Tuesday, April'26, 19S8 Between the Lions By HERB CAIIAN, .Sports Editor We eon think of no better way to start off our regime as custodian of this column than to pay'a Iwt of tribute to a trio of Penn Stale athletes who, upon their graduation in a few weeks, will leave behind them a record almost un precedented by any similar group of the some class. What makes their" exploits all the more interesting and so unusual is the fact that their competing weights never exceeded 155 pounds. Their names undoubtedly will go down in Pennt State history with former greats who, by 'comparison, .may dwarf them-in physical size but do not better them in accomplishment;?.-' This column could be written with out even mentioning-their names,, so familiar are they to every Penn State sludentand sports enthusiast. ‘‘These three” have, been -making’streamer •headlines in this and other journals for three years as - Nittany Lions arid, although they have received .individu al honors for their sterling perfor riianees time and time again, we want to be the first to acclaim them as a group.of, truly, “mighty mites.” In . a short time the annual award will be made to Penn Suite’s out standing senior athlete. 'lt is by-no means, a rash prediction to say that the winner v will he one of “these three”—Sammy; Donato, ’Sol* MiehofF; Windy Wear. -Perhaps the powers that-he will see fit to awai;d .three medals to three very deserving,'very, very -modest, and very, very,, very outstanding'Nittany. Libu “groats;”' Inasmuch ns Sammy, Sol, and The Rabbit make . up. such an unusual group, perhaps a brief review of their many exploits, • outstanding accom plishments, and a 'brief personality sketch would not be out of place (for the records, as well as for you, dear sports reader) —we’ll give them to you in weight order:- So, step up Wendell W. Wear, alias “Windy”, alias “The .Rabbit” — weight: 135; varsity football and AU-Ariierican men „ Mon in football . . . J3ob Higgins fa vorite prediction for the 1938 season: “We’ll sure.-miss Windy” . .-. and so will we ... he was never- captain of either of his starring sports,‘but was certainly the sparkplug and “brains” of the grid team . . . paired with a fellow lightweight, Harry. Harrison, to lead the football team in wins over Penn, Maryland, and Bueknell this •past season . . .. Unforgettable Wear moments: when__he was forced back, to the center of the field -by onrush ing ißucknell linemen from his own 25-yard line,-wiggled his-way back almost to the. line of scrimmage, then heaved a perfect pass to Joe Adessa <in -the goal line; when he passed to Harrison against Penn to put thp bail in .position for the game’s only touchdown, then proceeded to take a heave from Harry to defeat the Red • and Blue—-the season was a success! when The Rabbit spotted the Mary land defense .out'of positiori,'changed the play after the teams were lined up, thus setting the stage for Harri son’s scoot for the winning touch down; when he foxed the Cornell learn by not giving the ball away on a reverse, taking it himself, and scampering 66 yards to' the Big Red one-yard stripe . . . these are' just a few of Windy’s 1937 exploits ... to tell of Wear’s three years would fill many volumes, so— IT’S A LAUGH! / Pride and Prejudice 7 \ ' x BY THE PLAYERS May 6 and 7 _ Mother’s Day BLOCK AND BRIDLE CLUB presents —■ 25th Annual'-.- Little International Livestock Exposition Saturday, April 30, 1 P.M. Stock Pavilion • PITTING AND SHOWING CONTEST TEAMSTERS CONTEST' HORSE JUMPING EXHIBITION. ‘ , , CO-ED PIG RACING CONTEST ( ' - It’s your turn Sol B. Miehoff— weight: 160 pounds (soaking wet); varsity letters, baseball, soccer, and basketball . . . will have'earned most varsity letters (nine) since Steve Ha mas (eleven) . . . captain of the hoot ers . . co-captain with Joe Proksn of- basketball . . . all-eastern soccer inside left . . . nll-Conference basket balk forward . . . never played soccer before entering Penn State . . . fnvo. ’rite sport: baseball . . . favorite drink: milk shake . . . first Nittany Lion eager to make the nil-Conference • team . . . second to Temple’s great Don Shields in league scoring this year / . . . baited in most runs in base ball last season ... no time- for the women (and are the co-eds sorry) ... Unforgettable .Miehoff .moments: when' -he scored the tying points against Georgetown’s cage team—aft .er the game was over! when he made a'running, diving catch of a'Templc fly that was headed for the tennis courts . . ; three sparkling: shoe-string •eatehes against this season. fields like Tris Speaker . ; . hits like Ty iCobb . . . and s<>, on and oh . . .' butiif- we-do there’ll be no space left for... ’ 'Sum Donato (nope, no middle ini. ,tial or full first name-just plain Sam)—weight: 155 pounds; varsity letters: football and boxing . . . co captain 1 with Johnny Economos of football ... captain of the mitmen .. 