tuirsdkr, Match 19, 1940 , - Between The Lon With 808 WILSON 'll Random notes, plaudits, thoughts and what•have•you's on the late 'eeparted Penn State winter sports season: Honor Roll Conper,_l27-pound tathst and Frankte Goodman Trophy winner of Penn State's EISA champions and Baltimore Sun Tiophy 'taus. Ernie Sorts, undefeated 175• pound captain and lone Lion ~... matman to win an Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship. •' Johnny Ban, play-maker, new all-time high scorer , and author of most Penn State basketball successes this season Jimmy Lewis, third-sound comeback waist par excellence and whine' of the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Association 165-pound ditidem '' Barney Ewell, IC4-A 60-yard dash and broad jump champ, holder of the 50• yard dash record, wanner of a score or more other honors and No 1 advertiser of the name "Penn State" from coast Bill Kirkpatrick, spi mt stai and new Laplain of Penn State's swimming Lions ,Larry Lightbody, , outstanding detente star for Penn State's ice hockey Lions and leading Pennsylvania Collegiate League goalie.' Jack Kerns, 230-pound freshman wrestler who in three bouts ,registered three falls in the total of nine minutes and 30 seconds, for exactly 30 seconds longer than one regulation bout: handled the ;the heavyweight assignment for the Lion boxing cubs in their last - *wet: and who will be a promising Lion football candidate in the Ho' Superstition, But— ' _ Until Lally Lightbody, brilliant sophomore goalie, chukked the number 13 Jersey he had worn practically all season, Penn Slate's ice Mickey Lions S had not won a'single game ` 'Just before the _Lehigh tilt Larry removed the jersey and the Lions won,' 04, to hang up their first victory of the season. A week later they blanked Carnegie Tech. 4-0, and closed their campaign last week by-trimming Lafayette, 7-2. to be for second place honors with Her :hey is the Pennsyl;ntnia Collegiate League. Meanwhile, removal of the jersey failed to pox tarry's standout play at the goal The mighty mite has averaged about 28 saves per gfitne for State this season Which IS just about tops in the league Reflection - , Following the Ea , ,tein Ihteicollegiate. Boxing Association tourna ment here a week or so ago, Jerry Weinstein, CDT sports writer, ask ed Where is the "box" in college boxing" 'Slugfest, brawl, and street tight are a few of the terms which have displaced boxing in the college ring dictionary." Weinstein wrote. ! 1 " - iif college boxing is more than a sport foi the spectators," he went on, "if it's an activity to teach a boy how to box, we thing it's Missing its put pose" Ditto Between The Lions Suggestion Dept. - h ,To EIBA officials, coaches and patron saints. , i il Before the Intercollegiates next year, why not cede the best four men in each class This way any edge that drawing a bye might prpvade would be eliminated, and each man would need fight only `twice at the most ', 1 , 3 2 Eliminate the third place As it is now that one point for third s thrown away with what appears to be reckless abandon Truth of '', Ib i p matter, those polfits are carefully aimed before they are fired To Neil Fleming, graduate manager of athletics. , 1 The Eastern Inteicollegiate Wrestling Association has decided ' to form, in-addition lb their.arinuaLtourriament„ a_leagoe_foi dual yoiets The move was made to create interest in wrestling throughout ,its-regular 'season Why not begin ',agitation now for a basketball lipjgue next year 9 The sport here needs it So! full page pictuie of Billy Soose, former Lion ring great, appear ed in last week's issue of PIC magazine The undercut had this to say n'tiout him ' 2 "While attending Penn State, Billy Soose was asked by the dean to` stop boxing before he injured someone." Dean Warnock pleads not guilty Riflemen Tofirc lii NRAI Matches ;Col. Stevens Will Select