SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1942
Softball
Pitching
The all-College softball cham
pionship series coming up next
week between the fraternity
champion, Phi Delta Theta, and
the Independent kingpin, the
Canal St. Firehouse, will take on
an aspect much like the World
Series of the.past few years—Na
tional League pitching versus Am
erican League power. Only this
time it will be Firehouse pitching
and Phi Delt power.
Canal St. Firehouse
Here is a team that has been all
pitchihg. There are few who dis
pute that in Art Borsa the Canal
St. team has the best kind of in
surance •possible, that if the Phi
pelt.s;carr be beaten Canal St. will
be the piles to do it.
Art'sz, fast one has enabled him
to run through four years of league
competition without defeat, his
only 'setback coming , this Summer
in an exhibition game. Ten or fif-
The Real Thing—Penn State's new ob
stacle course is designed to prepare students for
just such battlefield activity as this doughboy is
undertaking "somewhere on the front lines."
With daily workouts on the
. 175-yard course
students will be able to some extent to verse
Graduates Deluged By Job Offers;
210 Engineers Receive 1000 Bids
Reports from the 1100 gradu
ates in May, who didn't go into any
of the-Armed services indicate that
.war-drained colleges are not going
to have any trouble placing their
men and women. •
Since college-trained specialists
are needed in army, navy or war
time industrial plants, educational
and commercial groups have been
caught short - in adding personnel,
the' survey indicated. •
One thousand engineering jobs
were offered to 210 graduates in
the School of Engineering, with
Series Matches
Against Batting
teen strikeouts are about average
for Art, with perhaps his top per
formance this year being a no-hit
win over Watts Hall featured by
17 strikeouts,
The rest of the Firehouse start
ing lineup has not yet been an
nounced though Freeman, Wil
liams and Crego have been in ac
tion fairly regulaily.
This team will present the iden
tical lineup that carried them,
with a single defeat, to the Inter
fraternity title for the Summer of
1942. Power hitting has been the
Phi Delts':,stock-in-trade, the per
fect ingredient to match with Bor
sa's pitching for . a series worth go
ing Tar to see: -In Philips the Phi
Delts have an Outstanding leadoff
man, in Smith, Moriarta, and Stei
dle three' consistent hitters and in
Hank Yeagley
,an effective and
baffling twirler.
every man being placed. Many of
the engineering students entered.
the army as second lieutenants in
Advanced Reserved Officers
Training Corps.
Dean Edward 'St - el - die, School of
Mineral Industries, reported that
more than 70 of his students ac
cepted positions six months.before
graduation.
Teachers for elementary, art ed
ucation, music, and physical edu
cation could not be found to meet
the demand.
In Liberal Arts, any women who
had a knowledge of -typing, short
hand, and a few courses in chem
istry and physics could almost
name their position and salary.
Netmen Favored
To Trim Facully
In their last scheduled appear
ance of the Summer, Coach Ted
Roethke's varsity netmen will
have a final return go at the Fac
ulty sauad on the varsity courts at
2 p. m. today.
The Lions had trounced the lat
ter team by a 10 to 5 - count in their
first meeting last month, and are
expected to repeat. their earlier
victory today.
Coach Roethke will start Cy
Hull at the leadoff spot, and Herb
Krtiybill and Bill Lundelius at the
second and third positions. Sopho
mores Dick Armbrust, Stan Spurg
eon, Jim Lawther and possibly
Horace Smith will see action at the
other starting singles positions.
Winners in their last two times
out, the Roethkemen have a rec
ord to date• of three victories
Phi Delta Theta
themselves in battlefield techniques
The new course includes, vaults, hurdles, walls
for scaling and several horizontal rope .runs, all
of which are designed to develop speed, agility,
strength, and endurance, qualities essential to the
good soldier.
Tar. bArLy COLUGIAN
IM Tennis
MONDAY
FRATERNITY SINGLES
5 p. rn.
Jeter vs. Horowitz
Joseph s. Jackson
Grun vs. Yeagley
Purdy vs. Scheiner
Crowers vs. Semless
Reese vs. Erwin
FRATERNITY DOUBLES
6:30 p. m.
