after Christmas Penn State Alumni Dance + + + 29th annual reunion PENN-HARRIS BALLROOM HARRISBURG »A [««* * Y 1««> ‘"v Sat, Dec. 26th Nine thirty Admission $3.00 I & i
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