Share Crown With 19 try , ive-Man Team For Meet Points Each;,Thetas 3rd t l'Penn State's vaisity rifle team is After six hai d-fought weeks of .: 1, prppai ing for national competition Women's Intramurals, Delta Gams this week with a record of 25 vie- and ZTA's emerged dual champions bine' in 27 matches - with 19 points 'apiece Thetas were ' , if,A five-man squad will go to forced to third place by one point Washington, DC , March 30 to flue Ath West, a ne,w entry this year, 'in-,the National Rifle Association placed third with 14 points by win- Interccillegiates and shortly after- Wing first places in swimming and wards the squad will fire here in badminton and tieing for first in the-War Department Intercollegi- ping pong Chi O's, last yeas s ates which are conducted by mail champs, although garnering firsts ' tOnly defeats suffered by the in basketball and volleyball, were squad,so far were in a postal match -fourth , With the University of Florida and , Other, teams receiving final 'in ,the postal Third Corps Area In- points were Phi Mu who led bowl -1 ,tercollegiates In the latter the mg, AF.Phi who tied for the ping State marksmen placed behird I pang 'championship, Philotes, and 'Maryland and V M I Mac-Grange !Most recent victims of the Lion I Delta Gams tied Thetas for flist .4flers, all, in dual meet postal place in Spring Sports 1939 to re matches, are Pitt, Indiana, V M - 1 I. ceive ten points; placed second in aid the U S Marine Corps , basketball for three, and third in tt p „Ii Squad members who fired in points were awarded for no dc ',these matches with their individual faults 4ores are' Bill Funk, 380, Bob Mc- - ZTA's scored ten points for sec goy- 378; Miles Animus 377, Co- and place in Spring Sports, three captain Ben Stahl 376, , Co-captain for volleyball runner-up, one for ,Gilbert Gault 373, Noah Getz 3690 basketball third , place and five for 01111, Leeworthy 369, Bob Rambo Ino defaults 367, C- L Martin 366, and Robb ',Cuthbert 358. , - I All but two of the , 27 matches the squad has" fired so far have been postal Rock Springs and ,Warriors Mark were both defeat, ed in shoulder-tolshoulder tlrthg EASTER -. 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DG's And ZTA's Win•lnframurals EASTER GREETINGS • THE _ Lion Boxers Bow '43 Athletes Outshine ,Varsity In Winter Sports Competition With the 1940 Wintet season over except for a few straggling inteicollegiate tournaments that will early over into Spring, the mathmeticians took stock of things yesterday and found that Penn State freshman athletes have done far better than the varsity Three out of five freshman teams went undefeated and the cubs lolled up a combined per centage of 833 The varsity per centage was 598 with the com bined record at 641 No varsity teams went undefeated The records, which include only dual meet participation, are given below VARSITY Spat W L T Pcti Rifle 25 1 0 .965 Boxing 5 2 1 GB7 Wrestling 5 2 I 687 Basketball 15 8 0 652 Fencing 4 5 .0 444 Gymnastics 2 4 0 333 Hockey . .1 7 0 300 Swimming 2 7 0 222 Skiing 0 2 - 0 000 Indoor Track 0 1 0 000 IZEIXEM Kappa Sigma, Varsity Hall Win Basketball Titles Phi Sigma Kappa, BRB Defeated In Close Games In Intramural Finals Kappa Sigma and Vaisity Hall aie new intramural basketba , l champions in the fraternity and in dependent leagues iespectwely The Kappa Sign nosed out Phi Sig ma Kappa, 18-14, and the Varsity Hall lads dethroned the defending champions, BRB, in a close con test, 23-20, Thuisday night Dick Stebbins and Ralph Sapp paced the Kappa Sigs to victory as they ruled the Phi Sign through out the entire tilt. Never during the game was Kappa Sig behind Swung was well distributed for both teams, but Stebbins was out standing on defense The Kappa Sig - lineup included Sapp, Stebbins, ...Jack Baker, Emil Axelson, Bill Lewis, - and Harry Thompson The Phi Sig lineup in cluded John