Tuesday, ,Tanuary 19, 1937 BETWEEN THE LIONS By 808 GRUBB -- Tonight Coach John Lawther's first edition of a Penn State cage team meets its' first test of the cur rent season as the Lions inaugurate their second year in the Eastern Conference by meeting West Virgi nia, third ranking member of the circuit at this date. The,Licins are the last team to en ter Eastern Conference play, each of the other five teams having play ed at 'least two games so far, with Pittsburgh leading the loop, follow ed by Carnegie Tech and the Moun taineers. Jack Oocke, West Virginia, for ward, is now leading the conference scoring race, with 26 points, while his teammate, Phares, a guard, is trailing him by 24 points. These are the boys who. will give the- State defense a 'considerably greater test than it was put to in the two pre vious games. The failure of Captain Joe o'- Dowd to come through at the cru cial moment and. pin . his opponent in the deciding match of the wrest ling meet at Princeton Saturday was a bitter' disappointment not only to his teammates and Co his coach, but to the fans who had looked for great things from Joe this year. Conceded little chance of winning over Princeton minus the services of Joe Krupa and Johnny Calvin, 'the Lion grapplers pulled a surprise by piling up enough points to stand at the top just prior to the heavy weight encounter. It was a tense situation, with ev erything depending on the Lion lead er for a decisive victory. Then came the letdown and OTOwd was beat en by one who was not considered his equal before the meet. True, defeat at the very outset of the sea son should have little bearing on the man's performance later on, but the fact that he was beaten under such conditions makes a comeback doubly difficult. Can yon do the 100-yard dash in nine and eight-tenths seconds or bet ter? Coach Chick Werner is issuing a second call for winter track candi dates, both varsity and freshman. With the Millrose Games and other invitation meets coming up, there is a special need for sprint men. "If I could hold a .time trial for every physically fit man in the Col lege, I'm sure I could'find at least one undeveloped sprinter," said Coach Werner. "Compared with high schools where every candidate is a would-be sprinter, this meagre supply of dash men is an odd - situation," he- con cluded. All winter track aspirants are urged to report either in the locker room or at the outdoor board track any afternoon at 4 o'clock. When 'in doubt about a room— Remember there's comfOrt at low rates at, • COLONIAL';:. ,A115'.?"4 i t+ at, s A,,: AIL arg,...TATE•coLLEGP,PAg F(.5 spi IrALI Pc 0 F.: H oili: . *.i'l -- '7 - ) c 4 i l i :l:11: INr 4 , ;---'STITZER tiANAt,EMENT-;.-s' "Sure, the quickest way to get there is by telephone." • Rates are reduced on Long Dis tance calls ALL DAY SUNDAY and after seven every night. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA REVIEW r AIITHESIS See Our List of "BOOKS WANTED" REPORT MANILA BOOKS Courses ) • COVERS Bring in Your List of Books For Sale PAPERS FOLDERS OPEN EVENINGS KEELER'S, Cathaum Theatre Building OPEN EVENINGS GAGERS Mountaineers To Play Here At 7 O'clock Lawther To Use Same Line-up in West Virginia Tilt By NVOODROW W. BIERI.I • Penn State's basketball team will play the first league game of their Eastern Conference schedule when they meet the West Virginia five in Recreation Hall at 7 o'clock tonight. It will be the twelfth time that the two have met on the basketball court since West Virginia won the first game, 16-to-14, in 1006. Since that time the Lions have scored six vic tories to five .for the Gold and Blue. Lawther. plans to start the same five that opened the Penn, Lafayette and Susquehanna tilts. Sol Miehoff and Joe Proksa will be playing at for ward, Jay McWilliams at center, and Max Corbin . and Jack Reichenbadi at guard. The team has had almost a week of practice since their last game and have improved some of the weak points in their playing. Gocke Paces Line-up Pacing the West Virginia line-up will' be Jack Gocke, high scoring for ward. Stan D'Orazio will play the other forward position while Don Meranda will be at center. "Squint" Pha•es and Harry Lothes will play guard. The five, although forming a strong quintet, .is "but a shadow of the great tetim.the Mountaineers had last year" when they defeated the Lions 40-to-St and 54-to-31. Coach Glenn's greatest problem this season was to