~Tuesday. January, p, 19,40, '':' BETWEEN - - TH LIONS Bob-Wilson '_ , They cut their arms ,off — thn rings with their legs They flyaway "a%They'ezecute butterflies . Thy rfialte iron criittes And , they rule the horses. can't Understand it :iiiii - yout roll in not the tempting tidbit, of pastry it's cracked up :cto lie; norVs'a "Baroni" anymore like a popular Italian cocktail than bilie'w,,iiter , _ _ ~. . ;.:-. ~ ,Fhiit "a screwy bunch! h: - , -, Even as this , is written, Gene.Wettetone and his varsity gymnasts . , i, life coming, new words and phrases that will confound linguists and 'double talkers alike „ 3 Theirlanguage jugt cloesn't make sense 'tPreiof: This typical conversation betwlen Captain Merrill Bee] , - Beck: "What exercise are you going to use on the rings this senson, Elmer?” WeaVer , "Well, I'm gonna 'shoot' at a figure with more eon fewer 'breaks.' I'll probably mount with a back kip , , to.a handstand, then lower into a planeho. I'll follow up with an inverted "crucifix, layout rolls andnlioulder dislocates If I'm lucky t' 11l 'dismount by butting off both arms with my legs, backwards " --'Beck: '"Then you don't plan to include an iron cross and - • herniae - Heck?" - Weaver: ",That'o right." :jinn - gine a guy wanting fewer broilki,,cutting off his arms and dislocating' his ~ Shoulders jugt for the glory of - old State and a' few "additional points I tell you, they're all, crazy up there' 'Gene Wettiitone , explains -that , the nomenclature- used by gym - 'nests is taken froni German, Swiss, Swedish and English Penn State gyinhasts use English 'Y M.C.A nomenclature with a few Swiss terms interspersed,' ' " IVlany_einnastic tricks are defined in dictionaries, but those not defined; are „usually named for some person or, subject For example, , - - theliron cross on the fyingrings is e'ccuted by holding the body ver- , - extending,the arms away - from the body horizontally to both :,sides,, thus forming a cross Since - the trick is so hard to accomplish, tit hes been named the "iron" (hard, non, get it?) miss which are more' or less n iensahon in themselves are often named for the gyinnast who orginated theM A "Moore," for / examPle, is a beautiful skill 'on the side horse involving flee leg circles, '''rotating the body one pommel Roy Moore, now chairman of the A A. U , introduced it. Sortie other good tricks named after, the men who invented them 'are:"TheCominsky," "the Jockim" and'"Wbeeleis " i i ": Roman Pies, Penn State's record-holding rope climber, has per fected a new trick which the Lion gymnasts now Call the "Pied " It a bock priot-to a front "Support on the parallel bars (_,_After seeing Roman and the rest of the Wettstone company per fdrm;',l have decided to stick to playing bridge, making fudge ,and `talking With eighth-graders „ 'Pat kortem Qu6stionneitre no other field is fame so fleeting nor faeti more easily forgotten as iin the held of sports If veil - don't believe, it, take a crack at this 'questionnaire. It embodies questions from ,headlifies that made Col legiarviews during 1989. , 5ee page four (4) for answers— ; 1 Where • did Barney, Ewell „finish - in-the 60-yard dash - event , 'at' ihe Milli ose games last Fobs, wiry , Who -- eiiptained Penn State year,in swimming', lirgYrn" -,',l4,lacrosse'' In' baseball"rln tennis"' fln 'track" In , golf? , In ceosi-Country" „In femme:- In soc l.= cer?..ln baiketballr many ~State :athletes pliiced in:the 'Perin AC trick Meet last year? Who were ihey?'Were , any , records broken' , ' „What _,State athlete was chOsen Moist, Outstanding Senior , bytthe ,Collegian last year? ' 8. Hoe many_ Eastern-Intei rdleglate ,boxing and' wrestling, champs did , State ' have last year" - , '6: What -Lion wrestler pla - ced "ieVond 'in - the National - Colleg., 7nres 'at , Lancaster last - Year" :7. Who was Busby Butterfin-- , ger" ' •` • '4„31 What Lion basketball_plav , eilwas named on the'Aelieciated Press All-Eastern, Conference ','team? ,Which varsity sport' had a new coach? Whowauhe? ,;;; ~ .