FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941
Soose To Meet Overlin In Title Bout Tonight
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Olf.RoadTrip
Penn 'State's baseball Lions
move .on to the. , second- lap of
their-current road trip today and
take on the Colgate Red Raiders
at Hamilton, N. Y., after drop
. ping a 8-1 decision to Navy's
.Midshipmen at ..Annapolis • Wed
- nesday .afternoon.
Chuck Medlar, • veteran senior
righthander,.,will : be seeking his
third pitching victory of the sea
son when he takes the mound
against the Colgate diamondmen.
Medlar chalked up two straight
games in the "won" column after
twirling a losing battle against
Princeton in the second game of
the year.
- Four - starting Lions have- been
batting out -hits with more than
a .300 average. First - baseman
Debler leads the Bedenkmen at
the plate, smashing out safeties
at ali - nostia';soo clip. Left fielder
.Peany Gates, who gathered two
singles and scored the only Nit
tany run against the Midshipmen,
is alga well aboVe the average.
Center fielder Warren Kolke
beck and ;catcher Jack Stauffer
complete - the ::Lions' "murderers
ro,w.":lColkebeck has poled more
doubles" than any other Blue and
WhitePoattei;•: and Stauffer has
been lif.tting consistently since he
broke linto Coach Joe Bedenk's
starting lineup four games ago.
With the Lions' record to date
standing at five losses and -only
four i;iins, a victory over the Red
RaidetS today would put the Nit
tany tossers back on a .500 basis.
Following the game this after
noon:the Statemen move on to
SyraeUse, N. Y., where they play
the Qi:angemen tomorrow .in an
attempt to even the score' of a
7-4 defeat earlier in the' season.
Gymnasts Leave
Fot Nationals
SW of • Penn' State's leading
gymnasts Will leave today for the
52nd annual national A.A.U.
gymnastic championships to be
held at Swiss. - .Hall, Union City,
N. J., tomoirOW.
Athletes4fprnij7 states are en
tered in prer-sompetition and all
nine title hOlders will return to
defend their crowns. Favored in
- the rope ' climb will be_Lion ace,
and all'around performer Roman
CoaCFI Gene Wettstone also ex
- pects Bordo; eastern inter
collegiate-ehainDS,to place in the
- parallel tar:competition and pos
sibly in tumbling. Also tumb
ling for tne:Nittany delegation
will be freSliman Harold -Zim
merman. He is also entered in
the parallel - bar 'competition.
The : Verein, win
ner of the—national team laurels
13. times in the last 15 yesrs is
.again favored for the team cham
pionship and has entered a squad
which includes three Olympians,
Artie Pitt, Frank Cumminskey,
and Frank Raubold.
Outstanding on the rings for
the Lions is Sol Small. Other
making the trip are Charlie
Senft, rope climber, and fresh
man tumbler, Eddie Anderson.
•
Trout Stream Opens
Ffsherman's Paradise, ideal
trout stream
_near Bellefonte,
opens at 8 o'clock this morning
and! wilrremairr . - open for fish
ing inthtikaili.until July 12, ex
cluding BandsyiE-::
On May"s:',7l93i x .the University
Plitsburgh - spcers defeated a
'Penn State ,track : Aeam for the
tirne in their, twelve years
:of competition. The final score
;‘lvas - 100 1/3 to 33 2/3.
Former Penn State BoXer Given 3-i Odds
To Capture World's Middleweight Crown
Relegated into the has-been class by sports writers just a year
ago, Penn State's Billy Soose will climb into the ring at Madison
Square Garden at ten o'clock tonight to battle Ken Overlin for the
world's middleweight championship.
The title bout is , scheduled for fifteen rounds and the betting
in New York City favors the former intercollegiate titleholder by
3 to 1. A capacity crowd of 16,000 is expected to jam the hall built
by Tex Rickard and brought back to its Place of prominence by
Mike Jacobs.
Gets Title Shot
Billy Soose, former Penn State
ring star, will get a shot at the
middleweight crown tonight
when he meets Ken Overlin at
Madison Square Garden, New
York City, at 10 o'clock.
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Intramurals
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TENNIS
Persons scheduled for intra
mural tennis matches must ap
pear on the courts within five
minutes of the appointed time, or
the game will be forfeited, it
was announced by manager
Lloyd Dixon last night.
Because of rain only three
matches were run off yesterday
afternoon in the fr a tern ity
league. Summaries:
Delta Sigma Phi No. 1 defeat
ed Beaver House, 6-0, 7-5; Sigma
Phi Epsilon defeated Delta Tau
Delta, 6-4, 6-4; and Phi Kappa
Psi defeated Delta Sigma Phi No.
2, 6-1, 6-1.
SOFTBALL
Only one game was• played in
the fraternity league during the
past two days, according to man
ager Ted Winter. The remaining
games were postponed because of
rain. Summary:
Gamma Sigma Phi defeated
Alpha Gamma Rho, 15-7.
Scheduled games in the inde
pendent league have all been
postponed because of rain until
7 p.m. next Monday, manager
Bob Faloon stated yesterday.
Tentative schedule follows:
• Maremoores vs. Fr e s h m an
Two-Year Ags, Zephyrs vs. Irvin
Hall, and Tigers vs. Cris Hall.
All three games are to be played
on New Beaver Field. The re
maining game between Watts
Hall Lemons and Nittany Co-op
wilt be held on the golf course.
GOLF
Intramural golf matches in the
fraternity league went into the
third round of play • this week.
