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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.: •
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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.
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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.
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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.