Cagers Inactive Over Vacation; Open With Eagles Penn State’s basketball Lions, who have chalked up a comritend .ajble record of four victories against a lorte defeat, will hang up their court shoes during the Christmas holiday. Their vacation will be short lived, . hovyevfer, for Coach Jofin hawther’s proteges . will bounce right back into the thick of the campaign when they initiate q seypn-game .road card beginning at American University in Wash ington, X). C., on January 10. From that date, the . ' Nittany-. men will battle oh foreign courts ■ for- more than a month, an<| yrill not: play before a home crowd -untihFfebruary il, When the usual ly strong Temple Owls invade Rec Hall;',in the second;of the tyro gameseries between the two quintets, this year. -Last "season the Lions likewise enjoyed, a -lapse in the schedule during ths holiday period,. but in campaign, Penn State took.'a four-game hunting trip during the. Chrisfinas recesk. The Nittapymen; bagged a .trio,of vic tories, that year in Ohio, where theyif-aced Kent State, Mt. Union and Akrop, finding up their trip.;at,-Pitt, however, the Lions were, nipped by the Panthers' in a close 31-28 battle. On this year’s schedule, thte Nittany five will play West Vir ginia after the tussle at Ameri can U. This game with the Moun- ait ..Morgantown, -W. Va., is booked for Friday night, Janu nrsf-16., The evening the Lions' will move into Pitsburgh to tangle with the Panther aggre gation.——- Successive gamSs with Army, Temple, Navy, and Carnegie Tech during the ten days from January 28 until February 7 will . complete the long road trip for the Blue and White passers. To dalje, the Lions have shown • a better braiid of ball-, than what fnany fans expected. Lawther’s - outfit lost only to Cornell 28-25, but on the other- side of the led- ger haiS T marked up victories ovter Washington, 'qnd Jefferson, who defeated the' Nittany cagers last year, Susquehanna, Buckneli, and Syracuse. : DINE DANCE BLACK HORSE TAVERN ,J/| v-., Reedsville ■ j' t ( / ' SUNDAY SPECIAL Chicken & Waffle 60c A. E. Brininger *25, Prop., ru«m Heu ifear HILAND ■ SHOP KDR Boxers Take Intramural Trophy; 15 Finalists Win First Place Medals ■r 11 ■■ in..' -'.-u 11. .!■.ui.Featured by three matches won Thrachor Whine firaf* was the second out of three fights by pins, the interclass wrestling MU uj.lly! »" V* in the tourney for Tighe. tournament went into its third day f.-L - TY/Ve VJrinht John Laughlin, AGR, TKOed yesterday afternoon with five more I IQ(16 INvS YY l tyill * Bob Morgan, Phi Gamma Delta, in bouts contested on the Rec Hall Bv DICK STEBBINS the early seconds of fie initial mats. ■ " 1, , round. Laughlin, a good boxer These were the final contests in The Kappa Delta Rho fistic team plenty of power, downed the tournament until after the unofficially won the lnframpral j^ or g an -with a right to, the chin' in holidays when competition will ha boxing trojrtiy :U1 Rec Hall last th(J unlimited scrap ; . resum ed. night as four of their contestants upset of the tournament came in in the only sophomore elimina te victorious in the finalbouta. the Hal Thrasher-Johnny Graf tion match of the day; Sam Harry McCreary, Jack Reitz, Bill matc jj. Q ra f f w ho defeated Char- using an arm and body press, Calvert and Joe McCormick were lie . GRidenour - , TKOed- M?orton pinned Hal Heidig in 45 seconds of the winners for the KDR sas ap- 3i aus t4i n an( j had proven his abil- the third round. This was 140- proximetely 66# *W S sa JV *6 Wj* jty in the early bouts, was badly pound competition, alists wm qlami. t° first place n\ed- ou tpy nc jhed ‘ and putsrnarted by Charley Dipper pinned George als in thrilling, action-packed •phrasher. Zahar is after 51 seconds of the matches. _ Thrasher, AZ, had the reach on third period in their freshman 160- IFrestimen J[ack Tighe and, John 135-pound DTD contestant and pound meet. A body press was the provided the outstand- , used it to a good advantage. A victor's margin. , inn. bouts of the night as both reg- s t ron g j e ft hand kept Graf away Wrestling in the '45 140-pound istered TKQs. Tighe won P IS . until he found an opening. class, Jim Payne scored , two, pins PREXY WINS —• Jack Gray e seeond roimd afto Jack , ReitZi xcoGtß. 127-pounder, oyer Ivan Kolarik. The first w? s class.president,.won .a.close" deci- Jl ?£ Wn 4 ht >. n a ft §MHstnuted opened up a ou t oyer DH Frank the result of a keylock and Ognie sion over (Norm Gordon in the tozi n rHiMPTroi!] Perna’s. eye near the end of the after 41 seconds of the third roifM finals of the IM boxing tournament P nawTW iTvmmioM first r und. Referee Danny DeMa- and the second came at the one held in Rec KEalllast night. The rino stopped Pema from answer r minute and 15. second point ipthe bout was. a 121-pound independent tvnrv ' ' ing the bell for the second period, third round with a body P^ss.