SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1949 Between The vor Lions by Tom Morgan SPORTS EDITOR lions Return Two ex-Penn State football teammates made the rounds of spring baseball and football prac tice this week—Bob Davis and Johnny Jaffurs. Both played on the '42 Lion team coached by Bob Higgins. Now a pro end for the Pitts burgh Stealers, Davis sells in surance in the off-season, while Jaffurs is the newly-appointed head coach at Ithaca (N. Y.) high school. Davis made All-East selections through his outstanding play at State, while Jaffurs' inspired per formances as a Nittany Lion brought national attention. Midgets John Lawther, Nittany bas ketball coach who resigned three weeks ago, describes his last Lion team as "the smallest I've ever had." He declares: "Even with Costa in there at center, they averaged scarcely six feet." Lawther said further: "You have to handle that ball fast and automatically to fool anybody. The boys were too slow at the beginning of the year to get any where, but picked up later." With the Pirates Another Penn Stater, Charles "C huc k" Macraeffnd, who played first base oil the 1941, 42, '46 and '47 Lion baseball teams, was in town this week. Chuck spent last spring with the Pittsburgh Pirates in train ing, then was sent to York (class "B" league), where he played half the season before being transferred by the Pirates to Salisbury, N. Caro. ("D" league). Before the season was done, he jumbed again, this time to Rehoboth B each (also "D" league), where he switched from first to third base, then to the outfield and catching. Coaches now claim his arm's too good for anything but catching, where possession of a whip-like arm is standard equipment. WARNER' BROTHERS S TAT E NOW PLAYING "BEST PICTURE &FEYEAR!". MI UVfi AMO I.*VlllO/ 011 IN RAM weverzeikez . • FeMwrina GAR. MOOg , Ike New Anita'Aar 44* FE/13131tETIME 1:15, 3:16, 6:15. 7:13, 9:30 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Phi Delts Win 3 Bouts; Lead IM Mat Tourney Bud Pierce and Tom McDerm ott shook out the reins and drove their Phi Delta Theta wagon right into the lead for fraternity mat honors at Rec Hall last night. Pierce worked over Jim Wor ley, Sigma Nu, 5-0, in a rip -snort ing 165-pound battle, while Mc- Dermott pinned Bob Smith, Phi Gamma, in 1:37 oi the third per iori of their fight. Featherweight Ted Aiken, also of the Phi Delts. gave his house three winners by walking off with an early forfeit in the 121-pound class. Previous to the night's action, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Nu, and Phi Gamma Delta were tied for the lead with three men still com peting in fraternity action. FASTEST Bill Eggert, Sigma Nu's 165- pound champ now grappling with the 175 pounders, easily rolled to the fastest of five falls on the mats. Eggert turned the tables on Bill Harvey, Sigma Pi, in 59 seconds of the first round for his second straight fall victory and a crack at the semi-finals in his division Monday night. Lightning fast of the draw, Sandy Cameron, Beta Theta Pi, and Ron Coder, Phi Kappa Sig ma, also downed their opponents in the first stanzas. Cameron used one minute and 18 seconds to pin Jack McCall, Alpha Tau Omega. Coder followed in quick order with a 1:57 job on Bill Keifer, also Alpha Tau Omega. The two losses tossed ATO out of the fra ternity race. RODGERS .Phi Gamma Delta's hopes for champions after Smith's loss last night rested on the shoulders of two brothers, Charley Rodgers, 128-pound matman, and Fred, 135 pounder. Charley, fired up like a miniature steam engine, out classed Chet Angelo, Alpha Phi Delta, 6-0 and advanced into the semi-finals. Fred wrestles his next bout Monday against Harry Wilson of Delta Theta Sigma. John Hull, Beta Theta Pi 155- pound stalwart, racked uo the other pin, clowning Don Keck, Phi Sigma Kappa, in 1:35 of the third period. Phil Cloud, Pi Kap pa Phi, won over Jim Case, Al pha Zeta in a 5-2 thriller; Bill Humphries, Sigma Nu, trounced Jim Graff, Phi Kappa Psi, 6-2, and Vince Cavanaugh, Delta Up silon, came out on top of Bill Thompson, Theta Chi, 3-0. Forfeits were won by Ed Sher iff, Chi Phi, Fred Shihaden, Phi Kappa Sigma, and Ted Pritsker, Pi Lambra Phi. Thursday Bob Smith, Phi Gam ma Delta won by forfeit instead of Jim Kehs, Pi Kappa Phi, in their scheduled heavy duel. Now Weighs 208 Penn State's heavyweight wres tling champion, Homer Barr, of Clearfield, Pa., was a 112-polity:- er as a high school freshman. Summer Practice In 1945, Football Coach Bob Higgins held practice throughout the Summer. 