PAGE SIX Lion Cagers Trample Susquehanna, 68-33 Coach John Lawther’s Nittany quintet opened its season Wednes day evening with an easy win over a weak Susquehanna team, 68-33. It was State’s game all the way as the “so-called” starting live played only live minutes of the first and third quarters. Amos Stagg Jr.’s aggregation wasn’t table to stop the nineteen men 'State used. The Lions will falce their first test Saturday when it meets West Virginia at Morgan town. Bernie ISwiertchi Started the game going when on the tap-off Susquehanna took the ball and gave off a fast pass to Swienchi Who dropped it in. Irv Batniok, captain for the Lion team, paced him by shooting one in with his left hand on the next break dawn court. 'The first quarter became a zone-to-zone game. The Lion squad dropped into a 2-3 zone while Susquehanna used the 3-2 zone. Neither. team was able to break through the opposite de fense. Dick Light put State ahead with a set shot. The first five left the game leading by four points. Light got five and Batnick four in the first five minutes of play while Susquehanna scored five. The second five started off fast when Diettriek and Hatkevieh each sunk one. Jerry Moore scor ed for 'Susquehanna on a pivot play from Joe Taylor. The State second five used a man-to-man, going out to meet the forwards as they came down court. The half ended with State out in front 29-il2. • The first five men started the second half land played for only a short time scoring nine points against Susquehanna. Jim Wal dorf came in with the new five and showed promise of developing into a good ball player. He dropped in shots from all over the boards. (Continued on page seven} Gridders Accept Bids To Post-Season Tilts The East-West game to "be play ed in San Francisco New Year's Day will feature two members of the Penn State football squad, Bronco Kasonoviich, center, and Chuck Drazenovich. The invitations were extended to the gridders yesterday by Andy Kerr, an 'East coach and veteran Colgate mentor. They were chos en on the basis of a suggestion made for two good backers-up when Kerr called the College yes terday. With this recent invitation Penn State has Ibeen given the honor of (having players in both the East- West and North-South games as ■Sam Taimburo, end, had accepted a Ibid to play in the North-South game at (Montgomery, Alabama, December 29. Joe Tepsic, tailback, was also asked to play in the North-South game but has indicated that he will not accept. He does not wish to receive an injury which might handicap him in basketball or foot ball at the College. TUNE IN SUNDAY AT 10:45 A. M. EPISCOPAL Church Service -WMAJ (I4SO) St. Andrew's Church State College Rev. John N. Peabody, Rector. % The Box Score Penn Stale f 9 P Light, f 3 ■}' ? Denniston, f 0 l 1 l Currie, c 1 J " Batnick, g 6 ,i Nugent, g 0 0 0 Zagoudis, f 1 0 2 Waldorf, f 0 10 Russel, f 2 1 5 Rouch, f 0 1 1 Sheehe, f « J ® 2 Diettriich, 2 0 4 Mastkola, l 0 2 Hathevi'oh, g 3 3' 9 iß'usinko, 3 1 7 Ulsh e a 0 4 Totals 39 10 68 Other substitutes: Bunn, f; Pfir iman, g; MacMillan, g; Cullison, g. Susquehanna 9 * P Gross, f 1 0 2 Moore, f 2 li 5 Culp, g ® ®-® Swienchi, g 7 44 18 Gray, f • 4 ® ® Beckwith, c IJ -' " 'Totals 12 9 33 Other substitutes: Secrist, f; Lady, g; -Fellows, g. Lion Gymnasts Schedule Meets Intercollegiate competition will' be resumed by Penn State’s gym nasts this season when they face West -Point and Annapolis in dual meets, and also enter a team in the Eastern championship tourna ment. Gene' Wettstone, Lion -coach, will build his team around a half-dozen men who led the Lions to a sur prising team victory in the Na tional AIAHJ championships last May. While the sport had been dropped from. the calendar be cause of the war, Wettstone sought and obtained permission to enter the Nationals. Steve Greene, crippled Philadel phia youth, who copped the Na tional rope climbing 'championship with a record of four seconds lor the 20-foot iclimb, will be available again this yefar. Forming the team’s nucleus with him will be Harold Frey, defending Eastern Intercollegiate all-around champ, Warren Neiger, who finished an third place behind Frey, and Wal ter Glover. ■ Stan Wirtsch'after, Nationals and Eastern Intercollegiate rope climb ing champ as a member of the un defeated ’43 Dion team, will sup port Greene in that event. Navy trainee Ed (Hobart will toe the third man on the ropes. Other individual performers will be 'Bay Dee, a member of the 42 team, on the flying rings, and Navy trainee Tiim Petr-off and Jim Dawson, tumbling. (Preliminaries and light practice sessions are toeing “ Recreation (Hall. Coach (Wettstone announced that it will not toe until after the Christmas vacation that tryouts are held for key places on the team. • - THE COLLEGIAN Former Lion Boxers Return Brightens Ring Hopes A welcome addition to Coach Leo Houck’s boxing team this sea son is Jim Cassidy, “ Wore ia*in New developments, offering advantage of speed' anc£~. economy in construction, are fully t sed in our pro gram for extending and improving farm telephone service.-/. Among these are : mechanical ; pole-hole plowsfor burying wire underground. Sturdier steel'Wire. that permits longer-spans will remiire'fewer poles.. And we are experimenting with "power line carrier” ■ to provide telephone service over rural eleGtric lines.. .Radio,' too, is being studied foruse in connecting more isolate'd sections : with telephone exchanges. ' v Providing more and better rural telephone service is’-; part ; of the Bell System plans for constantly improving nation-wide : communications-service, BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM fJM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1945 This means that the tournaments would not be run oil' until after the Christmas vacation, unless the entries start pouring in today and! interest livens up. Then get your quarter (entry fee) and physical fitness excuse ready and go up to 213 Rec Hall today and sign up. for mel" (1 /V