Friday, January 15, 1937 BETWEEN THE LIONS By 808 GRUBB While the campus seethes with rumors that the eminent Harvard ornithologist, Mr. Richard Harlow, will be the next athletic director here, a sport which he introduced to this college is about to. pass its 100th milestone. The Lion ringmen's open ing Meet of the season with West ern Maryland in Roc Hall tomorrow night will be the 100th dual engage ment since the sport was inaugura ted on an intercollegiate basis here in 1019, Tomorrow night's opening also marks the beginning of Leo Houck's fifteenth year as mentor of the Nittany mit team.' The verbose doctor took over the reigns from Harlow at the end of the 1922- season and has been turning out fistic champions by the score ever.since,- placing the sport in the front rank of Penn State athletics. - Since 1929, when the first intercollegiate tourna ment was held here and won by the Lions, Houck's teams have -garnered six eastern champions and have won 32 individual titles Penn State's first mit team en gaged in a dual meet with Penn Sy lvania 18 years ago soon after Har low had taught several ring candid ates the fundamentals of the sport Harlow relinquished his position here in 1922, turning the reins over to Houck. Then he went to Western Maryland where he subsequently be came head football coach and also introduced boxing to that school. In the last several years of his reign Green Terror• teams were leading contenders, with Syracuse and Penn State, for the association champion ship. The only time I ever saw Harlow was in 1935 when he brought his Western Maryland boxers here for the eastern intercollegiates, just be fore he had been-named to the coach ing job at Harvard. Nearly every one had difficulty in distinguishing him from "Spike" Leslie, former Lion basketball coach, so close did they resemble each other. If the ru mors concerning the Harvard coach's appointment as athletic director here materialize into fact, you and I will probably be seeing a great deal of this man very soon. The relative merits of the fast shifting zone defense' and the "half and half" defense were de monstrated in. Wednesday night's. ganui.between the, Lion five 'and Lafayette. Lafayette's "half and half" uses - three . men back in man-for-man defense 'and two men out for zone defense, wheras the Lawthei system uses - all five man-for-man defense and two men in zone defense. • .0 0 0, Bob Ellstrom, eastern intercollegi ate wrestling champ here in 1933 and 1934, is refereeing mat contests at Lehigh in his spare time. Bob's brother, John, was here for a while., Swimming was his forte. Another brother, 'George, went to Notre Dame and then to Lehigh, playing football there last fall. All 'are na tives of Bethlehem, a town which is very wrestling-conscious, with Le high a leader in the intercollegiate' field and Liberty High a big gun in scholastic competition . .. You will see a lot of Frank Duffy, who offi ciated at the basketball game the other night. He's sent many 'an ath lete here from Dunmore where he formerly coached football and bas ketball. Tommy Silvano, Jim and Red O'Hara , and Sammy Donato are some of his proteges .. . Registrar Bill Hoffman, the faculty's most rab id wrestling fan, will officiate at some of the local high school meets this season ... Jay McWilliams, var sity ,center, asked for jersey No. 11 because his faller graduated from here in the class of 1911. RESIDE'S TAXI SERVICE - DIAL 3421 INAUGURATING 24 - HOUR SERVICE Stock Your. Coal Bin Now! HIGH GRADE COLLIERY ANTHRACITE CHAMPION HIGH-VOLATILE COAL EAST BROADTOP SMOKELESS COAL MOSHANNON, MINE RUN • • SCREENED CHERRY RUN SEASONED OAK FIREPLACE WOOD Poi Prices—Dial 842 Hillside Ice & Coal. Company Music Room Due to such large sales on new Radios, USED RADIOS Radio Service we are sacrificing a large number of s(Aets)lectric $5 and up BOXERS, WREST Lions Top Lafayette Five, 46-15 Lawther Sends 15 Men On Floor; Prosser Leads Scoring By WOODROW W. BIERLY Meeting another ;team that sup plied little opposition. the Lion cag ers routed the weak Lafayette quin tet to chalk up their second victory of their three engagements thus far. Fifteen players saw action for the Lions in Wednesday night's game that ended with a score of 46-to-15. Taking the lead shortly after the whistle, Lawther's five held the Leo pard's scoreless until they had tal lied for themselves no less than elev en points. The count was 22-to-9 at the half and during the latter session of the contest, the Lions added twen ty-four to their score to gain a thir ty-one point lead. over their oppon ents .by the end of the game. Outstanding on the floor was the Nittany cager's defensive play which prevented the Leopards from scoring more than four field goals, the-same as the Susquehanna crusaders last Saturday night. The Lafayette boys were scarcely able to get under their basket, especially while Lawther's first team was on the floor, add con"- sequently were forced to score their field goals on long shots. They were required to confine their playing chiefly to the defensive in an attempt to stem the Lion's attack. Lawther's starting line-up was composed of Joe Proksa and Sol ➢fie hoff at forward, Jay McWilliams at center and Max Corbin and Jack Reichenback in the guard berths. Af ter the Lions had scored twenty points, Coach Lowther sent his sec and team