Penn State collegian. (State College, Pa.) 1911-1940, December 12, 1939, Image 3

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    Tuesday, December 12,1939
IM Boxing Finals Tentatively Scheduled For Friday
NO SMOKING
The College i tile ogninst amok*
-Inguln Rec Hall daring-athletic
''contests iwlll he strictly enforced
'this yem, authorities have warn* i
£od . "No smoking*' signs are to
posted tin ougliout the build*
'ing In'tlio nem future _
PRACTICAL I
GIFTS TO 3
PLEASE !
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|:# 'Shirts, $2 and ‘s2 50 |
g • Ties, $1 and ?1 50 3
3sc to $195 |
Gloves, $1 and up |
W'»‘ S'earts, $1 50 'and ijp'g
I|a]amas,is2 and ups ,-g
Jpbes,;, ss’jand uiv| ‘8
| • Speatersj Sjs'and'iip ‘ |
g : « sj- /ank Sets, $1 & up ij
B* •' G ove and Scarf ' 3
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I MtfeSHOP
I;', ft. " -"'’2
gV The rfome of Hart,
Schaffner and Marxj Jjj
Two Divisions Will
Contain 16 Finalists
* With the first round of competition in the 18th annual College
intramural boxing tournament completed, manager Jim Ritchie '4l,
nnnounoed that the finals.probably \will be held Friday night
This year’s eompetitjon'has been divided into fraternity and inde
pendent 'divisions with finals to take place in those respective ranks,
thereby making,l6 finalists.
A predominance of freshmen,
sophopiorcs, and jpmors seems to
indicate that again coach Leo
Houck should have an oppoitunity
tp garner a fe^ r future wairiors
for his varsity No weight class
has been exceptionally outstanding,
but close matches have been abun
dant in the middle weights
The summaries of- the first
ipund
Riflers To Engage
Pine Grove Team
yWith no telegraphic matches
scheduled until after the Christ*
mas holidays, the Penn State rifle
team will engage in a preliminary
shouldcr-to-shoulder contest with
the Pine Grove Mills Rifle Club in
the Armory 'at 7 pm tomorrow,
Coach Stevens stated yesterday.
The gunners have 'been practic
inguintensivcly, and show the mak
ings of a dead-eye group of high
caliber,, Stevens declared Gilbert
Gault is the,leading scorer in prac
tice having netted a scoie of 385
out of a possible 400
Special shooting coats, otdered
lccently, are expected to arrive
soon and will be distributed befoic
vacation begins
Be feet aanarcus- iht*
( »xlra radio'lnlo the home anj'maM tfvo_
V"hol» temiljrioprtmeV happy. "*”*
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RADIO CORNER
Allen at Beaver State College
Fraternity
120 Lb Class %
.Mowry E Goetz ’43, Alpha Cht
Sigma, defeated Chester E Sny
der ’4l, Tau Phi Delta, TKO; John
A. Bcrscth ’4O, Chi Phi, defeated
Robert E. Smith '4O, Alpha Chi
Sigma, decision; John G Reitz ’43,
IvDR, defeated Richaid A. Duns
moie ’43, Alpha Qhi Sigma, deci
sion; Alfred J. Musacchio ’43, Al
pha Plu Delta, defeated Stanley J
Glazier ’4l, Gamma Sigmp Phi,
decision
127 Lb Class
Samuel E f Plenner ’43, Sigma
Pj, defeated Harry W. Wills '4l,
Theta Kappa Phi, decision; A 1
Cowley ’43, Beta Theta Pi, defeat
ed Arthui, R. Christman ’42, AKPi,
decision; Chester U Snydei '4l,
Tau Phi Delta, defeated George .1
Keating ’43, SAE, decision, Frank
J Perna '43, DU, defeated Vincent
D Cavanaugh *4O, Phi Delta
Theta, decision
135 Lb Cl^ss
Herman M Starer ’4O, Kappa
Sigma Phi, defeated Harold P
Kies ’4O, Beta Kappa, decision,
Deo .T Hownrth ’4l, Sigma Pi, do
(Contlnued On Page Four)
Cage Outlook „
Is |Brighter, ;
LaiWtherSays
ij < ' r ■/
, Will. Meet Ist Zone
.-.Defense Against Bucknell
Sc FOWLER
A 5 ‘'Jt'J looks/* ‘-.‘drfn&ed' 3 John Law-
Hheroilve* wei jnightjlcomq I along*> j
' 'Tills 1 ' was the-''varsity ‘mentor’s
comment yesterday as he sm*
jvondering Ifj ln the)
rtfugh*’ fl've could'acquire sufficient
( a successful sea*
soA' from i{s ( inauspicious begin
nings ‘ '
Whether the Lion putflt would
come along fast enough to mangle
a tough Buchnell Bison, Lawther
declined to predict, The 'Lewis
burg boys, lumored unusually po
tent this jear, av ill meet the locals
in Rec Hall Saturday night.