6 V-Ball Teams lose First Tilt Six fraternity teams suffered their first defeats Thursday in IM volleball act;on on the Rec courts. Phi Kappa-B fell before Sigmr Chi-B, IC-11 and 15-9: Sigma Phi Sigma-B upended Alpha Epsilon Pi-B, 15-10 and 15-5; Pi Lambda Phi-B lost a heartbreaker to Phi Delta Theta-B, 17-15 and 16-14. Delta Upsilon-B handed Sigma Phi Epsilon-B as initial loss, 15- 9 and 15-7; Phi Gamma Delta-B tripped Beta Sigma Rho-B. 15-11 and 15-12; Alpha Chi Rho-B lost to Sigma Pi-B, 15-5, 11-15 and 15-5. In other games, Alpha Tau Omega-B dealt Delta Tau Delta- B its third straight defeat, 15-7, 12-15 and 17-l5; Kappa Sigma-B made a strong comeback t o trim Phi Sigma Kappa-B, 12-15, 15-4 and 15-6; Kappa. Delta Rho-B trounced Theta Xi-B, 15-8 and 15-10, for its second consecutive win; Alpha Gamma Rho-B also copped its second win, defeating Pi Kappa Alpha-B, 15-9 and 15-6. Tau Kappa Epsilon-B and Al pha Chi Sigma-B won by forfeit when. Phi Sigma-B and Pi Kappa Phi-B failed to show for the con ', tests. Practice Features Soph Grid Stars Although the football season is 1 months away, a large crowd Is expected to see the Penn State gridders run through a practice scrimmage on th e New Beaver Field 2 p.m. today. The sophomore standouts of the 1948 grid team, John Smidansky, Vince O'Bara and Owen Dough erty will be the focus of attention at this, the second Lion scrimmage of the Spring s eason. A back who was a standout for the jayvee team in the fall, Herb Kurtz, ran well in the opening scrimmage Tuesday and is slated for action in today's battle. Assistant Coach Earl Edwards said that the scrimmage , will be run with each team taking the offensive for a number of plays instead of alternating the offen sive teams. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Sorry, we cannot accept phone orders. Cagers Reach Midway Island In IM Globe-Trotting Jaunt MIDWAY ISLAND—Penn State's intramural basketball play ers stopped here last week after traveling 6133 miles from State College via San Francisco and Honolulu. The athletes ran the distance, a new College intramural rec ord, in five days, two hours, and 40 minutes. A total of 1300 men made the trip. Actually. the IM caters never left Rec Hall. But according to Pircures released by Gene Bisch off. IM director. and with the aid of research by the Wiqconsin nhvsical Education sta f C and 'ome heavy multiplication and division, those are the figures racked un during this season's ^ar , e schedule. Here's the way it was figured The Wisconsin staff comnuted (Between the Lions, March 3) that a basketball guard runs and walks 17.598 feet in a regulation game of 40 playing minutes. In tramural games are 20 playing minutes long. so each man who nlays a comnlete IM game tray ,-+4 8-799 feet. Since it takes ten men to - play a game, the total traveling rlistance in one game is 87.990 feet. 368 GAMES Fraternity an d indenendent teams played 3(38 games this year. Multiply 87,990 feet by 368 presto. the amazing total, 32,380,- 320 feet traveled all year-6132 miles plus 3360 feet left over to take care of arguments. Those 368 games, at 20 minutes per game, equal '7360 playing minutes, or 122 hours, 40 min utes, of actual play in the season. Thirteen - h u n d r e d different men participated in action, but counting substitutes, and the fact that some of the men played in as many as 12 games, 5,757 names appeared on the team lineups. To keep the average up, each of Approved for Veterans' Training, Foundod 1865 Peirce School Building, 'Pine St. Wrest of Stood, Philadelphia 2, Pa. Registration 9 A.M. to 4:30 P.M Saturdays 9 A.M. to 12 M Visit us—write or phone PEnnyposker 5-2100 for colelog and detailed (*locomotion SEATS AT ALL PRICES NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL PERFORMANCES Mats. Daily at 2:30 • Eves. Daily at 8:30 $l.OO for Students—All Performances Bt , Bob Kohbauer those men was required to run at the rate of 4.99 mph while he was on the floor. In case you're confused, here are the official figures out of the intramural office. If you have a penchant for numbers, sit down and work them out for yourself. Fraternity entries this season numbered 49, independent 52, totalling 101 teams. Scheduled were 398 games, 368 were played, 30 forfeited. Last season a total of 340 games were carded, and 306 played. There were 706 fraternity ann 594 independent men, a total of 1300 players, in action on the boards, compared with only 1194 last season. Total participation this season-3049 fraternity, 2688 independent, totalling 5737 men. Total participation last year -4560. With the male undergraduate enrollment for the second semes ter at 6518, almost one in every five men at the College played in tramural basketball this year. Pi Kappa Alpha, fraternity champion, chalked up the highest total participation figure 107, but the Pi KA's played the most games-12. The intramural cage schedule play began November 16, and continued through March 7 in cluding playoffs, 39 nights of league play, two nights to play off league ties, and three nights to decide the fraternity and in dependent champions. SECRETARIAL COURSES For College Women Individual Progress SUMMER TERM-8 WEEKS, BEGINNING JUNE 20 FALL TERM-DAY, SEPT. 6-EVENING, SEPT. 19 Administrative positions of challenge and reward beckon the college graduate possessing sure skills in modern secretarial techniques. PEIRCE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ( RESERVED SEATS ONLY 1 PAGE THREE ONE IN FIVE ENCE VIER t * ,*
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