1936.145-pound Eastern Inlercollegi. ate champ...runner-up in 1937 . . 155-pound titleholder this year . . carried the ball only once in his three years on the grid team . . . small os football players, go, but a demon ‘ blocker and vicious tackier . . . room ed with Wear before Windy moved to the 'Sigma. Chi house, and .Sammy be came an Alpha Phi Delt. . . Current ly. Scranton's most popular athlete..,, they're giving him a testimonial din ner May 7 ... Leo Houck named him on 'his all-time Nittany Lion boxing team . . . played entire Bucknell «game with an infected foot ~. p 1 a yed against Buckncli’s Lou Tomnsetti five times (high school and college) ■! . . played on- Dunmore high’s greatest football team with three other former Lion stars: the O’llora'brothel's and Tommy Siivano ... Unforgettable Do nato .moments: whenever he met Syr acuse’s great boxer, Johnny Mas tvella; when he outslugged Syra cuse’s Tiger McGivern to win the Eastern crown-in 1936; whenever he tackled anybody . . .'and he still in sists h<? will never become a pro box er unless .he has t 0... Sammy, we certainly hope you never have t 0.. .- Well, there you have a'bit of what “these three” have done . . . Sammy has hung up the gloves’and football togs . . . you still have a chance to see Windy and Sol cavorting on the diamond . . . what-does the future hold - in store for Penn State’s three great little guys? LIONS FACE DICKINSON NINE TOMORROW Tossers Open Home Season; Seek 2nd Win Seeking-,their, second win in five starts, Joe • Bedenlt’s luckless Lion nine, victory-starved .since they trim med Penn in their opener four games ago, will inaugurate their-home sea son against Dickinson College at 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon on New Beaver Field. Captain Ben Simoncelli will be Bed enk’s mound choice to face Dickin son. Chased from the box- in the fourth inning by Penn's Quakers and nicked for 13 hits by Maryland's Terps, Simoncelli will make a third attempt tomorrow for his initial tri umph of the season. , Menzie, Sherwin. .in Infield Bedcnk will make several changes for tomorrow’s fray. Paul Menzie, sophomore third-sacker, will start at the hot corner. Menzie, hitting .333 and fielding well, will replace Johnny Waters, veteran third baseman. At; .second base-Bedcnk will try diminu-; live-Bud Sherwin in place of Windy Wear. Fritz Seibel, sophomore back stop, will catch for” Simoncelli. Vonarx and Harrison, will keep their respec tive posts at first and shortstop. Mie hofl’, Brake, and Adessa will be in the outfield. Since their 6-4 rout of Penn behind brilliant relief pitching by Tom Watts who rescued Simoncelli in the fourth, and timely clouts by Miehoff, Menzie, and Vonarx, the Lions have served as a doormat for .Maryland, Georgetown, and Navy in successive games. Von arx’.. double in the seventh scoring Adessa and Brake clinched the Penn game after Menzie, <pihch-hitting for Simoncelli, bingled in the fourth with Wear and Vonarx tallying to tie the count. Terrapins Had Big Sixth Maryland's hit- barrage climaxed’ by. a big sixth inning in which the Terrapins rang up three runs, ended an s otherwise nip-and-tuck contest with the Lions on the same side of a 7-4 score. Simoncelli yielded 13 blows while his -mates collected nine. Miehoff, Menzie, and Valeri shared hitting ouch" getting two safe smashes with both Wear and Menzie clouting two-baggers.. Despite n vicious uprising in the eighth fra me, the Lions bowed - to a strong Georgetown nine, 9-7, at Wash ington-Friday after a slugging.battle saw State push ahead, 7-6, only to throw in the towel when the lloyas retalliated with three runs in their half of the eighth. Joe. Adessb, Lion right fielder, enjoyed a brilliant day at the plate, smashing out two hom ers and a single in four tries. Ken Frosh Nine Loses Initial Game, 9-7 Scoring four runs in the sixth and three more in the eighth proved not enough as Coach Leo Houck’s fresh man baseball team lost its opening game 9-7 to a strong Mercersßurg Academy nine on _New Beaver field last Saturday. Bob Robinson pitched a steady game for the yearlings, striking, out five men and keeping MJercersburg's ten .hits well scattered. Five errors in< the first few innings proved costly and' showed that the cubs will have to develop more dependable team; play if they expect to make a showing this season. , Mercersburg took the lend 1 in the first inning by scoring two, and in creased their lend to six runs before' State’s cubs could break