Grippe which spread over the
campus threatened to weaken the
Nittanymen for Saturday's fray as
Bob Crowell and Kerm Christman
were relegated to the sick list
Their recovery by the end of the
w eek is problematical.
KrouseShines
Chances of future cage success
looked considerably brighter with
the addition of Len Krouse, grid
w ingb&ck, to the varsity last week
Supplying the outfit with some
much-needed “umph," his perfor
mance in the, Susquehanna romp
assures him of a starting-post Sat
urday. .
Intensive this
week were cpncentr&ted on the de
velopment of better shooting and
offense against zone Bucknell will
bring the first zone defense the
Lions < have faced this season
Striving to develop some good
first-string subs. Lawther will send
his second team against a Lock
Haven cage outfit tonight in a
scrimmage session
\ Those People ip
v t Reading and Vicinity '
A.re Invited to an
ALUMNI’DANCE
DECEMBER 26th
, 1 tits, ‘
Reading >
Country Club
from 10-3/ ' $3 per couple
For Reservations Call
- Tom
Marge Warwick—
' - ' Midge Barhey—sosl' ,
' ' 1
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Hockey .
Quaker Team
Tallies Twice
In Ist Period
‘lceless Wonders’ Show
, Lock of Ice Practice
By EO McLORIE
Penn State’s ioe liockev Lions
facing a too powerful Penn team
that tallied two goals in the open
ing peiJod, opened tlieir season
with'a 4-1 defeat at Hershev Fri
day night.
The “iceless wonders" apparent
ly fazed by. lack of practice on Icp.
got a slow start and despite a bril
liant last peilod stand failed to
oveicome the Quakers' lead Th*o
Penn pucksters “broke the ice”
with only 4 4.’* minutes of the
game gone when their are Tpd
Stehle rippled the nets.
Slate's oniv moikei was regis
tered when George Wolbert scored
on a pass finm Rn> Mnngernm
with 43 seconds lemnining in the
first period
Playing impioved hockey in the
final stanza, tlie Lions held Hie
Penn lads scoieless amid manv
penalties against both teams Four
Stale men and one Penn player
weie accosted for rough tactics
during that period *
The lineup
V of P P State
(i Gnllaghei ‘ DoLong
D Stehle ’Bachman
D Englei Wolbert
C Hunter Dowler
LW Copperwaite Mnngerum
RW Gjbeison Matula
Altei nates Univeisity of Penn
sylvania—Adelmnn, Pepper, Pea
cock Feubeistein, Mitten. Ram
so>, Wnid, Vooiliees Penn Slate
—Smith Rlioads Row man Onriet
Lighthody, Irwin
pei(od Goals (1) Penn.
Stehle (Englei). 4 45, (2), Penn
Ward'(Rnmsej). 12.30, (3),iPenn
State, Wolbeit (Mnngeium), 14 07
■Penalties-—Peacock. tripping i
1 Second period ‘Goals -(4). Penn,
'Feuberstein 1 (’Ward), 7 43, ’(5)
Penn. Voorbees, unassisted. 12*33
Penalties —Rhoads. 1 '‘high 11 stick,*
Donloi ihterfei'ence *• ' 11 * 1 1
' Thiid peiio’d goal's,' noii4 Pen
alties—Vooi bees, *4rippln /'‘Stbhle’j
.itqerfeience, t, s tripling,
jsieble ,thaigipg ejbowinfy
'Bachman. , . it],
FROSH
:F‘ BRIEFS
Frosh Wrestling
Coach Speidel, working with al
most 100 would-be fieshman wrest
lers, has concentiated on basic ma
terial, giving the novice vviestlci
ample chance to leain the sport
before competition According to
Speidel, competitive-work will be
gin shortly bcfoie oi direcHv af
ter Chustmns vacation
The fieshman wiesthtig season
will open 'January 0 with the in
terclass meet and'with mtrnmur
nls second semestei .
