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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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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
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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. '
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the day after
Christmas
Penn State
Alumni Dance
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29th annual reunion
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