-,,.' '.,. ;—,,, -' - = - ..- -, - ~..c'.:i - - LOWER ',YOUR BUDGET , ~ .., , ' '''," z' : ' ' ' WITIL-THESE 'CLEANING PRICES -:,, , ,1,,) , '''' ; FOR MEN' ... FOR WOMEN iiorrs ~, .. , .-' ,_ 43e_ PLAIN DRESSES . 490 - 2 46/ERBIBLES ' ' , TROUSERS ,-. . ' 29c JACKET SUITS .59c .TU,KEDOES, ' ' 59e' BLOUSES ' ' . ..29c q,TOPCOATS . 4 . . ' 43e up', SKIRTS ' . . 29e .-•• 'NECKTIES, 3 for,. ' . - 31 e ' GLOVES". . .19e '"HATS,; ''''' ''' - . VELVET , DRESSES .... 98e ~ ' „ . g -: ,!..SiitiCTLY,CASH AND CARRY ' "cA,: - '';),, r i'','";;; 4 ' , ':' - 'ir':•:,.',' . .L'l•..:- . 2-_ - _, ,0.:-.>.:.':' ~10 _ ,,,_..,_ ..'„ -, ,' , - . . ,_, *,.7 , `,.",k -, 7 !, - ,.,A,'',, ' -',P - L'Z' r .. 1 4. ' 4 -: , -.: , 'i , 7 ' _ ‘;', , l„1: )s ' f ;:' : l' i -,-. II IIII,IIiNER,,v IL:, DYERS - : i ~,• 0.,,,, t„....,,, ~.,., ~.,,„ ~ - ~. „ ... :,,,,.,,,...„ . „,, ....:,... - . ,;, . ~ .,,, ,A LL,,5„,,_,,,,, , ,,,, , ..:._ ~,", ..,.. „ STATE COLLEGE i.l l \ rt"‘5,1. , .."-::= '. 4' ~.' ' 4 . e , "<=,-,--',. „ ... - " — t , • ' t - ' utva.t 4 .= m.,dtrr“.•*'' -T „ '''ittißrtitiNiiiiltßrrOuN I .. 10Who was named Outstand ing Senior Athlete by the Lion varsity coaches last yea.? 11 Who won the first,Prankie Goodman boxing trophy?,,, 12 _What - fraternity won the 1939 Intramural. Athletic Tro: phv? '" 13 Who scored Stiite's lore touchdoWn" against Pitt' 14 Willa. two Penn State ath lete's won John W. White schol arships last`yeaf? - 16. Who ,took_ scoring, honors for...the Lions in soccer? In foot ball? In cross-country? 16. What three Lion gridderg were named on the first All- Collegian team? 17. Who wore the Nittany Lion skin at its first and only 'appearance in 1939? 18 What fraternity swept both intramural championships in volleybcill Lind table tehms? -19 Wlio kicked the field gonl4 that helped beat both Penn and Pitt? ,20 What was the icor° of the Bucknell-State football game? The Lehigh -State game? Lion Cagers To Face Hoyas Tomorrow State Drops Close Battle To , Pitt, 31-28 Nittany Cagers Trounce Mount Union, Kent, And Akron On New Year's Ti in By BILL FOWLER ,Their three game, New Year's victory spree in Ohio' slightly clouded by a hangover in the smoky city—a 31-28 setback by Pitt—Saturday night, Penn State's unpredictable cage quintet will tangle milli Georgetown In Rea Hall at 8 p m. tomorrow Hardly in the nature of an as- I pirin tablet for the Nittarn men 1% ill be the Hopis, who last }ear Jostled the locals Mice, 12:4 and 42-20 Hoe ever, They looked none too impressiie in losing to Tem ple by a 30 point marghi Mat week, while John Lawther's proteges try hard for a successful 1940 debut on home soil A bitter pill for the Lions to swallow was the five pciint spurt which carried the Panthers to sic tot y In the last two minutes of play Saturday Nemesis of the Nittanymen nes a red-headed jun ior center. , Melvin Port. Is ho flip ped in two field goals and a foul to furnish., the victory militia' in a Frank Merrix ell finish Score Tied 9 Times No less than "nine times during the contest was the score dead locked as the too teams fought down the, stretch in an extra-tight ' defensile battle The quarter count Ilfls 7-7 the halfoay score 11-11, arid the_Lions neat into the final stanza botothtg a one point mar gin Beautifttl'oork at the foul line kept the Nittany tossers In the game, theft 14 tallies out - of 20 attempts exactly doubling the Pitt total Al 2 to 7 margin in field goals neat to the'Pantheis "Eddie Stralowski of Pitt nallced off on scoring honors for the evening As WI 11 markets, nhile Norm flacusin paced the Lions With seven Win 3 on Trip 'A lightning thred-day insasion of