on the floor. Composing it were Sam Davies and Tony Sinkosky at' forward, Charley Prosser at cell= ter, and 'Mush" Parker and George Chalmers at guard. All are sopho- ' mores. The second team, although showing seae . weak spots in their offensive, seemed to possess even more fight than the' first five. They entered the game 'just before the end of the first period and played more than half of the second, scoring seventeen of the Lion's points. Prosser, who shot some Of the most spectacular baskets of the evening, was high scorer -with four field goals and one foul shot. Unleis McWilliams and Reichenbach (Continued on page four) 3 Ski Teams Accept Invitations To Meet Cornell, Bucknell, and Allegheny have• announced their intentions of being represented at the Penn State invitation meet to be held on the Bald Top mountain course Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23. The skiers will compete in cross country, down-hill, slalom, and jump ing. Although the 90-meter jump will not' be completed for use this season, two 20-meter jumps have.been constructed and will be , used in the forthcoming meets. A • ski team will' compete in the thrice-postponed Olean Invitation Meet this Sunday if weather condi tions do not again force cancellation. This will be the first competition the Penn State Ski Club will have had this scsaon. '4O Cagers Prepare Attack for Opener Aiming for its opening test against Dickinson Seminary a week from Sat urday, the freshman basketball team, under the direction of Glenn "Nick" Thiel, gloved ahead in its pre-season preparations at Recreation hall this week. Particular stress is still being placed upon the fundamentals of the new Lawther system, employing an intricate offense and defense. Al though there have been no scrimmage battles to date, the yearlings "look good," Thiel said. Competition for the various posi tions on the club is expected to flare soon, with plenty of practice tussles on the griddle for the remainder of the semester. Thirty candidates are still in the field. Relay Will Run In Millrose Meet Collegiate Championship Quartet Invited, Extensive Winter Program Planned Penn State's championship two mile relay team has been invited to the Mill rose games in New York's Madison Square Garden February 6, Coach Chick Werner announced..to day. This important meet will in augurate the most extensive winter track program ever planned. Other teams, in addition to the in door champion Lions, who have been invited, are Ohio State, Penn Relay winner; Manhattan, last year's Mill rose victor; and Boston College, Bos ton A.A. games champion. Captain Howard Downey is the on ly member of the championship quar tet now available, although Merle Steitler may return to college in time for the meet. .Leading candidates for the team include Adrian Markowitz, Herb Hazard, Bert Aikman, Pete Olexy, Charles Pierce, and Len Hen derson.' Coach Werner plans to hold an all college outdoor meet during the sec ond week of February. It is the first time such an event will be at tempted. Field events will be' held also. Another meet the winter track team will enter is the games in March. In addition to the two mile relay, team, a freshman medley trio may also run. This will be cho sen from Gordon, Maule, Galer, Yohn, Maurer, Hoffman, and Kaufthan. INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS Basketball Three games Wednesday night and several last night opened the 1937 intramural basketball tournament. Wednesday's results were:* D elta Sigma Phi 41, Kappa Delta Rho 11; Watts Hall Team One 24, Sigma Chi 14;,and Sigma Nu 40, Beaver House 17. Last night's schedule pitted Phi Mu Alpha against Beta Sigma Rho, Al pha Tau Omega versus Alpha Rap 'pa Pi and the Gorman Club opposite the Crows. Other games featured Varsity Hall and Phi Kappa Psi, Phi' Dpsilon Pi and Alpha Chi Rho, and Frear Hall versus Frazier Fum blers. Volleyball • Winners of the opening games were Phi Sigma Delta over Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Chi Sigma over Phi Sigma ;Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha over Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Nu over Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gam ma Delta over Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Handball ' Thus far, the class A tournament was outstanding for its lack of matches being played. The class B tourney was supposed to have gotten under way this week. Forty-eight en tries were made. Five are in Class A. Exams Needed • Every man used in the intramural basketball and volleyball tournaments must have a physical examination. Teams using men without the re quired examination will lose the game by forfeit. Society Honors College Penn State was among the eight colleges chosen from a list of more than 200 institutions of higher learn ing interested in securing chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. This College was given an invitation to submit its ap plication for a charter by the senate of the society. The applications will be brought before the Nineteenth Tri ennial Council, when it meets at At lanta, Ca., next September . THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN ERS; SWIMMERS Western Maryland Battles Ring Team Here Tomorrow; Matmen Oppose Princeton Both Teams Open Defense of Eastern Crowns; Houck Begins Fifteenth