Tuesday, January 23,.1940 BREEN THE LIONS Bob Wilson _ Athlete of the Week During my life I have been mis taken - for a number of things, in cluding an 'advertisement for Cris co and a gnome from Lilliput, but it remained until ' recently for Mark Vinzant, swimming co cap tain, to mistake me for a hsh—a sucker at that. , About two weeks ago Vinzant ' made me a bet of one steak dinner '.(a , 121 Unusual) that he would break his own college record for the 150- lyard backstroke in the W & T meet. '. -,, On rumors of Vinsant's poor physical condition and idle gossip about his sad showing in time trials, I swallowed the bet hook, lirae and sinker. Vinzant has been trying to break that record for three years, I reasoned. The steak dinner was as good as an my bread basket. Saturday afternoon, swimming a beautiful, race, Vinrant not only broke but completely smashed his old 'record He bettered his old malls by three 13) full seconds, 'setting a new record of 1 46 6 min utes for the event , All of which, aside from costing me a steak dinner, gave me the brilliant idea to inaugurate with this column an "Athlete-Of-The- Week" award. ~,,The award, purely a title honor, will be conferred each Tuesday on. the Penn State athlete who has distinguished himself as the out standing individual star and team performer during the pi eceding week. Mark Vinzant becomes athlete No:1 to receive the title. Honorable mention Beenie Sandson, Lion boxer, foi his 50- second TKO, Scott Moffatt, Lion eager, for his uncanny basket flinging in netting 16 - points against Navy, and Joe Scaa., Lion wrestle', for pinning Chicago's Captain Thomas in the only fall of State's first home meet Foiled Again: Philadelphia gaper cau sed this' headline on its Sunday sport page "Penn State Beats Temple Fencers" A Pittsburgh sheet said this "Penn State Fencers Foiled Ey Owls " , Puvle Which one will coach Doc /Cruller clip fat his fencing scrapbook 9 , Nicknames Make News Aftei hearing that Paul Mall, one of Leo Houck's 175-pounders, answers to the' nickname "Smo key" ' after the cigarette that's Slnoked,wherever particular peo ple.' congregate 'it .wouldn't sur prise ,were ,dubbed "'Sandman" or if Dick, Giimcs were tagged "Centre 'Daily" Just for the h—l of it, I'd like to' suggest "Picador" as a suitable 'handle ,for heavyweight wrestler 'Warren Elliott, especially after his Saturday night bull tight with Chi cago's Milt Weiss Warmed Over Hash Cage coach John Lawther's son, , Jim, scored 20 points in leading State College High to a victory 'over Ldck Haven last Friday Young Jim is a left-hander with a -deadly ,combination pivot and hook shot The goose egg Penn State's ,wrestling Lions handed Chicago Saturday night was the first the Maroons have suffeted m then entire wrestling history SPE lAL JANUARY SALE 2 AND 3 PLY ANGORA ~ ": WHITE and COLORS '-, INSTRUCTION FREE : YARN CRAFT SHOP 140 E. 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Beaver Ave. Dial 3261 Moffat Stars As Lion Quint Sinks Navy, 404 7 McWilliams, Barr Help To Administer Worst Defeat Since 1926 To Middies; Zone Defense Stops Navy Attack Navy Scores First But State Leads 18-9 At Half; Home Team Uses 13 Men Trying To Halt Rout By BILL FOWLER Believe it 01 not— A vastly underrated Nittany cage machine did trample the Navy beneath a wishing 40-17 margin Saturday at Annapolis, inflicting the worst defeat the Middies have suffered since 1926 And red-haired Scotty Moffatt, "dark horse" substitute forward of the Lions, did pile up 16 points in an amazing exhibition of sharp 'shooting skill All of which was very much counter to dope sheets, advance information, , and confidential data The familia'r 2-1-2 pivot play, with Johnny Barr in the pivot slot giving the ball to Moffat as he cut around the outside, work ed to perfection- to baffle the Navy defense, while the Lawther 'zone defense was as effective as a mine barrage in halting the Middle nits& Navy Scores First Wall Hosterman,Eleded Captain 'Of 1940 Soccer Teani Al Squad Meeting Walt Hosterman, veteran Lion halfback, was unanimously