Ohio had earlier been complet ed b 3 a squad of 11 Nittany floor I%arriorg Their campaign in brief A second-half ambush of Mt Union, 31-24 A blood] ninsanere of 4hron 20 r A mai lismonship exhibition to scuttle Kent 7021 ' Boxing Tea m Outlook Good Western Maryland Bout Opens Season January 20 By BUD SMYSER A team as good or better than last year's Is. beginning to shape up through the clouds that always surround the usual pre season bat tle on Penn State's va i shy boxing team Biletly, the iarsiq candidates and posrible boxers in all of theh different meight classes are these (last year's record in parenthesis) 120 pounds—Captain Mike Coop er (son 5, lost 2), Vic Fiore • ' l, , 127 pounds Cooper. George Hankins 135 pounds—FrankStank° (won 2, lost 3, drew 1) Homer Hoffman, Joseph Myers, Simon Segal 145 pounds—Bob Baird (unde feated as freshman), Prank Sti-, vestri (lost 3), Elbur Purnell, Bill Boerner, Frank Slanko, Jim Lewis 165 pounds Bernie Sandson (ion 2,. lost 2), Dale McKinley (lost 1), Leslie Naaran, Charles Thompson, Paul Mall, Hall Gib bons, Prank Nonemaker 175, pounds—Sohn Patrick (won 2:-lost' 4), Harry Masters (unde feated as freshman), Paul Scully , Heavyweight Nate Handler Von 1, lost 2) - , John Patrick, Herb Clarke ' Herman Goffberg, 135 pounder who - sas undefeated as a freshman Last year, received Instruction from his doctor last week thnt the same complication, of illneises that kept him from cross ' country. competi tin last fall will force him to drop boxing this year. J , —AT PENN STATE Whtn.ln ; I r. a i?MAbout aj , . 1 0 /:I ni a 123 '„^, N I TTANY AVENUE ALL ROOMS WITH RUNNING WATER 'thermostatiet.,Heat, Quiet Atmo sphere and- Sertniulausly,,Clean IST PLAY Ot.TirgiTil . AIqIYETtE>ARYIUASii*-=JAN. 19TH, 20TH - ~ PENN STATE COLLEGIAN '39 TEAMS SET-SPORTS. RECORD Penn State's 14 varsity sports teams reached a new high during 1939 when they attained a record of 84 triumphs against 41 losses and five tics for a victory average of 672 to better their 1938 per- With four freshman teams achieving perfect records, the yearling sports record, for .the , year wig .606 vVith 20 'victories against 13 de feats and one deadlock. The complete records of both varsity and freshman team W L T Pet 7 0 1 15 4 0 6 1 0 5 11 2 7 2 0 7 '3 0 5 2 1 3 1, 0 4 2 1 5_ 4, 0 - ____ 11 10 0 4 , 5 0 , 1 3 _0 Soccer Baseball Fencing Football Tennis Wrestling Track Bowie. Snimminz Basketball Lacrosse. Gymnastics ___ Grapplers Show Promise In : Interclass Wrestling Seniors Win With 3 Point Total; learn Will Open Campaigh At Cornell Saturday tiy 808 LANE With the-completion of the interclass wleatling bouts Saturday afternoon when the graplers received their first real taste of: mat competition it appeared that Penn State, like in the past, would have a wrestling team this year. What kind of a team it will be may be answered this Saturday when Coach Charley Speidel's proteges travel to Ithaca to open theit mat campaign against Cor- nell. Nittany Fencers Will Battle Penn And Lehigll Avvale Considerably weaker this year due to the loss of four regulars from last year's squad,,Penn State's fencing team leaves riday, foi meets with Lehigh and Penn in Bethlehem and Philadelphia, re 9iectively The Nittanyrnen will meet Le high on Friday night and , Penn, Saturday afternoon. Last year the Manny swords men routed , Lehigh 18-9 and swamped Penn 19-8. Foils Lew Kutz,Elnier Lowen stein, and Doug Adams: Epee. Elmer Lowenstein, Bob Harder, and Captain Paul Feibiger Sabre. Paur-Feibiger, Dan Lyons, and 'Jack Good Gym Cub O pens Here Saturday Williamsport Club First Foe; Nary, Temple Next By DICK PETERS Repiesenting Penn State tor the first time in intercollegiate competition, Gene Wettstone's fieshman gymnasts will tackle the Williamsport Gym Club in a prac tice meet Saturday afternoon in Rec