WEDNESDAY,. MARCH 12, 1941
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Between Hess Injured, But Likely
To Compete in Tourney
The Lions
WITH. JOHN BAER
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It’s a few days .late but we
would like to present Penn State’s
case • for. the. invitation to repre
sent this district in the eastern
National Collegiate Athletic As
sociation basketball tourney—an
invitation which was awarded to
Pitt’s Panthers.
For one thing, the Nittany cag
ei'S have a better record than
Pitt.~The Panthers won 12 and
lost 5 for a percentage of .701 and
the Lions ended with 15 victories
and the same number of defeats
as the Panthers for .750. State is
ranked 9th in Pennsylvania and
Pitt, 12th. ; Against each other, the
two teams-split, State winning
36-21 and Pitt taking a 37-26 vic
tory.
A look ,at the record book
shows that-the Lions need not be
ashamed of any of their five
losses. Wash-Jeff, Pitt, West Vir
ginia, Syracuse and Georgetown
.were the Only teams able to down
the Lions and for three of these
setbacks—Pitt, Syracuse arid
Georgetown—the Lions got full
irieasure; : _‘pf "revenge. To those,
add victories over NYU arid Teiri
pie and the Nittany cagers have
a record ariy team would be
proud'-of. It is significant, too,
that rib tearri defeated State twice.
.' We’l let you judge for your
selves whether the members of
the N.GAA invitations comrriittee
for this district were biased in
making- their decision. On the
committee are H. Jamison
Swarfs,.athletic director at Penn;
Dr. Hi e. Carlson, coach at Pitt;
and Lewis P. Andreas, coach at
Syracuse.
We’ll let you judge for your
own decision as to whether State
deserved the invitation more than
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Suffers Head injury
CLAIR HESS
Clair Hess, veteran 128-pound
Lion grappler, received a minor
head injury in wrestling practice
last night, but the injury prob
ably will not be serious enough
to keep him-from Eastern Inter
collegiate competition this week
end, according to Dr. Alfred H.
Griess, team physiciari.
Pitt did. It really doesn’t matter
because the committee has de
cided arid its decision will stand.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Doctor Hopes For Rapid
Recovery From Blow
“Ole Man Injury” stalked on
the mats, of the Penn State grap
plers last night when Clair Hess,
veteran 128-pounder, suffered a
minor head injury when he was
knocked unconscious in a warm
up bout with little Charlie Ride
nour.
Hess was taken to the College
Infirmary immediately for ob
servation. and was resting com
fortably last night, according to
the Infirmary staff.
When contacted later, Dr. Al
fred H. Griess, team physician,
stated that Hess probably could
compete in the intercollegiates
this weekend at Columbia if he
improves as quickly as he has re
sponded to treatment.
The Nittany Lions will taper
off in their final drill tonight
with Coach Charlie Speidel
planning tp iron but a few rough
spots in their grappling tech
■ftique.
With Penh, Lehigh, Princeton,
and Pehn State, rated as the
grurit-and-groan favorites to bat
tle for the Eastern Intercollegi
ate diadem, Speidel will count on
Ridenour, Cqptain Frank Glea
sori, and Joe Scalzo to act as the
Penn State flyirig wedge.
Captain Gleason arid Scalzo,
145-pound titan, lead the Lioris
with seven triurriphs apiece, with
Scalzo dropping one bout. Bol
stered by 15 straight victories in
two years varsity competition,
Gleason will seek to regain the
intercollegiate title that he lost
to Levering of Penn last year.
Penn’s Andy Melgard and
Gerald Baker of Syracuse, both
undefeated, will lock arms with
Scalzo, who has been described
by the former Olympic wrestler,
Dick Voliva, as one of the
smoothest counter grapplers that
he, has seen.
Drawings for tournaments
bouts will not take place until
Friday morning, a few hours
prior to the beginning of the first
bouts.
18 Independent Teams
Compete In intramural
Basketball Tournament
Nine independent intramural
basketball games were played
last night in Rec Hall with the
following scores:
Watts Hall Whites 22, Penn
State Forestry Society 9; Watts
Hall Blues 10, Mac Hall Waiters
4; Boland’s Spades 27, Miller
Club 11; Rocky Ramblers 25,
Zephyrs 24; West House 25,
Langsford House 13; Homan Hill
men 21, Burr-Nitt Club 8; Lion
Club 13, Penn Haven 12; BRB
No. 2 13, Fairmount Hall 6; Irvin
Hall 25, Ath Hall Waiters 6.
Games tonight will start at
7:30 p. m. instead of the usually
scheduled time of 8:30 p. m.