into the scoring. One of Mercersburg’s runs was scored when Gene Davis knocked a long round-tripper over the left fielder’s head. The Lion ’frosh capitalized on base hits by. Robinson, Earl Spellman, and Peenie Gates to. break into the scor ing in the sixth, and before the in- over four runs had been chalked up for’ State. The eighth was another fat inning for the Lion yearlings, -who scored three- times tcload the game. 7-6 as the final stanza icanie up. The ,101ns were n result of Gates' t7\vo-brigger and two errors by Bill Cox, Mercevs burg shortstop, which allowed Gates, Bud Avevman, -antd Ed Sapp to score. Mercersburg .took the game when, with two down and men on first and second in the first half, of the ninth, Bill Sbevock, playing right field for the cubs, missed an attempted shoe string catch: of AJ Inglcy’s.'fly and allowed three men to cross the'plate. April Shower Dance Semi Formal, April 30 at s - The Armory From 9*12 Floor Show by Freshman Music by Gampus Owls Freshman Girls invite your ea 'carts now for this annual Fresh man Dunce. l ' THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Collegian Sports Writers Listed The following will report spring athletics for the Collegian: Baseball—Bob Wilson Track—Bill Engel Lacrosse—Bernie Newman 'Spring- football—Brad Owens Tennis—George Schless Golf—Paul Hnldenmn i Freshman Baseball —Herb Nip ■ son * 1 Jntramurals—Manny Roth in charge, Brad Owens, Herb Nipson Golfers Win, 6-3 In Spring Opener Lifting the curtain on the 1938 golf season, the Senior Varsity golfers won their opener last .Saturday after noon against Army, taking a 6-3 vic tory on the West Point links. The matches were played accord ing to the customary collegiate rules, with six men from each college divid ed into, three foursomes. Scoring is ■on the basis of a possible three points to a foursome and- nine-points to a match. : In the first foursome with Army. thc.Lions grabbed all the points. ,Joe Stevenson defeated Lynch (Army), 3 and 2; Jack Mahaffey defeated John son (Army), 3 and 2; and Penn State won the best ball one up on the twentieth hole. Jn the second, the Nittany links .men won only one point, with Ed ward Hebda defeating Garrett (Ar my) , 3 and 2. Bill Gross lost the other point to Clifford (Army), 4 and 3, and Anmy won'the best ball, 3 and 2. In the final foursome-of the match. Bud Miller defeated Penny (Army), one up; Moore (Army), defeated Ken IClingensmith, 4- and 3; and . Penn •State won the best ball, 4 and 2. -Ma'haffey, Hebda, Stevenson, and Gross played on Penn State teams Jast year. Hebda was carried over to Senior Varsity this year from Junior Varsity, on which he played last year. Truhtv also poled out a four-bagger while Vonarx got a triple.’ The game marked Georgetown’s I9th consecu tive triumph. Navy Scores on Error. Windy Wear threw the Navy game right 'into, the Chespeake- 1 . when his heave to first in the seventh' went wild and three Middies crossed the plate to oveicome Stnte’s?s=3 lead and to take an otherwise ’air-tight contest, 6-5. Watts -hurled splendid ball allowing- the Sailors but six sin gletons. Brake smacked- ouj a hard three-bagger and Harrison,* Valeri, and Vonarx each got doubles. Composite batting averages for the first four games follow: ab h Ave. Vonarx 14 6 .428 Brake * 12 4 .333 Menzie 12 4 . .333 Adessa _l6 5 .312 Valeri 14 4. .285 Truhn 4 1 .250 Miehoff !_lB 4 .222 Harrison :„15 3 .200 Waters 6 1 .166 Wear 10 1 .100 Eight women recently accepted bids front’Theta Sigmn Phi, honorary journalism society. They are: Rhetn B. Glueclc, Jeanne M. Walker, and Florence V. Watkins, juniors; Natalie 14. - Atkiußi Elizabeth'Criswell,- Phyllis It. Gordon, Josephine B. Mill er, and Mary 11. Shutts, sophomores. New Wash Fabrics For Spring Wear EGOLF’S Due to a fraternity’s per fectly legitimate cancella - ■ lion of contract, the Booth • Watmough Orchestra is again free to book May Fourteenth, the night fol lowing; Junior Prom. BOOTH WATMOUGH Nittany Stickmen Down Penn For First Victory Upholding this year’s string of r sity of Pennsylvania, the Nittany Lie Blue last Saturday by a score of 7- This is the first game in three si torious. Losing to a powerful Army tanymen traveled the following'week a team considered one of the best in* the country. The Lions were very impressive in the Maryland game, displaying a ! much finer brand of stick work than in their recent game with Penn. With the Lions performing bril liantly one minute, then ragged the next, and with referees’ decisions slowing up the game, the game with Penn was a drab affair. Seventeen one-minute penalties were called-on the Nittanymen. An unusual incident occurred when .Mey ers, Lion goalie, was