fill the center post that was left open by Babe Barna who suffered a broken leg as the result of a football game last fall. Barna was one of • the leading players of last year's team. Meranda, who Coach Glenn has chosen to play center, has been making a fine appearance in the position, especially in his defensive work. Play Well on Defense Goecke is the real threat of the team. He was high scorer in the con ference last year and scored twenty three points for the Mountaineers in their victory over State. He shoots a dangerous over-head shot, much like that of (Charley Prosser, and takes a crack at the basket from any place on the floor. Phares, guard who combined with Gocke in scoring eight points during the first eight minutes of play against Carnegie Tech on Saturday night, has a knack of dribbling the ball down the side and scoring field goals, although not near the basket. D'Orazio had not been on the start ing line-up for several weeks. He was injured in the game with Georgetown and the Mountaineers point to that as the cause of their defeat by Salem. Lothes, a sopho more, is one of the cleverest passers on the squad. The Gold.and Blue use a "three-out, two-back" zone defense that has been working very well for them. Their men come out from under the basket, making it almost imperative fOr their opponents to score on long shots, TO OPEN LEAGUE SCHEDULE TONIGHT Mountaineer Star JACK GOCKE Varsity Defeats Frosh Gymnasts Coach Glasser Expects to Upset National Champion. Temple • Team February 17 As was expected, the varsity gym team trounced the freshmen 38-16, last Saturday afternoon. Captain Ray Mattern, Ray Runkle, and Mat Rorabaugh were outstanding for the varsity. Shaeffer and Gillespie starred for the freshmen, taking' first places on the side horse and ropes, respectively. Runkle was high scorer with 13 points —first place on the _high bar and the parallels, and a second on the rings. • Mattern had little competition in his specialty, tumbling.• while Rota bough annexed first place on the rings and was second on the side horse. In the coming meets with Army, Navy, and Temple, the country's three outstanding gym teams, Conch "Glass" Glasser expects this varsity trio and Sain Beck to put up a hard (Coot mooed on pafjc four) Ford, of Boston Bees, Dispells Belief That Pros Lack Spirit The belief that professional ath letes lacked the spirit and "rah-rah stuff" of college teams was dispelled today by Bill Ford, former Penn' State baseball pitcher who is now a member of the .Boston Bees. "Aside front ability," Ford said, "big leaguers rank ahead of the am ateurs in their great team feeling, chatter, and general pep •shown in the.dagout." Ford, who will leave for the BoS.I' ton training camp at St. Petersburg, Florida, right after examinations, was picked up by Jack McAllister, scout of the Bees. The Penn State sophomore was pitching for McKees port in the Daily News League and was in exceptionally fine form the day McAllister signed him. Ford re mained with the National League club during the last seven weeks of the 1936 season. "Old timers," Ford related, "often tell how they toasted rookies, espe cially college boys. That is no longer true, for they never took me for a ride. • "The only sort of riding done," Ford said, "occurred during my first two weeks. The team rather ignored me and didn't do anything to make me feel at home. But once they got For Joy and Cheer Drink Your Beer AT THE College. Grill 109 E. Beaver, Opp. Post Office END OF. SEMESTER NEEDS THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN State Loses Ist Mat Tilt To Princeton Tigers Gain 15 -to- 13 Victory; O'Dowd Drops Finale By FRANCIS H. SZYMCZAK Weakened by the loss of veterans, State's wrestling team battled stub bornly against its top-notch opponent, the Tigers, to lose the opbner in the Princeton gym on Saturday after noon by the narrow score of 15-to-13. The surprise victory of Toll over Cr- Dowd gave the Princetonians their two-point win. A nip -and-tuck affair throughout, the final match came up with the Li one holding a one-point, advantage. The Tigers' football captain-elect, Charley Toll, a heavyweight giant, stepped out for his initial wrestling appearance to face Captain Joe o'- Dowd. O'Dowd Loses To the State team victory seemed inevitable, while the Princeton root ers prayed.. Joe did his best, he rush ed his man who averted any contact. When Jce was under, Toll