King, Bob Furlong, George Hunt, Don Hart, and Neil Reagan' Varsity Hall exhibited a tight defense and sure-shot forwards to top the defending champions Their lineup included John Conte, Leon Bailey, Sam Kopach, Bob Cunning ham, and Tom Vargo BRB used Joe Kyle, Charley Romane, Bob Mengle, John Chillcot, Jack Hess, and Harry Price ' It was announced yesterday that the finals in intramural wrestling will be held after Easter vacation Most of the semi-finals have been played. Ping pong intra-league playoffs will be completed tomorrow and the finals run off after the holiday, as will the competition in volley ball and handball 75 Football Candidates Report For Spring Work While managers shoveled snow from the field, outdoor Spring foot ball began two weeks late this year when 75 turned out in response to Coach Bob Higgins' call on Wed nesday Bad weather kept the squad im dobis on "skull practice" The in door workouts included a study of plays and viewing of motion pic tures of State games last season EASTER ' GREETINGS We'll be looking forward to seeing you after you return from your -vacation. Our new spring styles will all be he when you come back HAPPY, EASTER! The Alice• Elizabeth • -Shop - " In State Theatre Bldg. ?Elil; STAIt COVIZCITAN FRESHMEN Spats W L T Pet Basketball 8 0 01.000 Wrestling 3 0 0 I 000 Gymnastics 2 0 0 1.000 Boxing 1 2 0 333 Swimming 1 1 0 500 Totals 15 3 0 833 V & Fl. Totals 76 42 2 641 The mathematician left m his wake a lot of things he couldn't' use I In Inteicollegiates the boxers won their seventh Eastern Inter-, collegiate Boxing Association championship and retned the Bal-] timore 'Sun Trophy; the wrestlers tied for fourth place in the Easti ern Intercollegiate Wrestling As-, sociation tournatnent, the 'indoor' track team did better than any, Penn State team before it and, placed thud in the national , IC4-A's, the skiers played host to, the first All-State Ski champion ship and won the state title, the ice hockey team tied with Her shey Cubs for second place in the new Eastern Intercollegiate Hock ey League, the freshman gym Three Grapplers Carry Lion Hopes In Nationals Bortz, Gleason, King Will Wrestle In Collegiate Championships At Illinois On March 28 And 29 Three Nittany Lion wrestlers, Ernie Bortz, Frank Gleason, and Midge King, will carry the Blue and White colors of Penn State in the National Collegiate Wrestling Championships to be held at the Um % ersity of Illinois at Champaign, 111, on March 28 and 29 Eastern Intercollegiate champion Ernie Bortz is one of the favor ites in the 175-pound division Besides winning the Eastern crown, the Lion captain scored a smashing upset over Michigan's Don Nichols in a dual meet Previous to his match' with Bortz, Nichols was unde feated in 19 engagements Frank Gleason, Eastern title win ner, in 1939 and runner-up this year, will rate with nation's out standing grapplers in the 136- poiind class 'Midge King' will remain at 121- pounds, the same weight in which he wrestled at Syracuse Ring was undefeated in dual competition this sea Son Lehigh's Eastern Intercollegiate Ichampionship mat machine will enter five men in the Nationals, including two Eastern champions, Harold Masem and Don Schrader Although the official campaign is over, Coach Charlie Speidel is hold ing regular sessions in Rec Hall every Tuesday and Thursday for anyone interested in wrestling In struction is optional and regular attendance not required Lowenstein, Kutz To Lead Fencers Swordsmen Lose To NYU, 20 To 7, In Closing Match Elmer R Lowenstein '4l and Lester W Kutz '4l were elected co captains of the 1940:41 fencing team, succeeding Captain Paul Fie- Mier, immediately following this season's closing meet with 14 Y U in Rec Hall Saturday, which ended in a 20-7 defeat for the Lions Facing a team defeated only once this year and with five into, Continued On Page 4 can look the country