put out of the game for one minute when he at tempted. to knock the ball from a Penn attack. Joe Proksa doing dou ble duty, prevented any scores at that time. Penn opened the scoring two min utes after the game got. under, way. The -Lions gained their first two markers in succession just before the first period ended, Joe Andrukitis and Net Eliminations Now In Progress With two singles berths on the Lion net team still open, .Coach Dink Stover is running a series of chal lenge matches to determine the team that will face Lehigh, at Bethlehem on Friday, and then go on to Phila-: delphia to meet the strong Penn squad on Saturday. Paul Massey, number one man last year, A 1 Hildebrnndt, undefeated in his initial season of varsity play, and Arnie Cohen '.nil probably handle the first three singles assignments. Jerry Goodman, a promising sophomore, is slated for number four. Carl Arherg, who played part of last season, and Jack Hirsh, a jun ior, have been temporarily given the remaining two singles positions, but they are open to challenge. Bill Wi ley, winner of the freshman tourney last year, has a victory over Hirsh to his credit, and may lx; used on the team. Bob Kirby, Jim Davis, Chuck Huyckj IBill O’Brien, and Joe Ellieot are still in the running for starting berths. No definite doubles assignments have been wade, although it is fairly certain that Hildebr&ndt will pair with Massey, with Cohen and Good man forming another team. Both of the Lions’ opponents in their opening trip have started their seasons with impressive wins. Al bright fell before Lehigh, 8-1, and Penn, 9-0, while the Quakers also have (blanked the West Chester Teachers team. The Penn squad, coached by Wal lace Johnson, greatest exponent of the. chop style of game, is paced by Izzy Beilis, a sophomore, who ranks first in. Middle State junior listings, one position ahead of Malcolm Wein stein, State freshman who is practic ing with the varsity. Capt. Louis Ibeps, Morty Kline, Eddie Mclior, Harry Albert, and Leroy. Lewis, all highly rated, will probably see serv ice against the Lions Saturday. major sport victories over the Univer >n lacrosse team defeated the Red and -4 on the Pennsylvanians’ home court, tarts that the Lion stickmen wore vic team in the season's opener, the Nit to Maryland to take an 11-4 loss from A 1 Simpson sending the hall into the net. In the second period, Joe Snook and A 1 -Simpson tallied for the Lions. ’Penn followed up with two more, keeping the game on close terms. With ; 45 seconds left before half-time, Warren Dattlebaum, pivoting ami throwing a Penn defensive man out of position, sunk a beautiful shot. The score at the half remained 5-3. When the third period got under way, Penn was again the first to reg ister a marker. Both teams continued to scrimmage for the ball. Then Coach Thiel put in his reserves. With his regular line-up well rest -1 ed, Thiel shipped them in at the start of-the fourth quarter. Here they put on the pressure and after some beau tiful passes from Captain Sel Colm, Ray Coskery threw in two accurate shots. AI Simpson, playing a heads-up field game and scoring two tallies for the Nittanymen, scintillated on the offense. George Ritter, sophomore newcomer to the team, and Joe Prok sn handled the-ciefense in fine fashion. Bigham’s Band To Play Jack Bigham and his band will be featured at the Student Union dance this afternoon from 4 to 5 o’clock in the- Armory. There will be no ad mission charge. 1 SAVE ON LAUNDRY J] Convenient Railway Express Service Speed It home ond back weekly by nation-wide Railway Express. 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All the other Nittany divot-diggers de feated their Cornell opponents, and the sextet won the best ball in all 'three foursomes. The results in each foursome fol low: (1) Sulla (Cornell) defeated Boh Hayes,.*) and 2: Bill I.a Porte de feated Strayer- (‘Cornell), 2 and 1; Penn State won the best ball. 2 and 1. (2) Ken Weaver-defeated MacFar land (Cornell). 2. and 1; Julian Kee nan defeated Ryder (Cornell), 4 and 3; Penn State won the-best ball. 3 and 2. (3) Bill Patterson defeated Raymond (Cornell), 7 and 0; Larry Feree defeated Smith (Cornell), 2 and 1; Penn State won the best ball, ami 5. . Connor; Gee, Attend Washington Air Meet Flying to Washington, D. C., to attend the conference of the National Intercollegiate Flying dub during the Easter vacation, Richard Gee ’3B. and Ray Connor ’37, members of the Penn State Airmen, proved their ability at the controls'when their ac curate navigation and flying through unexpected dense fog and rain landed them safely, at the Washington-lloo ver airport.
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