THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942
Between
The Lines
By A. DONIS
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For a long time now we've been
looking at the men on this campus.
What we've seen has been pretty
horrible. Probably there has nev
er been such a conglomeration of
worn-out looking males gathered
together in one place.
And to think the Army is clam
oring for them!
There still may be a ray of hope
over Mt. Nittany,. though. Dean
Schott and his boys are trying like
.mad to make the men around here
take phys ed for all four (or how
ever many) years of college.
It won't be• any of this elective
stuff like they've had for years,
with the chief activity and sport
being to stagger to the designated
place and try to kid somebody into
.believing you've spent Three
hours working out.
gust picture the brawny speci
mens that will be parading around
campus soon, if this proposed
measure goes through. It really
ought to be wonderful.
While reflecting on the future of
Penn State, we may as well go
in for a few sports' predictions.
01 course, we don't want to get
our hopes up too high, but having
seen the men and women phys ed,
majors playing games together, it
really would seem that our boys
will have a good chance on the
gridiron this Fall. Look at the
competition. they've been practic
ing with. It certainly does our
hearts good to think of the coming
, football season.
Coach Higgins' boys have really
been putting up the old fight for
.the past few'years, and we predict
—although we aren't absolutely
sure—that for Penn State, THIS IS
THE YEAR.
P.S.—Of course, there is always
'the possibility that Uncle Sam
might find himself lacking a few
guards, fullbacks, and some of
those other guys on his own team.
But, we'll keep our fingers crossed,
won't we?
AOPi Wins First Place
On 'Wheel Of Fortune'
With five teams participating in
50 water events, Alpha- Omicron
Pi won first place in WRA Swim
ming Club's "Wheel of Fortune"
Fun Night last night when they
surpassed the Independent team
by one point to break a tie score.
Each team' participated in ten
events. Spinning a large wheel,
Adele J. Levin '44, WRA activities
chairman, announced events
which corresponded to numbers on
' t he wheel. One member of each
keam was limited to performing in
not more than. four events.
Teams taking part in the affair,
Their captains and places won in
clude AOPi, D. J. Jennings '44,
first place with 13 points; Indepen
'dents, Phyllis Watkins '44, sec
ond place with 12 points; Phi. Mu,
'Mary Wertz '44, third place with
9 points; AEPhi, Ruth Goodkind
'45, fourth place with 7 pointS; and
ZTA, Dora Colver '44, fourth place
with 7 points.
- Among the events were swan
dive, carrying a lighted• candle
from one end of the pool to the
other, numerous life saving .skills,
demonstrated strokes in paddling
,a canoe, and demonstrated funda-
mental swimming strokes.
Members of the winning team
rinclude Miss Jennings, Helen Mc-
Kee !.44, Ruth Storer '44, Peggy
Lou Chapman '46, and Mary Hople
'46. These coeds were presented
with red bathing caps.
Netmen Trounce Cornell,
i•
8-I, In Season's Finale
Varsity tennis wound up with a
bang when Coach Roethke's
Charges let loose and trounced
Cornell, 8-1, for the first time in
Penn State-Cornell tennis history.
NAaturday's post season game with
the faculty, postponed because of
rain, will take place on the var
sity courts at 2 p. m.
Just Another WAAC
—One of the 700 or more young women now
in training at Women's Army Auxiliary Corps headquarters, Fort Des
Muines, lowa. Besides the regular WAAC uniform shown above,
women are outfittted with fatigue Uniform's in which they practice
calisthenics.
Coeds Mi l , Hear
'To The Rear H-a
Colonel Ardery Claims
Military Training Good
By SALLY L. HIRSHBERG
One, two, three, four—get in
step, girls—right-.--left—to the
rear h—arch—company halt And
Penn State's first "woman's rotis
see squadron halted—or did they?
Believe it or not, this might be
the situation a few months from
now as Colonel Edward C. Ardery,
head of the department of Penn
State Military Sdience and tactics,
and "the girls" may soon get to
gether over the WAAC situation.
With more and more women be
ing drawn by the call of the bugle
to Fort Des Moines, lowa, for
training in the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps, there is a possi
bility of pre-WAAC training being
installed on campus.
An investigation, in the form of
correspondence to Washington and
WAAC headquarters at Fort Des
Moines, is now being carried on
by Miss ,Julia.. G. Brill, associate
professor of English composition.
• Backing up this investigation is
the fact that several outstanding
coed leaders have expressed their
intention of enlisting in the
WAACS upon graduation while
others have shown_ increasing in
terest.
•Honest to Gash, coeds, if you're
free and independent, desire thor•
ough training, love, excite
ment, want to serve your country,
and have free use of the mails—.
you're a WAAC(y).
Qualifications are 'age-21 to 45,
height-5 feet to 6 feet, weight
-114 to 171 pounds. 'They are even
accepting heavyweights, and guar
antee to produce a streamlined
chassis and a new spring in the
step. 'Course you have to be
healthy, too.
The value of establishing pre-
WAAC training would,be to pre
pare coeds, in a minor way, for en
listment. Besides, COlonel Ardery
says—military methods and dis
cipline are excellent training for
women as well as men in peace
and war time.
All kidding aside, creation of
the WAACS has been the biggest
honor and is the biggest responsi
bility ever accepted by women in
the country's history. The organi
zation must be made so good that
it will forever establish women's
rights for similar legislation and
trusts. Only women' can make it
so.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Command
mil', 1-2-3-4
Gridiron Stars Make
Smooth Apples at
Summer Skirmishes
By E. ANN FISHER '45
What the well-dressed football
player will don for Summer wear
is displayed by Coach Bob Hig
gins' young prodigies at New
Beaver Field each week day eve
ning between the hours of 7 and
9. The favored style seems to be
shorts, varying between a splotch
ed white to a slightly streaked
gray shade, topped by some sort
of jersey with smartly padded
shoulders. Footwear includes black
spiked shoes and white socks, al
though one pigskin carrier favors
originality with a stripe of red on
one of his anklets.