elect ed to captain the 1940 soccer team at a meeting of the squad held Sunday night, it-has been announced by Coach Bill Jeffrey. Hosterrhan, who at the "close of the past season was described by Jeffrey as the most consistent performer on the team, played regular, right halfback for the past two years. In addition to soccer, Walt is also a letterman in track, competing in the dashes and. broad lump. He is a graduate of State Col- lege litgh'School where he star ed in soccer, basketball and track It also has been announced that the annual soccer banquet will, be held February 13, but the place has not been desig nated. Frosh Gymnasts Sweep To Victory Pieo Stars For Juniors; Senlori Place Second By DICK PETERS Despite ai brilliant performance by one Roman Pieo, who - scored 212/5 points, a powerful, well-bal once& fieshinan gymnastics team swept to victory' in the first an nual inter-squad meet in Rec Hall Friday night Pieo, placing in every event in which he was entered, could only save a third place for the juniors behind the seniors who tallied 23 1 / 2 points The sophomores were lost far in the rear with only 5 1 / 2 markers Approximately 500 people who braved the cold to witness the inter-class duel were not dis appointed in the advance publicity given "Flit" Pieo The former world's record-holder of the 25- foot rope climb, who tied the rec ord for the 20-foot climb Friday night, , tallied two first places, a tie for first, a second and a third place in the five events in which he was entered Freshman Star Other outstanding performances were turned in by John Wolf, John Teti, and Lou Bordo, three freshmen who looked mighty good, and ' Captain Merril Beck 'and Chuck Gillespie, senior veterans Captain Mike Hanky of the Navy tallied the first point, but Lion Ciptain Cliff McWilliams countered with a field - goal to snatch the lead Elmer Gross' foul and buckets by Ackley and Barr put the score at 5-3 With three minutes gone, Moffatt re placed Christman, the Nittany of fense hit high gear, and the Mid shipmen were on the way to Davy Tones' locker After racing to a 18-9 lead at the half, the amazing State quin tet slipped five tallies through the hoop in the second stanza before the bewildered Sailors scored a point. Moffatt, in a magnificent 1 dead-eye display, ran his field goal string to five buckets out of ,five tries before he missed fire, and ended up with seven 2-point ers and a pair of fouls for the af ternoon Johnny Barr, steadying the Lion quintet as usual, made six assists, tallied eight points, and played a brilliant defensive game Eight markers were also amassed by Captain Cliff McWilliams, playing his best ball of the season at center and guard in turn. Navy Uses 13 Men , -,,The threatened ,- Navy - destroyer turned `out to be merely a scow as Middle mentor Johnny , Wilson threw 13 men into the fray in a ' Continued On Page 4 Frosh Wrestlers Down Mercersburg, ' 18-8, To Score Second Straight Win ' Kern's Wins Again By A Quick fall While Crabtree, Stanley, Lorenzo And Thompson Also Pin Opponents By 808 LANE Matching the varsity step foz step, the Nittany_Lion grappling Clubs scored their second victory of the season in a convincing 28-8 triumph over Mercersburg Academy in Rec Hall Saturday afternoon Frosh heavyweight Jack Items scored his second straight win when he threw Imbert of Mercersburg at 2 02 with a half nelson and a crotch hold. In the two frosts matches this year Kerns has wrestled a total of three minutes in scoring two falls Lion Charlie Ridenour defeated F Henry in the 121-pound bout. Ridenour scored several near falls in completely dominating his Academy opponent. Allen Crabtree scored fwe points for the frosh matmen when he switched and caught Quigg of Mercersburg in a crotch and half nelson at 8.23 in the 136-pound clash. Bill Stanley at 128, Mike Lor enzo at 155, nad Iry Thompson at 175, also succeeded in registering falls over Mercersburg Academy grapplers 121 pounds—Ridenour, Penn State, defeated V. Henry. 128 pounds Stanley, Penn State, threw F. Henry with a crotch and a reverse, 720. 