Frosh Boxing
Coach Nestoi Kociubunsky is
spending his time watching the m
tramuml boxing bouts these days
as all of his freshman boxing can
didates are entered in the compe
tition Although he has supervised
the tiainmg of those hoys who le
ported as cub boxing candidates,
selection of the cub squad is likely
to be determined largely by the
outcome of the 1M competition
Frosh Basketball
With daily piactice four weeks
old, a freshman basketball team
that looks definitely better than
last year’s" yearling five, is busy
preparing for its„fiist meet m
mid-Januaiy
About .fifteen men are out for
the team, Coach Nick-Thiol stated
•Women in Sports j
Interclass basketball competition
will begin Monday Eight, tepms
are qualifying by practicing week,
davs at 4 or Tuesday at 7 p’m It’s
not too late to try out, but huriv,
hurry, huiry!
We’re expecting a Gertrude
Ederle oi Kathenne Rawls any
time now, since the swimming club
showed movies of expert breast
stroke technique and the gals have
been practicing. Bewaie Olympic
team—here we come!
Eugene H. Lederer
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114 E. Beaver Ave. Dial 4066
* ‘ State 1 College
ions Lose Opening Tilt To Penn, 4-1
Between The Lions
Bob Wilson—-
The' "Intramural Boxing Follies
of 1439’’ —the one ring circus that
packs 'em in and panics ’em —is
scheduled to wind up Us ISth an
nual showing Frida} night ip Rec
Hall dt which time the final bouts
will be run off Time Bpm
Up until now the bouts have
been just tjpical hit and miss, hot
and cold, tough and tender lnt?a
mural bouts —always thrilling, of
ten humorous, hut never dull It's
a show that's well worth twied the
priepe of admission —which, of
course, is nothing
And the finals ‘Fiidnj night will
he regular hunylingers You can
copnt on Hint'
We Wuz Hohbed!.'
Of alt the sad words of tongue
or pen, the saddest aie Uiesp "It
might have been
That verv handsome line was
dashed off hy John Gieenleaf
.Whittier who I doubt ever heard
much of football let alone Penn
State And jet, were he alive to
daj, Whittier would prohablv reel
off tl\at same line in connection
with Penn State’s piesent gridiron
Plight'
I refer of course, to (he foi th
coming Vow* Year's Da> "bowl
games’’ to none of which Penn
State, lias been bid And it's a
darned dhtj shame,, too for the
Lions ate the logical c noice to
play In any of ’em provided mj*-
system of leasoning is used
It was a simple matter to get
State the ROSE BOWL bid o\ei
Southern Cal, who will probably
battle Tennessee for the nationnl
title I did it this way. Oregon
tied So Col, Washington tlitaslied
Oiegon, Pitt beat Washington and
State smeaied Pitt -And jet. dem
bums out on the const want South
ern Cal , *
In-the SUGAR BOWL at New
Orleans, State desei ves the Hid
just as much as Tulane because
Noi th 1 Carolina tied Tulane, Duke
beat North Carolina. Pitt beat
Duke and State ,walloped Pitt
li's; the, same . stoij with the
OHXnCE: BOWL ~bid GfOigia
Tech (meets Missouri tlieije on
Year’s, and yet Duke,
Georgia , Tech., Pitt nlckedi Duke
,«yid, flgain, Pitt.,
ft was a little tougher gpeting
‘th^’L'ions, into the COTTON BOWL
at 1 Dallas*. Texas, where Boston
but here's
liow I did it Florida beat Boston
Colleger-South -Carolina tripped
Florida Furman halted South Car
olina. Va- Tech toiled Furman,
VMT licked Va Tech. Columbia
bumped V M. I, Yale downed
Columbia, Penn stopped Yale, and
State tiounced Penn
Similarly, the Nittanvmen
should have lecelved the SUN
BOWL hid over Catholic Univei
sity, fot St Anslem checked Cath
olic, Boston College sank St Ans
lem and look what happened to
Boston College in the pipceding
paingiaph’ 1
Doosn’Ht make,} on burn’’ ’ *
j, ' i
Court Chatter
Going into the Bucknell game
this Saturday night, Penn State’s
basketball Lions will have a field
goal average of 203 per cent and
