'On The Ball' BY RAY KOEHLER Sports Editor Wrestling Coach Charley Spei del's number one hobby wasn't always wrestling. There was a time Charley thought he was a pretty fair boxer—"but I was knocked down so often that I de cided to try wrestling where at least you get points for being on the canvas." Broadway Joe Coppa, the South Philley flash whom oldtimers would classify as a great "origi nal" but who was just a plain character at Penn State, is now umpiring Class D baseball in Ohio. Joe DiMaggio's toe-hold on every pitched ball proves he's no heel at the plate. THERE WAS A TIME When rushing to cover a raging grain -elevator fire near Toledo, Reporter George Hewes found that the only phone booth avail able was in a next-door building which was, itself, about to go up in flames. While helpful firemen played their hoses around the booth, Hewes gamely began phoning in the story. He told how the fire started, who detected it, how it was being fought and what dam age it had done. The rewrite man, - on the other end of • the line, 'fur from being satisfied, began shooting ques tions. How tall was the grain ele vator? How full was it? 'What color was it? • With flames almost licking the phone booth, Hewes shouted, "The firemen are ordering me out of here! I'll call you later!" "Hold on," the rewrite man or dered. "I've got one more ques tion: How soon are they going tp rebuild? "Not," snapped Hewes, "until it cools." The source of this tale has been! credited to many parties but Coach Bob Higgons claimed it really happened to him once. Things haven't always gone smoothly for The Hig and after one particularly disasterous foot ball encounter as he made his way out of the stadium into the dark ness of an October evening he was in no mood for small talk. So it was a bit uncomfortable being stopped by an alumnus. "Hello, Coach," said the alumn. "Hello," Higgons replied, "Glad to see you." He wasn't, of course, but he had to say something. "By the way," the alumnus ask ed, "How many students do we have on campus this year?" ."Oh, about 11,000, I guess," The Hig muttered. "Well, all I have to say,' contin ued the alumnus, "is if we have 11,000 students, why can't you get at least two of 'em in front of the ball carrier?" FAME IS FLEET DEPT.— In a matching test given to Senior journalism students last spring one of the scholars spotted the name of Joe Bedenk, then head Nitta n y football coach, aleingsicle that of the United States foreign minister to Hun gary. Have you had the BEST Ice Cream Soda IN TOWN? The Place Is ROAN'S Dairy Center What MJkl - s at/--- - ---- /. • /• 1 . I Man Behind the Scene . . . Sykes' Enterprise Makes Recreation Scheme Tick One balmy spring evening, several months ago, numerous campus personalities were subjected to a good-natured fry ing at the Penn State Gridiron Banquet, but none was toast ed to a more deep brown than the, popular, wise-cracking 'Dutch" Sykes, wnose daily schedule would buckle an ordin ary man But Clarence Moss Sykes (as he grudgingly admits being christen ed) is far from an ordinary man —arid he's the first to admit it. Possessing in his wiry, deeply tanned, athletic build a suggestion of the tremendous amount of nervous energy he burns daily, Sykes, as director of the vast Summer Session recreational pro gram, is Penn State's closest semblage to. a., three-handed housewife on a busy Monday morning. Enjoys Busy Life Living on a rat-race schedule with the burden of satisfying the manyfold recreational desires of the persons who attend such . a diversified institution as Penn State would not appeal to most ~U+.~AJLR QI.,I.(;+~IAN, .il'..7'li J..LJ E C. M. "Dutch" Sykes Welcome to Penn State May We Depend Upon Your Friendship and Patronage This Season As In the Past? For Quality Work and Satisfactory Service Dry Cleaning Plant And Office 307 W. Beaver Avenue DELIVERY SERVICE —Photo by Centre Co. Film Lab people, but the bespectacled, square-shouldered Sykes dotes on it. As he puts it, "The thing that is so rewarding about my job is the number of students you get to know. I'll lay you a wager," he says, "that I know personally one half of the male student popula tion on campus. I get a great kick out of working with them." A constant booster for intra mural sports, the flashily-attired `Dutchman' is constantly impress ed with the terrific spirit which intramural sports generate. He cites a case last winter dur ing the IM wrestling finals when the huge audience was shocked to see a body hurtle out of the balcony onto the gymnasium (Continued on page five) Dial 7661 FREE PICKUP.. PENNSYLVANIA Softball Deadline IsToday; Expect Record Enrollment With the entry deadline set for this afternoon, final de tails are being made for the recreation softball league. "Dutch" Sykes, director, has announced that all persons or groups wishing to enter teams must do so in Room 213, Rec Hall, today. Team managers will meet tonight at the Recreation ' Office to map-out final details. All squads will play twice weekly and opening games are schedi to begin no later than next week. More Late Entries Late entries are still expected and the total•number of teams has not yet been determined. It is estimated that twenty or more teams will have representatives at tonight's meeting. Twenty teams were entered last summer. Golf and tennis tournaments are also on tap according to Sykes. Deadlines for these events are Friday, July 14. Golfers will reg ister at the Caddy House. Tennis enthusiasts may sign up at the tennis booth at the main gate of New Beaver Field. 16 Golfers In Ist Flight Soccer Win A 'Dream'---Jeff America's victory over'England, 1-0, in a stunning upset was de scribed by Bill Jeffrey as a "splendid dream." The Penn 'stale soccer coach, writing to friends in State Col lege from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, said ."my boys really rose to the occasion by defeating England, 1-0, in the World Cup champion ships. It stillmakes me feel that it was a splendid dream—but it must be true, the papers are full of it." • Jeffrey, who was named coach of the United States team just a week prior to the Cup ; matches, added that his team was lacking in "polish and finesse but pos sessed all the other qualities in abundance. I. can truly be proud of this team." Defeated earlier in the tourna ment by Spain, 3-1, and later by Chile, 5-2, Jeffrey said in each case "my defense weakened, undei pressure. , ' A crowd of 30,000 saw the United States-England match at Belo Horizonte. The Penn State veteran de-. scribed the stadium in. Rio De Janeiro as "the finest and prob ably the biggest in the world. g‘oo ex Veaal eS tt ZN 'Peaches rs , 4°:'; resh Pea ICE CREAM Big, luscious beauties . smothered in rich, golden cream. That's Breyers.Fresk. Peach ice Cream for 1950. Ask your Breyer Dealer for hand-dipped pints, quaffs or the money-saving Bulk Gallon or Half Gallon. PENN'S CAVE America's Only All-Water Cavern A Boat Ride of 1 Mile underground 1 8.-MILES SOUTHEAST Of STATE COLLEGE 5 MILES EAST Of CENTRE HALL Opp 9 to 9 P.M. Daily TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950 All golfers will qualify with the 16 low scores participating in the first, flight. As many more flights as needed will' be set up. The winner of the match play in the first flight will be declared the tourney winner. Tennis competition will'be di vided into several groups. They friclude men's singles, women's singles and' mixed doubles. Men's doubles or women's • ,(Continued on page five) "You can see the game," he added, "from any seat, each seat has an arm rest, and it is a two tier stadium, covered, with no ob structions to hamper the specta tors." SEE ON ROUTE 94
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