Campaign • Tiger Grapplers Formidable Penn State's championship, boxing and wrestling teams will begin defense of their Eastern t Houck's ring team imovides ham( Maryland at 7 o'clock and Charl battle the strong Princeton grain the first competition for both tea Boxers Potentially `Greatest in History' By JERRY WEINSTEIN Beginning his fifteenth season as Nittany Lion ring master, Leo Houck will present what is potentially his best team. His lineup for the Green Terror battle will headline four cham pions and a quartet of the most prom ising sophomores ever to wear the Blue and White. .Alex Sopchak will open the 1937 ring season before an expected capac ity crowd in the bantamweight class. Sopchak has been out of the ring all week with a severe cut on his fore head, and he, has been overweight in addition. Coach Houck was confident Sopchak would start tomorrow, inas much as he saw action in practice/ yesterday. As for the weight prob lem, Houck said he would worry "about Sopchak's avoirdiipois." Fighting at 125 pounds will be an other sophomore, Allan'Tapman, who was impressive as a yearling last season and who has shown much im provement this year. Eastern and Na tional lightweight champion Frankie Goodman will be at his 135-pound spot, showing even better form than he exhibited last year: ' Sammy Donato, co-captain of the 1037 grid team and Eastern welter weight title holder, will represent State at 145 pounds. Billy Soose, of amateur and golden glove fame, will give the sophomores thein,third ring leader on the Nittany varsity at the 105-pound weight. .„.j, Captain Lou Ritiie, in top shape for the past two weeks, has shown the same form that enabled him to win the 155-pound title two seasons back. He will fight at 165 pounds this' year. Nestor Kociubinsky, sophomore light heavyweight, will make his debut, and Izzy Richter, Eastern heavyweight champion, will provide the wind-up attraction for the third straight year. Western Maryland will send a team that lacks the color the Terror lineup held for many seasons. Without Dick Harlow as coach, and minus the fisti cuff abilities of Tom Pontecarvo and Bernie Kaplan, National Champions, it is a decidedly weaker-than-usual bunch of fighters that will face the Lions on opening day. Outstanding on the Western Mary land card are Clint Walker, Tony Or tenzi, and Joe O'Leair, fighters in the three upper brackets. Ortenzi won third place in last year's intercollegi ates, while Walker and O'Leair looked promising in the Terror. opener last week in which Maryland University triumphed, 6 to 2. :•,'; .1;.: Penn State defeated Western Mary land six times in yearly meetings since 1928 ... two meets resulted in ties, and one in defeat . . . Houck's team triumphed last season, C to 2 ... The Green Terror meeting will mark Penn State's hundredth dual meet since 1918... and the Nittany Lions will be battling for their sixty first victory ... Since the first inter collegiate tourney was held in 1924, Penn State won the championship six times and finished in second place on four other occasions ... 32 individual champions were Lions ... more than any, other college . Western Maryland's lineup-115: Sam Grimsley; 125: Paul Brengle; 135: Harold Martin; 145: William' Bender; 155: George ,Speigle; and Walker, Ortenzi, and O'Leair Ho ciubinsky will have a tough fight on his hands, considering it is his first meet . . . but that doesn't mean too much ... BUFFET LUNCH OPEN FRIDAY-15th • Italian Spaghetti 35e Fresh Crab Cakes„ Potato Salad . . . . 25e LOUIE WANTS TO SEE YOU THE, HOFBRAU SOUTH ALLEN STREET titles tomorrow when Coach Leo le entertainment against Western lie Speidel takes his matmen to viers at Princeton. It will mark Ims this season. Wrestlers Lack Full Strength for Opener By FRANCIS SZYMCZAK Lacking their full strength and anxious to make a good showing against the Tigers, the State matmen finished an intensive Week of train ing today when they leave for Prince ton this afternoon. Coach Charlie Speidel has shifted his team to strengthen the weight divisions in order to match his oppon ents' selections. Ross Shaffer or Don Bachman will alternate either at the 165 or 175 classes in order to give se rious competition to Princeton's 165- pound intercollegiate champion, Mor ris Emory. John Calvin, a dependable at 155 pounds, suffered a troublesome injury to his knee on Wednesday. If his knee can be limbered enough to sat isfy Speidel he will probably start, otherwise Priolo or Gentilman may replace him. With the loss of Jack Light at 145, who has not reported this semester because of scholastic difficulties, Aldo Zazzi was moved up from the 135 division to carry on at 195. Don Bachman, sophomore, who will see his first action in intercollegiate wrest ling, will represent the Lions at 165 pounds in the absence of Joe Krupa who is doing his Practice teaching this semester. Freddy Stegmaier who saw action only in a few meets last season will wrestle at 118 pounds. Lacking ex perience Freddy will be meeting his fast serious competition against the Tigers. Ray Brooks, veteran of last season, can be depended upon to make a good showing in the 126-pound class. • Bob Reynolds is another Lion grap pler who will"get the thrill of engag ing in his first intercollegiate meet when he steps on the mat in the 135- match. Captain Joe JCl'Dowd who leads