136 pounds—Crabtree, Penn State, threw Quigg with a crotch and a reverse, 8.23. ' 145 pounds—Hanson, MereCres burg Academy, defeated Welsh. 155 pounds Lorenzo, Penn State, threw Van Vleet with a bar and a chancery, 4 47 165 pounds—Benson, Mercers burg Academy, threw Sproat 175 pounds—Thompson, Penn State, threw Dawson with an arm and body press, 7 05 Heavyweight Kerns, Penn State, threw Imbert with a crotch and half lock, 2 02. Schweitzei In ,Detroit Prof Paul H Schweitzer attend ed the Society of Automotive En gineer meeting and the meetings of the Co-operative Fuel Research Committee in Detroit last week. Professor Schweitzer presented discussions on the papers, "Effects of Viscosity on , Diesel Injection" and 'Control of 'Smoke in.the Au tomotive Diesel:" - TA't GOLLPGIAN NittanyWrestlers B Lions Break Mark In Mat . Win Saturday Scalzo Pins Maroon Captain In Only Fall , By 808 LANE The University; of Chicago failed to score a point for the first tune in its history when the Nittany Lion wrestlers paralyzed the Ma roon 26-0 on the Rec -Hall canvas Saturday night (Editor's note' first time in wrestling history ) In chalking up Opp ,second straight win the "Spartans of Spe idel" performed scientifically, un scientifically, and otherwise as they swept all eight matches, but scored only one-fall - Milton Weiss, ex-Maroon foot baller, demonstrated customary Chicago grid technique, as he miss ed 10 running-dive tackles on War ren Elliott in the spectacular heavyweight affair Elliott won the decision on aggressiveness, and his sincere attempts to keep an op ponent, who - would have preferred to have heen watching from the bleachers, on the mat The only fall of the meet occur red in the 145-pound event when' Joe Scalzo threw Maroon Captain Colin Thomas with a bar and chan cery in 613 Both Scalzo and Thomas displayed excellent abil ity in a fast match The Chicago leader took Scalzo down in the on: ening minute and scored two near falls before Scalzo gained the ad vantage at the two minute mark , Lion Roy Gensler came very close to scoring a fall over Bern ard Stone with a Japanese key lock in the closing minutes of the 155-pound event Both grapplers reversed the advantage live times in the first five minutes, but Gen sler received a well-earned demi mon at the bell In the 121-pound 'overtime bat tle Clair Hess and Walter Young of Chicago rolled off of the mat 33 times in the first five minutes of a very slow match The bout went into two, two-minute over time periods, in both' of which; Hess dominated Young to win the decision Lion Dave Waite scored his ,Ilrst win of the season in defeating:un aggressive Carroll Pyle in the 128- pound tilt Waite held the advan tage throughout the match ' Continued On Page 4 Fencers Lose 10-1 To Temple Squad 300 See Nittanymen's First Defeat Of Season By ED HALL With a six to three loss in the foils putting them behind from the opening duels, the Lion fenc ing team could do no better than split their saber and epee matches and took their first defeat of the season in losing to Temple's four man team, 10-7 Approximately 300 spectators witnessed the duels Two Temple fencers, Pearlstem and Dumbrow, accounted for sev en of their team's ten points Pearlstem won four matches—two foil, one epee and one sabre, and Dumbrow gained wins in two foil duals and one epee match Captain Paul Fiebiger and soph omore Bob Harder were the only Nittany duellists to win more than one duel. Fiebiger won both of his sabre matches, defeating Pearl stein and Goldberg of Temple, and Harder downed Pearlstem and Huber of the Owls, in the epee series A fifteen-minute controversy in the second sabre match, between Tack Good and Goldberg of Tem ple, was rprecipitated by what ap peared to be simultaneous touches by the opponents. , The refree de cided that, Goldberg's foil had struck first and awarded the match to Temple. , Only other Nittany wins came in the toils, as Elmer Lowenstein won- over Huber of Temple and Doug _Adams and, Leonard Rutz Cordlnued On Pane-4 WEEKEND REVIEW BASKETBALL