grimly hung on hoping for the minutes to count up. The referee once command ed him to wrestle, but Toll frankly replied, "I don't know hew, I'ni do ing my best." .Toll won the match with a time advantage of 2:35 min utes. . Critics can condemn O'Dowd—his failure to come up to form may have various reasons, but it's a tough enough disadvantage . for future meets to have the past incident hovering in the background. Charlie Speidel suffers keenly his infrequent defeats, but he looks for ward to the future. He realizes that his weakest team participated in this opener, and more experience and fa miliar faces will appear in the line ups of future meets. He .awaits the strength of Calvin, Hrupa, and Light. He also realizes that Steg maier, Priolo, Brooks, and Bachman have acquired confidence in them selves, But for the brighter Side. (Ross Shaffer and Aldo Zazzi proved to be wrestlers. They went out with con fidence and displayed form, enough to take credit for the two falls of the entire meet. Reynolds came through his first test with victory and three points to that earned by Shaffer and (Continued on page , four) ,to know me, everything was swell." Ford came up with Bill Weir, who attends the University of New I Hampshire. Weir, who is also a pitcher, was quite successful and will go to training camp with Ford. The two were roommates and are going through college the same-way—just attending classes during the fall term. Bill McKechnie, ' manager :of the BosiOn ; eit b, 'may 'Change I Foi•d into an outfielder because of the Lion's hitting ability. A trifle slow, Ford can pound the ball. He is satisfied with either pitching or outfifielding, just so he can play ball., His first day in a big-league uni form was his biggest thrill, the Penn State junior said. 'His next 'thrill came the first day he started a game, which was against the Phihidelphia nine. Bill started his pitching at fifteen, first playing on a team as a senior in Run the Gauntlet OF CRITICAL EYES . - At Recreation Hall From Entrance to Bleachers Is Where Your Appearance Counts DO YOU PEEL SMARTLY DRESSED? AUTHENTIC UNIVERSITY STYLES Leads Team to Victory 1,,..:,____,........ in ', v1,,,., - ,Y...h•. , .. , ~ .2. '-,. 7. . '''' '.l ;..."''''',4 4P'"':) CAVE LOU RITZIE Swimmers Lose To Penn, 49-26 Geiger. Burleigh, Medley Relay Team Capture Victories In Opening Meet Penn State's swimmers - dropped the opening meet of their second intercol legiate season Saturday as they bowed to the powerful Penn tank sters in Philadelphia. 49-to-26. The Lions made a much better showing against the Quakers than they did last season. In capturing three first places as compared; to a lone victory in 1036, the mermen scored eight more points. Winners for Penn State were Dick Geiger, in the 150-yard backstroke; Gil Burleigh in the 200-yard breast stroke; and the 300-yard medley re lay team composed of Geiger, Bur leigh, and Bill HeHegel. This latter event was added to the intercollegi ate program this season. Captain Jim Cumming placed sec ond to Geiger in the dorsal event to give the Lions a sweep. Geiger re peated his victory over Penn, for in last year's meet, the ex-captain was the only Nittany swimmer to capture a first place. Burleigh was touched out for a win in Isis event in 1936. Ken Bunk. sophomore star, placed second in the 220-yard freestyle and gained a third in the 440. George : Henderson was third in the 220. In the sprint events, Penn's cap tain and football star, Gene Gisburne, raced to near-record performances. with a team-mate, Bob Sanville, just a stroke behind. Charlie Welsh, Lion sophomore, trailed both men in the two events. Gisburne is the intercol legiate champion in the 50-yard free style race. Penn's veteran divers were too much for the inexperienced State en trants. Luther 'Hoy gained a third in this event. In the final race of the program, the 900-yard relay, the Penn State quartet was defeated in fast time. On the team were Helrie gel, Cumming, Art Lehman, and Welsh. high school. Entering Penn State, he learned much from Coach Joe Be denk and from play in amateur leagues around Pittsburgh. As a sophomore lust season, Ford was un able to find control until late in the schedule. lie then won two games in his only two appearances, putting on masterful performances both times. Houck Declares Experience For Sophomores Necessary To Insure Boxing Success Mit Team Stops Western Maryland, 7% to %, Gaining 7 Wins, Kociubinsky's Draw With Captain Ortenzi By JERRY WEINSTEIN Experience will determine the success of the boxing team this season. Thus did that philologist, psychologist, and philosopher, Coach Leo F. Houck, review the performance of his mitmen after they opened their 1537 season with an easy swinging victory over Western Maryland, 71.