n foul goal average of 500 per cent
to work on The Nittanjfnen have
made 32 hnslcets out of -157 at
tempts from the field in two
gamhes and have sunk 14 out of 25
goals from the foul line Temple
Univ ersity’s cm rent basketball
team whom the Lions play twice
this season. Is being billed as
“Temple’s' T9lS’’ Jolin.Lawther
and company will he hnppj to
know that this j ear’s Temple team
Is the shorte°t in Owl history Two
jenis ago the Owls averaged six
feet three inches in height Center
Don Henderson is the onlj six
footer in tlio sqund this jeni ac
cording to reporls
Hats ,off department To Len
football player since
Fmnk Spilth co captain in 1436-37,
to figure prominently in basket
ball tTo Leon Gajeckl—nnotliei,
groat center who, has, been
drafted for pio gild service upon
giaduation The Pltlsbmgh Pio
Piiates claim "Gates’’ To Wade
Moil— only football Lion to gain
Special Recognition bv the ofllcinl;
All-American Board I
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320 W‘ BEAVER AVE DIAL 3261
Lion Swimmers
To Hold Frosh,
Varsity Meets
7 Veterans Form Nucleus
Of Well-Balanced Squad
Aftei nearly two month** of dili
gent conditioning di ills both hi
doois and out, Penn State’s varsitv
and fieshman swimmers will get
1 heir ill st taste of competition this
vqelc with two intrti-squad meets
Building around a nucleus of
competent veterans, Coach Bob
Galbiaith and Diving Conch Bill
Gnskill have whipped togetliei a
well balanced team Handicapped
until after Thanksgiving by int*-
mural swimmeis, the Lion mermen
have since made rapid stiides
Among the freestvle sprhiteis/
Boh Allison, Bill Kirkputi ick, Ted
Hilrtcbiand Tom Robinson, and
DUk Rubner are the veteians, with
Phil Rogatin, Don DelMnnro, El
niei AY ebb, and Wairen Raaii
forming the sophomoie contingent
Fieestj’le distance swimmers are
veteran Tom Robinson,"and Tom
Reissmnnn and Hmold AVnrnoi.
sophomores
At Boileau Lan> Cmtis, and
lack Morgan, all sophomores,
make up the breast-stroking de
paitmenr Elmei "Webb, Bob
Fruchtei, Bob Wagnei, and Don
Newborn aie the liack-stiokeis
Co Captain Guy McLaughlin is the
only veteran among the divers,
with sophomoies Al Price, Ralph
Erwin and Dick SarU contending
foi positions «
Although theli first meet, with
Penn, is not slated until after
Chiistmas the Niltanj swimmeis
wifi get plenty of competitive ox
peiience with intra-squad and
fi osli vai sitj meets liofore then
A fiosh-varsitj distance his«le is
set foi Wednesdaj and an inlia
squad meet foi Sntuulnj
Gymnasts Train For
Opener With ’Maryland
■ With -n’ little ’ aid from Lolly
Luck, ‘Coach Gene tVottstone be
lieves !lns varsity ‘prvmnnsts can
bienk iicii IVI then meets this sea
son •'and if so, that Mould 1 mean
three wins and‘three losses *
At the present, the aciolmticallj'-,
inclined lads' of the “flving tra
peze” are whipping themselves into
shape 1 foi the.fiist piactice 1 meet
against Maivland < on January 13
AVettstone is basing his hopes on
eight,seniors, led by Captain Mev
ull Beck, whose specialty is the
paiallcl bais
The seniois who seem to be hold
ing down first notch at each of
the spots aie Geoigc Teiwilligor,
high bai and paiallel bais, Stan
Feldman arid Heiman Shmukler,
high bar, Pago Scliaefei, side
hoise; Elmei AA’eaver, ungs, Chal
ky Gillespie, ungs and rope climb
ing, and AVilbm Waid, tumbling
The closest battle is being waged
between Feldamn and Shmuklei
for the horizontal bai spot, which
the formei held last veai Sevei.il
sophomoies, including Ronnie An
dreas, Chuck Senft, Bill Loeber,
Waltei Lovviy, and Geoigc Sum
ner may bleak into the lineup be
foie opening meet time
The scholastic avcinges of Laf
avette College students who came
fiom public schools aie highei
than of thqsc who come fiom priv
ate schools
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