Penn State-40 Navy-1 WRESTLING 'Penn Stale-26 Chicago-0 SWIMMING Penn State-48 W & 3-27 FENCING Temple-10 Penn State-7 FRESHMAN WRESTLING "Penn State-28 Mereersb'g-8 FRESHMAN BASKETBALL Penn Stale-46 Wyoming Sem nary—l 6 Houck May Shake Lineupin Battle Against Toronto Experiments With Squad Must Precede Army Tilt By BUD SMYSER Toronto brings its Canadian in tercollegiate champion boxers here this Saturday night, but Doc tor Leo Houck thinks the British ers won't be too tough (remember Champion Tommy Farr 9) and may take advantage of the opportunity to do some lineup experimenting before he heads into the rough go ing that Army and Virginia will offer Doctoi Houck's only complaint this week was that his fighters are naving too many lay-offs Be tween Western Maryland and Toronto they have an 11-day rest, and after Army on Feb - 3 it's two weeks before they face Virginia Coming back after rests like that just like starting the season over, Doctor Houck complains 1 11ut it's the lineup changes and not the layoffs that are most un pcirtant to the Doctor, and he has all sorts of ideas on that 3 ., , Tw0 of the three newcomers in last week's lineup (Vie Fiore at 120 and Harry Masters at 175) may give way to two other new Men, George Hankins at 120 and Paul Mall at 175 Sandson, who's a bit hp g y for 155 pound competition, • t - 1651-pustung-the.ex perienied but light Jim Lewis up 0;1'75 There's also an outside chance that Bernie may not box at all because he spent the week end in bed with the flu Chester Nycz, a junior who has never, fought before, may be worked in at either 155 or 165 pounds Trouble Ahead This week is the time for exper zmenttng Toronto offers only a fair squad but Army's eastern champions are camped at the end of next week's trail There won't be much fooling around there After that the Lions must re turn to the wars on February 17 against Virginia, which Leo rates the second toughest team on his schedule, one notch above Army The toughest team of them all is Wisconsin, 1939 national cham pion, which has been saved until last, March 15 Also in the Lions' way are a couple of boys from Syracuse, second in last year's m tercollegiates May Retire Trophy The .Lions and Syracuse each have four legs on the Baltimore Sun Intercollegiate Trophy and both are hoping to retire it at the Intercollegiates here on March 8 and 9 Who is likely to succeed may be indicated when the squads meet at Syracuse February 27 All of these meets (which Leo considers his four toughest, inci dentally) Wisconsin, Virginia Army and Syracuse, ranked in that order—are away. Besides Toronto and the Inter collegiates the only other home opposition will be Michigan State ow, February 24 and Cornell on March 2 Neither of these last squads are expected to offer more than average opposition Broadcast Of 'Victory' Song Scheduled Tonight Penn State's famous "victory" song will be included in a col lege medley program to be broad cast over the NBC Red Network at 10.30 tonight. The 'broadcast is a part of the regular` "Uncle Walter's Dog House" program sponsored by Brown 'and Williamson Tobacco Corporation. -AT F'ENN STATE aWhen _. 4 ,, Doubt About phli' as Room - - - • o. -outa 2:1 WNil TANY AVENUE ' ALL ROOMS WITH RUNNING WATER Thermostatic Heat, Ousel Atmo• sphere and Scrupulously Clean lank Chicago Grapplers, 26-0 Penn State Mermen Beat W & J Swimmers, 48 To 27 By BAYARD BLOOM Penn State's varsity 'mermen masked the opening of then 1940 home season by churning to vie. toi,y in 'seven out of nine events as they overwhelmed Washington and Jefferson 48-27 in Glennland pool Saturday Co-Captain Mark Vimant sliced three seconds off the pool record as he won the 150 yard backstroke in 1 46 6 minutes. The other co captain, dives , Guy McLaughlin,' also justified his leadership hand somely by winning the fancy div ing with the high total of 95 points Junior speedster Bill Kirkpatrick was top winner with 'victories in the 50 and 100 yard freestyles The flashy Kirkpatrick - has not been defeated in either of these events this year The