DAMS; arr?id 1304 j#l3';' BETWEEN THE LIONS les Straight Stuff That Hamas Was Drunk Lethargy And .Schmeling!s Punches Did It Mere is the first straightatory on a fight,which occurred over two years In March, 1935; Steve Hamas, Penn State's greatest athlete and one of the leading professional heavyweights that ,year, was signed to meet Max Schnieling in.Germany:in.order to earn the .. right to Meet Max Baer for the world's championship. Hamas had previously met. and severely : beaten the German in Philadel phia and was a popular favorite to win' the return bout. In company with Charlie Harvey, his manager; and several handlers, llamas went to Germany and trained for severabweeks. . The night of the 'fight, Schmeling gave Hamas a terrific lacing. Ex perts were alma' (Remember the Schmeling-Louis fight?). The entire box ing following' in America . was 'stunned... NeWspapers throughout the .coun try, anxious to find an alibi, thought up . some.beauties. The cleverer boys said llamas 'could have . mon easily, but didn't because rather than train in such a lovely country' as Germany, Steve was drunk perpetually and was running around with - 'women, • and Probably the most *Millar Story that went 'the • roan& 'Wag the one which claimed Hamas had had 'a. re . - eurrence of a ,knee injury suffered while starring with Penn . State's football team. Other reportS cleiM ed Steve had a -bad elbow. And so it went. • Harvey Says It Was ' A Very Simple Tiling • But the Collegian reporter was the first person to get a word out of Charley Harvey, the old, shrunken, kindly, stooped, wily manager of Ha- Mos. Its simplicity, is amazing. "It mis just one 'of those nights when Steve couldn't do a thing." • Thus slid Harvey explain ,Haman' defeat which put him out of boxing forever. It may sound silly to some people, and perplexing to. others: 'Yet any athlete knows that every once in a while, there is no to-ordi nation of muscles or desire to coin- - pete. An interesting side-light of the Hamas-Schmeling scandal, in which even German officials were . accused ofof tampering , was brought . to the sports headlines during the recent spring baseball drills dCwn south. tiley's Story- Caused More Than A Fight Dizzy Dean and several other St. Louis Cardinal stars were mixed up in a fist -fight and word-slinging bat tle with Jack Miley, sports writer on the tabloid sensational.. New York News and syndicated columnist, over some allegedly . , libelous, r,e nia s about Dean and the rest. Hamas is suing this. same -Miley for a story written alter the Schmel ing fight which stated :that; Steve was nothing but a drunk,-threw the fight to the• Gernian, and trained on, nothing but beer and a' few:rounds of night clubs every day. • The facts say that Steve had a promise of a job on the coachirig , staff at 'Cornell some time ago but was denied the post because of the Miley story and its ,implications. The suit is still in court.: • ARROW UNDEBWE44B SWIM! Glennland Pool FI WA LTERED TER +++ Lacrosse Squad - To Meet Lehigh Thiel. Stresses Attack During Practice Sessions; Hoft Unable Pb Play Penn .'State's lacrosse team will Wind-up the. first half of their season when they meet the Lehigh squad on New Beaver field tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. • • Coach. Nick Thiel held intensive drills this week, on passing and offen sive plays in preparation for the game With. the Engineers. The Lions will be considerably weakened without the services of Jake Hoft, who will jour ney to Philadelphia over the week end for an 'interview. With the ex ception of Hoft, who is tied for high scoring honars with Captain Conley, Thiel. intends td start the same line up as last week, not as yet naming anyone to fill Heft's vacancy. The • game tomorroW will be the sixth played bet Ween the two schools in a series that was started in 1915. The Lions hold : the edge,, gaining three victories against two defeats. These contests were marked by one sided scoring, Lehigh' trimming State itr . the first two .encounters, 2-10 and 145. ',ltt"the next three games, the Stateinen turned the tables and drub bed the Engineers by scores of 11-2, 84, and 14-0. .11:n the event that the central Penn sylvania high 'school track meet is Still• in progress: al game time, .the stickmen; play on the lacrosse practice field. located on the golf course. Co-Ed Baseball Begins Sixty-two women' reported for in, terClasiAms,eball which opened yester day with' games between the seniors and freshmen anti the juniors and Sophomores. The schedule, for next week- is: blonday—seniors and jun iors, sophomores and freshmen; Tues day—seniors and sophomores, juniors and fresh Men. Tennis, Golf TeamsTo Open Campaigns Netmen Face. Stiff Contest_ Against Penn Heavy Week-End Slate Also Includes Tilt With Lehigh A new coach, two sophomores,.and a tough opponent mark the opening of Penn State's 26th tennis season at Philadelphia this afternoon. • The new coach—Bob Lake, the third coach in as many years. The two sophomores—Al Hildebrandt and Carl Arberg. The tough opponent— Penn, one of the leading teams in the East, even though upset by Columbia last week. . Lake will send the folkiwing men against the Quakers, and also against Lehigh on Saturday at Bethlehem: Capt. Paul Massey, first singles, Dick Campman, Chuck Patt, Paul Perry, Hildebrandt. and Arberg, in that order. • . Penn's linetip lists beorge. Dunn, national indoor collegiate singles champion; Harry Albert, former Phil adelphia boys' titleholder; Eddie Mel lor, Louis Reps, Bill DeWitt, and Le- Roy Lewis. In the doubles, Massey and Camp man will meet Dunn and Reps, .Putt Ind Perry face Al and Pete Sturte vant, and Hildebrandt and Arberg will encounter Fred Schneider and `Carrington Veale. Arberg is a last minute addition, since Lake had expected to start Sel Freed, who apparently had a very slight edge for the number six spot: But Freed found it necessary to stay behind in order not to miss two im portant blue books. State has yet to win from Penn in tennis. The two have met six times previously, with the Red and Blue al ways the victor. But, as Bob Lake said, "If Columbia did it, maybe we'll do it again this week." . The Lions have had a little better luck against Lehigh, winning from the Engineers twice in 11 meetings. Prospects look brighter this year, since Lehigh has lost all four of its matches so far this season. Penn has 'won three out of rfour.H.B.C:' Interclass Swimming Meet Set For Women A women's interclass swimming meet will be. held at the Glennland pool Wednesday at 3 o'clock. The meet will include nine events, with two Members of each class in the events. • The meet includes races using the crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, and the relay. Another event is the use of the elementary sidestroke, back stroke, crawl, and breaststroke, with the decision based on form. • Judges for the meet will be 'Miss Marie Haidt, Mn. Amy F. -Lichty, and'Miss Bertha Wright. Lots of Good Values on Reduced Dresses Crepes and Prints + + MOORE'S DRESS SHOP E. College Ave. H. M. S. Pinafore' sails into port again to take aboard a large cargo of Mothers Saturday, May 8, at 8:30 TriE PENN STATE cOLLE6iAN Tossers Lose, 4-1; Meet Villanov a Tomorrow Gettysburg Nips Lions For 3rd Straight Those hitless wonders tried it just once too often. They smashed out four hits Wednes day afternoon, one over par, but for got themselves when they weren't fooling around at the plate, and as a result, four Gettysburg runners shot across the plate right under their noses to win the game, 4-1, and de feat the Lions for the third consecu tive year. Beneheaded fielding and inability to follow up the few hits they got cost the Lions the victory. • Co-captain Mike Kornick and Mel Vonarx, sup posed big guns of the team, -contin ued their hitless spell. Six times they came up to the plate with men on bases. And six times the men re mained there as Kornick and Vonarx walked back to the bench. Ray Brake poked out two doubles to run away with batting honors for the day. Har ry Harrison and Joe Adessa contri buted the other half of the hit total. Lions Lack Scoring Punch Gettybsurg was able to hit only a half dozen balls out of the infield and two of them were shagged by Joe Adessa. Nine Bullets sizzled at the plate as Benny Simonelli turned on the steam in the late innings. But in the end they paid off on runs. And the Lions looked like kindergarten stu dents in the course of run-scoring Wednesday. Meanwhile, while all this was going on, \roller): was playing- a game of his own, trying to see how 'many balls he could miss and how many more he could throw away. An error of his led to the first run in the second inn ing. He could have redeemed himself by ninping the . Bullet runner at the plate with a good throw, but Mel tried to see if Konfick could break the high jump record, and the runner slid into the plate while Kornick was still up there in the rarefied atmosphere. Mel repeated the procedure in the sixth, in the midst of a three-run spurt, and was really improving when the game ended. Meet. Villanova Tomorrow •State;meets Villanova's Wildcats.at New Beaver field at ,2:30 o'clock to morrow afternoon 'in its fifth home showing. Three .400 hitters 'on the Villanova squad should:-provide some hitting for a change. Co-captain Frank Smith is expected to get the call.