Hall. The Lion Cub acrobats have two other meets slated with the Navy Plebes and the Temple freshmen Of the 25 air-minded freshmen .now trying out for the team Gen ial Gene has several ex-high school luminaries to select from and will build his squad around those men. John Wolf, holder of the Phila delphia high schools championship in 1934.35-36 on the horizontal bar is holding the edge over Ed Tyr- On the side , horse, John Teti, hale, 1939 titleholder, and Lou ilordo 1938 champ on that appar atus 1937 Philadelphia high schools Champion, is a little ahead of Sol Small, with Bob Edgerly and Bordo trailing. Small is the lead ing candidate on the flying rings with Jack Krauss, Teti, and Wolf also on that apparatus. Up on the parallel bars, Wolf again holds a thin margin over Bordo, Small, and Teti. Art Hand and Rod Dietrich are see-sawing for first notch' in the rope climb ing event. Bordo and Trybala are evenly matched for top honors in the tumbling event, with Warren Beck not too far behind. _ _ Observatory Open The first unit of the now multi ple observatory east of Buckhout Laboratory nil! be open to the Pub lie front 7 p m to 8 30 every Mon day and Thursday until furthervio tlee Lectures' at thole hours whenever the Skies are clear Will be delivered by froward S Cole man ,i.- _ ♦ * . ' ' • "The tircle=-otChalk . " , Presented , By PENN, STATE PLAYERS Cross Country _ 1 3 0 Total 84 41 5 672 Freshman L T Pct Baseball 4 0 0 Wrestling 2 0 0 Tennis 1 0 0 Soccer 2 0 1 Bisketball ____ 8 2 0 Lacrosse 1 1 0 Coif 1 1 0 Track 1 1 0 Boxing 1 1 0 ,Football 2 3 0 ' Cross Country _ 0 2 0 iSvnimmtng ____ 0 2 0 Total 20 13 1 606 • Totals ____lo4 56 8 658 - In the inter-squad competition ,Sathrday 'the seniors won the meet ssith a total score of 33 points, the juniors placed second with 26, the sophomores took third pith 9, and the frosh were list pith a total of 8 points Results of Matches ,the 121-pound class Charley Ridemui, P. I. A A, high , school Champion, demonstrated outstand ing ability and clever vnestling - to imit6 a decision over Midge King Dave Waite pinned Leo Hoi vntli; after 3 minutes and 29 sec the'l.l.B-pOund bOut. Vank Gleason, 136-pound East einllintercollekmate-champion, ex perienced nihe minutes of tough eomptiop_mjimmag_the decis ion rani Allen Crabtree,--mromis ing kfosh wrestler Bob Alexander Won the decis ion over Larry Tate in the 148- pound 'class Joe , ,Scalzo took the referee's decision from Ralph Sayres in the 155:fiound affair. Sayres had a laigc, Weight advantage oser Seal- Chdrley Rohrer was awarded the decision over Lloyd Smith in the 165-pound event. Captain Ernie Bortz pinned Bill Bachman in 4 minutes and 8 sec onds of the 175-pound tussle. Bachman was wrestling in the 175-pound class for thi first time. He will probably compete in the 165-pound class Warlen Elliott and Joe Valla fought it out in the unlimited class with Elliott being awarded a close decision Sports Menu Tomorrow Basketball—Georgetm% n SP m Friday Fencing—Lehigh, AN, a% Saturday Irre4tling—Cornell. Away Fr' Nestling—Cornell Away Forcing—Penn, Away Basketball—Carnegie T, Away AAU Rejects Eweil's 50-Yard Dash Mark A World's record for the 50• yard dash established by Barney Ewell, Penn' State "star, was rejected at ti recent meeting of the record com mittee' of the National Amateur Athletic Union Ewell 'broke the existing stand ard in the Penn Athletic Club meet in Philadelphia last winter. His time was 51 seconds. Although no reason was given for the-rejection of Ewell's mark, it was 'believed that the fact that the meet did not have the proper officials, and lacked other major requirements of a standard event vas a possible Solution - Ewell, who won the National A A U. outdoor 220-yard dash charn pionshiPlast 'June, is expected to competein the, big Indoor meets following , Christmas