Sharp-Phillips vs. Hoch-Bates
FRATERNITY SINGLES
6:30
Watkins vs. McDow
Scheirer vs. Culp
INDEPENDENI SINGLES
6:30
J. Edson vs. R. Yerger
W. Deitrich vs. T. Stein
A. Lovell vs J. Fisher
'46 Diamondmen To Meet
Mineral Industries Team
Tuesday In Third. Game
Coach Leo Houck's freshman
baseball squad will play host to
the diamondmen of the Mineral
Industries School on the New
Beaver Field diamond at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday. This will be the third
game in two weeks for the '46
team. •
Both teams, thus far this season
have met and beaten the Presby
terian nine of the State College
Sunday School League. The game
will decide, in a-round-about man
ner, which of the three teams is
the outstanding.
The Houckmen, in their first
three starts for the season have an
average of .333, having won one,
from the Presbys by a score of
9-8, and lost two, to the Lutherans
and Irvin Hall by the respective
scores of 4-0, 9-6.
Possible starting line-up for the
yearlings will be Jack Gracey at
third, Nelson Davage at shortstop,
Lou Kolarik in right field, Wayne
Kreidler at first, Jerry Waxman in
left, Don Myers at second, Jack
Landy in center, Jerry Stern be
hind the plate, and either Jack
Berlin or Fred Shaw doing the
hurling.
For the MI School, Dell Schrep
pel will lay catcher, Al Metzger,
will be on first, Bob Hessenberger
will handle second base, Paul
Shaeffer will act as shortstop,
Neal Reagan will be on the "hot
corner," Paul Reede in left, John
King in center, Bill Skelly in right,
and Jim Blackman pitching.
against four defeats. Three of
their defeats were suffered at the
hands of a strong Colgate contin
gent, and the fourth was dropped
to Cornell.
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Between The Lions
With DON DAVlS—Sports Editor
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Let's Keep The Ball Rolling
For almost a semester now there has been talk and more talk
concerning the pressing need of an enlarged and intensified physical
fitness program on this campus to keep pace with the national emer
gency. To further this end, which we feel is one of the most im
portant now facing Penn State, we have many times devoted this
column. All these efforts have not been in vain. Some steps in the
right direction have been taken. Chief among these being the erec
tion of a fine obstacle course, plans to cut out elective and "sugar
coated" phys ed courses, and the sending out of a "feeler" from Dean
Carl P. Schott to the other Deans. Purpose of this "feeler" was to
suggest that freshman and sophomore gym classes be intensified and
that juniors and seniors also be required to take conditioning work.
We repeat, these are all fine moves. But time is very short.
The semester will end in less than three weeks. If action is to be
taken before next semester, it must be taken nowl
Now, let's not have these well meant "feelers" die the way so
many well meant projects do. Let's not have next semester get under
way only to hear, "Well, we planned to have an intensified program
to prepare the students for their role in the war effort. But there
just wasn't time. We didn't get around to it until it was too late."
There is time right now!
The Phys Ed School Is Ready
As stated by Dean Schott in yesterday's Daily Collegian, the
Phys Ed School is ready to take over the conditioning of all four
classes—freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. It takes no
eq , ,ipment for calisthenic work. Phys ed majors could certainly be
used if not enough regular instructors are available.
We repeat, Dean Schott has stated that the Phys Ed School is
ready for the job. He has sent out to the deans material proposing
the much needed enlarged program. Of course we have no way of
knowing whether these "feelers" have been returned or not. But
wherever they are, let's not have them get lost in the shuffle.
Next January Will Be Too Late
Ycu say thit a vigorous conditioning .program will not appeal to
the students, that they'll rebel. We say, sure they'll complain at
first. We don't relish the thought of required physical workouts
any more than the next fellow. But in the long run the student
body will be glad for this training. When they run into the rigorous
training of the Army or Navy, as they eventually will, they will have
a helpful head start. If enough colleges in the country would give
their students this head start it would also appreciably cut down the
tittle and money it takes the government to convert a civilian into a
service man,
To us there seems no alternative. To prepare its students prop
erly for the struggle just ahead of them, and equally important, to
help justify its existence in these times, the College must go ahead
with a mass physical fitness program. The time to take action is
now! Next January will be too late!
Air Raid Siren Test
Set For Noon Today
Two new air raid sirens install
ed at service stations in State
College will be sounded at noon
today in a test, George W. Ebert,
protection committee chairman,
announced last night.
The new sirens are two of four
hat have been ordered to remedy
he failure of residents in outly-
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