Summaries:
Second Round Kappa
Sigma defeated Delta Upsilon,
6-0;• - and Phi Kappa Sigma ' de
feated Alpha Gamma Rho, 4-2.
Third round—Phi Kappa Sig
ma defeated Beta Theta Pi, 4-2.
In 1937, the Penn State base
ball nine had its wildest day of
the year in defeating Syracuse
23-2.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
By PAT NAGELBERG
The story of the Farrell fight
er, familiar to every Penn State
sports fan, reads like a Horatio
Alger tale. After leaving college
in 1938 with a record of thirteen
straight knockouts, Billy cast his
lot in professional ranks and be
gan the rough climb up the fistic
ladder of fame.
Brittle hands handicapped him
at times when he appeared ready
to -hit the top and when he lost
his second fight to Georgie
Abrams in Pittsburgh last spring,
boxing experts were ready to
write Soose's obituary. But de
fying the old adage that they
neveryeturn to the ring, tonight's
challenger made one of the great
est comebacks in recent athletic
history.
Matched with Overlin in a
non-title fight in Scranton last
summer merely to provide the
champion with a tune-up bout,
Soose pulled an upset to eke out
a controversial victory. He fol
lowed this up with a decisive win
in Chicago over Tony Zale, re
cognized National Boxing Associ
ation champion, and New York
opened welcome though rather
skeptic eyes. The Broadway
crowd has never taken to college
bred fighters.
But in his metropolitan debut,
-Billy trounced New York's own
Tami Mauriello and twice brush
ed aside up and coming Ernie
Vigh in his last two appearances.
Mike Jacobs could no longer
deny Soose a crack at Overlin's
coveted crown and tonight's fif
teen rounder marks the end of a
long trail for the Pennsylvania
steelworker's son.
The fight should be doubly in
teresting because of the bad feel
ing existing between the two
camps. .overlin insisted on a
clause in the contract giving him
or his stablemate, Abrams, a re
turn shot at Soose should he win
the championship.
It will be a contest between a
battle-scarred veteran who'
knows all the tricks of his pro
fession and a clean fighting box
er with a lightning-fast left and
a punch in either hand. The
fight should be close and go the
full limit limit but Soose is on
his way up and will be hard to
stop. Tonight might find the
first collegiate boxer occupying
a world's championship.
lion Trackmenj.eave
Today For Army Meet
Minus the services of field
eventer, Frank Platt, distance
man Jim Williams, and Captain
Van Hartman, 25 Nittany Lion
trackmen will leave today for
their second . dual meet of the
season to be held orr the West
,Point cinders tomorrow after
noon.
• The spike-clad Cadets recently
displayed their prowess by win
ning a quadrangular meet with <
lowa, Dartmouth, and Columbia. („_
Outstanding for the. Soldiers in 'ooWW'''''
this meet was Bill Gillis who Itsnea. u.S. PATENT OFF
took firsts in both hurdle events.
Barney "first place" Ewell
will find Kearie Berry his tough
est rival in the 100 yard dash and
Frank Wadell will push him most
in the "220." Cadet Ralph Whill
has been heaving the javelin 204
feet consistently and should eas
ily top Lion spear tosser, Quent
Deitrick,
In its first year of intercolleg
iate competition the Penn State
fencing team broke even, defeat
ing Rutgers and losing to Penn
in the two contests it engaged in.
EIGA Sectional
Scheduled Here
Unbeaten Lions Face
Hoyas Jinx Sextet
By DAVE SAMUELS
Out of nine dual golf matches
over the College course this
weekend may come the 1941
Mid-Atlantic division champion
of the EIGA, and Bob Ruther
ford's unbeaten Lion golfers have
a good chance of coming out on
top.
Today and tomorrow, teams
from Cornell, Penn, Pitt, Prince
ton, Georgetown, and Penn State
will vie in the playoffs to decide
which squad will meet the North
ern division leader at Stamford,
Conn., next Saturday.
Tied for first place in the Mid-
Atlantic division are Penn State
and Georgetown, def ending
champs, who will battle it out
on the College course at 2 o'clock
this afternon. Other playoffs to
begin at the same time are Cor
nell vs. Princeton and Pitt vs.
Penn.
The undefeated Nittany links
men, with five straight victories
tucked under their belts, will be
up against an old jinx when they
tackle the Hoyas. Since they be
gan scheduling in 1936, George
town has consistently defeated
State in all their meetings.
On the Lion roster for today's
matches, according to Coach Bob
Rutherford, . will Captain Jack
Brand, sophomore Don Hart,
Chuck Seebold, Don Leyden,
Scotty Maxwell, and Bob Wall
ace.
But Georgetown isn't the only
tough team carded for the Nit
tanyinen this weekend. Tomor
row they take on two other out
fits to whom they bowed last
year. A veteran Princeton sextet
will furnish the opposition at 9 Fo r
further information address
o'clock, and Penn makes an ap
pearance at 2. Registrar of Fordham Law
Additional playoffs scheduled School
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-Cornell vs. Penn, and George
town vs. Pitt in the morning; and
Cornell vs. Georgetown, and Pitt
,vs. Princeton in the afternoon.
The standings:
W. L. Pct.Pts.O.P
.Penn State ...2 0 1.000 13 5
Georgetown ..2 0 1.000 11 7
Pittsburgh ...I I .500 9 9
Princeton ....1 1 .500 8 10
Penn 0 2 .000 8 10
Cornell 0 2 .000 5 13
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sical education classes should be
returned to Angelo J. Conte,
Room 301 Rec Hall by noon to
morrow, it was announced last
night.
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