over ron't find another cigarette as high as Chesterfield for that smokers really want. •field's RIGHT COMBINATION Id's best cigarette tobaccos ___ in front for mildness, for The RIGHT COMBINATION of the world's best cigarette tobaccos coolness, and for better taste. st (')he Copyright 1540 Licarry sr Afyon Tosocco Co. To Wisconsin, team put on 'word-breaking pet formances that marked it as one of the best in the country and promised a strong varsity next year 2 Individual athletes emerged from the ranks Capt Mike Coo per at 127 pounds and Jim Lewis at 165 pounds won ELBA boxing titles Capt Ernie Bortr went through the wrestling season un defeated and won the EIWA 175- pound crown John Barr set a new Penn State seining record of 231 points during - the basketball season The fleet Bainey Ewell emerged as the greatest of them all as he set an unofficial world's record of 5 seconds in the 50-yard dash, carried off the 60-yard dash and broad championships at the IC4-A's and made newspaper headlines every time he moved 3 Hockey and skiing as infor mal sports gained such popularity that they will be put before the studenti, at the all-College elec tions foi official iecognition as varsity sports 4 Penn State eNperimentally participated in its fist box la crosse meet at Yale and won Loss Ends Dual Slate But 3 Boxers Enter National Tournament In April Scally, Lewis Account For Only Nittany Points As Badgers Outpoint State Before 16,000 Fans By BUD SMYSER With thcii dual meet season ended unfortunately in a 0 1 4-1 1 / 2 de feat Saturday night from Wisconsin's 1939 national champions, Penn State's varsity boxers have only the National Intercollegiates ahead of them befoie they wind up action for 1990. "I just remembered when I was Captain Mike Cooper, 127-pound Eastern champion, Jim Lewis, 165- pound Easton champion who sal vaged a draw at- Wisconsin, and Paul Scally, 175-pound Eastern EMES:I3 Frank (Red) Stanko '4l was elected captain of the 1941 var sity boxing team yesterday. Stanko won eight fights and lost three as a 135-pounder this sea son, placing second in the Inter collemates held here. tunnel-up who was State's only winnei at Wisconsin, will repre sent the Lions al the national tour nament in Sacramento, Calif, nn Apt tl 4, 5 and 6 A 16,000 (nom' at Madison, Wis , watched the Badgets roll up the,r thud ctimght victory over the Nit tany Lions Saturday night and in crease their edge in the four-year old serves to 3-1 Paul Scally, State 175-pounder, scored the only Lion victory over Stan Koiuszek, who fights like Amei ico Woyciesjes, Syracuse bat tler who beat Scally In the Inter collegiate finals Scally used the same left jab he flashed against Woyciesjes and won easily Jim Lewis, Eastern 165-pourd king, fought beautifully against Billy Roth and staged another of his sensational finishes but could do no better than draw In the hard-fought meet Capt Mike Coo pei at 127 and Fiank (Red) Stank° at 135 both lost close decisions Stanko floored his man with a left hook in the first round Paul Mall, at heavyweight, fought the best round of the night in the first sotto with Nick Lee, na tional runner-up last year Mall left-jabbed Lec and never took a solid blow himself The second round was only 25 seconds gime however, when Lee brought up . right that set Mall dreaming Bob Band was rallying against Woody Swancutt, Wisconsin's na tional 155-pound champion, when their heads bumped in the second round and the fight was stopped Swancutt took the decision on hr; first sound edge The summai les 120 pounds Bob Sachtsdale, Wisconsin, decisioned Vic Fiore 127 pounds—Clay Hogan, Wis consin, decisioned Captain Mike Cooper 135 pounds—Warren Jollymore, Continued On Page 4 • . • Imbination vizam. a#7 : ,,„„.„.e,•..1 111111111 ,,,,t: • . 62 " 7; 1 I 2 ' EASTER GREETINGS FROM The Clark Motor Co. 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