the team as captain will talb part in the finale of the unlimiteds. Princeton has never 'defeated the Lions in six previous meets, but Gar lic aptly puts it—" Going against Princeton without our full strength tightens the meet with the outcome being questionable." This will be Princeton's second meet of the season. Last Saturday they toppled Rutgers by the decisive score of 31-to-5. The Tigers who will face their visitors will go out on the , mat in the following order: Foshay, 118; Harding, 126; Lippitt, 135; Sterli, 145; Powers, 155; Emory, 165; Smith, 175; and Chew, unlimitid. In tending to carry on their undefeated dual meet record of last season, •Princeton hopes to top the Lions who won the Eastern Intercollegiates on their mats last year. MAT NOTES: Leaving by train this afternoon, Speidel's cohorts will loosen up at the Princeton gym to night and tomorrow before taking to the mat for the meet ... Reinstate ments of ineligibles of last year will strengthen the Tiger line-up . DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may he taken con. secutively (graduation in three and one quarter years) or three terms May be taken each year .(graduation in four years). The entrance require ments are intelligence, character and at least two years of college work, in cluding the subjects specified for Grade A medical schools. Catalogues and application forms may he ob tained from the. Dean. OPEN Mike Michalski, the Tough Boy Changed That rough, tough gentleman of the coal vales was with us again this week. Yes sir, in his day he was as ready and rugged as any of them. But Wednesday night he was not in an argumentive mood. Be was a little on the alkaline side. That person to whom we refer is none other than Mike Michalski '26, now Lafayette basketball coach, and in the fall, assistant to Ernie Nee ers. Yes, there's quite a lot behind Mike Michalski that's rough and hard, and quite a hit ahead that promises to be different. When Mike was in State he was a holy terror, and incidentally a darn good football player under Hugo Bez dek when Hugo was the boy so many people knew. When Mike graduated he went out west and played pro football for the Green Bay Packers for seven years, developing into one of the best play ers that sport has ever countenanced. He was good; everybody said so. And he was tough; everybody remem bered. But now that he is a coach, Mike has changed a great deal. We .gaw him down • at the Lehigh football game when he dropped over the night before the game. And he smiled. And anybody that can smile in middle - of a Lafayette football season these days, is good natured. And after the Nittany Lions bad mangled his basketball team, he was down-in-the-mouth. That's a differ ent Mike from the old days. Every body liked him 'then because lie was rough and tough, and everybody likes him .now because he's changed. In college, Mike was one of those guys that it is so hard to keep in school to play football. He did so many things to get kicked out. But people recognized his' stuff and he stayed on. - Once when a pal of his, that was never considered to amount to much, was on the verge of reading the exit gate, Mike went to Dean Warnock to plead for him. Now Mike was a lit- AS small boys, many fathers now living knew the telephone only as a little used curiosity. It grew into today's constantly used necessity largely because the Bell System never ceased looking for the new and better way. It stayed young in its thinking. Young ideas developed "conference service", ena bling several nearby or widely separated persons to talk on one telephiMe connection. Young ideas steadily made long distance service better, quicker, yet cheaper. Young ideas are at work day and night to snake sure America continues to get more and better service for its telephone dollar. Why not call Mother or Dad tonight? Rates to most points are lowest after 7P. M. 1, BELL. TELEPHONE SYSTEM Page Tlire4 ►EASONS Mermen Face Tough Clash Against Penn Open 2nd Year Away; Veterans, Sophs On Team By JERRY WEECSTEIN Coach Bob Galbraith and his swim ming team will try it the hard way tomorrow when' Penn State's natat ors open their second intercollegiate season in Philadelphia against the strongest opponent on the sin meet schedule Penn. A veteran team improved • by a group of strong sophomores will tra vel to face the Quaker mermen, 'who handed the Lions their only one-sided defeat last season. Once past Penn, it would not be too much to predict an undefeated year for the Blue and White swimmers. Sophomores will swim the fifty yard freestyle event - for Penn State. Charlie Welsh, sensational newcom er, and Al Bechtel, impressive sprin ter, will line up for the shortest race of the program. In the century, Welsh, Bechtel, or possibly Bill Hel riegel, letterman, will represent State. With Ken Bunk, another sopho more flash, Captain Jim Cumming (Conti-iied on page fear) tle problem all in himself, and the Dean sensed an opportunity. He made Mike responsible foie his friend's " actions. The responsibility began to change Mike. He became more docile, more mature. So the two of them stayed in school. It was easy for the {Vier gut} because no one thought of doing anything Mike .did not approve of. And I guess they still don't do much of that stuff, either.
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