-to-I<_•, in Rec Hall Saturday night before a capacity crowd of 6,000 that jammed the track and floor space. When Leo mentioned experience, he had in mind his two little men Alex Sopchak and Allan Tapman. As they net used to collegiate competi• tion, he said, they will balance the al-♦ ready strong lineup made up of four champions and two stars from ama teur ranks, Nestor• Kociubinsky, fighting at 175 pounds, came back in the third round with a thrilling finish to earn a draw with Captain• Tony Ortenzi, of West ern Maryland. The Lion sophomore started slowly, and with Ortenzi beating him to the punch in the first two rounds, seemed to have little chance to win. But his garrison fin ish, featured by terrific rights that had Ortenzi groggy, turned the tide. The decision was the best possible and everyone was satisfied. The entire Nittany team looked good in the first match of the season. Western' Maryland presented a game bunch of fighters—but to the Penn State team Coach Charlie Havens owes a vote of thanks, for at least three of the Terrors could have been knocked out. Soose Wins by K.O. Penn State fans have yet to see sophomore Billy Soose in his first fight. After 1:10 of the first round, during which time Soose chased a ducking George Speigle around the ring, referee Bryan Hayes stopped the fight. Speigle had ducked into a hard right, and being already off bal ance, was knocked groggy. It was just as well, for Soose punches hard and injury might have resulted. Sopchak was on the spot in the 115- , pound go, It was his first fight and he was first on the initial program of the season. He came through nicely, showing little effect of his lack of work due to his forehead cut. His ! timing may have been slightly off, but his aggressiveness and a good left jab gained him an easy decision over Sam Grimsey. Both Tapman and Izzy Richter were faced with the problem of fight ing men a head taller. Tapman top ped Norvin Gompf by tearing around,; swinging both hands, and landing his. right. It was a sluggish fight. Other Fights Easy Richter pummeled Joe O'Leair, heavyweight successor to National champion Tom Pontecorvo. The giant O'Leair, who looked like Primo Car nera, was hard to reach, but Richter jarred him several times and won go- Mg away. The Frankie Goodman-Harold Mar tin fight was slow. After Frankie bit Martin with several clean blows without being touched, the Western Maryland boy concentrated in run ning and succeeded. Goodman just jabbed and seemed content to win by Have You Tried Mammy's Delicious e DRUMSTIX "Sho Am Good" ' ' Drop in for a copy of the recipe for this delicious new food, made from Pork and Veal and flavored with Mammy's sea soning. Orders must be given a day in advance, since the meat must be seasoned' the night before in order to obtain that delicious flavor. Quality Meats and Groceries Fishburn's Meat Market Dial 2611 Corner Allen and Beaver Page Three MEM I Sammy Donato battered Bill Ben des's mid-section for two rounds un til the Green Terror w•as groggy. Sammy's jab was in great shape and that murderous right had Bender , hanging on. Donato carried him in the final round. Captain Lou Ritzie had no trouble with Clinton Walker, an improved fighter. Lou was more aggressive in the opening round, knocked him around in the second with hard blows from both hands, and continued the punishment in the third round. That boxing is the most popular Nittany sport was obvious it be came more than that When four clogs came up to witness the bouts . . . Richter never sits on the bench dur ing the bouts ... he warms up in the locker rem and conies out just be fore the heavyweight attraction . . . Saturday's score was the largest Penn State ever ran up against Western Maryland in ten meets . . . It was a nice tribute to Bill Rhoda that Manager Bob McQuiston made . . Bob did a good job of announc ing . . . and loaned a handkerchief to Referee Bryan Hayes ... Nice for Leo Houck that the boys won their 100th meet . . . maybe it's a good sign. 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