Cadets Defeat Niffany
Riflemen At West Point
Nittany riflemen attacked the
Army camp at West Point in a
shoulder - to - shoulder encounter
during the weekend, only to be
repulsed by a 1387-1371 count.
Lion marksmen bogged down
in their scoring as Hal Yount
seared a 278, Co-captain Gil
Gault marked a 277, and Dick
Cuthbert garnered a 274. Bob
Rambo and Bob McCoy shot 272
and 270, respectively.
Goalie Gets Measles
Larry M. Lightbody, varsity
hockey goalie, is confined to the
Infirmary with measles and prob
ably will not be able to play
against Lehigh Saturday.
Riding Club Asks College
Approval For New Stable
Plans for a stable of 12 stalls
to be erected on the campus by
the Riding Club were submitted
to the College for approval yes
terday by Ray M. Conger, direc
tor of the All-College Outing
Club.
The club intends to meet the
expenses of building the stables,
but no definite site for them has
yet been chosen. Club member
ship will cost $l5 per semester,
according to Dr. Henry L. Yeag
ley, sponsor.
Seventy members applied for
riding privileges at the first
meeting, Monday. Tennessee
walking horse, especially bred to
be ridden at a fast walking pace,
was exhibited.
Pitt Five invited
To NCAA Tourney
Pitt’s Panthers, with a record
of 12 victories in 17 starts, have
been invited to represent District
2 in the eastern National Athletic
Association tournament at Madi
son, Wis., on March 21 and 22.
The tourney is the one to which
the Lion cagers received a
“feeler” bid last weekerid. The
announcement that Pitt had been
invited came from H. Jamison
Swarts, athletic director at Perm
and chairman of District 2.
Other teams invited are Dart
iriouth, District 1; North Carolina,
District 3; and Wisconsin, Dis
trict 4. The winner of the tour
nament will meet the winner of
the western section for the na
tional championship.
The Nittany Lions, with 15 vic
tories and 5 defeats for a .750
percentage, rank 9th among
Pennsylvania court teams, ac
cording to won-lost compilations
released yesterday. '
The mythical state champion
ship went to Westminster with a
season mark Of 20 triumphs
against one setback.
The first 12 teams in order are:
Westminster, Duquesne, East
Stroudsburg, Wyomissing Poly
technic, Franklin and Marshall,
Washington and Jefferson, Vill
anova, Grove City, Penn State,
Edinboro, Bloomsburg and Pitt.
6 Veterans Back
For Lacrosse
Thirty-five lacrosse candi
dates, including six lettermen,
are practicing, under the direc
tion of Coach Nick Thiel, in pre
paration for the first game of the
season at Navy on April 12.
The six lettermen are Captain
Jimmy Riddell and Bud Dattle
baum, inside attack men; Jim
Ritter and A 1 Blair, center field
ers; and Bill Hgnning and Bill
Ziegenfus, ’inside defense men.
One of Thiels biggest prob
lems is the goal tending position.
Marty Saler, junior letter win
ner, will be out of action with
an injured knee until late in the
season. The most likely candi
dates for the post, according to
Thiel, are Jack Sahtmyers, ah
inexperienced junior, and Jim
Henderson, a sophomore.
Other candidates who stand to
see a lot of action are sophomore
Bob Koch' on the inside attack;
Charlie Lockwood, Mark Sing
ley, Wayne Bitner, Bob Thorpe
and Irv Chelly in center field;
Jack McHugh, Jim Gotwals and
Keene Campbell on the defense.
Housing Lecture Today
The third of the 1941 series of
lectures on Pennsylvania Local
Government and Administration
will be given by Ellis Tumpson,
executive assistant to the Pitts
burgh Housing Authority, on
“Public Housing in Pennsylvan
ia,” in Room 124, Sparks Build
ing, at 4 p.m. today.
PAGE THREE
Boxers Prepare
For Nationals
Penn State’s boxers turn-ed
their backs on the most disastrous
EIBA tourney the Lions have
ever participated in, as they
started looking forward to the
grand finale of the season, the
NCAA tournament, scheduled for
Rec Hall, March 27, 28, and 29.
Only one more hurdle remains
to be crossed before the State
mitmen start actual preparation
for the NCAA’s—their last dual
meet this season with Michigan
State at East Lansing, Mich.,
Saturday.
Among the entries currently
received for the Nationals are six
boxers from Catholic University,
Washington, D. C. One of Cath
olic's six entries is a boxer named
Leo Houck, Jr. Advance press
reports paint a favorable picture
of the son of Penn State’s boxing
coach.
The Nationals will provide
Leo Houck’s boys wltn a chance
to revenge defeats suffered from
Syracuse, North Carolina, and
Wisconsin, and at the recent
EIBA fiasco.
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