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, <l2B-pound vet
eran for the Lion mittmen while
an undergraduate in ’42.
Cassidy, according to Coach
Houck, gasve good accounts of him
self in his few fights and also in
the Intercolleg-iates. “-What I
chiefly liked about the boy,” the
mentor said, “was his 'fancy foot
work, which resembled so much
the late James J. Corbett’s.”
Towards the end of his fresh
man year, Cassidy entered the En
listed Reserve Corps. -After rou
tine basic training program at var
ious damps, he went overseas
with the '3sth Infantry Division in
March, ’43.
Cassidy received four battle
stars for taking part in the major
battles of Northern and- Central
France, Normandy and Germany.
At Nancy, near Metz, during the
battle of the Bulge at (Biastogne.
Finally, after three years in the
army including 18 months over
seas, he returned to the States in
August and received his honorable
discharge on October 22. He im
mediately reentered the College.
Cassidy, Who resides in western
Pennsylvania, reported to Coach
Houck Monday and has begun ser
ious training for a berth on the
varsity team. He .-is now a third
semester student majoring in pre
law.
Houck Begins
Boxing Drills
Approximately 40 .men showed
up at (Monday’s initial boxing ses
sion and were immediately given
training instructions by Coach
Houck.
The first 10 or 15 days, or the
“get in Shape” period, consists of
pulling weights about 10 minutes;
shadow boxing, stomach exercises,
skipping rope, and hitting the fast
and heavy bags each for three 2-
minute rounds.
After rounding into shape dur
ing the trial period, the pace is
stepped up and the boys go 3-
■minute rounds. In probably an
other week, Coach Houck stated
that he will hold two and three
round matches between candidates
in the various Weight divisions.
(Students interested in boxing,
whether or not they have boxed
before, are asked to report to
Coach Houck. in Recreation Ball
any weekday after 4 u. m. The
Dion mentor suggests, however,
that those interested should also
sign up for Intramural boxing,
where the candidate_can gain val
uable experience and also .the.
feeling of competition. ' -
There are still positions open
for The assistant managership. Any
students interested are requested
to sign up in the Athletic Office,
'Old Main, and then report to Rec
Hall. ,
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Intramural's Lack Entries
Lacking enough entries, the
deadline date for signing up in
either the Intramural 'boxing,
wrestling. or basketball tourna
ments has been set back until De
cember 'l7, (Eugene C. Bischoff, In
tramural’s director; 'announced to
day.
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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
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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"
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