—.T. A. T. RE MEMB ER mOTtlEit CHOCOLATES Your gift of Whitman's Chocolates will give Mother double pleasure—it is from you and it is the finest in candyMako yetis. Sclectionj The 'Sampler . . . finest variety - of chocolates'in the world. 17 oz. $1.50 The outstaffth ing box of favorite chocolates at, lb. 1.".00 . • Other Whitman's pack ages—direct to us from the makers—at 25 to $7.50 Rea & Derick Next to Peoples Bank Gridders To End Spring Training Against Skibos Coach Bob Higgins will bring his spring football training to a close tomorrow afternoon when he pits his Nittang Lion gridde•s against the Skibos of Carnegie Tech on New Beaver field at 3:30 o'clock. Bill Kern, former assistant to Jock Sutherland at Pitt and start ing his first year as Tartan men tor, will bring a squad of 45 play ers to send against the Lions in a practice tilt to lie played under regulation game conditions. The original plans called for two games with the first to be played this afternoon, but the Car negie team was unable to obtain permission to leave classes Friday. Trackmen Meet Navy Tomorrow Nittany Lions Well Fortified In Running Events What promises to be the most suc cessful State track team in recent years left early this morning foe An napolis where a dual meet with Navy is scheduled for tomorrow. 'lf the showing made in the Penn Relays can serve as a pleasure, the Lions will be hard to beat. Navy boasts an exceptional sprin ter, Jack Dalton, son of the former Navy athlete, who was one of the best dash men in the East last year. State seems particularly well forti fied in all the running events from the 440-yard run up. Howard Dow ney, Adrian Markowitz, Burt Aik- Man, ,Len Henderson, Pete Olexy, and Chuck McKillips make up a group that will .he pretty hard to beat. 'ln the other events the Lions will line up in almost the same way as did the team that won from Juniata in the season-opener.—W.B.J. • Heavy Scoring In SAE, Sigma Chi Mushball Wins Tennis Opens Monday; IM Soccer Begins Apparently not finding enough Com petition in the intramural 'inushball eliminations,, a number of the frater nity teams have organized leagues in their own neighborhoods. So far the Collegian has been not ified of two such organizations, the Penn-Allen and Fairmount leagues. Any other similar groups are asked to get in touch with the Collegian by phone o• mail. The pitching of Bill Fetter enabled Sigma Alpha Epsilon to blank Alpha Chi' Rho 17-0 last Monday. Johnny Stephenson sparkled in the outfield for the winners. Sigma Chi bowed to the Tau Phi Delts Wednesday in a wide-open game. 18-13. T. P. D.'s Dick Long starred, as (lid Dusty Rhodes for the losers. Delta Theta Sigma opened the soc cer competition when Rube Hixson and Bob Bomberger each scored two goals in an easy 4-0 win over Tau Kappa Epsilon , Tuesday. Pi Kappa Alpha won from Phi Epsilon Pi by forfeit. Wednesday, a Sigma Phi Epsilon- Beaver House game was called off by mutual agreement, to be played later. Delta Upsilon nosed out Phi Delta Theta by 1-0 on Jack Byrd's goal. Sigma Phi Alpha battled Beta Theta Pi to a scoreless tie. Dick Walton, 1M tennis manager, announced that competition will be gin Monday night, 10 teams having entered. The two courts nearest Ree hall 'will be reserved from 4 to 6 o'clock for two matches per night, three nights a week. The schedule has not yet been made up, and instead of starting this week end, as previously planned, competi tion will not begin until some time next week. Fake 'Three: Varsity Golf Team Meets Bisons Here Five Veterans Comprise Nucleus Of Squad For Opener The varsity golf team will open the season tomorrow at 1:30 o'clock with a match against Bucknell on the Li- on's borne course The team picked by Coach Ruther ford for the match will consist of co captains Johnny Bennett and Jay Al here, Bob Siegler, Bernie Burkept, and Joe Stevenson, all veterans of lust yetis•. The lone sophomore on the team will be Bill Cross. • In a pre-season meet with Centre Hills Country Club last week, the State boys looked in excellent shape, trouncing their opponents by a score of 15-0. Siegler and Bu•kept made exceptionally fine showings. Initiates Junior Varsity With a lot of promising sophomore material on hand, Coach Bob Ruther ford is starting something this year entirely new in Penn State's golfing history, a junior varsity. The junior varsity will be tried for the first time here tomorrow in a match in which they will play against Cornell, who, Incidentally, are starting out with their first junior varsity also this The junior varsity, which is giving smile of the regulars a close run for their berths and which will play against Cornell tomorrow, is composed of Jack Mahaffey, Ed, Hebda, Bill Pat terson, Bill Walker, Bob liayes, and Art Gottlieb, with possible changes.
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