Bob Brooks is smooth in an
orange sweater with an off-the
shoulder drape to the right allow
ing his leather pad to peek
through. A deep wine jersey is
favored by End Van Lenten. Long
tails come down over his shorts in
front and back. Lou Palazzi cen
ters the "apple" in bright fresh
man green. Cliff St. Clair models
a paler green diverting here and
there to chartruese. Something
resembling a bathing suit with
sleeves is worn by Mike Kearns.
His shorts peep through below.
The boys spend most of their
time running into things. A few
of the lads stand at various points
of the field with sacks (like the
kind piled against buildings in air
raids). Then some of the others,
chanting a hepcattish sound of
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" as they go,
run smack-bang into them and
leave them—holding the bag. The
favorite plaything (outside of the
ball) is a contraption called a grid
machine or "sled." The object
seems to be, for a player to run to
wards it as fast as he can see if
he can hit a pad of the WPB's No.
1 priority (rubber) with a certain
portion of his shoulder. Then he
proceeds to try to shove it to the
other side .of the gridiron.
The evening's entertainment
ends with races. Dave Alston, Lou
Palazzi, Van Lenten, and Bob Per
ugini are the star track men with
Cliff St. Clair and Bob Brooks
finishing close behind.
Firemen, Phi Dells Clash Tonight
In Ind All-College Mushball Game
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Today's Starting
Lineup
CANAL STREET FIREHOUSE
Catcher Freeman
Center Field Williams
Pitcher Borsa
Shortstop Silan
Short Field McFarland
First Base Gales
Left Field Tremarchi
Third Base Burt Crego
Right Field gill Crego
Second Base . Rabinowitz
PHI DELTA THETA
Left Field ..
First Base .
Short Field
Catcher
Right Field
Third Base
Center Field
Shortstop ..
Second Base
Pitcher ....
Philips
Sharp
Over
Smith
Reese
Moriarta
Steidle
Quailey
... Cook
Yeagley
Ned Says Toughie'
Come To The Movies
Ned Linegar says that we should
gather on Old Main terrace and
watch movies tonight. He men
tioned that they were the same
kind as the Collegian sponsors
sometimes, so they must be okay.
They start at 9 p. m. and are
given by the Visual Education De
partment and sponsored by your
own PSCA. They'll include such
thrillers as "Your Town." "Safe
guarding Military Secrets," "A
Selectee's First Experience," and
"Tanks."
Some other fellow announced
that the deadline for the ping pong
tournament at the Old Main Open
House is set for 2 p. in. today.
The lucky guys who are first
and second winners will get $2 and
$1 in defense stamps.
Sign up at Student Union and
enter the tournament. Teachers
and pupils alike are invited!
Jeffrey Looks Forward
To Good Soccer Season
Soccer poach Bill Jeffrey, al
though depressed by the loss of
three ace men and crossing his
fingers to beat the draft bugaboo,
is looking forward to a season
comparable to last year's.
Johnny Dufford '44, Red Mc-
Kenna '45, and Ted Salom '45,
have withdrawn from school,
while the coach stated he was un
certain of the return of several
other members of last year's
squad.
6,4 Qp
c r . ": You're going to flunk again?
That's bad. We'll find a tutor
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PAGE THREE
Davis' Frafemily Men
Prefer Not To Predict
By ALICE R. FOX '45
In a mighty battle between the
Canal Street Firehouse and the
Sports Editor's fraternity, Phi Del
ta Theta, mushball boys, scheduled
for the golf course at 6:15 tonight,
it might be decided which team
will have its picture printed in
The Daily Collegian.
We say it might be decided be
cause this game, which is called
mushball because it is played with
what is a soft ball comp'ared to a
baseball, is the second in a series
of three of which the hose men
won the first. If they win the sec
ond there will be only one left
which even if it were flayed and
the Phi Delts won it they still
couldn't win the title.
The title, we might add, is the
All-College championship which
will be • offered the winner as a
secondary incentive. It is called
an All-College championship be
cause it is played between the fra
ternity champion and the indepen
dent champion, which are respec
tively Davis' fraternity and the
Canal Street Firehouse.
In the first game, which took
place on the same golf course
(Penn State has only one), which
has a diamond, which is simply a
square viewed diagonally, the
firemen won with a•score of 18-6,
since they had the 18.
The man who throws the ball
for the Canal boys, or ,the pitcher
as he is called in baseball and
mushball circles, is Art Borsa. He
is also called Zippo because he,
wears a Zippo shirt
We called up the manager of the
teams last night to see what they
thought of the idea of having the
winning team's picture published
in The Daily Collegian.
IMr. John Silan, who is a short
stop and the guiding hand of the
hose haulers, is very retiring and
modest.
When we coaxed him a little he
whispered coyly, "If we win, all
you have to do is take a picture of
Borsa and Silan. We run the
whole team." We thought it was
very generous of him to include
Mr. Borsa.
:Mr. John Quailey, Phi Delt man
ager and shortstop, declined to
make an official statement about
prospects. In regard to the poten
tial picture, "I think his team
would photograph much better if
they could hold Zippo (he calls
Borsa Zippo because he's known
him a long time) down long
enough to shave him," he said.