Prexy's took the 220 yard freestyle when their star dist ance man, Paul Kramei , edged out State's Don Delmann Delmanzol Yearling Baskelballers Beat Weak Seminary Squad, 46-16, In Opener Egli Is High Scorer With 18 Points In Game Marked By Penalties And Haphazard Shooting By ED HALL. Displaying speed and an ability at times to sink outside shots, the Lion yearling basketball team swamped a weak Wyoming Sem inary five 48-16 in Rec Hall on Saturday It was a willy-nilly Nittany club debut, masked by frequent penalties, wild passes and haphacard shooting that was watched by a crowd of approximately five hundred Wyoming Seminary shot to a quick 3-0 lead in the first minutes of play, but the Lion Cubs over took them and passed to the front before the first quarter was over The Seminary five never press ed the yearling after that and the Nittanymen, paced by John Egli, high scoter of the game with 18 points, piled up a 24-9 lead as the half ended Coming out for the second half, Wyoming sent in a complete new team in an attempt to cut the Lion's 15-point advantage They stood no chance, however, as the Blue and Whiter§ scored almost at will and kept the Seminary from scoring anything except an occasional field goal or foul Walt Early and Bob Billing, with five points each, led Wyom ing Seminary in scoring honors Frank Barr, brother of varsity basketballer Johnny Barr, fol lowed Egh in scoring honors for the State cubs with seven points State's freshmen showed abil ity in tapping in inbound shots and fouls that failed Penn State Cubs fld fk 11 , , Ulan, 1 0 1- 2 1 Chenowith 2 0- 1 4 Savage 0 0- 0 0 Curt le 0 0- 0 0 McFadden f 0 0- 0 0 Brown 3 0- 2 6 Tuleya 1 0- 0 2 Baltimore c ' 0 1- 3 1 Barr 3 1- 1 7 Raining 3 0- 1 6 Egli g 7 4- 7 18 Van Linton 0 1- 1 1 Total 19 8-19 46 revenged his defeat, however, when he topped Kramer in the 440 yard freestyle Lion breaststrokes Larry Curtis was disqualified in the 220 yard breaststroke for using the wrong kick, giving the race to McClen nand of W & ,1 for the only other victory of the Presidents The Lions swept both the 300 yard medley and 400 yard fi ee style relays Winning combination in the medley event was Fruchtei, Boileau and Raab, while the new outfit of Webb, Rubner, Ashton, and Raab won handily in the free style event The summaries 300-yard medley relay—Won by Penn State (Fruchter, Boileau, Raab), W. and J (Watson, Mc- Lennand, Dickson) second Time 3 23 4 220-yard freestyle Won by Kramer, W. and .1 , second, Del- Wyoming Sem fld fls tls Earl f 2 1- 2 5 I Hershowit7 0 0- 0 0 Billings f 2 1- 4 5 Lovelong 0 0- 1 0 Boss c 1 I- 3 3 McCoy 0 0- 0 0 I Amend g 0 1- 2 1 Maday 0 0- 0 0 Harrington g 0 0- 0 0 Gross 1 9- 0 2 Total 6 4-12 16 Score by Quartets Penn St Fr 16 8 13 9-46 Wyoming . 8 1 3 4-16 Referee—Sellers No Smoking In Rec Hall VALENTINE DANCE W. W. . 4 ) / 7 °. R. ,".' •&? ". " R. ojf (k • • A. DX, t 4 A. 11 REX ROCKWELL'S ORCHESTRA FEBRUARY 10TH FORMAL 9-12 WHITE HALL Fa - "e Three Manzo, Penn State, third, Rem mann, Penn State Time 2 30, 50-yard freestyle Won by Kirkpatrick, Penn State, second Marcus, Penn State, third, Hen derson, W and .1 Time —0253' Fancy diving—Won by Mc— Laughlin, Penn State, 95 0; sec-, and Pi ice, Penn State, 89 74 third, Jessick, W and J, 48 10 100-yard 11 eestyle Won by iltirkiiatilck, Penn State, 7Crana` Lehman, Penn State, third Hen-% demon, W and J Time-0 57 0. 150-yard backstroke—Won by Vinzant, Penn State, second Kra mer, W and J , third Watson, W. and J Time-1 46 6 200-yard breaststroke—Won by McLennard, W and J , second! Hill, W. and .1, thud Bogatin, Penn State Time-2 94.1. 440-yard freestyle Won by DelManro, Penn, State, second, Kramer, W and J., third Dickson„ W and J. Time-512.1. 400. yard relay—Won by Penn State (Webb, Rubner, Ashton, Raab), second W and J (Grether, Wilson, McLennand, Hill) Time—, 4 067 A MODERN SHOP WHERE QUALITY WORK IS DONE ' BY EXPERT OPERATORS +++ 25% Reduction MON. AND TUES. We Deduct .05e Phone Charge . "-- BEAUTE! SALON , PHONE 2071 GLENN LAND BLDG.
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