-. battle. vll pJiW Term Several bouts were, won by very In two other closely fought ' MU- close margins. Chuck Phillips, freshman matches, Henry Mattem TKGed Frank Perna, BU, at end of phi Delta Th eta, beat Lynn Cook, defeated Anshel Melamed 6-5 in * 47 PKTau, Joe McCormick, KDR, de- the 124-pound division and. Ben 135-POUND. HM AZ t cisicmed Itv j on tow, Phi Sigma XJlrich won oyer Charley Dipner dec{sioned Jobnny Graf, DTD. x>elta, Bill Calvert got the nod over who. was fighting his second bout Chuck Phillips, Heriry Derbyshire, and Jack Grey of the day, 4-2, in the 160-pound -J heta ’ d |eisioned L y nn outpointed Norm Gordon in split class. Ever wonder what Leon Gajecki . Harold Bryant, 135 nound fishier is doing? You remember him, of Tau phi Delt decisioned Ernie SSb threw course—he was last year’s All- r : lflC -a a +« rrwo p?‘ from the Penn State Club, threw American center. ' iGS-’POUiND : ' Joe McCormick tel -^ pg body blows at (Nick Oliver w£?„ ss; ™ ts&js S/St: I™* elded to do wha)t he studied to do. Karma mama Stronko. George, last years 145- He now holds,'a modest job'as a CLASS- John pound winner ’ welgl ? e 3 in at 140 chemist at the Atlas Powder Com- tgggfSg, ** ?* «•*»*# J* _ pany noar Tamaqua. gan, Phi Gambia Delta, in the ' Har °ld Tau Phi Delfa Although forsaking football was flrst round> snapped Ernie Giles head back a big deqisjpn foy 24-year-old Ga- INDEPENDENT DIVISION several times as he tossed driving jecki, it wfi? a'fairly easy one be- I2i^PQUND-Jack Grey deci- rights and lefts to. win the 156- cause he figures he ! d rather spend S i o ned Norm Gordon. pound fight. In the 127rppund in these.rci-ucial yeaig. of his life in 127-POUND- Jess Fardella Col- dependent class, Jess Fardella, developing a serious career. on « al iwirfoned Glenn' Haw- Colonial, barely decisioned Glenn So intent is he, in fact, that he thome Penn State Club Hawthorne, Penn State. Club. (Ben is going back tP “school.” In the 135-POUNb- Sain Harry Penn Snipas, Penn State Club, who was evenings, after .he finishes his . C 1 b de ci s ioned Nick Oliver runnerup in the 165-pound weight daily stint at the factory, he hur- SSe Ath last y aar > whipped Lpu Borges and ries to a. Penn State classroom- Hall WaiterS; T K oed Jim Wright Dlapd, Penn |tate Club, for this one in Tamaqua where he is | second round ' ' " fened to Howard Kandall m the enrolled in 'a chemistry of engin- ' Ernie Georee' 175-pound class. eering- class offered un- LiStffdecisioned Joe^sSE- —— der the Engineering, Science, and ko _ __ Management. Defense Training 165n p 0 UNDf Ben Snipas, Penn At lhe program of the College s extension . gtate Cl ub, decisioned Lou Borges. CATHAUM: services. -; . , n _ 175-POUND: Harry Bland, Penn “Birth of the Blues” • an m^® rview recen t l y> ® a - state Club, forfeited to Howard STATE: ' iecki said, “I went to school for ~T V ' ...... „ ~ an education and what I.took- , . .... ... - ‘‘Henry Aldnch for President fuel technology—-wasn’t .exactly for Fred Krug in the 145-pound Guns” the sort of an easy course,that tilt, had provided unexpected op- - goes with a locker-room job. Well, position. Wright was floored when I got what f went after and now - Tighe threw a terrific right punch I’m going after more. . to the side of his head. The TKO “Too often it seems to me boys ■--- who play football lose their per spective—and to them , the game becomes the whole thing. It is up to a point, but a man’s career is .what he should be concerned with even though there’s more imme diate money iri V! pro ball. I’m do ing what I first set out to do and that's important. to me.” Gajecki Prefers lob To Football Varsity Skier* Depart For Hew Hampshire . Five merptoers of- Perm State's varsity skiing .team will leave to morrow for Franconia Notqh, New Hampshire, to un.dergQ of practice for the inter-collegiate 'Ski Tournaments at Lake Placid on January 1,2, and 3, it was announced last night by Coach Max Deycurn. ! Members. sfjfee teiam making the trip' are Captain Max S. Peters. ’42, John H. Mendenhall ’42, Charles E. Fairchild ’44, Harry C. Funston ’44, and* John J. Cham bers ’44. Events of the Lake Placid tour naments include- a 12 kilometer cross country race and a slalom race on January 1, a down hill dash on January .2, and a jumping contest ending the tournaments on January 3. The last event will be held on the 40 meter In tervale Jump near the famous, Olympic Jump. 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