Lion Mermen Lose First Tilt To Penn, 40-35 Kirkpatrick Sets Pace In Two Freestyle Events; Squad Weak In Distances By BAYARD BLOOOM 'Next ,)eat is the year" So predicted Lion scimming mentor Bob Galbraith after his %atsitv mermen lost their opening tilt to a strong tank team in Phil adel,iihia Saturday bs the clove score of 40 15 Sparked by super sprinter 8111 Kirkpatrick Oho egg bentered his ear to first places in Loth the 50 and 100-card freestyle races, as cell as anchoring the sic torions 100 yard relay team Conch Gailhraith based his pro phecy on solid logic by pointing out that in the floe years so hich Lion scimmlng teams have met the Quakers, the Lions have bet. feted their score by five points each rear The first meet the years ago e eat to Penn by the one sided score of 55 20 McLaughlin Looks Good State showed up weak in the distances breaststroke, and hack stroke against Penn, while the tillers and sprinters lased up to and exceeded expectattons Co captain Gus McLaughlin and Al Price placed one two respectisely in the fancy (thing competition, with McLaughlin looking excep tionally good Sul prise stets of the meet for the Nittany men ss ere Elmer Webb, Don DelManzo, and Warren Raab, all sprinters, who with Bill Kirk patrick as anchor copped the 100 said freesble reins for State Captain Sam Tator, senior ace freestyle distance swimmer fat the Red and Blue, equaled "torpedo Bill" Kirkpatrick's feat by captur ing twin triumphs in the 220 and 440 said freestyles Close on his heels is both these esents was teammate Bob Chapman Co captain Mark Vinzant, expect ed to win the 150-sard backstroke, was edged nut by Quakerman Les ick Tobin Vinaant was hampered by the slipper% tile on the turns, how eyet SPORTS BRIEFS Smith Beaten Dilly Smith, Lion doss-country ea ptain and former IC4-A cham pion, took Second place in the an nual Middle Atlantic District A A G genic,' championship cro‘4,- count!y inn o; er a 4h. and a-quar tet mile course (10,000 meters) in Philadelphia on Decembei 24 The meet ma , ' mon he - Henn Earl Mei cure A C Npeedstez Soose Seventh The not td's set enth best middle ceight in the coat tel lacking of the National Boxing Association Penn State's &miner intercollegiate champion, Bills Soose, non has plans to avenge the only defeat of his comeback campaign by facing 12 Soose Is 011 'the right to the Geroge Abler'', (eighth in the NBA ranking) again an Felnuaty re-match pith a foe-ronnd knock out of Timm N Tones in Philadelphia on Decembet li .Tones holds a kayo oser Abrams Skiers Tenth Penn State's skiers , took tenth place among 12 teams entered in the annual ski - meet at the Lobe Placid Club k Silo Birds Held Decem ber 'lO and 11 and Jamul 1 Mid dlebm s" was ChM with Harvard and Yale second and third The Lion skiers entered the cross countiy, slalom, and downhill races jumpbut did not take part In the shi jump The skiers «ill compete at Connell this sleek end Sports Buses Buses carrying students to the best nealln skating and skiing spots will be run again this week end if conditions are favorable Last seek-end ,200 students used the buses Students who arrang ed the first bus trip sere Ralph Sinny, William Clark, Philip Suss man, 'and Henry Beers Reserva tions are on sale at Student Union Ice Mickey 'Penn State's informal ice hockey team will make its second appear ance in the newly formed Hershey Intercollegiate league when the Lions face,the Hershey Cubs there Friday night They lost their first encounter to Penn, 4-1 Practices base been held at Metrger's Dam since vacation ended is Buy a Season Ticket For All 5 Plays and Have Reserved Seats at a Big Saving Hoffman Refefies Meet meet beta een Cleat field and Ms College - Registrar William s Bell High Schools last Frith* Iloffman refereed the It. 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